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 ring; too much going on to describe in a custom flag
I was recently applying my limited SQL skills to poke through a list of users with many answers, all of which exceed some minimum score. While this query highlights some really awesome contributors (...
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Educating people to flag spam and not vote to close
TL DR
Is there anything we can do to help educate users to use their flags and not their close votes on spam?
It is not uncommon to see people voting to close spam. Spam should be flagged as spam and ...
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Info: Contacted by spammers (Ispirer Systems) referencing Stack Overflow
Not sure if anyone else got this, but I found the following in my mailbox:
Hi, Peter!
My name is [removed], and I’m Sales & Marketing Manager in
Ispirer Systems. I found your contacts on ...
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How is this "question" not spam?
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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Possible spam ring, but trying to describe it is too long for the custom moderator textbox
I tried flagging a question and answer as needing moderator attention, but trying to describe the situation is simply too long for the textbox (over 200 characters too long), so I figured I would post ...
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I have found 16,809 similar, inappropriate(?) user profiles. There are more. Now what?
I've found two pools of users whose profiles are probably machine generated. Their creation dates spike near certain days. The users don't seem to have done anything (no posts, no comments, last ...
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Is anything spam anymore?
I recently flagged this answer as spam
It's an ad for iPistis and (since that's not enough) doesn't disclose the author's obvious affiliation:
This flag was declined stating:
a moderator reviewed ...
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How can I remove Crossover from my emailed "occasional jobs"?
It is possible to remove companies such as Crossover from the standard searches. However, I'm also getting emails You're receiving this email because you are opted in to Stack Overflow emails ...
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Declined spam flag on clickbait question
I'm curious as to why the spam flag that I raised on this question was declined. The entire body of the question reads:
I launched a website few days ago. Its about Deezer music. So I need
an ...
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Why would a moderator keep spam?
In this question there is a link to adf.ly network.
Authors of such links get paid for visits, and it's safe to assume the question was deliberately made to force users into visiting it. I've ...
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Jobs company page spam [closed]
It seems that spammers are using Stack Overflow Jobs company pages to make SEO-optimized clickbait. Here's an example (don't ask me how I found it).
There's no option for users to flag these pages - ...
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Let's get aligned on how spam flags can be used
Recently, I've noticed some contention — and simple miscommunication — over when 'red' flags ('spam' and 'rude or abusive') should be cast on Stack Overflow, and how moderators should handle them. ...
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Globally fixing spam/malware taking advantage of JSBin quirk
I've had this happen on a couple of my old answers using JSBin: I'd done up a quick example and linked to it like this: http://jsbin.com/iyucuy (not marked up as a link on purpose, keep reading). At ...
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Show a warning when someone uses a custom close reason containing the word "spam"
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 ...
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Are job offers spam?
Every few weeks, we seem to get a question which is nothing more than:
I need a developer to do X, if you are interested, please contact me
at [email protected]
Unquestionably a terrible, off-topic ...
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