in reply to Re: Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!
in thread Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!

I think I favour my second idea. A spam button combined with tighter control on what can be spidered from here.

But, as far as banning urls are concerned, if I was implementing it, rather than having to add every new url the spammers come up with to a blacklist; I'd have a whitelist of acceptable urls: cpan etc.

You could then automate the maintenance of that white list by (say) sending /msg <url> to (say) userid whitelist. If the same url is submitted by 3 or 4 non-anonymous users of sufficient standing, it gets added. (The benefit of this mechanism is that unaccepted urls are never displayed anywhere publicly.)

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