Fucking spambots!

[Cruel2BKind]

It seems like the spambots only started showing up here a few months ago, and now they've planted their insidious fingers into the comment section of one of my stories!

I hope that it is the last. They couldn't put in any links, but it was this random poor-english jumble about the upcoming batman movie.

I deleted the comment, of course. I'm just angry because I get so fucking EXCITED when I see comments on my work, and I found out that it was just some foreign dude on his computer that probably gets a few bucks for the hits he generates on somebody's site.

 

[lovecraft68]

It seems like the spambots only started showing up here a few months ago, and now they've planted their insidious fingers into the comment section of one of my stories!

I hope that it is the last. They couldn't put in any links, but it was this random poor-english jumble about the upcoming batman movie.

I deleted the comment, of course. I'm just angry because I get so fucking EXCITED when I see comments on my work, and I found out that it was just some foreign dude on his computer that probably gets a few bucks for the hits he generates on somebody's site.

I got pissed a few months ago when someone commented on my series that "after reading part one on bookstrand.com I was thrilled to find the rest of it here."

I went ballistic, because I never published there and of course went there searching for my work using every key word I could think of. I mentioned it to another author and he said that comment was on his series as well as many others all in the incest section, it was just a bot to get you to go to their site.

 

[estragon]

It's the latest dodge. The spammer gets paid for redirecting hits to the site. Originally it was supposed to work for friend-to-friend referrals (like the old "invite a friend and get a prize" promotions retailers would use in the brick-and-mortar days).

 

[Darkniciad]

We're lucky Lit uses a script to break both images and links in the comments. If either of those worked in commments, we'd probably get more spam than legitimate comments.

With links and images broken, the effort required to make a comment goes over the limit most spammers will bother with.

 

[lovecraft68]

We're lucky Lit uses a script to break both images and links in the comments. If either of those worked in commments, we'd probably get more spam than legitimate comments.

With links and images broken, the effort required to make a comment goes over the limit most spammers will bother with.

Maybe Lit should create a spam forum. They can all hang out and pitch stuff to each other.

And then anytime anyone here wanted to buy some golf clubs they would know where to go.

 

[TxRad]

Maybe Lit should create a spam forum. They can all hang out and pitch stuff to each other.

And then anytime anyone here wanted to buy some golf clubs they would know where to go.

The problem is cost. Spam uses a lot of bandwidth and that costs money for the site.

 

[lovecraft68]

The problem is cost. Spam uses a lot of bandwidth and that costs money for the site.

I was only kidding.

And since when did Spam get so expensive? Did the price of that little metal key go up?