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Stupid comment spammers

Some spammers really are stupid. All spammers are stupid, but some especially. So tonight a filipino wrote a total of nine spam comments with meaningless short sentences on a single post within 26 minutes – on the then current one about the domain trading spammer. (Unfortunately Akismet let all but the last one pass – probably was quite new. By the way, I left them (without link) for reference, sort of, because I want to make fun of them here.)

And unfitting comments they were!

for the long i hope i will become effective and useful to others.

So for instance for people who publish small ads for captcha entry?

I need someone to help me with simple captcha entry work. You’ll login to specified site using credentials I provide, and enter captcha’s on weblinks I provide. Very simple. At present I can pay 2.5 cents per entry. I’ll pay by paypal. I need to start ASAP! Mail me your messenger id (yahoo or msn) and your time zone(EST, PST, etc).

For someone with the same mail address replied there:

Im interested to work with you . My YM ID is alvinnobleza. I promise to be an asset to your company.

And now he apparently tries to be an asset for a badly translated, somehow dubious music site…

oh it nice to belong to someone else when you feel their importance that they give to you.

Ah, you already belong to that company. Well, I wouldn’t like that…

the idea is to generate a fund to create a better business into the future.

A fund for comment spammers or their employers? God forbid!1

have you ever heard that just click your mouse and read this page and you will know the importance of it.

It can be done without a mouse, too. Any notebook user will confirm that. But what do you spammers know, anyway…

i think it serve other people a lesson to share their thoughts and feelings.

it is good to know to other people the importance of site because it adds idea to other people that read this.

And did you really lern something here?

its better to have one of this know all the important topics to it.

Would be even better if one could understand that sentence, wouldn’t it?

a wonderful page i read some comments but i appreciate what they said.

Read – and still like them? Phew, lucky me!

download and try this to see the difference to other web that you`ll visit.

What, another web? Only accessible with a ominous download? I think I’ll pass…

:dunce:

  1. I know this exclamation will never work, but probably nothing will really help against spammers, anyway. Unfortunately. []

1000!

1000!

Over one thousand comments have been written by you, my visitors, so far – thank you very, very much! (And trackbacks/pingbacks and my own comments are not counted, of course; that would have been 1931 at that point, and that’s not a number to celebrate…)

The 1000th is from “Captain Obvious” David in today’s music quiz, his 40th comment – without you and all other 75 recurring commenters (and the over 140 one-timers), it would be quite boring here, so again a big THANK YOU!

La ola

Statistics!!!

At statista.com there are numerous statistics data of a lot of German surveys, “over 1 million“, they say – and not just small ones like in some blogs, but real, representative ones by major institutes.

The servers currently seem to ache under the number of visitors…

You can embed the statistics easily – I picked this one as an example:

Do you have a web blog (online diary) of your own?

Unmarried ones are blogging more than in another family status, and, no wonder, young people more than old people:

statista-blog

The differences between the sexes are very low and almost dissolve in rounding errors (men blog a little more), similar to monthly income with intermediate incomes blogging a little less.

Survey by: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach, January to August 2007, published on 16.10.2007. 7594 German internet users aged 14-64 were asked.

(via Golem)

House advertising

Inspired by the “samples” in the top of the screen at the German blog directory BloggerAmt (and other fades-in/out e.g. for polls), I thought I could add some small announcements and notices of special posts, smoothly faded in and out, on my blog, like this one for my music quiz:

house advertising

If it doesn’t look for you as on the screenshot, please click “reload” or press F5 in your browser…

At first, I tried it above the main content, but that felt too obtrusive, too distracting – so it’s now at the top of the sidebar.

What do you think of it? Annoying? Too inconspicuous? Just right? Any other opinion? :)


Technical note: The items are managed like a blogroll in a separate category, the display is done with a little function integrated into the theme – if you’re interested, » here’s a text file with the code, but, for the time being, only with German instructions (anyone need it in English?).

Update: For a shorter jQuery solution, see this comment.