People feel that a flagging war is the answer. The problem with this approach is war is perpetual.
I agree we don't want a perpetual war against spam. There must be a more efficient way to stop spam, I don't what to lose most of my time here flagging. I barely have time to comment and post here.
Spam is a prime example. We fought that for 25 years and it is still commonplace. From the first days of email, spam soon followed. Now we see it in our texts, on our instant messengers, on forums and social sites, and anywhere else they can think of.
All the "fighting" barely slowed anything down.
We also see this with trolls....they are all over social media...silence one, there are three more.
Like you said, there needs to be a better way to handle it.
The question is how? One thing can be done, we can have an automatic flag button, for example, if you flag someone in one post, and he comes back to comment on the next post you have to flag it again, right? If you have an automatic flag button for that person, every time he comments your post he will be automatically flagged. Do I make myself clear? This won't stop spam but surely will help.
This button will only be available for you in your posts.
I never tried the mute button...isnt there a way to mute someone....what does that do?
Hahahaha. I don't know, but it's funny that we are talking about one futuristic button that doesn't exist, and suddenly maybe he exists and we don't use it.
I think it mutes the person but only for you, the others on your post can still watch the comment. So, this is not the "futuristic" button I was talking about.
Yeah perhaps...speaking out of school....proposing something that already exists....and we arent using it.
Isnt that the story of most people....we want something not realizing it is right under our nose.
Mute is broken I think, needs an update.
In regards to the spam solution, could we just block users from commenting on our posts? So similar to mute, but blocks everyone from seeing the comment.
This could lead to other issues though, and I know the spammers might just make new spam accounts, but maybe it would deter them.
I mentioned it here