What they think I want to hear

  • Had a bit of unin­ten­tional humor just now, and I had to send it along. When first-timers com­ment on the blog, it goes into a queue that I have to approve, which gives me a chance to get rid of all the ten­der offer­ings of com­mer­cial oppor­tu­ni­ties to buy herbal reme­dies and generic Viagra.

    I’m used to see­ing com­ments like “Aws ome Post !! i’ll be back again!” and real­iz­ing that the whole thing is just a vehi­cle for car­ry­ing a URL that takes you to a place to buy time­share or whatever.

    What I wasn’t used to was the enthu­si­asm of this com­ment I found in the queue:

    Well, the post is in real­ity the sweet­est on this notable topic. I agree with your con­clu­sions and will thirstily look for­ward to your future updates. Just say­ing thanks will not just be suf­fi­cient, for the fan­tasti c clar­ity in your writ­ing. I will directly grab your rss feed to stay informed of any updates. Fab­u­lous work and much suc­cess in your busi­ness endeavors!

    And then, of course, the URL that takes you off to buy events tick­ets. But look at that top-grade baloney they thought would stroke my ego. … thirstily look for­ward to your future updates … thanks not suf­fi­cient … fan­tasti c [sic] clar­ity.

    Wow. Sort of goes above and beyond, doesn’t it? Are there blog­gers who really believe this crap? Well, who­ever wrote that spam-comment inad­ver­tently made my day by sug­gest­ing to me that I’m more hum­ble than I knew. Maybe that’s how they should pitch the next one of these. “I had to resspond to your post because I cn see what a hum­bel per­son you are …”

    Now THAT one might work on me.


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    December 29th, 2009 | Grace | 2 Comments |

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  • s-p 12.29.2009

    Never under­es­ti­mate the des­per­a­tion of a human being for an affir­ma­tion of their exis­tence. Unfor­tu­nately peo­ple send this kind of stuff because it worked on some­one some­where enough to make it worth their while to try it on other peo­ple. Sigh… its a big ol’ goofy world.

  • Grace

    And since this is spam, it is also someone’s idea of what will get past the reason-endowed defenses by call­ing on pure ego, or at least a will­ing sus­pen­sion of disbelief.

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