We are taking numerous measures in an attempt to slow spam on SoLinkable. One of which is the submit anti-spam tool. The idea is that almost all spam comes from brand new members. By limiting their submissions, we hope that this will greatly reduce the total amount of submissions by one user group.

All new users are limited to one submission each 24 hours period. Once 24 hours have past, the ban is lifted and they are able to submit another new link. After their first link has been added, any user attempting to submit again will be met with the following screen.

The majority of spam to SoLinkable is submitted by users who sign up, post numerous links, offer nothing of valuable to the community, and then return a few days/weeks later only to submit another group of spammy links. A users submission limit is only lifted once they have reached a certain level of community involvement, determined by their “karma”. As you may already know, karma is a mathematical number generated by taking into account posts, comments, and votes. The more a user participates, the more their karma will increase.

Previous SoLinkable users who have not participated in a few weeks will notice they also have submission limits. This is because the submit anti-spam tool is dependent upon karma. If the user has not been to SoLinkable in recent weeks, then their karma will be low, causing the tool to restrict their ability to submit multiple links per day. This restriction will be lifted once they begin to participate at SoLinkable again.

In the end, this tool is only meant to hinder those out there who spam and move on. Any regular users will rarely see this tool after their first day. The karma limits are set low enough that only little participation on day one is required to have the submit limit lifted by day two.

Happy linking, and as usual, thank you for all your support. Take care,

-SoLinkable Staff

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