Spambot of the day
I needed to write you the tiny word to finally thank you very much yet again regarding the precious secrets you’ve contributed above. I think there are millions of more pleasant moments ahead for people who examine your website.
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
Almost reads like what I find in the newspapers today.
Does it come with a happy ending?
I agree- I think that there are millions of more pleasant moments ahead for people who examine your website.
The spammers always tell you how wonderful your blog is but never mention any specifics.
Sounds a little like a very long fortune cookie.
“All your base are belong to us”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
We are thanking you most magnanimous.
Is someone making money from this nonsense? Is there a business model?
I don’t view this as a bot/spam. It reads to me like a translation. Perhaps a non english speaker reads your blog via translate and was trying to post a compliment.
PS: which post was the comment on? I would like to read the precious secrets 😉
DisGuested:
It definitely was spam. There was more of it, too, but I can’t quote it because I cleared out that folder. It was from a business – most spam comments are from businesses – I think it’s in order to raise their positions on the search algorithms.
They are usually written by foreign AI, I believe – that’s why the language is so weird and sometimes humorous.
Oh, that’s too bad. I liked the scenario that some overseas fan was taking the time to translate etc. I was going to add that I agree there are “millions of more pleasant moments ahead” as I read your blog almost every day, having discovered it only last year. It has greatly added to my online reading time. My other daily must is
https://www.christopherfountain.com FWIW
Cheers
Well, that’s just precious.
My guess is that at least 30% of our emails these days are from spambots.
Never the incessant posts from actual, legitimate businesses from whom we have purchased stuff.
}}} I read your blog almost every day, having discovered it only last year. It has greatly added to my online reading time.
If I may recommend, Neo and Chicago Boyz are my two “go to” blogs.
https://chicagoboyz.net/
They are a collective of regular posters, so you get a lot of different viewpoints. A couple of them read and comment here. Neo is a lot more consistent in terms of posting, but they do provide a lot of different topics and viewpoints.
}}} My guess is that at least 30% of our emails these days are from spambots.
Never the incessant posts from actual, legitimate businesses from whom we have purchased stuff.
It’s at least that — a lot of it is purged before it reaches the final recipient.
FWIW, my own experience is that I have two main e-mail accounts (I actually have 5 or 6, offhand, but there are two I access regularly**) but one is my “actual” mail account, and the other is my “spam” account — anytime I MUST provide an e-mail to create an account, but have no actual reason for them to ever contact me — that is the account I use. It piles up with useless dreck, I glance over it to see if there is anything relevant on a regular basis (rare, but there are some routine adverts I do like to look over, for products I do have a use for)
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** In fact, I’ve begun changing my basic mail host, because the one I’ve been using for a decade now has a hissy fit if I don’t access a mail account for 6 months, kills the account AND locks the account name so I no longer have any access to it. Jackass idiots. They will slowly lose my business. One of my other account sources kills the account and empties the box, but it’s just inactivated — I can still access the account if needed for some future mail, it just doesn’t have any older mail in it. I have no issues with that, as most of what is in it will be spam anyway. These are accounts (such as steam) where I may want to correspond with them without looking through a hundred spam e-mails for a reply (as with the spam account)… but still don’t want to give them the opportunity to spam my main account. My need to access the account is very low, so it easily may BE 6 months or more between needful accesses.