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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
08:33
@ThoriumBR so, our solution to spam waves is - use pavlovian conditioning and bad puns to convince users to report spammers.
Then periodically we, to use the technical term "nuke the ****" out of their accounts.
the spammers not the users
The users are happy, and even amused, and the spammers generally get taken care of fairly quickly and totally
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
09:21
@security_paranoid I hadn't seen that chat before
What criteria do you use to list accounts in there? And what does it do different to Charcoal?
security_paranoid
security_paranoid
@JourneymanGeek I certainly find it entertaining:D
@RoryAlsop anyone can just report a spammer account if they want…
I’m not part of charcoal and yet i report whenever i can
Whenever i see, i should say
security_paranoid
security_paranoid
09:39
In fact, it’d be cool to have the same thing over here but it’d be pretty redundant. We wouldn’t even get a hundredth of the spammers superuser does.
ThoriumBR
ThoriumBR
I do report spammers too, but I rarely see one.
 
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Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
11:25
The way the spam flags work here means that in general posts and spammers get nuked quickly. However, on the odd occasion we have had a wave (thankfully not very often) it has been tricky to cope here just due to numbers
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
11:43
Oh we are having a pretty serious spam wave :D
@RoryAlsop One of the mods nukes the account :D
Its closer to the pre charcoal/queues (flagging?) spam/closure reporting rooms
security_paranoid
security_paranoid
“Pretty serious” is still an understatement!
It’s crazy!
Check the Cannery :D
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
criteria? "Its clearly a spammer, and I need them gone, dead, and extra crispy"
security_paranoid
security_paranoid
Lol
 
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Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
14:57
@JourneymanGeek no, I mean in Sec.SE
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
oh

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