Spam

Jun 21, 2011 10:54

has anyone else been getting a bunch of spam on lj ( Read more... )

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guyblade June 21 2011, 17:33:24 UTC
I've also gotten about 4 or 5 spam comments this week. Most of them have been hitting an ancient post from when I interviewed at MS back in 2008. My guess is that someone broke a captcha or something.

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hcidivision17 June 22 2011, 00:04:13 UTC
The really weird bit is that I don't feel like I'm being sold something.

Which seems like someone's simply adding noise to the discussion. That's a really bizarre thing to go out of one's way for and automate, I think. A super villain who creates a mega-weapon that converts all plaid to paisley cloth comes to mind; impressive accomplishment, but sorta leaves one wondering where they're going with it.

My bet: it's a comp.sci. grad project on humans interacting with computers which don't quite know how to hold a stable conversation yet. (At least I hope it is.)

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