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We've deployed machine learning auto-flagging Given the positive reception, we've activated machine learning anti-spam's auto-flagging feature, as detailed below. Staff will be monitoring its work ...
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Serverfault is getting hit badly by spam - and one of the available mechanisms is to increase the flags users have available. I'm sure we can light the beacons and get help, but with one spammer ...
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This seems like it should be blockable. Or slightly less easy to publish world wide. Or proof that AI is useless if it can't at least figure out to charge money for the advertising.
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As we seeing lots of spam why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string "loans" combo in this platform?
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It seems that https://serverfault.com/search?q=loan+number My first page on ServerFault looks like gets a lot of hits for the same spam type, and I'm already hitting the flag limits what could be ...
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Today, I saw a ton of posts by a ton of different account advertising the NBA. They completly filled the homepage and used up all my flags. What happened and how can this be prevented, since this has ...
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User asks "Is IIS SFTP natively supported by Windows Server 2012 R2?". The question is in "protected" state. The correct answer is that IIS does not support SFTP and that he has to install a third ...
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For some reason this answer https://serverfault.com/a/671363/1435 keeps getting editing by spammers, can we just lock the question for good?
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When flagging a post spam because of a single URL considered as spam it may be challenging to find the reason for flag, if the post otherwise is well formed. For example there seems to be a user ...
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While Googling for a utility a few weeks ago, I came up against this question: Automated method to convert .reg registry file to reg.exe commands Which was exactly what I was after. However, the ...
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This morning there were six suggested edits waiting in the queue. Three of them were spam: https://serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/103613 https://serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/103614 ...
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This question's answer has a couple of comments of a rather suspicious nature which left me with the impression that the question's author is trying really hard to drive the discussion towards a ...
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A new user just registered and posted two spam posts, one of which was very long. Both posts started to get downvoted very quickly, and a number of close votes were made. The questions were live for ...
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I noticed that one of the answers to this question about CloudFlare is from a user named damoncloudflare. Looking at other answers from that user, they are all about CloudFlare and it's clear from ...
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I'm sick of deleting the spam we get from their millions of 'resellers'.
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