@Green Witch,
Green Witch wrote:Sorry if I offend any of the administrators, but could some of it be a way to drive traffic to the site? All the topics seem to be pretty popular search terms. I'm sure some of it is just spam garbage, but other things seem more controlled.
No offense taken, but no to anyone familiar with the internet this is obviously
external spam and not something a site would want to do to itself.
Removing spam is a huge part of what the volunteer moderators do on able2know, and whenever the q&a spammers come back with the payload we remove it (and should remove the initial call too when it's clear it's connected, but sometimes they spam legitimately-created topics as well) but the posts in question that are left are often not clearly spam on their own and the moderators were to operate under rules that would remove them it would likely have to be rules that have the potential to be inclusive of any new member asking about anything that has any commercial value.
As a general policy able2now errs on the side of caution with censorship and this is why posts that aren't clearly spam under rules that would not cause an unacceptable rate of false positives remain. Users here can vote for themselves about the remaining topics, but the general policy of able2know is not to be heavy-handed in its censorship and instead to allow members to thumb what they find unedifying down as they see it. What we don't do very well right now is harness this collective wisdom of the crowd to allow those who would rather not have to deal with the volume to not have to deal with it and we are working on a complete overhaul of able2know in order to better accomplish that and to solve the various signal-to-noise ratio problems that able2know has.
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