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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3157 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The global feed is fucked

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.





mk  ·  3157 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

nowaypablo  ·  3157 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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

user-inactivated  ·  3157 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not mk, but this was pretty similar to the spam invasion of late summer last year. Multiple posts an hour, in a different language, flooding global. It was actually pretty bad. I think he scrubbed them.