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12:27 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer: Sentinel while loop for C++ by Suh Dude on stackoverflow.com

Registered User

sd tpu-

SmokeDetector

1:31 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Create a New folder using Java Program on Windows and Linux machines by John Edward F. Magnifico on stackoverflow.com

Registered User

sd tpu-

Registered User

1:44 AM

sd fpu-

SmokeDetector

2:33 AM

Restart: API quota is 4067.

SmokeDetector

2:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: bass not working on Windows 10 with speakers by Porter on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: Why does one website think I'm offline when I'm not? by alalshi on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Angular2 - submitting a form from typescript by user7067154 on stackoverflow.com

hichris123

sd - 2tpu-

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username: Firebase - How to save data from facebook Login to Database by wingding on stackoverflow.com

SmokeDetector

3:11 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Page speed very low reason of broken images by Seyed Morteza Moosavi on stackoverflow.com

Brock Adams

3:32 AM

sd k

SmokeDetector

3:59 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: Dual Boot - Booting Ubuntu brings me to Grub Command Line - New User by Philip F. Stock on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

naa- by KazWolfe

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: no2factoronline.com/jack-hammer-xl-reviews/ by user207683 on apple.stackexchange.com

tpu- by undo

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: What is the difference between componentWillMount and componentDidMount in ReactJS? by Ork Eang on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by undo

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: How to make muscle? by heathermerriman on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted username, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: only benefit in getting a ripped body but also boosts the by honsjuriya on gaming.stackexchange.com

tpu- by undo on How to make muscle?

tpu- by undo

Thomas Ward

4:15 AM

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@ThomasWard Post - Scam aimed at windows customers. Keywords: help, recovery

Thomas Ward

@SmokeDetector naa-

Though not a scam in this case :P

angussidney

4:27 AM

@RegisteredUser Just a heads up - you can use 'sd k' for spam (it is the same as tpu-), 'sd n' for NAA, and 'sd f' for a false positive (which is the same as fp-). Note that you should generally use f or fp- rather than fpu-, since fpu- whitelists the user. Once you get a little more experienced with SD we will explain when to use fpu-, but for now just stick with f.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Files on my Mac have disappeared and are not in the Trash by Louis Peter on superuser.com

tpu- by undo

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer, blacklisted user: How to restore all the files from trash in Mac OS X? by Louis Peter on superuser.com

tpu- by tripleee

SmokeDetector

4:45 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: Therapy And Testosterone Supplementation by stephenbradts on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tpu- by undo

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body: Ultra Fast Garcinia Consume eggs from pastured chickens? by Kim Claver on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted username, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: sustained release formula which ensures a high level of nutrient absorption by honsjuriya on stackoverflow.com

DJMcMayhem

5:01 AM

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: You Deserve 100% Pure Skin Care by desrederesn on security.stackexchange.com

tripleee

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

Backoff received of 10 seconds on request to questions/127980;129553?site=mathematica at 05:08:43 UTC

SmokeDetector

5:28 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Muscle Building Without Equipment? by dawsonmozz on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted username, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: has come near me sincerely in light of the fact that by nsenjuriyam on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, bad keyword in body, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: trexmusclesite.com/face-replen/ by user611190 on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: This includes a 227 page ebook that is by Sangdperezz on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted username, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: e privileges of its clients that it gives them the by nsen juriyam on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, bad keyword with email in body, blacklisted website in body: ONLINE ORACLE OAF TRAINING by shreevan4455 on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by tripleee

tripleee

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@tripleee Title - Position 69-85: Company In India

DJMcMayhem

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer: how to encode a string in javascript and decode the string in java by ddedd on stackoverflow.com

@DJMcMayhem Title - Position 69-85: Company In India

tpu- by tripleee

DJMcMayhem

Haha, to ninja'd me to it

tripleee

5:40 AM

@DJMcMayhem (-:

DJMcMayhem

@SmokeDetector f

I wonder if one day we'll have a "skin care.SE" and then rather than bothering with flagging we could just migrate them all there

tripleee

they'd all be marked as duplicates there

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Packers and Movers in Chandigarh Services by jhonc on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tripleee

@SmokeDetector k

DJMcMayhem

At least they'd be on topic xP

tripleee

5:45 AM

I'll soon be out of flags for today on Ubuntu.se

Magisch

5:56 AM

Morning

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Keeping in mind the end goal to give these by user128569 on security.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

