Edit Out Spam

(strike stopgap)

I do not like seeing the site flooded with ads for Turkish Call Girls, Loan Sharks, Penis Enlargers, Voodoo spells, and Gummy Drugs. I have been flagging each spam post I see as spam as well as editing the spam out of the title and body, replacing it with

---------- spam ----------

This gets messaged to the spammer and pasted to their home as an activity.

The spam post seems to get removed much faster than when left alone.

I tried different text strings and this one did not look too offensive to me.

I have been told that editing out spam is not against Ask Ubuntu rules.

From past experience, spam is not a problem here when the moderators are not on strike.