3 or 4 spam “Buy Phloboxidril Now In Your Area” posts per day were tolerable. 20 to 50 aren’t. I know I could block the magazine, but I’m just one of the many who are subjected to it.
E2a: a day later I blocked science, only to find that askKbin also suffers from this spam
Real posts (from kbin.social magazines) are becoming quite rare. I find myself coming to this site now to do the following circuit:
- sort by new and report SPAM and block users
- scroll through headlines and read (the few) recent comments/posts to mags I’m interested in
- come to kbinMeta and see if anyone else is seeing what I’m seeing and feeling the same way
- see if the radio silence has yet been broken by the dev
It’s a fascinating case study in the rise and fall of an internet community and digital communication platform. And it highlights one important fact about human community management and technology development: COMMUNICATION IS KEY.