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Most spam of that variety is detected confidently enough to cast four spam flags on it, reducing its score to -4 and pushing the questions off the front page (you can still find them via /questions, and … spam answers are only grayed out, not hidden). …

Bottom line: downvoting spam isn't really useful, and in some cases, downvoting spam questions can reduce their visibility on the home page if you're early with your flag and vote. … The reason is that the full penalty for spam flags (-100 reputation and a reduced posting rate or even a block) is only applied when six spam flags have been cast (or a ♦ moderator casts a spam flag). …

SmokeDetector will cast four spam flags on all these posts (so only two by 'real' users are necessary to destroy the spam), but unfortunately it has a bit of a backlog right now so it might take a while … ♦ moderators can't do much other than flagging as spam as well; the Community Team can temporarily disable posting by unregistered accounts (though that doesn't help right now, as @Kulfy correctly notes …

I flagged the latter question as spam, and it seems to have had effect. …

Apart from that, it's pretty obvious that this is spam, so it shouldn't have been edited out, even if the answer weren't copied. … This one was not, because the spam is rather obfuscated: even for a human it's hard to read, let alone for a computer. …