But take a deeper look. Everyone's Tags are about to be overrun by Nigerians, a future for most social bookmarking services. My Community's Tags (2 degrees) are definitively not spam. At least in my little community.
I am personally not sure why everyone is so concerned about tag spam for social bookmarking sites. First and foremost, I think that the greatest value of a bookmarking tool is for personal use. The second biggest utility is for sharing links with like minded people. So, since it is not a general search engine, I would be surprised if social bookmarking engines like blinklist get flodded with tag spam.
Sure, we have experienced some tag spam but there are relatively simple ways to take care of it since every user is a registered user on the site. That makes monitoring and managing abuse much easier.
It seems pretty clear to me that Mr. Rubel jumped the gun on claiming to have found "tag spam." (Just as many others have done on delicious-discuss over the past year.) As the comments on his post reveal, the supposed spam tags are the work of Carlo Zottman, a respected web developer, who seems to just be working on some experiment. I recently transferred my 1200+ wishlist items to del.icio.us--was that tag spam too?
1. Mike on July 8, 2005 10:11 PM writes...
I am personally not sure why everyone is so concerned about tag spam for social bookmarking sites. First and foremost, I think that the greatest value of a bookmarking tool is for personal use. The second biggest utility is for sharing links with like minded people. So, since it is not a general search engine, I would be surprised if social bookmarking engines like blinklist get flodded with tag spam.
Sure, we have experienced some tag spam but there are relatively simple ways to take care of it since every user is a registered user on the site. That makes monitoring and managing abuse much easier.
Mike
Permalink to Comment2. Ryan Shaw on July 9, 2005 11:41 AM writes...
It seems pretty clear to me that Mr. Rubel jumped the gun on claiming to have found "tag spam." (Just as many others have done on delicious-discuss over the past year.) As the comments on his post reveal, the supposed spam tags are the work of Carlo Zottman, a respected web developer, who seems to just be working on some experiment. I recently transferred my 1200+ wishlist items to del.icio.us--was that tag spam too?
Permalink to Comment3. richa on July 14, 2005 7:37 AM writes...
This is a cool site.richa
Permalink to Comment4. the english guy on July 21, 2005 10:03 PM writes...
Check your comments, seems like you're getting targeted for spam yourself!
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