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I've noticed that highly-voted down questions, which I'm sure are correspondingly flagged as spam, are still left around. The problem seems to be getting worse, in part (I think) because it's not being corrected.

Those four are all within the past month. As OnStartups continues to grow, it'd be great to avoid the newest questions page get cluttered with things the community has clearly indicated they don't think are appropriate.

P.S. Thanks for all the things you have done to make OnStartups an awesome community.

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asked Feb 6 at 0:04

Jay Neely♦
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	Excellent question - thoughtfully articulated - thanks! – Civil and Thoughtful Feb 6 at 1:22
	It looks like someone is volunteering for moderator responsibility... – Tim♦ Feb 6 at 2:09
	Haha, you're the one with the Enthusiast badge, Tim. ;-) But yeah, if giving more users moderation powers is a solution, that sounds good to me. – Jay Neely♦ Feb 6 at 2:40
	+1 to the notion of spreading the workload around, by appointing some community moderators. I hereby nominate everyone in the first column of the "Users" page. :-D – Jesper Mortensen Feb 6 at 10:16
	Sorry if I didn't make it clear (editing now), by "marked as spam" I meant flagged. Voting down is good though, since it prevents these questions from being displayed on & getting more attention on many of the site pages. – Jay Neely♦ Feb 6 at 23:59

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dharmesh · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-07 23:26:39Z UTC

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No good reason. But, as was said by Tim, we're happy for any offers of help. :)

Meanwhile, we'll try to do better. Overall, I think the community's been doing great and most of the discussions are non-spammy. But, point well taken.

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Thanks for responding Dharmesh! It looks like in the comments here, Jesper has specifically said he'd be willing to moderate, I would be too, and Jesper's suggestion of taking a look at the first column of users would definitely find you some other active enough people it'd be worth asking if they'd like to pitch in. – Jay Neely♦ Feb 8 at 16:08

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