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No limited time between posts

As I am involved in a few SE sites, I have noticed that basically all have a time limit between when you can post again, presumably to stop people spamming. For example, Super Users is 30 minutes, I t …
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Simple Question: are homelab questions are on topic for Serverfault

limitations: Their internet access will be from a consumer ISP, with limitations and restrictions such as; no fixed IP-addresses prohibits running servers and blocks for example SMTP and ports 25 as a spam
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2023: a year in moderation

diamonds next to their names. ³ The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam … Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam. ⁵ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the …
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Why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string loans?

It worked as smoke detector was deleting faster those, and we asked to make it auto flag as spam such link way more heavily. … simply talk to the moderators to resolve the issue, so we could start again smokey… Sorry that the issue make the site experience go bad, but I can state that some staffs are now trying to clean the spam
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Why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string loans?

As we seeing lots of spam why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string "loans" combo in this platform? …
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Should spam flag have optional hidden comment?

You should probably also notify us in Charcoal HQ to make sure we are aware of the spam and have the domain name added to our database (ideally, join our squad and !! … For more information about the Charcoal volunteer anti-spam organization, see also https://charcoal-se.org/ …
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Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days

Apologies for the influx in spam to the site - my guidance is similar to Ward's - if you see spam, flag it with the spam reason so that it can be deleted. … There's a bit more info about spam flagging on Meta Stack Exchange: Should Stack Exchange have a spam filter? (Does it already and I’m not aware?) …
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Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days

As mentioned in a comment, SmokeDetector was a moderator-run anti-spam assistant, but it's been shut down as part of the strike. … What regular users can do about spam is to flag it. Downvoting is actually counter-productive, it can reduce the visibility of the spam posts and/or make it seem like it's been dealt with. …
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Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days

q=loan+number My first page on ServerFault looks like gets a lot of hits for the same spam type, and I'm already hitting the flag limits what could be done other than that I also researched some similar … q=spam, but my question regards is the spam protection that was suggested in 2010 is still alive. Because it feels not like it? Is there maybe a better way to forward such information? …
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Labor action notice

We've already seen spammers use these tools to provide an actual-answer seeming post with a spam link in it. … Also of note, this includes halting the SmokeDetector anti-spam bot. Since late February, ServerFault has been under heavy attack by a group of pirate stream spammers. …
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Homepage spammed

Yeah, I've been fighting this group of spammers since the Oscars. SmokeDetector is why it hasn't been seen much by people, but has been a real thorn in the side of the moderators. I managed to convinc …
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Homepage spammed

This particular type of spam influx has been going on for awhile. … 5th and/or 6th spam flag to delete the post. …
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Homepage spammed

Today, I saw a ton of posts by a ton of different account advertising the NBA. They completly filled the homepage and used up all my flags. What happened and how can this be prevented, since this has …
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If this question is off-topic, where is it on-topic?

It was closed as being a "shopping question": Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they attract low quality, opinionated and spam answers, and the …
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2022: a year in moderation

systems otherwise known as user #-1. ² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam … Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam. ⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the …
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