On 2/13/06, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there any evidence that this service has been
abused by spammers?
Since tinyurl links wouldn't increase the page rank of a spammer's
site, I don't see why they'd bother using it, especially since most
wiki spam is now hidden from humans in invisible div tags, meaning the
only aim can be to influence search results.
The Spam Blacklist is shared by a lot of non-Wikimedia sites, so we
need to be sure the URLs listed there are really spam, and not
something which is going to cause problems for valid links on other
wikis.
I believe they were being used by GNAA to vandalise the featured
article on enwiki with redirections to pornography sites.
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Sam