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The Disqus Blog: Human link spammers

  • Daniel Ha · 1 year ago
    Hey Chris. We're aware of the influx of human spammers and I agree that the tools do need to be better.

    We recently released a few changes to handle spam more appropriately. Is that helping you at all?
  • Chris Baskind · 1 year ago
    Hi, Daniel: Thanks for the reply. YES, I've noticed more stuff going into the Spam folder over the past 48 hours or so. I had an automated spammer carpet bomb one of the sites today, and the new controls got all of them. I know the human spammers are much more difficult. Being able to leyeball these and mark the IP addresses for blacklisting would rock.

    Appreciate the attention you're giving the problem. I've noticed other services are also experiencing a sharp uptick in human-entered spam.
  • Andrew S. · 11 months ago
    It's just increasing for me.