I get lots of comment spam, either obvious ads for dubious products or boilerplate praise in almost understandable Engfish ("This is the most coherent soliloquy on this germane topic in the recent memory") with links to the ads. But I'd never seen comment spam that went out of its way to insult me:
The subsequent time I learn a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I imply, I know it was my choice to read, however I truly thought youd have one thing attention-grabbing to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about one thing that you would repair in the event you werent too busy searching for attention.[links to some construction contractor removed]
I guess they know how humble I am and that I'd take criticism more seriously than praise.
But it's still painful to read something negative and have to take the time to parse it and realize it doesn't say anything at all, so I hope it doesn't become a trend. Thank goodness for Akismet!
Adrienne Boswell says:
I’m getting the same crap on my blog, too.
Oddly enough, I was thinking of using another word for crap, so I looked it up in the thesaurus, and of course, there is no nice alternative. But, then again, it’s as if some prankster left a flaming bag of excrement on your porch.
Makes you want to go out and hunt this spammer down, and then slap ’em with a big cartoon hand.
August 6, 2011, 9:02 amMick E says:
Any idea what it means when a comment has “[…]” in it (without the quotes)? I get several with that in front of and at the end of the comment.
October 2, 2011, 10:58 amDanny says:
@Mick E:
October 4, 2011, 2:37 pmThe three periods are an ellipsis, indicating a gap or something removed. Putting it in brackets means it was removed by the person quoting it, not the original author
Danny says:
Update: Just got the following spam comment on this item. Nice irony:
November 21, 2011, 5:45 pm