I know it's not a huge problem here generally, but is there a way for us commoners to flag spam so that the moderators can quickly search for and remove spam? I'm thinking for example of replying to a spam post with a subject of something like "****SPAM****". Is this even necessary?
Just a suggestion.
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All the spam modules for Drupal are pretty lacking. We tried one last year and it created more problems than it solved.
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I'm suggesting a much more manual approach, but it would at least give the moderators an easier mechanism to quickly identify spam (assuming users are proactive).
As I said though, it's not a huge problem on this particular site so perhaps "doing nothing" is the best option for now.
Thanks.
The captcha system (recaptcha) does a really good job of keeping out bots, so the only folks we get are manually entered.
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I kinda like how the Gawker blogs (Lifehacker, Gizmodo, etc.) handle spam (they wrote a very "modest" entry on that) where you can only get in after posting something useful.
It probably won't work here, but it's something to consider.
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