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I Want to Improve the Experience Project

Set up a detection system that detects if a string of letters and numbers is spam. Instance, if more than four of the same characters are in a row(paulllllllllll), or several repeated characters (ajajajaja) then have a "spam detection" alert appear. If the person is legit, then they can put a temporary other username, and file an appeal to use a username that has more than four characters or otherwise "detected as spam" username. Again, the spam detection system can be done using functions that calculate whether a string of symbols is repeated over and over again ba<x>sed off of a template. This won't be as effective as the other method I suggested, because EPArsineh doesn't spend 10 hours a day 7 days a week on the Q/A site to know that EP is not really what it's meant to be anymore and is now filled with spam, but it will be far more effective than current procedures, and won't prevent "real" people from posting. It will, however, do a fairly decent job at blocking Baba's posts, since Baba is most likely a bot, and also reduce spam attempts--because in all honesty, it'll be hard for spammers (who have no creativity) to come up with a real username that'll slip past the filters. It's not much, but it's something.

Also, dispatch a bunch of EP helpers on Q/A to camp EP 24/7 to immediately tackle spam questions down and not let them stay up for long.
m108rfd
It is common in advertisements to use entire squadrons of explanation points as sales-oriented punctuation. We have all seen examples of that advertising technique in the form of "Get the best price!!! Get high quality!!! Buy product X!!!" I wonder whether this experienceproject site could get away with banning more than 4 consecutive occurrences of the same character without accidently banning a legitimate experienceproject advertisement once in a while that uses 4 or more consecutive explanation points.
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
"explanation" points xD "exclamation" you mean? And ya, I guess :P
m108rfd
I stand corrected on my punctuation terminology.
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
:P
EPArsineh
Thanks for taking the time to share this with us. It's an interesting idea and we're implementing some of this in the spam system currently in the works. Our engineering team is working on developing a new system for catching spam. The new smarter system is expected to be rolled out in a months time and you should see major improvements across the site.

In the meantime flagging spam, can help remove it while giving the author of the post an opportunity to appeal if they believe their post is within our community guidelines and TOS.
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
Not just in the posts, EPArsineh, I'm talking about in the username itself.
Instance, I want my username to be "abcdabcd123412344444" or something like that. It's clearly very spam-like. A program would autodetect that the username is spam-like, and would filter it out. I would then temporarily use a more legit username, and then file an appeal to use the spam-like username, with a reason why I want that particular username.
EPArsineh
Interesting idea. I'll talk with our engineering team about combing usernames for patterns common among spammers.
hitgod
What if someone posts 'ahahahahahahah' should that be spam? Also 'Baba' in my language means grandmother xD
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
I can't put the word strìp even if I'm referring to a comic strìp or a strìp of paper. Some words are going to get censored xD

 
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