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Something I found quite interesting is that the spam wasn't just targeted at the Indie Hackers community itself (i.e. click the blog spam and get served ads, or
by db39 5y ago
Something I found quite interesting is that the spam wasn't just targeted at the Indie Hackers community itself (i.e. click the blog spam and get served ads, or whatever else), but to get backlinks on a site with high domain-authority.
I know this because I personally saw a couple of spammers openly talking to each other about giving each other backlinks too.
I never thought that spamming like that would be worth the time or effort, but apparently it was.
- lmilcin 5y agoSpam isn't easy to get rid of. I even got hit by it today, on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dileepand06 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dileepand06 It is quite unfortunate I can't just mark an obvious spam and get rid of it. I wonder how much value these guys get from posting spam links on HN.