Sploggers are getting sloppier and clumsier. The last spamming comment that Akismet failed to filter out read like this:

{Generally|Mostly|More Often Than Not|Broadly Speaking|In General} I do not post on blogs, but I would like to {say|pronounce} that this post {really|truly|actually} {forced|affected} me to do so! {really|truly|genuinely|very} {nice|good|pleasant} post.

Posted by a Keneth Killmon of credit-card-debt-planet11.blogspot dot com. I played a little game and came up with the lamest of combinations:

Broadly Speaking I do not post on blogs, but I would like to pronounce that this post truly affected me to do so! genuinely pleasant post.

Does it work? Apparently no blogger, no matter how lazy, is permitting this crap. A search on Google for “Broadly Speaking I do not post on blogs” brings up no results (yet).

Source: Indian Book Depot - Map House http://ibdmaphouse.com/Thumb/ITEM_3.jpg

I still cannot grasp why webmasters of sites would try to spam this blog. It just doesn’t work; I get rid of whatever Akismet fails to filter out. A recent one was from DesignsOnline (.) co (.) uk. Not only their homepage boasts an instantaneously off-putting design, it also starts playing a video with sound when loaded. Their bounce rate must be phenomenal, past the 70% threshold.

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