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Yes, It would be good idea. In addition to that, soon spam filters are going to work in QA also. So within few hours after question is posted, filters will be able to send them to moderation process.
Currently, these filters are working under other forums pretty well.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Good Idea 
Born To Learn
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Yes i agree too, Really Great idea. it'll be much better to report such spam questions .
~R@JEES#
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The problem is it will become way too easy to mark something as SPAM. And as far as I know, there is no Undo if you were to accidentally click it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Exactly.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Whenever i logged in to the portal I have seen the blank space above the poll,
I think it gets filled only when we polling article of the Month,
My suggestion over here is can we fill that space using any valuable information.
Thanks
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Do you have an ad-blocker enabled?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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May it be that it landed into the moderation queue and afterwards the filters allowed it to be posted?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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No, it should be purely technical problem with page rendering, one of those I reported before.
For example, answered or reported question is not marked as such in a question list after page refresh, and some other things are not showing. Once I found that removing all cookies and then logging in again fix some page rendering.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: Once I found that removing all cookies and then logging in again fix some page rendering.
Oh, good to know.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And I said "some". Not in this case. Too bad I don't know how to reproduce it. I did not even remember it the post appeared on the same computer or another one. My fault. 
—SASergey A Kryukov
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This question was shut down recently: [^]; one of the three persons listed as the source of the shut-down has a low-rep on CP, but they do have a "Silver" rep as "Custodian" which enables them to report a message.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get to the cached version on Google in time.
I was able to recover my one "solution" on that thread using the "version" trick, but some dialogue I had in comments ... extensive, at least half-hour of my time spent on the back-and-forth ... seems unrecoverable.
While I do not mean to cast any aspersions on the contribution of the low-rep person of the three "reporters," I, once again, question the removal of threads where there are several solutions, including a solution from a top-rep person, like Sergey, and substantial dialogue between OP and others in comments. Note, however, that Sergey was one of the persons who reported the thread, even though I'm pretty sure his "solution" was written very recently.
I don't like losing what I have carefully written, and researched !
thanks, Bill
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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No problem, I have put it back.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thank you, Sean ! You get half-an-hour extra on the elephant-ride for that when you come over.
cheers, Bill
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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 *wheeeee*
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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When you confirm "this is spam" by clicking the bin, it appears to start a post-back / reload cycle - but it never completes, or eventually throws up the "Abort Retry Fail" page[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It just took a while but finished then.
I guess we were on the same messages.
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It takes a lot of time, but finishes without error - I was able to gain 4 rep-points by hitting the bin again and again
See my post below (two of them)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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There is again some SPAM on the Q&A forum.
How about
1) not allow to create more than one CP account per IP address and day?
2) not allow more than 5 different posts (i.e. questions) per user and day?
Cheers
Andi
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(1) is a problem: all members of a company will often share a single IP address, and changing your IP address is pretty simple - at home all you have to do is turn the ADSL router off and back on again!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I aim for making the system behaving sluggish for repeated (similar) actions while "normal" behavior is not affected.
E.g. one user asking *many* questions a day is questionable 
Creating many accounts from one site in one day is questionable too - how to detect that?
Any other suggestion how achieve this?
Cheers
Andi
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Great idea! I'd modify that this way:
Disallow single user to post more than one message if its content is the same (removing leading and ending spaces).
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You could do fancy things to get a correlation function for two messages, e.g. leave away all non-alpha-num chars and do the histogram (kind of finger-print of a message). If another message is similar (not exactly the same), you get notified that a similar message already exists...
But I think to start with, restricting the number of questions per time interval (day?) is good enough to fool spammers.
Thinking about it, it's a lost game: one might then move on to use "Reply" for spamming, etc. Restricting the number of comments per time interval is not feasible...  .
Cheers
Andi
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