We do have a trigger for users that are filtered by many. It seems reasonable that we can do the same for users that garner a lot of #spam tags. Unfortunately, the bastards often create an account for each spam post. I really don't want to have a probationary period or something like that. A possibility would be an auto #newuser community tag, and that like #spam, logged out users and new users would be filtering it automatically. We could then rely on the community to change the #newuser tag on deserving posts. Until a user had a post that had the tag removed, all their posts would carry the #newuser tag.The fundamental problem is that he doesn't value tags, therefore he sees no solutions in tags or their taxonomy. Thus, the general idea that "spam" has to be dealt with by dealing with the users who promote spam, rather than stuff that is tagged as spam.
So I gotta ask - what did you do to the stuff tagged as spam that's pissing off nowaypablo? 'cuz when I unfilter it and look at it, there's like 20 things from the past 50 days.
I nuked them. With spambots/spamshops, we have the conundrum that even if they are unseen, they are creating invisible posts that must be stored, and must be avoided in searches, etc. It's a pain in the ass. Basically their posts are now invisible and they get a new password. Having our data saved in files rather than a proper database makes the pain of storing spam posts all the more acute. Thankfully rob05c is getting close to a complete migration to a SQL database. I think after we get that done, I am going to make some sort of functionality where they can nuke themselves.
Jesus it's not pissing me off I made the post to acknowledge the experience of a new user on Hubski, not because me or you or another long-time user is unable to handle it :D