Reporting spam posts
Please have a mechanism whereby spam posts like these can be reported: https://www.indiehackers.com/@sachinlove/up-assistant-teacher-online-form-2018-3e873ae012
And request you to take down profiles like these. See these increasingly on the site.
You can report posts if you have enough points. It works fairly well — the posts disappear. But it only works if the posts don't have a bunch of upvotes or comments. So reporting this particular post won't do much. The main problem with spam isn't that reported posts don't go away, or that posts don't get reported, but that new spammers sign up daily and make new posts.
Why don't you give the ability to create a new post only when you have a minimum number of upvotes like some subreddits do?
Thanks for the info. I didn’t know about the Karma threshold and was looking for a Flag button as well. Would it help if we shadowbanned those accounts? So that they don’t catch on the fact that they’re banned and would limit them signing up with new accounts?
Yep, I do exactly that with many accounts. But some spammers' routines involve making a new account every time regardless. Hard to penalize them without penalizing all new accounts… but lots of legitimate posts come from people with new accounts signing up for IH for the first time.
I love what you do, but I don't envy your job!
Guys, if this is really an issue, should I build a ML model to flag potential spam for you? I’ve done this in the past with very good accuracy.
Sure! Email me: courtland@indiehackers.com
Just reported your post to check if it works :)
Dear Alex..that was really funny...did it work ?
Apparently not as your post had enough votes to stay alive so on practice community just need to moderate itself
How do you report profiles? There still doesn't seem to be a way.