[delicious-discuss] Spam on Del.icio.us?

[Greg Ritter]

Wow, I'm sure this has happened before, but this is the first time I've noticed spam on the del.icio.us/popular page. This afternoon there is a series of 20+ links all with the title of "[Celebrity name] in Relationships", all posted initially by the same account, all also posted by the same dozen other accounts, and all of the links point to a machine-generated crap page on the same website (which is selling some relationship analysis bullshit).

The 20+ links are all for celebrity pages that have first names starting with "A," and it looks like the original cockroach (username: shlomot) has loaded del.icio.us up with almost 300 of these spam links tied to celebrity names (although his other fake accounts don't seem to have linked all 300 yet).

How common is this problem? How is it dealt with?

--greg

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