Holy Christ, the Spam Has GOT to Stop...
Why are we forever fighting this nonsense? I don't think our hundreds of posts bemoaning it do a fucking thing to prevent it, so...
Who do we talk to about including warnings against spammy comments when someone first signs up to the site? Is that even worth doing? It seems that 50% of the comments I run into (either on my own articles or that of other users) are spam asking for upvotes or follows without engaging with the actual post or the author of said post.
So...is there anyone out there who can make any preventative moves in this regard? At the moment, my best option is flagging, telling them to stop spamming, and telling them to stop asking for upvotes. Beyond that, I got nothin except the idea above.
The shit is fucking annoying and it is FAR too prevalent.
I just mute em and move on.
i mean, i'm doin the same thing, but they'll just keep doing it to everyone else, which is mildly infuriating to me.
That's why we all have to band together and mute all of them until they are just botting each other.
Ignore, downvote or delegate sp to spaminator.
Too bad, so sad, spam on the comments, spam on the trending page lol. Spam is everywhere.
we could make a spambot...
check replies and see if the user always post the same thing and use this to flag them?
big fan of the idea, though i am not anywhere near smart enough to create a spambot to find them. :P
lol, me neither, im just pretty decent with ideas
nowhere near any good to create a bot
Thanks for the feedback
I've taken to flagging them, which sucks because I'd rather use my voting power to help content creators. I even had a guy yesterday go so far as to aske me to "meet him of chat." He wouldn't ask me for an upvote on here... I had to go all the way to chat before flagging him!
totally the same; i'd rather that vote go to content creators.