forum Two Ghost Notifications

Started March 27, 2021 by @tungsten group

tune

I have one current notification and there are two ghost ones. It's kind of annoying and I'm not sure if anyone else has it.

Normally it will go away on its own. It's happened a few times to me before, and currently is doing the same thing for me. Andrew has said before that it'll work itself out, here.

Yeah I know but I've been getting them more frequently and I thought I'd let him know :)

Ahh alright, cool. Sorry about that

The ghost notifications are spam posts that get auto-flagged and automatically hidden, and automatically delete themselves every night. We don't immediately delete because a lot of the spammers just instantly re-post as soon as they notice the post is deleted (and instead just hide their post from everyone except themselves), but this unfortunately causes some ghost notifications sometimes, especially in weeks (like this one) were we get a few hundred spam posts.

I'll experiment with a quicker auto-delete since I'd like to avoid having things like a captcha on signup. Thanks for letting me about the problem though. :)

I wasn't sure if it was a problem you were already aware of, or if other people were still having this problem as often as I was, so I wanted to bring it up again. Thank you so much for your awesome work Andrew!