Vosoryx
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Idea to prevent spam
So this idea has been jumping around in my head for a while now, and I decided to act on it.
I think we all acknowledge that there is a rather annoying spam problem - exhibit A, what I found as soon as I logged on this aft, on the top of the
recent posts section:
One thing that I have noticed is that most of the accounts dedicated to posting this crap are made the same day as the troll posting. Could it then be
possible to enlist a 24 hour "mute" on new accounts from posting, as a way to avoid this? If it is a legitimate account, then there could be a "U2U
XXX for access before the mute time", much like the whimsy or references forum.
Is this completely pointless/technically impossible/more work to implement than it would save/other?
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j_sum1
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I think we want to encourage people arriving just to ask a question. Some of them stay.
If they have to wait 24 hours they will just go to yahoo answers.
The spam problem really isn't that big. It has been a lot worse in the past.
A bigger problem right now is trolls with multiple accounts getting their jollies by asking inane questions of increasing ridiculousness.
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Texium
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Agreed. The spam problem really isn't that much of a problem anymore. It's entirely manageable now, and those of you who have joined in the last two
years haven't experienced the horror that was the spam problem before Polverone introduced his algorithm.
Trolls on the other hand will always be annoying, but there's nothing really to do about that but slowly pick them off as they appear.
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symboom
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Sometimes I feel its not trolls but really stupid people is that bad who think that.
That just have no clue on many things
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