Is this question/user serious? [more inside]
posted by hal_c_on on Jun 10, 2009 - 66 comments

I have sometimes felt I haven't gotten my 'due' for being one of the MetaFilter Early Adopters (user #206). But not today. [more inside]
posted by wendell on May 8, 2009 - 107 comments

...in which chococat creates something new on the internet.
posted by geos on Apr 16, 2009 - 129 comments

Not cool - using your MeFi account to harvest email addresses of people who you disagree with, so you can sign them up to mailing lists? That's gotta be out of order, right? [more inside]
posted by rodgerd on Oct 30, 2008 - 93 comments

This post is distinctly spammy. The pleasure of answering questions and helping people in AskMeFi is the reward, not offers of free stuff.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul on Sep 3, 2008 - 38 comments

This comment in AskMe is spam and should be deleted. [more inside]
posted by jason's_planet on Aug 29, 2008 - 56 comments

I don't know what the policy is on this but I just got this spam via MeFi email from someone I don't know or care to know: [more inside]
posted by stbalbach on Jul 16, 2008 - 98 comments

This quiz demands a cell phone number for results. SPAAAAAAAAAAAM [more inside]
posted by effugas on Jun 12, 2008 - 34 comments

Just thought I'd mention that I noticed a couple of questions in askme that all had to do with ferreting out techniques people use to get around spam filters and the like. [more inside]
posted by shmegegge on Jun 3, 2008 - 72 comments

Isn't this Metafilter FPP slightly suspicious? [more inside]
posted by Skeptic on May 11, 2008 - 29 comments

Can we please have an automatic deletion and/or penalty box for posts that get flagged for breaking guidelines by many users at times when no mod is online? [more inside]
posted by BrotherCaine on Apr 28, 2008 - 110 comments

Is there something more to this post that got it deleted? [more inside]
posted by synecdoche on Apr 3, 2008 - 41 comments

Someone is doing some strange spaming. [more inside]
posted by Burhanistan on Feb 7, 2008 - 35 comments

What the hell? [more inside]
posted by koeselitz on Feb 1, 2008 - 52 comments

Am I just being grumpy, or is now an odd time for a single link Times Online post? [more inside]
posted by motty on Feb 1, 2008 - 66 comments

Anybody else interested in participating in a MeFi spam honeypot? [more inside]
posted by flabdablet on Jan 18, 2008 - 95 comments

The worst of MetaFilter [more inside]
posted by Brak on Dec 6, 2007 - 110 comments

Ban.
posted by hermitosis on Oct 18, 2007 - 10 comments

So Wendell apparently harvested a bunch of Mefite email addresses and sent a pointless message to all of them, and a herd of the recipients went off on a "reply all" binge with equally pointless replies. Now I have a mailbox full of crap. This is without a doubt the lamest, most wrong-headed bullshit move I have experienced here. Thanks for nothing, jerx.
posted by Kirth Gerson on Jun 15, 2007 - 296 comments

Vaguely relevant remark + 2(link to own website) + sales-pitch = inauspicious first comment.
posted by Sonny Jim on Jun 12, 2007 - 4 comments

This post might be a self-link with one level of indirection. It's certainly just marketing, regardless.
posted by Malor on Apr 20, 2007 - 25 comments

Is PreacherTom an astroturfer? He's made 13 posts to the blue, all in the past couple of months. And all 13 of them start with a link to Business Week. There's someone with the same name on Netscape.com's digg-esque site who does the same thing, and one on StumbleUpon, too. And that's not all. Am I being paranoid? Is this even worth frowning on, as long as they're all decent posts?
posted by Plutor on Dec 22, 2006 - 166 comments

Uh oh.
posted by MrMoonPie on Nov 27, 2006 - 14 comments

And the award for most obvious self-linker goes to ...
posted by anjamu on Aug 22, 2006 - 11 comments

I can't prove that this is a self link, but I'd be willing to bet money that it is. (My BS detector is going off bigtime.)
posted by Steven C. Den Beste on Aug 12, 2006 - 20 comments

Can we keep the rule that n00bs can't post their first FPP on the same day they sign up? Especially when they are just trying to drive traffic to an escorts website?
posted by mds35 on Aug 3, 2006 - 25 comments

I know this has been brought up before, but I believe that it's frustrating enough to deserve being brought up again. Why is the wiki so spam-ridden?

