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A recent answer on Software Development was correct, but was included spam / self promotion (unrelated to the question or the answer). The answer was edited to remove the spam, but it was suggeste...
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Alexei
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2025-03-07T18:27:23Z (23 days ago)
How to handle correct answers that also include spam?
A recent answer on Software Development was correct, but was included spam / self promotion (unrelated to the question or the answer). The answer was edited to remove the spam, but it was suggested to remove the entire answer (even if correct) to deter future answerers from spamming in their answers. AFAIK these are very rare cases, as virtually all spam comes in AI generated answers that hardly address the question. How should we proceed in these cases? I see the following options: - completely remove the answer (deny rewarding to the answerer) - remove only the spam part combined with - warn the user - temporarily ban the user