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SmokeDetector

00:06

Restart: API quota is 9256.

SmokeDetector

00:51

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: .cmd/.bat file is not executing while double clicking on it by Pratik Sonigra on stackoverflow.com …

Jeffrey Bosboom

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@JeffreyBosboom Blacklisted user - blacklisted for stackoverflow.com/a/36251575 (metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/posts/by-url?url=//…) by chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/28548509

Brock Adams

01:11

@SmokeDetector k dangerous Spam at first blush but it's actually plagiarized from a possibly valid source. NAA regardless.

SmokeDetector

01:41

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: What is meant by an eligible purchase on a cash back card by the bye on money.stackexchange.com …

Undo

sd k

Jeffrey Bosboom

03:48

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@JeffreyBosboom Of course

hichris123

Spammers don't work on Sunday. :P

lol I still remember my Charcoal password @Undo

Undo

Is that even still alive?

hichris123

Uh... maybe. But I'm using it for... a certain erwaysoftware product. ;)

apparently not. charcoal.erwaysoftware.com

Undo

@hichris123 pretty sure it was back before I figured out subdomains, so it'd have been /charcoal

hichris123

04:02

That's not there either.

Yeah, apparently it was erwaysoftware.com/charcoal.

Ms Yvette ǝʇʇǝʌʎ sW

^^ f?

Jeffrey Bosboom

@SmokeDetector f

Ms Yvette ǝʇʇǝʌʎ sW

:28898995 f

SmokeDetector

04:26

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: Maximum number of processes in linux by elmovimiento on stackoverflow.com …

Ms Yvette ǝʇʇǝʌʎ sW

@SmokeDetector k

hichris123

04:47

Spam? stackoverflow.com/questions/26625736/…

Wai Ha Lee

@hichris123 looks like VLQ

hichris123

The link though has nothing to do with the question.

Maybe just a confused person on the other hand...

Wai Ha Lee

Perhaps they saw this other link-only answer and thought you could just treat the question as a 'let's post links to commands here' forum.

SmokeDetector

05:28

[ SmokeDetector ] Mostly non-Latin answer: SERVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE some devices on Android GCM by คุณชายไร้หัวใจ ชายเอฟ on stackoverflow.com …

SmokeDetector

06:07

Restart: API quota is 8252.

SmokeDetector

06:45

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Are there any Uncomfortable side effects? by apexatropin on drupal.stackexchange.com …

SmokeDetector

07:17

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: iOS9 Share ExtensionからOpen URLを実行する方法 by hjhjhgj on ja.stackoverflow.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Messaging number in body, messaging number in title, phone number detected in title: Q/微信956290760办Offer NUS,NTU,SMU,SIM,JCU,SP,NYP毕业证 diploma ! by fasdfasdf05 on apple.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: The best way Muscle mass development HIGH-DEFINITION by sohniyebachi on drupal.stackexchange.com …

SmokeDetector

08:05

Backoff received of 10 seconds.

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body: Months site Learning Arabic Language by Fikri Isaoui on softwarerecs.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: URL Shortener For Arabic by Fikri Isaoui on softwarerecs.stackexchange.com …

Jeffrey Bosboom

sd why

SmokeDetector

[:28900412]
Blacklisted user - blacklisted for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36357458 (http://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/posts/by-url?url=//stackoverflow.com/questions/36357458) by http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/28820696

Jeffrey Bosboom

:28900412 f (bad, but not spam or abusive)

SmokeDetector

08:23

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps answer: Spacing between css elements by TryllZ on stackoverflow.com …

Wai Ha Lee

sd n (edited)

unarist

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

10:26

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Experiment to show that air contains about 20% oxygen by someone on chemistry.stackexchange.com (@IͶΔ) …

ArtOfCode

sd k

SmokeDetector

10:57

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Our apexatropin Conclusion by apexatropin on mathoverflow.net …

Ferrybig

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in body: database for mobile voting application by Daniel Chuks on stackoverflow.com …

IͶΔ

11:37

@SmokeDetector Cake

@SmokeDetector I'm not sure. Anyone with 10k on SO can confirm?

Ferrybig

Seems false to me

IͶΔ

Screenshot?

SmokeDetector

12:07

Restart: API quota is 6827.

ArtOfCode

@IͶΔ Click the ellipses at the end of the report, takes you to the metasmoke post.

Definitely f

IͶΔ

Yeah just forgot that.

SmokeDetector

12:39

[ SmokeDetector ] Linked punctuation in body: Booting problem in Ubuntu 14.04 by Akash Vartak on askubuntu.com …

Ferrybig

@SmokeDetector f (punctation is a space, and points to a stackexchange image)

ArtOfCode

Is it even worth including space in the punctuation set?

Ferrybig

13:09

@ArtOfCode At the moment, the regex is ^\W$, so space is in the set

ArtOfCode

that makes sense

ArtOfCode

14:25

@Undo MS needs pulling to the server when you've got a minute. I've rewritten the "needs admin" thing so it works like it should instead of the stupid design the last one had.

In theory, you should be able to set it up so that Circle deploys to EC2 on successful build.

