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The flag question dialog has an option to mark it as spam. The close dialog, on the other hand, does not have this option. Why is this so?
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An hour ago we had this (only visible for 10K-ers now) spam post on the site. In a chatroom that post was brought to my attention. When I loaded the post it had a comment and 6 downvotes. I ...
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In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Users with low rep, typically new to Stack Overflow, frequently chafe against the limitations they encounter when they first try to use the website. Reports of this feeling are virtually countless ...
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This is the latest comment to be flagged in what is becoming a trend in faux rude/abusive flags. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I cannot see anything rude or abusive in this comment, in fact they use ...
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Sometimes during our epic fights against spam we see the following comment: I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is spam. Following a high velocity meeting of our foreheads with ...
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Every post or comment flag dialog has an option to raise a custom (moderator) flag: Every day, moderators receive a lot of custom flags that do not need to be custom flags. Custom flags take a longer ...
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I know there is no need to vote to close after flagging a question as spam. However, I don't visit SO so much these days, so my close votes aren't in so much demand. Does SO really need to send me an ...
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I came across this "question" in review: At first I thought this was just yet another review audit because the question is so obviously spam. So I proceeded to flag it as such. Turns out it wasn't an ...
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I know moderators tend to handle spam flags pretty quickly, so this may not be entirely necessary, but I was wondering if it would be counter productive to break the links in obvious spam posts. I'm ...
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A request to add a read line near the closing -> Off-Topic -> Other with a link to flag as spam. this addresses the confusion people have when using a custom close reason for spam does not interfere ...
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Six views, seven votes: Link to the original question: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/49166/exactly-has-been-bred-11s (but it may be changed or deleted by the time you access it) ...
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While Stack Overflow employs a good number of anti-spam measures, some spammers are bypassing them on a daily basis. The Smoke Detector seems to be doing a good job of identifying these for manual ...
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I know the correct course of action on the answer itself is to go to the question post and flag the answer as spam (since you cannot flag from the LQA view). However, what action should we take on the ...
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