Navidson

Is anyone here familiar with the book House of Leaves, the debut novel by the American author Mark Z. Danielewski? No? Really? It was a best-seller and everything! Hmmph. So I guess any jokes I make about Metafilter's latest spammer Navidson being named after The Navidson Record would be wasted on you, huh? Fine. Let's just look at Navidson's four throwaway comments, then. The first one is a funny one... but more on that after these 'messages.'

"Nowadays you can even make your own cloud and use it as advertising."
(from the Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd FPP)

"Amazing! Much more awesome than SmrtrChild. Real awesomeness though? Is when you get two robots to chat with each other."
(from the DR. SBAITSO WAS MY ONLY FRIEND. FPP)

"Found the full bot-to-bot chat. Sort of beautiful."
(also from the DR. SBAITSO WAS MY ONLY FRIEND. FPP)

"Thanks to anti-gay marriage actions like this, discrimination is still alive and well."
(from the Bible gets sued FPP)

Remember how I said that the first comment was funny? You'll notice that all of Navidson's comments had a hyperlink, except the first. That's because I removed it. Why? Because the link in his very first comment was a link to his crappy website! The same website he would later spam Metafilter with in a terrible FPP! Isn't that hilarious? No? Really?

Figures. I shouldn't have expected any less from a bunch of people who never read House of Leaves. Frankly I'm glad that cortex banned this guy. Without Navidson we never would have had this conversation, I'd never have known you were all a bunch of humourless philistines, and everything would have been a lot better right now!

Get bent, Navidson!

[Learn more about this spammer at the Deleted Thread Blog]

nikheal

I've never received a tantric massage before, and I've never been to London either. But if I was ever planning on getting a tantric massage while in London, it was spammer nikheal's intent that he'd have me and the rest of Metafilter's user base covered. But as we all know, spam dosen't go down well around these parts. Before this spammer was brought to heel, nikheal contributed 5 comments to the Metafilter universe; 3 in Metafilter, 1 in AskMe and 1 in Projects. Let's take a gander at what he had to say.

Metafilter.

"How about flying solar and wind hybrid cars? They could fly using the solar and/or wind energy, perhaps we can start thinking about using natural resources, maybe possible in 20 years from now."
(from the World's First Rotating Skyscraper FPP)

"People like to talk good about Gandhi but don't like to follow him. Say something against Gandhi in this country and the mob is ready to kill you ( this is very much against what Gandhi said or taught). So, it doesn't really make any difference if there's another piece of his recording available, or perhaps the Americans can use it better than the Indians..."
(from the Rare English Gandhi Recording from 1947 FPP)

"We still have a long way to go as humans. Just because women can't kick men, we are treating them like our subjects. In this part of the world, it's much more in the system than in the US, so, I am in totality for women wearing less or no clothes than dress modestly, my argument is they enjoy more freedom and are less susceptible to suppression/violence of any kind than the one who is being recognized as modest. And Yes, wearing less clothes translates to more freedom for women."
(from the I want a girl with a long skirt and a loooooong jacket. FPP)

Ask Metafilter.

"I would suggest just be yourself, that's the best ever attraction possible to any age group, and then don't worry about what others think. Most probably they like you."
(from the How to deal with age difference among friends? question)

Projects.

"Interesting... I might suggest some features after some use."
(from the DeskTopper... project)

Yes folks, you read that correctly. He knew about Projects but he still spammed the Metafilter frontpage. At least he put in more than three comments before doing it, at least. But that's not enough to save a spammer from The Ban Button, nor should it be, as jessamyn demonstrated so well when banning nikheal from the site. Cor!

[Learn more about this spammer at the Deleted Thread blog]

lifelock

It's been an unusually slow month for spammers over at Metafilter. This is a Good Thing, but it's a Bad Thing insofar as new posts over here at Musings is concerned. So given that no-one has tried to hock their wares recently, I've decided to dig deep into the archives for a couple of retro posts!

The first of the two today is spammer lifelock who, as spammers almost always seem to do, gave us three throw-away comments before spamming us. What terribly important things did he have to say? Let's look through the mists of time and find out...

"Congrats!"
(from the Friday Flash: Areas FPP)

"Yeah, I love baking... and I always got burn when cooking..\m/"
(from the DANGER POINT!! YOU LEFT THE OVEN ON! FPP)

"fine, need to know more"
(from the Demonstration over MetaFilter FPP)

It seems lifelock's intent want to protect people from identity theft but following a swing of The Almighty Banhammer by mathowie, it was lifelock's identity that was ultimately lost. The result? lifelock was locked out.

[Learn more about this spammer at the Deleted Thread Blog]

Smuggler

After contributing the standard three throwaway comments, Smuggler did, in the dead of night, smuggle in his spammy FPP about his production company named Smuggler. Smuggler by name, spammer by nature, one would think Smuggler would be better at smuggling spam. Instead, Smuggler's spam smuggling attempts resulted in an FPP that was so obviously a case of poorly smuggled spam that it resulted in a deletion reason reading "Wow. Just wow." Were his comments any better? Let's take a gander under the tarpaulin.

"There so tiny. I want one!"
(from the Of being a foster parent ... of kittens FPP)

"I wonder how much that would go for in an auction! Its amazing."
(from the Miniature Illuminated Manuscript FPP)

"HAHA, that is ridic!!"
(from the Giant Vulva Bicycle Taxi FPP)

Smuggler was apparently so keen was on smuggling his spam, he couldn't even finishing typing the word 'ridiculous'. mathowie made the kill, and Smuggler smuggled spam no more.

[Learn more about this spammer at the Deleted Thread Blog]