Writing Exchange Spam

The Writing Exchange page for English is suffering from more spam. This time from someone using a script to flood the page with messages from different accounts at once. I am not quite sure why. Perhaps they just want a free translation. Would be nice to have a way to report/remove this. Other posts get buried by this and left unanswered. I take it that someone was able to create a dozen free accounts and use a script to do this. It would be nice if someone needed a minimum time commitment/learned words before gaining access to the writing exchange.

I think the ultimate system would be a forum where posts can be up/downvoted/reported, unanswered posts get priority and there is an incentive system for users to provide high-quality corrections.

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They all seem to be written by an Indonesian person wanting their work emails/memos translated.

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Thanks for letting me know. I’ll look into this and see what I can do.

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