Timeline for Homepage spammed
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jun 5, 2023 at 11:17 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jun 10, 2023 at 3:05 | |||||
| Jun 5, 2023 at 10:56 | comment | added | tripleee | Does this answer your question? Is there anything useful I can do to help with the massive number of spam posts coming in? | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 11:44 | answer | added | sysadmin1138Mod | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 9:38 | vote | accept | Starship | ||
| Jun 2, 2023 at 6:05 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jun 2, 2023 at 1:18 | answer | added | Spevacus | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 1:17 | comment | added | Makyen | @Starshipisgoforlaunch It's spammers spamming. Other than trying to block it (which SE would have to do, and which isn't trivial), the best that can be done is to identify it, then red-flag delete the posts (using spam and/or rude/abusive flags) and moderators destroy the users. Doing that does feed back information into SE's existing spam blocker, which is called SpamRam. For this particular spammer or group of spammers, SpamRam isn't that effective, so it gets posted, which is where Charcoal, your moderators, and you come in to get it deleted. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 1:10 | comment | added | Starship | What is this and how can it actually be permanetly and proactively stopped? | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 0:55 | comment | added | Makyen | This wave of spam has literally been going on for months (started in February, IIRC). The spam has just been rapidly deleted by Charcoal and your site moderators. Charcoal is a project by other SE users to help keep spam and R/A content off of all SE sites. SmokeDetector detects the spam/R/A posts and reports them into chat and to metasmoke. Metasmoke then, if the post is seen to be highly likely to be spam/R/A, automatically raises spam flags on the post. Metasmoke is currently down for maintenance for about a day, so it's not raising any flags. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 0:49 | comment | added | Anton | Relevant extended outage of SmokeDetector | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 0:28 | history | asked | Starship | CC BY-SA 4.0 |