“The Hole” now has the reCAPTCHA anti-spam plugin. Automated scripts are a pain in the ass, and hopefully they can’t read. With the reCAPTCHA, humans must type in the words, not unlike purchasing Hanna Montana tickets. I still blame Comment Kahuna as it requires someone to actually look at the site. Sometimes. Up to today, we’ve been getting spam crap like

Great Job Boys 8675309af5c
This is just what I was looking for. Keep it up 234ac33d
I too, have issues with [insert name of post here].
This will help me back in Bangalore.

Donncha recently wrote about these spam comments and how they generate Google love without backlinks. Today, Lynette cries that her blog is drowning in spam, and there are CAPTCHA tools to use with Blogger. Hopefully, Lynette will see a decrease in her spam comments.

The question I have for these comment spammers is “Where does it work?” It’s the same question for the 858 spam emails that I have wanting me to purchase “\/i@gra.” Who is the idiot who buys this crap from people who don’t even know how to spell it? Obviously, some moron has to be buying from the spammers or they’d stop, wouldn’t they?

“I sent out my link to the top 10,204,285 emails and got twenty people to buy this crap. Must be a pretty good deal. I think I’ll change my web address and send it out again. Maybe I’ll get another 20 purchases.”

Anyway, I added the reCAPTCHA yesterday, and in conjunction with Akismet, I’m getting no spam comments. The next step is defeating the splogs who copy a paragraph of your post and adding it to theirs.

Today, Pie Hole wrote:
“…question I have for these comment spammers is “Where does it work?” It’s the same question for the 858 spam emails that I have wanting me to purchase “\/i@gra.” Who is the idiot who buys this crap from people who don’t even know how to spell it? Obviously… read more

Seriously. Spammers must die. Until then, they can BLOW IT OUT THEIR PIE HOLES!

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The following post is © 2007 Blow It Out Your Pie Hole. All rights are reserved. Unauthorized use will result in a DCMA notice filed with your ISP. The bad news for men continues. E! Online reports that Jennifer Love Hewitt will not be appearing in Playboy. Now, if you ask me, that’s an utter shame.

I need to post the above copyright notice as I have already had two splogs copy my posts, one about buying a car, and the other about Jessica Alba. If you’re a splogger, you have been warned.

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The BlogRush Cut

October 22nd, 2007 No Comments

BlogRush is in Phase 2, after introduction and taking everyone who applied. Now, they are cleaning up the spam blogs, non English blogs, and low quality blogs. They report cutting over 10,000 blogs from their network. I’m glad to see some networks cleaning up crap. In surfing between MyBlogLog network accounts, I see some sites that are in the beginning phases, non English, and “poor quality.” Most notably are the sites in the network that do not have the widget.

The scariest thing about BlogRush is that Blog It Out Your Pie Hole is still a network member. Maybe it’s the best thing.

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I previously reported that we received a Nigerian Scam letter. I’m glad to see thisYahoo! News story about a huge crackdown in the Netherlands, and no, I’m not talking about the red light district.

God knows that I’ve tried to bait some of these bastards into sending me a “good faith” deposit so they can “cover advance fees,” but none of them are biting. Until they do, they can BLOW IT OUT THEIR PIE HOLE!

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