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…and what I do with them. For some strange reason, a website called www.realwritingjobs.com has suddenly decided I need to be told about their bottom-feeding, barrel-scraping, dream-busting rip-off scam, and they’ve decided to recruit people to send me @ mentions on Twitter saying “Writers needed!” with a link and a whole list of other people Continue reading All those tweets that say “Writers needed!”…  “This Week in the Spam Can” I risk to seem the layman, but nevertheless I will ask, whence it and who in general has written? That’s the comment, in its entirety. I have a question of my own: “What it?” Nice post, good work. I have recently started my own blog so its good to learn from what Continue reading Maybe I Should Start a Weekly Feature I don’t know if it’s a natural result of increased traffic or what, but over the last few weeks, my spam comment count has gone from one or two a week to thirty or forty a day (which means I have ten times as many spammers as real readers!). I check the spam queue once or Continue reading Spam Blog Comments I found an interesting comment in my my spam queue: Good post, couldn’t have stated that much better myself That’s the entire comment, complete with its missing period. What’s the funny part? Well, it was made on the blog where I’m serializing one of my novels, Light Always Changes. There really wasn’t anything stated in the post Continue reading Attention Spam Commenters: Get a Life. When I first joined Twitter, in March of this year, I wasn’t even really sure why I should. Short, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? What’s that all about? Who cares what I’m doing? I quickly decided it wasn’t about short, frequent bouts of Narcissism, but that it was much more than just Continue reading Twitter v. the Spambots . . . but I do know how to run a search engine! I got a comment on a recent post, UberTwitter for BlackBerry – Everything TwitterBerry Wishes it Was, that was from a source that made it look like spam. But the comment itself said “Hey, great post, very well written. You should write Continue reading Maybe I look stupid . . . |
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The Semi-Irregular “Spam o’ the Day” (2-for1 special!)
The spam folder came up with a tie for, uh, best place today, so I decided to post both of them.
The first one is just your basic translate-o-matic silliness:
The more I examine articles of this kind of excellent as this (which can be uncommon), the additional I feel there might be a future for your
Continue reading The Semi-Irregular “Spam o’ the Day” (2-for1 special!)