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Forum spam consists of posts on Internet forums that contains related or unrelated advertisements, links to malicious websites, trolling and abusive or otherwise unwanted information. Forum spam is usually posted onto message boards by automated spambots or manually with unscrupulous intentions with intent to get the spam in front of readers ...
The first attempts to prevent the spam follows how you would deal with any abuse. In ascending order of the things you should try: Block the spammers, provided the disruption is limited to one or a few users, and they've received sufficient warning. For a spam only account, you can block indefinitely and template them using {{uw-soablock}}.
See Wikipedia:External links and Wikipedia:Spam for details. ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Finally to advise the Wikipedia community to watch an article for abuse you can add to the talk page (under the project banners and other page headers, but before any discussions) {{ Prone to spam }} which looks like this:
An email inbox containing a large amount of spam messages. Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user.
Discord Nitro subscribers received a free "What's Up Wumpus" sticker pack focused on Discord's mascot, Wumpus. [99] In May 2023, Discord made most stickers free to all users. In October 2022, the "Discord Nitro Classic" subscription tier was replaced by a $2.99 "Discord Nitro Basic", which features a subset of features from the $9.99 "Nitro" tier.
An example of the Scunthorpe problem in Wikipedia because of a regular expression identifying "cunt" in the username. The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning.
Discussions at Wikipedia are centred around getting a job done, and all users have wide-ranging powers to maintain the quality of articles, discussions, and to develop and maintain policies - more than they would ever be allowed to do on their favourite local fishing-club forum. Wikipedia is more comparable to an open-source software ...
Editors subject to an article ban are free to edit other related pages or discuss the topic elsewhere on Wikipedia. Article bans may be enforced using partial blocks from the affected pages. When the word "page" is used in a ban, it means any page on Wikipedia , including for example user, talk, discussion, file, category or template pages.