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Meta How to handle correct answers that also include spam?

Blow it away if it's truly spam (the link is unrelated to the question topic). Any user who posts blatant spam should be disabled or deleted too. If the link is proplerly labeled and goes to a pr...

posted 23d ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2025-03-07T19:20:26Z (23 days ago)
Blow it away if it's truly spam (the link is unrelated to the question topic).  Any user who posts blatant spam should be disabled or deleted too.

If the link is proplerly labeled and goes to a product that is actually relevant to the question, then it can be OK.  Any such answer should provide useful information apart from the link.  If the answerer has a stake in the product or in any way benefits from the asker using the product, then this <b>must</b> be disclosed.