blue2blue wrote:I thought we were supposed to be just about spam proof on the Lithium system.
But I just found what appears to be commercial spam for jewelry and Viagra starting to crop back up.
People, make sure you report spammers!
More than anyone, you've been the one touting how awesome the spam filter on this atrocity is / will be. Face it... Harmony Central is just a sad shadow of it's former self.
Regardless, good luck with all that. I'm not doing your stupid job for you. You've been white knighting this place since the changeover. It only seems fitting for you to have to eat crow.
TheFigurehead wrote:
blue2blue wrote:I thought we were supposed to be just about spam proof on the Lithium system.
But I just found what appears to be commercial spam for jewelry and Viagra starting to crop back up.
People, make sure you report spammers!
More than anyone, you've been the one touting how awesome the spam filter on this atrocity is / will be.
It ain't his fault - he's just a "one of us chickens" volunteer and been lied to same as the rest of us.
jamesp wrote:
A pointless flame war to bring back traffic... Brilliant!
Sadly, as a mod, engaging in flame wars is sort of out of bounds. I've honed those skills over nearly 3 decades online, so it's a bit of a waste not to be able to use them.
And, besides, our friend above has a point, I have repeated the rationale for going with Lithium on a number of occasions -- because people were asking why these decisions were made and that was one of the biggest as explained to us mods -- but no one had to explain the burden of spam to us mods, as we'd been dealing with oceans of it that regular users never saw.
Now... with that last firmly in mind, and with the understanding that I can only speak from my own experience, the spam as I've seen it, has been greatly reduced. I mean, basically, I was dealing with multiple queued-up-in-moderation spams every time I checked in. When I could even get the pages to load. (And then trying to delete spammers seemed to lock up the whole system sometimes.)
So, for sure, absolutely, the spam problem as moderators experience it has been hugely reduced.
But any spam is a problem. Sometimes it only takes one link to malware or warez or hardcore porn to trigger Google's content warnings.
That's why, when I noted even a small trend of apparent spammers getting through the filters, it rang alarms in my head. We need to keep the battleship turning in the right direction. Not the wrong one.
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