On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:48:00PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Le Jeudi 14 Septembre 2006 13:31, Marcus Hardt a écrit : > > I've just discovered several entries in the bugtrackers that seem to be > > google bombs, i.e. useless posts that contain links to some sites. The > > intention is that google (or other search engines) give a higher ranking to > > that site. > > > > Is there anybody experiencing the same? Is there some way to avoid that? > > Hello Markus, > > We plan to implement a spam marking mechanism that will have for effect that > any message marked as spam will no longer be visible. I think that anonymous > post will get their links non-clickable. Not very cool, but at least it > should make the whole bombing useless. > > At GNU Savannah, sylvain beucler added a dirty check to avoid robots, that > should be broken in anytime soon :))
For the record, it is a very simple "Enter 421 here:" test, and I haven't got spamdexing for months. Fundamentally speaking, nothing prevents a bot from mass-clicking on "(Un)Mark as spam links" either; that mechanism just assumes that spamdexers won't use complex enough applications to bypass it. This may stop the spamdexing or may instead foster the spamdexers' technical evolution faster. _______________________________________________ Savane-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/savane-dev
