In the beginning, everybody knows that a SPAM is a canned beef. Shortly after the Internet boom, people is looking at SPAM as a bad thing - mainly useless and annoying items floating around the net - for no real reason. I mentioned ‘item’ instead of ‘e-mail’ because, nowadays, anything can technically be ‘SPAM’ed. Anything really, from e-mails, sms, and advertisement spams, to the blog comment spams, forum post spams, and many more. Name any messaging/discussion/blogging engine and you’ll get SPAM. Free of charge.

Comment Spamming in the blogging world is not really new. I’ve had once (if any of you remember my baddie.net’s old blog) been spammed hundreds every single day. So the moment I’ve installed this blog on this domain, the very first thing I do is to install the Anti-Spam plugin for WordPress. My favorite one is Akismet. Luckily, the amount of the comment spam I’m getting nowadays is far less (perhaps because this site is not as much linked), but the amount is still annoying. My average 15 days period of spam would be around 100-150:

Why do these people do it? Well or various reasons - think of it like a bimbo (male or female, whichever suits your naughty thoughts) by the roadside, shouting, yelling, waving and pasting their posters all over the street, shop, road, vehicle or even people, simply to promote themselves and to make alot more people aware of their existence.

Similarly, these sites uses automatic scripts to crawl from blogs to blogs and post some comments on these blogs - usually containing alot of URLs linking back to their site. By doing so, the search engines everywhere will notice that a lot of other sites seemingly linking back to their site, thus boosting their ranking in the search engine.

How do they look like? Let me show some examples:

There’s practically no way to stop these people from doing such thing. Thus you now seeing alot of websites requires you to input some form of ‘code’ which is given via an image - and often the image have distorted letters, so that any ’smart’ spamming engine could not spam on their sites. Yeah it’s rather annoying, but people asked for it.

More reading:
WikiPedia’s Comment Spam Article
WikiPedia’s Spam (Electronic) Article - details about PageRank systems used by search engines such as Google, and why this system somewhat promotes comment spamming

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