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I joined the website today to answer a question. There is A LOT of spam on this website. I have not been programming websites in the last six years, but even I implemented basic ideas to frustrate the robots. Who moderates the spam and can we get rid of those postings? Also, can someone please implement a more difficult way to join the website? |
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As far as I can tell, spam is only moderated by regular users through flagging. I agree that most of it would be trivial to filter out automatically. Given the spam problem and the fact that, on a good day, metaoptimize takes 5+ seconds to load, I rarely visit any more and have moved on to alternatives over at Stack Exchange e.g. http://datascience.stackexchange.com/ and http://stats.stackexchange.com/. |
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I think it would be enough if the maintainers added a captcha for posting a question/comment. It is easy to implement and very effective. |
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Thank you everyone. I have added a captcha quiz to new user account creation. This should make it more difficult for spammers to join the site. I will be monitoring the effectiveness, and will make the controls stricter if need be. You can email me at: turian at gmail dot com |
Does anyone else think it ironic that a forum about machine learning doesn't have a decent spam filter? This is my first visit to the site and seeing the front page covered in spam does not fill me with confidence about the site's quality. I suspect many people will take one look and go elsewhere.