How Stack Overflow is taking on spam and bad actors
If a new post looks very similar to content that has been recently removed for being spam, it's likely spam too.
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How does spam protection work on Stack Exchange?
If you put a textbox on the Internet, someone will put spam in it. If you put a textbox on a site that gets millions of hits a day, lots of someones will put lots of spam in it. So Stack Exchange uses multiple layers to block all the spam coming in.
