Calling all spam fighters

Posted by Dharmesh Mokani, Software Engineer

orkut is an online community designed to help people connect, build relationships and create engaging communities around common interests. We love orkut just as much as you do, and we want to keep it fun and clean - or, as we like to call it, beautiful. So while many members of the orkut team work to build new features like the orkut platform, others of us are dedicated to building tools to keep orkut clean and spam free. But we can't do it ourselves- we need your help.

That is why we recently created a new tool for communities. While communities provide a great medium for people to come together and share ideas through forums, polls and events, lots of communities can be the target of spam. Until now, if you were not the community owner or moderator, you couldn't remove the spam if you saw it. Well that has changed. Now you will be able to click "report spam" to specific topics or items in communities that are spammy, even if you are not the community moderator or owner. This will help us take down spam faster and take the pressure off the community owners and moderators. You can also report spam on specific scraps that you see in your own scrapbook.

We're constantly working on new spam fighting tools, so stay tuned as we release more early this year. In the meantime, please help keep orkut communities beautiful and report spam when you see it!