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Well my blog has finally reached a new level of success! It seems my last post about my new website videochanger.com must have mentioned the magic words drawing the spambots to my site. I have to admit I'm a little surprised that I've managed to go this long allowing open anonymous comments without receiving a single spam comment. Especially since I do get the occasional bot creating accounts which is mildly amusing since they apparently never found the comment box. Alas as all good things eventually come to an end you must now fill out a CAPTCHA in order to comment.

Honestly the real interesting thing to me is how dumb these recent bots are. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised since almost all of the links appeared to be for crappy porn sites whose developers were too cheap to even buy relevant domain name. But honestly if your goal is to create a spambot that posts links all over the web to boost your google rankings at least try to make your robot a little intelligent. For example when filling out a form and you find a text box named "subject" it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to fill it with random crap like XQjlp25ZjiuP. Why not have several generic canned titles or subjects like "Great Site", "Well Said", "I couldn't agree more!" which could pass a semi-legitimate title? Then when you find a form named "comment" fill it in with a nice generic message like:

"Hey I just stumbled upon your website and I think it is really awesome. Looking at your content you may be interested in my website insert link to crappy porn site here"