TypoSpam

 

A new form of apparently-automated posting has recently begun to appear on ZhurnalyWiki comment pages: brief generic remarks that all have the same form of typographic error, an artificial non-human transposition of characters. Some examples:

  • Why can't I think of tnhigs like that?
  • Good to see a tlnaet at work.
  • That's the best anwser so far!
  • I went to tons of links bofree this, what was I thinking?
  • Yo, that's what's up tutrhfully.
  • Now I feel sutipd.
  • None can doubt the veciraty of this article.
  • Wow! Great tihknnig!

Some time after such a content-free comment is added and not removed, further wiki-spam begins to appear — links to online pharmaceutical sales sites or the like. Perhaps the nonsense-posts are markers that robots can follow to find places to leave their unwanted advertisements?

(cf. Spamdexing,[1], GamingTheSystem (2004-05-17), ...) - ^z - 2011-06-27