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This is spam. … A major goal of spam is to boost search engine rankings through spamdexing, so unnatural anchor text choices are an indication of spam. …

A large number of posts from myopic.bones seem to be spam. They include answers to the following questions: Does e-mail address obfuscation actually work? … I've flagged all of the above posts as spam. Can someone take care of this? …

superuser.com/users/162150/jesse https://superuser.com/users/162141/user162141 some links ♦moderator only This case appears to be resolved, but can something be done about this so that these types of spam …

There's a chatbot called SmokeDetector which detects spam and offensive content and reports it to a special chatroom. …

I'm seeing a disturbing increase in spam posts promoting personal enhancement products such as male enhancement, hair care, dieting, brain enhancement, and other similar products. … How do we better defend against this kind of spam? (We might need a Stack Exchange Community Manager here.) …

I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content, which a user can readily identify and flag as spam. … 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? …

Recently, I've noticed a trend towards spam postings that are free of any external link but advertise a product without disclosure. … These techniques evade normal spam detection mechanisms and techniques by eliminating the link and relying on the reader to search for the program in question, but are nonetheless spam. …

New posts with this username are now almost universally spam (example link for 10K users): …

Your answer couldn't be submitted because: We're sorry, but as a spam prevention mechanism, we cannot accept answers with content mostly copied from (the question | another answer). … As a side note, I will no longer add spam warnings to answers. I will add a comment to the same effect instead. …

Also associated with data recovery spam. … Blog Spammers Spam has links to blogs containing affiliate links to paid products. …

Users have found a way to circumvent spam filters and deceive reviewers with less-than-keen eyes for spam, by copying part of a legitimate post and adding a spam link. … Can we better control this kind of spam? What possible solutions could be implemented to control this type of spam? …

I've noticed that many spam suggested edits have edit summaries that contain an email address (examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]). … It would be great if we took advantage of this to block these spam suggested edits. …

I took a closer look at the deleted answer and it doesn't really appear to be spam. Belarc Advisor, the utility linked in the answer, is in fact a legitimate program. … The post was nonetheless deleted for low quality because it contained no meaningful content beyond the link to download the software; however, a mere link is not sufficient for a post to constitute spam …

This is a list of known spammers, spam domains, and IP addresses to which these domains point. … It will be expanded as research progresses and as more spam is identified. All IP address links go to the associated VirusTotal information page. …

It seems spammers have found a way to work around spam filters using the URL in the user profile. … link, instead taking advantage of the website field in the user profile to link to the spam website, in an attempt to score SEO points for the website. …