Charcoal HQ

SmokeDetector

17:00

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): XAMPP on local network "overrides" server IP by user3513782 on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, body starts with title and ends in url, link at beginning of body, pattern-matching website in body (334): Regardless, if your dream is to achieve a lone digit by Hero Ogony on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

Daniel Widdis

I love seeing "(deleted less than 20 seconds after being reported)"

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ip for hostname in answer (1): Customize color for the active window in Gnome Classic? ✏️ by DeltaMachine on unix.SE (@Pandya)

Spevacus

17:04

The SmokeDetector project is stupidly effective.

5

metasmoke

naa- feedback received

Victor VosMottor

@DanielWiddis me too. Good job guys ;)

Spevacus

Most casual visitors will never come across spam on the network because of how effective Charcoal is.

Makyen

@rene Because a commit was added to SD, which needed to be pushed to all instances in order to accomplish what it was written for. Thus, the instances were all instructed to pull an update at about the same time. The update caused each to reboot, which synced up their 6 hour auto-reboot schedules.

rene

I would expect those reboots are for availability. Having them reboot simultaneously and then become synced is maybe not the best measure. I propose to make the reboot schedule be moved to 6 to 8 hours ...

I see myself out.

Spevacus

17:10

🚪👈

Daniel Widdis

@rene you could add a random number of minutes to whatever fixed schedule.

Spevacus

For those out of the loop...

Daniel Widdis

Heh, I missed that. :)

Spevacus

It's rene's favorite meme. Once you realize that, you'll never miss it again ;)

Daniel Widdis

Adding a random number is still applicable. :D

Mast

17:15

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@Mast ... good question

Mast

Did the spammers go to sleep early?

Spevacus

It's flippin' Monday. Where are they?

Mast

@Makyen FR: timed delay

20-30 seconds at least

Makyen

@rene There are multiple reasons for the reboot, but, yes, the primary one is to have a backup method for the instance to be restored to functionality when something goes wrong, which, hopefully, a reboot will fix (although our algorithm for trying different commits could use some work).

I agree that having the times the instances reboot be staggered would be better. In the past, I've manually adjusted it, but to do a manual adjustment requires remembering between the reboots, which is not as easy as remembering that it should be done when reminded by seeing the reboot notice. :)

As to having the time be random: We could do that, but there have been times in the past when I've used the fact that reboots are consistently 6 hours apart as an aid to debugging. So, I'm not too keen on making it random all the time.

SmokeDetector

17:18

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially problematic ns configuration in body (1): Access JSON decoded field in Golang by Kavish Gour on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

Daniel Widdis

Another whitelist idea: \\w\.\\w

Mast

Is MS slow or is that just me?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): Linux SSH Superuser by Prostyle1337 on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

SmokeDetector

17:26

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body (57): Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=65538, result=-1, data=null} to activity by Cristian Gustavo on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

tp feedback received on [MS] How to Scale Beyond a Single Server with WebSockets

Spevacus

@metasmoke Going with TP on this one because the user's history seems to be pretty relentlessly promoting this site's articles. Willing to have someone else review it though.

Daniel Widdis

@Spevacus Concur based on history. Would have naa'd otherwise.

Spevacus

@DanielWiddis No you wouldn't have; that's a question! ;)

Daniel Widdis

@Spevacus Ah, indeed! In fact, I voted to close it about 50 minutes ago. NAQ? :)

Mast

17:31

@Spevacus Oh my, indeed.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, no whitespace in answer, repeating characters in answer (264): Expansion in flat spacetime by STEMguy24 on physics.SE

metasmoke

tp- feedback received

Makyen

@Mast I have not noticed an issue, and brief testing doesn't indicate that it's slow for me.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body (96): Find Attribution Data revenuecat by Маркіян Витрикуш on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

SmokeDetector

17:39

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer (62): Who decides whether it's normal to eat something in a certain fashion? by kmjhyt on judaism.SE

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer (87): What is the meaning of "exploration" in reinforcement and supervised learning? by MickAel on ai.SE

Spevacus

!!/watch- drugruger\.com

Mast

@Makyen Ordinarily it takes just over 10 seconds to request a simple regex match, it takes almost thrice that long at the moment.

SmokeDetector

iBug/Coral: Executing automatic scheduled reboot.

metasmoke

17:40

tpu- feedback received

PR#4881 ("Spevacus: Watch drugruger\.com") opened by SmokeDetector

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started in standby mode at rev fe74f63 (Makyen: Add SmokeDetector privileges for Victor VosMottor) (running on iBug/Coral)

Mast

!!/approve 4881

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev d750c38 (SmokeDetector: Merge pull request #4881 from Charcoal-SE/auto-blacklist-1600710049) (running on teward/Osiris)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user (71): can shifting the centre of gravity of a ball move it, no matter the weight by STEMguy24 on physics.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (2): Putty Private/Public Key Pair - Generate Certificate by kmjhyt on superuser.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received on [MS] can shifting the centre of gravity of a ball move it, no matter the weight

tpu- feedback received

Mast

Looks like we got a bit of a campaign.

Spevacus

17:45

And I thought today was going to be boring.

SmokeDetector

18:00

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Linked punctuation in answer, one-character link in answer (141): Visual Studio 2019 doesn't indent in JavaScript after [Enter] by Rhonda Churchill on stackoverflow.com

Spevacus

@SmokeDetector k Spam link in plagiarized text. Plagiarized from this article.

!!/watch- homeheavenz\.com

metasmoke

PR#4882 ("Spevacus: Watch homeheavenz\.com") opened by SmokeDetector

Mast

!!/approve 4882

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 061dafc (SmokeDetector: Merge pull request #4882 from Charcoal-SE/auto-blacklist-1600711369) (running on teward/Osiris)

SmokeDetector

18:23

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Misleading link (22): NS3_Can't run vanet-routing-compare.cc ✏️ by Azra on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer (86): Which microphone is used during FaceTime video call in iPhone SE? by a deleted user on apple.SE

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

NobodyNada

sd why

SmokeDetector

@NobodyNada [:55615280] Bad keyword in answer - Scam aimed at apple customers. Keywords: phone, support

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title (2): React Randomly populated promo code inside coupon (Modal) keeps changing every second due to background calendar countdown timer function by AlecTech on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

18:30

fp- feedback received

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially problematic ns configuration in answer (1): How can I generate a temporary table filled with dates in SQL Server 2000? by Lunas Allen on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

Spevacus

!!/test-q Nothing crazy going on here, just testing to see where p.id is caught.

SmokeDetector

> Potentially problematic ns configuration in body
----------
Potentially problematic ns configuration in body - Suspicious nameservers: all IP addresses for p.id are in set {'45.126.59.70'}

Mast

Known problem.

Spevacus

18:33

Mhmm

Mast

main.app is another one.

Quite some of them really.

Spevacus

I'm mad that someone actually grabbed p.id and used it for... Whatever they're using it for.

Mast

@Spevacus A lot of names that short are either for porn or domain reservations.

This one is the latter.

main.app is from a business dealing in digital business-cards.

Something about blockchain and contact management jumbo...

Makyen

@Mast A main point of using a construct like that regex is to catch when the spammer uses a mash-up like "truvalastaustralia52", which is a common thing for spammers to do, particularly in domains or URL paths. Based on the search results in MS, that particular regex one could use significant expansion to include terms which are being used in later spam. I'll make an update.

NobodyNada

@Mast That's because it already had 5 spam flags by the time MS came back up

SmokeDetector

18:45

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer (81): How to edit manifest when specifying multiple sources for one task with AWS Sagemaker ground truth by Priyanka Gopalakrishna on stackoverflow.com

Mast

Well, if that isn't disclosed affiliation, what is...

