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How are spammers rate limited?
Question: Are there some additional limits for users who had some of their posts marked as spam (or rude/offensive)?
Typically, an account posting spam is a new user, with reputation 1. (Meaning that ...
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"very low quality" flag got helpful, but (non) answer still there
For starters, this is the answer I am talking about.
The question is ancient (2009) and is already answered.
How to declare an array in Java?
And the answer (a code only answer)
public class{
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Flagged answer as spam; it was deleted; flag was declined
There was an answer posted on this question that was a link to a guy's personal blog, not to a specific post or anything. The only other thing he really said in the answer is that you might find ...
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Flagging hidden spam?
I'm wondering whats the policy on "hidden" spam. Today I reviewed one of the "late answers".
E.g..
An OP posts a question.
Someone answers the questions and embeds in his code:
http://cool-...
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Limits for self-promotion in answers
It's been covered before that posting links to your own website is ok, but should there be a line drawn? There were several spam flags today for Ira Baxter's recent posts, presumably because they all ...
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What are appropriate criteria for flagging a post as spam? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does the spam flag work?
The title says it all, really; there's a "spam" criterion for flagging both questions and answers. What is it that makes something "spam"? Is it ...
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