In the last 24 hrs I have seen 8 comment spam on the feed for photos I have commented on.
Before this, in the year and half that I have used Flickr “intensively”, maybe a few.
In the last 24 hrs I have seen 8 comment spam on the feed for photos I have commented on.
Before this, in the year and half that I have used Flickr “intensively”, maybe a few.
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yes, flickr is under attack by a spam bot.
the problem in fact comes from yahoo, which allows a spam bot to automatically create as many fake yahoo account as they want.
this is discussed in this thread:
http://flickr.com/forums/help/33627/