Questions tagged [spam]
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3 questions from the last 365 days
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So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?
I keep seeing users like this, the quality of their posts is abysmal:
Can we get a captcha or something? Would that help? What else can be done? One of those things where you have to solve a little ...
user1482432
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I flagged an answer as spam, where the user profile contained spam. Why was my flag declined?
My "spam" flag on https://superuser.com/a/1834925/1482432 was declined. Did the moderator not see the username and the profile of the spambot?
"Declined - a moderator reviewed your flag,...
user1482432
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“Please do not vote to close spam.” Why?
On a recent piece of spam, a user (Ramhound) stated:
“Please do not vote to close spam.“
Why? Should we just downvote and close as spam? What is the harm in voting to close as off topic? Wouldn’t ...
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