Timeline for Circumventing spam filters (and deceiving reviewers) by taking part of a legitimate post and adding a spam link--possible solutions?
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 13:47 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 11, 2012 at 12:02 | comment | added | Bob | You can keep making posting rules stricter, and spammers can keep getting more sophisticated. Eventually, it will become difficult to post legitimate answers. A spammer could source text from multiple answers, what then? But don't legitimate answers also quote from multiple similar questions/answers at times? etc. Really, the only reliable method until we build Skynet is to have humans review. To that end, auto-flag posts which would trip this filter, rather than blocking them entirely. | |
| Sep 7, 2012 at 19:37 | history | edited | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2012 at 19:17 | comment | added | bwDraco | This would be prevented if the quality filter is applied to answers. See meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127073/… | |
| Sep 7, 2012 at 19:15 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | Then they'll just make sure 26% is randomly generated text, or change the order of paragraphs; this won't stop them if you think about the details. :) | |
| Sep 7, 2012 at 18:25 | history | answered | bwDraco | CC BY-SA 3.0 |