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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: How Blockchain will be done via JSON for ICO ? by Olga on stackoverflow.com
naa- by FrankerZ
 
!!/watch yodse\.io
 
@Glorfindel Added yodse\.io to watchlist
 
12:11 PM
> Would not be caught as an answer.
 
!!/watch macsupportcustomerservice
 
@Glorfindel Added macsupportcustomerservice to watchlist
 
> Pattern-matching website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer
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Body - Position 8-28: onlinetechnicians.co
Body - Position 1-51: http://onlinetechnicians.co/yahoo-customer-service
 
12:13 PM
> Would not be caught as an answer.
 
!!/watch gmailhelp\.co
 
@Glorfindel Added gmailhelp\.co to watchlist
 
(found in spammers' profiles)
 
on a side note, thats terrifying
 
CI on 955c735 succeeded. Message contains 'autopull', pulling...
 
12:14 PM
someone wants to make his own cryptocurrency / ICO and has no idea how to parse JSON properly
 
Restart: API quota is 14550.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +5 more: supplementlab.org/tryvix/ by Amera Mina on askubuntu.com
tpu- by Henders
 
!!/watch hibbett\.com
 
@Glorfindel Added hibbett\.com to watchlist
 
CI on 5c20894 succeeded. Message contains 'autopull', pulling...
[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 5c20894 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of hibbett\.com by Glorfindel --autopull) (running on teward/Solar Flare)
Restart: API quota is 14415.
fp- by Glorfindel
 
12:31 PM
I'm really starting to hate all these serial upvoters
It's so transparent they just want the assoc bonus and they get away with it every time
 
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@SmokeDetector tp
 
tpu- by Glorfindel
 
@SmokeDetector f
 
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12:35 PM
@SmokeDetector v
 
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iBug vandalized his own post before deleting it. That's a TP in my book.
 
@Glorfindel It's still there...?
-9
Q: How does "very bad meta activity" affect one's rep on the main site?

ɪʙᴜɢIt is said in the FAQ (link gone, it now redirects to Tour page) However, please note that offensive penalties, if levied by the community through spam or offensive votes on your posts here, will affect your reputation on the parent website. (taken from Jeff Atwood's answer) But this is ma...

 
? I thought it was another question ...
but maybe I'm just confused as well.
 
Click on "view on site" on MS directs to this
@SmokeDetector v
THIS is vandalism
 
12:40 PM
Ah, wait, you're right, that's indeed the question I was thinking of.
@SmokeDetector f
 
Conflicting feedback on ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­.
 
@SmokeDetector v
 
Conflicting feedback on ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +5 more: supplementlab.org/tryvix/ by Amera Mina on apple.SE
 
@SmokeDetector k
 
1:09 PM
LOL, apparently we've been autoflagging long enough for people to forget that they've signed up:
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Q: Awarded 'deputy' badge for helpful flags I haven't raised

PaddySo, I've been awarded the deputy badge on graphic design for raising 80 helpful flags. I'm pretty awesome. https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/27180/paddy?tab=activity&sort=all Much as I love my imaginary internet badges, I think I may only have been on graphic design the once, and c...

 
A J
@Glorfindel LOL
 
Uhmmm, if you don't know what's happening, maybe you shunt be doin' it...
 
lucky none of the flags were fps..
 
The comment from the CM is alarming.
Are you saying you didn't raise any of these flags? — Taryn ♦ 7 mins ago
I'm actually nearly at my deputy badge on Ask Ubuntu -_-
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body: Best cloud service for Mainland China Region by Ravish on stackoverflow.com
fp- by Hyper Neutrino
tpu- by Glorfindel
 
1:38 PM
Was SmokeDetector fixed to allow you to opt out of notifications when you are not in the room (using !!/notify 111347 stackoverflow False)? Because I swear it was, and I opted out, but I still get notifications when not in the room (in SOBotics).
 
@Glorfindel That seems slightly concerning.
 
@GrumpyCrouton I don't think there's a way (yet) to notify you only if you're logged in to the room
 
@WELZ But quartata messaged me and I swear they said there was - and I posted an issue on the github that is now closed?
 
@Catija I wasn't really in favor of opening up autoflagging for everybody (without even dropping into Charcoal HQ), but apparently this is what we get out of it.
 
@Glorfindel I agree with you, but I think that they had to make it open to everyone, otherwise it looks like we're just gaming the system (a special club...)
 
