{"id":6326,"date":"2009-12-06T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T22:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2009-12-06T22:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T02:10:37","slug":"how-i-spent-the-last-half-hour-an-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6326","title":{"rendered":"How I Spent The Last Half Hour, An Autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting yesterday I started getting spam comments on this site that would just be these lists (sometimes long, sometimes short) of random English words. A sample:<\/p>\n

Enemy Natural,post hall gate significance experiment disappear later shout light what prepare slowly quite she<\/div>\n

I guess it’s an effort to get past heuristic filters. (Spammers don’t care about the comment, they only want the link that goes on their name.)<\/p>\n

I see all the comments on this site in a single admin feed that shows them in the order in which they were posted, regardless of what post they come from. (My old posts still see a good bit of hit & run traffic.) <\/p>\n

I did not think of this when I made the earlier post<\/a> asking people for silly words. <\/p>\n

I just now sorted through a pile of endless unrelated words, reading them through and thinking, “Man, what’s wrong with these people? These words aren’t very funny at all.” I was looking at the lists of words, searching for meaning or patterns that would explain why people had chosen these mundane and un-funny words. Are these people thinking of skits I’ve never seen? Are they non-native English speakers with different ideas about what sounds funny?<\/p>\n

And then I realized I was reading spam. <\/p>\n

So, maybe that wasn’t the best use of the last twenty minutes. The only thing that would be more pointless than reading all my spam in detail would be to write a 250 word post about my experience reading spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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