Asymmetrical Information

For a middle-aged man, it's simple.

You take out a home equity loan in an attempt to curry favor with Barely Legal Teenage Girls. The end result of that "relationship" is the need for antidepressants.

One stop shopping

I'm seeing the same thing. I think it's that getting past the various comment spam defenses is getting hard enough that if they get through, they want to deliver as much of a package as possible. After all, the real goal of comment spam is not to get you to click through from the comment. It's to have the link from your site to theirs be found by search engines, thus boosting their search rankings for the anchor strings' words in the comment. Thus, if you get through, post links to ALL of your sites, your friends' sites, etc.

(In a perfect world, spammers would be woken up every five minutes by a salesman, once for every spam they've ever sent. It would take years.)

Of course, you could always declare the letter W verboten again. Sure, we couldn't provide any more links, and vve vvould have to resort to vveird spellings, but you vvouldn't get any more spam links either.

It would make more sense to hold things for moderation and/or employ a real-time blacklist of spam sites.

(I personally favor treating spam as theft of service and forcing spammers to work off their debts at whatever legitimate jobs they can still do.)

Ever try to trace the bastards? There are some good free tools you know. Just an idea.

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