I wonder if there is a rule against developers teaming up to mark the spam
comments as spam on each other's apps.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Tim Mensch <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9/15/2011 11:54 AM, Nathan wrote:
> > If I look at the Comment Posting Policy, most if not all of the
> > comments mentioned in this thread are in violation.  But I can't say
> > if (not in compliance with policy) ==  (spam) in the eyes of whomever,
> > if anyone, gets the spam reports, or if reporting them all just makes
> > us look like a whining developer that can't handle any negative feedback.
> I can't remember where or when I heard it, but I had a Google rep tell
> me to just mark any comments in violation of the policy as spam. Maybe
> if we're lucky someone from Google will chime in and verify that's OK.
>
> I can always hope. :)
>
> My guess is that no human ever sees the result of a "spam" click,
> anyway. It's far more likely to be a Craigslist-like system where, if
> enough people mark a comment as spam, it's automatically killed. And if
> we're lucky, then if enough of a single user account's comments are
> spam, that user is banned. If we're REALLY lucky, then that user is
> ninja-banned (meaning that they don't ever realize that they're banned).
>
> Tim
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