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! I could have sworn I've been to your blog before but after browsing through some of the posts I realized it's new to me. Anyhow, I'm certainly happy I stumbled upon it and I'll be book-marking it and checking back often!"
2.
"Hi there, I enjoy reading through your article. I wanted to write a little comment to support you."
3.
"Hello there! This blog post could not be written any better! Looking through this article reminds me of my previous roommate! He continually kept talking about this. I am going to send this post to him. Fairly certain he will have a very good read. I appreciate you for sharing!"
4.
"These are in fact wonderful ideas in regarding blogging. You have touched some nice points here. Any way keep up wrinting."
5.
"Ahaa, its good conversation regarding this post at this place at this website, I have read all that, so now me also commenting here."

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.