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Benjamin Lannon
Benjamin Lannon

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How does Dev internally catch posts that violate TOS?

This weekend I was endlessly scrolling through the main feed and saw some content that was violating TOS. Some was promoting things like vacations, or posts linking to sites with sexual content. I used the report abuse feature to report them, but given the traffic of the site, I am curious if the team has other avenues or tools to catch these types of posts and take them down?

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Katie Nelson

Hey Benjamin, I see I'm not the only one who noticed the increase in spam posts the last 2 days. I also reported abuse on one of them that I found offensive.

Worse though are the ones who made dozens of posts with the same content of nonsense. There should be another layer of checking on each post submit that proves you're a real person and not a bot.