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This is true. Fake review sites are one of the top categories of spam here: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Jaheem12 http://news.ycombinator.com/subm
by pg 18y ago
This is true. Fake review sites are one of the top categories of spam here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Jaheem12 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Jaheem12
(You have to turn on showdead in your profile to see spam.)
- jfornear 18y agoWhy doesn't this Jaheem character get banned? lol
- alex_c 18y agoBecause then he'll just create a different account. As it is, he's happy spamming this site, and we're happy not seeing it. Everyone wins.
- michaelneale 18y agokind of a honeypot then? nice.
- jfornear 18y agoI figured that was the idea.
- palish 18y agoYou are so slick.
- jfornear 18y ago? Apparently I was the only one interested in PG's anti-spam strategy... Sorry for asking such a stupid question.
- palish 18y agoSorry, I didn't mean to be dismissive. It was a good question, and please keep asking them. I've just been having a bad day -- just got through an epic almost-breakup-but-not-quite-broken-up girlfriend problem. So to be clear, I apologize.
- jfornear 18y agoIt's cool, I think everyone comes off differently than they would like. It is the internet after all. Hope you debug your girl problems :(
- palish 18y agoHappily bug-free at the moment :) thank you for the thought. I did write a pretty hilarious awkward breakup letter that I should probably post to my blog for memory's sake.
- axod 18y agoI may be the only one, but I'd rather the link was left as clickable, even if the item has been deaded. Otherwise there seems no way to find what the original url was. I think the items deaded are pretty much spot on, but sometimes I'd like to be able to see what the fuss was about, or points raised in discussions.
- petercooper 18y agoAgreed. Dead worries me and I'm very happy I turned showdead on - not because spam shouldn't be deaded, but because I've seen plenty of legitimate comments "deaded" on threads..
- pg 18y agoThe reason you see dead comments is not because they've been individually killed, but because they were posted by banned users. Often it's obvious from the comments why they were banned, but there are some who oscillate between reasonable and trolling.
- petercooper 18y agoThat's useful to know - thanks! It's a shame that good comments die with the user, though, although I expect few users with consistently good comments are banned anyway.