While carrying out some tidying up of this site, I suddenly noticed that on almost every post, there were 3 or 4 comments. This bewildered me, for it is one of my standing moans that nobody ever bothers commenting, and I was sure that these had all sprung up overnight.
When I read them, the plot thickened. For a start, they were all anonymous. Secondly, they said the most ludicrously complimentary things.
"Super color scheme, I like it! Good job. Go on."
My site is black and grey, the two least interesting colours in the universe. Stylish, perhaps. Super? Probably not.
"Hallo I absolutely adore your site. You have beautiful graphics I have ever seen."
I have a picture of a plastic duck wearing a judge's wig. It took me five minutes in Fireworks to glue together two images that I stole from the Interweb, without even bothering to fix the fact that the wig faces forwards while the duck faces the left. This is the sum total of my "beautiful graphics".
After reading a few of these, I soon noticed a pattern - on each post, there were a few random complimentary comments, followed by a comment linking to an online poker site. Ahah! There was no insane stalker issuing nonsensical compliments as a prelude to visiting my house in the early hours. Instead, there was an automated comments-hijacking system of fiendish simplicity.
I have now set up one of those irritating word-verification things to stop it happening again. This won't affect anyone human because, and I think I've mentioned this, nobody ever writes a comment anyway. What have I done with the ones already there? I've deleted the ones with the link, and left the complimentary ones intact to allow myself to pretend that they were written by real people.
Needless to say, I had the last laugh.
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Super color scheme, I like it! Good job. Go on.
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Why thank you, kind sir. Superman would have been much better if he were black and grey...
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