Questions tagged [spam]
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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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HTTP Downloader Spam Answers
Just a heads up to reviewers tonight: there’s a newbie who has been posting answers to questions about large downloads. He has answered at least 5 other questions the same way: promoting his app. Here’...
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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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"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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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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Is an answer still spam if it answers the question correctly?
I came across this answer in the late review que today. In case it gets deleted, it says:
Word Files Splitter is an excellent tool to split a single word file into multiple word files according to ...
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So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?
I keep seeing users like this, the quality of their posts is abysmal:
Can we get a captcha or something? Would that help? What else can be done? One of those things where you have to solve a little ...
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Combatting Spam: Enhancing Keyword Approval and Filtering
Recently, as a regular user focused mainly on Q&A, I've noticed a surge in spam content related to the "HERO RUPEE LOAN CUSTOMER CARE HELPLINE NUMBER". These posts consist of spam ...
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Suspected spam on remote support software question
2 user accounts have been created and all they have done collectively is redundantly suggest TeamViewer here, which is only a half valid answer given the full scope of the question:
OS X: What remote ...
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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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Really cool spambot behaviour
We have a series of spambot questions
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/42353/automate-mac-app-store-installs-upgrades legit question off apple.se
https://superuser.com/questions/435721/...
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Can we please blacklist the computersight.com Spam (if possible)?
As most of you will have noticed, the last two days brought us enormous amounts of spam from computersight.com – more specifically the following link:
computersight.com / communication-networks / ...
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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 ...
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Block suggested edit if the edit summary contains an email address
A follow-up from this question.
I've noticed that many spam suggested edits have edit summaries that contain an email address (examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]). Spambots seem to be treating the edit ...
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Possible spam question, how to proceed?
I noticed this fishy question https://superuser.com/questions/808674/chkdsk-deleted-index-entries-now-my-file-is-gone-how-to-recover-it
Answers seems cut-n-paste from three sources, one of them being ...
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