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Fighting Spam: Is it possible to make a program or script that will note names of users who earn a certain Fluther award?

Asked by Dog (25152points) October 25th, 2011

As many of you are aware, we have been inundated with spam since our Google ranking dropped.

We mods are working hard at keeping it off Fluther, but I was wondering if any of you brilliant programmers could help.

Our biggest problem lately is Profile Spammers. They join just to create a profile to sell products and never participate. We have banned hundreds of them, no- thousands.

I usually watch the community feed for users earning either the Rembrandt or Autobiographer awards to catch these guys, but a lot of them slip through our fingers since the feed moves fast at times. We try to check new members out, but some wait a couple days to put up the profile and slip under the radar.

So can anyone tell me how to create a script or program that will alert me to the user names that win that award? I have no access to the deep inner workings of Fluther, so it would have to be using just what we have as average users.

I know this is likely totally impossible but I just had to ask.

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