Questions tagged [spam]
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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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Advertisement answers and company references
What is the proper way to handle
Answers that specifically mention a company's products in a way that obviously is more an advertisement than a real answer
Answers that refer to a (company's) weblog ...
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Circumventing spam filters (and deceiving reviewers) by taking part of a legitimate post and adding a spam link--possible solutions?
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 ...
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I found a 3-day-old spammer
He answered one of my questions and then I browsed his answers only to find out that he is a spammer. All answers are the same and are commending a shareware. I demand deletion of his account.
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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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Spam from Webupon
We seem to be getting an increasing amount of answers linking to the following page:
http://webupon.com/web-talk/yahoo-messenger-problem-solution-to-the-blank-im-screen/
The actual link appears to ...
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Vandalism from these 2 accounts
There are several posts from these 2 accounts - https://superuser.com/users/238676/doland and https://superuser.com/users/238678/tyrone, in this question:
How to retrieve data from Firefox sync ...
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Request: make spam flagging more descriptive (optional)
I've recently been on a bit of an anti-spam rampage on Super User. Have you posted a plug for a product you work on but haven't been clear about that relationship? Flagged! Are you linking to spammy ...
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I flagged an answer as spam, where the user profile contained spam. Why was my flag declined?
My "spam" flag on https://superuser.com/a/1834925/1482432 was declined. Did the moderator not see the username and the profile of the spambot?
"Declined - a moderator reviewed your flag,...
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User spamming - intentional or not?
I feel that a user is asking questions without the purpose of gaining an answer, but to rather link to several other sites. Multiple links in almost all of his / her questions with less then half of ...
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Does SuperUser have a spam problem
I asked a question recently and had a few spam answers. All by people with 1 rep as well... Don't know if it was because I had put a bounty on the question and they didn't know how it worked but I ...
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Can we search for posts with links to specific domains?
I flagged yet another spammer today, and found she had an older post that got by. This annoys me, since I want them gone and burninated like forgotten toast
SU and SE as a whole lets us search for ...
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Can the spamming user Victor be dealt with?
Victor seems to keep posting links to Groupdocs.com on every question even remotely related to PDFs or document management. Some recent examples:
https://superuser.com/questions/43321/document-...
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Request: cleaning Super User from a particular spam for password recovery tools
This morning came an advertising user for some password recovery products for Windows. It was obvious spam, and was reported as such, and deleted.
However, searching for their "product" shows that ...
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Checking if a post is spam
This answer links to the author's site.
It is a poor answer, and could only be used in conjunction with the author's site as a vital detail (what the "program" is) is missing.
Does
Thanks ...
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