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I recently spent a few minutes digging through my WordPress Spam folder. I use a spam filter plugin to help keep it down to a minimum, but I like to check it every so often to make sure no legit comments get nabbed. This one really made me laugh…

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Some of them are so ambiguous though… For example, I get tons of these types:

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What’s weird about it is that many of them do NOT include a website in the URL field, which seems odd. Isn’t the point of the spam to get links posted on popular blogs, so that people reading the comments go to them? (Of course, all you have to do is peek at my Google Analytics for a second to disqualify me from the “popular blog” category anyway, but they don’t know that.) I suppose it could be simply testing the site to see if it can get through, or maybe they’re probing for comment handling flaws in WordPress or my skin, which they can then exploit to take over my site.

Or maybe they are just real people making real, though bland, comments that my spam system is blocking. Who knows? Every so often, if one seems more genuinely written and doesn’t have a website link, I’ll approve it manually.

But really… If you’re going to post blatantly transparent comment spam, at least try to amuse me. So bravo to whomever posted that hysterical broken-English comment. I almost approved it on general principle. Almost…