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:

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"Wonderful article! That is the kind of information that should be shared around the net. Shame on Google for now not positioning this publish higher! Come on over and talk over with my website . Thanks =)"
2.
"I'm not sure where you're getting your info, but great topic. I needs to spend some time learning more or understanding more. Thanks for excellent info I was looking for this info for my mission."
3.
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4.
"I drop a comment when I like a post on a site or if I have something to add to the discussion. It is triggered by the sincerness communicated in the post I looked at. And on this article The Growing Trends in Content Theft: Image Theft, Feed Scraping, and Website Hijacking ? Lorelle on WordPress. I was actually excited enough to drop a thought :) I actually do have 2 questions for you if you usually do not mind. Is it simply me or do a few of the comments come across as if they are left by brain dead individuals? :-P And, if you are posting at additional social sites, I'd like to follow you. Could you make a list every one of your communal pages like your linkedin profile, Facebook page or twitter feed?"
5.
"Perhaps you can write next articles referring to this article. I desire to read even more things about it!"

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.