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@SmokeDetector Undisclosed affiliation. linkedin.com/in/yetudada: "Junior Principal Product Manager at QuantumBlack". The linked website is copyrighted by QuantumBlack.
@NisseEngström Could you explain what is spammy about those links? All 3 of them look fine to me. No advertisement, no sneaky links, no hidden affiliation. Why flag them?
I did see it, and this is why I am asking you to explain more. What is so wrong about a wiki type post about one of your products? Is there a meta question which supports casting spam flags on those?
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@Daniil Prior to actually watching something, please be sure that you're also searching on SE for keywords; in URLs; and in code (all of which produce different results) in order to get a feel for how many FP something will have. Obviously, SE's search isn't capable enough to get actual numbers for a regex, but you can get approximate magnitudes.
@Machavity For that, I'd use a custom mod-flag, as I'm not sure a R/A flag will accurately communicate to the mods that it's the username where the issue is.
@Machavity The other reason to use a custom mod-flag in that circumstance is that R/A flags will automatically be marked helpful when the post is deleted, which was quite likely to happen prior to a moderator seeing it, given that there were two delete votes on the question at that time (also possible to be deleted by the user could delete, or enough R/A flags are raised to delete). OTOH, a custom mod-flag isn't marked helpful just because the post is deleted.
Thus, if the username is the issue, rather than just the post, then the custom mod-flag will definitely be seen by a mod, whereas an R/A flag has a reasonable chance of never being seen by a mod.
@Daniil That's why descriptive custom mod flags are really important. "This post has been vandalized by the OP." or "This user has problematic content in their profile" :) A default flag often won't be enough. Err on the side of too much info. :D Unless the post itself is r/a, don't flag as such.
@Makyen As was the case here... the custom flag remained after the question was deleted. :) Allows mods to actually fix things like usernames or problematic content on their profiles.
