Sundays are always slow in the blog world. So if you are one of the few people who are hanging around with nothing better to do, I am going to give you a few ideas for fun ways to pass the time.
Here is a little trick I invented. I call it; ‘Spamalot’.
What you do is type up a little paragraph that sounds like one of those spam messages we all get. If that sounds like too much trouble, I will even make one up for you… hold on a sec…
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Thanks you much for the fine article of wich much information I have been needing is inside of. I will be sure to pay much visits and atention to all future articles of such good information. Keep up with the good hard work. And speaking of hard, I have for selling some magic pills that will make you like a tree in your soft areas. Only fifty glabotniks for a bottle that will give you much happy pants for a long time.
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If you think you can type a funnier one, by all means, please do so. Now all you have to do is highlight your paragraph, or the one I thoughtfully provided, and then copy it.
Now go to one of the WordPress topic wall things… you know, you go to the reader button and pick a topic you are interested in. If you pick humor, people will know you are being silly. So don’t do that. Pick a topic like ‘science’ or ‘politics’. Or health. Health would be really funny.
Now that you are armed with your fake spam comment, just go down the topic wall and open every single post. Don’t pick the ones that sound interesting. This is all about volume. Now go down to the bottom of each post and in the comment box, you just paste your little spam bomb.
Do it!!!
I am going to go to the humor wall and maybe a few other walls in just a bit and paste in mine. If we all do this together, we will see each other’s work popping up. The more of us that do it, the funnier it will be.
Don’t let me down, people. This will be epic. WordPress might even get wind of what we are up to and give us some kind of creativity award. Or shut down all of our blogs. But what is life without a few risks?
And as long as you are at it, you might as well paste it into all the blogs you follow. At the very least it will help you figure out who has a sense of humor. I look forward to reading all of your fake spam. Make me proud.
Go forth, my minions of evil, and spread the word.
I will be back later with more fun ideas for passing time on a slow Sunday.
Pouring My Art Out 
OK, you warned me you were going to do this… but I didn’t imagine you would actually follow through with it, and yet, there it is in my spam folder!
Very funny. 😛
And look where it got me… if you have been following along with all the drama.
I just read through it. Good GRIEF! That’ll learn ya. LOL!
It did… I have moved on to bigger and better things.
Uh-oh…
Exactly.
Abuse is having to hear/read/see anything about the KKKKKKKARdashEEEannnns.
I think you were being witty and socially observant. Hope it works itself out.
It has. Thank you for seeing that while I might be an idiot, I am not spam, a bot, or a distributer of ‘happy pants’ pills.
Still in timeout?
I just came back on line.
i just read your post! Yay!
I hate having to be on my best behavior.
hee hee
Hey there Art, I read your post, and I’ve been reading all of the comments here. This is really unfortunate. Have you removed the spam like they asked you to? Or can you even do that? I wish there was something I could do to help.
I can’t do anything until they unlock me.
Are you back?!
Not yet.
Oh crap! That sucks! See if you can guest post somewhere or won’t they let you do that either?
I am not hanging around as some kind of circus freak.
Lots of people do guest posts, it’s actually great for networking, getting your book out to a wider audience….
I have 500 business cards with the name of my blog on them along with the book info. I have been doing this for a year. I have over 900 followers and almost 50,000 comments.
yes, but you can always grow more!! 😉
The trees!!!
ya trees..
Are you still in Time Out until you can behave?
I am blocked and they might shut my blog down.
Have you had any additional communication from them?
Not yet.
Have you gone to the Dashboard clicked on Help looked at the page on Suspended Blogs and sent them an email to plead your case?
Yup.
Oh boy.
I’m back…
How did you get back?
I guess they just got around to me at last. Maybe it was something that Le Clown did… he has friends at wordpress. Or maybe they just left me hanging for a while to teach me a lesson. Or maybe they realized that my joke was a joke. Who knows.
