Urgh… Spam

It’s a pain. I wouldn’t mind so much if the spam I received on a daily basis (fake comments) was either a) intelligent b) funny or c) a good read, but everything that gets caught up in my Akismet fishing net is just so obviously spam, it is quite pathetic.

Something that has caught my eye a couple of times now is spam from an online pet shop/affiliate site. The names that have been given by the commenter have been dog and pet with a semi-delerious piece of writing about how fantastic a post was.

Now, I don’t mean to be down on myself, but the second I see something that is utter praise for a post, an alarm goes off in the back of my head.

Of course, then I see that the email address is a random collection of numbers & letters and that the website they want their comment to link to is that aforementioned pet site.

Does the spammer (I know that it’s most likely automated, but someone had to set that up in the first place right?) really think that they’re going to fool webmasters with this horrible stuff? Well obviously they must and unfortunately some people are taken in by it…

Tell you what spammer man/woman/robot, spend some time reading and interacting with posts. Come up with an interesting counter point, or your own thoughts on a subject and if you are not pushy, if you behave and actual contribute something meaningful to a website, you may be awarded with a link.

Surely the time that it takes to do that is better spent that all that spam. It will probably get better results too, no?

Just my thoughts…

p.s. God bless Akismet.