On comment spam

Posted Jul 29, 2010 16:20 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: On comment spam by ssam
Parent article: On comment spam

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.