@Laurel Interesting. The Paul I was looking for was just called "Paul" (full username). But they were suspended on ELL. The Academics question they posted is also gone today.
I don't know why. I followed it and this morning I had a notification for a new comment. But following it just lead to a deleted page. Doesn't seem the question received a spam answer at least.
@Cow That pattern looks like it's already caught by Potentially bad keyword in body and Potentially bad keyword in answer Append -force to the command word(s) if you really want to add the pattern you provided.
@Cow A normalized version, {{'917358121732'}}, of that pattern is already on the number watchlist and the pattern you provided is not an exact match to an existing entry on the number watchlist. You can use !!/bisect-number 917358121732 to determine which entries on the number lists match that pattern, which would tell you: Matched by +91 7358121732 on line 4783 of watched_numbers.txt: 917358121732 found normalized
@VLAZ Aw man, why you gotta be so picky :p I got you a Paul who spammed an essay service on an English site, shouldn't that be close enough? (Most importantly it's the same network account.) Anyway, apparently any moderator will delete what you think is a spam seed if you tell them it's plagiarism (because it was! See the MS report)
@Laurel Heh, sorry. I wasn't being picky. I tried to point out how uncanny it was that the same first name apparently spammed on the same site. And then the Academia post disappeared. I also probably should have checked the MS report for the Academia-Paul post.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad asn for hostname in answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, blacklisted user (76): Image texture in Legacy OpenGL by Phu Tran on stackoverflow.com (@PetəíŕdtheWizard)
@JeffSchaller That pattern may be a North American number. If it is, please use a format which starts with an optional 1 followed by possible separator text and has the main number in the format 629-435-1216 where - could be a single alpha character or any [\W_]*+. Alternately, you can add the comment (?#IS NorAm) to the end of the pattern to force also using the alternate normalized form, or (?#NO NorAm) if it's not a North American phone number and it's incorrectly recognized as one. Perhaps try !!/blacklist-number 629-435-1216. Append -force to the command word(s) if you really want to add the pattern you provided.
@Dragonrage That pattern looks like it's already caught by Bad phone number in body and Bad phone number in answer Append -force to the command word(s) if you really want to add the pattern you provided.
@Cow That pattern looks like it's already caught by Potentially bad keyword in answer and Potentially bad keyword in body Append -force to the command word(s) if you really want to add the pattern you provided.
