Timeline for What is the purpose of hiding spam links in some obscure forum posts?
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| Dec 29, 2022 at 11:42 | vote | accept | Tommy | ||
| Dec 28, 2022 at 19:40 | comment | added | jaskij | @Hobbamok Discourse was made by, among others, Jeff Atwood after he left Stack Exchange. I'd imagine that he has some experience dealing with spam. That said, how many of the anti-spam measures are available in whatever version (self-hosted? SaaS? which tier?) OP is using. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 17:02 | comment | added | Hobbamok | And not only does it add up: The small forums are unlikely engage in any expensive-to-dodge countermeasures beyond maybe IP/account banning that one instance in one irrelevant forum. Large, multi-forum companies however can invest in complex countermeasures. So it adds up while giving little resistance | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 16:27 | comment | added | fraxinus | @Barmar it is done by bots so it costs almost nothing and is done to multiple forums at once. So yes, it does add up. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 14:50 | comment | added | Barmar | And doing it in a low-use forum probably has little impact on the overall score, since the value of the linking site is used in the formula for the value of the link. But maybe if you create enough of them it adds up. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 21:14 | history | answered | Gh0stFish | CC BY-SA 4.0 |