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Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Myrtone
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Yes, that exactly.

— Dysk (contribs)11:40, 6 March 2019

I personally don't find any problem with it, but YMMV apparently.

 

If pages that exist only to spam get hidden from public view, why shouldn't other spam?

myrtonos@11:57, 6 March 2019

Ideally pages witch are spam would still be visible too, it's just impossible to achieve using this software.

This is a simple matter of transparency, it doesn't make any personal difference to me I can see deleted stuff anyway.

— Dysk (contribs)12:28, 6 March 2019

There is such a thing as ForgiveAndForget. If pages that are spam should be visible too, they could just be blanked.

myrtonos@12:30, 6 March 2019

Sadly there's no way then to deal with the titles being spam, or the fact it still appears as a page when searching.

But then I didn't design this software or write the guidelines for using it, I am just pointing out that people here think your approach to spam is a little unusual.

— Dysk (contribs)19:24, 6 March 2019