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Its a sad moment when you first have to explain to your mother/client/etc that no, Discount Oakley Sunglasses didn't really enjoy your superb post.<p>Its a shockingly effective spam tactic. People cannot resist praise.

I have a friend who works for a large marketing company where they write website content for companies that looks almost identical to this. The company hires hundreds of young writers at a time and pays them minimum wage to come up with a few of these every day. They pass their paragraphs around to other writers who reword it again so it will show up as a unique site for search engines. I call it the spam factory.

I love a good con, and it's instructive to teach people how they are tricked so that it doesn't happen to them.<p>One of my favorite spams happened a couple of weeks ago. The spammer said he had written a very long post about my excellent article, but his computer crashed, so he wasn't going to repeat it.<p>This is very similar to "Gee, if you could only have read my comment, you would have loved how on-topic and awesome it was!"<p>We've created this system where we are paying people to drop by our blogs and tell us how awesome we are. Strange world.

Isn't a trivial templating system like this a very easy thing to train a bayesian spamfilter on, even without the source template? I guess blogspammers mostly prey on entirely unmaintained sites for something like this to work.<p>But I'm going to have a hard time avoiding using "fastidious!" as a general expression of approval now.

It looks like this factors out to 4,351,250,624 unique comments.

It's called "Spintax". People in the internet marketing business use this all the time. Not just for comment spam, but to generate different versions of entire articles for submission to article directories and what not.<p>This is one of the more well known "spinners" as they are called: <a href="http://thebestspinner.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thebestspinner.com/</a>

1 Million results on Google for "I have been surfing online more than 2 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours" [1]<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=I+have+been+surfing+online+more+than+2+hours+today%2C+yet+I+never+found+any+interesting+article+like+yours" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=I+have+been+surfing+online+m...</a>

Here's a quick script that spins the text.<p><pre><code> gem install spintax_parser ruby -rspintax_parser -ropen-uri -e 'String.send(:include, SpintaxParser); puts open("https://bit.ly/Ziv9Aw").read.gsub("\n", " ").unspin'</code></pre>

Man... I'd actually get to an ATM, but I took during supervised visitation to see if they actually had to talk to any judgment. I don't know what is written so we could draw the appropriate details. I had the Sponge Bob Lego set. Not only did they change the social worker again - if lowering the lien can be cancelled or reduced, Windows Vista would not let that get in contact with me. Will we ever know the rest? I told her my name when I signed in today... and then cashed it and put six graveyard cards down on them and that trying to get used to have the present ability to make a deposit. This is the reason it was too much time as an and the house was not there. Maybe whoever poured stuff on my answering machine fell... and now they can't even eat a slice without it tearing and falling to pieces. She is now one of my underwear that is being hacked into, they probably figured out how much it would cost for the attic that flew off the bus. It did install when I told her that she was first soldered, but me... how important a father to a building! I walked there from 2003! Yesterday, I called my lawyer and said that I will clean the apartment tomorrow.

Oh god that is priceless. In the right hands you could create a regex that would block all spam from this guy!

Nice, I should update my old blog post about this: <a href="http://denis.papathanasiou.org/2010/08/24/spam-apalooza-a-survey-of-modern-blog-comment-spam/" rel="nofollow">http://denis.papathanasiou.org/2010/08/24/spam-apalooza-a-su...</a>

This kind of thing really depresses me. Akismet tells me my blog [1] has had 1,364 spam comments. It's had 22 real comments.<p>[1] <a href="http://supplementsos.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://supplementsos.com/blog/</a>

I especially hate the kind of spam you find in the comments over at rockpapershotgun.com, which looks similar, but is more annoying as it interrupts the comment tree:<p>Joshua. I just agree… Bonnie`s postlng is good, on sunday I bought a gorgeous Acura after bringing in $7140 thiss month and-more than, $10,000 last-munth. this is certainly the coolest job I’ve ever done. I began this seven months/ago and straight away was bringin in over $81 per-hour. I follow instructions here &#60;url&#62;<p>It was very pervasive for some months, but it looks like the guys finally found a way to block most of it. Shouldn't be too hard with alle the numbers and dollar signs.

What is the point of this? I thought the point of spamming was to insert links to your website or promote some product. This just looks like random compliments.

I got this one myself the other day.<p>Have a {great|good|excellent|fantastic} day!I'm very {happy|glad|pleased} when see your post.I quite {agree with|endorse|approve of} your {point of view|viewpoint|standpoint|views on politics|opinion on public affairs}.I will continue to {focus|atte...

Oh Well! I just wrote CanOfSpam <a href="https://gist.github.com/mardix/5438589" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/mardix/5438589</a>, a PHP implementation to get random text. It randomly picks a comment, and randomly picks optional text in the { } tags.

Add in dynamic content (like mentioning a blurb from a past blog post, or a tweet from the writer, or - even better - a tweet @ the author from someone else prominent) and you've got yourself one slick marketer... erm, I mean spammer.

Don't captchas solve this ? Are spam tools able to bypass them too often, or is it because people find captchas annoying ?

Have others been seeing a huge increase in spam getting past akismet filter on wordpress lately, or is it just me?

As much as you guys are going to hate on my comment, well written spintax is an art form.

about this they use spamming software for internet marketing which works thou!