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Why is the site being flooded with junk right now? What is being done about it?
Once in a while, people decide to post strange things here. I would recommend not giving them the pleasure of a response. The best thing to do is flag and ignore.
S. CarnahanMod
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More spam bots than usual?
Yesterday (April 17th) the site was "under attack" between (approximately) 08:00 UTC and 11:00 UTC. During this period, I myself flagged 23 posts as spam. Besides downvoting and flagging as ...
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Why was my spam flag declined on an answer that does nothing but promote the answerer's book?
The answer under consideration is not spam, because it is a valid answer to the question that was asked (and the question was more or less on-topic for this site).
Ideally, we would like some kind of ...
S. CarnahanMod
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Why was my spam flag declined on an answer that does nothing but promote the answerer's book?
I did not process that flag, but I agree with whoever did. I think "spamming" is often construed overly broadly anyway. In my mind, the first criterion for judgment should be relevancy, with ...
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More spam bots than usual?
This answer is community wiki - feel free to edit it if you have some useful information to add.
In case somebody wants to have a look at some stats about spam - for example to compare the current ...
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