I’ve just added some new code to the site to “auto-moderate” some obvious spam. I think the definition of “obvious spam” that I used in the code is very strict, such that it might miss some spam, but should not auto-moderate any legitimate questions.

I don’t want to publicize the exact algorithm here, since spammers could see it and use that information to get around the auto-moderation, but if you PM me I will tell you.

Anyway, if you get a question auto-moderated, you will be redirected to your question as usual after asking it, but you will see the “This question has been deleted” banner and a flag that says ”[REJECTED]” next to your question. If you get this and the question was legitimate, will you please contact the mods to let me know so I can change the code?

Thank you!

PS: Sorry if you’ve tried to ask a question in the last five minutes and it hasn’t worked, that was my fault during the code changes.

PPS: I’m going to add a link here as a test of the new code, you can ignore it:

http://www.google.com