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0 pointsFirerouge5y ago0 comments

Aren't spambots, and by extension spam, an indicator of market interest in advertising to the userbase.

Tuning up the opportunity cost of spamming while making semi-targeted advertising more accessible and less obtrusive could tap into that market.

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manicdee5y ago

Spambots just post pages full of plagiarised content peppered with links, a hangover from SEO days when the belief was that a Google paid attention to word count of pages linking to your content.

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