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A bit ago there was a mass spam wave of malware being spread via PM hosted on mega. It could just as likely be an anti spam measure gone wrong.
by Operyl 8y ago
A bit ago there was a mass spam wave of malware being spread via PM hosted on mega. It could just as likely be an anti spam measure gone wrong.
- duxup 8y agoI still get hit with DM spam on Reddit every once in a while. I'm kinda surprised, if some new account tosses out 100 DMs ... you'd think they'd be able to automatically cut them off. Then again they don't cut off accounts that just spam their blog or news site all the time either...
- Operyl 8y agoIt’s a never ending battle.
- smittywerben 8y agoUsually the offensive technology wins. Defensive technology is expensive and loses utility in times of peace.
- slig 8y agoIt yes, but there are a handful of very simple heuristics that Reddit (and Twitter) never cared to implement properly.
- apatters 8y agoThis is probably a sign that the situation is more complicated than it appears to be. I mean if they have hundreds or thousands of engineers, billions of dollars etc. they have surely considered these heuristics before, and there's probably a reason they haven't done them "right," we just are not privy to that reason.
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- JimDabell 8y ago> I mean if they have hundreds or thousands of engineers, billions of dollars etc. Reddit don't. They have a handful of engineers.
- kuschku 8y agoIt’s not really. You can throw the SpamAssassin detection engine at the PMs, and you’ll already get a much higher detection ratio than what Reddit gets today.
- lopmotr 8y agoThere's probably some class of genuine users who would get banned unfairly. Just look at the complaints of blocking mega links. Imagine if they went full Paypal and started randomly banning accounts just because someone's mother died and they sent a lot of messages all at once.
- slig 8y agoMost of the spam on Twitter (and assuming on Reddit PM) are from newly created accounts. They follow hundreds of other accounts (follow spam) and/or post hundreds of similar tweets mentioning someone else (mention spam).
- OnlyRepliesToBS 8y agoRight.