hubski

So here's the thing about spam. There's no point to it unless it's deeply automated. Most spamming is accomplished through Hootsuite or similar - basically a giant spamming dashboard with plugins that allow you to pummel whatever social media network you wish to pummel. Hubski benefits through obscurity - there are no networks that have a Hubski plugin, in no small part because Hubski has no API.

This will change eventually - Hubski will be a target-rich environment enough to bother with and it will be more than the dead-enders running their own kludging. At that point it becomes pretty easy to get rid of all but the most dedicated spammers - your "single dot of the hubwheel" would accomplish a lot.

r/realestate gets about 15 spam posts an hour, all of which are solved simply by setting automoderator to punt any account with less than two comment karma. Lately it generates a lot of false positives but that's because Reddit operates via shadowbanning - a message that says "you can't post until you've gotten at least one share from another IP" would solve the lack of moderation. It would lead to a script that creates two accounts that vote for each other, but at this point we're at hypothetical solutions to hypothetical problems.