@SmokeDetector wow, that spammer is determined to put their email in the post or a comment. Third time they've posted it, after moderators removed it twice.
@tripleee yeah, that's the third one I was referencing. First one in the post was removed by Cody, then a comment was removed after I flagged. I flagged this one too with the history, maybe the handling moderator will more strenuously reinforce the "please stop spamming" this time.
@tripleee That pattern looks like it's already caught by Potentially bad keyword in answer and Potentially bad keyword in body; append -force if you really want to do that.
Potentially bad keyword in answer - Positions 191-202, 293-304, 408-419, 493-504, 727-738, 837-848: pairfum.com Blacklisted user - blacklisted for //stackoverflow.com/a/60136479 (https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/224191) by the metasmoke API
@janw This answer elaborates on the problems they're experiencing while using a particular code snippet (assumed to be in another answer). The links are supplementary to their question: "How do I fix this for certain types of WooCommerce products?" - Affiliation's at least disclosed for the links, and it's not actively promoting their product/site, just trying to demonstrate their problem (which is NAA).
The report that got them blacklisted (this one) is much more spammy than this one.
Overall, I'm willing to let them slide with NAA this time and this time only, and leave them blacklisted. We'll see what they do next.
I find it difficult to believe that a username like that will bear any fruit on the site, but if they post again we'll see it.
@Spevacus Ok, that sounds reasonable. It is indeed hard to tell whether it is a legit NAA or just very cleverly disguised spam. I will convert my feedback to NAA then. Thank you for clarifying!
No problem! I'm also open to being wrong, so if someone else wants to chime in/say that they'd be fine with that one being TP in Smokey's history, I'm down to feedback accordingly (I actually refrained from feedbacking in this case)
@Spevacus Yeah...there's enough bad behavior that a moderator should have been able to figure it out, but I can see how they missed it. They also wiped the info from their profile at some point.
Rev history shows they re-added the links after another user removed them, deleted them again, then deleted the post altogether. What was the timestamp on the decline?
If it was after Nov 20 17:23, it's possible they failed to check revision history
Yeah, so they probably saw a post with no links...well, one link...deleted by the OP, that looked a lot less spammy than when you flagged it.
then again, it also has a comment that says "You're not here for answers; you're treating LawSE as playground for marketing your law firm. You have repeatably demonstrated bad faith and ignored the rules"
So there wasn't no context
I dunno, I've had weird declines there. Custom flags are always a good choice in any ambiguous situation.
Yeah I'm not too worried about it. If it became something recurring I would start being a bit more concerned, but it's not like it's interfering with my ability to flag there at the moment. ;D
[:56327155] <skipped> [:56327135] Blacklisted user - blacklisted for https://stackoverflow.com/a/65120057 (https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/278317) by https://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/41570?m=51070192
> Would not be caught as a post, title or username.
> Potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title, potentially bad keyword in username ---------- Potentially bad keyword in body - Position 0-10: upwork.com Potentially bad keyword in title - Position 0-10: upwork.com Potentially bad keyword in username - Position 0-10: upwork.com
@CodyGray I'm sorry I wasn't around. In general, teward/osiris has been our primary instance for a while now, with the others as backup. If not going with just that, the general procedure is to pick the one which has been active longest/most recently. The quick determination of that can be to go to the SmokeDetector status page and see which instance has the most "Scans Today" (and has a "Last Ping" that's within the last 2 minutes; i.e. it's not down).
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer, link at beginning of answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, username similar to website in answer (181): New SSD is very slow under Xubuntu 14.04 by farmslik on askubuntu.com
