Timeline for Do mods now have to write nice emails to spammers?
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| Apr 27, 2011 at 20:25 | comment | added | Marc Gravell | @Chopper3 mods can see the blacklist, but only devs can edit it - a bad regex can kill the site. Just contact Jeff or any of us, really | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 19:43 | comment | added | Chopper3 Mod | We get A LOT that post the same stuff, it'd be nice to have a mod tool to define a blacklist regex or something? | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 19:33 | comment | added | Marc Gravell | @Chopper3 if we get repeat offenders, we can blacklist their pharm/watch/pr0n url easily enough; but yes: when it comes to garbage accounts destroy away - seriously. | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 18:55 | comment | added | Chopper3 Mod | Thanks Marc, Jeff's comments made me change the way I think of spammers, I always felt bad about destroying accounts but 99%+ of the ones I'd want to destroy only had a single point of rep, so clearing them away really is the best idea, I was being too 'nice' by just suspending them. That said suspending them meant they couldn't create a new account with the same OpenID I think, now I've destroyed them all I guess they're free to create new accounts? is there anything we could do about that? Ultimately the best way of stopping spammers is by not allowing new accounts to add urls to answers. | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 18:39 | history | answered | Marc Gravell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |