Unabashed blog submitter
Joe was writing an excellent blog post about spyware having been declared illegal, and as a comment to his own blog, he posted a link to a guy who’s defending blogspam.
And yes, he IS a spammer.
The normal punishment for pushing this kind of blogsubmitter, is a banned domain in Google. Occasionally also lost hosting.
Oh, I just reread the post he put up. He didn’t even know about nofollow! What rock has he been hiding under? No wonder he took that thing down!
I’m surprised how much people seem to be willing to pay for such a trivial peace of software one could even write with Perl or PHP and have it run as cronjob. But it’s funny to read his key essence: “Your site gets listed WAY UP HIGH in the search engines without you having to write a word of content!” In other words: content is irrelevant, it’s just about cheating for maximum profit at other people’s expense.
His social intelligence and personal responsibillity of a little child can’t of course get, what makes people create something immaterial without the necessity of getting something in return, just for everyone’s gain (including oneself). I don’t envy him, as money doesn’t feed your brain nor soothe your longing. It may help to escape the void to a certain degree but whether this would be something desirable?
Riddell (the spammer) has now removed his blog. The rest of his (laughable) product line can be seen in the directory where the blog used to live.
It was really stupid of him to go out and provoke a spam fighter.
His site tells you how for even more money you can buy the source for his program, rebrand it and sell it yourself. I wonder if that is how he got into it. Maybe he really has no understanding of what is going on.
I saved his stupid post from my browser cache, if anyone would like to have a look. The page where he sold his blog submitter is still in the Google cache, but probably won’t be for long. So for those who’d want a look, we can acommodate…
I am glad you saved it. I was going to see if I still had it. It isn’t really worth saving or reading, but it is nice to be able to read how nuts spammers are in their own words.
Did you realize he is using Blogger to publish his blog?
Heh, even my second blog was on blogspot! This is my fourth or something (not counting test blogs). Only two still remain, both on separate domains.
Thanks for the copy. I read his post before he got all those comments. From the last one about not knowing about nofollow on blogspot I really doubt he knows what he is doing.
The way his advertisement was constructed reminds me of a similiar spam product I encountered some time ago: Someone once praised a book he apparently wrote himself about how to setup a pornsite without knowing much about coding, the web and search engines. One of the key pictures showed a man with an entranced smile looking up the skies while his hands were busy counting dollars. Of course no details were disclosed about what kind of contents one might expect, nor was there any way to validate his claims of having actually become rich.
No matter what the product is about, it tries to work with the same associations:
1. attempting at suggest people they can become rich without any efforts of theirs
2. material possession will make them happy and lead a fulfilled life
I see two tendencies behind the spam problem:
1. people giving material possession highest priority in life.
2. people willing to do virtually anything to satisfy their greed.
Normally in a more or less sane society the second behaviour would lead to being isolated or even punished by others in order to restore the order. But if this balance is distorted, for instance because possession has a higher ranking than people we encounter or otherwise have to deal with, we’ll about to open up Pandora’s Box which will lead to people mistrusting and fighting each other. The implication would be that those who are the most aggressive and powerful are right and not those with the most reasonable arguments. Apparently we’re already in the process of transition to an authoritarian society, as most Western democracies have restricted personal freedom at the expense of fighting invisible enemies or to the benefits of corporate immaterial possessions over the last years.
I’m the person you have de-humenized (spammer) and find it interesting that you seem to be rather selective about how you label as such. I see that your own post comments are FULL of spam …. Why are you picking on me and not them? Is it because you view my openness as to what I was doing a threat or as a challenge?
Maybe you have not yet realized that these are ALL automatically generated.
PURE SPAM COMMENTS:
tweedledeetweedledum said…
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11:11 PM
Editor said…
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10:48 PM
David said…
Hey, you have a great blog here! I’m definitely going to bookmark you!
I have a software downloads site/blog. It pretty much covers software downloads related stuff.
Come and check it out if you get time
3:30 AM
David said…
Hey, you have a great blog here! I’m definitely going to bookmark you!
I have a software site/blog. It pretty much covers software related stuff.
Come and check it out if you get time
5:12 AM
Maaan, how low can you sink?
I don’t know where you found those comments. Certainly not on spamhuntress! I knew I was running a pretty tight ship, so I searched the database to be absolutely sure. The only comment I found with certain key phrases was yours!
Bruce, it’s perfectly legal if someone calls you a spammer and brings up some evidence to prove the claim. Anne Elisabeth does this by pointing to an article on schily.blogspot.com where you added multiple spam comments. She isn’t picking on you but rather backing up her claim. And she does have a strong case here in my opinion.
You complain about dehumanisation, because someone makes your business and the philosophy behind it visible to the public, but what about “dehumanisation” of people who actually have to bear your automatically generated waste of bandwidth? You don’t consider them as human beings but rather as a mean for your business, do you? So why don’t you grant to them what you claim for yourself (being treated with human dignity)?
And just for clarification: The quoted article is from a blog that is entirely unrelated to this site. schily.blogspot.com is full of spam, because Anne Elisabeth hasn’t got anything to do with it.
Actually, the reason schily.blogspot.com is full of spam is because spammers are jerks. And any spammer who is expecting PageRank from comment spamming Blogspot has no clue what they are doing. Blogspot uses nofollow on all comments.
Bruce tried to create a link between the spam at schily.blogspot.com and Anne Elisabeth’s capability of recognizing spam.
Quote:” I see that your own post comments are FULL of spam ….”
So the intention of my answer was to point out, that if this blog was one of hers, the spam wouldn’t survive for a long time.
Thanks Olliver, I was really mystified. Didn’t make the connection before you did. I even searched YOUR site for those spam comments!
You’re welcome, Ann Elisabeth. There aren’t any spam comments on my site because that would require me to grant them (first post authorisation), which isn’t exactly likely to happen
PS: Sorry for misspelling your name in my previous comments
And I sometimes edit out overly spammy links, even when the comments are on topic and manually added. Still haven’t decided on what to do with Riddell. I’ll leave it for the time being.
If Ann Elisabeth says somebody is a spammer, then she’s usually right.
Bruce Riddell’s web site asks “How do you get other people to display your RSS feeds on their web site?” His answers: “…And with the push of a button blast your feed instantly to all of them” “…And get yourself ready to spread your site and RSS Feeds all over the Internet”
If there is a non-spammy purpose for Bruce’s RSS Announcer software, then somebody please tell me what it is?
Michael, actually this isn’t the original software he introduced on his pages. The tool in question was sort of a comment spam automation which had been initial part of the discussion here - before he noticed the referrers in his logs and swapped the contents overnight to something looking more legitimate. Ann Elisabeth saved the original contents from her browser cache just in case you want to see how it originally looked like.
Olliver, Ann Elisabeth has now e-mailed me the original page which I found very interesting. I also saw some other pages via Google describing this ‘Blog Link Generator’ software. Like the RSS Announcer software, it’s very unlikely to have a non-spammy use. I think Ann Elisabeth ought to keep on Mr Riddle’s case.
I think it’s very hard to find any legitimate use for the Blog Link Generator at all
Still posting this stuff?
Let me have one last say about this whole unfortunate episode. This stupid smear of my good name happened because I wrote an article in my own blog that turned out to be an unpopular opinion and then invited spam blogs to read it.
It appears that a small but vocal group of people have adopted the point of view that “the end justifies the means”…. so watch out, YOU could be the next one to be sacrificed on their unholy alter of political correctness.
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