On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Vin King <vin.king@gmail.com> wrote:
stuff from 4chan? I don't particularly see this being an effective methodology, and technically much more prone to being designed wrong than +C.
If designed correctly, I expect a lot less likely to stop legitimate traffic than +C. Just because someone didn't register their nick, doesn't mean they should necessarily be unable to talk to any of their friends... Reputation based on IP address is a pretty common technique whose validity has been proven, especially in the operation of mail servers. Granted it has some limitations... it doesn't save you from the first spam message, and some spammers may have a few dozen IPs available. There are certain similarities between a /MSG on IRC, and an E-mail message. Behaviors of e-mail users can be statistically classified, so can behaviors of IRC users... Multiple criteria allows you to increase your certainty. "Just pasting a URL" in a channel alone doesn't brand you a spammer, but other characteristics of your behavior could, or the fact you ONLY or MOSTLY pasted URLs.
So what happens then if you're afk for a few minutes, come back, have received spam in the meantime, and then /reportspam? Also, since all traffic
Then your report is in error, because it's not timely, thus your reports are useless, someone different may be using the nickname in a few minutes -- the assumption here is no one report is significant. It's 10+ users reporting you as spam that starts to impact that aspect of your score.
to channels is privmsg, would that open anyone chatting in a channel up for reports? What if a user happens to just post a lot of http:// links, like
I would expect channel would count for something, but it's a different kind of traffic. -- -Mysid