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i don't even have a car, or a vacuum cleaner :) I think your solution is really simple and elegant. in the context of spammers, the ignore button can act as a more active pursuit to get their accounts buried. it might be a good idea, then, in the faq under ignore to point out that ignoring people effects the entire site and not just ones feed. so people will know, for example, that when they see a spammer in their external posts, to take a second to actually ignore them, rather than just ignoring them.
tommychips · 4539 days ago · link ·
would it differentiate between same site and same URLs?
If not could run into a reddit situation where new content sites are blocked, they show up with new content and new ways of showing them and get blocked because they are not affiliates. New to the site, tired of reddit. Like it so far. Hope I am being constructive.
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No, I have no desire to block specific sites.
Rather than a community space, I view Hubski as a communication platform, where each user builds their own space. In that sense, IMHO we are very different from Reddit. I want the individual user to control their experience, rather than moderators.
thenewgreen · 4539 days ago · link ·
It sounds like the process mk describes would not affect the sites the posts are coming from but rather the accounts posting the links. The only problem here is that a spammer can just continuously create new accounts and keep posting. I do not think that Hubski would be served well by blocking sites, there are other ways to handle this. I think mk is on the right track making it to where a number of "ignores" from active hubskiers flags an account to not make it in to the external feed. This way, it's the account that is actioned against and not the site the spam is coming from. They can continue to post the spam all day long but if nobody follows them and they aren't allowed to be in the "external feeds" of hubski users, they will have nobody to see their spam. Hence, their is little to no motivation to spam the site.
I actually am enjoying "ignoring" these obvious spammers. It feels like tidying up a place I enjoy being in. btw, welcome to Hubski.