Using "invisible hyperlinks" to identify spam and spambots

Dec 19, 2008 02:12


Title
Using "invisible hyperlinks" to identify spam and spambots

Short, concise description of the idea
The CSS "style='display: none;'" feature that spambots use to embed invisible hyperlinks into LJ comments, does not have any valid use in LJ - and should be used to 1) kill spambot comments on submission; 2) spot and destroy spambots themselves.

Full description of the idea
Just that.
An ordered list of benefits
  • Less spam, more users. Less work, more joy.
An ordered list of problems/issues involved
  • None.

markup, § implemented differently, spam

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