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.
"What's up, I check your new stuff on a regular basis. Your writing style is witty, keep doing what you're doing!"
2.
"Greetings from Idaho! I'm bored to tears at work so I decided to check out your website on my iphone during lunch break. I love the information you provide here and can't wait to take a look when I get home. I'm amazed at how fast your blog loaded on my mobile .. I'm not even using WIFI, just 3G .. Anyhow, good blog!"
3.
"I have been surfing online more than three hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. It's pretty worth enough for me. Personally, if all website owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the internet will be much more useful than ever before."
4.
"Hi, I think your site may be having web browser compatibility problems. Whenever I look at your website in Safari, it looks fine however, if opening in I.E., it's got some overlapping issues. I simply wanted to give you a quick heads up! Apart from that, wonderful website!"
5.
"Someone essentially assist to make severely posts I might state. That is the very first time I frequented your website page and to this point? I amazed with the research you made to create this particular publish incredible. Magnificent task!"

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.