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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 is a free application on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, and can be used in most web browsers without downloading. Text chat Discord's text channels support various forms of markup and embedding, such as showing thumbnails for pictures, syntax highlighting for code fragments, or emojis.
A forced free trial is a direct-marketing technique, usually for goods sold by regular subscription, in which potential buyers are sent a number of free product sample, usually periodic publications. Often, publishers distribute free copies and the reader is not asked to subscribe.
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 ...