@Dharman Yes. User profile says "Founder of Expert Suggestion.com" and they're not disclosing they are involved in its creation and running it, so spam
@ThomasWard I guess my hesitation to do so comes from their higher rep score. Though I guess it could be argued that with that score comes a higher expectation to know the rules
@ThomasWard Yeah, sure. While 265 isn't much compared to 53k, it's not insignificant. Contributions are contributions, and I would never poo-poo any other user because the number next to their name is lower. I mean this in the general case, not necessarily for this specific user. The exception being 1-rep spam accounts, which is why we're all here :)
As a user, anything that meets our definition of spam is fair game. As a moderator, there are times when we investigate and determine that the red-flag penalties are not appropriate. But that doesn't make the flag wrong, since you as a normal user couldn't possibly know that information and aren't expected to do our job for us.
So, I'm not sure what the debate in here was, but... This definitely counts as spam. The user in question has been warned before. Flags in situations like this are appreciated. As I alluded to above, it isn't the flagger's job to consider any potential consequences. It's just the flagger's job to make sure that the flags are correct and meet the stated requirements.
@Das_Geek There are no expectations, really. It's our own judgment. Going through a bunch of someone's posts is time-consuming, and if it gets into edits they've made to other's posts, it's even more time consuming.
Some of us are exhaustively thorough. Like when handling plagiarism flags. The best thing to do is to go through all of the answers and look for other instances of plagiarism. But that takes approximately forever, hence "exhausting".
@CodyGray At what threshold would you deem it "worth it" to mod flag rather than red-flag individually (assuming all the user's posts are potentially red-flag-worthy)? I've mod-flagged posts of users who've "only" made a few bad posts. Would that have been making too much work for such a "small" task?
@Machavity I have used Guttenberg, but it's not as good as I'd like. Honestly, rules aside, I'm not sure that making the investigation that public is a good idea. I do encourage users who identify a plagiarized post to go through the same user's other answers to look for other instances of plagiarism. I prefer that they not serially downvote the user, but looking and flagging is OK.
@Das_Geek My whining about making work was just that: whining. Not advice on how to flag.
the 'bad' swastikas. Black, rotated like the Nazis had, sometimes accompanied by "Aryan Supremacy" or other words in there which are considered against sanity :p
In somewhat related news, since you guys bullied me into doing some actual mod work, I'd like to take this opportunity to once again complain that the visited link color is almost indistinguishable from the unvisited link color.
@Das_Geek That pattern looks like it's already caught by Potentially bad keyword in answer and Potentially bad keyword in body; append -force if you really want to do that.
@CodyGray i looked in your mind. It was just a void of white light filled with screaming constantly with no end in sight, so I stopped looking in your brain :P
