On Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:29:38 AM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: > > 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. > > > As far as I know, you do, just not for *closed* questions. What that threshold is, I don't know, but it must be under 6000. I haven't tried a user account yet...
> > 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.
