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Is useful 'spam', really spam?
However, the only answer had been flagged as spam. … I flagged this answer as not spam, but it was declined. Why? …
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Spam users to dispose of
"http://www.top-password.com/reset-windows-password.html" site:serverfault.com
That search gave me a nice list of posts that got missed when we started spam-flagging. …
sysadmin1138Mod
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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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Should spam flag have optional hidden comment?
When flagging a post spam because of a single URL considered as spam it may be challenging to find the reason for flag, if the post otherwise is well formed. …
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Dealing with blatant spam posts
A new user just registered and posted two spam posts, one of which was very long. Both posts started to get downvoted very quickly, and a number of close votes were made. …
user11604
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Is this post really spam or offensive?
The post had been deleted as "spam or offensive".
Does that seem right? The user was promoting a script he developed; okay. Maybe his code is crap and no one should use it; okay. … But to me, none of that adds up to spam. It looks to me like a legitimate attempt to answer the question. Just curious. …
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Is Spam Assassin via CPanel configuration on-topic?
To quote:
My web host company handles my email & they run it through Apache Spam
Assasin. … Using CPanel, I only see options to black/white-list domains, but I
would like to mark as spam based on certain words in the email
subject.
Is it on-topic to ask on this site how to do so? …
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Is there a sudden large influx of spam suggested edits?
They nearly always edit an answer of roughly the same size as the spam that they use to replace it. … They always use BBCode style [url=http://example.com]example.com[/url] links and the link is nearly always the last part of the spam. …
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My attempted posted answer says looks like spam and won't post
My lengthy and detailed response to a question, including a working script will not post because "it looks like spam". Anyone have an idea how to fix this? …
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Colasoft "Spammers"
If this was traditional one-liner spam I would be flagging it and moving on with my life.
However there is a reason i put spamming in quotes. …
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spam and spammers filter feature request
I do not know what are the merits of downvoting except to discourage newcomers and appaling from continuation of discussion, but, IMO, it does not have sense without filtering users feature(s).
Some …
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1
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Is an answer that just says "use commercial product X" spam?
If a user posts an answer that just says "use commercial product X", is it spam?
See for example this answer. It looked spammy to me, so I flagged it, but the flag was declined. …
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I am being spammed
One of my answers has become the target for a spam bot. … Twice today, once yesterday and several more times in the recent past an Anonymous user has suggested an edit which is basically a set of spam links. …
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Anti-spam mod feature request
Could a dev please think about creating a mod page that shows a list of top users who have 'http' in their answers please. I think this would help us find those who just link to their own pages and sh …
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Is there anything useful I can do to help with the massive number of spam posts coming in?
It looks like today there's a huge number of spam questions being created. Other than downvoting/flagging, is there anything useful regular users can do? …
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