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interesting plurkers page showcases friend-spammers
many people on the interesting plurkers page "most viewed" & "most followed" are people who have systematically added 1000s of people to their friend roll without solicitation in order to attract attention to themselves and rack up views.
while this may be par for the course on services like twitter, can't plurk do something to discourage people from robotically adding people in this way?
it becomes spam. half the friend requests i receive on twitter are just people looking to plug their "personal brand" or an actual product without any intention of engaging with the tweets and tweeters they are ostensibly following.
with the new "interesting plurkers" page you've created a massive incentive for people to exploit the system in the same way.
if i could simply ignore this new page, it wouldn't be a problem, but these people operate by sending out massive amounts of unsolicited spam-friend-requests and that is something that i can't ignore.
so, why is the interesting plurkers page showcasing friend-spammers?
while this may be par for the course on services like twitter, can't plurk do something to discourage people from robotically adding people in this way?
it becomes spam. half the friend requests i receive on twitter are just people looking to plug their "personal brand" or an actual product without any intention of engaging with the tweets and tweeters they are ostensibly following.
with the new "interesting plurkers" page you've created a massive incentive for people to exploit the system in the same way.
if i could simply ignore this new page, it wouldn't be a problem, but these people operate by sending out massive amounts of unsolicited spam-friend-requests and that is something that i can't ignore.
so, why is the interesting plurkers page showcasing friend-spammers?
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Inappropriate?It's really annoying. It also renders the "interesting" as useless, because the ones I checked were either not posting or had rather offensive plurks.
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Inappropriate?I agree with @striatic and @Loli. This is one reason why I've enabled FOAF privacy on my stream. The only way to find interesting people is through your own network of friends.
The Interestingness algorithm works great for Flickr but even there I suspect the rersults are manually tweaked to a great extent.
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Inappropriate?thanks for the feedbacks. really :).
the interesting page is going to be something we will keep tweaking along the way, with goals to make it as 'interesting' to the majority of users as possible. We will introduce new category soon, and we might remove some of the existing ones. It also depends on the community inputs, of course.
I also agree about the friend spammers thingie. It's unfortunate and annoying, and personally i think it's sad >_<. But there's also legit users who are popular, that we think might interest other plurkers to check them out. The tricky thing is to filter out these spammers and we are already looking into this (exclude whose who haven't been active, who has the highest rate of unfollow/blocked and friends rejected request).
If you have any interesting data you would like to see on that page, feel free to keep this thread alive :)1 Comment
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thank you for the response. what you're talking about sounds promising.
i think it is actually pretty easy to sort out friend spammers algorithmically, just look at their ratios.
if they've made fewer plurks than friends that's a tip off. 300 plurks but 1000 friends isn't normal. it is indicative of friend spamming.
unless of course that's due to them being legitimately popular before coming to plurk, but you can figure that out by seeing whether the spammer initiated the 1000 "friendships" or whether the 1000 people came to them on their own accord.
this might require recording additional "friended first" information, but there must be a way to algorithmically isolate the behaviour. -
Inappropriate?Is there a reason why you have to present us with your choices of what's important? I'd like a table with separate SORTABLE data columns that includes things like nick, plurks, replies, views, friends, fans, karma, etc. Let me decide from the raw data who I determine to be interesting acc. to my own criteria. Frankly, the way you've constructed your karma algorithm, esp. the way you punish those of us at the high end if we don't plurk every 4 hours, I think you've got a corporate bias against ordinary users. I'd love for you to prove me wrong, but it'll take more than just saying so. -
Inappropriate?What about setting up a sort on Plurkers with the most replies? Those people are definitely interesting (by dint of the @ of people responding to the comments). Yes, it could still be tweaked by someone who replies to posts just to get them on the list. But at least that would require effort on the part of the plurker.
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Inappropriate?Could be great that the display of mos viewed, most followed etc change according to what the user enters in the search tool. ie if you enter a search by country, that's no point to have the result for the whole site if you are looking fot the most replied (which, i'm with Kathy Jacobs would be most interesting than most befriended for instance.
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