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Should we edit out spam from spam posts?
If its obviously spam, what would it matter?
As long as a single user flagged it, it would come up, and be taken care of. …
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How do we identify and respond to "linkless spam"?
Those are almost invariably spam.
Flag as spam without any mercy. …
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Could I be the first to say that this is scam?
Meh. Flag it. Then other people flag it. Then it deeeeeead.
Unless a mod finds it. In which case its dead even faster.
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Dealing with a troll that's flooding the site with plagiarized answers
While I typically discourage pinging me for mod related issues -it might be ok here.... the right thing to do on the user side is
Flag as spam. This should get the current IP address into spamram. … Dogpileing him with spam flags would work great.
If its during waking hours for me (see if I'm on chat, or 8am to 11pm SGT) I'll see if I can deal with it. …
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Korean spam attack?
I'll try to keep an eye out. The community team is aware and I know they have a very special spanner for throwing into the works here
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Please clean up diskpart.com spam by user Metaphor
Just to close the loop
This was a case of boom tommorrow. Always boom tomorrow.
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Is this spam or only a low(er) quality answer?
While SU shouldn't be the main support venue, I don't think an answer being link only and/or posted by a vendor should mean its spam on its own. However, deletion for being low quality makes sense. …
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A clarification request for declined spam flag
Well, while removal of spam is a valuable thing - in some situations its nice to have a certain degree of flexibility... …
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HTTP Downloader Spam Answers
Amusingly even if it wasn't spam, IIRC google take out files are only available for a limited amount of time, I don't think you can split them...
so... it would not have been that useful anyway. … Spam flag it. Reporting it to the smoke detector team would be useful too. More or less, keep calm, and quietly call for support fire ;) …
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Spam through autobiographer badge?
I asked about this on main meta, since I feel this is a broad, network wide issue, and I came across this entirely by accident.
This... has been going on a while, and our spammers are actually seemi …
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Combatting Spam: Enhancing Keyword Approval and Filtering
That's what smoke detector essentially does. It is not running because of the ongoing moderator strike.
See also
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Should I have flagged this question?
Yes, you should - Its definitely spam, and you should flag it.
Well, if I hadn't deleted the user anyway. …
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So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?
I'm half certain at least some of these is some poor person in a sweatshop rather than something more sophisticated. It would be nice to have better tools - and we've requested for it
In this case I s …
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My answer keeps getting suggested edits from spambots
Spammers work in mysterious ways - I guess your answer has certain keywords their bots love and it keeps attempting to edit. Frustratingly enough - there's not much to do - just let our lovely reviewe …