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1timspalding
Members have been complaining for a while about works falsely labelled as spam through an automatic process.
Monday I made it possible to vote to reverse these designations. (See http://www.librarything.com/topic/107167 )
Today I took a long hard look at what was labelled as spam and what wasn't. The algorithm just did too much. The main problem is that, prior to a year or so ago, there was no effective difference between users we deleted and users who deleted themselves.
I have pulled back the algorithm a good deal. I won't reveal details, but thousands of works have been freed. This SHOULD resolve most problems—and if it doesn't, you can easily vote to make them not spam. (Indeed, as described, if you have a paid account the action is instantaneous. Spammers hate to pay.) But it also means that there will be some suppressed works popping up again that shouldn't.
Note that works voted as spam are not affected.
Anyway, that's the story.
Monday I made it possible to vote to reverse these designations. (See http://www.librarything.com/topic/107167 )
Today I took a long hard look at what was labelled as spam and what wasn't. The algorithm just did too much. The main problem is that, prior to a year or so ago, there was no effective difference between users we deleted and users who deleted themselves.
I have pulled back the algorithm a good deal. I won't reveal details, but thousands of works have been freed. This SHOULD resolve most problems—and if it doesn't, you can easily vote to make them not spam. (Indeed, as described, if you have a paid account the action is instantaneous. Spammers hate to pay.) But it also means that there will be some suppressed works popping up again that shouldn't.
Note that works voted as spam are not affected.
Anyway, that's the story.
2Nicole_VanK
Great. Thanks Tim.
(And we can alway re-suppress the real spam works)
(And we can alway re-suppress the real spam works)
