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Ask HN: Is this any value to you? Social posting site overrun by spam
Hi!
Background:
Last year I decided to put up a social posting site for car enthusiasts to post current for-sale car ads. Being the complete non-coder that I am, I used a free package and installed it on some available server space. I played with it some but couldn't really figure out how to gain traction.
Spam slowly started to roll in, but now its hitting an interesting level.
Here are my stats from last month:
819 Visits
550 Absolute Unique Visitors
5,210 Pageviews
6.36 Average Pageviews
00:05:18 Time on Site
21.73% Bounce Rate
64.10% New Visits
My question is as follows: Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do with this property? Is any ad person interested in analyzing the spam content/source etc? I am not sure if there is any value but wanted to put this out there for this amazing community.
Any comments are valuable.
www.drovit.com
(it seems the site is throwing some errors at the top, I will try and fix this)
- devs1010 15y agowhy would there be value in analyzing where the spam is coming from? spam is garbage so unless you're getting non-spam hits the site wouldn't be worth anything
- Zhenya 15y agoThat's why I asked. My thought was maybe site admins could use this to create a blacklist of spam sources, or run some kind of experiments. No idea, that's why I threw it out there. Thanks for your input!