An established user had edited a blatant spam post (10k-only), replacing it with the following content:

##UTTER SPAM## Please delete me.

I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content, which a user can readily identify and flag as spam. My experience with spam posts is that users typically respond quickly to the post with flags if it is clearly spam (which the linked post clearly was before it was edited). Editing the post in this manner covers up the actual spam, which may confuse users and cause them to not flag it as spam. Should we edit out spam content in this manner?

An established user had edited a blatant spam post (10k-only), replacing it with the following content:

UTTER SPAM

Please delete me.

I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content, which a user can readily identify and flag as spam. My experience with spam posts is that users typically respond quickly to the post with flags if it is clearly spam (which the linked post clearly was before it was edited). Editing the post in this manner covers up the actual spam, which may confuse users and cause them to not flag it as spam. Should we edit out spam content in this manner?

An established user had edited a blatant spam post (10k-only), replacing it with the following content:

##UTTER SPAM## Please delete me.

I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content, which a user can readily identify and flag as spam. My experience with spam posts is that users typically respond quickly to the post with flags if it is clearly spam (which the linked post clearly was before it was edited). Editing the post in this manner covers up the actual spam, which may confuse users and cause them to not flag it as spam. Should we edit out spam content in this manner?

An established user had edited a blatant spam post (10k-only), replacing it with the following content:

##UTTER SPAM## Please delete me.

I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content, which a user can readily identify and flag as spam. My experience with spam posts is that users typically respond quickly to the post with flags if it is clearly spam (which the linked post clearly was before it was edited). Editing the post in this manner covers up the actual spam, which may confuse users and cause them to not flag it as spam. Should we edit out spam content in this manner?

An established user had 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.

I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content, which a user can readily identify and flag as spam. My experience with spam posts is that users typically respond quickly to the post with flags if it is clearly spam (which the linked post clearly was before it was edited). Editing the post in this manner covers up the actual spam, which may confuse users and cause them to not flag it as spam. Should we replace spam content in this manner?

An established user had edited a blatant spam post (10k-only), replacing it with the following content:

##UTTER SPAM## Please delete me.

I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content, which a user can readily identify and flag as spam. My experience with spam posts is that users typically respond quickly to the post with flags if it is clearly spam (which the linked post clearly was before it was edited). Editing the post in this manner covers up the actual spam, which may confuse users and cause them to not flag it as spam. Should we edit out spam content in this manner?