Questions tagged [spam]
For questions about suspected user spam, the spam flag or combating spam as a community, use this tag.
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Stack Overflow now uses machine learning to flag spam automatically
Update: 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 ...
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AI Assist notification is SPAM
You already have the AI assist block. I'm very much (whatever) about it.
But no, that wasn't enough for you. You just had to send out a notification. That notification is spam. It should never have ...
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What about the "Airline Customer Service 24/7" spam questions? [duplicate]
I saw a lot of spam posts today with titles like "Some Airline Customer Service 24/7" with a lot of curly braces and emojis to obfuscate it. They all contain phone numbers. All of them were ...
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Why was this flag on an AI slop answer from an obvious spam account declined?
I've flagged this post (screenshot for <10K) for moderator for both being AI slop, and the account for being an obvious advertisement.
(As a side note I also VTC the question, since it's request ...
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Titles of spam posts on the staging ground are not redacted
On the main site, the titles of spam questions are replaced with generic text on the question page:
This question was marked as spam or rude or abusive and is therefore not shown
However on the ...
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Flagging a (specific?) spam deleted question results in error "Unable to load popup - please try again"
I tried to flag this spam deleted question to ask for the poster to be deleted as well (as the account seems to have been created for the purpose of spamming only). Unfortunately, when I click "...
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Comments update: flag modal changes
As the experiment with lowering reputation for commenting continues, we’re updating the comment flag modal to include a spam flag. This will come with the automated deletion threshold as it does for ...
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"Comment Everywhere" still set to 2 rep?
I've been a bit busy the last few weeks, so I totally missed the Experimenting with the Commenting Reputation Requirement post. This should have been concluded at this point, right?
But today I ...
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Why is this spam question locked (and visible)? [duplicate]
Browsing newest questions in C++ tag, there's this one from 40 minutes ago:
spam nonsense please delete this
It's clearly an advertisement, but instead of normal deleting after reaching enough spam ...
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Is critiquing other answers spam/rude/abusive?
An answer post here was marked as rude/spam/abusive. The content of the post is:
The answers found here are incomplete or unreliable.
First, the answers based on the exact locations for Linux, ...
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Potential spam group in discussions
A recent spam wave regarding DexScreener is happening in discussions.
https://stackoverflow.com/beta/discussions/79461993/dexscreener-for-solana
https://stackoverflow.com/beta/discussions/79461991/...
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Why did I fail this audit and why was the answer marked as spam or offensive?
I can't see where this answer was spam or offensive and not sure why I failed the audit:
https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/36699748
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Is the 2-rep limit removed in discussions?
I noticed this morning that spam posts have come back to discussions:
https://stackoverflow.com/beta/discussions/79399716/which-is-the-best-erp-software-for-small-business
https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Unsubscribe link in "Company Alerts" emails does not work
About a month ago I followed some companies at stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies because I was curious about the updates they'd post. As a result I started receiving weekly emails with "New ...
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What is the deal with users with the name "Spammer"?
From time to time I see users with name "Spammer". One of the recent examples would be https://stackoverflow.com/users/19197407/spammer. And so far in my observation, they do spam.
I don't ...
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