Editing Old Posts and Adding Links Doesn't Alert Anybody

[riking (Kane York)]

I’m guessing only the ones targetting sites they can bill top dollar for, like @geek’s site.

I don’t think this is a general concern for either the average forum or the ‘admin abandonment’ scenario.

[cipher1]

@codinghorror

Good point about PM likes. I had not considered that.

Still, that’s a lot of work and it has to go on forever, for every 100 day period from this point until eternity.

What spammers are going to jump through all those hoops?

Maintaining 6 distinct accounts on a single forum is actually very easy, especially when using multiple user profiles in Chrome. Each user profile maintains a separate session, so you don’t even have to log in to any of your accounts each day. You just open up separate browser instances for each user profile, and off you go. If you have the right browser, those hoops are low hanging enough that you wouldn’t even notice them.

Edit: I can confirm this is possible. I actually do this with two accounts on another forum.

[cipher1]

Even if it weren’t so easy, if the ROI were sufficient, a spammer would definitely be willing to put in the effort.

[neil (Neil Lalonde)]

@codinghorror

One thing that is on our list is to enhance this a bit to:

Likes must be received on (n) different days, where (n) is 1/3 the number, e.g. 20 likes across 7 different days
Likes must be from (n) different users, where (n) is 1/4 the number, e.g. 20 likes from 5 different users.

Very late, but this was added today.