Timeline for Please add a new privilege that allows unlimited flagging to help combat spam!
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| Mar 30, 2013 at 0:27 | vote | accept | Nil | ||
| Mar 25, 2013 at 8:25 | comment | added | Rinzwind | Nil clearly underestimates how many flags all of us can manage >:D | |
| Mar 24, 2013 at 3:08 | comment | added | Seth | @GeorgeEdison That's funny... I had a very different experience when I tried. | |
| Mar 23, 2013 at 16:56 | answer | added | Eliah Kagan | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 22, 2013 at 20:19 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | Related on MSO: It's way too easy to spam the site. How can we make it harder without sacrificing usability to new (legit) users? | |
| Mar 22, 2013 at 20:18 | history | edited | Eliah Kagan |
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| Mar 17, 2013 at 21:25 | comment | added | Nathan Osman | Having attempted to post content to the site using an automated script, I can honestly say that I have no idea why anyone would possibly want to waste that much time and go through that much trouble. (Don't worry - I wasn't up to trouble - I was trying to enable logged-in users to post answers to the site from my mobile interface.) Perhaps they're using something like this. | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 19:45 | comment | added | Seth | Actually, as you raise more and more helpful flags, you will be given more flags to use. So to get more you gotta use the ones you got! | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 16:42 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/AskUbuntu/status/313329391948144640 | ||
| Mar 17, 2013 at 16:31 | comment | added | guntbert | Please no captchas! | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 12:47 | comment | added | Meer Borg | @maggotbrain Captchas are used widely these days so the difficulty question is debatable. Also as this is a Linux forum, not a gardening forum our users are a little more tech savvy. I don't see unlimted spam flags as an issue as if someone marks something that is spam repeatedly your revoke that priviledge | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 10:29 | history | edited | Kevin Bowen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
grammar. spelling. readability
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| Mar 17, 2013 at 10:13 | comment | added | Kevin Bowen | Unlimited spam flags can and will be abused, unfortunately, IMO. It's a good thing that we all don't have unlimited super powers. Captchas will only make it difficult for the 'normal' posters here. We 'survived' this because people care to do the right thing to keep the place clean. | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 4:12 | comment | added | Jorge Castro | There are all sorts of captchas and rate limiting systems on AU, this is an unusual attack, just keep flagging and I'm sure the StackExchange team will get back to us. | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 4:10 | vote | accept | Nil | ||
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| Mar 17, 2013 at 4:04 | comment | added | Nil | oh yeah, why don't we have captcha's? I mean, right now I think whoever is spamming the fudge out of the site is using some kind of script to post and repost the spam. Having to enter captcha's would make it so that the spammers have to manually do it. | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 4:01 | comment | added | Meer Borg | Ditto, although a captcha might be even a better idea, a simple 4 digit LEGIBLE captcha of coarse | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 3:59 | answer | added | Jorge Castro | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 3:56 | comment | added | Aaron | +1 I ran out of spam flags, too. | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 3:35 | history | asked | Nil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |