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Anti-spam/Anti-malicious-posters algorithms will, by necessity, never be transparent, nor even consistent or remain the same over time.

Fighting spam and bad-faith commenters is a cat-and-mouse game.



You’re twisting the issue by calling it “bad-faith commenters” though. Just take a look at this thread, where even the most polite, yet critical comments are downvoted and quite fittingly really hard to read.




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