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

Mast

Not a great answer, but it qualifies I guess.

metasmoke

fp feedback received on [MS] Running linux gcc-compiled program under windows

fp feedback received on [MS] removing strange characters from php string

Mast

Why do I always regret such things...

User is on a spree. May be harmless, may be not.

SmokeDetector

19:02

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ip for hostname in body (1): installing job submission management (eg slurm) on ubuntu 20.04 by Ryan Schubert on askubuntu.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body, pattern-matching email in body (132): ever wanted to hack by Melissa Knox on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer, blacklisted user (255): What bug does this hacker want to exploit? by Melissa Knox on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

Mast

!!/watch- stocktipsandethicalhacking2020(?:@gmail\.com)?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 0992e89 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of stocktipsandethicalhacking2020(?:@gmail\.com)? by Mast) (running on teward/Osiris)

Mast

19:09

!!/watch-number- ‪ 1 (925) 291-0054‬)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev e62a513 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of ‪ 1 (925) 291-0054‬) by Mast) (running on teward/Osiris)

Mast

What...

!!/unwatch- 1 (925) 291-0054‬)

SmokeDetector

@Mast No such command 'unwatch-number'.

@Mast No such item 1 (925) 291-0054‬) in watchlist.

Mast

What the heck...

Ryan M

@Mast Seems fine so far, they're answering questions that are about the service with links to the docs

Mast

19:11

Can someone remove the last )? I'm not sure why it's in the post, but doesn't make sense to have it in the watch I think...

Mithical

!!/test AKHBSD 1 (925) 291-0054‬) hdh

SmokeDetector

> Phone number detected in title, potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title
----------
Phone number detected in title - Phone number: 1 925 2910054
Potentially bad keyword in body - 19252910054 found normalized
Potentially bad keyword in title - 19252910054 found normalized

Mithical

!!/bisect 1 (925) 291-0054‬)

SmokeDetector

@Mithical '1 (925) 291-0054\u202c)' is not caught by a blacklist or watchlist item.

Mithical

!!/bisect AKHBSD 1 (925) 291-0054‬) hdh

SmokeDetector

19:11

@Mithical 'AKHBSD 1 (925) 291-0054\u202c) hdh' is not caught by a blacklist or watchlist item.

Mithical

!!/bisect Dhdjssdfg 19252910054 hd

SmokeDetector

@Mithical 'Dhdjssdfg 19252910054 hd' is not caught by a blacklist or watchlist item.

Mithical

....alright

Victor VosMottor

Hi everyvody!

!!/addblu ru.stackoverflow.com/users/407777/…

SmokeDetector

@VictorVosMottor User blacklisted (407777 on ru.stackoverflow.com).

Victor VosMottor

19:13

!!/report ru.stackoverflow.com/questions/1158216/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user (71): Как добавить hr после каждой p? by Елена on ru.stackoverflow.com

Mast

@VictorVosMottor Why?

I mean, it could be spam from VK as a company, but my Russian is awful.

Victor VosMottor

@Mast I suspect she's a troll. But i'm not 100% sure so i want to track her ;)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): What is the best way to append custom message to the output when pytest.raises fails? by Roman Ponomaryov on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

Makyen

19:16

!!/watch- stocktipsandethicalhacking2020(?:@gmail\.com)?

!!/watch- 1 (925) 291-0054‬

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received on [MS] Как добавить hr после каждой p?

SmokeDetector

@Makyen That pattern looks like it's already caught by Potentially bad keyword in body and Potentially bad keyword in answer; append -force if you really want to do that.

Makyen

!!/unwatch- (925) 291-0054‬

!!/unwatch- +1 424) 274 2967‬‬

!!/unwatch- 424) 274 2967‬‬

SmokeDetector

@Makyen An invalid pattern was provided, please check your command.

Mast

watch-number perhaps?

