According to all the spam I just emptied, all is not lost that my pineal gland is gone missing. They are guaranteeing that they can enlarge my penis!! I really don’t understand the point of that. They can’t possibly sell stuff by spamming totally inappropriate posts can they? Of course if I was a guy with a little weenie, maybe I’d fall for it. But why are they putting that on a post about a brain tumor? or a post about depression and suicide? Really., I promise I’m not depressed because I have a teeny weewee 😛
Oh give me the spam of old, which was at least totally hilarious. It’s unfortunate that the story in it’s entirety seems to be gone, it was quite the saga. I spent days enjoying it 🙂
Then there’s the scammers, and w00t!…as soon as I finally collect from all those poor widows and cancerous folks, I’m going to be a bazillionaire! It’s fairly amusing to read about the folks that actually take the time to string the scammers along for a while.
The saddest part of all, is that my blog is so lame, that’s about all the comments I get. Except for my few ever faithful and I thank you my friends, for that. You are so much more interesting reading than plowing through pages of spam to see if there is anything worthwhile in there. (P.S. I remember when I first started I wanted to publish the spam, just so I’d have some comments! :P).
Too funny, and a perfect topic today to go along with the ridiculous problems we’ve been discussing about navigating blogs and FB, cutting through the nonsense, Etc. Perfect accompanying picture. Karol
Yeah, it all gets pretty ridiculous, so I thought I’d just let my sarcasm have a go at it. 😉
Hi Anita,
I have been fighting the same battle on our blog —- 15 automated spams arriving every day! I installed this plugin 2 days ago: WP-SpamFree WordPress Spam Plugin, and have had no new spam get through!! I would recommend giving it a try.
I spent some time reading comments about spam on the blogs. It seems that they increase the ranking of sites in search engines; that it works as a Search Engine Optimization strategy.
Good Luck,
Mark
Yeah, once they find you it gets ridiculous. That akismet (which you have too) finds most and puts it in the spam folder. I always check before deleting it though because once it a while my friends end up in there.
I was ready to discontinue the blog because I was getting tired of emptying numerous spam comments from the akismet folder, even though it was effective at catching virtually all the spam.
Yeah, when mine gets pages worth I sometimes just dump it. But I just now found a real comment in there so glad I keep it this way.