Lazy Spammers

Posted in Meta, Rants on July 24, 2008 at 6:16 pm.

I see that nowadays comment spammers don’t bother figuring out what markup they need to use to make hyperlinks, so they try half a dozen different formats and hope one works.

They’re also apparently too dumb to not put two dozen spam comments in the same recent post and think that won’t get noticed right quick.

4 Responses

  1. Paul Kuliniewicz said on July 24, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Also, spamming the exact same links each time makes it really easy to blacklist.

  2. Paul Kuliniewicz said on July 24, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    The spammer’s still trying to post comments on the same post, with the same two or three links, precisely once every 11 minutes. He’s clearly not very good at this.

  3. Renee said on July 25, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Hey! Watch what you’re saying! I- erhem, I mean, um… They might be easily offended…

  4. Paul Kuliniewicz said on July 25, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Pish posh. After 24 hours of this, they finally figured out that having the same domain name made it easy to filter, so they started varying it a bit. Of course, it’s still quite easy to filter on BBcode-style link tags. If that’s the best they’re capable of, I’m not too worried.

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