[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: helix6garciniareview.com/wonder-bust/ by olmanambell on askubuntu.com (@HenryWHHackv2.0)
@Ferrybig Blacklisted user - blacklisted for //wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/240572 (//metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/posts/by-url?url=//wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/240572) by http:metasmoke
Smokey is really confused above by a metasmoke blacklist, the post that caused the user to blacklisted does not exist (what is weird is MS blacklisted him) , and the user that blacklisted the user in question is missing
MS can blacklist users based on tp feedback from the api, and it sends metasmoke as the blacklisting username... I didn't realise that should have been a url
@ArtOfCode And you know why the url of the post that caused the user to blacklist isn't working? (I pasted it manually in the browser, but it still shows a 404 error)
People are confusing: "Stackoverflow is hostile to new users" with "Stackoverflow is hostile to terrible content.
Bottom feeders who can't be bothered to use Google search before posting their shitheap of a question also don't help and complain without end how their questions aren't being met with automatic upvotes like everyone else.
One recurring gripe I see is that the new users can't be bothered to ask a good question, and they get one of the 5 canned-answers and it's closed out in 2 minutes. The canned close answers aren't helpful. It sounds like what they want is more ceremony and quality feedback around why their shitheap of a question or awful link only answer is getting nuked by an exasperated moderator system that resorts to silence rather than calling them a smurf and telling them to gtfo and don't come back.
I guess I should chill out, everything is fine, nothing is wrong.
Less exasperated, more efficient. I can recognize that something is crap and needs deleted very fast. It takes orders of magnitude more time to synthesize and type out why your answer is crap.
The flag queue is mostly panic-driven, not exasperation-driven.
The user was nuked as well... Really? I didn't see any hostility in the answer. It was on topic. User was asking about page rank, and that's a decent site that gives you page rank.
Hmm, it looks like the stackoverflow robot has a bias against webynk.com and nuked the user for linking to it. hmm. I guess that's just the way things are, I thought the link was perfectly fine.
I guess our definitions of "abusive spam" differ. I call abusive spam when a user has a 1 rep account linking to viagra suppliments and tries to hide the link in some jargon. But I'll let it go, you may have to dial it down if it gets any more aggressive than that though in the future.
Why not delete this one as well then? stackoverflow.com/questions/4260474/… It's just as abusive as the one that was deleted. The only difference being that the user who pushed it as 1750 rep instead of 1.
If garnered reputation is what makes a sentence and a link at the end "not abusive" then fine, but I believe that's hypocritical if the content of the target links are the same.
I'm being deliberately vague; already walking the line on what I can talk about. Just remember that SO mods have more information on this stuff, and we do use it.
Yep. Anyway, takeaways: (1) The system never nukes users on its own (or at least not frequently enough to matter), there's always a moderator involved there and we always check stuff before doing it. And (2) SmokeDetector/metasmoke have no integration with the actual system (yet...); they can't nuke stuff on their own. Stuff is always 6-flag or mod nuked.
