Why does this site attract so much spam?
I already know that Fluther isn’t a very popular site on the internet, thanks to Google (in fact I found this site because I typed the name directly on Google). I rarely see a question here appear on Google when I google anything. Some jellies here complain about how the site’s popular status attracts so few newbies. There are many more popular Q&A sites on the internet that people can find like Y!A and Quora.
However, as we can see, spammers come here everyday. Spammers spam in many languages and for sites from many countries, and for many products, many of which aren’t native in America.
So that makes me wonder, how do spammers find Fluther in the first place? Many spammers aren’t Americans or at least native English speakers, how do they come here?
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It could be the same outfit under a different coat of paint, it might be that Fluther is on a list sold and passed around among spammers, they might have discovered that Fluther is a nonessential, not serious place with an easy clientele they can spin their yarn on. Not like they won’t stand out in seconds on a site with more substance.
Maybe it doesn’t. Maybe the amount of spam is minuscule compared to the amount of spam that Y!A gets?
What we get nowadays is nothing compared to a couple of years ago. We used to get hit by seemingly every spambot in cyberspace because our signup CAPTCHA wasn’t functional. Since it was upgraded, only the more sophisticated bots still get through, along with the few humans who deliver their artisanal, handcrafted spam.
By internet standards, I don’t really think we get that much. You don’t have to be a popular site to attract spam; you just have to have a “comments” section. Bots just comb the web looking for sites that accept user-generated comment.
I think because people can post things (ads and spam) to a large bunch of users (the public including Jellies) in a moment. It might help if all new posts had to be verified by mods, but that would defeat the whole purpose of the site, unless mods were on hand 24/7 to approve and post.
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