Sensitive to those who like to keep their streams as pure as possible, Google+ is advancing its aggressive stance against spam.
Nandini Kappiah, a software engineer at Google who works on preventing spam and abuse on Google products, wrote on G+ about the latest development in the never-ending war against comments that clutter up posts.
Kapplah provided screenshots of how this will work, which you can see above.
- Instead of showing moderated comments inline, G+ will now group and hide them behind a small indicator just beneath the comment count.
- You can keep the comments if you want, or you can choose to hide them from your stream.
These changes come after a post in December that announced a new comment spam moderation system in which G+ would identify possibly spammy comment on a post and immediately mark it for users to review. When it does that:
- Other viewers won't see the comment at all.
- You'll see it grayed out, with the option to remove or restore.
- The commenter "won't notice any difference (unless their comments get removed, of course)."
On Twitter, follow Athima Chansanchai, who is also trying to keep her head above water in the Google+ stream.
