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8:31 AM

@gnat Your latest spam flags helped me find 5 other older spam accounts that advertised the same college. I've merged them all in a big ball of mud, suspended for a year and alerted the mods in the other sites the accounts spammed, and asked SE to ban them network wide (although that's tricky and most times just doesn't work). Anyways, just wanted to say thanks, with a couple of flags you uncovered a small spam ring...

gnat

8:58 AM

@YannisRizos you're welcome and - thanks for your efforts

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Yannis Rizos

11:24 AM

@konradrudolph Re your flag: I locked for an hour, but went ahead and unlocked it now, let's see how this goes...

Konrad Rudolph

12:07 PM

@YannisRizos cheers!

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Stack Exchange

3:46 PM

Blog - Stack Exchange: Encyclopedia Stack Exchange

Joel Spolsky on May 21, 2012

Remember this old picture?

What’s that “Blog” circle supposed to be about, you ask? WHERE’S THE BLOGGING?

Since Stack Overflow launched, we’ve been trying to explain that it’s not just a Q&A platform: it’s also a place where you can publish things that you’ve learned: recipes, FAQs, HOWTOs, walkthroughs, and even bits of product documentation, as long you format it as a question and answer.

As Jeff wrote:

if you have a question that you already know the answer to …

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