Comments on: Top 10 Signs You’re Spamming Sphinn

By: How Profiles Help Us Moderate Sphinn | The Sphinn Blog

How Profiles Help Us Moderate Sphinn | The Sphinn Blog — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:28:51 +0000

[...] Every day, the Sphinn mods and admin teams review dozens of new submissions and user accounts in our efforts to prevent spam and low-quality content from getting into the site, and to eliminate the stuff that does make it through. Some spam/junk is really easy to spot. [...]

By: Andrew Nattan

Andrew Nattan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:33:38 +0000

That group is either genius, or absolute facepalming moronity.

And you know what? I really don’t think it’s genius.

You guys do a tough job, and you do it well. Cheers!

(PS: SPHINN MY STUFF LULZ)

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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:35:51 +0000

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By: SEO Genius

SEO Genius — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:37:26 +0000

Great article, quite hilarious some of the stuff you find. Good article and very good point to make.

Seriously how do some of these people think they will get away with it, how can it be worth the time and effort of registering and then submitting the site? It seems odd to me.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:13:58 +0000

This is excellent information! These key points could be used for some of the other major social bookmarking sites for sure! Thanks again!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:42:24 +0000

Great post Matt. I’ve only recently become an active member at Sphinn so it was interesting to see what the moderators have to put up with (I appreciate this post was wrote a few weeks ago)!!

Some of those submissions are hilarious. It’s good to see Sphinn are being proactive against the spammers. Can’t believe the first one you mentioned – the title is probably longer than the article.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:16:43 +0000

@ed – you’re such a suckup.

@aimClear – probably not spam, but definitely annoying.

By: ed

ed — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:03:19 +0000

God – I’m gonna sound like a suck up (so pretend I don’t).

You all do a fine job modding Sphinn. Rarely see spam and I do tend to look for it.

By: aimClear

aimClear — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:48:22 +0000

How about: The title has 2 words with ALL CAPs as does the DESCRIPTION and exclamation points!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:40:22 +0000

@andymurd – there is a guideline that says all submits must be in English. Foreign language submissions should be marked as spam or desphunn — either way, when we find them, we do remove them. You can see all the guidelines at

http://sphinn.com/guidelines.php

@Nadeesha – in the example I used (19 votes), I don’t think it was one user voting his/her own stuff up via multiple accounts, I think it was one user getting all his/her friends to vote the story up right after it was submitted.

Thx for all the comments, everyone.