http://blogoforum.com/tag/antispam+news Talk about antispam and news http://blogoforum.com/tag/antispam+del.icio.us+news+spam/re-del-icio-us-spammed-with-automated-tool-2848.html Just put an image verification if a link has been bookmarked more then XXX times in XXX hours? - 1 reply Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:38:40 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/antispam+del.icio.us+news+spam/re-del-icio-us-spammed-with-automated-tool-2848.html http://blogoforum.com/tag/antispam+del.icio.us+news+spam/del-icio-us-spammed-with-automated-tool-2216.html Browsing <a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/tagging">del.icio.us</a> I noticed some strange pattern. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkrukovsky/184963322/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/46/184963322_20c8ff1796_m.jpg" alt="del.icio.us spammed" /></a> blogping747 posted several links to "Tag to Rank" website together with blogping402, blogping740, blogping686 and others, resulting in over 84 people total for each link. Which means the link will appear soon on "popular" del.icio.us pages (it's not there at the time of this writing - I guess del.icio.us has some delay managing its Popular pages). What the link was? The link was a website selling spam robot of a new kind. For over $300 they sell a robot which will automatically create load of new accouts and post given URLs to del.icio.us, shadows, simpy, magnolia and other bookmark websites, resulting in submitted link appear as "popular" submitted by many users. Well, looks like our life can become slighty more complicated. If the robot can break del.icio.us captcha then.. Imagine the world full of spam. What do you think we can do with the issue? We had a <a href="http://blogoforum.com/tag/spam+tagandping/spam-folksonomy-helps-1249.html">little discussion on modern spam here at Blogoforum</a>. My suggestion: what if everyone on del.icio.us would be able to tag the spam link as "spam" without increasing its popularity? This would give us ability to at least identify spam. What would you suggest? - 1 reply Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:07:44 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/antispam+del.icio.us+news+spam/del-icio-us-spammed-with-automated-tool-2216.html