When it comes to fighting spam, Google has done an excellent job within Gmail, Blogger and even Google Groups.But when it comes to Orkut, it seems that spammers have found a new way around the word verification system. This probably explains why I keep getting various scraps attempting to improve my "love life" through various forms of physical touch. (I think these spammers need to get a day job)
I discovered this after talking to one of the members of the Orkut Underground (whose forum keeps getting deleted by Google) who showed me a simple GreaseMonkey script that allows a user to post a link and bypass the word verification process altogether (note: for obvious reasons I will not post that script here).
Over in the What should Orkut do? forum, Randi has a great suggestion on what Google could do to combat this.
scrapbook should have 3 options.
1 open to everyone
2 open to friends only
3 open for those who speaks same language as you
and you can choose what's best for you
Google is already working on this suggestion, as it is within the top five feature requests, although it wouldn't hurt to submit that request again.
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