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Ask HN: How does HN keep spam postings from flooding the story list?
I'm surprised that it's not full of porn, sales and other spammy links.
- danielvf 9y agoI wonder that myself. Sometimes there certainly are a porn and scam link in new, but I'd expect a lot more than there are.
- gus_massa 9y agoThere is a lot of filtering by software and also the users flags. To see all the stories you must enable "showdead" in your profile.
- brudgers 9y agoA theory. The original author of the Hacker News software, Paul Graham, started writing spam filters at least as early as 2002. Fifteen years is a long time for improving software. http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html