Questions about suspected user spam, the Spam Flag or combating spam as a community
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Please get rid of this answer ASAP
A user named "FeelingSick" posted an "answer" with some extremely unsuitable content at the question How do "proofs" work in mathematics, down to the basic level?. [Warning: the image might ...
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1answer
410 views
Why is obvious spam put on hold?
This user (among others) has been posting a lot of questions lately which contain nothing but spam. I'm not sure about the reason for the posts, but I would guess it has to do with search engine ...
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1answer
461 views
Is this considered spam? and what can we do about it?
Recently, as you may have noticed a user has been posting lots and lots of questions about Laplace transformations and has provided little to no work of his own. Is this, in some way, considered spam ...
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2answers
365 views
A user that posted spam
I noticed today that there were two questions on the site titled something like "aaaaaaaaaa", I flagged both posts as spam.
As it turns out, the PO has edited his (real) questions and removed their ...
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1answer
612 views
What's up with all the spambots?
It seems that we are being raided by vandals.
Is there anything to do beside mark as spam? Is the SE network doing anything (possibly legal proceedings, if they are applicable) to help and prevent ...