SmokeDetector

19:16

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 2694e6b (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of (925) 291-0054‬) by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

Makyen

@Mast Yeah, the auto-formating is obviously missing something there.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev c466204 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of +1 424) 274 2967‬‬ by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

Mast

@VictorVosMottor Well, it's clearly nonsense, beyond NAA.

@Makyen The ) at the end is intentional?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 78b18a3 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of 424) 274 2967‬‬ by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

Mast

I know it's in the post itself, but does it make sense to catch it?

Makyen

19:18

@Mast No, I thought I edited it out, but it's largely "meh", because that detection tests both verbatim and with the non-number characters removed.

Mast

@Makyen So it will work regardless of whether it's there.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 4e43daa (SmokeDetector: Auto unwatch of (925) 291-0054‬) by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

Victor VosMottor

@Mast It is not a spam from VK, Elena today added a question (already deleted) about real nonsense though it was 100% nonsense. I don't actually know is it a troll or something else...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 33ac687 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of (925) 291-0054‬ by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

Makyen

@Mast Yes, for the numbers list.

Mast

19:19

Naturally.

Victor VosMottor

@Mast translation of Elena's answer:

Link to a malicious site
The link you tried to follow leads to a phishing site that collects logins and passwords from VKontakte. Perhaps you received it from a user who, despite all our warnings, followed this link and entered the login and password from VKontakte, after which spam messages containing the link began to be sent on his behalf. Please notify the user who sent the link about this and advise him to change the password for his VKontakte account.

VKontakte always cares about your safety! [Wikipedia] [1]

Mast

Troll bot in practice, possibly.

Victor VosMottor

@Mast no, i'm sure she s not bot but troll

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): Combine multiple date columns with values + attributes into one column that has date + values + attribute in Excel by Excel_Scrub on stackoverflow.com

Victor VosMottor

@Mast Lately, a lot of trolls have been visiting. It is one of reasons i'm here ;)

metasmoke

19:27

fp- feedback received

Makyen

@Mast Actually, the issue was caused by invisible Unicode characters (this one).

Mast

@Makyen Yikes.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 10edcfa (SmokeDetector: Auto unwatch of (925) 291-0054‬ by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev e9ecbf1 (SmokeDetector: Auto unwatch of +1 424) 274 2967‬‬ by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 560ac88 (SmokeDetector: Auto unwatch of 424) 274 2967‬‬ by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

Makyen

!!/watch-number- (925) 291-0054

!!/watch-number +1 424) 274 2967

!!/watch-number 424) 274 2967

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev dfe87d5 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of (925) 291-0054 by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev f48353e (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of +1 424) 274 2967 by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 1598cec (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of 424) 274 2967 by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

Makyen

19:31

!!/unwatch- ‪ 1 (925) 291-0054‬)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 054bb0d (SmokeDetector: Auto unwatch of ‪ 1 (925) 291-0054‬) by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

Makyen

!!/watch-number- 1 (925) 291-0054

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 8d4ffce (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of 1 (925) 291-0054 by Makyen) (running on teward/Osiris)

Makyen

@Makyen This had invisible Unicode characters in it.

Mast

MS doesn't print those either, it seems.

Daniel Widdis

19:47

!!/tea

SmokeDetector

@DanielWiddis brews a cup of darjeeling tea for @DanielWiddis

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body (45): how do I utilize features in a Json(python) array if there are no listed meta data? by Waaday Forrester III on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

Thomas Ward

@Mast probably because they're invisible heh

SmokeDetector

20:20

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in username (1): Is it possible to clone only part of a git project? by CryptoGeek on unix.SE (@Pandya)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, toxic answer detected (167): How do people encode WEBMs to to increase the end time? by Sex on superuser.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): Problem recreating black hole iridesium by johhk on blender.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in body (1): Is there an equation for the gravity of Earth that accounts for a comprehensive set of variables? by Ron Wolf on physics.SE

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, toxic answer detected, blacklisted user (238): How do people encode WEBMs to to increase the end time? by Sex on superuser.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

Daniel Widdis

20:33

🙄

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user (71): New console equivalent in the new windows terminal by Sexual Intercourse on superuser.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

fp feedback received on [MS] Problem recreating black hole iridesium

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (86): Will I get any visual benefit if I use CRF values below 17/18 in x264 (FFmpeg)? by Sexisfun on superuser.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

Spevacus

20:53

I thought rude flag deletion would result in some form of penalty?

