It appears to be Opposite Week at TypePad, the publisher of this blog: the spam filter has been trapping legitimate comments and allowing hundreds of spam comments to pass through. As a result, I’ve missed a couple of legitimate comments. I’ve combed through the dross and hope I’ve located all the gold; if I’ve missed your comment, please let me know.
Meanwhile, I’ve added another level of security: the annoying but useful verification code. Please don’t let it deter you from leaving a comment; I promise I’ll loosen the reins when TypePad fixes the problem.
For your amusement, here are some of the choicest spam comments that reached my in-box:
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Haystack is a domain-renowned pain in the neck therapist.
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She gazed rather long at him, without any answer, and, in spite of the shadow in which he was standing, she saw (or fancied she saw) the expression [URL of a “cheap designer handbags” site inserted here] both of his face and his eyes.
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This impression once in a while the privileged of your workforce begins to front like lousy oranges.
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If annoyance becomes stern when doing one or more of these of sentence, it may admit gibbousness.
And my favorite:
I cant believe youre not a lot more popular simply because you surely have the gift.
Use the word "gibbous" in a sentence:
_Gibbous this day our daily bread._
Posted by: rootlesscosmo | February 18, 2013 at 09:10 AM
Rootlesscosmo: Despite the new safeguard, I had to fetch your comment out of the spam folder. My annoyance has become stern.
Posted by: Nancy Friedman | February 18, 2013 at 09:40 AM
I have a feeling a book of spam comments is somewhere underway (I saw a book of Nigerian scam emails in a bookstore two years ago).
My blog engine is WordPress. It was an avalanche of spam comments (so many compliments :)) until I signed up for Akismet. It is probably available for TypePad also, very effective and recommendable.
Posted by: En_De_Ru | February 18, 2013 at 12:28 PM
En De Ru: Thanks for the tip about Akismet; I'll look into it. P.S. I discovered your comment in the spam folder. (My own comment landed there, too.)
Posted by: Nancy Friedman | February 18, 2013 at 03:11 PM
These are sentences from a Bad Lip Reading episode.
Posted by: AaronTempler | February 20, 2013 at 07:41 AM