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user-inactivated  ·  3407 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is it just me or is there a lot of spam in the new posts today?

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.





user-inactivated  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Eh. I tend to either ignore their comments in the spam thread or politely point out that they're commenting in a spam thread. I don't get too upset if an honest person falls for a bit of spam from time to time.

tla  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I sometimes ignore it, but I'm always like

user-inactivated  ·  3406 days ago  ·  link  ·