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so does a comment/article immediately get deleted when someone clicks 'flag'? or does it get sent to the moderators for review? If it's the latter, I thought I
by knightinblue 18y ago
so does a comment/article immediately get deleted when someone clicks 'flag'? or does it get sent to the moderators for review?
If it's the latter, I thought I'd still see the comment/article till it's deleted. But I haven't seen any spam anywhere.
I'm just saying that it can't be solely due to human editing.
- ojbyrne 18y agoThere is a "showdead" option in your profile (though there might be a minimum karma required). Then you can see stuff that's been flagged (presumably beyond some threshold).
- knightinblue 18y agoYeah, I have it turned on and I see the dead articles, but those are more along the grounds of readers subjectively disagreeing with questionable ideas/content. I was talking about never seeing comments/links that are universally agreed upon as spam, like links to viagra sites etc.
- icey 18y agoWell, there's also a question of scale at play. I don't think HN gets enough visitors yet to make it worthwhile for spammers to target here instead of say, reddit.
- Shamiq 18y agoAdmins here are amazing. Distributed responsibility, easy to see flagging, and an active user set all help the keep spam to a minimum.
- knightinblue 18y agoSo no comment spam filters like akismet or anything? Then I'm incredibly impressed at the effectiveness. I just thought that since HN has the same basic functionality as reddit, it must have a far better set of spam filters than reddit.