oh for crying out loud...they screwed up the markdown so the links didn't end up inserted, so they don't show up properly (possibly in SD, and definitely in MS search)
well...I'm still watching the lot of them, in case they get it right next time
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, blacklisted website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (181): Faking first contact by Mel on worldbuilding.SE
@Criggie You can !!/report [url 1] [url 2] etc. to report the posts as spam to SmokeDetector so that we have a record of why the domain is spam and we can add it to the blacklist if it gets spammed enough
@SmokeDetector "My personal information is not protected, and the information on the data on the device is often destroyed, and even the information flow is changed randomly. " basically nonsense, no connection whatsoever to the question, and no other posts on the network.
@Criggie I'd suggest straight deleting the two posts where the user links to that site. With only two posts from the user linking to the site and the user having other contributions which don't link to any site, I probably wouldn't delete those posts as spam (i.e. not spam flag them; although I'd mark any spam flags as helpful by deleting the posts), but they basically are spam, so should be deleted. I'd also mod-message the user and mention that it looks like they may be promoting that site.
@Makyen Should this name be blacklisted? There are 6 accounts on the network with that name, and several posts from those accounts. It's also a fairly common real name.
yeah we don't get a lot of new users over time, so mods try to help and improve and be welcoming etc etc. Deleting is down a little on the list of reactions. Sometimes we get a good contributior out of it, perhaps one in four times.
@cigien It should be blacklisted at that time, because the user was engaged in a spree of spam across the network. However, they changed up names shortly thereafter. I agree that it should probably be moved to a watch at this point. Unfortunately, the user's history indicates they're likely to continue.
@Makyen Ok, I see why it was blacklisted at the time. To clarify, you're saying it should be downgraded to a watch, at least until the next wave appears from that username?
@Makyen 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.
@Makyen 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 @DavidPostill based on that domain's history (six other very promotional posts by someone with the same name) I'm inclined to say that's spam
the "search the network" step occasionally turns up old spam that we'd previously missed. Always fun to have a spammer's posting attempts decrease the amount of their spam in existence :-)
@Nick true, though the script would still work for generating PRs
@Nick it's worth noting that this is a bookmarklet rather than a userscript, so no userscript manager is required: just copy-paste that entire thing into a browser bookmark
@SmokeDetector tpu- User's "job" section states they're the president at TAL technologies, which is the company that owns the "TALTech" website. Mod flagged.
@tripleee 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.
