Recently I came across a collection of comments online that were are evidently part of a comment generation script. Fascinated by this, I wrote some code to select the random words / phrases and piece them together into their intended stupid sentences.

As an example of how this works, have a look at the following line:

Woah! I’m really (loving\enjoying\digging) the theme of this (site\website\blog).

By running a script that randomly selects a word from each set of brackets and then replaces each set of brackets and their content with their respectively selected word, nine different (though similar) sentences can be produced from the single line. The combinations are shown below:

Woah! I’m really loving the theme of this site.
Woah! I’m really loving the theme of this website.
Woah! I’m really loving the theme of this blog.

Woah! I’m really enjoying the theme of this site.
Woah! I’m really enjoying the theme of this website.
Woah! I’m really enjoying the theme of this blog.

Woah! I’m really digging the theme of this site.
Woah! I’m really digging the theme of this website.
Woah! I’m really digging the theme of this blog.

Obviously, the more word options and brace sets per line, the more combinations that can be produced. The posts below are randomly generated from lines in this way:

1.
"I drop a leave a response when I especially enjoy a post on a blog or if I have something to valuable to contribute to the discussion. It is caused by the sincerness communicated in the article I browsed. And after this article The Growing Trends in Content Theft: Image Theft, Feed Scraping, and Website Hijacking ? Lorelle on WordPress. I was excited enough to create a commenta response :-P I do have a couple of questions for you if it's allright. Is it simply me or do some of these responses come across as if they are left by brain dead folks? :-P And, if you are writing on other sites, I'd like to follow anything fresh you have to post. Could you make a list the complete urls of your social sites like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?"
2.
"I've been surfing online more than three hours these days, yet I by no means found any interesting article like yours. It is lovely price sufficient for me. In my opinion, if all webmasters and bloggers made good content as you probably did, the web will probably be a lot more useful than ever before."
3.
"Everyone loves it when individuals get together and share ideas. Great site, keep it up!"
4.
"Greetings from Los angeles! I'm bored to tears at work so I decided to browse your blog on my iphone during lunch break. I love the knowledge you provide here and can't wait to take a look when I get home. I'm amazed at how quick your blog loaded on my mobile .. I'm not even using WIFI, just 3G .. Anyways, awesome site!"
5.
"Hello there, I do believe your blog may be having browser compatibility issues. Whenever I take a look at your site in Safari, it looks fine but when opening in Internet Explorer, it's got some overlapping issues. I just wanted to provide you with a quick heads up! Apart from that, fantastic site!"

This is not intended as a how-to guide on how to be a spammer, but rather to inform on the sneaky way the comments are generated.

Note that all the comments are positive and complimentary / congratulatory with the hope of the recipient believing they are hand-typed, feeling flattered and allowing the comments to appear on their blog. Usually they are posted with a back-link to the spammer’s website which is the whole purpose.