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thenewgreen · 3911 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hubski Update: This time it's personal

So let's say I decide to create a bot or even just a separate account to screw with people's tags. All I have to do is post a bit and get one hubwheel (like I just did), and then I can use this account forever. mk can the globally ignored add comm tags as is? I know we've never had a bot/spammer take the time to gain the ability to add one, but on the off chance they do, could they if they're globally ignored?

Because you are saying using filtering is how you will prevent people from doing this, that is on a user level. Users don't know what community tags are suggested or voted on at all, so they won't know who to filter if the vandals just compartmentalize multiple accounts. it's a valid concern, for sure. In the past we toyed with the idea of the comm tags showing who suggested them. Perhaps that's worth considering again? It's a potential problem that should be thought on though, I agree.

Do you as full-time job possessing admins also want to go around policing the site to figure out who these users are? even if I didn't have a full time job, I don't want this. Not ever. We want to leave as much moderation as we possibly can in your collective hands.

This is mostly vandalism and juvenile, but we're talking about internet users here :) -I agree, it's worth being out in front of such things.

Written on phone. Please excuse typos.

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