The worst problem is that this spam stays in rss readers even once it’s deleted from lesswrong itself. Right now lesswrong discussions rss feed’s signal to noise ratio is very very bad.
I was getting similarly annoyed, so I signed up for Feed Rinse, put the LW discussion RSS on their site, added some filters, all involving Pandora (though I would be sorry if any great discussions arise about the music service), and put that into my RSS feed. Because, somehow, Google Reader can’t filter anything, even though gmail has a pretty amazing filtration system.
… or captchas.
The worst problem is that this spam stays in rss readers even once it’s deleted from lesswrong itself. Right now lesswrong discussions rss feed’s signal to noise ratio is very very bad.
They’re getting past captchas to create their accounts.
In such case, disregard my suggestion.
Do we not already have captchas? I must admit it has been an awful long time since I created an account here.
I was getting similarly annoyed, so I signed up for Feed Rinse, put the LW discussion RSS on their site, added some filters, all involving Pandora (though I would be sorry if any great discussions arise about the music service), and put that into my RSS feed. Because, somehow, Google Reader can’t filter anything, even though gmail has a pretty amazing filtration system.