Comments on: CiteULike’s dirty MD5 trick? http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2008/01/30/citeulikes-dirty-tricks/ 如 影 随 行 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:21:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 by: gary http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2008/01/30/citeulikes-dirty-tricks/#comment-114924 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:01:20 +0000 http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2008/01/30/citeulikes-dirty-tricks/#comment-114924 Hi Kevin and CUL Team, Thanks for your clarification. And I updated my post. I also added a screenshot of the "copy to my library" hack. See above. It would be great if you guys can do something like that or better. -- gary Hi Kevin and CUL Team,

Thanks for your clarification. And I updated my post. I also added a screenshot of the “copy to my library” hack. See above. It would be great if you guys can do something like that or better.

– gary

]]> by: citeulike team http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2008/01/30/citeulikes-dirty-tricks/#comment-114844 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:53:52 +0000 http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2008/01/30/citeulikes-dirty-tricks/#comment-114844 I'm one of the CiteULike developers. I'm sorry that you're upset at the simple anti-spam measures that we are using at the moment. The change in question is designed to stop some of the more imbecilic spammers from posting to CiteULike with scripts. As such, it has been reasonably successful. You are the first "collateral damage" that we've heard of and for that I'm sorry. As I'm sure you know, spammers are the scourge of many "social" sites. We believe that it is in all of our users' interests to take as many measures as possible to remove spam from CiteULIke. The combination of some automatic and some manual spam filtering means that CiteULike is, to all intents and purposes, spam-free at present. We work very hard to maintain the status quo. As for the Google ads, they're simply a way of defraying some of our costs - perhaps this is why they also appear at the top of this page? I’m one of the CiteULike developers. I’m sorry that you’re upset at the simple anti-spam measures that we are using at the moment. The change in question is designed to stop some of the more imbecilic spammers from posting to CiteULike with scripts. As such, it has been reasonably successful. You are the first “collateral damage” that we’ve heard of and for that I’m sorry. As I’m sure you know, spammers are the scourge of many “social” sites. We believe that it is in all of our users’ interests to take as many measures as possible to remove spam from CiteULIke. The combination of some automatic and some manual spam filtering means that CiteULike is, to all intents and purposes, spam-free at present. We work very hard to maintain the status quo.

As for the Google ads, they’re simply a way of defraying some of our costs - perhaps this is why they also appear at the top of this page?

]]> by: Kevin Emamy http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2008/01/30/citeulikes-dirty-tricks/#comment-114806 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:54:37 +0000 http://www.garyfeng.com/wordpress/2008/01/30/citeulikes-dirty-tricks/#comment-114806 Gary, This was implemented as anti-spam device and was never meant to get in the way of real users like you. We have had a huge amount of spam targeted at CiteULike and are hopefully winning. It sounds like you have already solved the problem for yourself, but please understand that our intentions were good. Maybe we should have let all the legitimate users know before we did it. Kevin Gary,
This was implemented as anti-spam device and was never meant to get in the way of real users like you. We have had a huge amount of spam targeted at CiteULike and are hopefully winning. It sounds like you have already solved the problem for yourself, but please understand that our intentions were good. Maybe we should have let all the legitimate users know before we did it.
Kevin

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