I've been noting an increase in spam threads with the [Solved] prefix with zero replies. I've hit a few in the last couple of days it seems.
The latest one "How to install games in Mac book" sadly had 70 views and was in general for 2 hours with a ton of links to TV shows. Seems like a success for a spammer having that many links visible for such a long time. Maybe no reports were sent in (until I spotted it) or the staff may have been busy beforehand even if it was reported.
Would it be possible to automatically flag any thread marked [Solved] with zero replies for checking by staff or even block it being posted with the prefix set with no replies ? I'm thinking if a genuine user were to mark a thread solved after asking a question they should at least add a post to explain for others reading how it was solved even if no answers from helpers were available.
So a single reply (even from the OP) should be enough to not flag the post for a further check/blocking on a [Solved] tag.
Maybe a possibility to further frustrate spammers here, I don't mind losing a few potential beans by automating the "spammer frustration"
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