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Can we make the spam flag description more clear?
Currently, the description of the spam flag reads as follows:
Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation.
This wording is very confusing because it's ...
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Temporarily reduce the 5-second rate limit on flagging posts as spam, to allow for quicker flagging on sites overrun with spam
SmokeDetector is currently disabled due to the moderation strike. This means that some specific sites are overrun with spam, and when I go through and flag each of those spam posts, I keep running ...
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Moderators should be able to reflag spam posts when their spam flag has been cleared
I encountered a spam answer here and flagged it as such. Here is a copy in metasmoke. Later, I noticed that this type of spam isn't noticed by SmokeDetector; one of the reasons is that the domain (...
GlorfindelMod
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Show red flags to moderators of other sites if no local mod handles it in a certain time frame
There is a discussion underway in the Charcoal chat room on a certain spam post on ExpressionEngine Answers. Some of us flagged it as spam almost 24 hours ago, but flags are still pending, and a ...
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Show popup when trying to downvote a spam post
I know this has been said many times, Don't downvote spam, flag it!, but still spam is being bombed with downvotes, why?
Can we do something to prevent this?
For reference, this post says:
The ...
user569408
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Update Help Center page about spam/abusive flags
The Help Center page about the Flag Posts privilege currently states:
What happens when I flag something as spam or abusive?
The spam and abusive flags are designed to automatically eliminate truly ...
GlorfindelMod
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Allow to add incriminating evidence to a spam flag [duplicate]
Since a post is only considered spam if the user is associated with the product promoted, mods need evidence of the association, and have proven to mishandle the flags if this fact is nontrivial to ...
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Remove/Change mention of disclosure in spam flag reason
This is a follow-up to my previous question.
I think we should change the description of the spam flag to either make it clearer that disclosure isn't required, or remove that part of the description ...
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End the edit grace period upon two or more spam/rude flags being raised
I am aware that a similar suggestion was made and rejected. The major criticism of that one was essentially this
The only problem with this is it's unexpected - there's no visible trace on that ...
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Abusive, but not rude [duplicate]
I came across a post, which was basically gibberish like "hsuheuduehuhfuheufhufe". Originally I marked it as spam, but it was not accepted. Why? It should have been marked at rude and abusive. ...
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Can we have an auto-flag for posts deleted by users as spam, rude or abusive?
I just came across, in normal browsing of the site I am a moderator on, another post from a drive-by user which had legitimately been deleted as "spam or rude or abusive".
In a way, that's great, ...
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Don't age away spam/rude/abusive flags
Currently, spam flags and rude/abusive flags age away in 2 days if not acted upon. This doesn't really happen on active sites, but it does happen elsewhere. (For example, I have four aged-away spam ...
user315433
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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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Hide spam-flagged questions by new users from the front page immediately
At present, it takes three spam flags to get a question suppressed from the front page. On smaller sites getting this many may take a while, especially during the 4-12 UTC period of high spam / low ...
user302202
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When a question or answer is already marked spam or offensive by two or more users, tell that when down- or closevoting
When a question or answer is already marked spam or offensive by two or more users, tell that when downvoting, closevoting or voting to delete. Something like a pop-up saying:
This question (answer)...
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