On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:53:16PM +0200, Valentin Rothberg wrote: > > One effect of being too keen to report things is that a high false > > positive rate will cause people to pay less attention, if the source is > > usually just generating noise then it gets tuned out.
> Note, that we keep a list of all reported items. If we know (for > certain) that something will be applied, we won't report anything > similar for a longer period of time. > I don't want those reports to be seen as spam, so I guess we need to > find a less noisy approach. It's something I do as a hobby besides my > PhD, so the only intention is to help, not to annoy people. I'd expect that holding off on the initial report for a while (at least a week but I'd guess longer) would probably avoid a lot of noise. Doing it immediately is likely to generate lots of false positives simply because coordinating down to a single day is a lot of effort.
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