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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Possible spam accounts
While browsing through the new users page I noticed this (note the "Download Link:" text in almost all of them):
Each of those profiles contains something like this, with links for
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Should ...
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What can be done to stop the support number spam campaign?
In the past few hours, we've gotten several dozen spam posts advertising support phone numbers, typically for Coinbase and QuickBooks. Unlike most spam campaigns, this one (from my vantage point in ...
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Keystone Strategy - Unusual Spam / Jobs / 'survey'
Following on from the recent featured post about spam etc, I wanted to share this one, to see if I'm just being paranoid, or $something.
The email address I have on my profile is only used here, so ...
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We should be more watchful of 0-activity spam users
Today I was running some data queries in the data explorer and ran across some interesting user profiles. In particular, I was looking to see whom of those who states their location said San Diego (...
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Spam in Stack Exchange profiles fed through Google Alerts
Due to the sites I maintain I have a Google Alert on the keyword 'testosterone'.
So earlier I get the daily email and there's an entry for Shred FX Testosterone booster.
Click on it and it's this ...
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Why was this spam flag declined, yet the question marked as spam?
I reviewed my flag history recently, and I noticed something curious. Now, I haven't looked into my flag history for a long time, so this flag is actually over a year old. I understand if the answer ...
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Spam Audits in the Low Quality Posts - But spam shouldn't be deleted
I came across this audit in the Low Quality Posts review queue. It seemed a lot like an audit, but in case it wasn't an audit I knew I should go to the post page and flag the answer as spam so it ...
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Clearing spam/offensive flags shouldn't undelete a post deleted by Moderators or the post's owner
When a mod "clears" the spam/offensive flags on a post the post gets undeleted. This is by design and made clear in the UI:
Deletes all offensive and spam flags on this post, as well as any ...
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Spam blocker prevents update of an answer from 2009
I was trying to update an answer to a question about processing Japanese content from May 2009. The updates include formatting changes, some grammar and punctuation changes, replacing a link that no ...
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Is there a flood of spam regarding koa recently?
Recently, I notice that there is quite a number of new questions regarding koa. Most of the questions are just a dump of some code structure and ask no seeming question. They could be asking for "...
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Guidelines on reviewing de-spamination tag wiki edits
Tonight I came across this tag wiki edit for Mimosa.
At the time I write this, the edit was approved, but also disputed by two edit-reviewers as vandalism, possibly because the edit removes most of ...
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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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Spam/Offensive-deleted answer is still showing "Show more comments" link, until you click it
I noticed some odd behavior on this "deleted as offensive" answer:
When I load the page, it tells me "comments are disabled on deleted / locked posts / reviews", but it gives me the option to "show 9 ...
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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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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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