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Seems to be a few suspect/blatantly bot related articles popping up in the article subforum of late

e.g.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/411014.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/409632.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/410343.page

FYI.

Is there a way to report an article?

Because I've seen some come up before and from what I noticed best that could be done was flag the automated thread letting them know about the article. Couldn't see anywhere on articles themselves that would flag it.

Giving us a heads-up about spambots is always appreciated. The best way to do that for articles is to simply hit the mod alert button on the discussion thread that is created for the article.

One of the reasons it isn't such a big deal that we have integrated alerts for the articles is because since it is a wiki, it is tremendously easy to delete everything a spambot does in the article section. One click of the mouse and it all goes away.

So while they may get around to making a few articles before we catch them, once we do it disappears really quick (with the only thing taking a bit of time is deleting the discussion threads that are auto-created for articles).

We'll keep our eyes peeled