Magisch

So many new faces here

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: natural herbs which might be clinically? by fircaashelly on stackoverflow.com

tripleee

@Magisch if you scroll back a bit it seems that part of the reason is simple gravity

rooms with many users attract new users

@SmokeDetector f

SmokeDetector

6:16 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: Searching Testosterone Booster by siornniey on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

Ferrybig

sd k

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, repeated URL at end of long post: Maintain your Muscle Mass with Alpha Force Testo by paularlasater on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tpu- by Ferrybig

tripleee

hopefully helpful infographic for newcomers to this room i.stack.imgur.com/fBgPfl.jpg

SmokeDetector

6:35 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, repeated URL at end of long post: Attempt it once, and decide for yourself. by hwzrszzm on superuser.com

tpu- by Ferrybig

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: What is Niacin Max &Its Uses? by Domsankrush on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: advancedtrimsite.com/lux-derma-cream/ by bhjdcdcfjf on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body: Gain Muscles Easily With Alpha Force Testo by abedeyevoile on stackoverflow.com

tripleee

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

6:59 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, repeated URL at end of long post: Si vous avez des rides par trop by PadillaWarren1 on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: psychologically. I spend the quality by eds nelly on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Chinese character in title, mostly non-Latin title: 這是我寫的程式可是之前的版本可以跑新的不行 by 董欣佑 on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com

fp- by Ferrybig

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, link following arrow in body: A truly good program for getting the abs a muscular by skyepbond on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

SmokeDetector

7:23 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Gives a Boost To The Body Metobolism by Benwhitaker on superuser.com

tpu- by Ferrybig

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] English text in body on a localized site, English text in title on a localized site: vopros: Vash ili vas by Tillaniso Eshboyeva on rus.stackexchange.com

Glorfindel

Hmm ... I don't see any English text in that question at all. It is just a Latin transcription of Russian.

Magisch

@Glorfindel I think its moaning that the text isn't in cyrillic.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: which might be clinically? by fircaashelly on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Black Diamond Force Resist the urge by Reed Rivera on gaming.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

Backoff received of 10 seconds on request to questions/582414;579799;582349;582415;582416;582103;578947;582284;582417;582414‌?site=ru at 07:40:11 UTC

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, link following arrow in body: Albeit most everybody will concur that by sarahpoweir on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

Magisch

7:42 AM

!!/test-a usadrugguide.com

SmokeDetector

> Would not be caught as an answer.

Magisch

Created a PR Blacklisting usadrugguide.com (8tps in the past month, uncaught).

@Undo @ArtOfCode Is the !!/blacklist working now btw?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: (We look at whiteners in all the more by Momed1988 on workplace.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

CI on d604498 succeeded.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: What Is Muscle Boost X? by niviyajonson on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tpu- by Magisch

Magisch

@ArtOfCode @Undo There seems to be a new trend of spammers using "...shelly" or "...elly" instead of "....juryi" as name suffix to track their spam. Maybe implement a new filter analogous to the "...juryi" filter we already have for these? Quite a few recent tp's on that

SmokeDetector

[ 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, repeated URL at end of long post: maleenhancementshop.info/max-testo-Xl/ by loriymoore on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tpu- by Magisch

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Alpha Force Testo Try to make sure you stretch by DanielStone on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tpu- by Ferrybig

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username: GNU screen close windows when command terminates by wingding on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by Magisch

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer: Can you tell if your computer was hacked and pictures stolen from 2-6 months ago? by God Bless on security.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: offersreviews.org/helix-forte/ by alizabeen154 on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: How to gain free osrs gold from RSorder as Halloween gift 10.31? by michaeldavid on gaming.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, repeated URL at end of long post: soundcloudcommunity.org/helix-forte-avis/ by theodorebeaulieu112 on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: supplementfector.org/helix-forte/ by Forneims1952 on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted username, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: everyone, you don’t have to worry about that with this by hons juriya on security.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch on http://soundcloudcommunity.org/helix-forte-avis/

tpu- by Magisch on http://supplementfector.org/helix-forte/

tpu- by Magisch

Magisch

8:19 AM

@SmokeDetector f

SmokeDetector

8:33 AM

Restart: API quota is 2337.

