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Today, these two posts were 'vandalized' by their author. This got picked up by the SmokeDetector bot, and as I attempted to roll them back to their original state, I noticed they both had (probably pirated) serial keys hidden in HTML comments. This iswas easiest to see in the Markdown source of the revisions: 1, 2(but they have now been redacted by a ♦ moderator).

Later, the user surprised me by posting a question (10k only) promoting their act; it contained a direct link to one of the revisions.

I flagged the latter question as spam, and it seems to have had effect. I flagged the other posts for moderator attention; they have the power to redact revisions which will effectively banish the content from Super User.

Is this the correct action, or should I have done something else?

Today, these two posts were 'vandalized' by their author. This got picked up by the SmokeDetector bot, and as I attempted to roll them back to their original state, I noticed they both had (probably pirated) serial keys hidden in HTML comments. This is easiest to see in the Markdown source of the revisions: 1, 2.

Later, the user surprised me by posting a question (10k only) promoting their act; it contained a direct link to one of the revisions.

I flagged the latter question as spam, and it seems to have had effect. I flagged the other posts for moderator attention; they have the power to redact revisions which will effectively banish the content from Super User.

Is this the correct action, or should I have done something else?

Today, these two posts were 'vandalized' by their author. This got picked up by the SmokeDetector bot, and as I attempted to roll them back to their original state, I noticed they both had (probably pirated) serial keys hidden in HTML comments. This was easiest to see in the Markdown source of the revisions (but they have now been redacted by a ♦ moderator).

Later, the user surprised me by posting a question (10k only) promoting their act; it contained a direct link to one of the revisions.

I flagged the latter question as spam, and it seems to have had effect. I flagged the other posts for moderator attention; they have the power to redact revisions which will effectively banish the content from Super User.

Is this the correct action, or should I have done something else?

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Glorfindel
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Serial keys hidden in HTML comments - what to do?

Today, these two posts were 'vandalized' by their author. This got picked up by the SmokeDetector bot, and as I attempted to roll them back to their original state, I noticed they both had (probably pirated) serial keys hidden in HTML comments. This is easiest to see in the Markdown source of the revisions: 1, 2.

Later, the user surprised me by posting a question (10k only) promoting their act; it contained a direct link to one of the revisions.

I flagged the latter question as spam, and it seems to have had effect. I flagged the other posts for moderator attention; they have the power to redact revisions which will effectively banish the content from Super User.

Is this the correct action, or should I have done something else?