Timeline for Spam attack on Academia Stack Exchange?
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| Jul 10, 2023 at 15:33 | comment | added | cag51 Mod | Agree that users trusted on certain sites should be trusted network-wide when it comes to spam. Not something we as academia mods can fix, though. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 14:42 | comment | added | Anyon | @Mari-LouA The flag limit starts out as 10, and is raised by 1 bonus flag for every 10 net helpful reports, and by 1 bonus flag for every 2,000 reputation. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 13:16 | comment | added | Nobody | @Mari-LouA I kinda agree. I just hope the strike will be over soon. It doesn't look like so to me, though. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 13:05 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | There's no way I can reach 200 spam flags in less than 20 days. Users who have raised hundreds (even thousands) of helpful flags on different sites, should be trusted to use up to 50 or 100 flags responsibly on sites where they are less active. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 12:49 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Nobody I think the quota is based on the size of the rep. I have only 332 whereas you have >13k | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 12:34 | comment | added | Nobody | @Mari-LouA The more you flag, the more quota you have. Just keep flagging when you see spams. My limit is 100 spam flags. That's because I have >900 helpful spam flags. | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 5:55 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @cag51 Today I used up my quota in less than an hour, a miserable 12 flags. Is there a way for users who have earned >20K in three or more sites to have that number increased? I didn't realize that I had such a tiny number of flags available so I made the mistake of flagging some spam answers as well | |
| Jul 7, 2023 at 19:48 | comment | added | cag51 Mod | FYI, we got a note from staff a few hours ago that says: "the worst has [probably] passed." Not sure what that means technically, but good news I hope. | |
| Jul 7, 2023 at 18:08 | comment | added | shoover | I'm out of flags for the day. :/ | |
| Jul 7, 2023 at 6:46 | vote | accept | cconsta1 | ||
| Jul 7, 2023 at 6:07 | comment | added | Michael Greinecker | It also helps to both flag as spam and downvote (which will give it together two downvotes) to make it invisible. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 22:48 | comment | added | Buffy | Dealing with the spam by flagging (my only option) is getting burdensome for your GOAT. I'll also guess that it is an AI generating this stuff, which should send its own message about policies. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 13:42 | history | edited | Anyon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 6, 2023 at 11:13 | comment | added | cag51 Mod | Additionally, we Academia mods are usually VERY quick to destroy spammers that slip through SmokeDetector (posts deleted and accounts destroyed within minutes), which usually discourages them. With the strike, some posts are staying up for hours, and accounts are not being destroyed. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 10:11 | history | edited | Anyon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 6, 2023 at 10:02 | history | answered | Anyon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |