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45 questions linked to/from Can a machine be taught to flag spam automatically?
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How can us Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow users help with the current Chinese SPAM attack? [duplicate]
We love our Stack Exchange and don't like to see it under attack like this.
Many of us are programmers and many of us know stuff about languages, including Chinese. There's probably a good few who ...
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Time for some more swag! [closed]
UPDATE: I just sent out emails to collect addresses from the lucky users getting these watches — be on the lookout for those, and try to fill it in the next two weeks! :)
On occasion of our ...
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A machine can flag spam automatically. Can it do better?
Since this has been posted, we've done a few things:
We now cast four flags on posts that pass an accuracy threshold (current 99.9% historical confidence)
SmokeDetector now casts the first ...
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What are the “spam” and “rude or abusive” (offensive) flags, and how do they work?
When flagging, there are two special case options: spam and rude or abusive.
What is spam, and when should I flag content as such?
What is considered offensive, rude or abusive content?
How does the ...
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What can we do, as a community, to help make MSE a friendlier place again?
MSE is burning, there is fire everywhere. I'm terrified every time I write a question over here and I make myself ready for a fight every time I write an answer.
I don't dare to look at comments or ...
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Would anyone care for some processed meat-like substance with a gelatinous glaze?
Something sort of magic happened a short time ago, sometimes a graph is worth a thousand flags:
That's right, around March 28, the spam protection layer blocked about 20,000 spam attempts, mostly in ...
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Why shouldn't I downvote spam that I've already flagged?
One of the responses to the question about the mass of football spam said:
The proper course of action is to flag the post as spam. Three spam flags will remove it from the front page, six will ...
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Does the Charcoal team plan to run SmokeDetector again?
There have been several posts complaining about increased visibility of spam posts.1 At least part of the reason was the fact that the Charcoal team participated in the strike and SmokeDetector wasn't ...
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How do we stop users from using the "spam" flag when there is no "promotion of a product or service"?
"Spam" is defined right there in the flag popup as "Exists only to promote a product or service":
but most of the spam flags I process have no advertising, promotion etc. They are just VLQ, NAA, ...
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Experiment: Review-needed indicator logic for sites that sometimes have empty queues
One of the more common bits of feedback when we changed the review queue indicator was that some sites would prefer to have an indication when there are any outstanding reviews available. So we are ...
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How can we identify ChatGPT-generated posts?
As a moderator on two sites, I am following the Stack Overflow community's policy regarding the ban of ChatGPT closely. However, does the community and its moderators have any handles on how to ...
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Drop "noisy" comment flags from the moderator queue unless an answer has 5 or more comments
The problem
There are a huge number of noisy comments, and they generate a huge number of flags. But, a large number of flags are raised on comments where they won't do very much good: if there's only ...
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Allow retracting flags from the API
For a project I'm working on, it'd be nice to be able to retract flags through the API.
We allow people to retract flags from the web. Could this functionality be extended to the API? It could work ...
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Is it okay to flag blatant spam using two accounts?
I understand that using two or more accounts to vote on the same post (or interact with it in almost any way) is against the rules. That being said, what if I encounter a blatant spam/scam post that ...
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What can we do to stop spammers from exploiting the grace period?
Recently, spammers on WordPress Development discovered a "new" trick - the grace period. They post a spam post without the link and immediately edit it in.
Yesterday, I happened to spot yet another ...
