Some spam has a link in the subject, but no message. It cannot be reported. Only when a "Quick answer" is entered I can report my own answer afterwards.

But I don't like to report my own post if it is the ONLY post in a spam thread.

How to report?

jlinkels

According to responses in this thread you can't. I'm glad you see it too.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...le-4175634347/

I saw that thread, but opened a new one to get the attention of the mods. The obvious would be to post a reply and then report the reply. But I am not sure it is not me who is getting banned.

jlinkels

Hmm, so there can be an answerable thread which has 0 posts in it? Sounds like a bug. If you can catch it next time, I think a screenshot of this might be useful to see what you guys mean.

Not doubting you, but I've never seen a new thread where there isn't a first post.

And mind you, a lot of these new spam ones never get beyond moderation.

All of the one's I've seen, have had a first post.

If you do as you say, and self-report your own post that says, "Spam, reported", I'm assuming all moderators will clearly recognize one of our everyday members who reported "the thread" and happened to do so by way of reporting their own post.

Please note that the incident of a reported post also points us to the thread so we can examine it. And most will examine the whole thread because many times a singular post doesn't tell the whole story.

I definitely have seen it a few times this week including today. The first response to this thread suggests it was because a moderator didn't correctly do all the steps in removing spam.

There is a bug in the current implementation that results in this happening for a very small number of posts. It will be addressed in the pending code update.

--jeremy