Nearly every night, Daily Kos is regaled by a spam diary or two. And DKos seems to have developed a team of Spam Busters. A group of users who stay up late, find those spammers, and bojo, ridicule and crush their pitiful hopes of selling us some product or service. And we actually enjoy crushing those damned diaries. These spammers provide us with so many opportunities to have fun, it's almost a shame to bork them. The funny thing is...for all the effort they go through to reach us (you know...registering and creating a profile, cutting and pasting a spiel), they somehow forgot to check to see what language we speak. Such ijits! They seem think we're Norwegian, or Danish, Dutch, Indonesian, French, Icelandic, German and even Portuguese. Really??? Oh, btw, if you want to learn a new language or brush up on one...visit the spam diaries. We could really use a translator so we can figure out what they're selling, and make even more fun of 'em! Google translate sux rox.
How do we deal with these spammy diaries? Well, we could just bojo them and leave. But honestly, where's the fun in that? So we hang out a little, making fun of the diary. Oh yes, we bojo them... and then make awesome hilarity at their expense and threaten them with rock crushers. Why rock crushers you ask? Well... there's a story to that.
This is where a little DK history comes in and why we now crush the spam. Step carefully around the tangled orange barbed wire and find out why and how we crunch that spam..oh, and see some industrial strength pics, too.
Last year, kos made the decision to get rid of the wait period between when new users register and when they can write diaries and that get rid of the one diary per day rule. It was a great decision which boosted the amount of new users, but had one teensy problem..it allowed spammers to write as many diaries as they wished immediately upon registering.
By mid October, the spam problem was becoming really pesky. For instance, on October 13th 2013 a spammer wrote two diaries about crushing industrial waste. And no doubt that wasn't the only spam written that day.The very next day, a spammer put up a series of four diaries, one after the other expounding on crushing rocks.
Kossacks were so annoyed that diaries sprang up discussing the preponderance of spam and what to do about it. Even elfling admitted to having a hard time dealing with it. Eventually measures were put in place to get the spam diaries off the recent list as soon as they achieved BOJO and the recentlist was lengthened. People eventually settled down, but still grumbled and griped, talking about rock crushing spam diaries and before you knew it..a meme was born! Corliss Rock Crushers were the DK approved method of crunching spam!
Okee dokee, history lesson over. Now on to the fun stuff...PIX!!!
Rock crushers are my favourite pets and they come in an amazing variety of sizes.
From extra large:
To tiny:
And an impressive array of colors, too:
From modern ones.
To antique ones...
From singles,
To litters.
Cartoonish ones too.
But my favourites are these spectacular crushers: