| Re: advogato
Feb 17 2007 on news Spam and Google Bombing |
p.s. the nice thing about advogato trust metrics is that it makes the site self-policing. no requirement for stupid 'aaaaadmiiiin, iiiii found a spaaammmeeerr boo hooo ppleeeeeeeease can you doooo something about iiiiiit?" pleas. |
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Feb 17 2007 on news Spam and Google Bombing |
talk to steven rainwater.
and don't even think about using
php, it's so xxxxing dire.
i ported the trust metric algorithm
to python if you need it.
you can still store the trust metrics
in xml and then use the python code
or heck maybe even the mod_virgule
engine itself just only with the /tmetric/
location reading the database of xml
that you create with stupid-php
plus, take a look at the discussions
regarding spam filtering that were
added in, to deal with spammers.
within days, every single spammer
that had ever been added, for six
years, was completely wiped out.
several pissed off users took revenge
on every spammer that had ever annoyed
them by spending several hours each
going through the entire user database,
comprising many thousands of users,
destroying the lot.
the nice thing is that the spammers
typically certify themselves and their
compromised accounts in 'rings', thereby
making it reeealll easy to identify
them.
so - don't even bother thinking of
just implementing the 'report as spam'
idea, because it will get abused and
your site will go rapidly downhill.
you _need_ to implement it alongside
trust metrics, as only 'trusted'
users are allowed to report spammers.
the solution exists - and has been
proven to work: now all _you_ need
do is implement it.
and, given that mod_virgule is only
about 12,000 lines of c code, very
few of which are _actually_ related
to trust metric creation and management,
it would actually be pretty damn easy
to add. |
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