16 Jul 2008 chalst   » (Master)

Overzealous culling of new Advogato accounts
I see that the new account jbaker, linking to http://bakerdesignz.com has attracted a spam rating of 13. Looking at the articles posted there, this seems to be the business site of a Justin Baker who uses javascript in his work, and wants to share some site design and javascript under GPL. This looks worthy of an apprentice certification, and certainly should not be counted spam.

In general, as Steven Rainwater has already pointed out, a lot of new accounts that don't spam anything are being marked as spam by quite a few people. Unpromising new accounts don't weigh much; don't mark as spam accounts that aren't actually being abusive in some way.

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