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Allows links, doesn't have nofollow or CAPTCHAs in place. Anyone wanna take bets on how long before it turns into a giant cesspool of spam?
by henning 19y ago
Allows links, doesn't have nofollow or CAPTCHAs in place. Anyone wanna take bets on how long before it turns into a giant cesspool of spam?
- pg 19y agoI'm sure they'll make links nofollow. It's not hard.
- sverrejoh 19y agoIt's very easy, but doing so degrades the value of the site for honest users.
- mojuba 19y agoSince Jottit doesn't link to its users' pages, their rank in the beginning is 0, and so is their attractiveness for spammers. Once Jottit builds a catalogue of user pages, it's dead.
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- mojuba 19y agoIf they build a list of links to users' pages somewhere on the main site, which presumably has a solid PageRank (I'm sure it will after some time), that would automatically boost users' PRs as well, no matter what's on the pages. And so the spam flood will begin.
- mojuba 19y agoIf the site grows big enough, some significant part of spam would be easy to filter out statistically.
- nickb 19y agoEasy? Please enlighten me what's so easy about filtering spam these days...
- mojuba 19y agoThe same way as GMail and other large email providers. From my experience with GMail, its accuracy is near 100% and their heuristics is mostly based on statistical data, e.g. they probably detect large volumes of mail coming from one IP and having similar links, etc.
- michaelneale 19y agoYes. One of the nice things about a smart hosted gmail system is that when spam happens, they will see a corresponding flood of spam reports coming in over a certain amount of time, so that would make it much easier to stem the flood of spam. I am sure there is quite a lot to it which we will never know, but it does seem to be the best out there.
- collision 19y agoWho cares on a site like this? You only see pages entering their specific url - nobody will actually see spam pages.
- rms 19y agoWell, there's two separate philosophies -- one says that enabling SEO is bad because it distracts from the legitimate use of the site and the other is Squidoo.
- pygy 19y agoThey have at least two negative CAPTCHA already set up: an hidden submit button, and a ROT13 copy of the submitted data.