An open post to The Legion of Spam
Technorati tags: Miscellaneous, Blogging, Comment Spam, Legion Of Spam
"And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, I am Legion: for we are many."
The Bible - Mark 5:9
Something odd happened to myAsylum early this morning, between 4:54am and 5:20am. Somebody, or bodies, left a barrage of comments to an earlier post entitled "Gossiping: The Favorite Malaysian Pastime" - 12 in total, within a span of 26 minutes.
Walski has dubbed them The Legion of Spam.
We may be Legion but we be SPAM
From the comments, it appears that the Legion of Spam consists of 12, namely:
romsam @ 4:54am
tim @ 4:57am
fong @ 4:49am
miya @ 5:01am
honyang @ 5:03am
aston @ 5:05am
reek @ 5:07am
vovo @ 5:10am
kentanjim @ 5:12am
kok @ 5:13am
vesewe @ 5:16am
ruyom @ 5:20am
And apparently, this is not the first time they have struck. Walski's found at least two other blogs with reporting similar comment spam-attacks of Legionary proportions, one at Desiderata and the other reported by "What going on in dominic thinking box", although the last reported appearance of the Legion was in March this year.
Now, don't get Walski wrong, the comments were actually pretty okay, although each of them VERY LONG, but pertinent to the current goings on. But if you really, truly need to speak your mind...
(Walski's advise to the Legion in the full post)
GET YOU OWN F*CKING BLOG!!
Blogs-hosting is free with numerous providers to choose from, so please give a damn, don't comment spam. And by the way, Walski knows where you live.
4 comments:
Hey man, don't be so mad, this just shows that your blog is getting more popular !
You should try allowing only those who has a Blogger account to comment. Just s deterrent unless The Legion of Spam is really a hardworking outfit.
free & fair - actually I'm not even the least bit miffed, truth be told. Just amused in an iritated sort of way.. heh heh.
mob1900 - I had thought of doing just that... Yeah, maybe, at some point. Overall, things are still okay, all things considered, having the comments open as they are. Funny thing is, someone took the trouble to go thru the word verification and all... unless somebody's actually created a 'bot to get around it.
Were the comments "valid" if they were nothing more than copy-and-paste comments?
And there were around 10 comments, with differences of around 2+ minutes between posts. Also, that person had to go through word verification each time, and I highly doubt it was automated spamming.
This person must really be a passionate (or simply misguided) spammer (whatever the motive was)! With more than 20 minutes straight of manual spamming, this person truly deserves to be grouped with the likes of MENJ.
Well done, dude! Your effort has finally paid off!
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