1:42 PM
@WELZ
 
@WELZ Yeah, no problems with that, everybody is welcome here, but an (almost) single-click sign-up for autoflagging was perhaps a bit too much.
Well, if this is the worst problem that we get as a result, I'm rather happy.
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in answer: Form submission with PHP and Heroku by Sohail Majeed on stackoverflow.com
 
@Glorfindel @WELZ Maybe it should get coupled to number of feedbacks during the last two or three months, like the core role got changed to for higher flagging chance etc. It could probably be a quite low limit like 3 feedbacks over 3 months?
 
This wouldn't be !!/reportable, would it?
 
I suggest adding a suggestion as to how people can turn this off, if they'd like. (Maybe the surprise will -> "i don't think I want this on any longer") — doppelgreener 6 secs ago
that's impressive though
 
1:52 PM
@ByteCommander that means they have to be approved for feedbacks
 
@gparyani it's not actually rude or spam... but really poorly expressed
 
@WELZ Post Editor toolbar layout broken in IE 10 does not look like spam.
 
@doppelgreener So...no?
 
1:53 PM
just naa
 
it's not even NAA
teaching granny to suck eggs is a saying which means you probably already know about this subject
and they're using IE10, which has a compatibility mode which breaks layouts
 
@WELZ Well, if it got reported, but not reportable
 
so they're just saying "You probably already know about this subject, but do you have compatibility mode turned on?"
 
@doppelgreener In IE11 average-Joe users cannot trigger Compatibility Mode anymore. It can only be triggered by websites by an HTTP header or by an X-UA-Compatible tag in the page, through Enterprise Mode (can only be activated by sys-admins), or through Developer Tools
I was told that NAAs are not to be !!/reported
 
Yes, SD doesn't care about NAAs because SD is just for eliminating spam.
 
1:58 PM
Yeah, that post seemed R/A to me, but now I know not to report R/As here unless it's blatant
@doppelgreener
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Q: Should we stop supporting Internet Explorer 10?

AnoAs of January 12, 2016, Internet Explorer 10 is no longer supported on consumer versions of Windows (with Windows 7 users updating to IE11, and Windows 8 users upgrading to 8.1 which includes IE11). The last update was in December 2016, to fix a critical security bug. We are beginning to face bu...

 
@gparyani i can't blame you; the saying immediately pinged my "incoherent troll" alarm
@gparyani sure, it might be wrong
i gave it a revision to make it not look so terrible
 
CI on 3cc8e40 succeeded.
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: How to create a responsive web design? by Anna on graphicdesign.SE
tpu- by iBug
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
2:13 PM
o/
 
@iBug What?
 
!!/watch webdesignvalley\.com
 
@WELZ You don't have code privileges, but I've created PR#1664 for you.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: What is the double multiplication sign for? by user536048 on math.SE
fp- by iBug
naa- by WELZ
 
@SmokeDetector naa-
@SmokeDetector That question is too broad
 
2:17 PM
@SmokeDetector Spam seed
 
@gparyani That message is not a report.
 
@SmokeDetector Why so pedantic?
 
@gparyani That's not a report.
 
@gparyani no NN?
 
@SmokeDetector you're not a report
 
2:18 PM
@doppelgreener thanks, done.
 
@SmokeDetector I am 100% sure this is a spam seed.
 
New metasmoke user 'Arulkumar' created
 
If it weren't deleted there definitely would be an answer about Alibaba Cloud.
 
Can someone please add Alibaba Cloud to the known bad keywords?
 
2:19 PM
What is spam seed?
 
@gparyani It's already there
 
@paper1111 check your inbox
 
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Q: What is a "spam seed"?

peterhHere I found a new terminology first time: Looks like a spam seed is a post, which "is designed to allow spammers to post questions so it looks legitimate". What does this mean? Maybe it is some type of a spamfilter poisoning?

 
@WELZ A spam seed is not a spam, but a potential place for a real spam to follow up.
@SmokeDetector why
 
@ArtOfCode What is the general policy for spam seeds here? If detected or reported by someone else, are they tpu, tp, or fp? Should we manually !!/report them?
 
2:20 PM
@iBug Body - Position 121-134: Alibaba Cloud, Position 309-322: Alibaba Cloud
 
@iBug the moderator who dealt with it wasn't 100% sure.
 
@iBug why didn't you're !!/approve on GH go through?
 
@Glorfindel It's ChrisF and he must know about that.
 
