Del.icio.us Spam
I used to see these things all the time several months ago but it seemed like Del.icio.us had got the hang of it and cleared out the idiots.
Today it looks like the spammers are back. In today’s most popular links on Delicious, 6 of the top 25 most popular links all go to one web site and were all first saved by spammer buddayoga871.
How to spot a spammer: the user name is one or two words followed by a number. Red flags should immediately go up. Further investigation into their linking habits will confirm or deny their spamminess. There’s probably a nice algorithm somewhere that can sniff these things out. Might be an interesting project for a computer science class.