Every time I go to look at it, at least 75% of the things I click on are spam or "DeletedPage: This page was WikiSpam. "

Seriously, If nobody's going to put in the effort to keep the wiki spam-free, why even bother to have it, especially now that we have a FAQ?
posted by Afroblanco on Jun 4, 2006 - 21 comments

Der Wiki is der spammed.
posted by disclaimer on Apr 28, 2006 - 24 comments

Fuck this.
posted by Snyder on Apr 27, 2006 - 128 comments

matthewchen is spamming
posted by adamrice on Mar 28, 2006 - 56 comments

It seems that the Metafilter Wiki @ http://www.mssv.net/wiki.cgi was taken over by Xanax online, which promptly trashed the whole place, the shitheads
posted by growabrain on Mar 25, 2006 - 2 comments

I don't get it. Why isn't this considered spam and blackholed?
posted by Kickstart70 on Mar 15, 2006 - 56 comments

In this AskMe, I am in agreement with the post that follows mine, as well as of course my own, though I didn't word it as bluntly as Rhomboid did, as I was sort of "typing as thinking". That said, the first response seems vaguely spammy. Full disclosure: I provide web hosting myself, and I still think the response is borderline inappropriate.
posted by twiggy on Feb 27, 2006 - 7 comments

They want someone with an American bank account.
So how does this scam work?
posted by Ken McE on Feb 24, 2006 - 4 comments

Just a followup to the Optical4Less spam and the robots exclusion suggestion for deleted threads: deleted AskMefi threads still do not have the exclusion meta tag, so that Mefi spam there can still be indexed by search engines. Anyone else spotted any other loopholes spammers might have slipped through?
posted by brownpau on Feb 22, 2006 - 8 comments

Just curious. I got the following in my in-box, anyone else getting this spam which appears to be harvested from mefi profile pages?

...I saw that you had art related sites, but we know that this doesn't have much to do with poker. As such, we would like to work with you for text space on your Mefi profile. We see ourselves liking Mefi traffic and think you make good posts that can attract people to your profile....

Fools!!! They must not have read my FPPs, good posts indeed, pffft.
posted by edgeways on Feb 8, 2006 - 59 comments

Anyone else been contacted by an AOL account in relation to "Robby Rob's Metafilter Post", with the sender claiming that he is having his thoughts controlled by the NSA? [more inside]
posted by LondonYank on Jan 31, 2006 - 34 comments

Spam?
posted by russilwvong on Jan 21, 2006 - 7 comments

mrhappybanjo, here's looking at you. (askme thread + a post to projects for the store in askme)
posted by tozturk on Jan 13, 2006 - 56 comments

The MeFi Wiki appears to be spammed, Captain.
posted by wheelieman on Jan 9, 2006 - 31 comments

Please stop with your self-link FleshLight posts, FleshJoe.
posted by fandango_matt on Jan 4, 2006 - 26 comments

Referral link spamming?
posted by blag on Dec 26, 2005 - 7 comments

Comment spam from new member veryvera.
posted by thatwhichfalls on Dec 15, 2005 - 56 comments

stupid viral marketing. Light your torch and sharpen your pitchfork.
posted by crunchland on Dec 5, 2005 - 33 comments

What's cdgold's angle? Exhibits A B C.
posted by signal on Nov 14, 2005 - 44 comments

Craniac seems to be spamming conversations with random posts pushing the metafilteruser tag on Flickr:
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
posted by anastasiav on Nov 4, 2005 - 63 comments

Goodbye webmeta, and thanks for all the fish! spam!
posted by cup on Oct 26, 2005 - 33 comments

My FPP was deleted today. Which, relevant to an ongoing thread (that I had not seen prior to posting) brings up interesting (or not?) questions about prohibited speech and its implications/consequences. . .
posted by flotson on Aug 19, 2005 - 19 comments

It should be pretty obvious that stuff like this should not fly in the blue. Using this site as a quarry for pyramid schemes is inappropriate and action should be taken accordingly.
posted by baphomet on Jun 26, 2005 - 47 comments

MeFi drug wars?
posted by peacay on Apr 15, 2005 - 14 comments