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That article has a very peculiar comment: http://theweek.com/article/index/246703/the-worm-that-regrows-its-head-and-memories-when-decapitated#comment-958983858

That article has a very peculiar comment: http://theweek.com/article/index/246703/the-worm-that-regrows-its-head-and-memories-when-decapitated#comment-958983858 http://theweek.com/article/index/246703/the-worm-that-regrow... I hesitate to copy and paste the entire comment, lest I be flagged by an algorithm for spamming, but it uses Latin-like characters to write some typical spam about making money from home. Then, it has a link to the following site: viewmore------------------------------------------.qr.net/kkEj After that link, the comment continues with an extremely interesting tidbit that relates to the article, full of manual line breaks. I can't find it anywhere else online: We replicated the results of a similar experiment in a class I took in 1976, and also another one that's even stranger. We trained planaria, killed them, dried them, and fed them to untrained planaria. The training times for the untrained planaria were shortened. Our experiments used planaria reactions to light and subsequent electric shock, not food-finding behavior. Is someone being paid to come up with original, relevant-sounding content to post alongside spam? That text does not look machine generated.

jlgreco 13y ago
Perhaps someone has a malware infection that inserts spam into the comments they make online without them knowing. That would be a pretty slick way of getting around CAPTCHAs and possibly spam filters.
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bennyg 13y ago
That sounds like an awesome experiment too. More info on an experiment similar to what the spam comment suggests: http://www.planarians.org/ http://www.planarians.org/
slunk 13y ago
Look for Steve Conklin's comment (posted around the same time).
- cynwoody 13y ago
  cusinemakaty also dropped a comment[1] 11 hours ago on Glenn Beck's site, consisting of the unicode-disguised spam followed by a normal comment. The normal comment text turns out to be lifted from a post[2] 15 hours ago by another commenter, Pachy Serrano. [1]http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/07/10/struggles-continue-for-prosecution-in-george-zimmerman-trial/#comment-959021082 http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/07/10/struggles-continue-for-p... [2]http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/07/10/struggles-continue-for-prosecution-in-george-zimmerman-trial/#comment-958699609 http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/07/10/struggles-continue-for-p...
Alterlife 13y ago
This user name has several other posts on other sites: https://www.google.co.in/search?q=cusinemakaty https://www.google.co.in/search?q=cusinemakaty The message as well is common to other posters: https://www.google.co.in/search?q="мy+coυѕιɴ+ιѕ+мαĸιɴɢ+%2451/нoυr+oɴlιɴe.+υɴeмployed+ғor+α+coυple+oғ+yeαrѕ+αɴd+prevιoυѕ+yeαr+ѕнe+ɢoт+α+%241З619cнecĸ" https://www.google.co.in/search?q="мy+coυѕιɴ+ιѕ+мαĸιɴɢ+%2451... The text doesn't seem machine generated in any of the comments I checked but this is certainly something organized. As other posters have said, perhaps malware.

jlgreco 13y ago

Perhaps someone has a malware infection that inserts spam into the comments they make online without them knowing. That would be a pretty slick way of getting around CAPTCHAs and possibly spam filters.

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bennyg 13y ago

That sounds like an awesome experiment too. More info on an experiment similar to what the spam comment suggests: http://www.planarians.org/ http://www.planarians.org/

slunk 13y ago

Look for Steve Conklin's comment (posted around the same time).

cynwoody 13y ago
cusinemakaty also dropped a comment[1] 11 hours ago on Glenn Beck's site, consisting of the unicode-disguised spam followed by a normal comment. The normal comment text turns out to be lifted from a post[2] 15 hours ago by another commenter, Pachy Serrano. [1]http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/07/10/struggles-continue-for-prosecution-in-george-zimmerman-trial/#comment-959021082 http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/07/10/struggles-continue-for-p... [2]http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/07/10/struggles-continue-for-prosecution-in-george-zimmerman-trial/#comment-958699609 http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/07/10/struggles-continue-for-p...

Alterlife 13y ago

This user name has several other posts on other sites: https://www.google.co.in/search?q=cusinemakaty https://www.google.co.in/search?q=cusinemakaty The message as well is common to other posters: https://www.google.co.in/search?q="мy+coυѕιɴ+ιѕ+мαĸιɴɢ+%2451/нoυr+oɴlιɴe.+υɴeмployed+ғor+α+coυple+oғ+yeαrѕ+αɴd+prevιoυѕ+yeαr+ѕнe+ɢoт+α+%241З619cнecĸ" https://www.google.co.in/search?q="мy+coυѕιɴ+ιѕ+мαĸιɴɢ+%2451... The text doesn't seem machine generated in any of the comments I checked but this is certainly something organized. As other posters have said, perhaps malware.