Undo

In theory, although I don't know that I really want to do that

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: To overdose apexatropin these power boosters by apexatropin scam on mathoverflow.net …

ArtOfCode

True enough

Ferrybig

@SmokeDetector k

ArtOfCode

even successful builds aren't always safe

Undo

14:36

Pulled/deployed

ArtOfCode

Always good when it doesn't break immediately

@Ferry can you flag a post on MS for me?

Ferrybig

Ok

ArtOfCode

this one preferably

Undo

Looks like it works

ArtOfCode

Excellent, it does indeed. Cheers

So now we can have more than one flag on a post at a time, and we get usernames if the flagger is logged in

Oh damn, there's one tiny little bug in it.

Ferrybig

14:41

Is the admin feedback XSS proof?

ArtOfCode

which... that commit should fix

Undo

@Ferrybig You have to explicitly tell Rails that you want to shoot yourself in the foot, otherwise everything is sanitized by default.

ArtOfCode

@Undo Hey Rails, please take this gun, load it, take the safety off, aim it at my foot, and shoot me.

Undo

Using this weird obscure syntax to do so

ArtOfCode

I don't even know what the syntax is. Which, to be honest, is probably not a bad thing.

I remember the days of writing web apps in PHP.

Nothing is ever done for you in PHP.

Undo

14:44

It's <%=h IIRC

Or <%= my_value.html_safe %>

ArtOfCode

Which is great if you want to be flexible, but not if you want to write short, clean, safe code.

Rails? Love it.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: MySQL string replace by Ahmed Ghallab on stackoverflow.com …

Ferrybig

@SmokeDetector n (see conversation here chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/29862758#29862758 )

Undo

@ArtOfCode Deployed.

AFK for a few hours

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps answer, offensive answer detected: Who is the mysterious G-man in the Half-Life series? by user144523 on gaming.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Partial Coverage During Zinc Plating Bath by Rishi Jain on chemistry.stackexchange.com (@IͶΔ) …

hichris123

15:02

@ArtOfCode You might want to squash your commits when merging... 1 commit is much prettier than 15. ;)

ProgramFOX

@Tunaki Thanks... it was immediately clear that those words were only his and not the words of the whole SOCVR, so don't worry that I might feel offended too much :)

ArtOfCode

@hichris123 But big commit numbers are pretty :P

hichris123

:P

sd 2tpu-

Petter Friberg

15:23

sd f

hichris123

@SmokeDetector fp-

ArtOfCode

sd f

Marshmallow

!!/pull

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 097b768 (Normal Human: linked punctuation for answers only) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Restart: API quota is 5890.

Marshmallow

2/2 in answers, 0/2 in questions so far

Ferrybig

15:39

Most false positives on question are created by the fact that people mistakenly use a space character for their pictures

Marshmallow

15:49

Right, but we also never had a sneaky hidden link in a question. Sneaky spam is always an answer.

Seth

16:47

is there a reason the users link in smokey's posts is truncated? i.e. site.com/u/UID vs site.com/users/UID? only the latter works.

IͶΔ

@Seth No, the former should work as well.

hichris123

@Seth Both should work... we did that to save a couple characters.

Seth

no, they don't work :/

oh weird.

Only on Ask Ubuntu they don't work.

e.g. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/28902381#28902381

ohhhh

nvm.

it does work, it just doesn't work if the user has been deleted. I guess that's a small enough edge case it isn't a big deal.

hichris123

@Seth There was a bug reported about that... but I can't seem to find it right now.

I thought @Doorknob reported it.

SmokeDetector

17:20

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Can I see which seats are available on a British Airways flight before I book? by user42091 on travel.stackexchange.com …

hichris123

@SmokeDetector tpu-

Marshmallow

There is also an NAA there.

IͶΔ

!!/test bullshit

SmokeDetector

> Would not be caught for title, body, and username.

Marshmallow

434 bullshit posts on SO: stackoverflow.com/search?q=bullshit

IͶΔ

17:26

Yea, I expected some fps.

Marshmallow

sd f

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: I'm doing a slow burn over Proshred by Yapondtin on drupal.stackexchange.com …

Marshmallow

sd k

SmokeDetector

17:53

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body: dsfsdgdsgdfsgdfgdf by Ben Welch on stackoverflow.com …

Ferrybig

@SmokeDetector tp- (self vandalism)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Visual Studio Stuck in Weird Mode Causing Keyboard Issues by Jamey Kirby on stackoverflow.com …

Marshmallow

sd n

SmokeDetector

18:24

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Is there any word for the person who often forgets? by Alhaji Ousmane Conte on english.stackexchange.com …

Marshmallow

sd k

IͶΔ

@SmokeDetector Love how they use code formatting in the beginning.

Marshmallow

18:43

!!/report travel.stackexchange.com/a/66395

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Where to go for a one day cycling trip in CA/NV/UT, USA? by user42091 on travel.stackexchange.com …

Marshmallow

^ looks like NAA, but the link can't be anything other than spam.

IͶΔ

@SmokeDetector K

It's classic spam to me though.

