Are antispam bots allowed? Do you know how to write one? - Spamkilleronline

StephenWeinstein · #1 (**permalink**) 02-05-2010, 01:40 AM

Someone is using bots to repeatedly post the same answers to nearly every question in business and finance. Even reporting the abuse does little good, because no one can manually report the spam as fast as it is happening and each time that Yahoo cancels the accounts being used, the person sets up new accounts with the same username and starts the bots running again. Can you write a bot that will automatically report all of identical responses from a user (after you read one of them and verify that it is spam)?

zynr · #2 (**permalink**) 02-05-2010, 01:41 AM

You would not be able to perform any function that affects how the site is run. That can only be done by Yahoo. As for reporting the spam bots, something will eventually come of the reporting. Continue to report what you can. The accounts invovled with eventually be suspended.

Yahzmin (US) [busy] · #3 (**permalink**) 02-05-2010, 01:45 AM

The staff has code working on that themselves -- you would be surprised how much of it you never DO see. They also have people, including users here on YA, working hard on it. If you go to the Forum, you can see about that.
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&fid=173584

This is a long-standing battle and the war is from from over. Just keep doing your part to help.