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Should the Community Feed have a notification like this: "@ajelly has added their story"?

Asked by Mimishu1995 (23629points) July 10th, 2014

In each jelly’s profile there is a section called “story”. It’s basically a place for telling everyone anything about you or just rambling about nothing knowing that the author is the only audience.

It is also another option for spammers to promote their things apart from asking spam questions or crafting spam answers.

There are some “suspicious” jellies that I occasionally find on the Community Feed. The thing is, if they really try to spam using their profile like I suspect, sometimes it takes them so long. And by the time they have finished spamming, the Community Feed no longer displays their names. I can never see them unless they upload an avatar or follow other jellies or any other things. In short: they disappear along with their spams if all they do is just spam with their profile. Not to mention some more jellies who I can’t see because they disappear before I can get to look at the Community Feed.

I’m thinking that if somehow we can add a notification announcing that a jelly has added their story, it will be easier to track down that kind of spammers since the notification will bring them to attention.

That’s just one advantage I can think if a notification like that is added. What do you think? Should the Community Feed have something like that?

Side note: this thread doesn’t only concern about spamming, but about whether this feature will do us good in general. If you think there is any more advantages we can get from this feature feel free to say.

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