I don’t think the WordPress people are the sorts who are big believers in punishment and lessons. It seems like your suspended account was one of many and it took a while to get through the list. It’s a relief to know you’re baaaack.
It really freaked me out. I thought about starting all over, and I didn’t know if I had the strength.
You should have said you were freaked out, I would have reassured you. If you had to start over there is a way to transfer all of your posts to a new place so don’t worry. It’s a moot point now because you’re still here!
You know me… I get worked up.
Yes, you do. Maybe now would be a good time for a nice big sigh to let all of that old anxiety out.
sigh… thanks.,.. I do feel better…
this message came from a volunteer in the support forums:
“If you were contacted by Staff and received a notification re: posting spam on your blog then there will be a link in the warning that you can click to contact Staff after you remove all the spam. ”
Did you get one like that from them as a comment or an email?
They also just suggested you try Akismet. Here’s the contact link:
http://akismet.com/contact/
I did, and I have sent them about twenty responses. It hasn’t helped. I am still blocked from posting.
I wonder if it’s tied to you or your blog. You can try setting up another blog, then edit your pmao post with a link for the new site…
Timetheif, the volunteer who’s been moderating the thread I opened, seems very grumpy. we were arguing (briefly) about funny spam, but I’m going to leave it alone so as not to pick a fight. Especially if it could hurt your chances.
Though I don’t think she’s one of the higher ups…
I saw all that, and I am very grateful. You really find out who your friends are when you screw up. But I couldn’t even make a comment on that thread. And I can’t make any changes to my blog at all.
Phew, glad you are back, what we we do without you!
How funny they did that, yet I saw a post with some lad posting a pic of his penis. I think he confused WordPress with Grindr. Priorities in disarray!
Are you SURE he’s back? Because I’m not seeing any new posts from him, which isn’t like him at all. There’s a forum started about this. Hope everyone will join in on that, too. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-pouringmyartoutwordpresscom-be-unblocked?replies=1
I shall, I think Le Clown may have had a word (I think he knows some of the powers that be). Or maybe they have put Arthur in Guantanamo
Well, then Guantanamo will be a lot more fun than it has been in recent years, that’s for sure. I hope he’s back though…He’s the heart and soul of this place.
He may be over on Twitter, I cancelled my account, but will check to see if he managed to escape his restraints.
I’ve never been a twitter-ite, myself. But yes, let us know!
I just resigned (I hate Twitter) he has not been on for 14 hours. Left a message. I feel like a stalker now 🙂
I’ll e-mail him. Maybe he’s just off in a cave somewhere, licking his wounds, feeling sheepish.
I suspected as much!
Wow, you got a snippy, humorless response to your forum post just now. Have you seen it?
:-O What is up with WP?!
I know! Someone needs ice cream, methinks.
Maybe they should get rid of humor as a topic.
It clearly wasn’t spam if they only just read it. I tried to voice my opinion to get my friend reinstated, albeit in my own silly way but it didn’t go down very well, I better keep quiet for fear of making it worse. Actually their reply to that annoyed me, saying I shouldn’t be commenting on a technical topic unless I have a solution. Why would I have a solution, they blocked you so it’s hardly a technical matter anyway. It was said in a condescending tone that I don’t much care for. We’re not 5 year olds for goodness sake – even though we may act like it sometimes 🙂 Stick in there I am sure they will see the error of their ways.
I have little choice but to wait. Thanks.
ahhhh… it wasn’t a real spam… it was a comment… that looked like spam. It didn’t get mailed to a million blogs… it wasn’t selling anything.
I think maybe it was an automated response…they saw someone posting the same exact post to a ton of blogs and automatically shut you out without knowing the full story.
Well I have sent lots of messages to three places. Two days and still no word.
baaaaaaa
I can’t tweet until this mess is fixed.
sigh
I may be stuck just answering comments from now on…
Nooooooooooo
yessssssss
I am just here… which is nowhere…
I am still shut out… but this link is awesome… thanks.
I still don’t get how my joke hurt anybody.
