Timeline for Why is the site being flooded with junk right now? What is being done about it?
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| Sep 28 at 20:45 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 7 at 2:59 | comment | added | Noah Schweber | @DavidRoberts More garbage, this time from user KarateKid. | |
| Jul 4 at 7:08 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Or possibly at least some restrictions here on meta could be considered: Change reputation required to post on meta back to 5 reputation points and To which extent should spam posts on meta be considered a problem? (I am aware that the problem is mainly on meta. But, for example, at this moment, one can see four 1-rep users on the top of the active tab on meta.) | |
| Jul 4 at 7:06 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | In context of this, would it be reasonable to discuss requiring registration: Should MathOverflow require registration to ask a question? Although the previous discussion shows this suggestions was not popular among the MO users. (And I have to admit that I have some doubts to which extent it would actually help.) | |
| Jul 2 at 14:53 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | BTW I consider this to be a reasonable question for meta. (I thought this was worth mentioning, as the question has a close vote at the moment and from the timeline I see that it was in the close votes review queue before.) | |
| Jul 2 at 1:54 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | Gosh, it is getting worse, isn't it. Flag this stuff as fast as you can. | |
| Jul 1 at 20:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 1 at 17:24 | history | edited | Sam Hopkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 19 at 7:16 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @YemonChoi: there is a first answers review queue. Given that a lot of these are using disposable accounts and just post once or twice, this may be a good way to find the problematic accounts. | |
| Jun 16 at 20:39 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I was wondering why David's suggestion wasn't yielding what I was looking for. @MartinSleziak - thank you for the offer, I am a bit too busy to engage properly right now, but I may get in touch with you at a later date. | |
| Jun 16 at 9:22 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @YemonChoi sorry, it seems I completely mis-read your question! See Martin's comments | |
| Jun 16 at 9:21 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @MartinSleziak oh, whoops. Wasn't paying enough attention to the question. I guess the 'active' tab is the next best approximation, before actual SEDE queries like you suggest. | |
| Jun 16 at 5:42 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Getting a list of new answers to old questions would probably be a task for SEDE. Search on the site allows to restrict by the age of the post, but the active tab shows the questions which were bumped for any reason. Feel free to ping me in my chatroom if you want to discuss this a bit more (so that we avoid a long exchange in comments). And maybe something like this would be a reasonable as a separate question here on meta. | |
| Jun 16 at 5:41 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @YemonChoi It is not in the same nice form as the various tabs available on the questions page, but one can search for answers and then choose to order the search result by newest or active. Sometimes it could be reasonable to restrict this to the list of tags you're watching. | |
| Jun 16 at 5:38 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @DavidRoberts AFAIK tab shows new questions and not new answers. | |
| Jun 13 at 4:35 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @YemonChoi mathoverflow.net/questions?tab=Newest works, I think. You have to go through the 'questions' link in the menu on the left (under the hamburger lines, for me) and then you can pick 'newest', 'active', 'unanswered', or even a custom filter for instance for just the newest with the tags you care about. | |
| Jun 11 at 21:16 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @DavidRoberts At the risk of derailing: is there a queue where one can see "all new answers"? I tend to rely on checking the front page but this only shows questions with recent activity, and some of this is editing | |
| Jun 11 at 9:22 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | When this content is flagged, and people are doing so, it ends up in all the moderators' special mod inbox. So we are definitely aware of it! The 'why exactly now?' is a hard one. Who knows? All the LLMs going online makes it easier for people to use them to try their hand, for reasons best known to themselves. As for what is being done, we are doing what we have always done with accounts that are made just to post stuff that's not wanted :-) But as Scott mentioned: flag flag flag. Flagging such content as spam triggers automated tools to do their work. | |
| Jun 10 at 21:17 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jun 17 at 3:09 | |||||
| Jun 10 at 18:32 | vote | accept | Sam Hopkins | ||
| Jun 10 at 13:39 | comment | added | LSpice | In one multi-named user's case, so that we will eventually recognise the importance of primes $p \ge 5 \mod 6$, whatever that means. | |
| Jun 10 at 5:00 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jun 10 at 3:06 | answer | added | S. CarnahanMod | timeline score: 36 | |
| Jun 9 at 22:48 | history | asked | Sam Hopkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |