Hey Mislav, on a side note, when you say "all at once", do you mean one after another or is there a javascript et. al. that enables simultaneous bookmarking?
"Sometimes I stumble upon a bunch of cool JavaScript resources at once and I tag them all at once, resulting in even 10-20 new links in a short amount of time. " disclaimer, if needed: I've known of DEL since its inception but never found it useful til recently, hence any repetitive questions --- In [email protected], "Mislav MarohniÄ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/23/06, somercamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > if that is the answer, then why not create an anti-spam keyword > > feature where you're forced to enter a word shown in a graphic, like > > so many websites and bloggers do already > > > I already explained, but you didn't understand. CAPTCHAs prevent atomated > spambots to post comments (on some blogs), register for services and similar > things. There are many clever ways spammers figured out to get their bots > around CAPTCHAs, but even if they do they are considerably slowed down - > they planned to hit these HTML forms hundreds or even thousands of times. > > On del.icio.us import, to posion tag listings with thousands of spam sites > you need only one "hit" (file upload, to be exact) and that's why their bots > don't even matter - spammers can easily take several minutes of their time > and upload the file by hand, circumventing any robot-blocking methods > del.icio.us team have put up. > > The trouble here is defining spam on social bookmarking sites. Spam is > easily recognized on blog comments, wikis, but on social bookmarking sites > like Del the whole point is to submit links to other sites! That means > everyone who's using Del is a kind of a spammer - our links appear on our > pages, in tag listings, in other people's feeds... Sometimes I stumble upon > a bunch of cool JavaScript resources at once and I tag them all at once, > resulting in even 10-20 new links in a short amount of time. To some people > who are not interested in JavaScript that is spam, but to most of the people > on Del it isn't, since it is one of the most popular topics. Some of my > friends already complained about me spamming them with Ruby on Rails links > :) > > So new Del users want to share hundreds, sometimes thousands of their "cool" > links at once by importing from their browsers, other social services... > That's OK, we want to allow that, do we? But spammers want to do exactly > that, too - they only want to "share" their "cool" sites about poker, > viagra, mortgage loans (and similar) with us. They want to do it because > people then go to those sites and actually buy viagra, play poker and > takeloans. And not only spammers make money by "sharing" links - many > people get > money too as ad revenue by submitting links to their own sites and articles > they wrote. We can't blame them for that. > > If we can first define spam on social bookmarking sites, only then we can > start talking about slowing it down or even blocking it. > > Joshua, did/does del.icio.us have problems with automated postings or > spamming by hand? Did the team take some measures to detect those? Are users > blocked when they make too much simultaneous posts? We'd like to hear your > experiences. > > -- > Mislav > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
