Web Spam @ reddit: Down-voting and Fake URL Submissions
June 19th, 2006 by SecuriTeam, Filed under: Web, Commentary, Spam
reddit today has a story about the problem of spam bots down-voting articles. further, apparently they suffer from a significant amount of fake-url submissions which are, well… spam.
we who deal with comment spam, referrer spam and other types of web spam feel their pain, and i hope they will find a solution to help mitigate this soon.
you can find the story here. if i manage to find someone there we will try and bring them into our web spam fighting community and provide them with help from our joint cumulative experience.
gadi evron,
ge@beyondsecurity.com.
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Anyone looked at their subscription process? I just did. No wonder it’s easy for bots to spam them. Not only do they not pose any challange, they invite them in.
There is functionality, there is over-doing it and there is opening your legs and inviting them in.
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