Daniel Widdis

You'd think so.

Spevacus

Unfortunate.

NobodyNada

waffles, cat walked across keyboard

Daniel Widdis

Interestingly other than the user, the third post would have slipped thru

Spevacus

@NobodyNada Tell your cat hello for me :D

Rubiksmoose

20:56

@Spevacus Both types of red flags are treated identically by the system IIRC

NobodyNada

!!/watch-force ^.{0,15}sex.{0,15}$(?#SU troll)

SmokeDetector

@NobodyNada The regex contains an unescaped "."; in most cases, it should be "\."; append -force if you really want to do that.

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 67c4d49 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of ^.{0,15}sex.{0,15}$(?#SU troll) by NobodyNada) (running on teward/Osiris)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): Custom textfield delegate isn't working for second textfield by NewCoder on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

NobodyNada

!!/bisect Hack to prevent text

SmokeDetector

@NobodyNada Matched by hack(?:er)?\b.{0,50}\b(?:text|call|contact) on line 1017 of watched_keywords.txt

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user (71): So i was compiling some code and found an error. Can you help find it? by ZeMov on superuser.com

metasmoke

21:06

tpu- feedback received

NobodyNada

sd why

SmokeDetector

[:55617432]
Blacklisted user - blacklisted for //superuser.com/a/1587453 (https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/265731) by the metasmoke API

NobodyNada

@SmokeDetector copy-paste of the opening dialog from The Bee Movie

from a known-troll user, too ^

Rubiksmoose

@NobodyNada Just about to say that as well

Spevacus

Hm. I wouldn't say that's spam, do we Rude flag here? Or just flag for closure/deletion.

NobodyNada

21:09

@Rubiksmoose AFAIK the only difference is that spam posts, but not R/A posts, are used as review audits.

Rubiksmoose

As a mod, I'd take any red flag on this type of post (assuming I already knew the context)

@NobodyNada Good point. I believe that is currect.

NobodyNada

@Spevacus R/A is appropriate as the user is just trying to be disruptive

the reasoning in meta.stackoverflow.com/a/317611/3476191 applies here

Rubiksmoose

Also abusing the system.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url-only title (99): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page by user407882 on ru.stackoverflow.com

NobodyNada

@Rubiksmoose we actually got some Meta flak for that, back before rude-flagging was implemented in MS/FIRE (so we flagged everything as spam)

Rubiksmoose

21:11

@NobodyNada oh yeah? I can see how that would be an issue on some sights for sure.

Spevacus

Are all autoflags spam flags? Or will it change them to R/A when specific reasons are met (toxic answer detection + bad keywords for example)?

Rubiksmoose

Oh that's a good question

Spevacus

I know that SO takes Spam flags on R/A content and accepts them as helpful, I believe. Shog iterated on it in a meta post I can't bother to look for just now, but it's in the documentation for Smokey somewhere...

Rubiksmoose

metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/265734 is an odd one...

It's just the english wikipedia link

Maybe a confused user? Also maybe a bot.

Spevacus

On ru.SO no less. I'm thinking tpu with a R/A flag?

Not sure how ru.SO prefers their flags.

NobodyNada

21:15

@Spevacus Due to chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/11540?m=35745740#35745740, all autoflags are spam flags (Pops was a CM at the time)

but we should differentiate with manual flags, because R/A flagging will prevent posts from being used as audits

Spevacus

@NobodyNada That's an awesome analogy, lol. Gotcha, cool. I think most site mods will understand when they see that Smokey cast the first flag (or, if it didn't, probably be pretty lenient).

