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A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:
As the spamming action that we're encountering is specifically associated with follow notifications, that's probably the best place to also put the mediation mechanism (as mdy's link points to). Adding a "report spams" function to profiles brings the drawback of being potentially abusable -- want to mess up someone's day? Make or organize a bunch of accounts, then spam-report the target of your abuse from each one. – Hurt Reynolds, on April 10, 2008 18:19-
Hurt Reynolds replied on April 10, 2008 17:47 to the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:
This is *precisely* the solution I want to see. Put crowdsourcing to work to quickly identify follow-spammers, with a mechanism that can't be readily abused for griefing. -
Hurt Reynolds started following the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter.
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Hurt Reynolds marked one of mdy's replies in Twitter as useful. mdy replied to the idea "Require captcha on Follow".
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Hurt Reynolds started following the idea "Require captcha on Follow" in Twitter.
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A comment on the question "How should obvious spam Twitter accounts be reported?" in Twitter:
Neglected to include in my novella: even blocking a new follower is a whole lot of clicks. Please help me help you by giving me a one- or two-click path to blocking new followers or reporting follow-spammers. – Hurt Reynolds, on April 10, 2008 17:26 -
A comment on the question "How should obvious spam Twitter accounts be reported?" in Twitter:
This is progress, for sure, but still too cumbersome. Twitter has been a completely painless and satisfying service until the past few days. Even with the new "spam report" option, I still have to go from the add notification email to the twitter site, find the ticket submission page, do some copy/pasting to identify the spammer, etc.
What would really make this workable is a link, either right in the notification email, or visible on the new follower's profile page when clicking to it from the notification email -- click the link, block the new follower (even better if it specifically is a "I think this is follow spam" indication).
This wouldn't be abusable as a griefing mechanism, because it would only be made available when the spammer has taken the affirmative action of following you. – Hurt Reynolds, on April 10, 2008 17:23