SU gets "PST repair" spam seeds that mods protect on sight
 
@WELZ @ArtOfCode Someone else also complained about PullApprove's death
@gparyani And GS Richcopy 360
 
2:21 PM
CI on 5a43501 succeeded.
 
!!/pull
 
@iBug yes, he knows but he hasn't deleted the account yet.
 
Restart: API quota is 13193.
 
@WELZ PA is broken, paper1111 needs to be an org member, invitation is pending
 
2:23 PM
Does restarting Smokey after a pull temporarily make it stop detecting posts?
 
yes, but then we go back and scan everything we missed
while we're at it, @WELZ want code admin?
 
3 mins ago, by gparyani
@ArtOfCode What is the general policy for spam seeds here? If detected or reported by someone else, are they tpu, tp, or fp? Should we manually !!/report them?
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +5 more: supplementlab.org/tryvix/ by forbes coltyn on astronomy.SE
tpu- by Glorfindel
 
@gparyani tpu and yes you should, but advise caution in actually flagging them
 
But are we 100% sure this is an actual spam seed?
 
2:27 PM
@ArtOfCode if you're offering... sure.
 
I mean, it doesn't really look like the previous hits.
 
@WELZ job done
 
Thanks
 
@Glorfindel Hmm. "after some research" ... "Does Alibaba Cloud have a managed app deployment service like App Engine to host and manage Node Js app" which is easiy answered by google ====> SPAM SEED!
 
@ArtOfCode Don't forget to refresh PullApprove or it dies again.
 
2:31 PM
@iBug already done
 
CI on 3d616f6 succeeded.
 
!!/pull
 
still needs paper to accept the org invite, it'll be broken until that happens
 
[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 3d616f6 (ArtOfCode: +WELZ) (running on teward/Solar Flare)
Restart: API quota is 13067.
 
wow, shit.
checking for plagiarism is specifically hard when they started to translate from Chinese before posting on SO.
 
2:38 PM
... I might be in some deep trouble
 
tpu- by Glorfindel
 
I give up.
@Magisch serial upvoting just for the assoc bonus?
 
!!/help
 
@WELZ I'm SmokeDetector a bot that detects spam and offensive posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.
 
!!/amicodeprivileged
 
2:42 PM
@WELZ ✓ You are a code-privileged user.
 
If you see any more Alibaba Cloud questions and are unsure whether they're spam seeds, leave them for me. Ping me if I'm not here at the time so I get notified. I am a native mainland China citizen, and I (probably) know more about Alibaba Cloud and have better tools/ways to check them.
 
@iBug no, my company has never had a DPO before
 
New metasmoke user 'ale' created
 
If the question is not on Stack Overflow or Server Fault, you can safely give FP if it doesn't seem like spam. If it's on SO or SF, better check more. Plagiarism from another language is an important thing.
 
@Magisch and now you're it? And you need to fix everything before the end of May?
 
2:53 PM
For example, this post (10k on SO) is plagiarised from here (Simplified Chinese).
@Magisch DPO is Days payables outstanding?
 
@Glorfindel You got three guesses and the first one was right
Not yet technically, but most likely from monday on
 
I'm not sure if congratulations or mental support are in order. Perhaps we'll provide both :P
@iBug is this one plagiarized as well?
 
@Glorfindel It's a bit too broad and I'm unable to confirm so far.
 
@iBug right, that's hard work you're doing there. You can sometimes tell by the poor English grammar, but not always.
 
3:00 PM
@Glorfindel The ones who dare spamming on SO surely have decent English skills.
So "poor English grammar" is hardly the case for this wave of spam.
 
Yeah, I'm probably confused with another spam wave. All I could see in the last one was its instead of it's.
Thats just a typo.
 
Probably that one's not plagiarised.
 
I have the failed flag attempts as a bookmark at home PC, but not here. Does anyone have the MS link for it?
 
3:06 PM
@Glorfindel ty
 
@Glorfindel by posting your unflagging post... new MS autoflag users have gone up...
 
Well, at least I recognize these last two as knowledgeable users with a lot of contributions across different sites.
 
@WELZ which post?
 
Meta
 
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A: Awarded 'deputy' badge for helpful flags I haven't raised

GlorfindelYou've signed up for Autoflagging, so these flags have been cast automatically on spam posts reported by the SmokeDetector bot. Here is a link to the flags which have been cast in your name. If you want to opt out of autoflagging, you can do so on your preferences page.

