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Smoke detector is a fantastic project, it has inspired many of us to do other type of moderation bots.

However once Brad Larson stated in this comment on a question that I made

I'm not terribly excited about a chatroom gathering together to coordinate flags on content in order to automatically delete it

I realize that the main objective remove spam quickly is important but I think we that coordinate flags/actions in chatroom has a great responsibility to listen to moderators on specific site (they have been elected) and we need to assure the members who do not participate in chat/flagging are never targeted or gamified.

With that said, this instead are some ideas to leverage the great capability of SmokeDetector to find spam.

• Get moderators involved on each site, listen and let'em decide how many auto-flags you can cast, as a side note I would be ok that moderator directly cast flags if they think that it's the best solution, they will be responsabile since community has put their trust in them.

• Instead of using other users "real" accounts, create SmokeDetector flag account eg. SD_FLAGGER1, this will both remove the idea of user participating to get "free" flags and badges (I know they get very few flags but just the idea taste bad for the community). More important, it will be clear to moderators who is flagging the post.

Keep up your excellent work!

Smoke detector is a fantastic project, it has inspired many of us to do other type of moderation bots.

However once Brad Larson stated in this comment on a question that I made

I'm not terribly excited about a chatroom gathering together to coordinate flags on content in order to automatically delete it

I realize that the main objective remove spam quickly is important but I think we that coordinate flags/actions in chatroom has a great responsibility to listen to moderators on specific site (they have been elected) and we need to assure the members who do not participate in chat/flagging are never targeted or gamified.

With that said, these are some ideas to leverage the great capability of SmokeDetector to find spam and keep community moderators involved.

• Get moderators involved on each site, listen and let'em decide how many auto-flags you can cast, as a side note I would be ok that moderator directly cast flags if they think that it's the best solution, they will be responsabile since community has put their trust in them.

• Instead of using other users "real" accounts, create SmokeDetector flag account eg. SD_FLAGGER1, this will both remove the idea of user participating to get "free" flags and badges (I know they get very few flags but just the idea taste bad for the community). More important, it will be clear to moderators who is flagging the post.

Keep up your excellent work!

Smoke detector is a fantastic project, it has inspired many of us to do other type of moderation bots.

However once Brad Larson stated in this comment on a question that I made

I'm not terribly excited about a chatroom gathering together to coordinate flags on content in order to automatically delete it

I realize that the main objective remove spam quickly is important but I think we that coordinate flags/actions in chatroom has a great responsibility to listen to moderators on specific site (they have been elected) and we need to assure the members who do not participate in chat/flagging are never targeted or gamified.

With that said, this instead is some ideas to leverage the great capability of smoke detector to find spam.

• Get moderators involved on each site, listen and let'em decide how many auto-flags you can cast, as a side note I would be ok that moderator directly cast flags if they think that it's the best solution, they will be responsabile since community has put their trust in them.

• Instead of using other users "real" accounts, create SmokeDetector flag account eg. SD_FLAGGER1, this will both remove the idea of user participating to get "free" flags and badges (I know they get very few flags but just the idea taste bad for the community). More important, it will be clear to moderators who is flagging the post.

Keep up your excellent work!

Smoke detector is a fantastic project, it has inspired many of us to do other type of moderation bots.

However once Brad Larson stated in this comment on a question that I made

I'm not terribly excited about a chatroom gathering together to coordinate flags on content in order to automatically delete it

I realize that the main objective remove spam quickly is important but I think we that coordinate flags/actions in chatroom has a great responsibility to listen to moderators on specific site (they have been elected) and we need to assure the members who do not participate in chat/flagging are never targeted or gamified.

With that said, this instead are some ideas to leverage the great capability of SmokeDetector to find spam.

• Get moderators involved on each site, listen and let'em decide how many auto-flags you can cast, as a side note I would be ok that moderator directly cast flags if they think that it's the best solution, they will be responsabile since community has put their trust in them.

• Instead of using other users "real" accounts, create SmokeDetector flag account eg. SD_FLAGGER1, this will both remove the idea of user participating to get "free" flags and badges (I know they get very few flags but just the idea taste bad for the community). More important, it will be clear to moderators who is flagging the post.

Keep up your excellent work!

Smoke detector is a fantastic project, it has inspired many of us to do other type of moderation bots.

However once Brad Larson stated in this comment on a question that I made

I'm not terribly excited about a chatroom gathering together to coordinate flags on content in order to automatically delete it

I realize that the main objective remove spam quickly is important but I think we that coordinate flags/actions in chatroom has a great responsibility to listen to moderators on specific site (they have been elected) and we need to assure the members who do not participate in chat/flagging are never targeted or gamified.

With that said, this instead is some ideas to leverage the great capability of smoke detector to find spam.

• Get moderators involved on each site, listen and let'em decide how many auto-flags you can cast, as a side note I would be ok that moderator directly cast flags if they think that it's the best solution, they will be responsabile since community has put their trust in them.

• Instead of using other users "real" accounts, create SmokeDetector flag account eg. SD_FLAGGER1, this will both remove the idea of user participating to get "free" flags and badges (I know they get where few flags but just the idea is not nice for the community). It will also be clear to moderators who is flagging the post.

Keep up your excellent work!

Smoke detector is a fantastic project, it has inspired many of us to do other type of moderation bots.

However once Brad Larson stated in this comment on a question that I made

I'm not terribly excited about a chatroom gathering together to coordinate flags on content in order to automatically delete it

I realize that the main objective remove spam quickly is important but I think we that coordinate flags/actions in chatroom has a great responsibility to listen to moderators on specific site (they have been elected) and we need to assure the members who do not participate in chat/flagging are never targeted or gamified.

With that said, this instead is some ideas to leverage the great capability of smoke detector to find spam.

• Get moderators involved on each site, listen and let'em decide how many auto-flags you can cast, as a side note I would be ok that moderator directly cast flags if they think that it's the best solution, they will be responsabile since community has put their trust in them.

• Instead of using other users "real" accounts, create SmokeDetector flag account eg. SD_FLAGGER1, this will both remove the idea of user participating to get "free" flags and badges (I know they get very few flags but just the idea taste bad for the community). More important, it will be clear to moderators who is flagging the post.

Keep up your excellent work!