2 ms·
All large sites get hammered by automatic/semi-automatic spam, and occasionally some leaks through. Is this surprising?
by AshleysBrain 14y ago
All large sites get hammered by automatic/semi-automatic spam, and occasionally some leaks through. Is this surprising?
- Zak 14y agoAll sites get hammered by automatic spam. If it gets indexed by google, or if anybody links to it, the spam bots will find it eventually. It is not practical to operate any kind of website that allows users to post things without some form of spam protection. For small sites, email verification or text classification will do the job by itself. Traditional captchas are fairly ineffective, but written questions like "what color rhymes with true?" seem to work pretty well for smaller sites. Bigger sites dealing with a larger volume of traffic almost always require regular human intervention, curated IP block lists, stealth banning and the like.