By rick
via rickross.developerblogs.com
Published: Jul 03 2009 / 08:57
This past week Matt and I worked on several new tools to help manage the ever-increasing flood of spam that DZone attracts. I think we achieved a breakthrough on a key issue.
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rick replied ago:
BTW, we're very interested in growing the moderator team, so please feel free to email me and let me know you'd like to be considered. As always, I'm rick@dzone.com - please include your DZone username in the email.
andrewm replied ago:
perhaps you could lends some expertise to theserverside.
hikaye hikaye!
rick replied ago:
theserverwhat?
andrewm replied ago:
ouch
rick replied ago:
You were too quick for me Andrew, or I'd have removed my stupid comment. TSS just irked me because their salespeople pressured the editorial guys not to allow any mention of DZone Refcardz. Dirty pool, IMO. DZone has always been happy to carry any story at TSS that our audience wants to vote up.
andrewm replied ago:
the comment's fair. the signal to noise ratio over there is pretty low at the moment.
jdave replied ago:
Personally I'm astounded by the success of the anti-spam measures. I had always accepted that some level of spam was inevitable, since the alternative would lead to too much wheat being removed with the chaff. In practice what I observe personal is 100% spam being block and only the smallest amount of quality needing to be approved by hand. The result is a clean queue and a huge improvement in quality of the site. Again IMO, but I have been impressed.
rick replied ago:
You've been killing spams here for a long time, jDave, so I'm really glad to hear you feel the new tools are an improvement. Thanks!
Rick
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