It seems likely that what's happening here is some combination of:
1) Spammers using one domain and multiple sub-domains
2) A poorly calibrated ML model for spam.
It is worth noting that FB get probably the world's largest amount of spammers, fraudsters and general bad people due to the fact that they have an absurd amount of users.
Honestly, though, if this stays on HN it will get fixed, but it's deeply concerning that if this is happening a bunch of times (and it probably is) but those sites don't appear on HN, then this will not get fixed.
It's also possible that someone has weaponised the FB spam system against dreamwidth (which seems less likely to be me, to be fair).
>It is worth noting that FB get probably the world's largest amount of spammers, fraudsters and general bad people due to the fact that they have an absurd amount of users.
Yes, and they make a ton of money from those users as well. So the question is why the Facebooks and Googles of this world don't have proper procedures in place to deal with these things in a sensible way.
If a decision gets reversed only after exploding on Hacker News or Reddit it should be considered a bug.
> If a decision gets reversed only after exploding on Hacker News or Reddit it should be considered a bug.
The problem is that we only see the cases that go viral. We don't see the cases that didn't, and thus can't actually judge how many cases get reversed via the official escalation channels.
I would expect email to have worse spam than Facebook, because Facebook controls who can make accounts. An email provider has no control over who can make accounts to send emails to the provider's users.
1) Spammers using one domain and multiple sub-domains
2) A poorly calibrated ML model for spam.
It is worth noting that FB get probably the world's largest amount of spammers, fraudsters and general bad people due to the fact that they have an absurd amount of users.
Honestly, though, if this stays on HN it will get fixed, but it's deeply concerning that if this is happening a bunch of times (and it probably is) but those sites don't appear on HN, then this will not get fixed.
It's also possible that someone has weaponised the FB spam system against dreamwidth (which seems less likely to be me, to be fair).