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Apple's Ping Overrun with Spam
- AlexBlom 16y agoWelcome to the open web, Mr. Jobs.
- brandnewlow 16y agoI know it's funny and all, but in all seriousness, perhaps we underestimate just how damaging the rampant, often out of control spam on "the open web" is to the consumer experience. Keeping Apple products clear of that sort of stuff has been a big win for them so far.
- josefresco 16y agoUnfortunately for Apple they'll have to deal with this more and more as they grow beyond simply being a premium niche provider to mainstream. It's easy to keep a walled-garden clean and orderly but once you grow beyond that and need to connect people's outside "messy" lives with your product, it gets much tougher (see Microsoft)
- glhaynes 16y agoPretty sure they're "mainstream". :)
- mishmash 16y agoAccording to Alexa, apple.com is in the top 50 sites on the internet (#42 - coincidence Hitchhiker fans?) and top 30 (#27) for the U.S. So yes, I agree they are "mainstream" and welcoming them to the web probably isn't necessary...
- electromagnetic 16y agoI'm waiting for the fateful day when the virus makers see Apple OS' as a true target. Apple and Apple users have been living in a walled-garden and they don't know the difference between a grass snake, the game Snake and a cobra, because they're protected from the dangers of the open web by being a minority. The bigger problem is that Apples exceedingly proprietary nature will likely lock-out any of the established or establishing anti-virus/trojan/malware/spyware companies from stepping in quickly when the flood occurs.
- katovatzschyn 16y agoPhishing is cross-platform.
- protomyth 16y agoI'm not sure how open it is when they have my credit card. I get the feeling a ban on iTunes might not be a happy thing.
- hockeybias 16y agoWow. That was REALLY fast...
- jat850 16y agoComment #4 from the page: "Email me for a free iphone!! free-iphone99@hotmail.com Thx RWW! Posted by: free-iphone | September 3, 2010 8:39 AM"
- pavel_lishin 16y agoActual spam, or brilliant parody?
- chc 16y agoYeah, that was my guess. The fact that it was the fourth comment makes the parody angle more likely still.
- vaksel 16y agothe only way to battle spam is to either A) moderate all comemnts or B) close all comments Anything else can be bypassed
- bemmu 16y agoThe spam filter on GMail seems to work well enough.
- vaksel 16y agotalking about comment spam here.
- jasonlotito 16y agoYeah, you missed the point here.
- CamperBob 16y agoWhat's the difference between email spam and comment spam, exactly? Why don't online forums use Bayesian filtering to get rid of comment spam?
- mishmash 16y agoI haven't followed SpamAssassin in several years, but have any startups ever tried running their comments through it? As you point out, it seems like many of their rules for emails would apply equally well to blog comments.
- mkr-hn 16y agoDoesn't Akismet work the same way as gmail's filter?
- brownleej 16y agoThat is the only way to battle spam with 100% effectiveness, yes. But there are other ways to do it that can still be very good, even though they're not perfect. The filtering for comment spam in Ping is subpar, and I don't think the difficulty of the task excuses the fact that Apple has done a poor job.
- modeless 16y agoWell, the whole thing is nothing but a vehicle for Apple's own iTunes store link spam. It's ironic that Apple didn't realize anyone else could use it to spam their users too.
- Tekhne 16y agoOT: We're so used to tech buzzwords that sometimes we don't realize our secret language sounds odd. Just look at the title of this post literally. It's pretty hilarious.
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- jschuur 16y agoThe launched with so few featured artists and recommended users, that everyone ends up following Lady Gaga, Rick Rubin and Alexandra Patsavas, so naturally spammers gravitate around them.