Timeline for Further Experimentation with Comment Reputation Requirements
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| Aug 12, 2025 at 17:07 | comment | added | CPlus | @PM2Ring Security by obscurity is perfect and everything is fun and games... until it is not. | |
| Aug 12, 2025 at 17:07 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | It's literally security by obscurity. What could possibly go wrong? ;) | |
| Aug 12, 2025 at 17:06 | comment | added | CPlus | @PM2Ring Yes, so I believe just hoping that spammers will not find comments desirable targets is not enough. The lower the reputation limit for comments, the more tooling users and moderators need to detect and remove comment spam. | |
| Aug 12, 2025 at 17:04 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | Also, there are numerous "scraper" sites that republish SE posts. I suppose they also replicate the spam, which means the scam numbers can get into search results even if the posts are deleted on SE after being scraped. | |
| Aug 12, 2025 at 17:00 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | Stack Exchange comments used to be indexed by Google, but I think that stopped ~1 year ago. | |
| Aug 12, 2025 at 16:47 | comment | added | CPlus |
@PM2Ring If comments are not noindex they almost certainly will have an incentive to post spam comments. A huge portion of the spam seems to be designed to get fake service numbers in search results, rather than tricking the SE visitors themselves.
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| Aug 12, 2025 at 16:45 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | Just in case it's not crystal clear to other readers, Charcoal has no tools to flag comment spam, or even detect it. Now maybe spammers won't consider inactive posts to be an attractive target. OTOH, they happily post hundreds of spam questions & answers every day that are usually deleted in <10 minutes, so who knows? If we're lucky, the major spam posters won't learn about this experiment... | |
| Aug 12, 2025 at 6:51 | history | answered | CPlus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |