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CoolSW Growth Increases Incentives To SPAM
By David Mckinney Jr (Intel) (13 posts) on January 11, 2008 at 3:47 pm
We here at CoolSW are excited at how fast the site has grown, and we're thrilled to have all of your support. It is a testament to how the collective wisdom of the community can really make a difference in the quality level and visibility of cool software companies/applications for all of us to explore. As could be expected with the popularity, over the last couple months we have noticed an increase of SPAM and user attempted fraud, such as submitting stories for personal gain.
Speaking of SPAM, my relatives were happy to learn that after drperspty’s post, no harm was bestowed on my family for not passing on his chain letter web site. And for yulok, I didn't think I would actually get money deposited into my account every month just for viewing your page. Sure it was easy… I was born at night, but not last night!
The point is we've developed and deployed systems to help combat this fraud/spam in various ways. In fact, we have automated fraud control methods being deployed and rolled out all the time. However, it occurred to me that one of the more powerful ways to combat this fraud is to leverage, the users, to help.
I'm interested in your viewpoints about releasing more features that give administration of this SPAM to you, the users. I'm working with the engineering team on a couple of ideas and in the future, you may have the ability to join together and ban inappropriate content site wide (we'll also have systems to prevent this power from being abused).
There will be more news on this coming soon, but I wanted to let you know we're aware of the increased attempts of fraud/spam and "on it".
Categories: Cool Software
Comments (3) 
By Page is loading, please wait! on January 12th, 2008 at 12:47 am
CoolSW Growth Increases Incentives To SPAM January 11th, 2008 at 05:47pm Under UncategorizedVincewrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt It is a testament to how the collective wisdom of the community can really make a difference in the quality level and visibility of cool software companies/applications for all of us to
By Sharon Greenfield on March 28th, 2008 at 12:07 am
This is easy. A CAPTCHA system, and I recommend Carnegie Mellon's reCAPTCHA system.
reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books.
By Michael Shadle (Intel) on March 28th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I don't believe it is automated spam that is the issue. It's product/site spam. A CAPTCHA system won't solve that.