# An idea on countering spam: restricting editing.

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**Created:** [November 6, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-on-countering-spam-restricting-editing/770799 "2016-11-06T11:52:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-on-countering-spam-restricting-editing/770799/41 "2016-11-13T00:05:58Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> In any case, the ratio of clicks to threads that the spammers post here must be extremely low, since they are deleted so quickly most of the time.

So either they don’t care, or they aren’t aware. Maybe the business model isn’t what we think.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-idea-on-countering-spam-restricting-editing/770799/42 "2016-11-13T00:10:35Z")

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My take is this–Customer in the US has a website/product. Would like their website/product ranked high in Google and other search engines. Customer pays a US company who promises that they can guarantee to raise your search engine ranking. How? Pay spammer in Bangladesh/India etc. $1US/ day to post links to as many message boards as possible. I doubt they monitor or pay by the click.

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