The first thing I ever posted here was an article I'd written regarding reinforcement rod failure in natural stone countertops. I thought the article helpful, the mods deemed it spam and threw me off. I groveled a bit and was reinstated. Inevitably, they'll throw me off again; I'm just too much like Sophie and she got the permanent boot.

You're the exception that proves the rule, Joe. Blogs and YouTube videos are now so monetized now that they are the product. You were never trying to sell anything, not even your blog (to get hits and therefore appeal to advertisers.)

I was speaking about the 10 or so posts that appeared here last night. All spam, or abusive, certainly not any attempt to join in the forum in discussion. Folks on the Hot Topics forum complain about so-called abusive posts, some merely an opposite political view and others just trying to sling mud, disappearing routinely, manly on the weekends when there are no supervising adults from Houzz. So I assume that it takes more than one "Abusive" flag to remove a post for future review. Spam posts seem to take longer, more than one flag, perhaps?

So my question is straightforward. Do "spam" flags work better or worse that "Abusive" flags.

Try flagging those posts and maybe we'll see what happens. I think I marked them all as Abusive.

How do I flag the Houzz computer spam they throw in my face every time I switch posts?

Spam on spam. Please flag.