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): How to use Dask DataFrame with Numpy Busday_count? by md598 on stackoverflow.com

Rubiksmoose

oh BTW, the idea that bees shouldn't be able to fly according to science is a myth. A silly one at that.

Makyen

@Spevacus All autoflags are spam flags. The numerous times it's been brought up that R/A flags might be used, it's been refused, as handling the flags by the system is nearly identical, and making the choice between spam and R/A is "complicated", or is at least an additional complicated which isn't needed, given that handling of the flags by the system is nearly identical, despite that some people with a pedantic bend (including myself) feel better if the flag with the "correct" name is used.

metasmoke

fp feedback received

tpu- feedback received on [MS] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

NobodyNada

21:18

@Rubiksmoose Yeah, I personally would go with FP/VLQ for a first offense

metasmoke

fp feedback received on [MS] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Spevacus

@Makyen Thanks for the explanation, and I can understand being a bit pedantic about the flag choice.

Rubiksmoose

weird. FIRE seems to have stopped working for me.

Spevacus

!!/rmblu ru.stackoverflow.com/users/407882/user407882

SmokeDetector

@Spevacus User is not blacklisted.

NobodyNada

21:19

@Rubiksmoose Hmm, MS is up and it's fine for me

1) do you get any errors, and 2) can you access metasmoke at all?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): I NEED FRE VBUK OMG PLS I WILL GIV ME PET ADOPT ME by CoolFunnykid2014 on superuser.com

Makyen

@Rubiksmoose Please define "stopped working for me".

Rubiksmoose

Oh yeah to be clear, it isn't showing any icons or anything is what I meant.

neither here or in Tavern.

hmmmm

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

NobodyNada

@Rubiksmoose If you click on your userscript manager in the toolbar, can you see it?

Makyen

21:20

@Rubiksmoose That will tend to indicate a more general problem with userscripts, rather than just FIRE. Are other userscripts working?

Rubiksmoose

Yup. I haven't changed anything either to my knowledge.

@Makyen Oh actually, no. So must be a browser/extention issue.

I'll bet a reboot fixes it

NobodyNada

@Rubiksmoose Closing and reopening your browser will probably be enough

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user (71): I NEED FRE VBUK OMG PLS I WILL GIV ME PET ADOPT ME by CoolFunnykid2014 on superuser.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

Rubiksmoose

@NobodyNada Yeah I tried that first. Reboot worked so shrug

Makyen

21:28

@Rubiksmoose What OS/browser?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer, pattern-matching website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (160): Set custom Wordpress REST-API URL by Stephen Hawking on stackoverflow.com

Rubiksmoose

Windows 10. Chrome

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

Rubiksmoose

Now that I think back, I've had this happen before.

Ryan M

!!/report superuser.com/a/1587465/52745

SmokeDetector

21:29

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): I NEED FRE VBUK OMG PLS I WILL GIV ME PET ADOPT ME by EZROBUXCLAPS2020SOEZ on superuser.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

Spevacus

I thought we had that domain watched.

!!/watch- vbuksgenerator\.com

SmokeDetector

@Spevacus 'VBUKSGENERATOR.COM' is not caught by a blacklist or watchlist item.

Rubiksmoose

Some 9 year old somewhere needs another hobby

Spevacus

Well, color me surprised.

