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Aren't new articles subject to approval? And aren't unapproved articles only visible to those with sufficient reputation? In that case, I'd say that's a pretty good system. Most visitors won't see spam articles... they'll be deleted first.
And Chris has mentioned in the past that having a barrier to writing articles (in this case, a required level of reputation) is not ideal because that prevents potential authors from posting them. Not to mention that some people may only contribute articles, so the only other way for them go gain reputation would be when they view the site while logged in, which could take a while to build up the required reputation. We should allow an author to post an article as their first contribution on their first day as a member.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Aren't new articles subject to approval? And aren't unapproved articles only
visible to those with sufficient reputation?
You know how sick I am of disapproving spam articles?? I'd like to concentrate only on the legit articles.
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How many spam articles are we talking? 1 spam for every 1 real article? 10 to 1? 1 to 10?
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To me, seems like one out of every 10 is an ad lately.
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That doesn't seem like too much to handle, IMO. I would think that spam articles are faster to reject than good articles are to accept (spam is usually pretty obvious).
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User reported and I removed the spam.
0100000101101110011001000111001011101001
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Gone.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thank you, Chris! 
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Thanks as always. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Answer has been deleted. I have also reported the account[^].
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Member reported. Spam deleted. Next? 
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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