3 ms·

Users with a certain level or karma can flag posts and moderators can remove them.

• cperciva 18y ago
  However, there seems to be a shortage of moderators. I've flagged dozens of obvious spams and they're usually still around an hour or more later.
  • noonespecial 18y ago
    I think it works pretty well. They show up in "new" from time to time, I try to flag them when I see them and they disappear, never making it near the front page. An hour or 2 seems an ok time for deletion right now because very few of those article are showing up each day. If the volume expands greatly, I'm sure they can work out a way that X number of flags will auto-delete.
  • rms 18y ago
    I think they're auto-killed at a certain number of flags, even without moderator intervention.
  • SwellJoe 18y ago
    However, there seems to be a shortage of moderators. The number of moderators has recently been increased.