95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus

  • onion2k: The fact is that there are millions of old blogs, unused forums, ancient guestbooks, etc that are easy to spam automatically. While it might very well be true that 95% of comments on the internet are spam of some sort, they're probably read by a tiny fraction of internet users. People tend to stick to about a dozen big sites that get very little rubbish posted on them at all.
  • mwvdlee: 95% of humans are over 100 years old. Most of them are dead.
  • Anonymous Coward: That should be on Fox News. "Number of dead people reaches all time high!"