Motivation:
The primary time that spam is posted and visible to end users, is in the 4-12 UTC time range daily. Large population centers - Europe and North/South America - tend to be asleep during these time frames. Due to this decreased user activity, spam persists on the site for a much longer period of time than some users feel is acceptable.
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Background:
SmokeDetector is a headless chatbot that detects spam and reports it to various chatrooms around the Stack Exchange network. It utilizes a combination of the …