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Do you have evidence for this claim? As evidence against: Lobsters, which uses an invite tree, has virtually no spam to speak of.
by throw10920 3y ago
Do you have evidence for this claim?
As evidence against: Lobsters, which uses an invite tree, has virtually no spam to speak of.
- withinboredom 3y agoThere is nothing I can share because it is proprietary information and would assist in informing spammers on how spam detection works on the platform I used to work on. That being said, if there are lots of dormant accounts on lobsters, they are likely spam bots just waiting to be activated once the rules are deeply understood and there is something to gain, or be waiting until there are more than the mods could actively fight against because they lack the tools to do so (see: false sense of security).
- throw10920 3y agoGiven your refusal to provide any evidence or counterexamples, the cop-out that "there are probably actually lots of spam accounts of Lobsters that haven't activated yet", and the extremely naive nature of your comment that ignores simple modifications that can be made to an invite system to nullify all of the flaws you claim it has, I don't think that you actually have any evidence whatsoever. It's pretty clear that invite trees provide actual value and the opposite of a "false sense of security".
- withinboredom 3y agoI mean, I don't work on lobsters, I have no desire to be a member there. So why would I have any evidence to support my claim about a platform I give two shits about? I'm simply telling you how spammers work on OTHER platforms, quite successfully. Whether lobsters is immune to that or not, I don't know, nor do I care to know. If you think they are immune, then great (see: false sense of security).