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The friggin' SPAM on this site!

Submitted by tdawg11870 on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 10:19
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Somebody (Patrick? Jon?) really needs to get their act together and start policing spam.  This place is turning into Usenet and it is a very bad thing. 

 

On the one hand, we have places like RedState where the obnoxious and intellectually insecure Erik Erickson bans anyone who disagrees with him on minor points of what he considers to be conservative orthodoxy (ok, that was a gratuitous dig, but it's true).  On the other hand, we have open forums like this one, in which we trade putting up with the occasional troll for the freedom to express and debate real policy and strategy differences.

 

So let's get a hold of it.  If anti-spam moderators need to be created, so be it.  My patience with The Next Right is wearing thin.

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Submitted by ldb on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 11:45.

Yeah, it's gotten out of hand. Maybe enforce moderation on commenters with fewer than 5 posts?

 

 

This site's problems

Submitted by NoMoreBlatherDotCom on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 17:29.

This site's problems go much deeper than the occasional spam post. I've at least a few times tried to point out to them that they're opening themselves up to something pretty bad (which I won't go into), and they haven't done anything about it. There are some solutions described here and I can install those for them.

Maybe giving more people front page posting privileges

Submitted by Ironman on Sat, 07/18/2009 - 10:08.

in exchange for scheduled "guard duty" on the site would make sense.