N-gated Hacker NewsMay 3
Ah, the digital age's #Sisyphus has spoken! šŸ¤– Apparently, this brave soul has discovered that the best audience is an army of tireless, unsleeping botsā€¦ because who needs human readers when you can have a #spammy echo chamber? šŸŽ‰ Bravo, truly a #masterpiece of relevance in the attention economy.
https://hoeijmakers.net/thirty-years-of-caching-sorted-in-an-afternoon/ #digitalage #bots #attentioneconomy #echochamber #HackerNews #ngated
Show threadTHECHEATCODEā„¢Sep 3, 2025

ā¹ļø. #SideNote. Oma is a friendly woman, it was a known fact that "weird boys" would knock her door. Maybe one day one knocked and asked to use the toilet, Oma would say yes to that if she wasn't yet in a wheelchair. Especially if the boy looks like John, get real. He might've. Every single Sunday at 4pm I used the toilet there 5x, you do the math. Whyā‰ļø I sneaked out to watch John & Ed post because they #Spammy and I was not allowed by mama to look

ā—. I kept it a Secret from mama from 2012 - 2017

gellenburg  Mar 5, 2025
1. If you're going to #report somebody you need to give #examples of what #activity you're reporting. Just #reporting a #profile and telling an #instance #admin that an #account is being "#spammy" doesn't cut it. Not when we can clearly see the user is not.

2. Again, not a very helpful report. You report a user and say they're a #SCAM account but offer up absolutely no #evidence to support your #claim.

3. Every account was new once, including the person that reported this one. As long as #NSFW #content is properly #flagged, there's no issue. Suspecting an account to be a "scam account or worse" is not a valid #reason for reporting an account.

4. Another report without any basis or #justification.

5. Again, another baseless report about somebody with absolutely ZERO evidence to back up their claim.

So here's what's going to happen....

The instances that forwarded these #bogus #reports to me, and wasted my time, each have a strike against them.

Strike three and we tell #Sharkey to #ignore any and all reports coming from the #instance in the future.

No #admin wants #BadActors on their instances, and no admin wants a #BadActor to make someone else feel unwelcome.

But you can't just flag and report an account for any bullshit reason either.

You have to give us proof and evidence.

This is not high school and this is not middle school. If somebody is being disruptive or causing problems, let us know.

But if you just suspect someone might cause problems or they might be disruptive... wait until you have proof and evidence and then let us know!

#FediAdmin #AdminStuff #administrivia #UserReports #FediReports #InstanceAdmins #MastoAdmin
Harald KlinkeMay 22, 2024
Using too many hashtags in a tweet #can #make #it #hard #to #read, look #spammy, and #reduce #engagement. Keep it #simple and #focused to #convey your #message #effectively!
#Communication #SocialMedia #BestPractices #SocialNetworking #OnlinePresence #DigitalMarketing #Branding #ContentStrategy #AudienceEngagement #SocialMediaStrategy #HashtagOverload #StayProfessional #LessIsMore #Clarity #Focus #EffectiveCommunication #OnlineEtiquette #AvoidSpam #QualityOverQuantity #EngageBetter #BeClear
Chuck DarwinJan 22, 2024

Across the internet, AI #error messages have emerged as a telltale sign that the writer behind a given piece of content is not human.

Generated by AI tools such as OpenAIā€™s #ChatGPT when they get a request that goes against their policies, they are a #comical yet #ominous harbinger of an online world that is increasingly the product of AI-authored #spam.

ā€©ā€œItā€™s good that people have a laugh about it, because it is an educational experience about whatā€™s going on,ā€ said Mike Caulfield, who researches misinformation and digital literacy at the University of Washington.

The latest AI language tools, he said, are powering a new generation of #spammy, low-quality content that threatens to #overwhelm the internet unless online platforms and #regulators find ways to rein it in.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/20/openai-use-policy-ai-writing-amazon-x/

AI bots are everywhere now. These telltale words give them away.

In Amazon products, X posts and across the web, ChatGPT error messages have emerged as a sure sign that a piece of writing isnā€™t human.

The Washington Post
Show threadDJWJun 24, 2023

@jerry #spammy af site shipping from (conjecture) alibaba w long lead times and variable quality, is what I get from the ubiquitous ads.

Nah, Iā€™ll take whatever shipping Amazon or digikey offers.

At least thereā€™s some recourse when it all goes sideways.

There are things Iā€™ll buy from eg china (Ancient Charm is the fountain pen ink I am in love w lately) but not anything critical.

DrupadFeb 16, 2023

Someone desperately requires access to my #email account that I mostly give out to only #spammy companies. The amount of #hactivity is insane.

If my #password was #password123..

DrupadFeb 16, 2023

Someone desperately requires access to my #email account that I mostly give out to only #spammy companies. The amount of #hactivity is insane.

If my #password was #password123..

Anand Pilania Jan 16, 2023

An easy-peasy technique to fight #spammy #bots ( #honeypot ) in #PHP

OR u can use `style="display: none;"` instead of `hidden` type.

Why SEO serious?Dec 30, 2022
All of those #spammy link building techniques actually work, and #Google is just pretending not to notice so that it can sell more of its own #SEO services. šŸ“ˆ