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Jeez, what the hell is it with the spambots getting LJs recently? I've got a bunch of older entries being targeted by random spambots, so if someone replies to your comment on one of my entries with something incomprehensible that seems to have a couple of words in common with your reply but nothing else, it's likely a spambot. I'm deleting them as soon as I see them.

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Speaking of spambots...

ever time I've posted (the last three, four times over the past month or so), I've been hit by *salmonbots via AIM. Every time. I'm not sure if that's better or worse then spambots trolling old entries thought

Huh. I'm almost never on AIM and only about 3 people have my nick, so I tend not to get those. These current ones are text munges done with enough AI to seem like an especially incomprehensible fangirl ranting at you, and they seem to take seed words from the target comments, so they seem almost real. But if you follow the LJ username back to the home journal, there's only one entry and it's seriously incomprehensible, with a huge list of tags that are obviously meant to be the Google bait. I guess the comments are meant to get more Google cred.

ETA: Well, actually this most recent one *was* comprehensible, but was in response to someone talking about a random story prompt and had nothing to do with that comment: " However, as there is no evidence such an article ever existed at all, that whole point is moot. Being "original" means nothing for the purposes of reliability, notability, or linking."

The first one I got sounded like a ranting fangirl, so I followed the LJ name and figured it out. XD

Now that's just creepy. That's like the email spam I get on occasion with names from my oft-neglected facebook connected people in them. It sounds like someone just kicking around with scripts to mess with conversational AI. LJ does make for a rather good target, I have to say, considering the sheer number of users and frequency of posts!

Though robotic fangirl ranting sounds like a surely frightening use of technology.

I know! There's enough in real life already! We don't need computer-generated ones!

Seriously! XD Though perhaps that explains them, because the AI is not complex enough to respond well to comments?

Though the sort of inflammatory comments you mention earlier sound an awful like the structure the *salmons use for their posting...I wouldn't be surprised if there's a related program at work. It's sort of brilliant to auto-troll, if all you want to do is poke fire ant hills with sticks.

I'm now getting a comment on someone else's LJ from 2006 hit multiple times with a message that *sounds* innocuous. The LJ the most recent one goes to is tristadireg.livejournal.com.

That link looks like it's either an exercise in post-modernism, or someone took a spam mail and ran it through babelfish a few times. And then the copious links to spam sights at the bottom is....special.

I've gotten a couple on my International Blog Against Racism icons, which seems to be the only entry linked enough to get their attention.

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