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Should we edit out spam from spam posts?

I would tend to say no, leave spam as-is. … Flag it as spam and it will be gone very quickly - very obvious spam (such as the case here) disappears almost instantly because it only takes 6 spam flags from the community to delete a post. …
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Is all spam also rude or abusive?

If 6 spam or offensive flags accumulate on a post, the post is deleted, locked, and the user receives -100 reputation and the information is fed into the automatic anti-spam system. … I'm not sure, but I believe selecting "spam" vs "offensive" changes how the anti-spam system handles the information, but besides that, there's little difference in how they work internally. …
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Add a domain to the spam blacklist

However, having destroyed the spamming user and spam-deleted the offending answers, the built-in spam tools should have picked up enough information to hopefully prevent any more spam from this user. …
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