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Thank you to whoever removes spam from Ask Ubuntu
Not to put down Mithrandir's answer or Charcoal which indeed does a terrific job, but it's not only the awesome Charcoal folks and SmokeDetector who keep Ask Ubuntu clear of spam, it's also site ...
ZannaMod
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Obscure links to promote service
Good catch! You should flag this as spam since it is clearly spam. The OP is trying to hide their spam in a valid-sounding question.
Actually, for such hidden things, a custom mod flag might be a ...
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Thank you to whoever removes spam from Ask Ubuntu
You're welcome! ;)
We're an organization known as Charcoal, or Charcoal-SE. Check out our website https://charcoal-se.org for some amazing spam detection!
But seriously.... yeah, we're Charcoal, ...
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Homepage spammed
You have 101 reputation on AU, which was obtained for being a trusted user on other SE sites.
You clearly don't even use AU, so why are you posting about this here? How can you claim to have knowledge ...
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Spam edit in already closed question
I see three possibilities as to how that question ended up edited into spam:
The account was compromised sometime between when the question was posted, 2018-11-23, and when it was edited into spam on ...
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Automatic flagging of "keto" users with Reputation == 1?
I'm a room owner of SOCVR and a regular in Charcoal-HQ and those rooms are involved in fighting spam posts across the SE network.
Thank you for noticing these spam posts and offering ideas to put a ...
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Should a post be flagged as spam if an author is clearly *not affiliated* with the promotion?
OmgUbuntu is not Spam; it is a much frequented Ubuntu blog and links to it pop up occasionally, and I don't believe we want such posts being Spam-flagged when we use links to it in chat or on the site,...
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Obscure links to promote service
This is one of those cases where I personally would flag for moderator's intervention because this is not so obvious of a case. Explain clearly that the post is spam and is disguised, point where the ...
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Spam edit in already closed question
If you suspect that something harmless-looking might be spam related, check whether it was plagiarized.
That question was copied from another question, and the user's profile text was copied from ...
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Why my spam flag has been declined?
The answer in question is not considered spam for several reasons. I will be quoting from Seth's answer on the related post about what constitutes spam to analyze this.
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Is this an ...
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Are new users banned from answering "highly active questions"?
The question got a lot of views quickly and then was automatically protected after three non-answers were posted by 1 rep users.
As this happened ages ago (Aug 5th), I have unprotected the question ...
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New user promoting a single service - (subtle) spam?
I also think it's spam.
None of the answers actually try to answer the question except to say "use this product/service".
If the user would actually go into detail about how the product/...
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How can I report user profile as inappropriate?
You just did it.
Nuked, from orbit. Thank you for pointing it out.
OliMod
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New user promoting a single service - (subtle) spam?
All three of this user's posts have been deleted as spam; this being said, they shouldn't be able to post answers anymore (the anti-abuse system is doing its job)
Thomas WardMod
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New user promoting a single service - (subtle) spam?
ThinLinc is 19 years old though.
We used it at university [a long while back]. Yes, it's paid, but it had management features which made it more useful than the bare VNC servers of the day
Not ...
OliMod
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How can I report user profile as inappropriate?
To add to what Oli mentioned there is no direct way to report a profile. The feature was trialed for a bit, but removed. I don't remember why, but I believe there were too many reports for non ...
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Are new users banned from answering "highly active questions"?
I have edited the answer from the new question into the stub answer posted by the OP and merged the new question into the old one which moved the answer there.
I should probably have noticed that the ...
ZannaMod
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Should a post be flagged as spam if an author is clearly *not affiliated* with the promotion?
In addition to Videonauth's answer, which points out that the site mentioned is popular with Ubuntu users and linking to it is not normally considered spamming, I would suggest that we can't actually ...
ZannaMod
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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,...
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Suggested edits: is this spam?
Looks like vandalism to me. But as suggested it's an audit to determine if you are paying attention.
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