I've noticed a few tech blogs spamming hubski recently, but yeah, it does seem spammy right now. EDIT: I meant the tinyurl guy, and awhile back there was someone who was rehosting articles on his site.
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.