{"id":12986,"date":"2010-04-23T19:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T02:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/04\/23\/12986.html"},"modified":"2010-04-23T19:50:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T02:50:50","slug":"flattering-comment-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/04\/23\/flattering-comment-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattering comment spam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It used to be that comment spam was full of nasty remarks. These days, though, it's more often full of praise.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, even though I'm completely aware that it's spam, that it was generated by a computer and posted by a bot, even though I totally understand with my rational brain that nobody involved in creating these bits of praise has ever actually read anything I've written, it still makes me feel good.<\/p>\n<p>It's praising my blog!<\/p>\n<p>Example excerpts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>I am very glad to see that you are putting so much of effort for encouraging the visitors with valueable posts like this<\/li>\n  <li>I certainlyenjoying every little bit of it Smile.<\/li>\n  <li>Wonderful to read!<\/li>\n  <li>Great post!<\/li>\n  <li>Excellent job.<\/li>\n  <li>well thought out stuff<\/li>\n  <li>That was a great post. I couldn't agree more with your sentiments.<\/li>\n  <li>informative post, raises intrigueing points<\/li>\n  <li>quite beneficial post. thank you very much.<\/li>\n  <li>Amazing! I have been in search of this data all around the web. Great and thanks.<\/li>\n  <li>It is refreshingto see such quality on blogs<\/li>\n  <li>hey i really love your blog. this is great info.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so on. It goes on and on&mdash;a few dozen comments like this each day.<\/p>\n<p>So even though it takes a bit of time to delete all the spam, I don't feel too bad about it, because the part of my brain that reacts positively to praise, regardless of the source, gets constant little doses of pleasure all through the spam-deletion process.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the flip side of this is that I bristle a little at the spam comments that say things like \"Your site has code errors.\"<\/p>\n<p>But even so: thanks, spammers! Even though I hate you and wish you would stop, you do manage to make my day a little brighter now and then.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: My favorite line from recent comment spam: \"Winter never rots in the sky.\" It's apparently an old English proverb, but I'm not clear on what it means. But I like the phrase.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that comment spam was full of nasty remarks. These days, though, it&#8217;s more often full of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}