Yo, the front page is full of spam, where’s the morning admins and mods at?

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[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Reporting is good, it helps us ID and remove the bad posts much more easily, and reduces our workload. Reports are very useful and very much appreciated. We can't have the report button result in automated removals or the trolls will abuse it and have legitimate things removed constantly. We get false reports attempting to do this fairly regularly.

[–]SaidOverRed 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Whoa, false positives? That has to be done purposely...

Do we have a ban policy to stop this currently? It's a form of spam itself to try to deplatform legit posts and spam mods with known incorrect reports.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes it's obviously being done purposefully. This site is constantly under attack in every way possible, I keep trying to tell people that. We're trying to these sorts of people every way we can. False reports are like 0.1% of the total problem we face of people gaming the system (votes, comments, alt accounts, etc). These people are deliberately wrecking every forum, it's literally their job. And I don't mean that as a joke or to be funny or whatever, they're literally paid to mess up internet forums so people can't easily have conversations about important things