Comments on: Comment spam, me? Ha! This must be one of your human jokes!

By: Crooked Timber » » Origins Bomb

Crooked Timber » » Origins Bomb — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:51:56 +0000

[...] I was delighted when a commenter found my comment spam fiction worthy of connecting with Rebecca Borgstrom’s (previously unknown to me) spam fiction "The Noise Dreams of Signal." She’s got this Roald Dahl, Donald Barthelme sort of sensibility, with a taroty aftertaste worthy of either or both Crowleys. Reminds me of this story I’m never going to write about a congregation of fundamental Christian tarot card users who insist on literal readings of the text. ‘You’re going to die, and you’re going to see four cups, and six wands, and a fool, and a guy hanging upside down …’ Course it turns out that’s just how it goes.) I, for one, welcome our new Snavering Lavelwod overlords. (Say it three times fast.) posted on Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 at 8:40 am Post a comment [...]

By: Matt Weiner

Matt Weiner — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:55:59 +0000

The original comment was deleted, but "Good and articulate points" snuck by the Unfoggeders for a while. Then it got turned into what Unfogged comments get turned into.

By: novalis

novalis — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:42:55 +0000

John, I thought it would be your sort of thing. My other favorite non-plot-arc entries are “Rainbow Noir”, “Once Upon a Time, There Was…”, and the very silly “Why Don’t Ducks Have Hides?”

The best opening lines are likely from “Morpheus Explains The Qaballah”

The best title is “Aslan Shrugged”, which manages to simultaneously attack Ayn Rand and C.S. Lewis in two words.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:28:10 +0000

Thanks so much, Novalis, for the Hitherby link. That’s great. (Come to think of it, I can’t imagine how I neglected to finish the story by characterizing the alien world as inhabited by creatures just like us, only the males have penises 3-inches longer than ours.)

By: Danny Yee

Danny Yee — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 07:22:08 +0000

Why is this post not comment spam?

By: Gil

Gil — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 06:28:22 +0000

Is comment spam really trying to fool people, or just automated filters?

I suspect that enough people click on their links even though they know it’s automated spam to make it worth the almost zero cost of creating it.

Just like email spam.

By: theogon

theogon — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 03:25:47 +0000

“Novalis” is an obvious spammer. Anybody actually posting in the comments section of a blog is a Nybaasite trying to fulfill their dissonance conditions the quick way.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:52:05 +0000

[ obscene URL here: even joke spam gets moderated, though :) ]

Jeebus H. Cripes! Are you saying that was a real live URL? I didn’t even think of checking it. I thought I had just pulled it out of my…uh…head.

(I based the youwant part on a particularly obscene flurry of such spams that hit the Poorman a while back.)

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:23:46 +0000

surrounded by golden…enlarged penises? Just asking.

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:33:10 +0000

Wow Novalis, thanks for that marvellous link—I had been to Hitherby Dragons before but had forgotten about it.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:27:45 +0000

Perhaps the Turing test will be passed one day by a pr0n or viagra spammer.

And I was sorely tempted to write:

Great post. Nice blog. There’s some really good writing on this blog. Someday I hope to have a blog like this but it seems like a lot of hard work.

[ obscene URL here: even joke spam gets moderated, though :) ]

The thing I find most annoying about the comment spam (other than its profusion- tell Prof. Froomkin to get a better filter please) is how insulting it is to our intelligence.

By: HP

HP — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:34:47 +0000

I thought at first that this post might end with “…and I’m all out of bubble-gum,” but you took it in an entirely different direction.

By: walter

walter — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:20:12 +0000

I also have read some of the best articles I’ve ever read after coming into the blogoshpere. I check the indices such as Daypop for what are the most linked news stories and blogs. I used to go to the library and look through publications but I would never find the articles and stories I’m finding on the internet.

By: todd.

todd. — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:10:15 +0000

Sounds strikingly like Mr. Mee (a novel I read on the recommendation of someone at CT; thanks for that, by the way).

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:28:07 +0000

This post is an obvious forgery. As is this comment.