This is just an announcement to let those know that I will be trying to, in effect, turn off the spam filter in /r/science. I have been very impressed by the community’s ability to flag the right items in the reports tab (it’s not perfect, but it’ll do); from hereinafter, I shall effectively clear the spam filter every now and then, and let reports and downvotes deal with undesirable items.

There isn’t much real spam anyway, and it seems better this way to have a few bad items in the /new/ list rather than hundreds of false positives in the spam tab.