I'm grateful that my blog posts attract lots of engaged, funny, and challenging comments. But any popular post also attracts spammers. I use Antispam Bee to automatically eradicate a couple of hundred crappy comments per day.    Nevertheless, some get through. Here's a particularly pernicious one - it appeared as three comments ostensibly in reply to each other.    At first glance these look like …

Terence Eden

A blog author describes a sophisticated spam technique where three AI-generated comments appear as a conversational thread, with the spam link buried in the middle reply. The comments came from the same IP, were spaced exactly 3 minutes apart, and used no URLs in the username fields to avoid detection. The author notes that purely technical anti-spam measures have limits, as spammers are economically motivated to circumvent them while barriers discourage genuine commenters.

Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts