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Comment spam random text template
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Re: Comment spam random text template
#2Oh god that is priceless. In the right hands you could create a regex that would block all spam from this guy!
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#3Isn't a trivial templating system like this a very easy thing to train a bayesian spamfilter on, even without the source template? I guess blogspammers mostly prey on entirely unmaintained sites for something like this to work.
But I'm going to have a hard time avoiding using "fastidious!" as a general expression of approval now.
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#4This kind of thing really depresses me. Akismet tells me my blog [1] has had 1,364 spam comments. It's had 22 real comments.
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#5Isn't a trivial templating system like this a very easy thing to train a bayesian spamfilter on, even without the source template? I guess blogspammers mostly prey on entirely unmaintained sites for something like this to work. But I'm going to have a hard time avoiding using "fastidious!" as a general expression of approval now.
I don't know how easy it is to train a spam filter on, but nested spintax quickly scales to millions of unique output texts. It can be spun at the paragraph, sentence and word level. It's really nasty stuff.
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#6Isn't a trivial templating system like this a very easy thing to train a bayesian spamfilter on, even without the source template? I guess blogspammers mostly prey on entirely unmaintained sites for something like this to work. But I'm going to have a hard time avoiding using "fastidious!" as a general expression of approval now.
I don't know how easy it is to train a spam filter on, but nested spintax quickly scales to millions of unique output texts. It can be spun at the paragraph, sentence and word level. It's really nasty stuff.
Sure, there can be millions of unique texts, but they all follow certain very similar patterns. That's what would make even a simple naive Bayes filter very effective against them.
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#7This kind of thing really depresses me. Akismet tells me my blog [1] has had 1,364 spam comments. It's had 22 real comments. [1] http://supplementsos.com/blog/
Woot, you have 22 comments!
Why bother about the spam.
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#8Its a sad moment when you first have to explain to your mother/client/etc that no, Discount Oakley Sunglasses didn't really enjoy your superb post.
Its a shockingly effective spam tactic. People cannot resist praise.
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#9Its a sad moment when you first have to explain to your mother/client/etc that no, Discount Oakley Sunglasses didn't really enjoy your superb post. Its a shockingly effective spam tactic. People cannot resist praise.
I must say that you've done an excellent job with commenting on Hacker News. These are genuinely fascinating ideas and I have spent 3 hours today reading your comments. If more people left comments like you do then the Internet would be a better place.
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#10I have a friend who works for a large marketing company where they write website content for companies that looks almost identical to this. The company hires hundreds of young writers at a time and pays them minimum wage to come up with a few of these every day. They pass their paragraphs around to other writers who reword it again so it will show up as a unique site for search engines. I call it the spam factory.