2021-01-04 UTC
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[tantek] [Raphael_Luckom] it's a many layered problem. the /spam page has some more as snarfed points out. At the highest level there was an error in inventing "Pingbacks" as a new UI thing instead of just being a transport protocol for peer-to-peer comments, and processed as such. Eventually people tolerated pingbacks being more "spammy" than comments perhaps because they were a separate "lower quality" thing.