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Circumventing spam filters (and deceiving reviewers) by taking part of a legitimate post and adding a spam link--possible solutions?
Users have found a way to circumvent spam filters and deceive reviewers with less-than-keen eyes for spam, by copying part of a legitimate post and adding a spam link. Can we better control this kind ...
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1answer
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Spammers exploiting the URL in the user profile to bypass spam protection
It seems spammers have found a way to work around spam filters using the URL in the user profile. This can come from the Home Page field in the form that unregistered users must fill out (the ...
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4answers
337 views
Should we replace the content of spam posts so that they say they are spam?
The user Gareth edited a blatant spam post, replacing it with the following content (the content is now deleted and is visible to 10k users and moderators only):
UTTER SPAM
Please delete me.
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8
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1answer
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Can we please blacklist the computersight.com Spam (if possible)?
As most of you will have noticed, the last two days brought us enormous amounts of spam from computersight.com – more specifically the following link:
computersight.com / communication-networks / ...
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1answer
217 views
What is the purpose of the Deposit account?
I've noticed that several answers that I've flagged as spam whose accounts have been deleted have been assigned to the Deposit account. What is the purpose of this account, and why is it needed?
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4answers
311 views
Recommending own products
What's our stance on relevant product recommendations? The paragraph in the FAQ is clearly not enough in this case.
As a recent example, a developer of an Outlook plug-in/addon started answering ...
3
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1answer
68 views
Advertisement answers and company references
What is the proper way to handle
Answers that specifically mention a company's products in a way that obviously is more an advertisement than a real answer
Answers that refer to a (company's) weblog ...
3
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2answers
88 views
Request: cleaning Super User from a particular spam for password recovery tools
This morning came an advertising user for some password recovery products for Windows. It was obvious spam, and was reported as such, and deleted.
However, searching for their "product" shows that ...
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5answers
196 views
User spamming - intentional or not?
I feel that a user is asking questions without the purpose of gaining an answer, but to rather link to several other sites. Multiple links in almost all of his / her questions with less then half of ...
