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Author: TomTheWeird
Fiction Rated: M - English - Humor/General - Reviews: 2 - Published: 01-23-08 - Updated: 01-23-08 - Complete - id:2466704

This poem needs some explanation. Firstly, Akismet is free a Spamfilter-plugin. Secondly, My Pants is the name of the forums of Brotherhood 2.0. Thirdly, all spam examples mentioned actually got past the spam filter. Fourthly, the spam filter went beserk today and banned a few hundred members, some of them up to twenty times. And last, but not least, even though my descriptions are fairly innocent, what I'm describing is less. I'll put up a rating though...


Death to Akismet

Nooo, I don't like spam either.
Inappropriate and annoying shit.
I don't want spam in My Pants and neither
does anyone else want to deal with it.

Spam really makes me want to swear.
Sometimes makes me want to shout.
That's why we put the filters there;
to keep the stupid spammers out.

But sometimes something somewhere goes wrong
Filters can never be smart enough.
We'll have to accept wrongly banning as long
as they stop 'really innappropriate stuff.'

But wandering in My Pants I see
An ad for viagra in a thread.
And, even though that is funny,
it should've been removed instead.

How can that crappy filter ignore
Russian posts no one can read,
posts concerning indecent behaviour or
illegal cheap software we don't need.

An obviously titled topic that shows
links to porn sites and, oh brother,
Pictures of girls wearing no clothes
doing indecent stuff to eachother.

Is it that difficult to filter out words,
like penis, viagra, lesbian or clit?
'Cause they don't belong on this site full of nerds.
So why in the world can't Akismet do it?

And now I've been mistakenly banned.
Hank went offline just before I mailed.
But it was past midnight, so I understand.
It's just pissing me off. Akismet failed.

Dear Akismet, I hate you! I do!
And you seem to hate me as well.
So go fuck yourself, screw you,
I'll see you in hell!!!


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