I mean, yeah, it was obvious spam but it fit all the criteria for posting:
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Credit for the photographer
Is there a policy for removing spam sitewide? Just wondering because, you know... I mod the sub.
Fair enough. Thanks for lettin' me know.
Fair enough. Thanks for lettin' me know.
We've had a few ideas for basically this scenario. Like say this was a friend of yours and you told them to go make an account and post to your sub. Well, then I just messed up big time.
It's come up a few times on how to handle it, from reported post queues with additional mod voting for restoring or just moving it to a s/spam sub. We could probably resurrect all the old (non-illegal) spam into the spam sub too. The more I hear about the google stuff the less I like manually cleaning this stuff and the more I want a more transparent community process. Right now the admin dashboard shows us if admins do something. We basically just call out each other in the site chat if we have an issue with it. We're kinda small now, but we'll need a better process for sure as we grow.
We've had a few ideas for basically this scenario. Like say this was a friend of yours and you told them to go make an account and post to your sub. Well, then I just messed up big time.
It's come up a few times on how to handle it, from reported post queues with additional mod voting for restoring or just moving it to a s/spam sub. We could probably resurrect all the old (non-illegal) spam into the spam sub too. The more I hear about the google stuff the less I like manually cleaning this stuff and the more I want a more transparent community process. Right now the [admin dashboard](https://i.phoxy.win/2763de12-e258-5f9b-927c-216a66d9916d.png) shows us if admins do something. We basically just call out each other in the site chat if we have an issue with it. We're kinda small now, but we'll need a better process for sure as we grow.
Aye, and at some point, you're going to rub a mod the wrong way then there's going to be someone complaining about admin censorship and blah blah blah.
It's a good enough system for now, I just didn't know what was going on.
Aye, and at some point, you're going to rub a mod the wrong way then there's going to be someone complaining about admin censorship and blah blah blah.
It's a good enough system for now, I just didn't know what was going on.
That's on me. We get a few posts per day that show up in random quiet subs. That was the second one there. I tend to let new accounts make a few links until it's obvious or they abuse post titles with all caps or icons. This post was a large prepared statement selling a service like a couple dozen others have done. It came from a brand new account when it's quiet, they make post in a quiet sub, and leave. We purposely don't sell ads and don't have ads, I'm tired of people abusing the posts as ads. We're not The Yellow Pages. Also none of their accounts have been blocked and none of them follow up to why their post was flagged as spam. They can see your name in the sidebar as the mod, they could PM you. They get a PM about the post that they can reply to the admin. They know what they're doing.
followup: We currently use admins as the janitors because there's over 500 subs and most have non-active mods. Deletions in the main subs have their own logs, all other deletions are in the main Sitelog.