====== Wiki Spammers ====== It seems my sites have (once again) been targeted again by some wiki spammers (people or bots, who cares). Discouraging. I'd rather be writing, but maybe that's a pipe dream when attempted on the Internet. These spammers seem to be link farmers, trying to spread links to their phish/malware sites by automatically loading them anyplace they can write to, and hoping that the search bots will harvest them up. The sad part is, its not even worth chasing or reporting them, because its all automated from zombie bot-infected computers anyway. Thanks to e-mail spammers, web banner advertisers, 419 scammers, wiki spammers, phishing sites, malware sites, bot herders, and an ever-growing population of idiots, the Internet seems like an unlivable toxic minefield rather than the greatest communication tool in history. It says a lot about the future of the species when the most powerful distributed computing system on the planet isn't used to advance the sciences, but is used to pump billions of grammatically incorrect unreadable junk e-mails, instead. Bravo, monkeys. Good job. Maybe the next inhabitants of the planet can learn from this and do a better job for themselves. At least I can take comfort in the fact that the Internet will never become self-aware on its own and take over the management of humanity for its own ends. It can't, and won't, as long as the when the sum intelligence of the constituent parts continues to //decrease//. ~~DISCUSSION~~