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So effective that spammers got together and DOS'd them, to the point that they were forced to shut down.

Anti-spam: a big problem is preventing spammers sprouting new sock-puppet identities to get around already-imposed blocks.

Update: Also looks like the parent company provides proxies to ScrapeBox spammers via a separate website.

It goes up and down, as spammers find workarounds and then Google fix them.

Depending on the number of spammers active when you submit you might not even be on the homepage for more than 15 minutes.

I'd pay a couple dollars a month to have this ability, and you'd raise the bottom line for spammers.

It never fails to amaze me I have 11 followers none of whom I can identify (spammers I think).

This was always the weakness of usenet: spammers externalized all their costs.

We need all hands on deck to really shine a light on spammers and to highlight the companies out there doing a great job!!

I don't doubt that only spammers and legit folk are the 95% target of this policy.

Or spammers found a way to spam within gmail or hacked gmail.

Just a kind of referrer spam like many other spammers did.

Your "solution" would just add yet another "signal" to the long list of hacks spammers routinely implement.

Article discusses "spammers and cybercriminals" but uses the word "hackers".

What's essentially needed is a proof of work so that bad actors (whether one defines that as spammers or your standard youtube commenter) have finite amount of "energy", while nyms that prove worthwhile are unencumbered.

(Unless in the past somebody had abused the account and the email address is on a thousand spammers lists...) In any case hard to be certain what criteria the spam filter uses to declare a piece to be "spam".

Spammers are a lesser problem than contentless thought pieces, as the former rarely receives genuine upvotes anyways.

Spammers can just generate new signatures faster than you can mark them as bad...

Spammers send out to machine generated lists of potential email addresses.