Timeline for User's first ever post wrongly (in my opinion) auto-deleted for being spam/abusive [duplicate]
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| Feb 26, 2023 at 16:01 | history | duplicates list edited | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | duplicates list edited from What is the exact definition of "spam" for Stack Overflow? to What is the exact definition of "spam" for Stack Overflow?, Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 16:01 | history | closed | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine discussion Users with the discussion badge or a synonym can single-handedly close discussion questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of What is the exact definition of "spam" for Stack Overflow? | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 14:23 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading [<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com>].
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| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:32 | vote | accept | tom redfern | ||
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:31 | answer | added | Thom AMod | timeline score: 42 | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:26 | comment | added | VLAZ | The user has another deleted answer which also has an Amazon affiliated link in it. Moreover it includes the phrase "You'll notice that the del method is much faster than the pop method, as expected based on the explanation in my previous answer." when the user doesn't have another previous answer. That is usually a sign the content was copied. Spammers often copy plausible sounding content then add their spam link. (and yeah - nowadays ChatGPT is also used for this same thing) | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:25 | comment | added | Thom A Mod | FWIW even if the post didn't have the spam link the rest of the content has a 99.98% chance of being generated by ChatGPT, so we don't want that content anyway. | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:22 | comment | added | Jon Skeet |
Going by stackoverflow.com/questions/49919290 and the tag=abdwalid04-20 part of the URL, yes, that's an affiliate link for the answerer. (And the main body of the answer looks like it might well be ChatGPT-generated as well...)
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| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:21 | comment | added | tom redfern | Hmm quite possibly | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:19 | comment | added | tripleee | ... I'm not familiar enough with Amazon to tell whether this is an affiliate link which earns the poster a commission, but it looks vaguely like it. | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:19 | comment | added | tripleee |
The shortened link resolves to https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Data-Science-Python-hands/dp/1801071977?keywords=python+for+data+science&qid=1676114799&sr=8-3-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyMEZZUkxKRzhSM1BCJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMTgyNDE3UjdYSlgyTzlHMVo5JmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAzOTA1MTIxVTZYSlhQTkJISUZHJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ%3D%3D&linkCode=sl1&tag=abdwalid04-20&linkId=301a211e6084788c714fe333df8f6e9c&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl.
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| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:18 | comment | added | tom redfern | Not enough to make me change my opinion I'm afraid... | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:17 | comment | added | Security Hound | That last sentence reads like spam. If it quacks like spam, and looks like spam, it’s probably spam. Let’s not get into the fact, the code, if I went looking for that snippet would I find it elsewhere? | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:15 | comment | added | BDL | @WaiHaLee: The user is still active and is (afaik) not suspended. I added a screenshot such that <10k users can also see what is discussed. | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:15 | history | edited | BDL | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 91 characters in body
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| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:15 | comment | added | Thom A Mod | That last sentence reads a lot like spam to me. | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:11 | comment | added | BDL | Might not have been the only post by that user that advertised this book. But only a moderator can tell for sure. | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 14:06 | history | asked | tom redfern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |