I sort by time, newest first. I think as much as half the front page of that is spammy stuff.
At least one of these spammers is ramping up the prolificness. I mean since it gets left mostly alone they're getting what they came for no matter who filters their names, urls or tags it #spam, so I can't really blame them. I just wish that filtering #spam or the domain meant something in the new queue.
The spammer(s) that keeps posting technology news under the tinyurl links keeps on creating new accounts to get past filters. It's shameful behavior, clever, but shameful. Still, I'd be willing to bet that he's probably a huge disappointment to his mother. As for actual spammers? I have so many accounts filtered now, it's crazy. I just checked, and I have 52 filtered users. Only a handful of them are legitimate posters.
Once you dig into a certain amount of followed users and tags, you'll notice your feed will start becoming distinctly different from global– which you'll notice will always be significantly more riddled with spam and bots. Joining Hubski for the first time is a lot like being airdropped way up over a minefield, and as you get closer to the ground the other jumpers around you are telling you that a lot of those mines are actually really intelligent, thoughtful discussions and you just gotta land on one, flip it over and see for yourself. Hm.
Hubski is ok with people trying to signalboost their own articles and stuff. But this tinyurl spammer is ridiculous. They have been here today, yesterday, 4 days ago, 6 days ago. Hell, they even managed to fill a wheel. I assume people who "never see spam" here aren't following the new queue.
-Disregard previous comment, I HAVE WOKEN UP. I AM NO LONGER SHEEPLE. AND HOLY SHIT IS THERE A LOT OF CANNED MEAT HERE.-
Actually I was wrong, followed tags override filtered tags and urls. But not filtered users in my experience. Hmm... Anyway, go into settings and choose to block users less than 2 days old. That should work but so should filtering urls. I should ask for a change in filter behavior.
Looks like filter domains wasn't working properly on global, oops. Should be fixed now. Let me know if stuff you've filtered is still showing up.
Ah, finally found the issue with this. For some reason community tags were stored slightly differently than expected and wasn't properly filtered. Should be fixed now.
Yes, yes indeed. I've been filtering, blocking, muting every spammer, but sometimes they're here for days or longer, and then new spammers pop up. Getting to the point where every time I view my feed, global or personalized, I have to go through an extensive culling/vetting process (is this spam, how long has this user been on this site, are all his/her links to the same website, etc) that's getting more arduous, and getting in the way of actually enjoying Hubski. Hoping a new solution can be found to contend with these spammers, one that satisfies both Hubski management and the proletariat users. What's making this more difficult is that even some people I follow are commenting on the spam posts, and they don't realize they're spam (some spammers are quite good), and at that point, I can't figure out if the only choice is to stop following those otherwise helpful, intelligent, likable people, or...? Who knows.
