OzBargain under Spam Bot Attack

scotty on 29/04/2013 at 2:33 pm, filed under OzBargain

Here are some reports from the developers :) OzBargain has been under some spam bot attack over the last couple of weeks. We first discovered the attack at around mid-April, and through our new account creation logs, we found: Lots of new accounts were created with weird sounding names, strange looking @hotmail addresses and originated […]

[April Fools] New Design for Growing a Balanced & Diversified Community

scotty on 01/04/2013 at 12:01 am, filed under OzBargain

tl;dr — OzBargain has been a male dominant site for the past six years. We are hoping to steer OzBargain towards being a more balanced community with a new design. The Humble Beginning OzBargain in 2006 It has been more than six years since OzBargain was launched. Before I soft-launched OzBargain back in November 2006, […]