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Promotional text in answer
Some spammers are getting into the habit of posting almost useful answers in order to disguise their spam.
This is a difficult call though. 99% of the time these types of answer are spam but ...
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What is the proper way to complain about those using this forum for free advertising?
What is the best way to warn others about this situation?
You should flag the contribution for moderator attention by using a custom flag. If you believe the contribution to be spam, you should flag ...
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Can we stop advertising Crucial.com?
Whether you like it or not, many people like Crucial.com, and we have no problem whatsoever with users of our site recommending Crucial.com, as long as:
the answers consist of more than just a link ...
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Why doesn't Super User get job postings?
No, it doesn't. Neither does Server Fault, directly. Stack Overflow Careers is the only one.
There's only one real job site, and it serves everyone (in theory anyway) - though we've never really had ...
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Why doesn't Super User get job postings?
My understanding is that the basic philosophy on Stack Exchange is that any advertisement should strictly be interesting for the audience.
Some sites (https://stackoverflow.com/, https://codereview....
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What is the proper way to complain about those using this forum for free advertising?
I see that post as mainly a low quality, phoning-it-in answer. The instructions are all in a link, and what's contained there isn't clear. It looks like he didn't fully understand your issue, and ...
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