Q:

Answer deleted as spam/offensive, doesn't seem to be

I just noticed a Community-locked-and-deleted answer that is labeled as "This answer was marked as spam or offensive and is therefore not shown".
The answer is completely off-base and worthy of downvoting, but it feels to me like an enormous stretch to consider it "spam or offensive". (The OP wanted an R-based solution for not downloading a file if it was already present on disk; the answer suggests using HttpResponse to see if there's anything available at the URL.)

Any ideas on what's up with this? (could there be further information I'm not seeing, e.g. an offensive-but-now-deleted comment exchange?)
Is this just some kind of mislabeling, i.e. it was deleted for some other reason but the wrong explanation is being displayed?
Does having a question deleted in this way give any special penalties to the answerer (in which case this would seem unfair/grounds for review)?

A:

I am one of the people who flagged that answers as spam.  It was reported in the SOCVR chat room by the spam detecting bot SmokeDetector created by the Charcoal Team
I reviewed it and the link at the bottom has nothing to do with the question and we should not edit spam links out of an answer.  The only recourse is to spam flag.

