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Posts tagged spam
Rationale Today I flagged an answer that was clearly spam. Then I decided to check the spammer's profile to see if there were more. And indeed, I found a comment that was also spam. One detail th...
Related to hkotsubo's request for a list of new comments, it might be useful to surface a search not only for posts, but also for comments.[1] Having now had some exposure to the kinds of spam patt...
We now have notices when a post has been flagged as spam. If I encounter a post that has such a notice and I agree, is it Still useful to flag it myself, perhaps as an endorsement, or Unnecessa...
Since joining I've received eight and two halves (!) copies of the pair of Participate Ability notifications. I don't see why I'm getting spammed? My first thought was that it's per-community, but...
It just occurred to me that it would be nice to have a "spam" reaction feature, to mark a post as potentially harmful while waiting for moderators to delete it. Benefits: Prevent other users fr...
Discussion on Introduce a spam reaction? brought up the idea of preventing new users from posting links, so as to create an additional hurdle for spammers (who will rarely make any serious attempt ...
The general policy on spam accounts with advertisements stored in their user profile (and no account activity) was already discussed here. I´m looking at an account whose current advertisement met...
I'd like for communities to be able to opt in to a feature that shadowbans new accounts for a brief period of time. Moderators should be able to release accounts from the shadowban manually; they s...
A somewhat well-known phenomenon from SE is "spam accounts" - that is a user profile containing self-promotional material which just sits there - the user isn't making any posts. Supposedly a paras...
