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user 73918
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Dealing with a troll that's flooding the site with plagiarized answers
New posts with this username are now almost universally spam (example link for 10K users): …
- 46.4k
32
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1
answer
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The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses
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. …
- 46.4k
24
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4
answers
681
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Should we edit out spam from spam posts?
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? …
- 46.4k
22
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1
answer
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Spambots promoting personal enhancement products, can we better defend against them?
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.) …
- 46.4k
8
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1
answer
98
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Improve filtering of spam suggested edits
I've been seeing an increasing number of spam edits in the review queues, replacing the entire body of the post with filler text such as a complement (to get past spam filters), then including a link formatted … /cinture-burberry.html[/url]
The URL in the above text points to a spam page on a compromised website. Can we make the filter smarter so that these edits are completely blocked? …
- 46.4k
8
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0
answers
67
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Block suggested edit if the edit summary contains an email address
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. …
- 46.4k
7
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2
answers
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Circumventing spam filters (and deceiving reviewers) by taking part of a legitimate post and...
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? …
- 46.4k
3
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1
answer
151
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Possible spam user "myopic.bones"
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? …
- 46.4k
3
votes
1
answer
95
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How should we handle spammers who recreate accounts after deletion?
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 …
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0
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1
answer
146
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Spammers exploiting the URL in the user profile to bypass spam protection
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. …
- 46.4k
0
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1
answer
85
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How do we identify and respond to "linkless spam"?
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. …
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