Spam's got a brother down

I usually get excited about spam. I love it for it's neat texture, relegation to the fringes of culinary acceptability and it's flamable qualities. But ever since I started this here blog, I've been getting a nastier type of spam. Comment spam.

It was pretty harmless at first, I would notice a stange comment on one of my entries and delete it. This would happen maybe once a week. But in the last few days I've gotten dozens of these crazy things. That's a lot of deleting.

It's interesting how this works and how the success of Google (God bless 'em) plays a major roll in content spam. Folks who run porn sites try to get links to their sites on as many web pages as possible. They do this to take advantage of the way Google prioritizes its results. Google rates a search by how many times a certain site is linked to when certain words are used. So if there a millions of pages that have the words "Happy people" and those words link to a porn site, then google will show that porn site when you search for "Happy people."

So spammers just go through blogs and post comments with nice words that link to their sites. Pushing up their ratings on Google/ That's not very nice, is it?

Well, I found this good cyber citizen named Jay Allen who has created a filter for this stuff. He calls it Blacklist. So we'll see if we can't get that baby fired up in the next few days.