This is a question regarding the AskUbuntu Latest Questions forum, I imagine that there a point at which a post will automatically get deleted from the question list.

The reason I comment is that sometimes, spam is a real problem, like the obvious spam shown below, which seemed to hang around for quite some time before vanishing.

![Recent example][1]

I'm not complaining but I would be interested in finding out how these questions are dealt with.

24th August 2013
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This has cropped up again.

![Example 24 August 2013][2]


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/Hwcxl.png
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/HQNhf.png