insulting spam!

[dbskyler]

I just got a spam insult! Here's what they said (followed by a link, which of course I didn't click on):

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The next time I learn a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I imply, I do know it was my choice to learn, but I truly thought youd have something interesting to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you would repair when you werent too busy looking for attention.
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Is this a new tactic to get around LJ's spam filters? If so, it seemed to work, as it wasn't automatically screened as a suspicious comment. However, the other big spam red flags were present: bad grammar, lack of punctuation, and a comment from a new person to a post that is several years old. You'd think those would all be things that LJ could add to their algorithms (especially the last one, which is the single biggest indicator of spam, at least in my journal).

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I saw something like that on one of the comms I'm on earlier. I just huffed and deleted it. (Had to leave it to the comm admins to actually delete it from the LJ post.)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Insulting people to get them to click on your link is a bizarre new tactic.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

It is. I suppose it's their way of trying to fool you into thinking they're actually real.

In my inbox this morning I've found another 3 notifs for similarly chatty (though not always insulting) comments - luckily because two were in response to comm posts I'd made I was able to delete+mark as spam.

I learned all my blogs in skool, i did

[lolmac]

Oy. That's definitely spam, but it's certainly a brand new "tactic". I'm especially surprised that the link made it through.

Did you report the bot as well as canning the spam?

Re: I learned all my blogs in skool, i did

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not a community, so I think links do generally go through.

Yes, I reported the bot. :D

not a commune either, I bet

[lolmac]

BTW, I've had a major spike in spam on LJ today. At least this time none of the bot accounts actually joined Fic Rush!!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Don't spammers know that if they want you to click their links they should compliment you? Sheesh.

(on the other hand, since spammers are obviously WRONG WRONG WRONG... you get the drift ;) )

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Don't spammers know that if they want you to click their links they should compliment you?

You would think that! Unless they were counting on me wanting to follow their link in order to insult them back? But since they're a bot, there's not much point in that . . .

[eve11]

haha I just got the opposite spam message:

"Youre so cool! I dont suppose Ive read anything like this before. So nice to seek out any individual with some unique ideas on this subject. realy thanks for starting this up. this website is one thing that is wanted on the net, someone with a little originality. useful job for bringing something new to the internet!" (and a link I'm not clicking)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Hey, how do I get the complimentary spam?

[aralias.livejournal.com]

i saw your post on this before i had any of these comments - so now i have had them i think 'ah, that dbskyler thing is happening!'

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

LOL just to show you that not all comments on years old posts are spam ;)
Yes, I have been scrolling your journal all evening long, back to this. Not sure I am going to stop anytime soon and I really should as it is midnight in Germany. Don't send the Weeping Angels.

Good night!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Wow, really? I hope you've enjoyed reading these old posts! Of course, your comment didn't contain bad grammar, lack of punctuation, or a link, which means it can't be spam.

Anyway, if you enjoy my public ramblings, seems I should add you to my flist so you can read the rest. :)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Aww, too kind! I hope you got a good look into my journal before you did friend me, to see what crazyness you got yourself into ;) My journal is heavy on the action figures, dolls and general miniatures in several fandoms. I just want to bring a little joy and smiles into the world. My newest addition are some really great 1:6 scale Kirk and Spock.

Yesterday I had just clicked onto your page to copy your name to my post, and then the recent Star Trek posts drew me in. I am a newly Star Trek fan, only started to watch TOS last May. I grew up in Eastern Germany, we didn't have that in our TV. And then I just kept scrolling. It was nice seeing all those old reviews to even older Doctor Who episodes. You are certainly well spoken but then you are from the old fashioned generation! I bet you read a lot of books too... Sometimes it really pains me to see long rambles of text in the internet, without any punctuation or grammar and often it's really hard to understand what someone is trying to say, especially for a non-native speaker like me.

And I liked reading your entries and also the discussions in the comments. There were a few I would have commented on if they had been fresh, but them being so old I didn't really see the point.

I liked especially the one you wrote about how conventions have changed. Some good points in there. Then again, American conventions in general are way too big for my liking! I started out with Stargate cons in Germany, they had 4 or 5 star guests, and if we were 500 fans then it was a big con. At one we were only 100. Now that is familiar! And they would dance with us at the party and next morning we met them at the hotel breakfast. And there was either photosession or stage panels or autograph sessions, with a lot of free time in between. I don't like cons where you have to decide which things to miss out in favor for others. I was to one in Vancouver once. And I am also used to have my fixed seat in the room with my ticket, without standing in lines for hours.

I now mostly travel to the UK for cons and it's the same thing there. The biggest one in Germany has 5000-6000 fans. That is the biggest in Europe actually. So things like Dragon con with several ten thousands is something that would not appeal to me, and I totally agree with you about the floor sleeping at SDCC. It's madness. And with the internet, we mostly get to see the panels much better.

(as for fruit flies? I kill them the old fashioned way, clapping with my hands catching them)

Edit: And I just see you are friends with LolMac. The world is really a village! I know her from way back the Stargate/MacGyver/Richard Dean Anderson fandom and had a great time together with her and other American friends in Vancouver. That alone was well worth the long trip.

And one last word - great words about friending and de-friending on your profile page! In my early LJ days, I once defriended a girl whose posts were very long without a cut and mostly either about a computer game or in Spanish which I can't understand. When she noticed half a year later she was very offended, saying she thought we had gone along well (despite me never commenting on her entries and she never commenting on mine) and I should have notified her. When I tried to reply again to explain I found myself blocked.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yes, I checked out your journal and saw that you are a fan of Doctor Who and Star Trek! Also, your Action Figure Theater posts are fun. : ) I was especially impressed with the one where you inserted the Tenth Doctor into "Singin' in the Rain."

I am a newly Star Trek fan, only started to watch TOS last May.

Yay for new Star Trek fans, especially those who watch TOS!

Edit: And I just see you are friends with LolMac. The world is really a village! I know her from way back the Stargate/MacGyver/Richard Dean Anderson fandom and had a great time together with her and other American friends in Vancouver. That alone was well worth the long trip.

I'm jealous! I've never met lolmac in person.