August 15, 2010 You would think, in fact I did think, that the majority of splogs would be automatically created by clever bots toiling their way through smart, captcha-breaking scripts.
But you’d be wrong, quite seriously wrong, because these days I’d guesstimate that the majority of splogs are human powered – and thus that much harder to catch.
How do I know this?
Because they email us on a daily basis, in their dozens, because Anti Splog (which we have on Edublogs) shuts them down after a few clearly sploggy posts and they are greeted with this:
And you would not believe the number of real, genuine, people that fill out that form.
Here’s a few choice recent ones :)
And you would not believer the number of real, genuine, people that fill out that form.
Here’s a few choice recent ones :)
Someone is disputing the spam status for the blog casino infor (http://casino123.edublogs.org
Here is their reason:
_______________________
Sorry, I don’t know!please send me the details!thank you!
Mheh.
Someone is disputing the spam status for the blog uggboot (http://luolizhao.edublogs.org
).
Here is their reason:
_______________________I think it’s mistake
No, it wasn’t :)
Someone is disputing the spam status for the blog S.K. (http://hkboy.edublogs.org).
Here is their reason:
_______________________I have had enough, is there any authority to help me solve this problem????????? Faster!!!!!!!!!
We have also had enough of your money saving tips!
And my personal favorite (just look at the URL…)
Someone is disputing the spam status for the blog Learn How To Make Money Online (http://makemoneyonlineathome.edublogs.org).
Here is their reason:
_______________________i am a real person not a flippin robot that’s why.
I like this because it’s clearly a native speaker of English :)
And all of those are literally taken from the last 24 hours…. god knows how many human sploggers don’t bother to contact us too.
But, fortunately, with Anti Splog we’re blocking the bots and hustling the humans!
Update:
They are truly on fine form today:
Someone is disputing the spam status for the blog sunshine-world (http://sunshineworld.edublogs.org).
Here is their reason:
_______________________
I’m sorry to hear that my blog was be baned,I just want to give people ,the new fashion trends,and I don’t know It has been like this.and I just know the way I did is wrong,but I think I will change the way I published. hope you understand and believe me ,thank you and best wishes!
Someone is disputing the spam status for the blog lordfadeaway (http://lordfadeaway.edublogs.org).
Here is their reason:
_______________________
i wanna make friends!!!!!!1
Someone is disputing the spam status for the blog maccafadeaway (http://maccafadeaway.edublogs.org).
Here is their reason:
_______________________
i wanna make friends!!!!!!!!!!11
Someone is disputing the spam status for the blog gogogo (http://hy2010.edublogs.org).
Here is their reason:
_______________________
i am sorry about this ,but i need the blog
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Hi James the WPMUDEV team are doing great work with really great plugins, themes and support. Well done with anti splog plugin and the many others. Have lots of fun.
These sploggers are amazing though aren’t they! I mean writing whole paragraphs to try to get their blogs back is out of control… needless to say we don’t get back to them ;)
A few months ago (I think), Akismet did a blog post saying the same thing. They also discovered that a lot of these human spammers were being hired in third world nations.
So basically CAPTCHA’s are dead now, and now I’m forced to moderate all commets due to some very unfamily friendly links.
Perhaps I should make registration a requirement for commenting?
So that’s what Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa have been doing all these years…
My favorite was the “14-year-old” who was doing a fetish sex site and how she was going to tell “mommy” on me coming from a server in theplanet/ev1 space.