Re: Disallow AM's to post to tutorials

I don't think the spam situation is that serious. I've only ever seen two unreaped spam nodes on perlmonks, because the editors delete them quite fast.

Spam in most sections (SOPW, Med, PMDiscuss, Obfu, Poetry, CUFP, Snippets, Code, and News) are hidden by the approval system. Posting Categorized Questions is allowed only for monks of a certain level, Polls only for a certain group, and sections such as SiteDoc don't have an automatically generated index. I don't know how Book Reviews, Module Reviews, and Tutorials are moderated, but if the posts immediately show up in the section, then that's why there can be spam.

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Re^2: Disallow AM's to post to tutorials by davido (Cardinal) on Nov 10, 2006 at 16:45 UTC
A few points: janitors (editors) don't delete posts. Someone considers them for reaping, monks above a certain level vote on the consideration, the node accumulates the necessary negative reputation, and only then does it get reaped, leaving behind an ugly scar where the node once appeared. This may happen quite fast, or it may not. But it takes the intervention of at least four people every time it happens. Often spam-posts occur in rapid succession, making a sort of burst of activity required to keep up. Dave	[reply]

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Re^2: Disallow AM's to post to tutorials
by davido (Cardinal) on Nov 10, 2006 at 16:45 UTC

A few points: janitors (editors) don't delete posts. Someone considers them for reaping, monks above a certain level vote on the consideration, the node accumulates the necessary negative reputation, and only then does it get reaped, leaving behind an ugly scar where the node once appeared. This may happen quite fast, or it may not. But it takes the intervention of at least four people every time it happens. Often spam-posts occur in rapid succession, making a sort of burst of activity required to keep up.

Dave

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