This morning the SYS-CON feedback forums received hundreds of comments posted by a number of anonymous users, all queued for approval. Site editors deleted these story comments and blocked the users, who seemed to be Turkish spammers promoting various websites, including a number of pornographic destinations.

As I looked at these log files, I could not help but think about the cultural issues surrounding the Turkish way of thinking to exploit any social system. Wouldn't it be easier for these spammers just to conduct legitimate business like everyone else? It would. But the thought process behind this type of behavior is the pleasure of being "smarter than others" by breaking social rules. They get some sort of satisfaction from that.

Turks will never learn to make a straight line and wait their turn like civilized people at a bank, airport or a bus stop. They do pile up on each other like players in a football game. They don't stop at a red light. I guess now they are playing the social media game, in their own Turkish style.

Here is a list of Turkish spammers who signed up in the past couple of hours, and their registered email addresses. The entire country of Turkey should thank them for contributing to their national reputation.

Real Turk (realturk18@gmail.com)
Redbutterfly (dantelblogcu@gmail.com)
Handlanu (m_ekkiz@yahoo.com)
Osman Kara (acokes1122@hotmail.com)
Full Oyunlar (erotixvideo@gmail.com)
Köpekler (teoman@kucukucu.net)
Dizi Izlw (uyduweb@hotmail.com)
RİMEYSA.NET (muzaffercakir@w.cn)
Chipoyun (prenslerprensi@mynet.com)
Falanca (agllloco@gmail.com)
Ismail Ozkan (frmxp@hotmail.com)
Cumle (specter@hotmail.it)
Adem Gik (yesildeniz_1@hotmail.com)
Efe (efe7822@hotmail.com)
Furkan Cetin (furkanyural@gmail.com)

Turkish futility
"Some of you may have noticed that we got hit hard by a Turkish spammer last night: several hundred comments, mostly saying the same thing, all linking back to a farm of Turkish spam sites. It's extremely annoying, and I'm in the process of cleaning it all up. Normally that wouldn't take long at all, but right now Scienceblogs is seizing and sputtering, like usual, so I delete 10 or 20 at a time, get the stupid timeout message, and have to reload and restart the despammer tools...so it might take a little while.

And it is all so pointless. They get a few hours of their url on my blog, but what I do in addition to deleting their spam is pluck out urls and unusual keywords and tuck them into my automatic spam filter file...which, after a few years of this nonsense, is looking like a goddamned Turkish dictionary. That means that a lot of Turkish words and links get automatically rubbished if you try to use them here - there must be a lot of national pride over there in Asia Minor, where they're doing a phenomenal job of making Turkish the pariah language of the internet."

Comments
"Who in Turkey, besides the few, cowed sensible people, are going to care that Adnan Oktar's pet spammers are turning Turkish into the lingua franca of spam filters? I mean, Adnan Oktar has single-handedly cut off Turkey from the rest of the Internet, what with his eagerness to appeal to the Turkish courts to ban whatever site displeases him."

"It's really sad. I had to implement a "country by IP address" filter for a client's site in order to present users from a couple selected countries with specifically different options on a couple pages. The spammers ruin it for everybody."

"Spammers and this Jamdu moron are giving Turkey a bad name! Interesting to hear the SB machine is not only sputtering for us worker ants!"

"Viagra ister misiniz? Alın kalın ereksiyon şimdi.
Just kidding."

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