Spampaint turns spam into art
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Given that SpamPaint works with Akismet, it would be highly cool if it were integrated with WordPress.com as a Dashboard option. Here are some details:
Let’s assume a spam bot comes to a weblog and leaves a comment. Let’s also assume this blog is using the Akismet plugin to recognise spam. Now that the blog software knows it has been spammed it will either delete the comment spam or, if we are lucky and the blog is contributing to SpamPaint, it will be automatically sent to the SpamPaint engine.
After receiving the comment SpamPaint will analyse it. For example: comment spam nearly almost includes links to websites (after all, the intention of comment spam is to promote websites) so SpamPaint visits these sites and grabs the colors and some images. SpamPaint also checks from which country the spammer is and shows this in the generated graphics. That’s just two of many steps.
Looks like we can’t set this up on our own; it would need WP.com to set it up either as an option or as an automatic thing.
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OMG! spam p0rn painting :D LOL!.
Really a waste of time, but still is interesting, let me say ;)
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Gotta reject your characterization of it as “a waste of time”. It’s art. Making art out of spam…is there a better use for spam?
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You’ll give yourself a heart attack that way. Don’t you know that spam is made up of the kittens that god kills?
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Well then why not throw your support behind an initiative that makes art automatically out of your castoffs? It’s not like the spammers are going to come after you for copyright infringement.
Although that would be hilarious!
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With 2/3rds of my spam coming from one server in Panama I would expect that spam paint would be looking like canals a lot.
Kittens? Looks like I will have to stock up. I am not a great fan of cats. -
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If someone starts Spamerati blog rank, instead a thumbnail of mail blog, should show a Spam Paint =P
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Have you heard of Spam Poison http://www.spampoison.com/
WWW Robots (also called wanderers, spiders, crawlers, or bots) are programs that crawl the Web continually retrieving linked pages. When a spammer’s bot visits your website, blog, forum, etc, all pages and sites linked to it will be searched looking for email addresses.
Now you can fight back against their robots!
All you have to do is link to this page so that whenever a spammer’s robot scans your page, it will be sucked into this one. To link to this page, just use this simple code:
<a href="http://english-101085963557.spampoison.com"><img src="http://pics3.inxhost.com/images/sticker.gif" border="0" width="80" height="15"/></a>These links will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses, mostly on known spammer owned domains! This will render their harvested lists pratically useless and of no commercial value.
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yes, I had a chance run into it; idea looks nice, it doesn’t seem to me to be very effective though.
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