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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Does embedding a hidden domain in a question help SEO rankings?
Say one posts a question that includes some sample HTML in a code block:
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<a href="mailto:sales@exa&#...
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Flagging a Staging Ground question as spam should close-vote it too [duplicate]
I ran across an obvious piece of spam in Staging Ground. I flagged it accordingly, but I still had the set of choices in the "Review Question" box. It clearly shouldn't be promoted to a &...
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Should multiple self-promotion link-only answers be flagged as spam or with a custom flag? Can a spam penalty be reversed?
I came across this answer (10k+ only) when curating new answers to old questions. I initially flagged it as library-only (VLQ).
Besides of the problem,i want to say I have found a plugin for cloud ...
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Was this answer that links to a free open source software project and non-commercial website that I help maintain, really spam?
I want to ask about my answer here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/78498819/1718491
It has 4+ down-votes as "spam" and I'd like to ask if this really qualifies as "spam" or not. I ...
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Is there something off with the spam bot?
SO Question: Nasha Mukti Kendra in Chandigarh
I remember there being a bot in place to remove such questions (there was an entire chatroom dedicated to this).
How did the spam bot not capture this?
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When flagging a discussion on Discussion as spam, I get Page Not Found
I have been visiting Discussion several times in the last few days, mostly to view the newest discussions. When I found spam, I flagged it as spam. So far, so good; however, I assume that I have been ...
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Something's fishy in [dolphindb]
Lately I've noticed a slew of low quality, mis-tagged questions all with one thing in common... the dolphindb tag.
They all seem to be posted in batches from a handful of user accounts and rarely ...
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Add Discussions to SE-wide search or, at least, SO search
Tl;dr - can Discussions be included in network-wide search, please? Failing that, can we have some other way to search Discussions?
Berthold - CM said that right now there isn't a way to search ...
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Is there a new wave of junk post and should I flag them as spam?
I just found several low-quality posts that are obviously not programming-related.
How many states in india
Ethical hacker and software Engineer
Summarize your problem in a one-line title. Describe ...
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Please implement a rate-limit for discussions
There is currently a spam wave going on in Discussions which was noticed here by Luciano. What is noteworthy here is that this spam wave is done majorly by only two user accounts and that they have ...
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How can we deal with a user who posts multiple spam posts in Discussions?
I found this user who has posted four spam posts in the Discussions tab of the Mobile Development Collective. I’ve flagged all the posts.
Do I need to do anything else?
Also, what measures have been ...
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Non-spam, non-rude answer deleted as spam/rude? [duplicate]
Failed an audit for https://stackoverflow.com/a/77660440/367865. It seems to have been deleted as spam/rude, I'm not sure it should've been categorized like that. The link is questionable, but that ...
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A clue about "git command is not returning any value in makefile" questions on SO?
There was a question asked in January 2023:
git command not returning any value in makefile
which was duplicated (as in Ctrl + C/Ctrl + V, spotted by an SO user) in November:
Git command is not ...
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Why wasn't this spam post deleted even after getting a helpful flag?
Last week, I flagged this post as spam, along with its answer. The reason for that being that all 16 answers of that user pointed to the library they wrote and most answers were unattributed up to the ...
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New users posting spam with links in Collective discussions
I have noticed a huge influx in spam posts, especially in the discussion section of the PHP collective. Most follow a similar format, with big headers at the top and then a link at the bottom. They ...
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