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For question or suggestion to handling spam.

9 votes
2 answers
198 views

Should spam posts be edited, or still just flagged?

We've had an upswing of spam recently (hopefully short-lived), and I've noticed a few users editing spam posts to remove links. This has traditionally been considered a wrong approach on Ask Ubuntu. …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
8 votes
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Please add a new privilege that allows unlimited flagging to help combat spam!

To address the feature request itself: This feature should not be implemented. Unlimited spam flags would be bad, because spam flags are extremely powerful. A spam flag carries an automatic downvot …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
3 votes

Change in domain name

What to do with comments... I don't know if there's a better approach available than just manually removing all the comments that link to the old domain (and have thus become spam) and replacing them …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
7 votes
1 answer
178 views

Should spam-only accounts always be deleted?

Should accounts that have posted spam and don't appear to have contributed any non-spam content to the site always be deleted? My understanding--from limited observation and this may be wrong!--is th …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
6 votes
0 answers
90 views

Why does the site tease me about a comment I can't view?

A deleted answer marked as spam shows a "show 1 more comment" link, but clicking the link does not show the comment. Reloading the page does not make the problem go away. The deletion itself is correc …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar