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24 questions linked to/from Spam Profiles are getting my goat. Could we have better tools for mods to deal with profile spam?
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Are these new accounts simply touting for business? [duplicate]
This is one of the newly opened accounts:
https://stackexchange.com/users/29091928/the-mike-hostilo-law-firm
There are at least two others from different locations. They represent a U.S. law firm and ...
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How to deal with spam user posting ad in their profile page [duplicate]
At our Stack Exchange site we have some users created recently that have no activity, simply a name and profile which contains an add for some car insurance quotes. How can we deal with users like ...
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Are there processes to deal with spam users that post no content? [duplicate]
I had a look at badges today, and in the list of recent badges I saw a display name that struck me as odd and spammy, that just got rewarded the Autobiographer badge.
I then took a look at users that ...
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Spam (tobacco related) multiple accounts [duplicate]
Looks like all of https://stackexchange.com/users/23136292/tobacco-king?tab=accounts accounts are spam.
E.g. multiple users found on ruSO: https://ru.meta.stackoverflow.com/a/11819/176217
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Should I flag spam accounts even if they didn't post any content yet? [duplicate]
Every day I see many of such accounts being created. They rarely post spam (probably because they get blocked by the system) and if they do post spam content they are sometimes nuked by mods. I am not ...
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The Many Memes of Meta
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral&...
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A machine can flag spam automatically. Can it do better?
Since this has been posted, we've done a few things:
We now cast four flags on posts that pass an accuracy threshold (current 99.9% historical confidence)
SmokeDetector now casts the first ...
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We are updating our Code of Conduct and we would like your feedback
Update, May 31st, 2023: The updated code of conduct has been released network-wide.
A good Code of Conduct is a handshake agreement between users and the company. It is a document that inspires trust ...
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Could we have a minimum reputation for visible profiles?
After a couple of years - most of the profiles that were getting my goat have been herded away from the sites I moderate. There's probably many more left and I'm looking at thwarting them in many ...
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Is spam in the "about me" field a reason to worry? [duplicate]
There are many inactive user profiles on SO that were clearly registered by spammers. The spam posts (if there were any) are already removed but the profiles remain. Some of them put their spam text ...
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What is the policy on destroying users with very spammy profiles but have not posted spam yet?
A little bit of background first: Over on Puzzling.SE, we've been nuking users that look very spammy, before they've had a chance to post anything. It began with posts like this, which advertised ...
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Is it allowed to have non-English text in the "About" section of the user profile page?
Are profile pages (about section) required to be written in English?
For example, this Stack Overflow profile that I found is entirely in Italian.
Stack Overflow is an English-only site, and that ...
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Delete old, unloved, users
I've been putting some thought into Is spam in the "about me" field a reason to worry?, and particularly the statement at the top of the accepted answer:
The trick is finding these spam ...
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If SE won't allow heuristics to identify AI, how does it plan on stopping spam-profile accounts boosted by AI posts?
I've now seen more than 2,000 posts that I suspect are AI on Stack Overflow alone. I've flagged over 1,200 of these. The remainder were already handled, handled under one of the other flags, or in ...
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Is sock puppetry really that hard to handle?
I, like many other new users, struggle to get enough reputation do contribute in a way that fits us, like upvoting and providing helpful comments (one example here).
One argument for the limits is ...
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How to reply to meta questions?
What is the most appropriate way of responding to a meta post. For example, if someone has pointed out a bug, how does one reply to that. I don't normally answer questions as I am unsure what to put.
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Why do moderators need to delete accounts?
If a user posts spam or breaks the rules enough, moderators may delete their account. They can just recreate their account, but is typically accompanied by a suspension anyway. In this case, why not ...
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Website link on Stack Exchange user profile is linkified even for SPAM accounts
See for example this user profile. The only post I saw from this user on meta was this (10k+ only).
This user's profile page on Meta and Stack Overflow shows the website as plain text and not a ...
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Tie privileges to user rating percentage rather than to reputation?
Current Stack Overflow privileges are based on the user's reputation.
25,000 access to site analytics
20,000 trusted user
15,000 protect questions
10,000 access to moderator tools
etc.
Wouldn't it ...
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Links in site profiles stripped from network profile
I have a link in my profile, advertising a Stack Exchange question of mine (which I believe is acceptable use of the profile page). The link works fine on my individual profile pages. For example, my ...
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How much spam is manually posted?
Spam can be broken into a few categories:
Spam posts that are blocked from being posted
Spam posts that make it past the automatic blocks
Profile spam (not sure there are any preventative measures ...
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Which sites show recent badges on the frontpage?
In a recent discussions about spam in users' profile on MathOverflow Meta I noticed the comment saying that recent badges appear not only in the help-center. (I did not notice that until now.) I will ...
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Why was the review queue icon survey so obscure?
Today I opened SO and noticed the new review queue icon. I did some searching and discovered that there was a survey. Ok, so I don't remember seeing anything about that. And then I noticed this line:
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How do I flag/report problematic content on a user's profile page? [duplicate]
Suppose a user has no bad posts, perhaps no posts at all, but their user page consists solely to promote a product or is otherwise problematic. How would I flag or report this user page?
This ...
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