{"id":36940,"date":"2017-02-12T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36940"},"modified":"2017-02-12T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T11:20:11","slug":"messages-from-spammers-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36940","title":{"rendered":"Messages From Spammers Pt 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried embarrassing the spammers by criticizing their work. I&#8217;ve tried offering constructive criticism. And yet they just keep sending the same broken pointless messages. It&#8217;s so strange. It&#8217;s almost as if they don&#8217;t actually read my site.<\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s try again:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>seo:<br \/>\nWhats up are using WordPress for your site platform?<br \/>\nI&#39;m new to the blog world but I&#39;m trying to get started and create my own. 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I want to climb the steps to the Dracul Gardens overlooking the city, and then stop by Serpent Street for some dragon fin soup. I want to visit the Wyrm District and see the mighty Dragon Temples, tended by the grey-haired dragon priests. My kids could go dancing at Club Trogdor. (The Dragon City council has been trying to shut that place down for years because it&#8217;s a bit garish and conflicts with the architecture and traditionalist sensibilities of the city, but it&#8217;s hugely popular with millennials.) <\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t do these things, because despite spammer&#8217;s claims to the contrary, the city does not exist. <\/p>\n<p>Curse you, spam from the mythical Dragon City!  Stop tantalizing me with your offers of tourist guides. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>English Booster Online:<\/strong><br \/>\nWow, that&#39;s a really good article.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, that&#8217;s a really good spam.<\/p>\n<p>(Or was, until I deleted it.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>best car vacuum:<\/strong><br \/>\nFine way of telling, and nice paragraph to take facts about my presentation topic,<br \/>\nwhich i am going to deliver in academy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m really sad that I wasn&#8217;t present for your academic presentation on best car vacuum. I&#8217;m really curious how my D&#038;D notes were integrated into the talk.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Namestaj:<br \/>\nMagnificent beat ! I wish to apprentice while you amend your web site,<br \/>\nhow can i subscribe for a blog web site? The account helped me a acceptable deal.<br \/>\nI had been tiny bit acquainted of this your broadcast provided bright clear<br \/>\nconcept\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no idea why spam bots are always referring to a post as a &#8220;beat&#8221;. This has been going on for almost a decade now. Great beat! Wonderful beat! Outstanding beat! Insightful beat!<\/p>\n<p>What is with that? No human does this. How can you be so wrong for so long? I know the goal is to use unusual phrases that won&#8217;t trigger spam heuristics, but in this case we have a glaring spam-only phrase that&#8217;s been in use for years. That&#8217;s the opposite of what you want.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t be mad at spammers. Maybe I should be mad at spam filters. Why haven&#8217;t the filters picked up on this behavior yet? <\/p>\n<p>The next bit of spam was left on <a href=\"?p=28822\">a Spoiler Warning episode of KOTOR from October 2015<\/a>. Here is the text portion of that post, in full:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So now Carth is wearing assless chaps and an Oculus Rift on his face. So is this the work of developers who wanted to grief the player with clown gear, or are we all victims or artists with no taste? Also, what BioWare game has the stupidest outfits? My money is on this one, but you could make the case that Jack and Samara could take the gold medal away from Carth&#39;s chaps in the No-Dignity Olympics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And here is what the spammer said in the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>automated SEO:<\/strong><br \/>\nI do trust all of the ideas you&#39;ve offered on your post.<br \/>\nThey are very convincing and will definitely work. Nonetheless, the posts are<br \/>\nvery brief for beginners. Could you please lengthen them a bit from subsequent time?<br \/>\nThank you for the post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m very worried this spambot is out there right now, shopping for assless chaps and an Oculus Rift. <\/p>\n<p>In any case, I&#8217;d think that the first step in selling SEO services ought to be demonstrating you have some grasp of how search engines work. Leaving SEO advertisements on an old KOTOR post is not going to impress the Google bots.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week. Thanks for playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried embarrassing the spammers by criticizing their work. I&#8217;ve tried offering constructive criticism. And yet they just keep sending the same broken pointless messages. It&#8217;s so strange. It&#8217;s almost as if they don&#8217;t actually read my site. Well, let&#8217;s try again:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}