Ryan M

21:30

@Rubiksmoose good edit ;-)

metasmoke

PR#4883 ("Spevacus: Watch vbuksgenerator\.com") opened by SmokeDetector

NobodyNada

!!/report superuser.com/q/1587464/377070

!!/approve 4883

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user (71): BUX.DEV IS BEST SIGHT EVAH IT GIVES ME FREE ROBUX AND BOBUXX SO EZ GO TO BUX.DEV IF ROBLOX TRUE GAMER MY ROBLOX ACCOUNT IS ROBLOXGAMER123 PLS FRIEND by EZROBUXCLAPS2020SOEZ on superuser.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

Rubiksmoose

@RyanM hahaha

NobodyNada

21:31

!!/watch bux\.dev

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 62bce90 (SmokeDetector: Merge pull request #4883 from Charcoal-SE/auto-blacklist-1600723844) (running on teward/Osiris)

NobodyNada

!!/watch ROBLOXGAMER123

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 217c315 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of bux\.dev by NobodyNada) (running on teward/Osiris)

NobodyNada

!!/bisect free vbucks

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 450a0a3 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of ROBLOXGAMER123 by NobodyNada) (running on teward/Osiris)

Matched by the following regexes:
free[\W_]*+v[\W_]*+bucks on line 22908 of watched_keywords.txt
vbucks on line 23190 of watched_keywords.txt

Spevacus

21:32

Added vbuksgenerator domain to MS, adding bux.dev now. E: Domains added and reports now have that domain in 'em

NobodyNada

!!/unwatch free[\W_]*+v[\W_]*+bucks

!!/watch free[\W_]*+(?:v|[rdb]o)[\W_]*+bu[cksx]+

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev 234fc3b (SmokeDetector: Auto unwatch of free[\W_]*+v[\W_]*+bucks by NobodyNada) (running on teward/Osiris)

NobodyNada

!!/test free vbucks

!!/test free robux

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklists reloaded at rev a2e2b0d (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of free[\W_]*+(?:v|[rdb]o)[\W_]*+bu[cksx]+ by NobodyNada) (running on teward/Osiris)

> Potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title, potentially bad keyword in username
----------
Potentially bad keyword in body - Position 0-11: free vbucks
Potentially bad keyword in title - Position 0-11: free vbucks
Potentially bad keyword in username - Position 0-11: free vbucks

> Potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title, potentially bad keyword in username
----------
Potentially bad keyword in body - Position 0-10: free robux
Potentially bad keyword in title - Position 0-10: free robux
Potentially bad keyword in username - Position 0-10: free robux

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title (2): Do you guys know any free robux sites i was playing adopt me the other day and my bfff said dont u have robux but i was poor so i dont by Adoptmesuperfanyaaas123 on superuser.com

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

SmokeDetector

21:46

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, bad phone number in answer, email in answer, messaging number in answer, +2 more (540): How do the Death Ward spell and the half-orc's Relentless Endurance racial trait interact? by Joan hardy on rpg.SE

metasmoke

tpu- feedback received

Rubiksmoose

That user post was deleted and user destroyed within 35 second of spam posting XD

One of my co-mods was way on top of that (the destruction that is)

Spevacus

5 hours ago, by Spevacus

The SmokeDetector project is stupidly effective.

Your co-mods are warriors.

Rubiksmoose

That they are :)

Maybe some of them are mages or clerics though

2

Spevacus

I'm pretty sure at least one of them's a rogue...

gparyani

21:50

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, Feb 11 '19 at 10:37, by Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

Have we ever come across a spammer or troll who kept rolling back their post so as to keep invalidating red flags?

Spevacus

That sounds diabolical.

Rubiksmoose

@Spevacus hahaha you aren't wrong

Makyen

@gparyani I'm not sure. There probably has been. There's definitely ones which have done it a time or two on a post, but for most it's really unclear that it's been intentional when it happens. It usually happens because some "helpful" person has edited out the spam/R/A and the spammer/troll rolls back the edit (because the thing they wanted seen was gone). I'd note that even if they did keep rolling it back, those rollbacks would result in an automatic flag being raised for just the rollbacks.

Rubiksmoose

I don't recall having seen this tactic in action.

Ryan M

I've seen cases where I suspect people deleted/undeleted posts to invalidate non-red flags, but I don't think I've seen anyone try it for red flags.

