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HN: How to get Spam posts deleted
I'm guessing that the "Public Liability Insurance Quotation" and the "Public Liability Insurance | Professional Indemnity Insurance" posts by "pmover" are spam. How can we get that junk deleted?
- qhoxie 18y agoUsers with a certain level or karma can flag posts and moderators can remove them.
- cperciva 18y agoHowever, there seems to be a shortage of moderators. I've flagged dozens of obvious spams and they're usually still around an hour or more later.
- noonespecial 18y agoI think it works pretty well. They show up in "new" from time to time, I try to flag them when I see them and they disappear, never making it near the front page. An hour or 2 seems an ok time for deletion right now because very few of those article are showing up each day. If the volume expands greatly, I'm sure they can work out a way that X number of flags will auto-delete.
- rms 18y agoI think they're auto-killed at a certain number of flags, even without moderator intervention.
- SwellJoe 18y agoHowever, there seems to be a shortage of moderators. The number of moderators has recently been increased.
- gaius 18y agoA 1-week delay between creating accounts and being able to submit articles would knock this on the head.