Report comment spam here
Posted by Super G on September 9, 2006 - 9:27am
Lately, TOD has been getting hit with a lot of comment spam. Many readers have been kind enough to email me with the spammers' names so I can delete their accounts and their comments.
Let's try something new. From now on, if you see comment spam, instead of emailing me, just leave a comment in this thread. The only thing you need to leave is a link to the spammers' profile. For example, if there was an offender named 'Spammer', then your comment would say
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/Spammer
There is now a handy link to this thread in the navigation menu at the top of the main page.
For each spammer you find, you will be awarded three gold stars and four brownie points.
This is a temporary measure until we develop a more comprehensive solution to the problem.
What is "comment spam" anyway?
(For some reason, most of the spambots we get here post in foreign languages.)
SuperG, nuke this guy, please:
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/seleccc
Bryant - mine was just a joke. Matt's cool. He's just the leader of a lesser cult.
I find you to be the most perplexing TODer. You go from a very erudite poster with compelling charts, graphs, and knowledge to back it up-- to posts of total incomprehensibility whereby many suspect that some other person is using your computer/TODer name. Care to clarify for us inquisitive minds?
Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
I'm thinking of that Dead tune...
He turned twenty-one in prison, doin' life without parole...Mama cried, Mama cried...
http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/gdhome.html#songs
Or, as another Dead song sez, "Test me, test me, why don't you arrest me?"
Why am I not surprised that there's more than a couple of Deadheads here?
I'm thinking about starting a new screen name for certain comments. Maybe this will help to alleviate the problem - or the "concern." How does 'Jihadi Death Cult' sound? I think it has a certain ring to it.
Then we would know if it was you or Mr. Hyde.
:-)
Now you're dropping this shit on me? Thank God I've got spellcheck and a dictionary.
There seems to be a very imbedded 'insider' group who can share all kinds of sharp jabs and innuendo. They make very wry comments that are , like I say, insider style.
If someone becomes a subscriber and right off doesn't understand the workings of these 'insiders' and happens to himself/herself make a wry comment or 'jab' they are instantly pounded rather forcibly into the dirt.
This then might lead them to believe that they must apparently buildup tenure and make many of just the right type of comments in order to join in or else just remain a lurker.
In my posts I notice that even though I try to just post information that I observe, no big charts or high level research complete with many sources etc, that I get almost no responses to my observations(well a few but not that much).
The traffic then spins away on the personalities , exactly as we see above , in this thread and everything else slides slowly into the deitrus pile that Totonelia speaks of.
I suppose humour is fine and good but its become so very sharp and delineating at this website that I am myself thinking of no longer commenting but just returning to the ocassional lurk mode.
As far as OIL CEO? He is the epitomy of what I speak of.
I would not even care to respond to ANY of his comments for fear of being cast into the utter darkness, but I will make this one comment. If he is a real CEO and particularily a OIL CEO then he is not someone I wish to comment with anyway.
Nor for that matter any CEO. No thank you for I had enough of hearing from CEO's on high with my previous employer.
I also believe that those with IQ's less than , say, 140 might find it better to find lower ground that fight the internectine battles that flare up on this site.
And all along I thought it was about saving our asses!!!and not just another Yahooligan group fest. (my own 'sharp' jab , if you will, just to test the water).
airdale--serious and awaiting a response (maybe) or perhaps a simple farm boy is not worthy of such
PS. I recently seen someone chastened with much gusto for posting in a negative vein and then another praised for doing just the same. One word comes to mind...."Baaaaaa"
PPS. While at it and daring to speak out I wil make one more observation. I sometimes see the words in DRUMBEAT that state" And now a word from our readers"...yet almost immediately this is expunged and replaced with many newclips by someone named Leanan who I assume has authority to do such but it makes me wonder then, when does the lowly , unwashed get their shot? Why not just let the members post or comment instead of trying to provoke conjecture with MSM nonsense?
That said, your concerns are better posted to a DrumBeat thread. This thread is supposed to be for reporting spam only.
I want to highlight and respond to most of your points, but it would take me all night. Suffice it to say, they are all really good. Totally true.
Make sure you've read Orwell's '1984', 'Twilight in the Desert', and have seen 'Syriana' and '3 Days of the Condor.'
Also, I don't know if you are in the States, but Harvey Keitel stars in an ABC miniseries "Path to 9/11" starting tonight. I think this is probably a must see. Some pretty big names are already complaining that it "doesn't tell the truth."
As far as not being noticed. That's something we all struggle with. Part of the human condition. Nothing really to do with this website. I'm convinced marriage to Paris Hilton will solve that problem for me. After that, my next best bet is leading the Mahdi army as it re-takes Jerusalem. This kind of stuff takes a lot of planning, though. There are no simple solutions.
I would not even care to respond to ANY of his comments for fear of being cast into the utter darkness,
Don't be shy of Oil CEO he is just a little bit nervous.
airdale--serious and awaiting a response (maybe) or perhaps a simple farm boy is not worthy of such
Not that, it is seriouness which might be a problem you have to switch pretty fast from serious, to sarcasm, (private) jokes, understatements, personal piques, etc...
As a rule DON'T WORRY!
No problem, I am lazy I take the good stuff from any.
You're a vindictive little prick
Launching a dick size contest?
I am not interested.
As for vindictive, yes, "I'm like that all the time", too...
Too bad you can't get any attention on your own.
