Comments on: Why Spam Swicki? http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/27/why-spam-swicki/ Connecting the dots ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:03:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/27/why-spam-swicki/#comment-443 Anonymous Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:10:28 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/27/why-spam-swicki/#comment-443 I wonder if it could be an attempt to disable or at least hinder the performance of swicki. I know this may sound like conspiracy theory, but: seeing all those keywords I first deleted them - then realized this would block them forever, and found quite a few "useful" ones in the list, so I unblocked them - this is pretty much the <a href="http://www.zoliblog.com/blog/_archives/2006/4/25/1911352.html" rel="nofollow">scheme I've talked about</a> re. trackback spam. I wonder if it could be an attempt to disable or at least hinder the performance of swicki. I know this may sound like conspiracy theory, but: seeing all those keywords I first deleted them – then realized this would block them forever, and found quite a few “useful” ones in the list, so I unblocked them – this is pretty much the scheme I’ve talked about re. trackback spam.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/27/why-spam-swicki/#comment-444 Anonymous Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:40:22 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/27/why-spam-swicki/#comment-444 That happened a couple of times to me too and both times I traced it down it turned out being a (new, not well-known) site that was collecting sites about... well everything. It was if they were attempting to create their own database for a search engine. Along those lines, I manually collect my sites from TAGS that I add to my del.icio.us account everyday and that is going to be my data source for Rolly-O or some other Roll You Own search engine. fyi: I only got here just now because I was looking at an old vanity search of sites I had been at in the past, i.e. not spam related lol. Peace. That happened a couple of times to me too and both times I traced it down it turned out being a (new, not well-known) site that was collecting sites about… well everything. It was if they were attempting to create their own database for a search engine.

Along those lines, I manually collect my sites from TAGS that I add to my del.icio.us account everyday and that is going to be my data source for Rolly-O or some other Roll You Own search engine.

fyi: I only got here just now because I was looking at an old vanity search of sites I had been at in the past, i.e. not spam related lol. Peace.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/27/why-spam-swicki/#comment-442 Anonymous Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:24:25 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2006/04/27/why-spam-swicki/#comment-442 This is very unusual behavior that we do not see very often. The fact that the moderator needs to approve any new terms to the buzzcloud no one but the moderator will see this so it does not affect the swicki at all. Your analysis is correct that this sort of behavior has no benefit to the spammer so that is why it doesn't happen very often. We know spammers are a determined lot and will try anything now and then...please let us know if it happens again and thanks for your comments. -Swicki Team This is very unusual behavior that we do not see very often. The fact that the moderator needs to approve any new terms to the buzzcloud no one but the moderator will see this so it does not affect the swicki at all. Your analysis is correct that this sort of behavior has no benefit to the spammer so that is why it doesn’t happen very often. We know spammers are a determined lot and will try anything now and then…please let us know if it happens again and thanks for your comments. -Swicki Team

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