Spam comments...

Spam comments...  One of the banes of the online world is spammers – and they're not just on email.  If you keep a blog, you probably already know what I'm talking about, but if not ... spammers have “bots” (automated programs) that run around all the blogs in the world, trying hard to post a comment that contains a link to their evil, spammy site.

Once spammers started targeting blogs (about 8 years ago), most bloggers have switched to “moderated” comments – meaning that the blog owner has to read and approve comments before they will actually be published.  So now the spammers have taken to writing their spam comment in such a way as to entice the blog owner into approving it.

Here's a spam comment posted to my blog today:

This design is incredible! You definitely know how to keep a reader entertained. Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to start my own blog (well, almost...HaHa!) Wonderful job. I really loved what you had to say, and more than that, how you presented it.  Too cool!

My site Online Pharmacy

In the original spam comment, that link would send you to a site selling “male enhancement” products of the mechanical kind.  I've changed it to point to my own blog, since I most certainly did not want to send my readers to that site!  And of course I did not approve that comment!

Usually these spam comments are very badly written, most likely by someone whose first, second, or third language is not English.  Sometimes they're funny, or over-the-top, like this one.  But on very rare occasions, they're good enough that if I wasn't paying close attention, I might have approved it...