Questions tagged [spam]
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Is all spam also rude or abusive?
I flagged a question as Spam. When I clicked on the Flag link again this is what it showed me:
I raised only the Spam flag, so is all spam automatically considered rude or abusive too? What is the ...
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Would a link be considered as a spam?
A user has posted an answer which is correct in respect to the question. But in the end of the answer he has posted a link which has no resemblance to the answer (could be for promoting). So what ...
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Add a domain to the spam blacklist
Recently, I've flagged as spam six answers coming from two new users containing a spam link that promise to earn clickers money. They all go to the same link, and I'm sure that there may be other ones ...
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What is up with this user?
There is a particular user who seems to be posting really weird, unrelated "answers" to a particular question. The answers seem to contain HTML code that is supposed to generate spam, in my opinion. ...
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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?
Limit Chrome's bandwidth
how to limit ...
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How should we handle spammers who recreate accounts after deletion?
I've got a spammer by the name of Jesse who just keeps coming, even after several account deletions:
https://superuser.com/users/162151/jesse
https://superuser.com/users/162150/jesse
https://...
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shouldn't a spam post not bump a post up after the spam post is removed?
I notice this old thread How can I migrate mails from Yahoo! Mail to Google Apps? got bumped up
it got bumped up because a spam post was made. the spam post was removed but it remained bumped up.
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Can we stop advertising Crucial.com?
The most top answer of How can I tell what RAM will fit my computer? reads:
Crucial is a good place to buy RAM and they have a System Scanner (Windows only) to analyse the memory that is present and ...
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Is this answer spam?
I came across this answer in the First Answers review queue which I wasn't sure about, so I was hoping to get some insight from other members of the community.
On the one hand, it does kinda-sorta ...
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Is this spam or only a low(er) quality answer?
There is a question concerning PureVPN VPN/PureVPN = make some apps connect directly to internet (whitelist?)
The answer seems to come directly from the manufacturer, pointing to its websiste and ...
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Please clean up diskpart.com spam by user Metaphor
User Metaphor (1692216) is spamming diskpart ads. Can someone clean that up please?
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“Please do not vote to close spam.” Why?
On a recent piece of spam, a user (Ramhound) stated:
“Please do not vote to close spam.“
Why? Should we just downvote and close as spam? What is the harm in voting to close as off topic? Wouldn’t ...
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Is there something off with how reputation is built on Stack Exchange?
Is reputation only built or assessed by tenure and quantity and not by fewer but well researched, studied and articulated questions and relevant answers?
Original title started as this:
Why does ...
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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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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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