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On comment spam

On comment spam

Posted Jul 30, 2010 13:38 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: On comment spam by jmranger
Parent article: On comment spam

Of course, it's also a question of effort vs. reward.

For example, if someone needs to set up sock-puppet accounts and post a few innocuous posts before they can spam, will they really go to the trouble to do so? At some point you have to tightly tailor your attack to a given site, and it may not be worth bothering.

A number of the proposals I saw have this property--that is, it makes successful spamming too involved to be worthwhile. There's more leverage attacking widely deployed blog software than something custom that exists only at one site.


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On comment spam

Posted Jul 30, 2010 15:45 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

they already have to tailor their attack to lwn.

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