Sigh. If you pay a lot of attention to a smoke detector then you are going to find a lot of brush fires. That does
not mean there are too many fires. Spam is not a problem at SO, tens of thousands of hands make light work and they don't need a detector. I personally rarely have to delete spam. Maybe that means your detector works well, but hey, don't hog it all for yourself, deleting spam is
fun. And for crissake,
never respond to a spammer. That tells him that the spam is getting read, encouraging him to post more of it. —
Hans Passant 23 hours ago
On average, SE catches 99% of the spam before it hits the sites, Smoke Detector catches the bulk of the spam that then does make it to the sites. (to do: get some stats, too busy atm)
There are many people who sit in Charcoal HQ just for the love of flagging spam.
SE is continually looking at ...
