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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 'Flag as spam' button instead of 'Close question' when handling spam flags
When there is a pending spam flag, the new moderator flag dashboard shows two primary options in the bottom right: 'Delete question' and 'Close question ...'. While deleting the question is sometimes ...
GlorfindelMod
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Collapse post after flagging it as spam from the moderator flag dashboard
When deleting a post with the 'delete' menu link from the 'mini post UI' in the new ♦ moderator flag dashboard, the dashboard collapses the post. This was a result of implementing one of my ...
GlorfindelMod
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Raise a Community Manager message when an account is destroyed for spamming
This is a follow-up to this, unanswered, question:
A user should just be destroyed network-wide automatically if it has no upvoted content and is destroyed on two independent sites by mods already
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ChrisFMod
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Spam Profiles are getting my goat. Could we have better tools for mods to deal with profile spam?
Super User got hit by another batch of spammers creating profiles. They've got accounts on other sites from what I've heard from other mods and from the comments here.
Last time it was streaming. Now ...
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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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Avoid plain spammers littering “users with flagged posts"
One of the moderator tools shows you users whose posts received the most flags in the last month.
This tool is useful as it may help moderators to detect problems before they get big, provide guidance ...
- 28.2k
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Let moderators mark a question as a honeypot, autoflag all subsequent answers
tl;dr: Auto-protection doesn't always work to keep spammers away. Give me a way to have new answers to a question flagged automatically.
There is a question or two on my site that gets a decent ...
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Let me spam-flag all of a user's posts directly from the destroy popup
Currently, the procedure for dealing with a spammer is this:
Find spammer
Go through all the spammer's posts
Undelete the ones that aren't spam-flagged, then re-flag them with your binding moderator ...
- 50.7k
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Could moderators be given access to how much spam their site(s) see?
Would it be possible to add spam blocked & flagged (and maybe other internal) stats to the super-secret-ana______-page?
This probably would fit the description of "low priority" pretty well, ...
user206222
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Posts that are repeated targets of spam edits should be flagged to moderators
I just rejected a spam edit on a post today and out of curiosity decided to check the history of that post. It turns out that same post has been the target of repeated spam edit attempts in the past. ...
- 13.7k
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Explicitly mention the consequences of the different user destruction options
There are two options when destroying a user:
While it might not look that way from the dialog, the consequences of the two options are somewhat different. Both remove the user and all their posts, ...
- 187k
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Can we have the mod ability to see if users repeatedly link to the same domain?
On occasion a post will arrive here on MSE where someone has spotted that a user has repeatedly linked to their own site across numerous posts and so calls them out on it in public, or it'll get ...
- 13.7k
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Change wording of the 'destroy spammer' moderator tool
When a spamming account is identified, moderators are supposed to destroy the account. While doing so, there's a step where we specify the reason the account is to be destroyed:
This user was ...
user158781
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Hide post content if a user is destroyed as spammer
There is a specific destroy reason for users that post only spam or other abusive content:
This user was created to post spam or nonsense and has no other positive participation
Aside from ...
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