Category:AboutUsHoneypot

This category is for AboutUs.org articles that are repeatedly edited with spam.

Honeypot refers to the proverb that says it's easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar, or something like that. The purpose is to identify pages that are frequent targets of spam and allow them to continue spamming. This achieves several purposes. The first is that we can easily monitor these pages by adding them to watchlists, and remove the spam very quickly, thus minimizing its impact. Another purpose served is that if spammers (specifically spambots) are allowed to edit these pages, they can be identified as spammers more easily. In addition, keeping these pages open rather than blocking them encourages spammers to remain focused on these pages rather than moving on to new (and unknown) pages.