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.
"Hello, Neat post. There is a problem together with your web site in web explorer, could check this? IE nonetheless is the marketplace chief and a huge component to other folks will miss your great writing because of this problem."
2.
"I'm really inspired with your writing abilities and also with the layout to your weblog. Is that this a paid theme or did you customize it your self? Either way stay up the excellent quality writing, it's rare to look a great weblog like this one these days.."
3.
"It's very straightforward to find out any matter on web as compared to books, as I found this paragraph at this web site."
4.
"Way cool! Some very valid points! I appreciate you penning this post and the rest of the site is very good."
5.
"Wow, this article is nice, my younger sister is analyzing such things, therefore I am going to convey her."

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.