Something I found quite interesting is that the spam wasn't just targeted at the Indie Hackers community itself (i.e. click the blog spam and get served ads, or whatever else), but to get backlinks on a site with high domain-authority.
I know this because I personally saw a couple of spammers openly talking to each other about giving each other backlinks too.
I never thought that spamming like that would be worth the time or effort, but apparently it was.
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Something I found quite interesting is that the spam wasn't just targeted at the Indie Hackers community itself (i.e. click the blog spam and get served ads, or whatever else), but to get backlinks on a site with high domain-authority.
I know this because I personally saw a couple of spammers openly talking to each other about giving each other backlinks too.
I never thought that spamming like that would be worth the time or effort, but apparently it was.
Spam isn't easy to get rid of. I even got hit by it today, on HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dileepand06
It is quite unfortunate I can't just mark an obvious spam and get rid of it.
I wonder how much value these guys get from posting spam links on HN.