Tails Tickets

We’re now auto-appending rel=“nofollow” to all links in the system. We hope to deploy this change soon.

I’m getting more :(

http://beta.tailshq.com/projects/72/bugs/13

Is it possible you could discard it and simply create a duplicate to use for now mate? You can change the name of the ticket and whatnot, just don’t change it’s URL.

Unless you need the spam messages for some reason, I’m going to delete that ticket and reopen it. Is that okay?

‘Yes’ is the simple answer. Don’t forget a lot of blogs support textile in the comments.

That first spam post tested which markup your system could handle. From there it’s just about configuring a bot that they’ve probably already got the guts of for blog spamming.

Shit! Will put countermeasures in place this evening. You’re obviously being script-targeted, so a simple decoy field should do the trick.

Although I find it unusual that they’re using proper textile markup. Can we have been targeted specifically?

meep 33 now!

Man, are they going to be pissed when we move domains.

The project is linked from my blog (www.lowest-common-denominator.com). But the comment isn’t linked specifically.

I expect it’s the same person. What they’re trying to do is increase the page rank of that specific ticket page so it becomes an authority on the various topics covered by the linked phrases. This in turn increases the page rank of the linked pages. Check out Adam Kalsey’s article on piggybacking: http://kalsey.com/2004/07/new_comment_spam_technique/

That’s crazy. Did you link the ticket anywhere?

I got more to the same ticket.

*Dons spam-proof vest and pants.

Oh gods. This is going to be the thin end of the wedge.