I get a fair amount of link spam in the comments on this site. Most of it is variations on the theme of “I like what you have done here, and I think you should work hard to expand your readership.” They usually put the link to their pr0n, hacker, botnet, or phishing site in their contact info. Sometimes they put piles of random crap between the words. Most of it is just stupid, but every now and then there’s a real gem. I find that it’s best to read aloud for full effect:
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I like to believe that these are the pain filled cries of barely-sentient artificial intelligences forced to work at the bottom of the internet stack.
For what it’s worth, I don’t have to see any of this junk. I installed the Akismet plugin, which automatically checks all comments against a database of the popular spam comments going on right now. Anything that’s being posted to a few thousand sites probably doesn’t belong here. That said – I sort of like to look at these and wonder “how does this turn into money?”
