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Spam Comment of the Week — Week 12 2023

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I get some interesting spam comments on my blog, most of which are captured by Akismet, WordPress’ spam blocker. I generally do a mass delete of all of my spam comments after checking to see if any legitimate comments got caught up in Akismet’s spam-catching net.

I thought it might be fun to select a particularly interesting or unique or outrageous spam comment and highlight it each week.

I didn’t get any AI-like spam comments this week. And for those of you who read my Spam or Legit post, Dante Trimble never responded to my reply to his comment.

Anyway, here is this week’s Spam of the Week comment. This one is from Hansin Landos. It was posted in response to my FOWC with Fandango — Profession post.

I do consider all the ideas you have offered on your post. They are very convincing and can definitely work. Still, the posts are very short for beginners. May just you please prolong them a little from next time? Thank you for the post.

You’re welcome Hansin. I’m pleased that you considered my ideas and found them convincing and workable. I’m not sure what you mean when you ask me to prolong my posts. Do you mean you’d like me to write longer posts? Sorry, dude, that’s not my jam.

What about you? Have you read some catchy spam comments that you’d like to share with us? If so, put them in the comments or create your own post and tag it #FSCW.

Spam or Legit?

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Usually the comments that show up in my spam folder are obviously spam. But recently it’s not that obvious at all. Take these two spam comments examples I received yesterday.

Here’s one.

It’s from Zoe Atherton and the source is outlookindia.com. The comment is in response to this post. It seems to be quite legitimate and responsive given the post she commented on. But I clicked on the link to the site that it came from and this is where it took me:

So did a human write a legitimate comment that Akismet mistakenly swept into my spam folder? Or is Zoe Atherton an AI chatbot who scanned my post, picked up key words, and created that comment in response?

Here’s another.

It’s from Dante Trimble and the source is the marketerscorner.com. The comment is in response to this post. Like Zoe’s comment, Dante’s seems to be quite legitimate and responsive given the post he commented on. But I clicked on the link to the site that it came from and this is where it took me:

So is Dante real? Did a human write this comment or was it generated by an AI chatbot? I decided to actually reply to Dante’s comment.

What do you think?

  • Are Zoe and Dante real people who read my posts and made legitimate comments?
  • Are Zoe and Danta chatbots using AI technology to generate legitimate sounding comments that are actually spam?
  • Will Dante respond to my reply?

Let me know your thoughts in the comments, please.

Spam Comment of the Week — Week 11 2023

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I get some interesting spam comments on my blog, most of which are captured by Akismet, WordPress’ spam blocker. I generally do a mass delete of all of my spam comments after checking to see if any legitimate comments got caught up in Akismet’s spam-catching net.

I thought it might be fun to select a particularly interesting or unique or outrageous spam comment and highlight it each week.

This week I have three interesting spam comments to feature. This first one was from Pokoj13071, who was kind enough to give my blog a second chance after finding it too boring. But I have apparently redeemed myself lately.

I have not checked in here for some time as I thought it was getting boring, but the last few posts are great quality so I guess I will add you back to my everyday bloglist. You deserve it my friend 🙂

This next spam comment was from Fasano, who apparently is a long lost family member of mine. Hopefully I can persuade this previously unknown family member to not peer any more of my posts.

Hello my family member! I wish to say that this post is awesome, nice written and include approximately all significant infos. I would like to peer more posts like this.

This last one is from someone named Ward, in response to one of my Cellpic Sunday posts, wrote:

My wife and i have been really thrilled when Jordan could deal with his homework using the precious recommendations he came across from your own blog. It’s not at all simplistic just to happen to be offering tricks that many others might have been selling. We really see we have got you to give thanks to for this. The most important explanations you’ve made, the simple site navigation, the relationships you can give support to instill – it’s all great, and it’s aiding our son in addition to our family reason why this content is fun, which is tremendously important. Thanks for all the pieces!

I am thrilled that Ward’s son, Jordan, was able to be helped with his homework by seeing a photo of my dog at the beach. You’re welcome for all the pieces, Ward.

Anyway, have you read some catchy spam comments that you’d like to share with us? If so, put them in the comments or create your own post and tag it #FSCW.

WDP — Losing One’s Self

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What activities do you lose yourself in?

It doesn’t really matter where I am or what’s going on around me. I may be reading my newsfeed. Or maybe I’m looking to buy something on Amazon and I’m reading product reviews. I’m watching a video on YouTube. I’m reading a book on my Kindle app. I’m playing solitaire. Catching up on the March Madness scores. Whatever it may be, my eyes are focused on the screen of my iPhone and my mind is absorbed by whatever it is that I’m looking at.

But it’s when I’m on WordPress that I am fully lost to the world. Thinking about what to write. Planning, drafting, and refining my posts. Reading the posts — some masterpieces, some crap — from other bloggers, leaving comments, leaving likes. That is the activity I truly lose myself in.

Image credit: Midjourney text to art AI app.

Spam Comment of the Week — Week 10 2023

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I get some interesting spam comments on my blog, most of which are captured by Akismet, WordPress’ spam blocker. I generally do a mass delete of all of my spam comments after checking to see if any legitimate comments got caught up in Akismet’s spam-catching net.

I thought it might be fun to select a particularly interesting or unique or outrageous spam comment and highlight it each week.

This week’s featured spam comment was from someone named Lacki and it was in response to an earlier Spam Comment of the Week post.

Thanks for another informative site. The place else may I am getting that kind of information written in such a perfect approach? I have a challenge that I’m just now working on, and l’ve been at the glance out for such information.

I think the real challenge Lacki should be working on is how to put together a coherent sentence.

I’m adding a second spam comment today because this one seriously freaked me out. It was from Zoe Jones and she wrote this in response to my post “Work-Life Balance.”

Do you think that Sarah is right that Ted needs to find a balance between work and family? Is it really about him wanting a more serene life spent with family or does he want to work himself to death?

At first I thought Akismet had incorrectly put this in my spam folder since it seemed to be a legitimate response to my post. I was getting ready to approve it, but then I clicked on the link to Zoe’s website, and this is where it took me:

That got me wondering if Zoe Jones is a chatbot and her comment was actually created by an AI text-generator app. Could it be that spammers are copying short posts into a ChatGPT app and having it generate comments that actually sound like legitimate comments from real people? What do you think?

Anyway, have you read some catchy spam comments that you’d like to share with us? If so, put them in the comments or create your own post and tag it #FSCW.