PSA: Spam & Click-bait on the frontpage

PSA: Spam & Click-bait on the frontpage

Okay Imgur, you see this shit? THIS IS SPAM! The stupid fucking "advice" pics that are outdated repost, with links on every god-damn picture is FUCKING SPAM. Stop upvoting FUCKING SPAM to the front page. Here's how:

1. Stop being fucking sheep for lists of colorful pictures
2. Downvote that shit
3. Select that options tab, and report that shit for SPAM.

"But asshole, how do I tell if it's really spam, and not someone trying to post helpful information?"

Thanks for asking balls for brains, here's a useful tip:

Post encouraging you to go to websites for no other reason than "click here", are SPAM, it's people abusing Imgur to advertise their shitty products disguised as post.

"Oh, but what if they're just citing a source?"

If there are links to websites siting EVERY FUCKING PICTURE it's 94% likely that the post is SPAM. If more than half the links are for the same website, it's 100% FUCKING SPAM.

"How can be sure, like really sure?"

* If the first two tell signs weren't fucking obvious enough, try this: if their account name seems lazy, generic, or basic, its usually a red flag. If checking the post history shows nothing, or like, less than ten post, the user is a shill and they're posting FUCKING SPAM.

"Why shouldn't I upvote spam, If I like it what's the big deal?"

Okay cocksucker, Imgur isn't the fucking ad section of the Sunday paper. We trust user sub to stop shit-post and click-bait shills dead in their tracks, lets not turn the front page into the Facebook feed of a stay at home mom. Ads disguised as post do not add value to the website, and are FUCKING SPAM.

"...but I like ads..."

Fuck you.

"...and ads support imgur, right?"

Yes, people who pay for ads do support imgur. Good for them. These fuckers, the spammers, don't. They are leaches trying to ruin my content consumption by their soulless shilling, and need to sleep on a bed of legos.

So please, please please please, stop up-voting the FUCKING SPAM!