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What is the line for reporting 'all spam' or 'all bad suggested edits' for a particular user? #8

Closed gunr2171 closed 8 years ago

gunr2171 commented 8 years ago

Smokey has an "all spam" feature, which allows a person to tell the smokey network that every single post by a given user is spam.

We also have found cases where a user make many, many suggested edits which should be rejected.

What is the line here? Should we be doing this more often? Would doing this more often make our room bad as we would be targeting users?

double-fault commented 8 years ago

@gunr2171 I'm not sure about the too many bad edits thing, but I don't think we need to disable allspam on smokey for SOCVR.

A search reveals that allspam has been used only 7 times since April start to the current date. This command is mainly used in Charcoal, and very rarely in SOCVR.

Rene had even left a message regarding the "don't target user", which told that "all spam" was kinda ok:

Remember people: Users that had the habit to pick a single profile and go over their posts, flagging, voting, deleting, commenting have been suspended before. I don't want anyone from this room to be suspended or run the risk of being suspended. That is the sole reason the rule: vote on the post not on the user exist. And that is why I don't want to see user links here but only post links. Only exception is Smokeys allspam command where you still flag single posts.

If allspam is being abused and used too much, I think we might disable it. But for now, with so less use, I think we can let it remain.

rschrieken commented 8 years ago

@Fortunate-MAN we bring it up because I rather have a no links to users rule then a rule with (many/growing) exceptions that are also hard to moderate in the room and / or make no sense when the situation dictates that.

double-fault commented 8 years ago

@rschrieken Ah. I see your point. If the rule is for no user profile link, I think disabling allspam would be alright. At first I thought this issue for mainly only disabling allspam, not all links.

ArtOfCode- commented 8 years ago

@rschrieken Does it matter for spammers? !!/allspam is intended for cases where literally all of this user's posts are spam; does it really matter if people go over their profiles to cast spam flags? I'd imagine not - the user's going to be destroyed soon enough anyway.

rschrieken commented 8 years ago

@ArtOfCode- I don't think it does but the topic is brought up because we want to hear the room consensus on the topic. Maybe my silly rule is to strict, maybe not. I hope we get some clear guidance out of this discussion

NathanOliver1 commented 8 years ago

Conclusion:

Unless posted by a moderator we will not post links to users. This means no allspam and no reject-all. Our rule is no links to a user profile

http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/32060005#32060005