[This question's answer][1] has a couple of comments of a rather suspicious nature which left me with the impression that the question's author is trying ***really*** hard to drive the discussion towards a certain product. And indeed, a short search revealed that he is [seemingly affiliated][2] with the mentioned company. As neither the question nor any answers mention the syscomgroup's stuff directly, I wondered how such cases are handled. 1. should I just comment upon the question, downvote it and leave it as a memorial? 2. should I flag it for moderation attention? 3. should I vote to close it with some obscure reason? For now I opted for 1. but I am open to suggestions to do otherwise. ###Edit: As I see, the question has since been 1. migrated to superuser 2. closed and deleted there 3. deleted by Community here 4. had its poster excommunicated The points I am wondering about are: - why has the deletion been done by "Community"? - having the spamming users banned would not give them the opportunity to read the community's comments - would they get the hint nonetheless? - should not we leave this question visible and just edit out the links and delete the spammy comments instead? It has *some* merit at least. For the sake of completeness here the screenshot of the conversation which is meanwhile marked as "deleted": ![deleted answer with comments][3] [1]: http://serverfault.com/q/493092/76595 [2]: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/f100003858517625/1 [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/NC0nY.png