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Should this be considered spam?

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. …
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Dealing with a troll that's flooding the site with plagiarized answers

There's a chatbot called SmokeDetector which detects spam and offensive content and reports it to a special chatroom. …
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Circumventing spam filters (and deceiving reviewers) by taking part of a legitimate post and...

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. …
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The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses

Also associated with data recovery spam. … Blog Spammers Spam has links to blogs containing affiliate links to paid products. …
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What should I have done with this spammy answer?

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
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What is up with this user?

Looks like XSS attack attempts to me. The text of the posts is actually JavaScript code, and it seems the user was trying to harvest user data. These 10k-only links should make that clear: 1 2 3 Here …
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