Questions tagged [spam]
Questions about suspected user spam, the Spam Flag or combating spam as a community
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What is currently the number of available daily flags on math.SE? Should it be temporarily increased?
By default, a user can use 10 flags per day and the number is then increased based on the reputation and the number of helpful flags - see here: On the recent changes to flagging and limits.1,2 Is ...
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User profile appears to be an ad for Australian disability insurance
User Care Assure's profile description appears to be an ad for an Australian company involved in their National Disability Insurance Scheme. The profile was created within the last day; the only ...
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Suspension of users advertising with spams
Reviewing low-quality posts, I see some annoying users posting their ads as a form of answer or question. However, I haven’t seen some cases where the user was suspended. Right now, seeing my review ...
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I suspect an answer to my question was generated by AI. What should I do?
I asked a question, Random-like walk based on the parity of digits of a normal number: must it return to the origin? I suspect that this answer may have been generated by artificial intelligence. It ...
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What is going on with these questions?
Today I stumbled upon two different (now deleted) questions. The format of the two questions was very similar: a question on measure theory (more specifically, on the exchangeability of a sum and a ...
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Is it ok to erase an answer that is extremely vulgar by editing it?
I just came across a spam answer which is extremely vulgar (sexual). I flagged it for moderator attention, and then it occurred to me that I could edit it and erase its contents by blanking it till a ...
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1 answer
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Should comments advertising other sites be removed?
This morning I noticed a low-quality question with a comment written yesterday by the user MathKid containing the text: you may ask such questions at websites like [other site] and get it answered ...
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What's with some new contributors flagrantly violating the rules for answering questions?
Recently I have posted a few questions in varying fields and new contributors keep posting with what only can be described as nonsense. Sometimes they're ill attempts at humour other times they are ...
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Why is this spam?
I'm just curious, I was looking at this question with a view to answer it, and suddenly the Community bot deleted it for abuse/spam. It didn't seem like either; it was just a regular question. Does ...
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1 answer
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Question marked as spam/offensive - unable to see complete revision history?
I noticed that this question I answered about a month ago was deleted and marked as spam/rude/abusive. However, revision history seems to suggest nothing of the sort. The originally posted question ...
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1 answer
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Banned content in comments/flags/questions?
Recently the frequent spammer Thierno Sow has returned to MSE. My question isn't directly related to their return, however - rather, I want to ask about a curiosity around the comment system. I wrote ...
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This user is spamming completely irrelevant content in an answer.
https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1932303/272831 https://math.stackexchange.com/users/370219/bas-das This user is posting random content from youtube videos that have nothing to do with math. I wanted ...
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Definition of spam redux: a review audit fail I'm proud of!
The notion of what constitutes spam in Math.SE posts has been discussed before, with links to appropriate Meta.SE posts covering the same ground. With that in mind, please (if reputation permits) ...
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Please don't flag posts containing re-purposed ImageShack image URLs as spam
It has recently been noticed that ImageShack does a horrible thing: they re-purpose old image URLs for advertising purposes. This can lead the impression that some older posts are actually spam, for ...
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Why is this answer “spam or offensive”?
This reply to Is zero odd or even? was deleted (several years ago) by the Community user, which replaced the content with the remark: This answer was marked as spam or offensive and is therefore not ...
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