 
3:12 PM
bahahaha
 
@ArtOfCode that was my first reaction as well.
 
@iBug what's up with that comment?
@Taryn Hi, bluefeet. How about changing one's display name? — ɪʙᴜɢ 6 mins ago
 
I just feel it absurd for an employee to change the name.
 
Why?
 
I just feel it, why why?
 
3:23 PM
What makes an employee different in that respect?
 
Fair. Might want to clarify it in that comment. I didn't know what you were talking about.
 
Bluefeet is a DBA, why do you need name consistency for a DBA?
 
@WELZ User removed from blacklist (74287 on travel.stackexchange.com).
 
3:30 PM
night
 
@Glorfindel I count this as a victory. We're working so well that users have forgotten we exist.
 
cue Illuminati theme
 
3:46 PM
31	1	144.1613
32	2	57.9688
32	3	29.6563
32	4	13.7813
30	5	10.2667
 
We've failed. We're above 10 seconds with 5 flags.
3
Pack it up people! We're done.
 
heh
 
@Glorfindel I see the fnords.
 
Interesting - minimal difference between overall (above) and spam hour (3a-noon, below)
 
It's been just over 60 days since I contacted Travis CI. The last update I received was "we've put in an internal ticket" and I'd hear from them in two weeks. That was a month ago. So, I've written up the post. I've asked for an updated and if I don't hear from them by Friday, I'll publish it (and post a public issue for them too). I confirmed it is still a problem and have taken screenshots for the post.
 
3:50 PM
28	1	142.5357
31	2	58.0645
30	3	30.9000
31	4	13.4194
29	5	10.3103
 
What's outside of spamhour look like?
 
minimal data
3	1	159.3333
1	2	55.0000
2	3	11.0000
1	4	25.0000
1	5	9.0000
Which is why there's little difference
 
ah
 
I'd like to run it for a few more days and get ~100 posts in each category, because that's a nice round number.
If that trend continues, we might consider getting 4 flags instead of 5, then going for 6.
6 is a nice big engineering challenge to get right.
 
It's going to increase the time we take for this experiment, but it might help mods if they can see more data from outside of spam hour too
Actually...when do our false positives usually occur?
Autoflagging false positives
If those are during spam hour then I agree with you at 100 each. But, if we are inaccurate during the non-busy times, I think we need more data during that time period
 
4:01 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer: What are remedies if a collection agency won't remove a false item from the credit report? by Lisa Hamilton on money.SE
tpu- by K.Dᴀᴠɪs
tpu- by K.Dᴀᴠɪs
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, no whitespace in body, repeating characters in body: why c++ short program crashes. stackoverflow by yeah yo on stackoverflow.com
 
Anyone here working on the iPad issue? Tough to moderate from there, going on a few weeks now. Used to be fine.
 
@Andy I'm pretty sure those are evenly distributed during the day. Or at least follow the same hourly trend as regular posts.
@JoeTaxpayer wrong room? I have no idea what you're talking about :)
 
@JoeTaxpayer iPad issue? Sounds like you're in the wrong room..?
 
@Andy 300+ weight just doesn't have false positives. One on Patents years ago that was a bad question in Korean.
 
@SmokeDetector k (troll)
 
4:08 PM
The stackexchange app on iPad has issues. Where to go with that, @ArtOfCode ?
 
thx
 
Bah work PC doesn't have the MS reauth bookmark. Anyone have it?
 
/authentication/status
 
Why do you need that bookmarked? o.O
 
4:17 PM
@Undo constantly having to reauth MS with SE
all those fails
@ArtOfCode thanks
 
4:46 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title: holodomor vs. holocaust usage by Shakira Jones on english.SE
fp- by Glorfindel
 
I think this is not the troll, right?
 
doesn't look like it
 
no
 
5:15 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: How to make chromosome color maps for bed ranges by bernatgel on bioinformatics.SE
 
5:37 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: Price of storing a hash SHA3 in Ethereum and Bitcoin by bytestamp on ethereum.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer: Strange glitch with RecyclerView and expandable cards by Mathias Wöß on stackoverflow.com
naa- by K.Dᴀᴠɪs
 
6:01 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body: Patching Hwid info by Asura Ishin on reverseengineering.SE
fp- by K.Dᴀᴠɪs
 
!!/lick
 
@WELZ licks ice cream cone
tpu- by K.Dᴀᴠɪs
 
!!/watch bytestamp\.net
 
@WELZ Added bytestamp\.net to watchlist
 
!!/pull
 
6:13 PM
@WELZ CI build is still pending, wait until the build has finished and then pull again.
CI on 6530229 succeeded. Message contains 'autopull', pulling...
[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 6530229 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of bytestamp\.net by WELZ --autopull) (running on teward/Solar Flare)
Restart: API quota is 10500.
 
