A Conversation for h2g2 and the General Election 2001
Were there any political spam attacks?
Deidzoeb Started conversation Jun 13, 2001
Honestly, I'm not trying to turn this into another protest. But during the discussions about the necessity of these rules for the UK General Election, some people said that BBC and other websites have experienced massive attacks from people (presumably paid by political parties) to make message boards seem in favor of their party. They made it seem as though it happened every time, as though it were inevitable, and would likely happen this time.
Could someone from h2g2 staff tell us, just in general terms, not giving out any secrets that would help future attackers, if you're allowed to discuss it, did any attacks like that happen? Barage of hundreds of posts from the same viewpoint? Tens or twenties of posts?
I just thought if it was so inevitable, it probably would have happened even with these rules in place. Did the moderators or staff have to remove a lot of highly charged postings on the days leading up to the election or on polling day? (I suspect they did not.)
Were there any political spam attacks?
Mark Moxon Posted Jun 13, 2001
Hi Subcom.
I can only speak for h2g2, but there were no attacks here. I genuinely don't know about the rest of the Beeb, but I would assume such information is confidential at this stage.
Were there any political spam attacks?
Deidzoeb Posted Jun 14, 2001
I thought it might be confidential anyway. Just curious. Thanks.
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