All Hail The King!
Checking my dashboard for this WordPress blog, I discovered I have received 15 comments that have been isolated as spam. Sometimes there are legitimate comments that get quarantined and I want to be careful to review each one of them for legitimacy. What’s particularly interesting to me is how many of them tell me I’ve posted the greatest thing since sliced bread. There are two other things that seem to distinguish virtually every one of these. First, there is almost always a misspelling that generally consists of a spelling transposition, i.e. the letters are all there but not in the right places. Second, most of them use an acronym generally reserved for texting. Here are some examples:
- YMMD with that asenwr! TX
- That’s way the bseetst answer so far!
- You’re the graetest! JMHO
- Never seen a bteter post! ICOCBW
- With the bases loaded you strcuk us out with that answer!
- Thats raelly shrewd! Good to see the logic set out so well.
- AKAIK you’ve got the asnwer in one!
- Wow! Great tihnknig! JK
- Great common sense here. Wish Id thugoht of that
Another interesting thing is some of these comments are in response to other comments that aren’t directly responsive to what I wrote, but are clearly related to a couple of keywords in the post. For instance, I wrote a post about bacon and one of the comments was a discount offer for smoked meats, which I decided not to remove as it might actually be of interest to someone. Others are comments to a test I did.
I’m unclear on what these comments are doing for anybody, assuming they aren’t caught, marked as spam, and deleted – which is what I’m going to do with all of them. Anybody know why this happens? Are they just link fishing or something? There no doubt is a term for this I’m just unfamiliar with.
December 31st, 2011 at 11:44 am
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May 11th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
They’re back-linking to their websites which helps their SEO. We get tons on Bucks Happening, too!
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May 12th, 2011 at 8:50 am
Hi Tina:
What a pleasant surprise! You commenting on my blog gives me hope in the power of serendipity. I was pretty sure that’s what they’re doing, but why the transposition in one word? Do they think that will make us more likely to accept our evident superiority to them? The comments are frequently over-the-top and too damn effusive to be taken seriously.
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