[BizarroLand]

1: Spam makers can make far more spam than you would think possible. 1a: Spam makers can make far more spam accounts than you would think possible. 2: Moderators handle the grand majority of that spam before you ever even see it in addition to managing admin tasks. 3: I don't want to have to block 300 posts and posters to see 1 that I have any possibility of enjoying. 3a: In the best possible world, AI would handle the majority of that grunt work, but there's no telling how wrong it can go.

[rajanaccros]

As far as I know moderators are not responsible for most of the spam that comes through. As you said it can be plentiful. I have been caught in spam (other) filters many times just for using tor browser (thanks HN!). We already have spam filters available with spam trends that are pretty discernable that can do the bulk of the work.

There are other ways to make this work through some heuristic that auto identifies a comment and starts it below a visible threshold. What spammers are not good at, is spending time to go edit comments and content to evade these filters.

My point is that moderation is extremely limited. Review illegal content flagged comments, check appeals for false positives of a spam filter. All other content should it make it in the thread can be moderated by the community.