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That assumes all of the spammers care enough to learn the limitations of txt.fyi. Some will just scribble whatever, where-ever possible.
by ansible 10y ago
That assumes all of the spammers care enough to learn the limitations of txt.fyi.
Some will just scribble whatever, where-ever possible.
- StavrosK 10y agoI can confirm that. I made https://pastery.net https://pastery.net, a pastebin (THE BEST ONE), and I looked a few weeks later to find that it had a few hundred thousand pastes. I was very happy to see that people were using it that much, until I realized that most of it was spam. I wrote some heuristics to delete spam pastes, and only about 1,000 pastes were left, about half of which were spam still :( I don't even know why they do this. They just do it.
- prawn 10y agoCheaper for their scripts to indiscriminately spam than them manually work out which forms and public sites are indexed and will actually bring them value.
- sametmax 10y agoRequire some complex js codes workflow to post using websocket or something and most automated spam goes away. They are mass mindless bot, not targeted spammers.
- StavrosK 10y agoThat's a good idea, but most of the functionality of the site comes from its API. Then again, it's easy to require a key and a captcha to sign up, so your idea is good, thank you.
- zouhair 10y agoYOu just gave them a lab to play test in.