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03 Apr 2016, 1:58 pm

Ah, but there's the Moderators' secret weapon, The Banhammer to consider.


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03 Apr 2016, 2:05 pm

spam [the inedible kind] is a metastatic growth and is barely kept in check by millions of individual sites, but it is growing and soon will overwhelm the web in general.



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03 Apr 2016, 2:06 pm

One hit from the Banhammer, and the spammer is whacked.


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03 Apr 2016, 2:07 pm

at spam's rate of growth, the whole website will have to become moderators to fend it all off soon.



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03 Apr 2016, 2:08 pm

We must create an anti-spammer weapon that will cover everywhere and affect only spammers.


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03 Apr 2016, 2:10 pm

all the smart WPers can figure something out. :idea: mebbe some kind of language filter.



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03 Apr 2016, 2:12 pm

And trolls. Something for them, too.


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03 Apr 2016, 2:15 pm

a nice spammylicious BLOCK button would just the thing for trolls.



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03 Apr 2016, 2:17 pm

How about a bridge?


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03 Apr 2016, 2:22 pm

I imagine buttons are easier to build than bridges.



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03 Apr 2016, 2:23 pm

Point taken, but the button has to actually work.


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03 Apr 2016, 2:27 pm

it can be done. all they have to do is supercharge that "friend or foe" button in the profile page.



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03 Apr 2016, 2:34 pm

And what will they all do when they are blocked from the internet?


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03 Apr 2016, 2:37 pm

not blocked from the internet per se, just from wrong planet :)



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03 Apr 2016, 2:38 pm

Then they can bother everybody on Facebook. :)


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03 Apr 2016, 2:40 pm

you can bet that one day relatively soon, FB will demand biometrics for access to its site.