There’s an additional problem, it seems that the banned posts are still showing up in Google. This means that Less Wrong’s failure to deal with spam is harming the utility of people outside LW who are searching Google for certain classes of products. Any final solution should also include the actual removal of these pages from LW.
I’m also worried about what this shows about our actual level of instrumental rationality given that we’ve now had this problem from a single set of spammers for a fair bit of time and all agree that there are problems, have had multiple threads about the problem, and still have done absolutely nothing about it.
There’s an additional problem, it seems that the banned posts are still showing up in Google. This means that Less Wrong’s failure to deal with spam is harming the utility of people outside LW who are searching Google for certain classes of products. Any final solution should also include the actual removal of these pages from LW.
I’m also worried about what this shows about our actual level of instrumental rationality given that we’ve now had this problem from a single set of spammers for a fair bit of time and all agree that there are problems, have had multiple threads about the problem, and still have done absolutely nothing about it.
I just gave myself a deadline to write a patch for that problem.
Edit: Done!