Magisch

@SmokeDetector f

angussidney

8:48 AM

Just a heads up everyone, I'm going to be away for 3 days starting tomorrow, so any userscript issues should be directed at @ArtOfCode.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username: DCOS has three roles, they are master, slave, slave_public, why can't put them on one host? by wingding on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by Kyll

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword in link text in answer, pattern-matching website in answer: Article sharing site - Drupal Newbie by Jaharjohn on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Kyll

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: Identifying The Very Best Skin Care Products by user207710 on apple.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Ferrybig

Kyll

Note: Seems like the above was the only essay spam left on Drupal.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Non-English link in answer: How do you change the URL in the address bar without reloading the page? by phammanhtuan2006 on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by Kyll

angussidney

Five of those flags were by us. Wow.

Magisch

I wonder just what it is about drupal that makes them such a target

Kyll

9:00 AM

@angussidney I'd really love to see statistics about spam and the weight of Smokey and Charcoal

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: NuvitaSkin-- Genuinely Reduce & Eliminate Creases? by nuvitaskin on superuser.com

tpu- by Magisch

angussidney

@Kyll sadly, I don't think it's possible without SE DB access, since our info is incomplete. However, it would be really interesting

Kyll

@angussidney I suppose it would be somewhat easy to check for an employee: Take the IDs of all regulars here, query the DB for spam-deleted posts with our IDs in the flaggers section.

It was interesting to do so in SOCVR with the CV queue reviews

Magisch

@Pops Would it be possible for one of the analytics guys to find out what weight we actually have here in deleting spam? Like, of confirmed spam amounts where at least 1 charcoal member flagged, how many of the 6 total flags we actually ended up contributing as a whole?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: medium.com/@dstnwllms/http-platinumcleanserinfo-com-max-testo-xl-d1736124960 by dstnwllms on gaming.stackexchange.com

Magisch

9:05 AM

Should be a rather simple query, but requires backend DB access, so no dice for us with SEDE

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Magisch

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: immeasurable piece of how individuals are seen and treated by ayazrana86 on superuser.com

tpu- by Kyll

angussidney

github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/blob/master/… <-- A link to all our chat ID's, not sure if you can convert them to on-site IDs but it may help

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Google Webmaster Tools reporting non-existent links by Si viana on webmasters.stackexchange.com

tpu- by angussidney

Kyll

Heeeh

First occurrence of link

Spam enough for the red flag

SmokeDetector

Backoff received of 10 seconds on request to questions/32784;32750?site=german at 09:14:08 UTC

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: Niacin To Produce Red Blood Cells? by Domsankrush on superuser.com

tpu- by DavidPostill

API quota rolled over with 1985 requests remaining. Current quota: 9999.

stackoverflow: 1364
askubuntu: 450
superuser: 448
unix: 235
drupal: 190
math: 167
travel: 163
salesforce: 149
electronics: 147
english: 144
gaming: 137
magento: 137
mathoverflow.net: 135
apple: 127
security: 120
wordpress: 110
gis: 101
worldbuilding: 99
puzzling: 95
ell: 93
dba: 92
academia: 91
stats: 91
sharepoint: 91
mathematica: 80
android: 76
ru.stackoverflow: 75
physics: 70
scifi: 70
money: 68
movies: 66
gamedev: 64
softwareengineering: 64
workplace: 63
meta: 63
codegolf: 62
es.stackoverflow: 56

Kyll

9:23 AM

^ What does the above mean?

Magisch

@Kyll Smokey gets a Quota of 9999 daily API requests

Now was just the time for the daily quota reset

angussidney

@Kyll How many API requests we made per-site to detect spam

Magisch

It bundles requests in order to not run out of quota

angussidney

^

Kyll

Ah, nice!

angussidney

9:27 AM

The bot literally sends an API request for the whole Q/A thread every time a post is bumped. However, that would mean that we would run out of quota fast, so we bundle multiple requests from the same site into one to save requests.

Ferrybig

Bundling requests together can be tricky, you wait to long and spam risks getting deleted without being seen, and if you wait to short you use to much api calls, the current code even has a "happy hour" check to have a time dependent api queue

Magisch

@SmokeDetector f

Kyll

@Ferrybig Woah.

Magisch

One of the things SE could do for smokey would be to give us some more api quota so that isn't necessary

angussidney

@Magisch we've been asking for it... I guess they may consider it when some more work gets done on integration, but for now it looks like we have to wait

Magisch

9:35 AM

The entire integration talk seems a little half hearted atm

there'd be so many incredibly easy things they could do to help things along

Outside of that one talk with pops a few months back absolutely nothing has happened

angussidney

@Magisch when you are negotiating with the heads of a huge site like SE, sometimes it seems like they don't care much. But knowing SE, they do care, it's just that it's somewhere down 6-8 positions on their todo list. Yeah, we have to wait, but hey, it's a start.

