Comments on: del.icio.us Popular is spammed

By: scot hacker’s foobar blog » Botnets on the Rampage

scot hacker’s foobar blog » Botnets on the Rampage — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:35:55 +0000

[...] is having serious issues with spam, as is del.icio.us. Of course one would expect large services to be constantly hammered with spam, but if the largest [...]

By: maximize your roi with del.icio.us spam » mhinze.com

maximize your roi with del.icio.us spam » mhinze.com — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:25:01 +0000

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By: Annegrete

Annegrete — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:41:16 +0000

For the blackhat spammers who play in competitive google SERPS, manipulating del.icio.us is just a walk in the park… …the method with social bookmarks is going on for

By: Brajesh

Brajesh — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:46:31 +0000

del.icio.us has been ‘Nofollow’ing urls as well as putting meta noindex header tag on pages to make itself less useful for blackhat SEOs. Perhaps that has saved it so far. But even nofollowing comments on blogs doesn’t seem to stop comment spam. CAPTCHAs could be annoyance but still effective.

By: Jackson West

Jackson West — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:50:40 +0000

There's all sorts of tag spamming hitting del.icio.us, and I'm worried that some of my topical RSS feeds are getting as blitzed as Technorati watchlists (which are near useless for popular topics now).

I'm starting to wonder if Silicon Valley's relationship to spammers isn't symbiotic. I know I've been suspicious of Microsoft for taking a publicly strong, but privately laissez-faire attitude toward the issue. It's obvious with DRM that companies are always willing to trade user experience for profit potential.

By: Bob Aman

Bob Aman — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:05:44 +0000

What Gopi said. Seriously, when Clay Shirky correctly defined social software as "Stuff that gets spammed," that probably should have been a wake-up call that these systems need to come equiped with spam protection from the get-go, not just an "ignore user" link.

By: Gopi

Gopi — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:30:49 +0000

For the blackhat spammers who play in competitive google SERPS, manipulating del.icio.us is just a walk in the park :)

By: CoryS

CoryS — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:26:50 +0000

Noticed an abuser/spammer on Friday that has been removed today on the system. I would have gladly submitted a suspect member/submission if they would allow that.

Frustrating.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:46:35 +0000

i just dropped them a note, and called the right people. hopefully the problem be fixed soon enough!

By: Om

Om — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:31:51 +0000

Hey scott, can you let these guys know as well. i did drop them a note.

By: Things That ... Make You Go Hmm

Things That ... Make You Go Hmm — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:31:26 +0000

Del.icio.us most popular spam problem…

From the what will the spammers (try to) ruin next department comes a series of del.icio.us popular links leading to splog pages. Solutions Yahoo could help out by filtering out exess results so no one user account ever fills up the popular list with m…

By: Greg Linden

Greg Linden — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:20:34 +0000

This was inevitable and widely predicted.

For example, Danny Sullivan said, “Wide-open tagging, where anyone can get their pages to the top of a list just by labeling it so, is going to be a giant spam magnet.” John Dvorak said, “the ‘folksonomy’ notion … is doomed to failure” because it will succumb to “vandalism and spam.” Rich Skrenta said, “Tags aren’t a panacea, since they’re excessively vulnerable to spam.”

You seem to be thinking there is an easy fix for this, but, if the spammers pour it on to the point where the vast majority of tags are incorrect, sorting the good tags from the bad becomes quite difficult.

For more, see my posts, “Manual vs. automated tagging” and “Questioning tags”:

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/02/manual-vs-automated-tagging.html http://glinden.blogspot.com/2005/04/questioning-tags.html

By: J. Scott Johnson of Ookles

J. Scott Johnson of Ookles — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:58:15 +0000

Hey Om,

Yep. This is bad but you might want to address the issue of spam in Yahoo Groups. That's just plain awful.

Scott

By: phi

phi — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:20:53 +0000

It had to happen, although I wish them the same fate that I wish most spammers, a slow painful death.