One option would be to leave AskUbuntu to let it wallow in spam to send a message to management at StackExchange. Today will be my last day here until the spam filters are restored 🙂

Bah. I detest spam when it's well done. It's much, much less tolerable when the quality of spam is so disgustingly low that you have to question: 1. the intelligence of the people who fall for it (if any) 2. the intelligence of the fool that thought it was a good idea to begin with.

Does this strike explain the recent uptick in ridiculously low-quality spam?

I agree with @cocomac that the past should not be “whitewashed” (there’s another term) en masse. There’s no need for this level of effort. Posts with high scores may be changed over time, but to run through a series of zero-score posts just for the sake of completeness seems asinine. What was said was said. What is being said is being said. As I try to remind colleagues and students on a regular basis, context is important. We will never have documents of the past of they’re forever rewritten to accommodate an ever-fluid future.

Yeah, I'm not so worried about new people not reading/caring about the various codes of conduct. There is a pretty dedicated group of people making edits to posts as they come in to ensure things are relatively clear and consistent with other questions on the site. So, while editing, should we be changing the language that people use? Or should we leave it as it is, because that's what the person asking/answering a question wrote 🤔

Valid points 🤔

@RandomPerson the project was not FOSS, no. I was a little late wrapping my head around that concept, keeping most of my personal projects proprietary until around 2007 🤐

The counter looks at dates in UTC rather than local time. Depending on when you visit the site, there may have been a period of time greater than 24 hours where you did not visit that happened to fall within 0:00 ~ 23:59:59 UTC. This has bitten me a few times ... 🤐