Comments on: Newest trend in wiki spam http://spamhuntress.com/2007/02/21/newest-trend-in-wiki-spam/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 17 May 2008 04:31:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Lenoxus http://spamhuntress.com/2007/02/21/newest-trend-in-wiki-spam/#comment-154266 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:36:40 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2007/02/21/newest-trend-in-wiki-spam/#comment-154266 A question: do you have any idea what spammers hope to achieve with spam that can't even be seen except by editors? If it's invisible, how will it hook even ONE 'net newbie? A question: do you have any idea what spammers hope to achieve with spam that can’t even be seen except by editors? If it’s invisible, how will it hook even ONE ‘net newbie?

]]> by: Jimbo http://spamhuntress.com/2007/02/21/newest-trend-in-wiki-spam/#comment-145093 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:51:28 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2007/02/21/newest-trend-in-wiki-spam/#comment-145093 I don't get why the sudden recent upsurge in wikispam to begin with - there was a massive decline after mediawiki went to using rel=nofollow by default, it stayed quiet for a year or two, and now suddenly it's tooling back up again. How dumb do you have to *be* to spam a page that embeds rel=nofollow on all links with spam in a hidden div?! Especially when you're specifically targeting the most popular wiki software out there, which DEFAULTS to rel=nofollow links right out of the box? I seriously don't understand how spammers can be smart enough to figure out how to use spam tools but dumb enough not to realize when they can't possibly get any benefit out of doing it. I don’t get why the sudden recent upsurge in wikispam to begin with - there was a massive decline after mediawiki went to using rel=nofollow by default, it stayed quiet for a year or two, and now suddenly it’s tooling back up again.

How dumb do you have to *be* to spam a page that embeds rel=nofollow on all links with spam in a hidden div?!

Especially when you’re specifically targeting the most popular wiki software out there, which DEFAULTS to rel=nofollow links right out of the box?

I seriously don’t understand how spammers can be smart enough to figure out how to use spam tools but dumb enough not to realize when they can’t possibly get any benefit out of doing it.

]]> by: Joe http://spamhuntress.com/2007/02/21/newest-trend-in-wiki-spam/#comment-133429 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:17:37 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2007/02/21/newest-trend-in-wiki-spam/#comment-133429 I don't seem to have gotten around to blogging this, but I noticed the same thing last time I cleaned out my honeypot wiki. Unused content pages have always been popular though, remember when they were after pages like the copyright and about pages which on many wikis are often blank. I don’t seem to have gotten around to blogging this, but I noticed the same thing last time I cleaned out my honeypot wiki. Unused content pages have always been popular though, remember when they were after pages like the copyright and about pages which on many wikis are often blank.

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