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I took a closer look at the deleted answer and it doesn't really appear to be spam.

Belarc Advisor, the utility linked in the answer, is in fact a legitimate program. The post was nonetheless deleted for low quality because it contained no meaningful content beyond the link to download the software; however, a mere link is not sufficient for a post to constitute spam.

In the future, the best thing to do is probably to downvote answers like this. If it warrants deletion, flag as "very low quality" or use a custom moderator flag explaining the issue (but note that I've gotten inconsistent results with such flagsI've gotten inconsistent results with such flags).

I took a closer look at the deleted answer and it doesn't really appear to be spam.

Belarc Advisor, the utility linked in the answer, is in fact a legitimate program. The post was nonetheless deleted for low quality because it contained no meaningful content beyond the link to download the software; however, a mere link is not sufficient for a post to constitute spam.

In the future, the best thing to do is probably to downvote answers like this. If it warrants deletion, flag as "very low quality" or use a custom moderator flag explaining the issue (but note that I've gotten inconsistent results with such flags).

I took a closer look at the deleted answer and it doesn't really appear to be spam.

Belarc Advisor, the utility linked in the answer, is in fact a legitimate program. The post was nonetheless deleted for low quality because it contained no meaningful content beyond the link to download the software; however, a mere link is not sufficient for a post to constitute spam.

In the future, the best thing to do is probably to downvote answers like this. If it warrants deletion, flag as "very low quality" or use a custom moderator flag explaining the issue (but note that I've gotten inconsistent results with such flags).

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I took a closer look at the deleted answer and it doesn't really appear to be spam.

Belarc Advisor, the utility linked in the answer, is in fact a legitimate program. The post was nonetheless deleted for low quality because it contained no meaningful content beyond the link to download the software; however, a mere link is not sufficient for a post to constitute spam.

In the future, the best thing to do is probably to downvote answers like this. If it warrants deletion, flag as "very low quality" or use a custom moderator flag explaining the issue (but note that I've gotten inconsistent results with such flags).