I noticed the same thing. It would be nice if we would get delete permissions for questions (and ideally also for user accounts) with a certain karma threshold.
On Saturday, August 17, 2013 1:53:11 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: > > There has been a fairly regular stream of spam on ask.sagemath.org - five > this morning was a bit much, though. So here is what I recommend for > action. > > 1) The first person to see a spam question (i.e. completely unrelated to > math or Sage) who has the proper privilege can edit the tag to spam, edit > the topic to "Spam" or "old spam message" (sometimes just spam doesn't work > due to character limits), and remove the content of the message and/or > answers. Remove as much of the spammy text as you can, based on your > privileges. > 2) Please do NOT close the question. Closed questions cannot be deleted > (I view this as a bug in askbot, which I believe I reported to them a long > time ago). > 3) DELETE the question if possible. I think that currently I am the only > user with this privilege, but maybe Doug, Mike, and/or Niles might have it > too. > > If someone feels like a different workflow on this is better, I'm open to > that. I just find it easiest to completely delete the question (as opposed > to off-topic questions about math), and in the interim remove anything that > is of use to the spammer. > > Thanks! > - kcrisman > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
