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I just had a look through the "new" queue with showdead on, and out of the most recent 200 submissions, I counted 22 that were not dead. I wasn't seeing false positives, either. A very large fraction of those dead submissions seem to come from one very specific blogspot domain (this time they all seem to be an identical URL, even, except for a TLD swap in some cases).
Does HN not just implement blacklists for URL submissions from certain domains / matching a regex pattern? I get that the showdead option is there so people can vouch for stuff but that would/should realistically never happen in this case. Can't more obvious spam just be deleted directly?
Also, how did HN become such a target for this? I would think that the audience here is generally savvy enough to avoid scams, and that having things linked here is not as beneficial for SEO as many other sites with UGC.
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Does HN not just implement blacklists for URL submissions from certain domains / matching a regex pattern? I get that the showdead option is there so people can vouch for stuff but that would/should realistically never happen in this case. Can't more obvious spam just be deleted directly?
Also, how did HN become such a target for this? I would think that the audience here is generally savvy enough to avoid scams, and that having things linked here is not as beneficial for SEO as many other sites with UGC.
Comments URL: Ask HN: What's up with the spam waves lately? | Hacker News
Points: 10
# Comments: 4
Continue reading...