{"id":131,"date":"2007-11-13T21:06:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T02:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2007-11-13T21:18:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T02:18:34","slug":"the-onslaught-of-comment-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"The onslaught of comment spam"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDaddy and Damian
\nSurfside Beach, Texas
\n03 November 2007<\/p>\n

I have a small blog…. a very<\/em> small blog.\u00c2\u00a0 If you look at the Google PageRank bar, there is not one pixel of color in it.\u00c2\u00a0 I have maybe 10 family and friends who visit to read what’s going on in my life, and this number includes my husband.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet, my insignificant blog gets spam.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, it gets so much spam, I had to install that little word-test thing (or, for the more technically savvy, a “captcha” test).\u00c2\u00a0 I was getting hundreds of spam comments before I installed this.\u00c2\u00a0 Hundreds.\u00c2\u00a0 To my insignificant nothing blog.<\/p>\n

Now, as if that\u00c2\u00a0was not interesting enough, the story doesn’t\u00c2\u00a0end there.\u00c2\u00a0 I still get about 25 spam comments each week.\u00c2\u00a0 That means that somewhere out there in the world, it is somebody’s job to add spam comments to blogs.\u00c2\u00a0 The captcha test is created so a spambot can’t pass it; a human is required.\u00c2\u00a0 Does spam generate that much money that underlings can be hired?<\/p>\n

And here’s the last interesting bit to the story: the blog entry that is always — every time<\/em> — hit for comment spam is “Zen and the art of underwear shopping<\/a>.”\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe if I hadn’t used the word “underwear” in any of my blog titles, I wouldn’t be getting any spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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