Fading Away

[tk-421]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

This post jogged my memory about the big spam problem we had for awhile....sometime last year, IIRC. I guess the restriction re newbie posting took care of that..?

Actually, it only makes our work harder, since 90% of the messages caught by the filter are legit, and a moderator has to remember to check an obscure area where we have to validate all those false positives individually (which sometimes takes many days). In the meantime, new members end up reposting the same message over and over again until they give up, which of course acts as an disincentive from posting again in the future.

TL/DR: It's a pretty sloppy way to catch spam. There are way better tools out there that deal with this issue in a much more controlled fashion.
Unfortunately, there's no way for mods to help with this issue, and the admins have been on an extended vacation...