> I haz this xp, it was really fun and I was dying and then I didn't die.

SmokeDetector

19:11

[ SmokeDetector ] English text in answer on a localized site: "Гривна" или "гривня"? by user278730 on rus.stackexchange.com …

Marshmallow

sd n

Brock Adams

Are the sites, especially rus.stackexchange, extra slow for anyone else? (StackExchange Status has bupkiss.)

Marshmallow

no repro

IͶΔ

@BrockAdams I'm not sensing anything noticeable.

Brock Adams

Maybe I'm Hellbanned on "furrin" SE sites? :P

IͶΔ

19:18

Yes.

SmokeDetector

19:32

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Futurecast or Forecast by Fuck on english.stackexchange.com …

Marshmallow

sd k

sd f

Marshmallow

19:44

sd f

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: How to allow scripts to read a javascript file but prevent users from viewing the file directly? by Yazan Ati on stackoverflow.com …

Brock Adams

Commercial site...

Marshmallow

But it's in 100+ posts on SO: stackoverflow.com/search?q=url%3Ajavascriptobfuscator.com

Including the accepted answer in a question of which this is a duplicate.

I still don't like the answer, but it's more like NAA.

Brock Adams

Yeah. I didn't actually flag that one. And digging, I don't think he's affiliated.

But his post does read like a marketing pitch.

@SmokeDetector n

Marshmallow

Sure, it's taken from the site itself: javascriptobfuscator.com The guy probably doesn't know much English. (One reason to copy-paste instead of writing own text)

Brock Adams

19:59

Judging from the score changes and my deleted comment, it looks like Jon Clements♦ declined spam flags on that post, and then deleted it.

Brock Adams

20:09

sd f

Marshmallow

The OP is from Austria, might be referring to their hometown en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

Brock Adams

Seems a stretch.

When I see such posts, I either imagine a troll or an AI, first struggling with human interaction on its way to the singularity apocalypse (Singularalypse).

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to call fragment from an activity in android? by bora on stackoverflow.com …

Marshmallow

Of course, it's Android...

Brock Adams

@SmokeDetector k and gone

SmokeDetector

20:24

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: Should "Vikings" be capitalized? by superato on english.stackexchange.com …

Brock Adams

@SmokeDetector should be abusive, IMO. Flagged as VLQ.

Or you could just edit it... Why help such jerks?

@SmokeDetector f

Marshmallow

The user participates normally otherwise. It's some odd outburst on their part. Happens to people.

Brock Adams

You're right. * is shamed *.

SmokeDetector

API quota rolled over with 4478 requests remaining. Current quota: 9999.

stackoverflow: 836
superuser: 385
askubuntu: 376
math: 163
unix: 153
english: 152
drupal: 137
gaming: 128
academia: 111
electronics: 104
scifi: 82
physics: 81
apple: 74
ell: 72
dba: 67
wordpress: 66
mathoverflow.net: 65
movies: 65
money: 63
security: 62
android: 62
mathematica: 62
travel: 61
tex: 60
puzzling: 55
stats: 55
bitcoin: 54
programmers: 54
judaism: 52
raspberrypi: 49
diy: 49
gis: 48
meta: 48
rpg: 46
ru.stackoverflow: 43
codereview: 43
cs: 41
gamedev: 40
chemistry: 40
salesforce: 37
arduino: 33

Brock Adams

21:28

sd f

SmokeDetector

Restart: API quota is 9774.

SmokeDetector

23:09

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Should I Pay Off my Student Loan Debts First or Invest in an Index Fund? by Johnathan Medina on money.stackexchange.com …

Marshmallow

sd k

It's a wonder that site still has non-protected questions about loans.

Granted, new ones are being asked; this one is from December 2015

SmokeDetector

23:34

Recovered from ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

hichris123

SO's down. :/

SmokeDetector

Recovered from ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

hichris123

!!/status

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Running since 21:33:59 UTC (125 minutes)

hichris123

heh it's still running?

quartata

23:41

Smokey's error handling is pretty good apparently

Brock Adams

!!/errorlogs 55

SmokeDetector

  File "/media/sda2/SmokeDetector/ChatExchange/chatexchange/browser.py", line 696, in _runner
    self.on_activity(json.loads(a))

  File "/media/sda2/SmokeDetector/ChatExchange/chatexchange/rooms.py", line 81, in on_activity
    event_callback(event, self._client)

  File "/media/sda2/SmokeDetector/chatcommunicate.py", line 148, in watcher
    r = handle_commands(content_source.lower(), message_parts, ev_room, ev_room_name, ev_user_id, ev_user_name, wrap2, content_source, message_id)

  File "/media/sda2/SmokeDetector/chatcommunicate.py", line 173, in handle_commands

Brock Adams

^^^ Note "No JSON object could be decoded" every 5 minutes while SO is down.

hichris123

Strange... must be some heartbeat from the realtime feed.

SmokeDetector

Recovered from ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

quartata

23:44

Back in read-only

hichris123

!!/reboot

Just to be safe. :P

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 097b768 (Normal Human: linked punctuation for answers only) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Restart: API quota is 9353.

quartata

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