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I don't think I actually know what one is, I know they make things "work" or more often not work, but not anything else

I created a good reply to this, but it got marked as spam and still hasn't been passed, after 24 hours or more.

I agree, lets see if this post gets through, third time lucky?

Yet another post lost

I wish more people would remember it's there to serve us and make our lives easier, not more difficult. The old site did need an upgrade as it wasn't working properly, but this often dosent' work at all.

Progress, these days, is only for the sake of it. The purpose of Technology is to serve Mankind; not the other way round.

It's a game I really don't want to have to play anymore, it's such a waste of time and energy. It's depressing too.

Mummycat it is more like an escalating cold war.

I'll explain...

Computers would be able to detect spam etc effectively if the techniques stayed the same. But people learn ways to get around those detections. So new detection algorithms are then needed. And then people work out how to get around them. It goes on and on and on, and never ends. It is like a cold war. It's sad.

Having embraced all kinds of technological and scientific “advances” in my teens in the 80’s despite my grandparents total opposition to same, including the TV, computers, internet and mobile phones, over the years I’ve come to realise that our grandparents were correct all along, as their predictions and warnings have turned out to be correct and vindicated 40 years after their passing and over the years, internet censorship has crept in - our grandparents always openly questioned why ordinary people should be allowed any access to these technologies without a licence system and/or without having their need to have these challenged by the police/council and/or in a court of law - we see the online safety bill come in, along with digital ID’s and the replacement of the existing internet with 5G, 6G and even 7G, where no effort has been made to shut down the Dark Web or the Deep Web - the biggest eye-opener for me was when during Covid, historians were being subjected to online censorship - many things today, in terms of technological and scientific advances, are regarded by many of a conservative mindset, as being nothing more than Satanism dressed up as science and frankly, it’s hard to disagree with them - many parents still won’t have the internet or mobile phones in their homes at all, as they regard these technologies as being “filth” 

I think I've always had luddite tendecies, but then my approach to a lot of things is poke it with a stick, or thump it and see if that fixes it, although thats probably a hangover from old tv's that frequently needed a thump to get them working properly.

It does seem odd to me that with more and more sophisticated computing, something like spam and abuse filters get things so wrong.

I do largely agree with you. I have become more of a luddite in my advancing years.

When it comes to this site and the spam/abuse detection, NAS are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

They either employ 24/7 real human mods at great expense, who have to check through every post, or they automate it and fall foul of false positives (spam/abuse that gets through) and false negatives (legitimate posts not getting through)

I wish it was less painful for us folks though.