7:05 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: texel density real life like textools 3ds max by renderhjs on blender.SE
 
@SmokeDetector f - submitted an edit to add disclosure
 
sd f
@SmokeDetector f ('We are ...' counts as disclosure)
 
7:26 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body: Squid proxy configuration by user by Valtinho on serverfault.com
fp- by Glorfindel
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, repeating characters in body: What is i dentity element of theseeeeee adadad? by user536127 on math.SE
 
sd v
 
7:58 PM
tpu- by Glorfindel
 
This guy is just going around SO spamming his tool on multiple posts.
 
All but one are spam
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, mostly dots in body: My tenants' lease will expire and I want to increase his rent by personal learner on english.SE
 
Well probably need to manually report them in batches instead of using allspam
 
@SmokeDetector tp-
 
8:13 PM
tp- by K.Dᴀᴠɪs
 
Any chance someone could do that please? I’m on mobile and can’t
 
I've mod-flagged one and NAA'ed the others. While it's certainly spam, we haven't given the user time to learn our rules yet.
Oh, and I've downvoted them all. serial downvoter mode off
 
@Glorfindel Can't reverse rep he doesn't have lol
 
Yeah, but I realize now that that might get him answer-blocked...
 
The thing is, they’re all blatant spam. There isn’t any debate in whether or not it is intentional. He’s trying to promote his product, it doesn’t matter whether he knows that it’s against the rules or not, it’s spam
 
8:21 PM
While it's certainly spam I chose not to flag as such. But if you want, I'm happy to report them. Hold on a sec ...
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (batch report: post 1 out of 3): How to create android template project from command line? by PramUkesh N on stackoverflow.com
 
Thanks
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (batch report: post 2 out of 3): How to create android project with gradle from command line? by PramUkesh N on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (batch report: post 3 out of 3): create android project with gradle from command line deprecated? by PramUkesh N on stackoverflow.com
@Glorfindel You can execute the !!/report command again in 11 seconds. To avoid one user sending lots of reports in a few commands and slowing SmokeDetector down due to rate-limiting, you have to wait 30 seconds after you've reported multiple posts in one go.
 
handled
 
ya'll farmed a lot of helpful flags out of that one :P
 
tpu- by DavidPostill
 
@Undo hopes not to get punished for serial flagging
 
8:31 PM
just in case he does anything stupid again:
!!/watch PramUkeshVenky
 
@WELZ Added PramUkeshVenky to watchlist
 
@WELZ ... that's actually where the 'blacklisted user' reason is for.
 
well, that'll make 2 reasons (also in case they make a new account)
 
CI on ad22f04 succeeded. Message contains 'autopull', pulling...
Restart: API quota is 9071.
 
he also earned some more downvotes on his one (non spam) post
 
8:36 PM
collateral damage
or, as the Dutch police force says:
> asking for attention means getting attention
 
That's good! I like it.
 
tpu- by Glorfindel
 
Is automatic flagging turned off?
 
@Catija Just for you
Says you failed because you already flagged for mod attention: metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/flagging/logs?filter=manual
 
When I flagged that bitcoin answer, it only had three downvotes, despite Glorfindel validating it... shouldn't it have five?
 
8:44 PM
No. The last autoflags were cast 5 hours ago, but since then, nothing autoflag worthy has been reported.
The last post has a weight of 71, way too low for autoflags.
 
Ah. I see. I'm still figuring out what gets autoflags. So if something gets validated, it still doesn't get the flags.
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: Pyglet Syntax Error ("invalid syntax") by user9425772 on stackoverflow.com
tpu- by K.Dᴀᴠɪs
 
@WELZ ...that was not necessary
@Catija in order to be autoflagged, it has to have a higher reason weight than someone's conditions. The default is 280, but many set it to around 170
So generally, it needs to be hit by at least 2 reasons
 
@angussidney 160 for me :O
..... which is the lowest before MS says it's too low
MS wants 99.50% or something like that
 
You can get lower on specific sites (e.g. Drupal or Graphic Design).
 
8:59 PM
@Glorfindel oooo I didn't know that. You are just full of information today xD
 

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