{"id":1934,"date":"2013-05-21T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2013-05-21T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:06:25","slug":"how-we-cope-with-spammers-fakers-and-cloners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/how-we-cope-with-spammers-fakers-and-cloners\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Cope with Spammers, Fakers, and Cloners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Funny and interesting. -egg]<\/p>\n<p>The Echo Nest knows approximately 2.4 million artists as part of our database of music information, which is the largest in the world. However, we also keep a list of artists to ban from our system intentionally, so they never get recommended on any of our clients\u2019 services, or in their apps.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a matter of taste (so Coldplay and Raffi are in no danger). It\u2019s because those banned artists are spammers.<\/p>\n<p>Musical spam is much less familiar than email spam, but it works the same way: If it\u2019s too hard to find the 10 people who might enjoy a shady or questionable product, spammers go for sheer volume, in their attempts to spoil your online experience with unwanted email or music.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a tour through the tawdry world of musical spam, including a few exceptions that we choose not to ban.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.echonest.com\/post\/48943428838\/how-we-cope-with-spammers-fakers-and-cloners?utm_source=feedly\">The Echo Nest Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Funny and interesting. -egg] The Echo Nest knows approximately 2.4 million artists as part of our database of music information, which is the largest in the world. However, we also keep a list of artists to ban from our system intentionally, so they never get recommended on any of our clients\u2019 services, or in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-vc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}