Questions tagged [spam]
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"Our system has identified this post as possible spam" - Audit
I'm a bit confused about what I just saw and would love to get some clearification.
I was just doing post reviews and came across an answer that had written above it:
Our system has identified ...
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How to deal with spam+answer?
We have spammers on the site.
Normally, you vote them down + flag: spam.
However, if the spammer also self-answers their own post with an answer (that is also spam btw), what do we do to the answer?
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My answer keeps getting suggested edits from spambots
I have been noticing a trend that my this answer, always gets edited by some spammer (may be a bot). It's only that answer and no other answer in any of the other SE network.
Finding subdirectories ...
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A clarification request for declined spam flag
I flagged this post for obvious spam link inserted in the end when posted in Charcoal HQ. Check the first version here.
After looking at the user's profile and the link in the end, I flagged it as ...
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Serial keys hidden in HTML comments - what to do?
Today, these two posts were 'vandalized' by their author. This got picked up by the SmokeDetector bot, and as I attempted to roll them back to their original state, I noticed they both had (probably ...
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Spam through autobiographer badge?
Discussion on MSE
I noticed this today when looking at badges.
Obviously these accounts will probably be nuked by some type of spam script, but for now it's mildly annoying that I can't celebrate ...
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Which proper action should be taken to handle this suspicious post?
Recently I see through this question:
How to paste text into input fields that block it?
There is a late answer includes a link which it looks to be suspicious:
From what I read in other site meta ...
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Dealing with a troll that's flooding the site with plagiarized answers
Over the last several days, we've been seeing a novel trolling attack on Super User: a flood of answers containing plagiarized content posted by a user called "Marlin Woods":
The user creates a new ...
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"This looks like spam"
I have a complex issue. It is a rare issue and has been plaguing me for several years.
Therefore, it needs explaining.
Therefore, it's long - 7237 characters produced over two hours of constant ...
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What should I have done with this spammy answer?
I flagged this answer (now deleted, so I can't repost its whole text) as spam. I was later greeted by this message in my flagging history:
declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no ...
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Blacklist "Muscle" on Super User
The body building spam seems to be relentless and while lot more is blocked, we still see close to 4-5 posts every day about this.
A search for "muscle" indicates that so far there have been 445+ ...
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Could I be the first to say that this is scam? [closed]
https://superuser.com/q/979061/277991 is a scam. Could anyone vote this post as scam?
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Sudden influx of Korean spam
Has someone been fiddling with the filters?
10 or so Korean spam posts on Super User within the past few minutes.
Can we get this banned?
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Should this be considered spam?
Reviewing the first posts queue, I run into this question. The last answer seems to have a link for the Firewall keyword, which leads to a commercial firewall (and doesn't have much to do with the ...
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Even given that some information is unwanted, is it appropriate to use spam mechanisms when a post needs to be more focused?
On “Is there any way to squeeze more performance out of a vintage Itronix GD8000 laptop PC?” (previously titled, “What, for a Paleo computer, can be done to get performance out of an Itronix GD8000?”),...
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