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When dealing with spam messages that we spot in the forums (and Q&A) is it better just to mark them as spam, or should we delete them? It occurs to me that if we delete them then other members are less likely to notice, and the actual spammer remains here for longer. And not everyone (mea culpa) remembers to report them here.
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I was raising the notification about the spam and member, and then just deleting the spam until I saw a post from Chris which seems to indicate that their spam filter is working again, so it needs the reports to "learn" about the spam.
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The way I work is this: If it's in the moderation queue, I hit the "Spam" and "Spammer" buttons, and report it here.
If it's in "a public place" where "normal" members or webcrawlers can get at it, then "Spam", "Spammer", "Report", and "Delete" to reduce the exposure and limit any gain to the spammer.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A lot of work to get rid of them... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I personally report them, and once the get "automatically removed" I full delete them to reduce noise in the forum.
If it is a persistant spammer posting messages at high rate, then I try to clean up as he posts until I have to go or he gets nuked.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Message removed.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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And now he tried to reply me...Moron
Kicked in A**
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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I always hit who says "Go get blah blah blah from here".
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Spam[^] mer[^]
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Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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all gone
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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gone
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Article[^]
user[^]
It is offering a free version to students, but it is otherwise a paid product.
EDIT: Report away!
EDIT2: Changed title
EDIT3: Added edit notes
EDIT4: Added user
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
modified 17-Dec-14 21:30pm.
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It's not really an article about code analysis, but only about product - and (IMHO) not to good...
The author is working for the company developing the product.
It's not really a free for student, but more a trial for a year license...
(I didn't reported as it's hard to decide, but I do not like these things...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm with you on this. @Chris-Maunder, what do you think?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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He's a valuable member, I remember some of his articles and they are well done. If it is possibile it could be moved in Third Party Products, otherwise I'd delete the article but not the author.
IMHO
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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What is strange that after two years of silence he came back with two articles of the same purpose - he also upgraded his profile with endless links to his own product-site (of which others were banned in past)...
Anyway - let the hamsters decide...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Agree. This article is an advertisement of CppCat application.
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It's spam. Clear and simple - he's advertising a product. While there's a "free"ish version for students, the vast majority of people here are professional coders, so this looks like a cynical ploy. Deal with it the way you'd deal with other spam articles.
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10th kick applied.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Spam: convert from dwg to pdf[^] (Solution #14)
Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/olga_olt[^]
Yeah, go ahead - resurrect a question from four years ago to post a link to a commercial tool. It's not like we're going to notice. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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