[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

[Gwern Branwen]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Alexander Solla <alex.solla at gmail.com> wrote:
> We could even have a "report spam" button on each page, and if enough users
> click on it (for a given revision), the revision gets forwarded to a
> moderator.

This would be useless. The problem is not detecting spam, since that's
quite trivial: it's very hard to miss. The problem is that the
moderator (ie. me) is already overworked. The spam needs to be reduced
to begin with, not detected.

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