Social Experiment: Can Social Network Users Kill Spam ?!?

Social Experiment: Can Social Network Users Kill Spam ?!?

Spam has always troubled the net!
Do you think that spam could infect social network too ?!?

How can a user spam on StumbleUpon?
- Sending private message to users,
- Saving in Stumble sites he wants to advertise,
- camouflage the site to diffuse. How? Using a cool title, writing a winning (and fake) review,
choosing tags (not related to topic site) that attract large audiences,
- ...

So, when user makes a tag-search, he will obtain spam-site as a result.
But we don't want that it happens, right?

The peculiarity of network 2.0 is "to be social" and so it should be desirable that users union can contend with spam.

Does Stumble give these weapons to users?




Are you interested to verify it with me? (don't worry: it's legal ^_^ )

How?

Read it!

EXPERIMENT: Can Social Network Kill The Spam ?!?

I simulate to be a spammer (don't worry: i'm not a real spammer).
I have created a link that we consider "spam-link"(!!! LINK !!!). In this page the main topic is "!!SCEGLIERE!!". As a spammer, I'll try to diffuse everywhere this page (in this case...only in StumbleUpon).

What could I do in Stumble?
First I add it to my favorite sites (clicking on )
Then I review this page (if my scope is advertise this site, I'll write something good)
and I use cool tags (to appear in users searches). Naturally those tags don't reflect the main topic of spam-site. I use them only to advertise my spam-page.

So, now if an user searches these tags probably he'll obtain my page. But he doesn't like it because it's a fake and spam page !!!

In this situation I (aka "the spammer") would achieve my aim!

But what happens if users start to be active?
How?
Each user have to tag in another way the spam-link, using keywords that really reflect site topic.


I hope that doing it... searching spammer's tags (used for by him to tag his page), spam-link doesn't appear as Stumble search result.
And so... we would defeat the spammer !!!

But I don't know if it happens and so... I would like to test it with you !!!
More users will participate and more precise this experiment will be

So, if you are interest to discover if WE can REALLY kill spam, click here and tag that page in a correct mode !!!