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Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE):

There are a great many things wrong with this artifact:

  1. There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
  2. The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
  3. There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
  4. There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam point)
  5. I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to go buy. (-756 spam points)

This appears to be the new standard for spam on the Stack Exchange network. How can we let this happen?

To resolve this issue of low-quality spam, I would like to propose the following:

##Educate the spammers

Educate the spammers

Let's make an addition to our How To Ask page:

Which would lead to a new How to Spam page. Draft here:

This would greatly improve the quality of spam on Stack Exchange sites!

Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE):

There are a great many things wrong with this artifact:

  1. There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
  2. The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
  3. There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
  4. There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam point)
  5. I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to go buy. (-756 spam points)

This appears to be the new standard for spam on the Stack Exchange network. How can we let this happen?

To resolve this issue of low-quality spam, I would like to propose the following:

##Educate the spammers

Let's make an addition to our How To Ask page:

Which would lead to a new How to Spam page. Draft here:

This would greatly improve the quality of spam on Stack Exchange sites!

Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE):

There are a great many things wrong with this artifact:

  1. There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
  2. The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
  3. There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
  4. There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam point)
  5. I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to go buy. (-756 spam points)

This appears to be the new standard for spam on the Stack Exchange network. How can we let this happen?

To resolve this issue of low-quality spam, I would like to propose the following:

Educate the spammers

Let's make an addition to our How To Ask page:

Which would lead to a new How to Spam page. Draft here:

This would greatly improve the quality of spam on Stack Exchange sites!

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Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE):

There are a great many things wrong with this artifact:

  1. There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
  2. The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
  3. There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
  4. There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam point)
  5. I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to go buy. (-756 spam points)

This appears to be the new standard for spam on the Stack Exchange network. How can we let this happen?

To resolve this issue of low-quality spam, I would like to propose the following:

##Educate the spammers

Let's make an addition to our How To AskHow To Ask page:

Which would lead to a new How to Spam page. Draft here:

This would greatly improve the quality of spam on Stack Exchange sites!

Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE):

There are a great many things wrong with this artifact:

  1. There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
  2. The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
  3. There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
  4. There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam point)
  5. I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to go buy. (-756 spam points)

This appears to be the new standard for spam on the Stack Exchange network. How can we let this happen?

To resolve this issue of low-quality spam, I would like to propose the following:

##Educate the spammers

Let's make an addition to our How To Ask page:

Which would lead to a new How to Spam page. Draft here:

This would greatly improve the quality of spam on Stack Exchange sites!

Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE):

There are a great many things wrong with this artifact:

  1. There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
  2. The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
  3. There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
  4. There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam point)
  5. I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to go buy. (-756 spam points)

This appears to be the new standard for spam on the Stack Exchange network. How can we let this happen?

To resolve this issue of low-quality spam, I would like to propose the following:

##Educate the spammers

Let's make an addition to our How To Ask page:

Which would lead to a new How to Spam page. Draft here:

This would greatly improve the quality of spam on Stack Exchange sites!

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Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE):

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There are a great many things wrong with this artifact:

  1. There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
  2. The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
  3. There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
  4. There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam pointspoint)
  5. I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to go buy. (-756 spam points)

This appears to be the new standard for spam on the Stack Exchange network. How can we let this happen?

To resolve this issue of low-quality spam, I would like to propose the following:

##Educate the spammers

Let's make an addition to our How To Ask page:

enter image description here

Which would lead to a new How to Spam page. Draft here:

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This would greatly improve the quality of spam on Stack Exchange sites!

Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE):

enter image description here

There are a great many things wrong with this artifact:

  1. There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
  2. The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
  3. There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
  4. There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam points)
  5. I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to go buy. (-756 spam points)

This appears to be the new standard for spam on the Stack Exchange network. How can we let this happen?

To resolve this issue of low-quality spam, I would like to propose the following:

##Educate the spammers

Let's make an addition to our How To Ask page:

enter image description here

Which would lead to a new How to Spam page. Draft here:

enter image description here

This would greatly improve the quality of spam on Stack Exchange sites!

Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE):

There are a great many things wrong with this artifact:

  1. There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
  2. The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
  3. There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
  4. There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam point)
  5. I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to go buy. (-756 spam points)

This appears to be the new standard for spam on the Stack Exchange network. How can we let this happen?

To resolve this issue of low-quality spam, I would like to propose the following:

##Educate the spammers

Let's make an addition to our How To Ask page:

Which would lead to a new How to Spam page. Draft here:

This would greatly improve the quality of spam on Stack Exchange sites!

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