I’ve written about blog spam before, a particularly underhanded and sleazy way of driving traffic to another website by flooding others with comments which contain backlinks or IP addresses. The following chain of comments (unedited) appeared at various posts two days ago; it took me a minute or two to figure out what was […]
I’ve talked about blog spam a lot, because I get a lot of it here. Akismet takes most of the pain away automatically, for which I love them, but the occasional piece of camel ejecta filters through which I must designate as spam manually. I happened to browse the comments on another blog post today, and […]
“I am genuinely thankful to the holder of this website who has shared this fantastic article at here.” Look at that great grammar. So commented “Bad Credit Car Finance,” an outfit in Orlando, Florida, which has a raft of videos on YouTube hawking their services. That in itself is not a bad thing, but blog […]
Thanks to antifraudnews for the image. I’ve commented multiple times on the kinds of spam comments that appear in this blog on a regular basis. I just got another comment from one of my “regulars.” Hmm it seemjs like your website ate my first comment (it was extremely long) so I guess I’ll just sum it […]
I love the way WordPress filters out spam comments automatically – they have a strong system (Akismet) and thus far nothing has slipped through. In the last few days alone, I’ve accumulated the following shill “comments”: Perfume sales – 1 Brazilian email marketing lists – 6 Sex related or Viagra – 4 SEO – 1 […]
Yesterday I posted an article about affiliate marketing and the underhanded, despicable lies they use in their come-on websites to hook gullible people into buying worthless products. Surprisingly, this post attracted a flurry of new followers: Online Health Offers Net Millionaire Dudes Online Arts Marketing Digital Tools For You Motivated to Lose Weight Marketing Trends […]
People can be so bloody dishonest it makes my brains hurt. This comment showed up on my post regarding combating elder fraud: I don’t know if it’s just me or if everybody else encountering problems with your blog. It looks like some of the text on your content are running off the screen. Can someone […]
Recently a Chinese pirate outfit has been blasting blogs (including this one) with spam comments. The last four I received were: Hello,I noticed your blog named “Weight Loss Lies, Redux (for the jillionth time) | Playing in the World Game” like every week. Your humoristic style is witty, keep up the good work! And you […]
I love followers. I love to hear the roar of adulation, as my readers hang breathless on every word, waiting for the next pearl of wisdom to drop from my mouth… Well, we all know that’s a load of camel ejecta, but I do enjoy knowing that there are folks who like to read what I […]
The Internet is a perfect place to steal people’s money legally. All you have to do is write something, post it, and the equivalent population of Belgium will take it as gospel truth. There’s a lot responsible for this phenomenon, but lack of education appears to be the primary culprit. This appeared in my mailbox […]
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