The “Social” Netscape has finally and officially moved to its new url, Propeller.com as of today. The official blog states that we should expect some growing pains, particularly as it sorts out its problem with spam. For example, I suspect *any* post regarding tramadol is *probably* spam. It also says that there are new stuff in the pipeline which should be interesting to see as a means of differentiating itself from all of the other social news sites.
If you were wondering about the new url being a bit of an island compared to its parent aol/netscape, fear not as pickings *from* Propeller will be appearing on Netscape and vice versa. For more information follow a Propeller fan site (already?!) and of course the scouts, such as Muhammad Saleem.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:19 pm | Permalink
[…] has already hit some rocks, with new that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see here. Interesting that for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the […]
September 19th, 2007 at 11:49 pm | Permalink
If there weren’t humans behind the thing, wouldn’t that tramadol BS still be there?
September 20th, 2007 at 12:12 am | Permalink
Corey — the problem is that humans, along with the structures that organize them, are fallible. If the spam is coming in faster than they can track, or the tools that they’re using are less than perfect, or the humans behind things aren’t organized efficiently, then spam gets through.
I’m sure that things will tighten up in the future for many reasons — one of which, of course, is that there isn’t an alternative if Propeller is to survive.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:37 am | Permalink
[…] a déjà des ennuis avec des spammers qui ont reussi à s’enregistrer sur Propeller: voir ici. Intéressant pour un site qui est censé avoir des guides humains; des liens Tramador apparaissent […]
September 20th, 2007 at 5:02 am | Permalink
[…] already hit some rocks, with news that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see here. Interesting for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the results. […]
September 20th, 2007 at 6:02 am | Permalink
[…] already hit some rocks, with news that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see here. Interesting for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the results. […]
September 20th, 2007 at 3:54 pm | Permalink
[…] already hit some rocks, with news that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see here. Interesting for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the results. […]
September 20th, 2007 at 5:05 pm | Permalink
[…] already hit some rocks, with news that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see here. Interesting for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the results. […]
October 11th, 2007 at 7:09 pm | Permalink
[…] Off Social News Into Propeller? October 11th, 2007 at 7:09 pm About a month ago, I wrote about how Netscape dumped its social news component into its own site, Propeller.com and wondered rhetorically how it would turn out — with the subtext being, perhaps, how […]
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:42 am | Permalink
[…] hit some rocks, with news that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see «www.deepjiveinterests.com». Interesting for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the […]
November 25th, 2007 at 7:38 pm | Permalink
[…] hit some rocks, with news that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see «www.deepjiveinterests.com». Interesting for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the […]
November 26th, 2007 at 11:04 pm | Permalink
[…] hit some rocks, with news that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see «www.deepjiveinterests.com». Interesting for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the […]
December 24th, 2007 at 6:11 pm | Permalink
[…] hit some rocks, with news that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see «www.deepjiveinterests.com». Interesting for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the […]
January 7th, 2008 at 7:23 am | Permalink
[…] hit some rocks, with news that spammers have found a way to get listed on Propeller: see «www.deepjiveinterests.com». Interesting for a site that is suppose to have human guides, Tramadol links appear in the […]
May 12th, 2008 at 4:44 pm | Permalink
Interesting enough, I’ll bookmark this page.