Yeah, I understand. I spend a lot of time working on spam issues now and am trying to build more systematic ways of dealing with it. We eliminate a lot and unfortunately some still gets through, but I am trying to get better mechanisms in place, so I hope things will be better in the future. As always, please let me know directly if you see spam and I will take care of them.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sproaticus > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ydn-delicious] What's being done about spam? > > I'm getting tired of the problem of porn spam in my subscriptions. > Because of this, I am no longer recommending del.icio.us to > friends, family or coworkers. > > For about 3 months, I religiously posted my findings at > http://del.icio.us/help/abuse - but the only responses I got > were the automated "thank you" notes. Is this abuse > reporting system used? > Overflowing? Ignored? > > It seems to me that these spammers should be easy to discover > and kick while they're in the process of spamming. They seem > to be using multiple accounts, posting the same link with the > same dreary description, multiple times an hour. > > Here's another idea - let me (i.e. your average user) > maintain a blacklist of tags, so I don't have to put up with > any bookmark that comes from my subscriptions but has a tag > in the blacklist. Extra points if this blacklist filtering > can be extended to the description, and for letting me > blacklist (anti-subscribe) other users. > > Overall, this started out as a great service, but thanks to a > small number of spammers who insist on peeing in the pool, > I'm not sure if the service will be worth much in the near future. > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
