# Human-driven copy-paste spam

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/human-driven-copy-paste-spam/97205
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [September 14, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/human-driven-copy-paste-spam/97205 "2018-09-14T18:36:48Z")
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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/human-driven-copy-paste-spam/97205/14 "2018-09-16T16:51:45Z")

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Yes, one of the major parts of the SE review queues is “improve post by editing it”, but that’s not really a blocker when what you’re concerned about is spam - you really just need a “seems good” / “flag” / “escalate”1 decision, and limit what kinds of things get in the queue in the first place - you’re looking for “spammer”, not “low quality post”.

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1: “escalate” is referring to “I need a second on this” / “I don’t feel comfortable making this decision on my own”. One implementation would be to open the composer to a new #lounge topic linking to the post under review, and have the reviewer write in their concerns. “Is this a new wave of spam?”

edit: hey actually that ^ seems like a good button to put on the admin flag queue page, targetting the #staff category instead…

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