@Mast 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.
@SmokeDetector The question is explicitly asking for free writing tools. The linked page appears to be a set of free writing tools (i.e. exactly what the question is asking for). I haven't found any undisclosed affiliation. Thus, not spam, even if it's a site we've previously seen in spam in other posts.
@VictorVosMottor Thanks. I'm definitely not always right. :) I make mistakes, just like anyone else. :) My hope is that other people will see the mistakes and tell me about them, so I can correct them.
@Makyen It's always worth mentioning that even if the question asks for a specific tool, you may be looking at a spam seed. In this case it doesn't appear so, but not all questions are created equal.
@NobodyNada Agreed, which makes me wonder what we should do. Edit the posts (if not deleted) to point to the relevant SO post? Do we tag as tp, but not penalize the user who didn't know better?
Makes me want to get on my horse, grab my lance, and go tilt at some windmills.
@DanielWiddis Do you mean a comment that people see when evaluating if the watch PR should be approved? If so, then leaving a comment on the PR is probably a good way to go, or you can leave a comment in chat and reference it in the PR.
If you mean that you want to include a (short) comment within the actual watch, then, yes, the regex package we use supports PCRE comments. Such comments are in the form (?#Your comment here, which can not contain a close parenthesis) as the first close parenthesis will end the comment.
@bmike (additional/ninja'd :) ) The - means "SD, don't reply to this in chat to tell me you've done what I told you." See Silent mode and aliases. Including it is a little redundant when giving feedback via the MS API (i.e. through userscripts), but it's still often sent with the -.
@rene IIRC I tried to match those once (a few years ago) but got disappointed. I'll try to dig up some numbers tomorrow, I'm now watching Have I Got News For You Dit was het nieuws ...
@DanielWiddis I don't believe the SE API provides a method to perform an actual rollback. That appears to only be only available through an SE-internal endpoint.
@bmike Thanks. Yeah, I've always been ... less than thrilled with how that ends up formatted on the Wiki.
