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:
- There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.)
- The only punctuation mark is in the signature. (-1 grammar point)
- There is a signature. (-1 SE points)
- There isn't even one sneaky inline link. (-1 spam point)
- 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!