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M$1.00  Funded By Mahalo ? |  March 15, 2009 11:29 PM

Suggestion for reducing Twitter spam.

Recently I saw an idea that would remove all @answers posts that do not include a question mark, to prevent people from mistakenly replying to tweets from @answers (thinking that they're replying to the answer) and then having their replies show up as questions.
This got me thinking... why not have two separate Twitter accounts? @answers would be for asking questions, but all other correspondence would come from another account (say, "@mahaloanswers" or something). If a tweet is sent to that account, the tweeter gets a reply saying "to reply to an answer, use the link provided in that answer's tweet."
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March 16, 2009 12:09 AM
I understand what your suggesting, but I honestly don't think its that big of a deal. It's not spam, its literally real people responding to the @answers account after they can an answer on twitter... and like I said last time 80% of the time its simply a "Thank you" Never have I seen Spam come in this way, not once.

As suggested last time, use the "Report" button if you see it.

When I'm on shift I check the new questions often and vanish all the @answers questions that aren't really questions as soon as I see them
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March 16, 2009 12:15 AM
Yeah, I probably should have used a less-strong word than "spam."

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