Re: Active accounts are ?
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That really isn't going to help the situation at all, unless more active accounts can feed volunteers into a workable spam fighting system. I think you are underestimating the spam problem, because the bulk of it doesn't effect your user experience, except in the drain of resources reducing service reliability described above. There is some comment spam, yes, but a WHOLE BUNCH of it is spammers who just set up a journal and post gibberish with links into it. Here, look at the stats page:
http://www.insanejournal.com/stats.bml
When I loaded it a few minutes ago, 8/10 of the recently updated journals were SEO spam journals. 9/10 of the recently created journals are SEO spam journals. Load it again. 6/10 of the recently updated journals are SEO spam journals, 8/10 of the recently created journals are SEO spam journals. Load it again--new journals are the same list, but 10/10 of the recently posted are spam journals.
This level of spam is a choking level of spam. It sucks up money for resources like a sponge. Buying more hardware doesn't even fix the problem, just delays it from becoming fatal.
Looking at IJ's FB page, they're about to implement invite codes, which will go most of the way towards the problem. The other half is clearing out the spam accounts that already exist, and that will be a huge job.
Disclosure: I'm a DW person that just likes to keep tabs on sister codebase sites, like LJ and IJ and whatnot. IJ is a site with a longer history than DW, and it has a bunch of people! It's very popular with RPers because you can have so many icons for free.
http://www.insanejournal.com/stats.bml
When I loaded it a few minutes ago, 8/10 of the recently updated journals were SEO spam journals. 9/10 of the recently created journals are SEO spam journals. Load it again. 6/10 of the recently updated journals are SEO spam journals, 8/10 of the recently created journals are SEO spam journals. Load it again--new journals are the same list, but 10/10 of the recently posted are spam journals.
This level of spam is a choking level of spam. It sucks up money for resources like a sponge. Buying more hardware doesn't even fix the problem, just delays it from becoming fatal.
Looking at IJ's FB page, they're about to implement invite codes, which will go most of the way towards the problem. The other half is clearing out the spam accounts that already exist, and that will be a huge job.
Disclosure: I'm a DW person that just likes to keep tabs on sister codebase sites, like LJ and IJ and whatnot. IJ is a site with a longer history than DW, and it has a bunch of people! It's very popular with RPers because you can have so many icons for free.