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This question about the Berean Call website was justifiably closed for being off topic on November 20, 2025. But why was it flagged as spam? “This question was marked as spam or rude or abusive and ...
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Some of the spammers are posting questions that have a hindi title, a hindi body, and some phone numbers in them. They then self-answer and/or comment with more hindi + phone number spam. Proposal: ...
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As a lot of you know, Super User has been having spam problems lately. As others pointed out, the spam is so low quality that no human would reasonably mistake the spam for anything other than spam, ...
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Now that we have up to 1000 flags, can SE please finally reduce the 5-second rate limit on flagging posts and comments? Otherwise, using those 1000 flags take at least 5000 secs i.e. almost 1.5h, ...
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So this is a follow up to this question I asked when I thought the spam flood was just a one-night ordeal (which was very naive, it turns out): Is there any way to stop the flood of spam coming in ...
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For hours now there have been spam questions, from different users (but that look like they actually come from the same person/group based on content and formatting), advertising different ...
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I very often see spam related to some airline support, flagging multiple of them every day. Would it be possible to setup a rule automatically flagging them for review before they're shown. They are ...
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Sometimes I stumble into highly probable spam seed in review. These are very recognizable. They copy from another post Often, they only barely makes sense. It looks like a barebone of legit question, ...
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There has been a recent surgence of spam here (I recently joined, so I wouldn't know), and most of it is how to contact Expedia help/support. I think it would be very easy to blacklist the word "...
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I've noticed that Stack Exchange still relies heavily on human moderation to remove spam. While some spam gets deleted automatically after enough flags, it seems inefficient that moderators (and high-...
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I saw the below question pop up. Something with really poor grammar, but at least kinda on-topic for Super User. By the time I clicked through however, the question had been edited into your standard ...
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For the past few months, there has been an on and off massive spam wave primarily focuses on Super User, which has encompassed thousands upon thousands of spam posts, all of which need to be nuked ...
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Given the recent and ongoing increase in spam, spam tends to stick around for longer during low activity time: To combat this, I suggest (temporary, at least) decreasing the flags needed on a single ...
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I see in last few days massive spam in SuperUser. The situation seems to be similar like mentioned here. Can someone from moderators/admins check metasmoke and SmokeDetector are in place. Maybe some ...
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SU currently is getting many spams. Can the max number of daily raised flags be increased, at least temporarily?
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