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Spam questions disguised as real ones
Over the last few months there seems to be a rise in spam questions. These seem to be people asking questions then leaving it a few days and posting a link to a paid for repair tool, or forum advertising a tool. Example (from today): [
https://ask.sqlservercentral.com/questions/119290/im-looking-for-a-truly-mdf-repair-tool.html][1] Same question asked before on EE: [
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Microsoft_Applications/Q_25155057.html][2] There have been a few more. [
https://ask.sqlservercentral.com/questions/118809/ms-access-detected-corruption-in-database.html][3] [
https://ask.sqlservercentral.com/questions/118252/corrupted-innodb-table-crashing-mysql.html][4] [
https://ask.sqlservercentral.com/questions/117936/how-to-fix-access-database-error.html][5] Is there anything we can do to reduce these? [1]:
https://ask.sqlservercentral.com/questions/119290/im-looking-for-a-truly-mdf-repair-tool.html [2]:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Microsoft_Applications/Q_25155057.html [3]:
https://ask.sqlservercentral.com/questions/118809/ms-access-detected-corruption-in-database.html [4]:
https://ask.sqlservercentral.com/questions/118252/corrupted-innodb-table-crashing-mysql.html [5]:
https://ask.sqlservercentral.com/questions/117936/how-to-fix-access-database-error.html
Not easily - the platform that Ask SSC runs on doesn't support it, and adding an external spam filter is a pretty big job. The best I can suggest is that you downvote them or report them to
webmaster@sqlservercentral.com and they'll get deleted. If the number grows substantially I'll see if we can get development work to better block them from posting at all.
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