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Have a look at this guy. Everything he posts is a link to one of his tutorials. However, it's always on-topic (as far as I can tell). Three of his posts are flagged as spam (the count is 3 votes each at this moment). He also has all of ONE up vote across 35 answers.

Is this really spam?

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up vote 7 down vote accepted

He isn't trying to sell anything and I don't see any advertising posted. Not seeing how this is spam especially if he is on topic.

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I donno... If he is on-topic, then he surely isn't contributing much (considering his 1/35 vote/answer ratio...)!

I'm inclined to call it spam.

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I'd be more worried if the answers were getting a lot of votes. As it is, it seems like the community generally either recognizes what's going on or has an appropriate opinion of the library in question. As it is, with no one voting for him I think we can just give it some time and he'll get bored and move on. Removing his posts is just likely to induce him to hang around longer.

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