Category Archives: Fighting Spam

LinkedIn recently had an initial public offering (IPO) on NYSE^[1]. Its stock price increased by 109% on the first trading day. A few days after that, we noticed a spike on the number of LinkedIn email invitations on mentby.com that made some of the users to ask for the banning of LinkedIn and other social network email invitations. Now, we are automatically removing content specific to social network invitations without tagging users as spammers.

Ref:
[1] LinkedIn share price more than doubles in NYSE debut

Mentby.com is serious on reducing or even eradicating spam on the archives. It is kind of sad when an active poster from South East Asia has resorted to sending “spammy” messages in a massive way. It’s so massive that his posts sent from multiple but identical email addresses has even become a “hot topic” in at least 5 different groups (out of 20+).

His usernames are now tagged as a spam source.