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Wouldn't that just fix the problem for 7 days, to which the bots would use accounts they created the previous week?
by ashleyw 17y ago
Wouldn't that just fix the problem for 7 days, to which the bots would use accounts they created the previous week?
- paulgb 17y agoQuite possibly. But at least it makes spamming less convenient. In my experience, most spammers are lazy, so if you make spamming your site even marginally harder than spamming the somewhere else, they go to someone else. Granted, this might only apply to "long tail" sites and not giants like twitter. The other advantage is that there is probably a black market for twitter spamming scripts. This might break a few, at least temporarily. The most determined spammers will probably always find a way through any automated system, but making it inconvenient is good if it is easy enough to do.