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Suddenly lots of spam on HN?
Just noticing this tonight. Are there lots of spam submissions happening or is this normal and I just don't see it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680248
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680032
- felipelalli 13y agoHow can we report? Like "BR" style: "I report U"
- mattkrea 13y agoI believe those with high karma can flag submissions
- anigbrowl 13y agoWe can & do. Yes, this is a lot.
- mschuster91 13y agoYep, the threshold is something around 250 points, iirc. I wonder what threshold the downvote ability carries at the moment.
- mattkrea 13y agoI think I recently saw something mentioning that it was at 100
- mschuster91 13y ago100? Can't be. I'm at 314 at the moment and cannot downvote, yet I can flag posts...
- DanBC 13y agohttp://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/ http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/ says the current limit is 500, with about 11% of users having downvote privs.
- Fundlab 13y agoLooks like those links have been taken down so your post essentially lacks context. I was curious to see what those submissions were
- mattkrea 13y agoGlad to see that. It really wasn't that much but it was no different than you see on most blogs nowadays. I haven't been on HN that long but I was still shocked to see it.
- nkurz 13y agoIf you turn on "Show Dead" in your profile and look a the Newest page, you'll get an idea of the volume. I try to go through and flag for spam every time I submit something. I'd estimate that usually about 20 out of the first 100 posts are already dead, and I flag 2 or 3 more. I'm not sure how much of this is automatic and how much other users. (Glancing now, it seems to be considerably fewer. It varies quite a bit over time, and I might be remembering the highs more than the average)