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I thought of an idea that would get rid of most spam post soon after they are posted.
Have the "Report Post" button setup so that say after 20 (or whatever number) different people hit the report post button, the post gets erased.
I think most of the time the mods do an awesome job at deleting them quickly. But later at night a lot of the time there isn't a mod on for hours, which allows the post to be up there "freely advertising".
(and maybe if there is some risk of people reporting other posts purposely, maybe it can just be for the news section)
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or another way to control abuse of this system would be to only allow the post to be deleted if the person has under like 5 reps, or has joined within a week.. because all the spammers I have ever seen have less than 5 posts and no reps
Have the "Report Post" button setup so that say after 20 (or whatever number) different people hit the report post button, the post gets erased.
I think most of the time the mods do an awesome job at deleting them quickly. But later at night a lot of the time there isn't a mod on for hours, which allows the post to be up there "freely advertising".
(and maybe if there is some risk of people reporting other posts purposely, maybe it can just be for the news section)
**edit
or another way to control abuse of this system would be to only allow the post to be deleted if the person has under like 5 reps, or has joined within a week.. because all the spammers I have ever seen have less than 5 posts and no reps