Tag Archives: Spam

Human Bots

Now that we have all these algorithms that try to detect if comments left on a blog are made by bots imper­son­ating humans, I wonder if they’re sophis­ti­cated enough to detect humans emulating bots.…

When I get the time, I’m going to perform an exper­i­ment, the anti-Turing test of sorts. I’m going to leave comments on various sites that sound like bots, but are, in fact, me. (I’m mostly human, by the way.) The goal of the exper­i­ment would be to get them marked as spam. Of course, the crucial thing is that these should be comments relevant to the post, not real spam.

Why So Serious?

Did you hear about the geek who acciden­tally published his unobfus­cated email address to his personal website? I asked him if he was relieved he didn’t start getting email spam, but he seemed pretty darned pissed that not even the bots cared to visit his webpage.…