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.
"Hi there, just wanted to mention, I loved this post. It was inspiring. Keep on posting!"
2.
"You made some good points there. I checked on the internet to find out more about the issue and found most people will go along with your views on this site."
3.
"Hello there, I found your blog via Google even as searching for a comparable subject, your site came up, it seems to be good. I've bookmarked it in my google bookmarks."
4.
"Hi, Neat post. There is an issue with your site in internet explorer, might check this? IE nonetheless is the marketplace chief and a large section of people will leave out your fantastic writing due to this problem."
5.
"I love what you guys tend to be up too. Such clever work and exposure! Keep up the awesome works guys I've included you guys to my own blogroll."

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.