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As many of you have correctly pointed out, we've been facing a bit of an influx of spam on Current lately. We talked about some of the defense we put in place earlier, and today we're happy to say we've launched the next component in our spam defense! We've implemented a new filtering system that should prevent the majority of the spam from seeing the light of day. It's been less than 24 hours, and we've already seen a great deal of spam get caught up in the nets. However, as with any new system, we'll still be tweaking the levels and adjusting things to achieve optimum spam defeating levels. While we're doing this, the occassional bit of spam may slip through, so if you see any please flag it for us, so we can help teach the filters to better recognize spam. You may also find that some of your comments get caught up in the net. We're doing our best to make sure this doesn't happen, but if you try to post a comment and don't see it appear, that's likely the cause. We will be going through these comments and fishing out anything that's mistakenly caught up in the spam net. Thanks to all of you for your flags and patience while we dealt with spam–and especially for making us laugh with some of your spam flags! The LOL badges many of you earned were well-deserved, and made dealing with the influx of spammers much more entertaining. StephOnline Community Team added by: sgwhites