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Github spamming...
- hyyypr 17y agoI can't believe that they haven't got a captcha (or similar) anti bot system upon account creation. I these spammy days, it's a must. And even more for such popular website. Anyway I bet this will be fixed in the following days. Afaik, most captcha system are crackable, and if not, will be in the next few months/year. Google has been working on a new captcha system: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/04/socially-adjusted-captchas.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/04/socially-adjusted... This is kind of old, I wonder how it has progressed.
- bugs 17y agoI believe they probably never needed a captcha before this and for a few extra webpage hits these guys have inconvenienced the rest of the people who otherwise wouldn't have to prove themselves human
- kneath 17y agoAs you noted, most captchas are crackable. This is the reason we have decided not to implement one. It's common thought that captchas reduce spam -- which they do -- but they do so by reducing total signups (human and robot). Personally, I'd rather deal with spam in craftier ways than prevent legitimate people from signing up.
- hyyypr 17y agoThanks for replying. But I have a hard time understanding how filling a captcha can make people willing to signup run away. Either you're offering a lightweight service with one single and simple functionnality (like instapaper.com for instance, which only requires a username for registration (not even a password !)); either you offer a multi purpuse service like github and if someone begins the registration process on a site like this and runs off because he doesn't want to fill a captcha.. maybe it's better he doesn't register after all. Anyway what I really want to know is your numbers and how you got them :)
- vorador 17y agoThe correct link is this : http://github.com/ka891fqrxqn6au1/Download-Prophecy--Forsaken--The-movie http://github.com/ka891fqrxqn6au1/Download-Prophecy--Forsake...
- bartl 17y agoWell, at this exact moment, the two top entries are: * Jane-Austen-Book-Club--The-dvd * Download-Jane-Austen-Book-Club--The-movie which works good enough as examples.
- PatrickTulskie 17y agoI don't really understand why you would have your bot spam a site that's dedicated to developers and software engineers.
- there 17y agoone spams github because github.com has a high google page rank.
- timdorr 17y agoThe project links are rel="nofollow", though. There really is no benefit to spamming it.
- ggrot 17y agoThat doesn't prevent the pages themselves from ranking.
- PatrickTulskie 17y agoI thought that at first too, but then I picked apart the link. They are javascript redirects to another site that then forwards the traffic on to a referal system for another site. Also, I'm not totally sure every search engine completely honors rel='nofollow'
- PatrickTulskie 17y agoI understand that, but why would you risk pissing off a group of developers, engineers, and hackers? Unless this system is totally automated, I can't see why any reasonable person would think "Oh yeah. This is perfect. Let me put my spam here."
- pjhyett 17y agoWe're aware of the problem and sorry about the annoyance. It's a targeted attack, so normal solutions to prevent this aren't going to work. We'll figure it out, though. edit: the spam listings should be gone within the hour.