New feature: New measures to deal with spam
November 1st, 2007
Thoof users may have noticed a marked increase in low-quality “spam” stories over the past few weeks. While our targeting algorithm does identify and bias against such stories, the shier volume of them resulted in many of them being visible for quite a while. So we have implemented some more aggressive anti-spam measures, to identify both spam stories, and users with a track-record of submitting spam.
We are happy that many people have identified Thoof as a good source of traffic, but we are only interested in sending traffic to those that have earned it by providing interesting content. This doesn’t include blatantly promotional posts (ie. “Isn’t our website great!!”), or posts to blogs which simply embed or link elsewhere without adding any real value.
You can help this process by using the “mark as” drop down on stories to mark such stories as “spam”.
We hope that you see an immediate improvement in story quality, please post comments and feedback below.