Questions tagged [spam-detection]
Questions about captchas and other spam detection measures on SE.
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Introducing a new proactive anti-spam measure
We’re testing this on Super User as of October 23, 2025
We’ve activated the anti-spam measure on Super User as a trial run. The Super User mods were excited for their site to be our test subject, and ...
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Are we open to more aggressive anti-spam measures in the account-creation workflow?
It is no mystery that SE has a dedicated spam ring posting across many sites (see Looking for statistics on spam, Salesforce Stack Exchange is having a big spam wave and flags are limited to 10 per ...
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How about using GPT or some other LLMs to help for spam detection?
Example from https://askubuntu.com/questions/1475868/gold-rupee-loan-app-customer-carehelpline-number%ef%b8%8f-7250536107-7250536107
Prompt given to https://chat.openai.com/?model=text-davinci-002-...
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Stack Exchange needs its own anti-spam system
This is not a duplicate of Should Stack Exchange have a spam filter? (Does it already and I’m not aware?) which is asking if there's already a system in place.
I am asking for a review of the existing ...
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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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"This looks like spam" error message when attempting to ask a non-spam question on tor [duplicate]
I'm trying to ask in the "Tor Stack Exchange Q&A Site" about Signaled readiness to systemd... but always count my question as spam while it is not...
my question body : https://pastebin....
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Can't create my question, because it looks like spam
I have read a lot about this theme now and I don't get why my question looks like a spam...
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User with suicidal ideation, welfare of user and young readers. Filter?
About an hour ago by this time, a user with clear suicidal ideation posted on Medical Sciences:
[........... preamble] loneliness [....] This is my own decision taken myself [....] I want to die in ...
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Improvement to "Our system has identified this post as possible spam" text [duplicate]
While reviewing a post in the Triage queue on SO, I (barely) noticed some text, centered with the article, and very slightly spaced from the question body:
Our system has identified this post as ...
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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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Meta Stack Exchange is blocking posts containing Korean characters, on question about Korean language Stack Exchange
This is the error that I am getting
I have seen something like this before when trying to get the Korean language Stack Exchange created in Area 51, and it was due to some spam protection measure, ...
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Why was so much spam blocked on March 28, 2014? [duplicate]
The recent June 25th, 2020 blog article How does spam protection work on Stack Exchange? shows a graph of how much spam SpamRam blocked between March 2 and April 1, 2014. According to that graph, &...
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Do not repeatedly require trusted contributors to solve captchas when they attempt to post
By now, I've solved hundreds of captchas on Stack Exchange, maybe thousands. Often when I post (conservatively, at least 30% of the time), I'm presented with this:
We can't quite tell if you're a ...
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A question about spam prevention recognized by SE network as spam
I am trying to post the following question on Web Applications SE but I keep getting the error "this looks like spam".
Therefore, I tried to create a Web Applications SE Meta question about ...
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SE's spam filters: Add "Keto" to the blocklist
I'm seeing multiple spam questions advertising "Keto" pop up on Meta on a daily basis, as you can see in this MetaSmoke search.
While it is true that MetaSmoke / Smokedetector does handle ...
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