The Spam Folder: April 2025
Spring has sprung, and so has the spam — but luckily, we’ve got some of the sharpest spam catchers in the game.
Please link any spam you spot right here.
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Not spam but blatant AI hallucination:
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Yes, there is a lot of them, certainly the same person. The only idea I have is, that the mentioned error code has a special meaning? I wonder why people do that, it's a shame about the time. They post the same AI-generated techno blabla and vote each other. Here are some more: 4717098, 4718101, 4717094 and more.
@vauweh those errors are made up by their AI tool. The upvotes are suspect too given we don’t like to upvote AI answers.
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This looks like a spam voting ring. Some are posting spam phone numbers in their answers (not picked up by the iRobot) and the others are upvoting it
A lot of the users joined at nearly the same time but there are a few that joined some weeks earlier, but it is very unusual that they all upvoted some of the same answers at nearly the same time.
4697023 4697025 4698713 4698718 4717094 4717097 4717098 4717103 4718059 4718088 4718101
Have fun ;-)
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@jayeff, what a spam haul! I think I got them all. Thanks for all the effort in rounding these up.
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@krisrodriguez This is spam? Or just advertisement?
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idk if this is spam, but i found an in-progress huawei guide in the iphone category
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Likely misplaced in error - happens all the time on the user authored guides. We fix it by changing the device it's tied to. I've fixed it (for now). See if it progresses into more.
@nick - Nope just a nonsensical guide start!
@krisrodriguez - Can you pull it?
@danj To be fair I do give the benefit of doubt until I can properly make sure within reason. AI garbage and spam? That’s the exception.
@nick - How is that the case here? iPhone HUAWEIu Replacement is just a nonsensical title and there’s nothing else here.
@krisrodriguez I agree with @nick on this one. The author may just still be working on it. There is absolutely no harm in leaving it for now. No reason to go full DOGE on it just yet!
@tqd thanks for pointing it out :-)