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Journeyman Geek

02:09

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Feeds

03:51

Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero.

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Andreas moved to Codidact

07:10

@Mithical How could you?!

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Journeyman Geek

08:10

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Lundin

09:23

Should we flag this as spam even though the answer as such isn't really spam? electronics.stackexchange.com/a/722439/6102 The account is an obvious spam account.

(The whole Q&A is arguably off-topic on the site but anyway...)

Shadow Wizard

09:57

@Lundin yes, thanks for sharing. See the above reason why.

If a "user" posts a nonsense or useless answer, or ChatGPT answer, and having spam profile it's clearly just a spammer.

yay! Kaboom.

@JourneymanGeek yup, happens when they deploy a build, or sometimes without a reason. ;)

ah, looks like it was a deploy.

> rev 2024.8.14.13983

Pity no exact timestamp, but meh, good enough.

So, expect 6-8 new bugs now. ;-)

These days every build, or every bug fix, results in another bug.

But hey, this gives us what to do, and rep keeps flowing. :D

Shadow Wizard

10:15

hmm how come the bad keyword wasn't reported in the question?

Checked only in answers?

Lundin

10:56

@ShadowWizard Ok thanks, I'll just flag such the next time.

Shadow Wizard

11:35

@Lundin better also report here, to gather enough flags. :)

Lundin

11:53

The EE mods are actually pretty active but there's no "close vote review" or similar chat there.

Andreas moved to Codidact

They do have a general room, though.

Shadow Wizard

@Lundin ah, so custom flag can fit, as you're correct, and some people won't consider it spam as it has no direct link in it.

In the flag explain it's just nonsense post, and profile is very spammy.

So just by posting, they gain linking their profile when the post is indexed by search engines. (Or they think they get, as there's nofollow for links. ;))

Andreas moved to Codidact

12:11

Spam flag + comment explaining why it's spam suffices?

Journeyman Geek

12:36

I'd go with a custom flag first, Can't remember if you can dual flag

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Shadow Wizard

17:09

FYI

in Wizards Den, 48 secs ago, by Shadow Wizard

@All I'm going tomorrow to vacation (in Prague), will be back in August 27. Hopefully. Since mobile chat is... not ideal... I won't be checking the chat very often. Play nicely, don't break the bots, and I'll see y'all when getting back. Or during the vacation if I'll really get bored. :-P

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact yeah that can also work. Spammers don't read comments anyway. :D

@JourneymanGeek one flag, until it's handled. Once handled you can cast another one, if you cast custom flag first, if it's accepted then it means the mod deleted the spam, if rejected it means the mod didn't find it to be spam. Either way, no point flagging again.