Art,
You are back. All is well. You may now teach my kids the art of pranks. And the art of panic.
Le Clown
PS: The Seed sent me the same message he sent Weebles. Glad to see this is over with.
It isn’t over. They still have my new post button shut off. They are not responding to any of my emails.
I’m here because of Mr. Seed’s plea to Free the WordPress One. I can’t believe WP muzzled you for this—don’t they have anything better to do with their time? Like, for instance, getting rid of all the spam blogs that click “Follow” on everyone’s blog these days? I thought your spam comment was funny, as were some of the others above. Can’t people have FUN anymore??
Oh Hello! I thought they’d obviously spot that it was a joke; a) because of the innocent, smiley-faced gravatar, far too smiley-faced and innocent to be a pain in the arse spammer, and b) because it’s Arthur…everyone knows Arthur!
I don’t see how this hurt anybody. People could just ignore it.
I thought it was a harmless joke. I don’t see how it hurt anybody. It was no more annoying than any other comment, and less so than many I have received. Thanks for the support. I still can’t do any new posts until they decide what to do with me.
I just saw Guap’s note on the WP forums about it, I’ll add my $0.02 as well, for whatever that’s worth. Probably less than $0.02, really.
Thanks so much. I never meant to cause all this fuss.
Who would have thought this would be such a thing??
This is why I have also been banned from doing practical jokes in real life… I did a series of posts about that.
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thanks
You’ve genuinely been gagged?! That’s why I only got a like! You’ve really made it…I was going to join in and everything…do we need to do a ‘FREE THE WORDPRESS ONE’ post?
It might help. I can’t do any more posts until they decide my fate.
It is done…and I’ve found your comments!!!
FREE THE WORDPRESS ONE!!!
I owe you. But I still can’t do new posts. My fate hangs in the balance.
I’ve been away for three days and have missed everything…all seems to be back to normal now…I say normal…
This is as normal as I get.
This idea is chock full of the ideafullness that I seek when I seek to be filled with ideas.
I wondering, havev you considere the SEO potential of this, or perhaps to writing of where I can find pants for much comments?
Awesome… now just paste that into 500 random blogs… I am stuck in hell… I can’t get a new post page to load. Don’t know if it’s my moms computer, or WordPress hates me again.
WordPress has disabled my new post button. They are upset about my little spam joke. They say they have concerns about the content of my blog. I get spam all the time from sites that sell nasty stuff. Do they shut them all down? Please let WordPress know that I am not evil. I need your help.
Sure. Do you have their email address, or should I just send an email to support?
Any help would be appreciated. I guess I went a little too far this time… sorry.
You’re very funny but not quite robotic enough for the really bad SPAM. I had a good laugh reading though 🙂
I just got caught up in the moment. Thanks for not getting upset.
Upset? Oh no I enjoyed it! I’m just saying your grammar and spelling wasn’t bad enough for the really “bad” spam! LOL
Well… wordpress shut down my blog… they wont let me do any new posts. I guess they didn’t get it.
Oh that bites! They have no sense of humour 😦
WordPress has disabled my new post button. They are upset about my little spam joke. They say they have concerns about the content of my blog. I get spam all the time from sites that sell nasty stuff. Do they shut them all down? Please let WordPress know that I am not evil. I need your help.
Uh oh! Seriously? I think WordPress is being too serious about things if they think you’re a threat! How do I help?
I am asking people to get on the help forums or do a blog post with wordpress in the title and a link to my blog… saying I am a harmless idiot. But I don’t know if it will help.
Okay, I can try…
Very naughty Arthur. Sounds a lot more fun than going to Ikea which is what I did
Don’t eat the meatballs… and it’s not to late to play along.
I bought hot “dogs”
One hot dog and two meat balls… the breakfast of champions… ha!
very clever!
I do try.
WordPress has disabled my new post button. They are upset about my little spam joke. They say they have concerns about the content of my blog. I get spam all the time from sites that sell nasty stuff. Do they shut them all down? Please let WordPress know that I am not evil. I need your help.
