[JesseK]

I wonder what the analytic hierarchy would look like if a Firefox (e.g.) plugin captured all of the jump points (referrer HTTP jumps) when clicking on a spam link. Then at the end, the plugin wouldn't let the final page actually load. It could be a "spam" mode used to capture data about the data-capturers.

There may be a potential common URL in all of the jumps among the spam posts such that if a pre-posting analysis was done of all URL's in a post before the post went live, the post could be marked as spam and put in a "posts for review" for the moderators to evaluate. If the post was by a known member, then it could be allowed (a lot of the live stream feeds have spam-like HTTP referrers).

Sounds like a way one of our Computer Science undergrads could contribute some time back to the community (and get possibly become famous for too, heh).