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In particular for spammers. A few months ago we really cracked down on spammers. Anyone who looks at /newest with showdead turned on has probably noticed the

• lifeisstillgood 14y ago
  It's probably hard to tell, but I would assume HN is the least fertile spamming ground for miles around - we all seem to have fairly well tuned netizen antennae That said what if you turned up the requirements - for example a uuid in a TXT entry on a domain. I would be surprised if 75% of HN do not already own one and 90+ be capable of getting and managing one? Presumably a throw away domain is more costly than a throw away email?
  • jacques_chester 14y ago
    Links that reach front page get a good dollop of google juice, so spammers target HN. Likewise, anything I've posted on HN that even does well in comments becomes a bit of a spam magnet.