Makyen

22:06

I've seen a rollback invalidate red-flags. I'm unsure if I've seen it as an intentional tactic by a spammer/troll. It's not trivial to pull off (i.e. it takes a bit of planning), and a lot of spam/R/A accumulate red-flags too fast (i.e. because the flags don't break the grace period, it's often all one version; you'd have to plan an coordinate for it to be considered additional versions).

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (33): Error while uploading zip file to lambda function by ajs on stackoverflow.com

Spevacus

^ User's looking a bit like an allspam situation: stackoverflow.com/users/14282775/ajs

Oh... well... I guess that works. Entire answer history just got nuked.

metasmoke

22:21

tpu- feedback received

Makyen

@SmokeDetector Undisclosed affiliation.

SmokeDetector

API quota rolled over with 8031 requests remaining. Current quota: 19999.

math: 724
stackoverflow: 446
superuser: 121
physics: 119
askubuntu: 96
electronics: 91
unix: 85
serverfault: 74
diy: 57
salesforce: 57
codegolf: 53
apple: 49
mathoverflow.net: 49
english: 47
worldbuilding: 42
rpg: 37
es.stackoverflow: 30
wordpress: 27
ell: 27
dba: 25
datascience: 25
chemistry: 24
law: 24
scifi: 23
workplace: 22
cs: 22
mathematica: 20
quantumcomputing: 20
hermeneutics: 20
aviation: 20
bicycles: 19
webapps: 18
ru.stackoverflow: 17
bitcoin: 17
security: 17
gamedev: 17
dsp: 16
quant: 16

Makyen/EC2-linux: Executing automatic scheduled reboot.

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started in standby mode at rev a31c9a8 (Undo1: Merge pull request #4855 from Charcoal-SE/plan-z --autopull) (running on Makyen/EC2-linux)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): Does this count as breaking the first precept? by Samana Johann on buddhism.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (33): ASP.NET Core Web API unsupported Media type by Cihan AŞAN on stackoverflow.com

teward/Osiris: Executing automatic scheduled reboot.

metasmoke

22:42

Makyen/EC2-num02: Executing automatic scheduled reboot.

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev fc3d591 (Undo1: plan z) (running on Makyen/EC2-num02, Python 3.6.12)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev a2e2b0d (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of free[\W_]*+(?:v|[rdb]o)[\W_]*+bu[cksx]+ by NobodyNada) (running on teward/Osiris, Python 3.6.9)

Restart: API quota is 19914.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer, potentially bad ip for hostname in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (35): Where to buy US repatriation and evacuation insurance only? by Nasorenga on travel.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer (78): Where to buy US repatriation and evacuation insurance only? by guest AOL on travel.SE

metasmoke

naa- feedback received on [MS] ASP.NET Core Web API unsupported Media type

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): Does this count as breaking the first precept? ✏️ by Samana Johann on buddhism.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body (45): Trouble creating first game in Python! Syntax Error by Zzoltang on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): WhatsApp Web API - Passing Links with Spaces ✏️ by Sheets-User on stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

23:04

fp- feedback received on [MS] Trouble creating first game in Python! Syntax Error

fp- feedback received

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad asn for hostname in body (1): Iptables rules script problem by merfolds on unix.SE (@Pandya)

metasmoke

fp- feedback received

SmokeDetector

23:19

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (33): How to get Netextender (VPN) working in Ubuntu 12.10 x64? by Noufal babu on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad asn for hostname in body (1): Ошибка при добавлении в базу Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function query() on null by VolyaPers on ru.stackoverflow.com

metasmoke

fp- feedback received on [MS] Where to buy US repatriation and evacuation insurance only?

SmokeDetector

23:41

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started in standby mode at rev fe74f63 (Makyen: Add SmokeDetector privileges for Victor VosMottor) (running on iBug/Coral)

Transcript for