I am struggling to come up with a sound plan to market a key feature of my social search service without attracting the wrong kind of attention.<p>Basically users can syndicate bookmarks from our service to delicious, magnolia, and simpy at once. Or they can do the opposite, syndicate from these cool services.<p>The problem, this kind of feature is also highly sought after by spammer hordes. The wrong kind of attention could turn my little bootstrapped service into Squidoo overnight.<p>Any advice?<p>Thanks in advance!<p>Geoffrey
its unavoidable. if you offer a good service, spammers will try and find a way to exploit it.<p>the best thing, imo, you can do is have a vocal, clear anti-spam policy. make it up-front so that people know you're on the watch. let them know you're working on things to stop spammers.<p>the second best thing is to actually try to be on the watch and to be developing checks and balances that make using it for spam harder to do.<p>getting the information and intent out there will do more for you than developing silently or quickly banning spammers. be clear and visible about an anti-spam policy so that good users will appreciate it and spammers will be wary.
We've held them off until now, but agreed a good t&c goes a long way.<p>The issue is I would love to push it more, as I know a lot of people who use more than one service. I for one use my own service (grin) and magnolia.