Re:How to stop a story from appearing on Reddit (2010)
by veb on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:58PM
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You do realise this post is from 2010, and it was on the front page of Reddit and HN back then, so it wouldn't be hard to think that someone may have fixed it since then!
Re:How to stop a story from appearing on Reddit (2010)
by kintamanimatt on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:00PM
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No, I didn't realize it was from 2010.
My comment still stands though: this post is incorrect. It may have been correct way back in the day when I was a Digg user, but now it's wrong.
A lot of people, like me, won't read the date of the post and will assume that this is still how reddit works. My comment illustrates how reddit works today.
Things get stuck in the spam filter all the time for a variety of reasons independent of keywords in the title. Multiple accounts, new accounts, or something else can trigger it. In any event, most moderators are really swift to free up things that aren't spam and otherwise comply with that subreddit's rules.
This evil plan falls apart quite rapidly because when a story is freed from the spam filter it jumps to the top of the new queue regardless of its age. This is why you'll sometimes see something that's an hour old sandwiched between submissions that are minutes old.
TL;DR I need to get off reddit and do some work.