Flickr comment spam attack?

Posted on February 17, 2007 by Lloyd

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.

I am not alone.

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  5. loupiote says:
    February 17, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    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/

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