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Actually most individual spammers learn fairly quickly that spamming HN doesn't work. At any given time the spammers are mostly new arrivals.
by pg 16y ago
Actually most individual spammers learn fairly quickly that spamming HN doesn't work. At any given time the spammers are mostly new arrivals.
- thinkbohemian 16y agoRobots.txt User-Agent: * Disallow: /x? Disallow: /vote? Disallow: /reply? Disallow: /submitted? Disallow: /submitlink? Disallow: /threads?
- sorbus 16y agoOne assumes that a core characteristic of spammers and spambots is that they ignore Robots.txt - or at least I would be extremely surprised if disallowing them in robots.txt has any effect.
- seejay 16y agoI also think HN regulars are not the kind of the people that spammers could use... still it'd be pretty annoying during the period they learn that (the hard way)
- ivankirigin 16y agoDo you define new arrivals as new accounts. It seems like a moderately competent spammer would look like a new spammer every time