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12:18 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer, link at end of answer: Hide Whatsapp profile picture from a certain user by shreyajain1050 on android.SE

tpu- by Jan Dvorak

Processed Meat

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Q: Does including a link to our website in a post automatically constitute spam, even if relevant?

A new user asked a very off-topic question; as a music composer, they asked what game developers look for when hiring a music composer. As part of the question, they note that they have created a website, to which they include the web address. They proceed to ask why a game developer would go for...

Cerbrus

@Stijn: I added a "Read-Only" mode to FIRE. if you update, you should now see an extra button when it asks you to authenticate for a MetaSmoke write token.

Is "Processed meat" a SE bot or something?

Jan Dvorak

12:36 PM

I think it's basically Feeds' alter ego

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Primo Garcinia Diet The simplest way to make sure that your portions are correct is to plan your meals ahead of time by HazelThomason on security.SE

tpu- by Glorfindel

Glorfindel

@Cerbrus I'm seeing these errors from both FIRE and AIM in the console, do you see them as well?

The connection to wss://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/cable was interrupted while the page was loading.

Browser?

FF on macOS.

I'll try FF on WinOS

12:42 PM

But since AIM is affected as well, it could be a metasmoke issue.

Or it doesn't like two parallel websocket connections?

@SmokeDetector k

Hmm ... that still works.

I'll keep an eye on the console to see if it happens again.

Cerbrus

I'm not seeing it

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: Call not found in laravel Vinkla\\Instagram package by mchampaneri on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Apache tomcat does not see driver SQLite by 222 on stackoverflow.com

Thomas Ward

@Undo failover broken by @angussidney.

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Cerbrus

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: libgdx - how to get a Label with wrapped text by POOPSCOOP on stackoverflow.com

Thomas Ward

@angussidney failover isn't automatic anymore it needs kicked at MS to bring something up into active

i think that's a recent change but eh.

howd you kill Aurora this time

SmokeDetector

12:52 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: How to pass password in bash without prompting to ask to type in? by a deleted user on superuser.com

Glorfindel

@Cerbrus me neither anymore. I guess this happens when my computer goes asleep during lunchtime :)

Cerbrus

@Glorfindel Ah, quite possible, yea

CalvT

That answer by mchampaneri - they have another similar answer two hours ago, and one (not spam) question on SO. Should I report the other answer? Or the user? What's the recommended thing to do

Glorfindel

Another reason to implement the reconnecting websocket.

CalvT

This is the answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/32068649/…

Glorfindel

1:00 PM

@CalvT the answers look like they're useful (but maybe plagiarized - that's another thing worth investigating), and the user might not know the rules about self-promotion on Stack Exchange. Your comment is good for now, but it's worth linking to How not to be a spammer. If the user doesn't react, you can use a custom moderator flag. Some mods will delete the posts, others will just edit out the links.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: www.click2trial.com/better-beard-club/ by harrysakai on worldbuilding.SE

tpu- by Glorfindel

fp- by Cerbrus on How to pass password in bash without prompting to ask to type in? [MS]

CalvT

Ok, thanks, I'll add the link in a separate comment. Only thing though, is that the body of the two answers are identical, but kinda make sense for both questions as they are similar. Could be plagiarized, but the guy has written a blog post on it

@Glorfindel btw is there a shortcode for that? Like [mcve]

Glorfindel

@CalvT not that I know of.

SmokeDetector

Restart: API quota is 4373.

Kyll

Spam? stackoverflow.com/a/42718688/4174897

CalvT

1:19 PM

@Kyll I don't think so, as I doubt wpbeginner are that stupid! I'd say instead that it's a user trying to gain some easy rep

ArtOfCode

@CalvT no, but you don't have to include the site domain - it can be a relative link, so [How to not be a spammer](/help/promotion) works

CalvT

@ArtOfCode oh ok thanks :) I'm sure that somewhere there's a list of all the alias/shortcodes on meta but I couldn't find it

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: Call not found in laravel Vinkla\\Instagram package by mchampaneri on stackoverflow.com

ArtOfCode

@SmokeDetector shush, I edited disclosure into it.

sd f

CalvT

@ArtOfCode care to do the same on his other answer - stackoverflow.com/questions/32068649/…

Your edit is now the only difference between the two...

SmokeDetector

1:28 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: Laravel 5 - Vendor - Class not found by mchampaneri on stackoverflow.com

CalvT

Glorfindels done it - thanks

SmokeDetector

fp- by Glorfindel

Glorfindel

Can't Smokey ignore posts which were edited by Charcoal members?

ArtOfCode

left him a comment about copying answers, too

Magisch

1:45 PM

Hello

Eric Leschinski

sup

ArtOfCode

hola

Magisch

@ArtOfCode How was the week here

I wasn't active much because I had my preliminary IHK exam this week

ArtOfCode

@Magisch mostly not broken, apart from blacklists

still have no idea why those are broken

Magisch

refreshing

ArtOfCode

1:49 PM

7603 autoflags

with Charcoal members getting significantly more because of the reserved thing

Andy

@ArtOfCode Just curious...what's the criteria for that? I haven't noticed an increase in mine, but I may be losing to others with different conditions

ArtOfCode

@Andy have the Core role

that's all there is to it - there are ceil(max_flags / 2) flags reserved for people with that role

Andy

Cool. Apparently, I'm just not lucky with random selection then.

