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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. Re:It might be true, but it's also irrelevent. by Kugrian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How much of it is user generated content that's copied from one site onto a zillion others?

  2. Re:The message... by Yaur · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the subtext is, the internet is dangerous so you need to buy their product.

  3. So Sturgeon was right by Aussie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Ninety percent of everything is crud."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law