Comment Spam

I’ve just been looking at this website’s “activity log” and was amazed to see how often comment spam comes in. Thank goodness that I’ve got some basic filtering in place. Yesterday there were 170 attempts to comment here (with one genuine comment), all of which failed because they didn’t pass my cunning challenge response box.
Interestingly, I’ve had one piece of spam come through and reach publishing which did pass the challenge response. I guess that was entered “by hand” which seems a very dull thing to be doing.
In other news, there are some very odd findings coming out of Technorati searches. It seems that people cut and paste things from this blog into other blogs (and link back) purely to include spam links on those blogs. I’m sure that there’s a word for this, but I don’t know what it is.
Finally, here are some entertaining search terms that resulted in people finding their way onto this site recently:
derek acorah imhotep
tessa dunlop
imhotep derek acorah
sally morgan star psychic
allo, allo british film vicki michelle photos
jeremy kyle merchandise
playback the return of allo allo
sally morgan psychic
“allô, allô” rené download clip
“martina cole” culture show clip
“robert kilroy silk” “new zealand”
“sally morgan” psychic contact details
“star psychic” production company
OK – that’s not all of them, and some of the search terms at the bottom are the result of only one search. But what’s clear is that the stuff I like least and tend to moan about is what people actually end up here looking at.
I’m guessing that Derek Acorah and Sally Morgan fans are going to be truly disappointed that I think they’re frauds who play on the insecurities of the gullible and the emotionally vulnerable (and with any luck, they’ll be visiting even more so as a result of this entry!).
I’m also impressed by the number of Allo Allo fans out there, including those who include the correct accents.
The Robert Kilroy Silk search is especially concerning…


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