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Facebook closes door for spammers

zdnet.com — Facebook has closed a hole that was being used by spammers to automatically post wall messages and direct messages to... Sep 9, 2010

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rvignesh9008Sep 9, 2010Buried

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What is digg going to do to stop spam?

dirtyfriesSep 10, 2010Buried

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Making it so crappy that people won't visit. Spammers won't bother trying anymore.

jollygood667Sep 9, 2010Buried

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Digg needs to close the door for spammers. End v4!

hurrayforschoolSep 9, 2010Buried

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Digg closes door for success

kaiserarnySep 9, 2010Buried

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Door closes for Digg

unfriendlyfireSep 9, 2010Buried

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And again markfedin, the paid posted got this to the FP in record time. 88 diggs in 34 minutes. Did any one here who posted a comment digg this? Did any one who "Dugg" it post a comment?

stolemybikeSep 9, 2010Buried

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Uh, what the f**k? This article is awful and yet somehow is rapidly receiving a huge number of diggs, when this site is essentially dead right now and the submitter has 16 followers? Something extremely fishy is going on here.

Reported.

cyberdroppingSep 9, 2010Buried

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Digg needs to sell some oxen and get the bury button back....

unfriendlyfireSep 9, 2010Buried

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I also reported and sent feedback to digg. Every story he has posted has gotten 100's of diggs in one or two hours with less than 10 and mostly 0 comments.

celino_cSep 9, 2010Buried

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Great timing. Digg's doors are open for them now

nickedynickSep 9, 2010Buried

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They're letting you continue commenting on articles, apparently.

rvignesh9008Sep 9, 2010Buried

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Damn, I think he is a hacker.. That's not at all possible to my knowledge.. the total number of diggs he has is abt 16.. That stinks :(

diggenerateSep 10, 2010Buried

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It is practically the entire point of DIGG, people can either DIGG something or bury it. now they can't and the only stories getting through are SPAM

drleephdSep 10, 2010Buried

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you can click the x to 'hide' a story, but it doesn't vote the story off Digg. The problem with this is that crap articles and auto-submitted stuff inevitably makes the front page which otherwise never would have.
Digg was created as a social news site, projecting the most liked articles and links onto the front page. If we're not doing that anymore, we might as well stop calling it a social news site, since the front page doesn't reflect user's preferences, just "highly clickable" sites with farmed content and ad partners.

hastynamechoiceSep 10, 2010Buried

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That's some very poor syntax, and your use of capitals is frowned upon. Also, to 'f**k' implies an active penetration, and an 'ass****', being recessed and basically a hole of dubious functional purpose, would be precluded from doing so. Had you thought your comment through properly?

kirzenSep 10, 2010Buried

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Its super effective!

yanko1975Sep 10, 2010Buried

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I am tired of the front page being full of RSS Feed Auto Submits and Spammers. The front page is boring, and I can't take it any more.

I don't have a political motivation, or ulterior motive, other than removing the spam.

Contact me at enfor2001@gmail.com

RaoPhoenixSep 9, 2010Buried

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I can't even see upcoming here.

unfriendlyfireSep 9, 2010Buried

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Now 101 in 37 minutes

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