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Evil Blog Comment Spammer just exposed his template through some error and the whole thing showed up in my comments.
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al2o3cr commented Apr 22, 2013

@foxnewsnetwork - the problem is it's not "just platitudes", it's (99% of the time, unless the spammer foolishly picks a site that doesn't allow URLs) platitudes plus a link to a spam / malware site. Basically, a black-hat form of SEO.

@titanous
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It looks like this factors out to 4,351,250,624 unique comments.

@senorprogrammer
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What saddens me most is that someone purposely spent their time creating that. That they tweaked it until they were proud of it. That for one day of their life it was the reason they woke up. Time they'll never get back.

@CamDavidsonPilon
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@mvasilkov
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Great, I'll use it as Lorem Ipsum for comments section.

@foxnewsnetwork
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@al2o3cr but if it links to a site, then those are super easy to block since you can just block hyperlinks. Like, if someone posts on your blog "Hey, loved your post, great read. Check out my porn site at [url]" the part that's actually spam is just the [url] part (which luckily is very easy to block). Blocking the "Hey, loved your post, great read" part is just throwing the baby out with the bath water.

@benatkin
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I've been browsing online more than three hours today but never discovered any fascinating article like yours. It's lovely value enough for me. Personally if all webmasters and bloggers made excellent content as you did, the web might be a lot more useful than ever before.

@mardix
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mardix commented Apr 22, 2013

CanOfSpam: A PHP implementation to get random spam text.

It randomly picks a comment, and randomly picks optional text in the { } tags.

@RichardVasquez
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@foxnewsnetwork : As an analogy then, would it be ok for me to use a gluestick to place coupons on your car and your front door and your computer and your clothes and everything else I can get my hands on?

I mean, it's very easy to pull those glued coupons off, and I'd be very pleasantly fake while giving your stuff the attention. I mean, why throw out the baby with the bath water?

Oh, wait. Some of those coupons might have ricin or ebola on them. Don't worry about it, I'm sure you can just block them.

@Pitarou
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Pitarou commented Apr 23, 2013

Turn this into a RegExp, and we have ourselves a spam blocker, my friends!

@eddwo
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eddwo commented Apr 23, 2013

No one bothers to comment spam without including a URL, (unless their script is broken like this one was)
so if the URL isn't part of the message itself, then it's probably included in the form submission,
intended to be linked via the commenter's name.
However cheerful these comments may appear on the surface, they are so content-free and malformed that
any blog, no matter how deserted, is probably better off without them.

@JeromeViveiros
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@foxnewsnetwork : Actually that baby needs to be drowned before throwing it out of the water.

@ralphholzmann
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omg

@TacticalCode
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Yup, Spambots are failing hard on my blog too: http://pastebin.com/m8EgQpKk

@TacticalCode
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Also, here is another non-parsed masterpiece: https://gist.github.com/TacticalCode/5455825 (on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/DJAjytyF)
This spammer blew all his spam load on my blog at once :'(

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tlossen commented Apr 27, 2013

Its like you read my mind! You appear to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with some pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other than that, this is fantastic blog. An excellent read. I'll definitely be back.

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Miyagawa produced a nice succinct Perl version: https://gist.github.com/miyagawa/5455942

Here is my stab at a version in Rebol: https://gist.github.com/draegtun/5465881

NB. Unfortunately Rebol syntax highlighting on Gist is a bit odd :( (Github are looking into it). So for now here's the RAW version: https://gist.github.com/draegtun/5465881/raw/a771410c1bbccfc7ad80427bc5f23e18a36e4649/spam-comment.r2

@DBPreston
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Googling around, I found this marvellous example - http://www.idaschmidt.dk/blog/2009/11/website-update/ That must be some post ("I've just updated my website with some new pictures...") to generate (see what I did there?) 6030 comments to date.

@pronoiac
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I just spotted a loooong spam at Mightygodking's site, with around 200 lines:

https://gist.github.com/pronoiac/5597420

@melligal
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A partial list of same spam comment came to my blog as well!

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tra38 commented Oct 28, 2015

Even if you use RegExp to block individual spam templates, it is easy enough to create new spam templates that seem to be on topic if you don't look closely. No matter how hard you try, spam can never die (evidence: the above posts).

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VPetar commented Apr 14, 2017

Interested. And here I really thought I got starred on Yahoo News. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
...
I hate these ppl. 🗡️

@joshuaissac
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^^Revenge of the spammers

@vinayprajapati
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The same comment came to my website: https://www.techprevue.com :)

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manowski commented Jun 3, 2021

Same problem with my website https://www.insiflow.com how can I manage this.

@GrahamKowalski
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Just saw something similar on Shodan.io, titled "Retina Report".

Does that ring a bell?

@benatkin
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I ran it through ChatGPT. Here's the output:


I have been browsing online for over four hours today, yet I haven't come across any interesting article like yours. It's definitely worth my time. In my opinion, if all webmasters and bloggers create valuable content like you, the internet will be much more beneficial.

I couldn't resist commenting. You've written it exceptionally well!

I will immediately grab your RSS feed as I can't find your email subscription link or newsletter service. Do you have any? Please let me know, so that I can subscribe. Thanks.

It is the perfect time to make some plans for the future, and it's time to be happy. I've read this post, and if I could, I would suggest a few interesting things or advice. Maybe you could write next articles referring to this topic. I would love to read more about it!

I have been surfing online for more than three hours nowadays, and I haven't found any interesting article like yours. It's lovely and valuable enough for me. In my view, if all webmasters and bloggers produce good content as you did, the internet will be much more useful than ever before.

Ahaa, this discussion regarding this article here at this place is nice. I have read it all, so now I'm also commenting here.

I'm sure this article has touched all the internet users; it's a really nice piece of writing on building up new website.

Wow, this article is nice. My sister is analyzing such things, so I am going to inform her.

Saved as a favorite, I really like your website!

Way cool! Some very valid points! I appreciate you writing this article and the rest of the website is also very good.

Hi, I believe this is an excellent blog. I stumbled upon it ;) I will come back once again since I have bookmarked it. Money and freedom are the best ways to change, may you be rich and continue to help others.

Woah! I'm really enjoying the template/theme of this site. It's simple, yet effective. It's very hard to get that "perfect balance" between superb usability and visual appearance. I must say you've done an awesome job with this. Additionally, the blog loads very fast for me on Safari. Superb Blog!

These are truly great ideas about blogging. You have touched some nice points here. Any way, keep up the good writing.

I love what you guys are usually up too. This type of clever work and exposure! Keep up the terrific works guys I've added you guys to my blogroll.

Hey! Someone in my Facebook group shared this site with us, so I came to give it a look. I'm definitely enjoying the information. I'm bookmarking and will be tweeting this to my followers! Terrific blog and wonderful style and design.

I love what you guys are usually up too. This type of clever work and exposure! Keep up the superb works guys I've incorporated you guys into my own blogroll.

Hey, would you mind stating which blog platform you're working with? I'm looking to start my own blog in the near future but I'm having a tough time selecting between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal. The reason I ask is that your design and style seem different than most blogs, and I'm looking for something completely unique. P.S. My apologies for getting off-topic but I had to ask!

Hey, would you mind letting me know which web hosting company you're using? I've loaded your blog in 3 different internet browsers, and I must say this blog loads a lot quicker than most. Can you suggest a good internet hosting provider at an honest price? Thanks a lot, I appreciate it!

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why do they do this? what does it gain them?

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