Q:

Questionable "Low Quality Post" Review Audit

I was in the "Low Quality" review queue today and came across an answer that wasn't great, but in my view was complete. It was three short paragraphs of text and included a link to an off-site guide. I said it "Looks OK" because as I understand it the purpose of this queue is not to judge the quality of the answer per se but the value of the post in general. What I mean by that is that earlier on in my SO life, I flagged some really bad answers for deletion and was told that for bad answers that are complete and formatted well but simply not very good answers to a specific question, one is supposed to downvote not close/delete.
So, I question whether this particular example is a good test in the queue since it seems (in my opinion) to be a satisfactory post even if it isn't a great answer to the particular question.
And, telling me that this post is spam/offensive is confusing because it appears to be neither.
Here's the edit history, which I was instructed to look at:

And the image telling me this was was spam/offensive, which I disagree with.

A:

The reason that was an audit was because it was flagged as spam and removed as such. That post was clearly spam for faasoft.com and their products. Take a look at what was behind the link at the end of that answer. It was pure advertising for a commercial product.
While you didn't have this context, I just found six other users that spammed that same link in the last several weeks, and this user spammed that link three times before they were stopped. This is a spam ring that has attacked the site for years.
When reviewing answers, be extremely critical of answers by 1-rep users that end with a link to some site. Spammers are starting to paste reasonable-looking text (usually plagiarized from here or elsewhere) in answers, and then place links at the very end or in the body text. In the review queues, you need to be on the lookout for this, because we absolutely cannot have people approving spam and allowing it to live on the site.
If something seems odd or promotional in nature, but you're not confident enough to flag it as spam, use an "other" flag and point out what you saw. We'll gladly dig into things and see if this really was spam or just a well-meaning user who happened to phrase their answer in a suspicious manner.

