The passion of spammers is for death.
Feb. 25th, 2004 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaAll that P*ss**n *f Th* Chr*st spam is apparently just trying for Google hits. This post suggests dealing with them appropriately. Put the following HTML into an entry or comment:
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/">The Passion of The Christ</a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/">Trailers</a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/">Good Website</a>. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/">Protesting Gibson's Passion Lacks Moral Legitimacy</a>.
This will create the following links: The Passion of The Christ. Trailers. Good Website. Protesting Gibson's Passion Lacks Moral Legitimacy. Note that this is the same wording for the links as found in the original spam.
Update: If you stick the links on a web page, feed it to http://www.google.com/addurl.html so it's added to their list as quickly as possible.
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Date: 2004-02-25 11:06 am (UTC)pants.
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Date: 2004-02-25 03:21 pm (UTC)This tactic can also be adopted for Star Wars episode 3, if you're confronted by the "can't give George Lucas money, but if I don't see it how can I slag it off?" dilemma.
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Date: 2004-02-25 11:13 am (UTC)one (1) cookie
three (3) beers on me
(redeemable at any possible time in the future, including when the Earth blows up and there is nothing left at all except three beers and a cookie drifting through space, but probably only if I ever cross the Pond).
But I have the "don't crawl me" box checked, so (a) it wouldn't do any good for me to do it and (b) that's probably why the Passionbot (hmm... (https://www.dreamwidth.org/users/clunkies/info/)) hasn't spammed me.
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Date: 2004-02-25 12:13 pm (UTC)I'm seriously thinking of at least screening anonymous comments, if not outright blocking them, as a result of this...
Do you know if anyone's tried complaining to LJ abuse (with the IP address), and if it achieves anything? Unfortunately it's not clear that the people doing this have broken any clear-cut rules (most AUPs were drawn up before comment spam existed) so I guess the chances of ISPs taking action are small...
-roy
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Date: 2004-02-25 01:33 pm (UTC)It won't do anything to counter the fact that the spammers are increasing the pagerank of the Passion of Christ site, and since the Life of Brian page won't include any of the search terms, Google will tend to favour the Passion of Christ site over the Life of Brian page quite strongly.
-roy
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Date: 2004-02-25 01:49 pm (UTC)-roy
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Date: 2004-02-25 01:53 pm (UTC)Not actually on the topic, but it does contain the search terms.
-roy
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