I go through our comment logs and sweep out the spam every so often, and while it’s usually just an assault on (what’s left of) my good taste, today was a little different. Just look at the phrases the bots came up with to try to fool the filters into thinking that they’re real people:
- “I’ve just been letting everything pass me by lately. I haven’t gotten anything done today. Pfft.”
- “My mind is like a fog. Oh well. My life’s been really dull today. Eh. Today was a total loss. I’ve more or less been doing nothing , but I guess it doesn’t bother me.”
- “More or less nothing seems worth doing. I’ve just been letting everything wash over me lately. I just don’t have anything to say lately. Shrug. I can’t be bothered with anything lately.”
- “Today was a loss. I just don’t have anything to say. Not that it matters.”
You’d think with such easy access to gamb1ing, pr0n and h0t russ1an bridz, these bots would be living it up, but they sound like they’re about to off themselves. I guess flooding the Internets with crap isn’t all that fulfilling.
Maybe marvin the android from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is real and spends his time spamming blogs as a passtime?
Man, why didn’t I think of that reference? Curse it, Jack, you really know where your towel is.