Comment on Automatically hiding spam works

  1. XPerimental Wed 06 Dec 2017 02:03AM UTC

    That's awful. (that spammers hit like that, I mean) I just thought it was funny that my coffee-adventure-hard-smut got marked as spam, but figured it was because I'd posted often?
    But jeez I haven't been on Ao3 a whole year yet, I hope they can figure out something so they don't have to deal with this as much :(
    But then again, the spam AI probably helps :)

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    1. AnonEhouse Wed 06 Dec 2017 02:16AM UTC

      Stark Evolution in action

      AO3 deliberately doesn't say what the Spam detector uses to mark something as suspect (the spammers could very well be reading this post!) so I don't know what triggers it. I'm guessing it uses a number of different indicators, and maybe they change if a lot of spam gets through anyway.

      I don't think anyone has come up with a foolproof way of keeping spam out while still allowing users to post & comment. Whenever the site seems slow, I run a spam hunt, just in case. ;^)

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