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Expect blocking parts of the internet does nothing to help with this. You deal with automated spam on a website by restricting who can post or by doing automate
by SahAssar 6y ago
Expect blocking parts of the internet does nothing to help with this. You deal with automated spam on a website by restricting who can post or by doing automated human verification like CAPTCHA and having spam filtering.
Just blocking parts of the internet does nothing to help the problem and simply introduces other problems.
- sbarre 6y agoBlocking parts of the Internet absolutely helps the problem. It doesn't _solve_ the problem, but it can reduce the amount of effort you spend dealing with it. Time is money, and for most businesses or people, this is the most important metric. If I can spend 5 minutes on an 80% solution, or 5 days on a 90% solution, I will absolutely start with the 80% solution and see how things develop.
- varispeed 6y agoThese bots were operated by humans. I tried many different captchas and that didn't stop attacks. In some parts of the world it is cheaper to get a human than the IP address. If you block addresses they have access to, it suddenly becomes not profitable to spam, because the IPs you have to get are too expensive.