The quantity of comment spam I get on this blog never ceases to amaze me.  (You may never see it thanks to Akismet, but it’s there.)  This blog is not particularly popular, and I guess it isn’t that much spam, about one or two a day.  Still, what the hell is it doing here?  Maybe one of the things that ping-o-matic bounces updates to just does that?  I ran for a time a blog that was somewhat more popular – when it got dugg, I remember seeing triple-digit spam caught by Akismet daily for about a month.

Aside from considerations of quantity, there’s quality.  Somewhere, someone is paying someone else (why else would they do it?) to post pseudorandom strings of text, containing links consisting of random text, linking to URLs that look like random strings of text.  What exactly are they trying to accomplish?  I am, quite frankly, afraid to click on said links – friend of mine works in high-level security at a rather large web-based transaction company and has plenty of horror stories.  Some of them are doubtless malware.  Some of them probably redirect to real web sites.  Maybe some of them are just referrer link lists.

And some people actually click them.  Maybe that’s the real WTF.

And no, electronic quasi-meat in this context has nothing to do with teledildonics.  Don’t google that at work, either.