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For question or suggestion to handling spam.

12 votes

Should I keep an eye on spam-like answers about free software? Or why do people spam-promote...

Yes, we should keep an eye on them Spam is bad for the site, it does not help anybody and it clutters all those good questions and answers we have here. No, we should not flag and delete them all Thes …
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8 votes

Dealing with this user

In this case it is rather obvious. From what I could see on quickly checking their homepage their primary download directs to Windows and from my Windows office machine I could not find any downloads …
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5 votes

Don't edit spam answers, just flag them

Sometimes spam edits still occur. We may need to help users who only recently gained edit privileges to know about this to avoid this. For addrssing users who are not in chat it may be a good idea t …
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10 votes
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Should we commment on spam to get it deleted faster?

Recently I observe that obvious spam often gets far more down votes than spam flags would be needed for community deleting and locking: Should we in case of an obvious spam post leave a comment so …
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