Cleaning out the spam box

One of the benefits of having blogs that no one reads is that I have enough time to look through all the comments people leave - you know, the one a week. Naturally, given this paucity, I was surprised to see five e-mails sitting in the Inbox of my blog (the other blog, actually, but that doesn't affect the point here). In case you can't see where this is going: they were all from the same spam source.

But there's more weirdness than simply another bout of digital diarrhea dumped on my unsuspecting articles by yet another spammer advertising some idiotic product (which I will absolutely not name here). No, this individual decided to drop "comments" on five fairly arbitrary and not necessarily recent) articles, but before getting to their moronic promotion, left a gibberishy actual comment as well. This is about those comments.

Regarding an article my cohort Figgs wrote in November 2010 about Ohio State beating michigan:

If Auburn obtains beat by South Carolina in your SEC Championship and is also knocked through the BCS name game
What can we do when we have many boring free time? How about try to get access to the online games? When we talk about the game, we need to talk about the [name of entity]

My SEC Championship? The BCS name game? Worth pointing out, I think that there has been an SEC title game since this one, with different teams. Interesting timing.


Regarding an article Figgs wrote hating on michigan:

You might not be the only a single hating on michigan, but you've definitely elevated it to an art work form

No commenters ever call my work "an art work form." I'm sad now. Interestingly, this particular bit of wisdom clevely regurgitates something in the comments, not in the original article as well.


Regarding an article I wrote in 2010 about Derek Jeter's contract negotiations:

That's not only a typo - it's more than two hundred million dollars. near somehow looks baffled how the Yankees don't wish to carry on having to pay Jeter

Seriously, why are you doing this? Did you mean to just start spamming and became so enthralled with our content that you couldn't help by leave unintelligible comments as well? Also, the first sentence is almost a complete copy and past of a sentence I wrote in the article, except with "more than" substituted for "over." WHY?


On an article I wrote complaining about Cleveland's low spot in an ESPN Power Rankings:

thinking about how dominant and disciplined Cleveland has looked the previous two instances out, wouldn't you consider them more than the 5 clubs graded just forward of us

This is weird. What I've now noticed, reading through the articles a little more carefully, is that this is clearly some sort of bot generating these comments. What I can't understand, however, is why they run the original text through Google Translate (or Babelfish, or whatever), then back into English for their dumb comment. Hence, "BCS title game" becomes "BCS name game." What does this step accomplish? What does this entire practice of leaving a token copied-and-pasted-and-messed-up comment before your dumb ad accomplish? So strange.


About a good Cleveland sports weekend:

I don't really feel as positively concerning the previous weekend in sports activities as I recognize I should, mainly because the steelers won final evening on Monday evening Football.

I wonder if this intelligent commenter enjoyed the end of Sunday's game as much as I did? Yeah, let's watch that again:



Fannnnnntastic.