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SPAM bots "tasting" the site. They will come back later to see if the post is still there, and if so, they hit the site with the actual "payload".
by mahmud 17y ago
SPAM bots "tasting" the site. They will come back later to see if the post is still there, and if so, they hit the site with the actual "payload".
- jules 17y agoWhat's the reason they don't immediately post their spam?
- jamesbritt 17y agoThere are adaptive filters that more readily allow posts from users or E-mail addresses that have had previous good posts. That is, a first post is more carefully filtered.
- steveklabnik 17y agoIf a new account submits 20 stories, it's probably spam. If an account that's been around a month and has 3 submissions that weren't flagged starts to submit one story a week... is it spam? Maybe. Maybe not.