Questions tagged [spam]
This tag is for questions about suspected user spam, the spam flag or combating spam as a community.
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New User Barriers: The Reputation System's Impact on Participation [duplicate]
I'm new to StackOverflow and would like to use it more, but I'm a little confused about the reputation system. Why do you need reputation to do things like comment or vote? It seems like a barrier to ...
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I can't post a question on Stack Overflow as it thinks it's spam [closed]
Here are some screenshots of the question I'm trying to post:
Why is Stack Overflow blocking it for being spam?
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My code with remarks in Traditional Chinese characters is taken as spam [duplicate]
If I embed the following code with Chinese characters as remarks, the post is taken as spam, I need to remove all the Chinese characters to pass it. Please elaborate on this and advise, thanks.
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Let's remove spam/offensive edit suggestions from the original poster's inbox as quickly as we can
Some of us have taken it upon ourselves to seek out the worst of what finds its way to Stack Exchange so that the majority of users don't have to see any of that. That's how the spam and rude flags ...
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Update Help Center page about necessary spam flags to delete a post
The Help Center article about the privilege to flag posts still refers to the old situation where 6 flags were needed:
What happens when I flag something as spam or rude/abusive?
The spam and rude/...
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Why was this spam post locked and deleted twice by the Community bot?
Looking at the revision history of some spam, it was deleted and locked twice:
Checking another spam post, that one was only locked and deleted once.
What caused this one to get deleted & locked ...
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Can we make the spam flag description more clear?
Currently, the description of the spam flag reads as follows:
Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation.
This wording is very confusing because it's ...
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What recourse does a (mistakenly?) deleted spam account have? [duplicate]
There is of course a specific post that prompted this, but I'm not going to link it unless necessary.
Anyway, to the point; under the idea that a user's account is destroyed because it was labeled a ...
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If *all* of a user's many answers promote the same thing but they properly disclose affiliation, is it spam?
I just saw a user on a small site posting a bunch of uncited AI-generated posts (which is plagiarism) that all promote the same thing. They properly disclose their affiliation in each post.
I read ...
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Auto suspend the user network-wide if their accounts have been destroyed on a certain number (e.g. 3) of sites
Possibly related; might be an extension or alternative to: A user should just be destroyed network-wide automatically if it has no upvoted content and is destroyed on two independent sites by mods ...
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Does the Charcoal team plan to run SmokeDetector again?
There have been several posts complaining about increased visibility of spam posts.1 At least part of the reason was the fact that the Charcoal team participated in the strike and SmokeDetector wasn't ...
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Recent proliferation of spam on Server Fault [duplicate]
In the past couple of months I'm seeing a lot more spam on Server Fault. Until a few months ago I virtually never saw spam, and now virtually every time I visit there are money lenders, abortion pills,...
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What exactly do VoteTypeId=4 (offensive) and VoteTypeId=12 (spam) mean?
According to the Database schema documentation for SEDE, the table Votes contains as VoteTypeId 4 = Offensive and 12 = Spam. The latter was mentioned, for example, here: How to find posts closed as ...
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Temporarily reduce the 5-second rate limit on flagging posts as spam, to allow for quicker flagging on sites overrun with spam
SmokeDetector is currently disabled due to the moderation strike. This means that some specific sites are overrun with spam, and when I go through and flag each of those spam posts, I keep running ...
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Why can't we blacklist questions with a description containing a mobile number and the string "loans"? [duplicate]
As we are seeing a lot of spam, why can't we blacklist questions with a description containing a mobile number and the string "loans" combination on this platform?
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