Don't assume I am playing in the same league than you.
Not good for your image.
Not a good way to end the row either...
Do not incur Oil CEO wrath.
Oil CEO, you said,
"Whoa, Leanan. My laptop almost blew up when I clicked on that first "This."
Does this stuff only work on Windows machines, because I clicked on "This" with my Mac and got nothing out of the ordinary?
Roger Conner known to you as ThatsItImout
This is why sometimes you see posts that are full of garbage - the spambot in question is trying to post in a foreign language and is buggy, so it mangles the character encodings resulting in gibberish.
"I'm not interested in living in a cave with his other wives . . . "
Have you thought this through? Sounds like a good gig to me. ;)
Who kept a dead whore in his cave
When asked about the smell
He said "Oh, what the hell"
look at the money I save
Dave
As for Oil CEO, it seems he also keeps such a list and sends out applications to come work for his company for minimum wage. He always makes me laugh though, so please don't delete him.
This old Oil Drum had a goof
Oil C-E-O
And then I ran into writer's block. Consider yourself lucky.
I learned this song by watching the Three Stooges as a kid. I can still see all three of them wearing cap-and-gown at a women's school.
E-I-A
I-E-A
A-S-P-O
F-A Fay
F-E Fee
F-I Ficky-fie
F-O Foe
Ficky-fie-foe
F-U Fue
Ficky-Fie-Fuck you...
Sorry, the last part wasn't aimed at you, it just came from the site where I copied it from. I couldn't cut it. It's too funny. Alright, I gotta go find something productive to do.
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/gopnik
Who IS John Galt?
The rest of this thread has reached a new low for TOD. Kinda why I don't bother with POMB anymore.
You wanna talk about oil. Let's go. Start right now.
I'm partial to graffitti spam mice elf. Don't know if I've tagged TOD with my signature "Kilroy wuz here" semi-autobiographical bomb B4
Old man down
way down
down, down by the docks of the city,
Blind and dirty
asked me for a dime--
dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but
I got time to hear his story:
My name is August West
and I love my Pearly Baker best
more than my wine
...more than My wine
more than my maker
though he's no friend of mine
Everyone said
I'd come to no good
I knew I would
Pearly believed them
Half of my life
I spent doin' time for
some other fucker's crime
Other half found me stumbling around
drunk on burgundy wine
But I'll get back
on my feet someday
The good Lord willing
if He says I may
'cause I know the life I'm
livin's no good
I'll get a new start
live the life I should
I'll get up and fly away
I'll get up and
fly away...
...fly away
Pearly's been true
true to me, true to my dying day he said
I said to him:
I'm sure she's been
I said to him:
I'm sure she's been true to you
I got up and wandered
Wandered downtown
nowhere to go
just to hang around
I got a girl
named Bonny Lee
I know that girl's been true to me
I know she's been
I'm sure she's been
true to me
agree with the post by airdale written above
about reading a lot of peculiar insider jokes by a small clique, while other comments by outsiders are routinely ignored.
Not that I really care, since this
internet message board thing is a very strange
and unfamiliar sociological phenomenon for me.
I also think the comments "oil ceo" (what a ridiculous name!) wrote in response are particularly childish and ignorant.
"As far as not being noticed. That's something we all struggle with. Part of the human condition." Actually,
writing things on a message board like this
has nothing to do with the human condition!!
It's quite amusing that people who, in reality
quite diffident and understandably self-effacing,
are so quick to get angry on these forums.
Anyways, I only posted this for support for the earlier message-- I'm sure I'll be ignored too!
You lose the bet. Now pay up!
(Just kidding.)
Just because no one responds does not mean that perhaps over a thousand people read your post, nodded in agreement or shook their heads in disagreement, and then moved on with their lives.
I was just trying to gain a handle on how this site hangs together and what passes for normalcy vs deviltry. I think I broke the code after reading some of the responses to the post. The post I intended to gain responses to and crafted for that purpose, even though it was pretty much the way I felt. The 'Baaaa' comment being maybe over the top a tad.
Its basically IMO quite similiar to the Y2K fora of 'ye olden dayse', when panic reigned, good wimmen cried, the MSM got caught up, everyone aquired firearms and stored lots of pasta and rice,yet with a much higher level of discourse and intellect in that most of the nutcases, and the tinfoil and egg salad crowd must have gotten booed out early on here.
I firmly believe in the net being governed by the netizens. This is what I see happening here and in this case its probably best to 'take your guns to town son,don't leave your guns at home' or am I being overly melodramatic?
Time to go haul corn.
airdale
The problem is that anyone who has the time to write in these forums, ipso facto, must have a suspicious quantity of free time. The vast majority of humans, I honestly believe, do not have enough time to go around posting comments in internet forums, or they don't think it's worth the bother. Of course, the people who belong to this bizarre "virtual" subculture will disagree with that statement. To avert being accused of the same, that will be my last comment.
Posted in the 13 Sept thread about the move to a new server.
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/9/9/114422/3219#comments
ncj518 was the user who posted.
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/7/12/10421/4972#78
Huge load of crap appeared at foot of my UK oil forecast post - remove if possible please
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/9/11/231845/209#141
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/xhz1kw
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/bobito
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/9/21/102525/040#161
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/8/16/102942/337#72
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/rosita
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/kimiper
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/afrumareda
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/lakoones22
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/marjou1
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/zorggie
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/mamitonr
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/pumpids
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/xingshisi