Sunday 4 July 2010

Dear Chinese spammers,

Please stop leaving your very obviously spam comments on my blog. You waste my time as I have to keep deleting them, and you're wasting your time because no one is stupid enough to click on your links, and I delete them as soon as I spot them. I don't want to set up comment moderation because I don't think it's fair on my customers who follow this blog. You're clearly a person rather than a computer program because you've got to get past the captcha to comment.

Let's see how many of you spamming morons will comment on this, eh?

Nihoma.

3 comments:

Helen Highwater said...

OH WOW. Awesome levels of irony in the area.

Eden said...

I did have to laugh at this...the irony is hilarious!

For the record, I do think it's sophisticated technology that gets past the captcha somehow. I'm not sure how being the techno-fail that I am, but don't let it stress you. You still have fans on your blog by the looks of things :-)

Helen Highwater said...

Yes, luckily, and they appear to be real people unlike those ones you get following you on Twitter! ;D

I spose it could be. I moderate a forum which uses an old version of PhpBB and I set up the VIP mod on it so that the people running the board decide on a magic word and hide it somewhere in a sticky topic on the forum. We still get spammers though! I don't see how it would a machine figuring it out, I don't see how they could! but I do think Captchas can be falible. When it comes up with the word, there must be a version of it in courier new somewhere inside Captcha so that it can compare it to what's put in. I spose that's how it works.

The funniest thing is that a friend of mine said, innocently "Oh, I've got a Chinese person following my blog. They always comment, but it's in Chinese so I don't understand it." Hahahah!

I do wonder what these websites are that they're spamming about the place. Are they trying to sell stuff or is it data-mining/trojan horse/virus stuff?