Wednesday, April 28, 2004
To chongq
Recently a Wiki I frequently contribute to was hit by a spammer. We cleaned it up and a few hours later he did it again. Cleaned that up and the next night he struck again. It was the first time I had seen Wiki spam but apparently its not uncommon. I googled this guys link and found he likes to spam Wikis. He is persistent and does not limit himself to front page spam, he will put it wherever he feels like. He sometimes creates links on periods in sentances so I guess no one (but Google) will notice. He is obviously after an improved PageRank. Luckily Wikis have change logs so it can be noticed and removed easily, but we shouldn't have to. Wikis are meant to be open and slime like this are going to end up killing off the entire format if we aren't careful.
Well, this has lead to the idea of my first blog. To spread the word (chongqing) about Wiki and Blog spam. And to sabotage his chongqing keyword. I can't take credit for the original idea, but I did help push it to a new level once I really saw the potential. So that lead my friend to come up with this definition:
More info on this kind of spam can be found here:
And of course the site of the guy who started "chongqing":
And sorry if you actually live in Chongqing. Because it is a real place name I will be using only lowercase "chongqing" when refering our antispam movement.
Well, this has lead to the idea of my first blog. To spread the word (chongqing) about Wiki and Blog spam. And to sabotage his chongqing keyword. I can't take credit for the original idea, but I did help push it to a new level once I really saw the potential. So that lead my friend to come up with this definition:
- chongq (verb): to retaliate against spammers of wikis and blogs.
More info on this kind of spam can be found here:
And of course the site of the guy who started "chongqing":
And sorry if you actually live in Chongqing. Because it is a real place name I will be using only lowercase "chongqing" when refering our antispam movement.
