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#41
I got this one myself the other day.

Have a {great|good|excellent|fantastic} day!I'm very {happy|glad|pleased} when see your post.I quite {agree with|endorse|approve of} your {point of view|viewpoint|standpoint|views on politics|opinion on public affairs}.I will continue to {focus|atte...

Re: Comment spam random text template

#43

I 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.

What's the company?

Re: Comment spam random text template

#44

I 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.

What's the company?

With the right answer to this question, the original comment would need to be revised to "I have a friend who worked for a now-bankrupt marketing company until the Google anti-spam team found out about said company."

Re: Comment spam random text template

#45
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Its 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.

A work of a harvest,accurately because of your hard writing, we can feel so much eudaemonia, learn more our own understanding of their. The world could be so great....

Apparently some of these bots can't even properly place spaces after commas.

Re: Comment spam random text template

#46
post #8

Its 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.

I didn't catch on to what you were doing at first. However if you look at qeorge's profile he actually has an 8.58 "avg" stat which is incredibly high and means that you must be right.

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#47
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Oh god that is priceless. In the right hands you could create a regex that would block all spam from this guy!

It's an expensive operation, though. I doubt it scales, but I'm sure it's great for smaller services. WordPress and Disqus are probably going to use this somehow.

Disagreed. This is a super cheap operation to test

Re: Comment spam random text template

#48

Here's a quick script that spins the text. gem install spintax_parser ruby -rspintax_parser -ropen-uri -e 'String.send(:include, SpintaxParser); puts open("https://bit.ly/Ziv9Aw").read.gsub("\n", " ").unspin'

Whoa, `spintax_parser`? ...are there legitimate uses for this?

Re: Comment spam random text template

#50

I 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.

What's the company?

Nice try Matt "head of the webspam team at Google" Cutts ;-)
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