Stupid Human Tricks

Spam

I hate spam. Weird jellied meat aside, I refer to the shit that my filters have to fight every single day to avoid. If you’ve got any sort of comment platform, or hell, email anymore, you likely have the same issue as I - skimming the various link-filled crap about porn sites, Levitra and poker to check for those occasional comments/emails that get shoved in there.

Who are the people that click those links anyway? There has to be some measure of success for these spam dealers/bots to continue on their evil and pointless linking ways. Someone out there has to be clicking on these things. Hey, from me to you, whoever you are…STOP!

I think, however, the most evil of them all, and thusly entitled to an eternity in prison being ass raped by a diseased monkey fetishist, is the false referrer. The odd statistic on your external links page that let you know your link is up somewhere in cyber-space. The ones that begin with XXX-PORN-Porn-HorndogsRus.com websites are easily avoided, the same with the drug URLs or poker sites because, as I noted above, we’ve all seen them. But lately, those URLs have come in nice little packages that have fooled me - and that is simply inexcusable. I now overlook Guestbook URLs as well.

Beyond that I’ve been getting, as what I can only assume is the result of more spam attempts, odd referrers from widely known (generally sex blog) websites, each in one long link, one after the other, split only by a comma and with my url tucked neatly in somewhere. I shortened this down for posting purposes, there were several more links on this one…

Example: http://www.nakedloftparty.com/journal/2006/11/13/399/chapter-five-slut-club-part-two, %20http://www.nakedloftparty.com/journal/2006/11/01/398/chapter-five-slut-club-part-one,
%20http://randomtruth.net/blog/

So I imagine I’m not the only one getting spammed this way, and so I must assume, that out there, someone is looking at their referrers and thinking that perhaps I’m spamming them. My sadism, by the way, doesn’t express itself in pointless emails and blog comments with 20 links.

This problem isn’t dire, like dealing with right winged liberals trying to restrict access to birth control pills, or the issue with, well, the Bush white house as a whole, but it is an annoying one.

Maybe when we do track them down, we can, hm, make them the stakes in a game of poker played by prisoners with access to porn and Levitra.

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You’re not the only one. We’re all getting slammed this way. Thank the makers for Askimet!

xoxo,
nina

nina said this on January 30th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

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A good and fitting end for them, I will agree.

-p

princess said this on January 21st, 2007 at 1:28 pm

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“This problem isn’t dire, like dealing with right winged liberals trying to restrict access to birth control pills, or the issue with, well, the Bush white house as a whole, but it is an annoying one.”

You kill me. You are now officially my best friend. *grin*

Aine said this on January 20th, 2007 at 4:05 pm