Timeline for Please don't vote to close spam questions
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| Oct 6, 2016 at 18:07 | comment | added | Mark | @RudolfL.Jelínek, StackExchange has a spam filter. That filter learns from posts that have accrued six spam flags (or have been deleted as spam by a moderator). Closing and deleting a spam post through the ordinary deletion process prevents the spam filter from learning. | |
| Oct 3, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | user143228 | I don't really understand why is this so downvoted - +5/-8... | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 21:03 | comment | added | Robotnik Mod | @Dragonrage - Please don't delete them manually: deleting a spam question/answer before it hits the requisite spam flags will mean the user account won't be marked as a spammer and can continue to spam and worse, potentially accrue reputation and then put it's spam into even worse places. Same reason why we don't edit out the spam links in an otherwise "fine" answer. Spam is Spam, just flag and move on. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 18:27 | comment | added | Dragonrage Mod | @RudolfL.Jelínek I am not sure how manually deleting a spam post slows the process of it getting deleted down. And, well voting to close it is valid as it is off topic. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 16:26 | comment | added | MBraedley | I clearly say that you should flag as spam, and that voting to close is not a waste of time. Please take the time to read my answer again. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 16:24 | comment | added | user143228 | Flag - Yes. Put in chat - Yes. Comment - No. Close - No. Manually delete - No. The last three actions just slow it down, as Yvette said, or just tangle it up. Anyways, I generally agree. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 16:23 | comment | added | user141024 | It can slow it down, if people vote to close instead of flagging, and voting to close is a total waste of time. this is not a good answer. Sorry. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 16:21 | history | answered | MBraedley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |