What is “spam-spelling”?
“Spam-spelling” is spelling something deliberately wrong, to foil spammers and spiders. Some spammers use spiders to index pages on particular topics, and then create email lists based on the contents of the pages. Because I’ve gotten tired of getting sexual and p*rn spam, I’ve started using spam-spelling for certain trigger words. Unfortunately it can make it more difficult to use search engines. On any site dedicated to feminist, gender, sexist analysis, there will be a lot of words that such spammers would pick up; so I wouldn’t want to spam-spell most words that spammers would look for. But I’ll use spam-spelling on words that are not mission-critical and get indexed in particularly inappropriate, tedious, or spam-prone ways.
