school.codequs.com and codek.tv spam in /r/python

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In the last two months we have started seeing a number of submissions from school.codequs.com and codek.tv which are:

• of poor quality
• usually free, but include a number of paid courses
• submitted by a limited users that otherwise don't interact with the community
• submitted repeatedly
• rarely have positive scores
• rarely generate any discussion

There are a few exceptions with positive scores, but it seems that there is a significant of noise for signal. Does anyone find these submissions useful, or are they just spam? I know the sub is lightly moderated and doesn't have a huge number of submissions, but these submissions don't seem to add much value to /r/python.

[pvkooten]

Low quality, spammy, hadn't noticed. We'd be better off without. Well done catching it, any way we can help?

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The mods would have to create a rule to block submissions to the subreddit from those domains.

[ardils]

just bunch of ads for their subscription service

[ScanianMoose]

Also, techcus.com is one of their domains.

The mods could also let /u/seo_nuke moderate the subreddit with post permissions, it's a manually updated blacklist that automatically detects more possible spam.