« first day (5216 days earlier)      last day (54 days later) » 

07:25
@CanadianLuke The site is getting hit with a major spam wave
250+ spam posts in the last 12 hours, all from the same wave.
@gparyani oh, its an ongoing thing
We're nuking users are we come aceoss them, or they are reported (either via smokey reports on meta, or from users reporting via the chatroom we have for dealing with this)
08:36
We need to stop calling it a spam “wave”; that implies it’s out of the ordinary :D
We get an ef ton of spam, but we always get an ef ton of spam!
:-)
Actually more than usual, and on a single topic :D
08:54
Yep
I see you’ve removed quite a few yourself. My boy is all grown up
That came across very patronising, sorry :D
lol
I'd point out I've been a moderator... quite a while
Lol
Yeah I was just kidding (obviously?!)
I cleared out the front page of deleted posts with no deleted users + went through the last 50 SD feeds and doing an occational check aside from that
Efficient indeed
09:20
also in this case it was literally a wave, though, I think they're either out of accounts for now or taking a break from getting their ass handed to them :D
Yeah- across the network well over 300 TPs
I think I'm at over 50 accounts today
x2-4 posts per spammer
That’d be right
But when an account is deleted, its corresponding posts are also, right? Except when they’re high quality etc.
ah
so there's destruction and deletion
Deletion doesn't automatically delete posts
Destruction as spammer destroys posts + adds a suspension
We can also suspend only, but spammers who warrant that are rare these days
09:53
Yeah, because you often see, attached to a post, a user who is PP less, whose profile you can’t visit and whose user name is just a numeric identifier.
ah, if you go back far enough
you find users with a name but no identifier
Actually, according to their la-dee-da legally stuff you can’t make them delete your content (permanently, that is.)
Yeah
So there used to be a user called Molly before my time. Quality standards went up over time, and they were unhappy and left... and their posts were not great
And… what happened?
so sometimes I come across one, and am a little torn between SE history and "its not very good" :D
09:55
I see.
Is there any way to delete a post past “deleted”? Like actually removed- privileged users or even mods can’t see it?
uhhh
In theory
1) get a CM to get a dev to
2) could 'abuse' redactions to delete the content
Maybe if it was really bad. Like containing illegal pornography, for example.
honestly?
We don't touch it
We delete the post to reduce visibility, call in a community manager to deal
But I kinda like how on SE, nothing really gets deleted
“The internet is forever”
When I say deleted, I mean truly deleted
Well thing is when it comes to things like porn, there's legal implications
@security_paranoid In theory redactions do that to specific revisions of a post
10:08
Legal implications are different.
Once reported, it’s no longer in the mods hands
yup
so we don't deal with that
the only question is how urgent it is to escalate
 
10 hours later…
20:09
@gparyani Ya, um... I'm not a mod on SU :P I just hang out in the chat room
21:02
@CanadianLuke Sorry...I saw the mod diamond on your chat profile and falsely assumed.
It's alright :) I help out where I can, but only have rep privileges on SU

« first day (5216 days earlier)      last day (54 days later) »