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Ajay
February 29th, 2008, 05:57 AM
Another member on here brought this to my attention. For the last day or so I've been getting a ton of spam like comments on my site's myspace account. At first I thought it was just spam from phished user accounts, but it seems like it's some sort of application by rockyou that is causing it.

The links appear in comments and bulletins and look something like this,

"Are you like me? Take my "Just for fun!" Quiz to find out!"

it directly takes you to small quiz, http://www.rockyou.com/likeness/quiz.php?q=1 (whitelisted url).


If a user decides to take the quiz, and share it... then everyone on their friend's list get's the above mentioned link in their comment section and bulletins :/ Imagine, if your other friends click the link and decide to do the quiz and share it...

I would kill to have access to develop with a feature like this, since if used responsible it could real help your site traffic explode, but uhh, this new type of "legal," spam is just as annoying as those buy marijuana seeds ads.

whippedcreamdreams
February 29th, 2008, 06:00 AM
I agree, I'm already tired of seeing the quiz thing.

jrw64
February 29th, 2008, 06:06 AM
Thank you Ajay for checking into that...it is extremely annoying..been hitting the delete button alot!

nsmchris
March 2nd, 2008, 07:13 PM
Looks like there was a lot of complaints about the likeness application and Rockyou is shutting it down. MySpace also said they would be deleting all the comments it sent out.

minnseoelite
March 2nd, 2008, 08:58 PM
lol....still want this app ajay :P looks like if you're on the whitelist Myspace gives you no leeway if you mess up

SamOwen
March 2nd, 2008, 09:18 PM
No wonder I've been seeing that all over. I thought the accounts were phished too.

Ajay
March 2nd, 2008, 10:50 PM
i don't really know what rockyou was thinking when they made that.. but i'm so glad it's gone. reminded me of facebook all over again, with the 800 minifeed updates a day and 4528453453 app requests.

Daphne
March 2nd, 2008, 11:29 PM
I've been noticing those too. Good thing something is being done about it.

Taghyra
April 1st, 2008, 04:19 PM
I thought this was supposed to stop, it's getting on my last nerve...

Does anyone know what's going on?

Ajay
April 1st, 2008, 07:00 PM
it's back? i haven't noticed yet... but if it is... then that really sucks. annoying as heck.

I thought this was supposed to stop, it's getting on my last nerve...

Does anyone know what's going on?

nsmchris
April 1st, 2008, 07:15 PM
yeah yesterday I got like 40 of these. 12 from the same user. Haven't seen them today.

Taghyra
April 1st, 2008, 07:56 PM
Yes, I was relieved when I read this but......... STILL THERE!!!#U&@*$*&#