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Timeline for Checking if a post is spam

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Apr 20, 2020 at 11:32 vote accept Andrew Morton
Apr 20, 2020 at 10:45 comment added Mokubai Mod @Ramhound Moderators use the spam-flag method the same as other users, but in our case the flag is immediately considered to hit the threshold for community user deletion.
Apr 20, 2020 at 10:43 answer added MokubaiMod timeline score: 3
Apr 18, 2020 at 23:17 comment added Ramhound The answer was deleted by spam by the community user. This means enough users flagged it as spam for that to happen.
Apr 18, 2020 at 17:02 comment added Andrew Morton @DavidPostill Thanks. It didn't look right to me, but it's good to get confirmation from a moderator. I can't tell nowadays if editing out "thanks" is regarded as being unkind to new users, but that's a different matter.
Apr 18, 2020 at 16:56 comment added DavidPostill Mod The "thanks Name" shouldn't be in questions or answers and is likely to be deleted anyway. It certainly doesn't count as a declaration of affiliation, or of ownership of the linked resource.
Apr 18, 2020 at 15:20 comment added Andrew Morton @Makyen Thanks, I guess someone else decided it really was spam, hence the deletion.
Apr 18, 2020 at 15:14 comment added Makyen I can't comment on the actual answer, because it's deleted and I can't see it. However, disclosure of affiliation must be explicit, but doesn't need to be formal. Just something like "I wrote", "on my site/blog", etc. is sufficient. It is not sufficient to require a reader to match a link or domain to the author's username. The "Thanks" which you include in the question here does not count as disclosure of affiliation.
Apr 18, 2020 at 15:06 history asked Andrew Morton CC BY-SA 4.0