I understand the potential for abuse, and why hubski might be wary about adding such functionality. Is there anything going on in the backend that would alert the hubski team about potential spam accounts?
By spam account, I mean one like this: recail
Go to the users page and filter them. Once they have a lot of filters, they will be globally filtered, meaning they won't show up in global. This is done automatically based on a number of factors, including number of filterss a person has. If it is a comment, shout out me or thenewgreen and we'll handle it.
Yikes. I didn't know about this. What exactly is the cap? It seems like someone could make a conflicting or provoking post or comment, spark an argument and get filtered by some people, and then get shadowbanned without ever getting a chance to correct themselves.
Is this the first non-self-moderating feature on Hubski? Of course, I understand its rational use of a bot or spammer or general asshole getting easily booted from everyone's feed. thenewgreen?Once they have a lot of filters, they will be globally filtered, meaning they won't show up in global.
It's forgiving, and doesn't just take filtering into account. For a brand new account, there might be some risk, but is low. I keep an eye on it just in case. Here's a rare example of a user that tripped that switch:
Shit, all that putlocker porn for naught. And that's great then, I didn't know it'd been around for a while.
mk knows the recipe for couch things, but your concerns are addressed in the formula. Worth noting. Nobody, to my knowledge, that wasn't an HTML spammer has ever had this distinction.
There's just been a small spurt of submissions by what seems to be a repeat spammer who has in the past also done comment spam under a different account. Everything listed for the tinyurl.com domain is them. Not sure whether it's even possible to stop it, but you did ask about comment spam, so...