We’re happy to announce that we will be focusing on ”community tooling”, especially the function and use of flags, for this sprint.
:) II’ve made a some request readingrequests regarding flags and spam already. So I'll just list them with a TLDR:
Request regarding flags:
When dealing with spam waves and near identical spam posts, one might accidentally open a post already flagged. This is annoying and time-consuming. But also easily fixable by having a small label 
on any post one has flagged.
Spam wave means there is a lot of very obvious spam, no need to open the post. No need to open it. So allow user with experience(!) to flag from the overview pages, but only for spam and moderator attention. The other flag types always require looking at the post.
- Notify users about flag responses [Score 42 + Endorsement by user #1]
Custom mod flags can get responses, you (the flag raiser) likely never realized, as the only place to find them is absurdly obscure. While at notifying users: Inform users about rejected edits, it irritates me much more than it should that there is simply no notification about it.
Request regarding spam itself:
- To prevent mass profile spam editing "About me" and "Links" should be locked behind a privilege [Score 48]
New users should do something (successfully suggest-editing a post, posting without being marked as spam etc)before beiing allowed to edit the "About me"/"Links" section. This would greatly reduce profile spam.
Reduce the visibility of profile spam by removing badge related sites from indexing would remove spam from search resultes, discourage spammers and even save some resources as less pages must be indexed.
