I have seen a dozen of blatant spam on dev.to since today morning from atleast 3 different accounts, which I have subsequently reported.
Please refrain from harming this great community. As for others who have witnessed similar things on your feed, please report them as well.
It will also be great if dev.to imposes a stricter spam avoidance mechanism on posting to feed, since shitoberfest is already a real thing now. 😔
PS. I have screen recorded my feed if needed later on, but would prefer not to doxx anyone or violate anyone's privacy.
Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise, https://dev.to/search?q=customer%20care%20number&filters=class_name:Article filters out these reports for ease of removal.
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Now I am getting this nonsense spam posts from 2 accounts.
The team behind Smoke Detector on Stack Exchange might be able to offer advice/help.
Same thing here:
dev.to/crimsonmed/updating-dev-spa...
All the ones I found have the same number.
So, let's do a fair flag option. A treshold level 1 to mark items spam. Level 2 treshold (items marked spam) will be fully hidden from the feed after hitting that treshold.
Hello everyone! On behalf of the DEV team, thank you for your help in surfacing and reporting these accounts.
Our team is both proactively seeking these accounts out and responding to complaints around the clock. We are also talking through a more permanent fix but in the meantime, we are banishing users and their posts/comments from the site as we find them.
Thanks again for your help in making DEV a positive, helpful, and spam-free environment for all!
I know dev team is working hard on this but this is really getting out of hand now:
dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/...
@graciegregory Here is a suggestion of spam rules.
Spam Filter Rules Examples:
source: dev.to/crimsonmed/updating-dev-spa...
That's great to hear.
It's turning into a full on attack. The top 24 posts in my feed!
Very strange, you would think that they would send out malware/phishing links, but no, just gibberish.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
I've just reported the same posts. Hopefully we can nip this in the bud.
Sure. Hope so.
I think dev.to need to add a spam filter. The "customer care" accounts were created today/yesterday. So, they could add a cool down/recaptcha filter for newer accounts.
That's a great suggestion. Karl has also provided a suitable url to target these posts.
I have to pick between block or report, can DEV do both with single action?
Even blocking does not stop them from appearing on feed. It just stops dm s.
I am also seeing many spam for the past few days. I have to reported every one of them.
Yes please, I don't want dev.to to be spammed just because of dickless folks.
Now they get to the top of my feed.
Sabotaging UX ? That seems pretty evil for anyone to be doing. Even I haven't engaged much on dev today.