Oh no! How do I contact them?
You could do a post, or go on the help forums. I don’t know. I am a computer moron, remember?
So I have you to blame for the comment Chris Jensen posted on my blog and confused the heck out of me! Haha, this is pretty amusing though. Hope you don’t get in trouble for it. 😉
Trouble and I are old friends. As soon as this game is over, I am going to start a new one that might even be worse. Thanks.
WordPress has disabled my new post button. They are upset about my little spam joke. They say they have concerns about the content of my blog. I get spam all the time from sites that sell nasty stuff. Do they shut them all down? Please let WordPress know that I am not evil. I need your help.
Much wisdom in this blog that I have been looking for, pouringmyartout, ripping out my guts for your entertainment. Soon I will be back and tell all myfriends.
But seriously, I can’t play. I already sense trouble down the road for me. Andy Johnson finally noticed my blog entry about him, and he clicked on the “complaint” section, so it will be interesting to see what, if anything, hits the fan. Even though I was well within my rights, as every thing I said about the evil weasel is true and I have documentation to prove it.
That sounds like it is going to get interesting.
It could. I checked. It’s not slander or defamation if it’s true. But wordpress could still get freaked out. So we’ll see.
Fight the good fight.
Always.
I have really pissed WordPress off… they shut down my new post button.
Omigod. What will you do?
I am hosed. I hope everybody will do a post supporting me.
I’ve been hit!
Yu have been hit like the beaches of Normandy… like a bad Alabama wife… like a hand of 11 in a blackjack game in Vegas… like… I could go on…
Hey, leave Alabama outta this! I moved here 5 years ago and its not half so bad as everyone says it is. 😉
Sorry… I just picked a state at random… what are the odds…
Alabama, hm… starts with an a, ends with a, first letter of the alphabet, yeah, pretty high actually. 😉
I mean the odds that you had ties to that state… they are like… one in fifty…
Simply mind-boggling!
I should have gone to Vegas.
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You might well be a ninja at this… too bad there isn’t a job opening in this field.. now copy it, and paste it into about 500 blog comment boxes, and you are my new best friend. You will see mine there.
WordPress has disabled my new post button. They are upset about my little spam joke. They say they have concerns about the content of my blog. I get spam all the time from sites that sell nasty stuff. Do they shut them all down? Please let WordPress know that I am not evil. I need your help.
How do I contact them
Word. Lets see what happens.
This is supposed to be like a flashmob kind of a thing… funny if enough people are doing it… so far… no love…
Screw them I think its hilarious.
Thank you. So far I am getting about a 50/50 response between love and hate. And I suspect most of my spam bombs are being deleted without being read. But I have pasted a few hundred of them into every blog I find, so…
So if we don’t put something that looks like spam in the comments…but something completely random. You know, “Shave and a haircut…” which would hopefully encourage them to respond with ..”two bits!” Would that be flagged as spam??? We could just start posting riddles in peoples comment section and wait for the answers.
That is what makes this so interesting. That and the fact that I did the same joke a long time ago, and nothing happened that time.
And what are you looking at on the ceiling?
Haha, that was taken when I was trying to remain somewhat anonymous. Who says I’m looking at the ceiling though…depends on where I am.
Good point… I do know that if you roll that eye any farther back it is going to flip all the way over… which would be pretty darn freaky.
It’s a talent. 🙂
It would be a nice party trick, if it would spin around and around.
Too funny. I would cry if someone called me Spam though, so I’m going to sit this one out. But I had a lovely laugh.
You disappoint me in ways that are usually reserved for men that you date… HA!!!
I trashed and spammed your comment 🙂 lmao
I knew the risks when I started this… thanks.
If enough people mark your comments as spam, doesn’t this get you labeled a spammer and potentially go on the blacklist, with WordPress automatically marking your comments as spam?
