« first day (913 days earlier)      last day (2909 days later) » 

8:16 PM
Backoff received of 10 seconds.
 
!!/pull
 
[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 680bc2b (Normal Human: more specific link at end) (running on Raspberry Pi)
Restart: API quota is 2255.
 
^ more rigid URL structure, no subdomain.example.com
 
Looks good
 
8:30 PM
@SmokeDetector f
I thought about editing, but the question is 'fix my site' so...
 
Backoff received of 10 seconds.
 
@SmokeDetector del
Does random.cat have an option "no animated gifs"?
 
8:48 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: "das geht prima" verstehen by ESTHERODION on german.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector k
 
Backoff received of 10 seconds.
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer, blacklisted user: Why does “Fresnel'sche” have an apostrophe and “Gaußsche” doesn't? by ESTHERODION on german.stackexchange.com
 
9:05 PM
@SmokeDetector k this is a scary cat.
 
don't drink and spam, kids
 
9:34 PM
API quota rolled over with 1815 requests remaining. Current quota: 9999.
stackoverflow: 1475
askubuntu: 559
superuser: 451
unix: 253
drupal: 244
english: 189
salesforce: 185
electronics: 162
math: 160
sharepoint: 144
dba: 137
mathoverflow.net: 134
gaming: 126
security: 118
scifi: 108
gis: 108
apple: 106
wordpress: 105
mathematica: 100
travel: 94
magento: 87
stats: 86
meta: 85
programmers: 85
ell: 84
physics: 80
webapps: 79
android: 75
ru.stackoverflow: 68
ux: 66
movies: 66
tex: 64
puzzling: 62
academia: 61
judaism: 57
money: 56
raspberrypi: 55
workplace: 53
es.stackoverflow: 51
 
9:56 PM
@sandwich We could just loop until we get one that doesn't end in .gif
I doubt there are enough of them to make it go crazy
... I can't believe I'm putting serious thought into this.
!!/pull
 
[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 46df1ba (Undo1: Because we're picky about our cat pictures) (running on Raspberry Pi)
Restart: API quota is 9855.
 
No idea if that'll work or not
Might make the cat API angry at us, which would be awesome because then I could put "irritated cat picture provider" on my resume.
 
10:29 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Interesting INVENTIONS by Pizzone Valentino on patents.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector spam
Also, how did they create that stupid tag with only 1 rep?
 
Ask Patents are special. On Google's patent page there is a link "discuss this application". Clicking it drops you to Ask Patents with some data prefilled.
This idea didn't pan out as expected. Most of Patents traffic is people clicking that link and not knowing anything about Stack Exchange. So they post ... stuff.
Many of them think it's a direct link to Patent holder.
For this reason, I'm not flagging this one as spam. The user appears to think they are sending a message to patent owner.
There's a custom off-topic reason for that: "not a direct link to the patent holder"
 
@sandwich Ah. Should I not have told Smokey it's spam either?
 
Doesn't matter, really; we are not going to see that user again.
It could be considered spam; I'm pretty sure the flag will still be marked helpful.
 
Ah, does Smokey automatically flag when someone tells it a post is spam?
 
10:55 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, offensive answer detected: How to images outside root directory in eclipse java? by user6353456 on stackoverflow.com
 
@Randal'Thor No, it doesn't. I meant to say "if someone flagged that a spam, the flag will still be marked helpful"
 
@SmokeDetector Already gone.
 
Backoff received of 10 seconds.
 
@Randal'Thor 1 minute after posting, apparently
 
@SmokeDetector WTF? Bots post animal pictures now?
Or has Wad Cheber taken over Smokey's account?
 
11:08 PM
yesterday, by sandwich
FR: post a random cat picture with each backoff message.
 
11:46 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Syntax on printing objects? by JohnDoe9292 on stackoverflow.com
 

« first day (913 days earlier)      last day (2909 days later) »