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95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus

Posted by kdawson on from the sturgeon's-law-applies dept.

coomaria writes "The HoneyGrid scans 40 million Web sites and 10 million emails, so it was bound to find something interesting. Among the things it found was that a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam." Here is the report's front door; to read the actual report you'll have to give up name, rank, and serial number.

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  1. This just in by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Animals shit in ~95% of their habitat...

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    1. Re:This just in by Smegly · · Score: 5, Funny

      a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is... ...spam. Here is the report's front door; to read the actual report you'll have to give up name, rank, and serial number.

      Give up your Name, rank, email... so we can enlighten you with valuable information from our partners.

    2. Re:This just in by spazdor · · Score: 3, Funny

      you mean, fill in their User Generated statistics maliciously?

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    3. Re:This just in by A+Big+Gnu+Thrush · · Score: 2, Funny

      You have to average those two numbers to get the 95% figure. Don't be so lazy next time.

  2. Want to get ripped? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got ripped in 2 weeks. learn how with secret juice formula.

    1. Re:Want to get ripped? by sopssa · · Score: 3, Funny

      Speaking of juice, there's nothing better than a cold glass of Fanta !

    2. Re:Want to get ripped? by maxume · · Score: 3, Funny

      If I wanted juice in my soda, I'd steal it from Mark McGwire.

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    3. Re:Want to get ripped? by Pharmboy · · Score: 4, Funny

      If I want real juice, I just drink Florida Orange Juice®. It's not just for breakfast anymore!

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  3. Let me be the first to post that this is BS. by nicknamenotavailable · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is so untrue. There is value in what I write.

    1. Re:Let me be the first to post that this is BS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Pepsi! Pepsi! Pepsi!

  4. This is slashdot by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 4, Funny

    We know.

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    1. Re:This is slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      No..... this is SPARTA!!!!

  5. Re:It might be true, but it's also irrelevent. by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    95% of humans are over 100 years old. Most of them are dead.

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  6. Was going to RTFA but it's probably bogus by syousef · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...95% probability actually. So I didn't bother.

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  7. just a cheap shot by Nyder · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess that goes in hand with 95% of kdawson's submissions being crap and not worth the time.

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  8. Re:It might be true, but it's also irrelevent. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That should be on Fox News.

    "Number of dead people reaches all time high!"

  9. Re:It might be true, but it's also irrelevent. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, then MSNBC would just rip into Fox for inferring these unfortunate individuals should no longer vote. CNN would chime in and blame the lack of universal health care for the deaths.

  10. Obligatory by jlintern · · Score: 2, Funny

    In human terms, the majority of computers have AIDS. And we all know where they caught it.

    Your mom?

  11. And of the rest... by Arancaytar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Out of the 5% that are not generated by spambots, 99% is still generated by idiots.

  12. Re:It might be true, but it's also irrelevent. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh god, are they okay?

  13. Re:It might be true, but it's also irrelevent. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you implying that Wikipedia is not bogus content?

  14. Re:So Sturgeon was right by Faylone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sturgeon just had low standards.

  15. Re:It might be true, but it's also irrelevent. by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    People tend to stick to about a dozen big sites that get very little rubbish posted on them at all.

    And when they want a change from that, they come here.

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  16. 95% chance by kylben · · Score: 3, Funny

    I take it that means there is a 95% chance that this report is bogus, or malicious?

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  17. Looks like I'll have to change my sig by RudeIota · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll have to change it from "Everything" to "95% of everything". :-(

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