Um…what’s going on here?
In the last couple days, we’ve received comments from people who have never left any comments on Fluid Imagination before. At first glance, that would be pretty cool, since I love when new people join the conversation. But if you look a little deeper, things seem a little odd.
First, the commenters are using the names of people who have long belonged to our little community, specifically, Justin, Adam, and Leigh (all names that appear in the Top Commenters widget in the sidebar).
Second, all the commenters names are linked back to what would seem to be commercial web sites: Texas Poker Zone, Fast Car Insurance Rate, Politics Can Be Tedious (commercial?), Rochester DJ, and Teeth Whitening At Home.
Now normally, I’d just delete the comments straight away because they would appear to be comments left by just a regular old spam-bot, but these comments are actually relevant to the post they’re being left on, and they’re written in a tone that has more personality than a typical spam-bot.
This makes me think that someone is actually on the site, reading posts and leaving relevant comments, but all under the employ of some spam-like company.
If this is true, then there’s a chance that you — Mr(s). Spammer — are reading this, and I’m just wondering if you could share some of the details of your gig, because it sounds kind of interesting. What do you say? Wanna come out of the shadows?