You may have noticed we have had a new wave of spammers recently.
It has become common practice that people will community tag these posts with the #spam tag, so that they can be reviewed and filtered en masse.
This update adds three changes to better take advantage of this effort:
1) If you have earned two hubwheels, you will see a 'spam' link on posts in your global feed. Clicking this link will automatically add a #spam community tag to the post.
2) Logged out users do not see posts with the #spam tag.
3) New users are automatically filtering the #spam tag. They can unfiltered the tag if they wish.
There are a number of ways that we can address spam. This is an experiment that leverages an existing behavior. Let's see if it is an improvement.
We monitor which posts are marked as spam, and will continue to do so.
As always feedback is welcome.
Actually, I purposely do not filter out the spam tag because I have seen it abused in the past. If I see something legit filtered as spam, I try to change the tag. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I think that part of participating in a trust system, is trusting others to help make sure it's not abused.
Then don't filter #spam? Anybody with an account can apply the tag now anyway.
but at present isn't this already the case if you currently filter the #spam community tag? Anyhow it raises the barrier, right? Before, #spam was like any other community tag: And now the hubwheel has to be filled twice... Users don't have the ability to create or edit community tags on other people's posts until they have filled up their hubwheel once.