Authentication is the method of ensuring that the claimed identity of the user matches their true identity. Discover a complete guide of what is broken authentication and how to fix broken authentication using adaptive MFA.
Authentication is the method of ensuring that the claimed identity of the user matches their true identity. Discover a complete guide of what is broken authentication and how to fix broken authentication using adaptive MFA.
I’ve banned them for blogspam, which is against the rules.
Thanks for confirming. I don’t like the idea of banning people if they have a real interaction with someone else, but it just seemed a bot.
At least the first articles were readable, the last ones where even behind a login-wall.
I thought I’d share my thought process of moderating stuff like this both for you and for future reference:
Blogspam is kind of a controversial topic. It basically involves accounts seemingly made specifically to post links to a specific website, usually with the intent of generating ad revenue. I personally think it’s spam and should be removed, but it gets into a grey area, because simply posting links to your own website isn’t spam, but doing it insistently is, so it becomes a problem of where to draw the line. You can also run into problems where it’s hard to tell if someone is intentionally spamming or if they’re just enthusiastic about the content of a site.
Though I think if the site they’re linking to seems intentionally designed to generate ad revenue or collect data, or is otherwise exploitative/predatory, then the threshold for when it’s blogspam should be much lower than a site mainly designed to convey information.
In this case, the fact that the user only posted links to one site with no other posts or comments, and the site requiring you to sign up with both an email and a phone number to access the information landed it soundly in blogspam territory in my opinion.
Are you telepathic? I mean, you half-answered a question I was just asking xD
If you mean me editing my comment to add more information, that’s just how my brain seems to work. I’ll write something, think it’s done, and minutes later think of something else to add to it.