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.
"bookmarked!!, I like your site!"
2.
"I leave a response each time I like a post on a site or if I have something to contribute to the conversation. Usually it's triggered by the sincerness communicated in the post I browsed. And on this post The Growing Trends in Content Theft: Image Theft, Feed Scraping, and Website Hijacking ? Lorelle on WordPress. I was actually moved enough to drop a thought :) I do have a couple of questions for you if you do not mind. Could it be just me or do a few of these responses look like they are written by brain dead people? :-P And, if you are posting on other sites, I would like to keep up with you. Could you make a list all of your communal sites like your twitter feed, Facebook page or linkedin profile?"
3.
"I all the time emailed this blog post page to all my friends, since if like to read it afterward my links will too."
4.
"I simply could not go away your website prior to suggesting that I really loved the standard info an individual supply on your guests? Is going to be back incessantly in order to inspect new posts"
5.
"I am sure this article has touched all the internet viewers, its really really fastidious paragraph on building up new webpage."

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.