Not that anyone really needed to call out that doing what your post suggests is bad advice, but it’s got ramifications that might stick with you a while should you do this. Maybe that was your goal all along… to get people to do something stupid? If so, well. I guess you can just mark my comment as spam.
WordPress already hates me due the many revolutions I have started against stupid changes that nobody liked. But mostly, I just don’t seem able to resist getting myself into trouble. Thanks.
WordPress has disabled my new post button. They are upset about my little spam joke. They say they have concerns about the content of my blog. I get spam all the time from sites that sell nasty stuff. Do they shut them all down? Please let WordPress know that I am not evil. I need your help.
Turns out you were right. I get spam all the time, and it never seems to end.
Do we shut them all down? We try, yes.
So, from what I can see, your site was automatically flagged 3 days ago, but un-flagged when a human reviewed the flag manually (as is our custom), 4 hours ago. It’s just the way it works: robot -> human verifies. At our volume, we evidently have more stuff auto-flagged than our humans can process in a day, so it takes a while. Serves you right: that’s called shooting oneself in the foot. Also, you’re not helping with said volume of legitimate stuff we do have people spending their entire days dealing with. Just sayin’.
I have learned my lesson… I will never do it again… but it was just a joke…
Joke: that’s likely why you got unlocked. There was no lesson intended. Robots don’t have a sense of humor (yet), but we do. 😉
ooohhh… I want a robot with a sense of humor…
Also, now you know first hand what we do do to try and prevent the real spammers. Few are the sites that come back from the spam pit. So there’s always that. 😉
And I do appreciate your hard work… I just felt like the dolphin that got caught in the tuna net… it was my fault for swimming and not watching where I was going.
We like our spam 100% dolphin-free. No canning factory for you. *wags finger*
I really am sorry about all the fuss I caused. I have a history of doing practical jokes in real life that went a little too far. I thought those days were over.
Seriously, do you know how a bear like me could find his genitals? I think I must have some, otherwise I wouldn’t notice that Carly Rae Jepsen never has any pants on.
Well, I just let my fingers do the walking… or else I set fire to the forest to clear away the underbrush… and the deadwood…
Thanks you kindly for the fine article full of information I have needed inside out. I will be sure to pay many visits to all future articles of such good taste. Keep up with the good hard work. And speaking, I have some tiny magic pills that will make you know like a tree. Only two cents minus three for a bottle that will give you much happiness for all to see.
Now that I’ve posted away, I wonder can I get in trouble for this? I sure hope so, I love trouble it always follows me…
I might get in trouble for starting it.
Awesome. You may have found your true calling. Not everyone writes good spam.
You don’t know me — or maybe now you do — but I got your lovely not-spammy comment just now and WordPress wants to know if I want to approve it. It smelled suspiciously not-spammy, despite its use of spammy elements (and I’m just loving all the red squiggly lines under all the times I’ve written “spammy” in this reply window), so I came here to see what was going on. Imagine my surprise… well, no, you don’t have to imagine it. You just kinda laid it out there in this post, didn’t you? Nicely played, my friend, nicely played.
I was hoping a few people would think this was funny. I wonder how many of them go into the junk folder right away. The down side is this; I just pasted it into a comment box, and right after I did, I noticed that the blog was written by a priest. It is all fun and games until someone puts there eye out… or gets sent to hell…
The funny part for me was that WordPress doesn’t usually even show me real spam so I never see them. The fact that it wasn’t sure and therefore passed it along to me for scrutiny is kinda funny all by itself. Is there any way for you to tell how many folks just trash the comments as spam and how many (like me) find it funny? (I’m thinking of approving it and seeing how the fur flies.) Thanks for the laugh… but I’ll pass on the pill offer. My husband’s pants are happy enough, thank you.
Do you ever open the folder of the comments that got labeled as spam? Sometimes real comments get put there by accident. I am not sure how I could check to see how many of these end up where. I am sending out a lot of them. I just have to tell myself it is worth the effort. I am leading by example.
I’m in, let create my own little surprise and I will be there without a care
Do it!!!