[wp-forums] Spam!

[Rich Pedley]

and when you have more than a few pages to look through it gets 
ridiculous to look at.

Otto I'll send the plugin directly to you offlist.

Rich

On 30/11/2012 22:09, Mika A Epstein wrote:
> Otto - We clean it out so we can find the -real- people who accidentally
> trip the bozo flag. That's why. A lot of real people post code, or
> multiple links, and whoops, they end up moderated. Happened to me a few
> times before I was mod'd up.
>
>> Otto <mailto:otto at ottodestruct.com>
>> November 30, 2012 12:11 PM
>>
>> Virtually no spam accounts do that though, and blocking them just
>> gives incentive to try to improve their game and bypass the filters.
>> I'd much rather them keep using the same accounts repeatedly than to
>> just create new ones all the time anyway.
>>
>> Blocking should be used for actual people, not automated accounts.
>> Bozoing hides their spam from the world, which is the point of
>> bozoing.
>>
>> As for the spam bucket, I really don't care how full it is. I know
>> some of you try to clean it out from time to time, but I've never
>> really understood why. Doesn't make any sense to me, really. Leave it
>> marked spam, because, honestly, who cares? It's just a label.
>>
>> -Otto
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