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Madeleine Birchfield (Jun 24 2025 at 16:26):Urs Schreiber wants messages pertaining to spam and crackpots in the nCafe to be hosted elsewhere rather than the nForum, and David Corfield suggested the Category Theory Zulip as an alternative location where these can be hosted:
https://nforum.ncatlab.org/discussion/2339/spam-and-crackpots-in-ncafe/?Focus=99350#Comment_99350
Nathanael Arkor (Jun 24 2025 at 16:38):It seems strange to report nCafé spam on Zulip. Why not contact one of the moderators directly?
John Baez (Jun 24 2025 at 16:49):Why the hell should this Zulip be burdened with discussion of spam and crackpots on the nCafé ?
Kevin Carlson (Jun 24 2025 at 16:50):Yeah, this isn't a good solution. The only people posts about spam on the nCafe here could possibly be relevant to are the moderators of the nCafe, so the moderators should be contacted directly (whether via DM here, via email, or via some other means.)
John Baez (Jun 24 2025 at 16:53):By the way: one particular childish fellow has posted the same silly comments on my nCafé posts, my Azimuth posts, and my Mastodon posts in recent days. I don't think there's any special need to discuss it anywhere. It would be sort of like talking about a malign puppy that shits on my stretch of the sidewalk - one might talk it about if there's nothing else to do, but otherwise why bother? I'm trying to deal with it, working with people who can help.
I didn't know people were talking about this on the nForum.
John Baez (Jun 24 2025 at 22:17):But yes, they were.
As I said there:
Anyone who sees spam on the nCafé is free to either email me about it or DM me on the category theory Zulip. David Corfield, Tom Leinster and Mike Shulman are also able to delete spam on the nCafé.
Posting about it on the nForum is unhelpful. Posting about it publicly on the category theory Zulip is similarly unhelpful.
Some jerk is spamming my articles on the n-Café now, and Jacques Distler is attempting to help me block it. I’ve known about this for 2 days. Any spam on my articles automatically goes into my inbox and I see it
David Michael Roberts (Jun 24 2025 at 22:36):Yes, the front page of the Café shows a string of profanities as recent comments in the right-hand column, though the comments themselves are deleted. Somehow the software is not quite in-synch.
John Baez (Jun 24 2025 at 22:38):You probably just have to refresh the page. But better yet: ignore the whole thing.
David Michael Roberts (Jun 24 2025 at 22:41):Refreshing (even a force refresh) didn't change it. I will ignore it and it will go away, I just thought the phenomenon should be noted for Jacques' information.
John Baez (Jun 24 2025 at 22:43):Okay, thanks. The comments are gone for me, now. The guy will post more....
David Michael Roberts (Jun 24 2025 at 22:49):I never saw the in-situ comments. Merely the 'Recent Comments' panel containing the links to them
John Baez (Jun 24 2025 at 23:04):Right, I get what you mean. I see no comments there. Anyway, discussing this is almost as tiresome as dealing with the spam itself. I'd rather talk about math.