Comments on: Scamming Social Media with Crowdsourcing is a Million-Dollar Business http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/14/scamming-social-media-with-crowdsourcing-is-a-million-dollar-business/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Thu, 24 May 2012 06:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cathy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/14/scamming-social-media-with-crowdsourcing-is-a-million-dollar-business/comment-page-1/#comment-2986567 Cathy Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:50:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34005#comment-2986567 Considering how many comments I make on various online forums such as Discover Magazine, I can totally slip in subtle advertisements for products and services without being obvious about it. I just did it in the previous sentence! Hey, someone pay me money! (Do crowdsourcing spammers pay for the quality of spam? Because I can totally layer in sarcasm, irony, pendantry, and various other flavors and voices of writing on demand.) All kidding aside, the best defense we can take against spammers is rating them down to oblivion and alerting moderators to their presence. Considering how many comments I make on various online forums such as Discover Magazine, I can totally slip in subtle advertisements for products and services without being obvious about it. I just did it in the previous sentence! Hey, someone pay me money! (Do crowdsourcing spammers pay for the quality of spam? Because I can totally layer in sarcasm, irony, pendantry, and various other flavors and voices of writing on demand.)

All kidding aside, the best defense we can take against spammers is rating them down to oblivion and alerting moderators to their presence.

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