Network Lighthouse

A couple of days ago I got a comment on one of my posts that struck me as unusual, it was marked as spam (thanks to akismet), but didn’t read like your standard spam. Here’s the text:

Good points raised here, (well, what I could read of it). I am afflicted with color blindness (tritanopia to be exact). I use Chrome browser (unsure if that matters), and a lot of your site is a little difficult for me to read. I don’t wish to whinge, and I know it is my problem really, nonetheless it would be cool if you could bear in mind color blind visitors when carrying out the next site re-working.

After a first glance I almost approved it without further thought, however something struck me as odd.   The comment linked to p_l_a_y_n_i_c_e .c_o .u_k, which backs up the post, still not convinced I did some googling and found a number of blogs with almost identically worded comments.   There was some differences in the wording, the browser changes, I’ve seen Chrome, Konqurer and Safari and there are a couple of different introductions.

The only thing I am sure of now is that this isn’t a legitimate comment, but is meant to serve some other purpose.   It may be just for self promotion, grandfathering links for search eangines, or potentially preparation for a drive by download attack.  I’ll keep track of the page and report any changes.

-Daniel