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Spampaint turns spam into art

  1. raincoaster
    Member

    Given that SpamPaint works with Akismet, it would be highly cool if it were integrated with WordPress.com as a Dashboard option. Here are some details:

    Let’s assume a spam bot comes to a weblog and leaves a comment. Let’s also assume this blog is using the Akismet plugin to recognise spam. Now that the blog software knows it has been spammed it will either delete the comment spam or, if we are lucky and the blog is contributing to SpamPaint, it will be automatically sent to the SpamPaint engine.

    After receiving the comment SpamPaint will analyse it. For example: comment spam nearly almost includes links to websites (after all, the intention of comment spam is to promote websites) so SpamPaint visits these sites and grabs the colors and some images. SpamPaint also checks from which country the spammer is and shows this in the generated graphics. That’s just two of many steps.

    Looks like we can't set this up on our own; it would need WP.com to set it up either as an option or as an automatic thing.

  2. jaroche
    Member

    OMG! spam p0rn painting :D LOL!.

    Really a waste of time, but still is interesting, let me say ;)

  3. raincoaster
    Member

    Gotta reject your characterization of it as "a waste of time". It's art. Making art out of spam...is there a better use for spam?

  4. ozrisk
    Member

    Breakfast.

  5. raincoaster
    Member

    You'll give yourself a heart attack that way. Don't you know that spam is made up of the kittens that god kills?

  6. jaroche
    Member

    You should know, I know nothing about art =P

  7. raincoaster
    Member

    Well then why not throw your support behind an initiative that makes art automatically out of your castoffs? It's not like the spammers are going to come after you for copyright infringement.

    Although that would be hilarious!

  8. ozrisk
    Member

    With 2/3rds of my spam coming from one server in Panama I would expect that spam paint would be looking like canals a lot.
    Kittens? Looks like I will have to stock up. I am not a great fan of cats.

  9. raincoaster
    Member

    In your case, it would be Panamanian kittens I would imagine.

  10. ozrisk
    Member

    Sautéd in a white wine sauce. Yum.

  11. raincoaster
    Member

    So you will support this initiative, I presume? Pass the salt.

  12. judyb12
    Member

    A widget to display the latest SpamPaint from your blog would be cool, too.

  13. raincoaster
    Member

    Oooh, that would be totally cool!

  14. salamandrine
    Member

    LOL

    that would be a sight! :D

  15. jaroche
    Member

    If someone starts Spamerati blog rank, instead a thumbnail of mail blog, should show a Spam Paint =P

  16. drmike
    Member

    Hey Rain. If you're this bored, I've got some laundry that needs to be done...

  17. options
    Member

    I bet Peter Max would be envious an art it produces -- somehow it reminds me his paintings.

  18. timethief
    Member

    Have you heard of Spam Poison http://www.spampoison.com/

    WWW Robots (also called wanderers, spiders, crawlers, or bots) are programs that crawl the Web continually retrieving linked pages. When a spammer's bot visits your website, blog, forum, etc, all pages and sites linked to it will be searched looking for email addresses.

    Now you can fight back against their robots!

    All you have to do is link to this page so that whenever a spammer's robot scans your page, it will be sucked into this one. To link to this page, just use this simple code:

    <a href="http://english-101085963557.spampoison.com"><img src="http://pics3.inxhost.com/images/sticker.gif" border="0" width="80" height="15"/></a>

    These links will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses, mostly on known spammer owned domains! This will render their harvested lists pratically useless and of no commercial value.

  19. options
    Member

    yes, I had a chance run into it; idea looks nice, it doesn't seem to me to be very effective though.

  20. timethief
    Member

    Too bad. :(

  21. raincoaster
    Member

    Dr Mike, what are you paying and when can you drop it off? Remember, I live in Vancouver so things hanging up to dry typically take up to three months.

  22. jaroche
    Member

    I have searched for about 1 hour, and can't find how to use in my non-WP.com blog :S. Do you know how can do me and my italian spammer friends to make art :) ?

  23. raincoaster
    Member

    Oh, this is so easy.

    You'll have to ask at WordPress.org.

    :P

  24. jaroche
    Member

    I'll have to mail to spampaint author's =P

  25. sulz
    Member

    what would be really really cool is if the bots can make a spampaint art uniquely from the spam of your blog alone!

  26. raincoaster
    Member

    Donncha says nope. Too hard on the servers for a million blogs. Oh well.

  27. bloggersanjida
    Member

    spampaint seems really really cool!

    it's time once again to ask the question"what is art"?

    from cave art to spampaint, artists have sure come a long way.

    as an artist, i wish i could have access to similar technology, which would enable me to convert ANY digital data (say, something i write in ms word,) into art, whenever I wish.

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