[Info-vax] A cry for help

[cao...@pitbulluk.org]

On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 9:53:08 AM UTC, Neil Rieck wrote:

> That's when I noticed that the google nerds had added a tool that I just noticed: 
> (1) display a page of 30 messages 
> (2) click on the colored icon of any message you wish to flag (you can click up to 30) 
> (3) click on the icon containing a circled exclamation (a dialog will pop up) 
> (4) SPAM will usually be selected by default so click the button "submit report" 
> 
> I have no idea if/when google's algorithms will kick in to stop this ridiculous non-sense at the source BUT I am hoping that if multiple visitors of this newsgroup do the same as me, then this activity will set off a few alarms somewhere.
> Neil Rieck 
> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 
> https://neilrieck.net 
> https://neilrieck.net/OpenVMS.html

I've automated it somewhat with cypress and have started flagged the batches of messages as 'hateful content' especially as they're now advertising spells that kill people. The hindi drivel is none too pleasant either.

There was a brief period when the 'Marked as spam etc.' blanking disappeared, along with the message a few hours later. It now seems that I have to scroll through pages of this to get to a legitimate post.

Does Google actually care about this?

K