Screening Automatically Suspected Comment Spam

[azurelunatic]

Title
Screening Automatically Suspected Comment Spam

Short, concise description of the idea
Optionally, use an automatic filter to look for suspected spam. Post these comments screened so the journal owner/community maintainer can delete or unscreen as appropriate.

Full description of the ideaAs automatic spam-detection generally does not endanger a

Comments

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[mlady_rebecca]

If you can get a smart enough spam detector, why not?

[cesy]

Sounds good.

Re: Maybe I just haven't seen this mentioned but...

[grumbler_eburg]

Moderator worked not in livejournal and it can't has big time for moderates...
Needs an authomatic filtering for mass duplicated posts like mail spam filters

[grumbler_eburg]

I propose to use Bayes database to spam posts and comments detection.

[azurelunatic]

Marking as implemented differently: comments containing links from "untrustworthy domains" (domains that have been identified by LiveJournal to be involved in high-volume spamming) will be automatically screened upon posting.
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/51606.html

If anyone who wanders in here winds up with refinements for the suggestion, particularly given that the time between suggestion and implementation was so short (and I swear I knew nothing about any actual plans in the pipeline for this; I just knew there were some spamdetection features and that ran up against the capability to make the pingback bot post comments autoscreened, and I plunked it in suggestions; I can't remember whether I babbled at staff first but I might well have), talk to me and/or write it up well, and it may warrant a new entry given that it would be a suggested change to the current implementation.

But for now I'm marking this implemented differently. Woohoo!