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I use Disqus as my comment system moderator and starting with their most recent update I’ve suddenly got a flood of obvious flood comments like

You have blog with topics same as mine!  You should click below so we can exchange links and have great traffic together! (Some obfuscated URL-shortened link)

My normal pace is one spam comment every day or two but I’ve had about 8 a day for the last few days which really isn’t a problem as WordPress has a useful select all button.  But starting today the comments are now magically competing with one another as per the following:

Comment #1: I have found a way to get secret access to what’s basically a $100million dollar loophole.  I’ve alreayd [sic] made $7000 in the past week.  See me so I can share with you these secrets if you contact me.

Comment #2: You have good posts.  Don’t get deceived by other programs offering you a way to make money from your content and make $5000 a week from the visitors on your page.

Comment #3: If you haven’t taken advantage of your posts to gain you money by my secret money-making method to make money you’re losing money!  I can show you ways you’ve not even thing [sic] of too [sic] get cash from your page!

I wonder if these people operate blogs or other operations and have ever inadvertently hit themselves.

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I got a call that someone had reported foul language on the OSR application page.  The ways that could happen are few and most involve a cataclysmic breakage of the page so my inner web master took out his tanto to prepare himself for seppuku.  I was much relieved that the “cursing” was due to me accidentally leaving the “show summary” box checked, so applicants would see an overview of what departments were most applied for and the most common phrases in multi-line sections which in this case included “hella-fuckin-balls-to-the-wall-awesome” because of someone spamming crap a few weeks prior.  The spammer’s genius was in using hyphens so the whole phrase was parsed as one glorious word.

Kids these days.

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Over the weekend I received an onslaught of spam postings and spam pingbacks so I’ve made a slight change to comments.  Anyone can still post anything given that they have a single approved post.  This should cut out crap posts but allow people that actually exist to post freely.  I hover over my inbox for most of the day, so hopefully no one will really notice a difference.