Feature: "spam?" notice.

[rgajrawala]

This is probably a feature that will get marked as wontfix, but I'll just leave it here if anyone wants to take a crack at it for fun.

Similar to the "new!" notice (), the "spam?" notice (red background) is appended to a post when the contents are found to be spammy.

Ideas for finding spam posts:

1. Dictionary: Create a dictionary with coding-related words and check the body of the post for any words that match. If we find a match, ignore. Else, append "spam?" notice.

That's about the only idea I have right now...

Note: For now, we shouldn't touch the Lounge (maybe even Jobs) subpages as content may be unrelated to coding and not spam.

[jaredready]

How is this different than Report + "Spam" ?

[rgajrawala]

I just realized my mistake: I shouldn't have called this a button, it's a notice. The "spam?" notice is just a nicety: It doesn't do anything other than tell you if a post looks spammy. The "spam?" notice should make it easier for you to find spammy posts fast. If the post is truly spam, you would then click on it and report it. I'll update the original post right now.

[LB--]

Considering how slow cplusplus.com is already, I don't think it's a good idea to try and query for every post on the page to see if its contents are spammy.

[rgajrawala]

Makes sense, I agree.

[jaredready]

Maybe something like this could be implemented when we get control of the website :)

[LB--]

In that case we would make a captcha appear on the post submission form if the post contents look spammy :p