Publications
The Anti-Social Tagger - Detecting Spam in Social Bookmarking Systems
Krause, B.; Schmitz, C.; Hotho, A. & Stumme, G.
, 'AIRWeb '08: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web', ACM, New York, NY, USA, [10.1145/1451983.1451998], 61-68 (2008) [pdf]
The annotation of web sites in social bookmarking systemshas become a popular way to manage and find informationon the web. The community structure of such systems attractsspammers: recent post pages, popular pages or specifictag pages can be manipulated easily. As a result, searchingor tracking recent posts does not deliver quality resultsannotated in the community, but rather unsolicited, oftencommercial, web sites. To retain the benefits of sharingone’s web content, spam-fighting mechanisms that can facethe flexible strategies of spammers need to be developed.