Questions tagged [spam]
For questions primarily about spam, unsolicited advertising content posted as questions or answers - usually automated, and posted with no regard for relevance. (If the question is instead about genuine self-promotional content on RPG.SE - generally that which is relevant and posted by human users - use the the [self-promotion] tag.)
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What should I do about spam questions?
I keep seeing spam questions on the site. Usually about poker, for some reason. What should I do about those? They make me angry. They make me want to HULK SMASH.
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Can we auto-flag no-rep users posting answers with e-mail addresses?
We consistently get spam of the type:
$HoityToityName has made my $verb better because he cast spell for me. E-mail example@yahoo.com to have $noun [enlarged | made better].
... Except it takes a ...
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What's with the weird questions I see in the list with URLs in their titles?
Clearly somebody's noticed that sometimes questions appear in the active list with only a url of some sort for a non-stackexchange site as the title because when I try to go to the question to flag it ...
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Could our spam filter be made extraordinarily paranoid about answers with emails in them?
RPG.SE has been receiving spellcaster spam for years (such as in this 10k only example). I understand that there's some machine learning behind our spam flags, but this stuff seems to regularly fall ...
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Why does the list of reasons to close a question include neither astroturfing nor spam?
I think it would be useful to distinguish between well-intentioned but off-topic questions and those meant to promote a service or advertise a particular product. Is there a way to give advertising ...
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How is this spam?
A post this morning was hit with a spam flag which was validated by a moderator (or the moderator took it upon themselves to flag it as spam). It came from an established user, who appears to have no ...
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Why can't someone link their game in their question when it's useful but non-critical?
Inspired by How do I get my game reviewed?
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We also don't want people to link their games here, unless the game's content itself is material to answering the ...
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Spam user report
I am reporting this spammer: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/61952/tonyzega
Their about me is just spam for their product. Please do delete the user, and do not support that company that it is ...
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