What's with all the spam in articles lately?

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aikohualda on 08 May 2017

yeah i know... used to enjoy reading vgchartz articles... havent read them since... i realize the title has more content than the article itself :P

...and of course i am only kidding :)

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sethnintendo on 08 May 2017

Spam in news articles? Just down vote them and they will disappear after enough.

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VGPolyglot on 08 May 2017

Ka-pi96 said:

sethnintendo said:
Spam in news articles? Just down vote them and they will disappear after enough.

Or report them so they'll actually be deleted, and the spammer banned. Won't stop another one popping up sooner or later, but I guess dealing with them one at a time is better than having hundreds of them running round here at once