This is why I don't play the lottery

ArtOfCode

@Andy Actually, there has been a small increase in the number of flags you're getting. It's not bigger because you've only got flags enabled on 5 sites.

Andy

Bawh?

goes to look

Magisch

1:55 PM

@ArtOfCode neat

ArtOfCode

Site count is 5 in your preferences

Magisch

I aced my preliminary exam

so I'm pretty happy about that

ArtOfCode

nice

SmokeDetector

fp- by DavidPostill on I want to enable CORS on my aps.Net site based on WebForms [MS]

Glorfindel

@Magisch so your partial absence here did have a positive effect after all. Nice!

Cerbrus

2:03 PM

6 hours ago, by Cerbrus

Hm, I'm looking at this FIRE FR... I don't see anything in the report data that could tell me it's edited... @ArtOfCode?

Does SD have (access to) that info, @ArtOfCode?

Glorfindel

metasmoke does - it never autoflags vandalized posts, for instance.

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@Glorfindel Of course

Glorfindel

!!/report english.stackexchange.com/a/377800/116151

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: What is the difference between "subscription" and "membership"? by Neyar Mandram on english.SE

ArtOfCode

@Cerbrus Smokey doesn't, no. metasmoke does, but it's not exposed anywhere, I think. Might be possible to add it to the API

SmokeDetector

2:04 PM

tpu- by Cerbrus

Cerbrus

@ArtOfCode That'd be helpful :-)

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: What is the Fedora equivalent of the Debian build-essential package? by Hans on unix.SE

tpu- by Cerbrus

Cerbrus

@ArtOfCode: Replied to my FR. I think we can close it :-)

Magisch

@ArtOfCode When will you graduate uni?

ArtOfCode

2:20 PM

@Magisch many many years in the future

2021, probably

Magisch

What are you studying?

Just computer science?

ArtOfCode

aye

Magisch

4 degree path?

Or do you want a masters after?

ArtOfCode

3 year degree with a year in industry in the middle

Magisch

sounds nice

ArtOfCode

2:24 PM

It's not bad

Magisch

is tuition high there?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Routing for specific subjects (cars, pedestrians, ..) dynamically by Denis Stephanov on gis.SE

Kyll

sd f

ArtOfCode

2:46 PM

@Magisch £9k a year, slated to increase next year

Glorfindel

Is SE being DDOS'ed again?

Jan Dvorak

It's only as slow as usual for me

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: How to deal with my 12 year old son being caught cheating at school by moy on parenting.SE

tpu- by FelixSFD

ArtOfCode

3:09 PM

Fun fact: we have a user for every letter of the alphabet in here, except I, O, and X.

Jan Dvorak

Should I become Ian?

Glorfindel

3:23 PM

If I didn't hate Zalgo, I could have my username begin with every letter of the alphabet simultaneously.

Jan Dvorak

how?

Glorfindel

basically A <negative space> B <negative space> C ... etc.

ArtOfCode

except that would begin with A according to chat

Glorfindel

Is there a list with all users in chat, grouped by first letter?

Jan Dvorak

is there a negative space symbol in Unicode?

SmokeDetector

3:27 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: This version of the application is not configured for billing through Google Play by Zac on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by Glorfindel

Glorfindel

or RTL/LTR symbols

ArtOfCode

Oh hey, Smokey has the second largest number of messages of anyone on SE chat

DavidPostill

@ArtOfCode lol

Who is first?

ArtOfCode

Cerberus

M.A.R.

And I'm 30-something'th, prolly

@DavidPostill chat.stackexchange.com/users

SmokeDetector

3:38 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How to extend and strengthen low end of vocal range? (I need about a whole tone extra.) by valbastien on music.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer: How to extend and strengthen low end of vocal range? (I need about a whole tone extra.) by Zak Davis on music.SE

tpu- by FelixSFD on How to extend and strengthen low end of vocal range? (I need about a whole tone extra.) [MS]

tpu- by Glorfindel

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector Not sure about this one. Isn't it signature?

Glorfindel

@M.A.R. seeing that it has been on the site for two and a half years, I opted to edit it out.

M.A.R.

Hmph.

FelixSFD

@Glorfindel oh. Should I remove my feedback?

Glorfindel

@FelixSFD shrug it's borderline.

FelixSFD

3:44 PM

@Glorfindel She didn't clearly write that she is the owner of that website. And it's her only post, so this can be easily understood as spam. Since the post is quite old (and FIRE didn't flag, because I don't have an account there yet), I would propose that we are nice and edit the post instead of flagging, but keep the tpu

M.A.R.

''I would propose that we be'' You should use subjunctive there

#Grammar_Nazi_FTW

@FelixSFD There are usually few places where higher level learners make a mistake, one of them being subjunctive. English's subjunctive has shrunk during the ages and is a really weak system now, so some people abandon it altogether

FelixSFD

!!/report stackoverflow.com/q/42722246/4687348

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: Ignite your passion with Bali Mojo. by Farzam Anjum on stackoverflow.com

M.A.R.

SD K

Glorfindel

@FelixSFD fine with me.

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