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Old 10-01-2010, 12:38 PM   #119
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Originally Posted by montsnmags View Post
In the specific case of spam, some data...

In the last month, we have the following number of posts reported as SPAM by our membership (broken up by sub-forum, highest to lowest):

General Discussions: 20
News: 9
Amazon Kindle: 7
Lounge: 6
Reading Recommendations: 6
Deals, Freebies & Resources: 4
Sony Reader: 4
Apple Devices: 3
Introduce Yourself: 3
LRF: 2
Which One Should I Buy?: 2
Alternate Devices: 1
Autres liseuses: 1
Barnes & Noble Nook: 1
Bookeen: 1
Kobo Reader: 1
More E-Book Readers: 1
Reading & Management: 1
Visitor Messages: 1

TOTAL: 74

This does not include the few (about 1 a day) auto-captured by the auto-moderation part of the software, nor stuff we manage to find ourselves and delete before it's reported (which is a sort-of game too ). It's probably a reasonable representation of the spread though.

I'm of the opinion that SPAM is not that big a problem here. It's reported, caught, or just discovered by mods, and spam-ban-and-deleted pretty quick. It's certainly one of the easier, (enjoyable ) auto-pilot parts of Moderation, because there's simple process set up along the lines of (1. Delete post as spam? Y/N, 2. Delete all posts and threads started by user? Y/N, 3. Ban user? Y/N). I think it might be a distraction to the "trolling" and "sockpuppetry" issue...not an unimportant issue, of course, but one that is less a part of this issue, no?

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Marc
how many of these spam postings are the one hit wonders that get on to market their goods and services vs. sock troll types?
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