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Recently I've had two thread replies fail to show up in the thread at the time of posting. They were, I presume, flagged as potential spam and sent to a moderator for approval. Here is the latest example: The Lounge - CodeProject[^] I can't find any FAQs that indicate what the spam detector is looking for. Keywords? Length? ... This isn't a big deal. I'm merely curious. TIA for any insights.
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Recently I've had two thread replies fail to show up in the thread at the time of posting. They were, I presume, flagged as potential spam and sent to a moderator for approval. Here is the latest example: The Lounge - CodeProject[^] I can't find any FAQs that indicate what the spam detector is looking for. Keywords? Length? ... This isn't a big deal. I'm merely curious. TIA for any insights.
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
For stuff the filters deem suspicious, yes, there is a moderation queue that posts end up in. Not everything ends up in it though.
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Recently I've had two thread replies fail to show up in the thread at the time of posting. They were, I presume, flagged as potential spam and sent to a moderator for approval. Here is the latest example: The Lounge - CodeProject[^] I can't find any FAQs that indicate what the spam detector is looking for. Keywords? Length? ... This isn't a big deal. I'm merely curious. TIA for any insights.
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
MikeTheFid wrote:
I can't find any FAQs that indicate what the spam detector is looking for. Keywords? Length? ...
And you won't. If you could, the spammers would read it, and tailor their posts accordingly. Apart from anything else, it's not a static list of rules. It's something like a Bayesian filter, which learns and adapts based on previous spam reports.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Recently I've had two thread replies fail to show up in the thread at the time of posting. They were, I presume, flagged as potential spam and sent to a moderator for approval. Here is the latest example: The Lounge - CodeProject[^] I can't find any FAQs that indicate what the spam detector is looking for. Keywords? Length? ... This isn't a big deal. I'm merely curious. TIA for any insights.
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I approved that one from the moderation queue. I could not see what it was that got the spam filter excited, but it was obviously not spam. It may be a couple of keywords somewhere in the message, or your signature.
Richard MacCutchan wrote:
I could not see what it was that got the spam filter excited
Really?
Quote:
Do what you love, and you never have to work a day in your life!
Now where have I seen sentences like that one before?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
