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10 questions linked to/from We’re releasing our proactive anti-spam measure network-wide
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
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Thank you everyone for the feedback you have provided. At this time, we will work through the feedback we have received to help us determine where to take our research on reputation next.
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What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?
For context on how this process came to be, please see our initial commitment to responding to Meta and Mods, our guidelines for the testing period, and the results of the initial test and next steps.
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Introducing a new proactive anti-spam measure
We’re testing this on Super User as of October 23, 2025
We’ve activated the anti-spam measure on Super User as a trial run. The Super User mods were excited for their site to be our test subject, and ...
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I am Connell, Senior Software Developer, and this is how I work
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Hi, I'm Connell. You may remember me from such experiments as The New Comments UI, The New Homepage, and ironically most favourably, The Experiment Opt-Out Switch.
I've been a Senior Software ...
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Upcoming initiatives on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network - November 2025
Today, I shared an update on progress from last quarter and what we’re up to this quarter on the blog.
Focus areas include;
AI Assist
Stack Overflow Redesign
Supporting all technical conversations
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Should moderators be able to view deleted posts across network? [duplicate]
When dealing with a problematic user, it is beneficial to be able to see if they have behaved badly in general. Especially in the case of spammers, one of the greatest indicators that a post is ...
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Prevent an answer being accepted if pending SPAM or "rude or abusive" flags
The following sequence occurred on Server Fault:
A question with gibberish was posted by a new user, and I flagged as rude or abusive as soon as saw it in line with What makes something rude or ...
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New spam dashboard can't count (there are five statuses, not four)
The recent auto-flagged spam dashboard has counting issues:
This info box pops up from the "i" icon next to "Status". There are very clearly five possible statuses. Please change &...
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Update Help Center page about necessary spam flags to delete a post
The Help Center article about the privilege to flag posts still refers to the old situation where 6 flags were needed:
What happens when I flag something as spam or rude/abusive?
The spam and rude/...
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We’re using a machine learning model to fight against spam
Years ago, the dedicated Charcoal organization taught us that yes, you can teach a machine to flag spam automatically. After all, to quote ArtOfCode from How does spam protection work on Stack ...
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