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How to correct erroneous spam decisions

Introduction

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This is a "quick and dirty" guide about how to reversing a erroneously marked as Spam answer. This will also reverse the negative rep points that comes with a Spam marked answer.

Here is a caveat, it can also be used on questions and even comments.

If the same comment was deleted as spam multiple times. Properly delete those comments after they have been converted from spam to non-spam (ham)

This will only work for accounts with access to ifixit.com/Manage/. If you are not an admin or moderator at iFixit, you probably won't have access.

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      • Here is the answer that was erroneously marked as spam

      • It now shows negative Rep Points

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      • Last image shows the delete question again.

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      • Follow the directions on the image

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      • Follow the directions on the image

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      • Follow the directions on the image

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      • Here is the restored answer.

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      • Here is the restored rep count

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Conclusion

No reassembly required. This will correct an erroneously marked as spam question.

Here is a caveat, it can also be used on questions and even comments.

If the same comment was deleted as spam multiple times. Properly delete those comments after they have been converted from spam to non-spam (ham)

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