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user-inactivated  ·  3383 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Overenthusiastic tagging of #spam in #rpg

    3. If a user has self-promoted several posts in a row that have no shares or comments, I mark their posts as spam. If someone continuously posts things that no one in this community has interest in, it's spam.

And, uh, now we have a moderator. Who I've never heard of.

mk, I will go ahead and register my dissent one more time and then shut up about it.



mk  ·  3383 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, only if you filter #spam, which I assume is the intent for people to filter it (so they can take advantage of community moderation), but even so, point taken.

We are going to discuss this. I've been thinking on it.

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user-inactivated  ·  3383 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, a community tag of objective spam would be great -- i.e. the pseudo-Russian gibberish stuff that shows up every once in a while. I'd use that. This isn't that. And further there's simply no point to this weird effort to tag a bunch of SEO stuff spam, even if the success rate were 100 percent, which it isn't. That's what filtering users is for.

    I've been thinking on it.

I trust ya.

While we're here, have you considered knocking the second | off of quotes markup? Only the first one is really necessary, and the second one adds a significant amount of annoyance to type.

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