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On comment spamOn comment spamPosted Jul 29, 2010 16:10 UTC (Thu) by ssam (subscriber, #46587)Parent article: On comment spam
i'd vote for a 'report spam' button. you have many eyes viewing pages, so you may as well take advantage. you could then put these in a queue for you to check, or trust some members,or have a threshold (if 3 people think it is spam then it probably is).
one thing to watch out for is spam on very old posts. i often come across old blog posts that have lots of comment spam, i guess because nobody is keeping an eye on them.
one good thing about LWN is that often developers of software in an article will reply to comments and questions. it would be a shame to loose that by forcing money from them.
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On comment spam Posted Jul 29, 2010 16:20 UTC (Thu) by farnz (guest, #17727) [Link] I read the comments via http://lwn.net/Comments/unread, so I see comments on older posts - there is the occasional outbreak of spam, but LWN keeps on top of it. A "Report Spam" button to flag comments on there for investigation would work well - even if (at first) it just flags comments for LWN to look at. Longer term, you might want "Report Spam" by trusted users (ones with a track record of only reporting spam that LWN agrees is spam) on guest comments to hide them until LWN can investigate - as other people have said, subscribers tend not to spam.
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