Yes. every so often you'll get someone who will, say, go through all the "what can I do to work at home" questions posting the same thing for their survey site, or questions about purses with some ad for a win-a-purse thing.

An example is someone answering all the real estate questions adding an URL to a real estate web site.

from http://www.answerbag.com/blog/comments/126 (What is Spam, anyway?) "No, not the canned meat product. We've had a flood of posts from people who have authored eHow/weHow articles (full disclosure: eHow and weHow are owned by Demand Media, just like Answerbag) who include links to their articles in their answers, and Answerbaggers have been clicking the spam flag button so often on these, the pixels are wearing off the screen ;). So what's our policy? 1. Answers must be self-contained. If what's posted is only a link or doesn't address the question directly, flag away (except in those rare cases where the question specifically asks for just a link). 2. If the answer does address the question, it can also include a link for more information without being spam. For example, people summarize and link to wikipedia articles all the time. That's fine. 3. Regardless of the content of the answer, if the link provided isn't what it purports to be, flag it as spam or nonsense and we'll review it. We use the above policy to decide which spam flags to accept or reject--and we've approved most of your flags on the eHow/weHow posts, because some of those posters haven't learned rule #1. But we're always open to refining our policy. What are your thoughts about the essential ingredients that make spam spam?" (from AB-Rich's blog) My take? from http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/4125297 Spam - "... AB doesn't accept spam, VERY few people actually do it, and very few like to see it. What do I define as spam? When someone is advertising - meaning a link to a site that requires payment, or one that only LINKS to a site requiring payment. I DO check most sites to make sure they are not actually explaining something, and don't. And don't flag, on this type of ANSWER, usually, if they haven't cut and pasted responses in a bunch of them." Here's more of what I think of Spam (the email variety) - http://www.orangefrogproductions.com/ofp2s_spam_home.shtml