Questions tagged [spam]
This tag is for questions about suspected user spam, the spam flag, or combating spam as a community. For the network, spam is only advertisements or promotional content, not for other disruptive or unwanted messages.
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New spam dashboard can't count (there are five statuses, not four)
The recent auto-flagged spam dashboard has counting issues:
This info box pops up from the "i" icon next to "Status". There are very clearly five possible statuses. Please change &...
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Spammer's user name remains visible in chat after user has been destroyed
We've just seen a spammer in chat, the message was quickly removed and the user destroyed. However, the name of the spammer remains clearly visible.
Obviously, if the name is related to the spammed ...
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Stop balkanizing bad behavior, such as spam
I'm not sure I want to be able to destroy accounts network-wide. I'm also not sure that I want to handle flags for other sites.
That said, they do have a point, albeit not the one they were trying to ...
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Can we get more daily flags network-wide?
With regards to recent spam waves, I noticed a pattern. They will go full force on a seemingly random site on which the users are generally unprepared to handle such a high volume of spam, due to not ...
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Salesforce Stack Exchange is having a big spam wave and flags are limited to 10 per user; staff assistance is required
Currently, https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/ looks something like this:
I already run out of flags, as did others, this post is mainly to bring attention to staff, but as always any help will be ...
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Looking for statistics on spam
I'm trying to get a better understanding of what has effectively become a 365-days-per-year rolling marquee for one scammer with the same or similar "advertisements" targeting a specific ...
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Destruction of users via keyboard shortcuts occasionally fails
As folks might be aware — we've been destroying spammers at scale on Super User - which I moderate. I use keyboard shortcuts, and occasionally at some point in the key combinations I use, the site ...
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Alert moderators if an edit with at least one "Reject as spam or vandalism" vote is approved
An occurrence that is not all too common, but does happen and can easily go unnoticed, is for an edit to be rejected as spam or vandalism but then wrongfully overridden to approved by the post owner. ...