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[mdrnprometheus]

This entry has started to attract weird commenters. They seem to be posting random snippets of text, and their user pages consist of more semi-auto-generated text. Overall, they seem like they should be spam. But they aren't trying to sell me anything. So what are they?

Comments

[panacea1]

My guess is that post got linked to somewhere by someone (durh!) and has attracted a flock of drive-bys who post random bits of semicoherent text in an effort to form a "comment history" that will enable them to avoid spam-screening bots.

but I could just be paranoid.

/passes the tinfoil.

[stepleton]

Their usernames link back to their blogs, which seem to be full of autogenerated text and spam.

Curse you, Andrey Markov!

[jspencer91]

Could be internet stalker/trolls of the person who made the comment.

Personally, I'd delete them, and lock the post down to no more comments.

[qatar]

I used to get those several times a day on my highest-Google-hit blog entry. Some of them did contain links. There's no way these things aren't spam-related, but I've no idea how; panacea's explanation seems better than anything I've come up with.

Eventually I disabled commenting on that entry. It's a shame, but nobody had said anything coherent on that thread for months anyway.

[sakuramayoke]

Report it to lj.