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Comment Spam Detection
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Since Dec 26, 2024.
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Description
This is to track detecting comment spam.
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Phase 1:
Some comments are of the form:
"@[ random_fake_username ] ( www.spam_link.com ) Something that is just a completely generic but on-topic comment that is likely bot generated and probably can't be easily detected".
What they're doing is making a comment that looks like it's tagging a real user, but it's just a spam link.
This is super easily detected by a simple algorithm, so doesn't even require a call to GPT. I think this would be a very quick first pass solution. -
Phase 2: (tags are currently for this phase)
use GPT to look at the raw text of the comment and see if there are any suspicious links. If there are, flag user as spam. -
Phase 3:
actually parse the whole comment and block if it's obviously spam, but I've seen so few comments like that that I'm not currently worried.
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