Magisch

@angussidney 6-8 positions down the list means maybe in 5 years if nothing else comes up in SE terms

angussidney

Well, the mention in the SE quality project revival meta post makes it seem like it's on their mind and they're serious about getting it done soonish. Yeah, the lack of communication has been a little annoying, but I'm just happy to wait and see how it pans out

SmokeDetector

9:50 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer: Allow only [a-z][A-Z][0-9] in string using PHP by Arumugam Arumugam Arumugam Aru on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer: What are all the "about:" pages, in Internet Explorer? by user656344 on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: Alpha Force Testo Set goals each by Forrest McMillon on gaming.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer: Taxi facilities in Coimbatore, Indian airport by Nandhu Nalan on travel.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title: Black Diamond Force In the arena of muscle by Reed Rivera on meta.stackexchange.com

angussidney

10:09 AM

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286279/how-nlp-can-change-life

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: How NLP can change life? by user342825 on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer: Is islamic marriage to a man who is already married considered zinah? by Harris Ntasha on islam.stackexchange.com

naa- by DavidPostill on What are all the "about:" pages, in Internet Explorer?

angussidney

sd - 6k

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, blacklisted user: Is it haram to have a trial marriage in Islam? by Harris Ntasha on islam.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, blacklisted user: Was my marriage valid? by Harris Ntasha on islam.stackexchange.com

tpu- by DavidPostill on Is it haram to have a trial marriage in Islam?

tpu- by DavidPostill

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword with email in body: продажа фальшивых денежных средств by iikristi on ru.stackoverflow.com

tpu- by DavidPostill

ArtOfCode

10:32 AM

@Magisch yep, go for it

angussidney

Night everyone.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in body, bad keyword in title, bad keyword with email in body, blacklisted website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: TERADATA Online Training IN UK by karunakar12 on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: NuvitaSkin Cream: Does This Item Truly Work? by nuvitaskin on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by tripleee

Magisch

@ArtOfCode where is the username blacklist in the code?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body: after GNP staff under prepared and announced staff by stongolds on superuser.com

tpu- by DavidPostill

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer: How can I get the IP address and port of a client with PHP? by Louis L. on stackoverflow.com

hichris123

@Magisch Start with a search for "blacklisted username". ;)

Magisch

10:46 AM

@hichris123 Thats smart

you're smart

Thats some strong regex stuff

tripleee

@SmokeDetector vandalism

Magisch

welp, now's a good time as any to learn some regex

tripleee

@Magisch you mean this? github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/blob/…

hichris123

@Magisch You should probably check how many people would be affected by this first though. Not many juryias, but there's probably a decent number of shelly's.

Magisch

I was thinking

Maybe only report this when the user is also 1 rep

tripleee

10:49 AM

it's not particularly challenging, moo|bar with some optional elements in some of the alternatives

Magisch

But I have not enough python clue to reliably code that

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: newhealthsupplement.com/alpha-force-testo/ by stuarthayward on gaming.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

hichris123

@Magisch Max rep is already one on it. Still, I bet there's a decent number... and SEDE is down for whatever reason. :(

tripleee

@Magisch I don't think you need to, there's the max_rep parameter

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Allure Serum and Skin Cream by user656359 on superuser.com

tpu- by tripleee

Magisch

10:52 AM

@hichris123 Is there a regex way to match only combinations like: {at least 5 chars}+shelly/elly

That'd reduce the FP rate for legit people named "Shelly" dramatically

hichris123

@Magisch Yeah, [a-z]{5,}(sh)?elly would do that. Or something along those lines.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Luna Bella Serum Drink a lot of water daily by GalloParker on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: Does Fenugreek help in breast enlargement? by noha uweis on skeptics.stackexchange.com

Magisch

@hichris123 That doesnt sound like it'd generate false positives honestly. But we can wait ofcourse until we can verify that with SEDE

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Magisch on Luna Bella Serum Drink a lot of water daily

tpu- by Magisch

tripleee

@Magisch ....(?:sh)elly$

Magisch

10:57 AM

Im testing @hichris123 's expression in a regex engine of my own

and running some of the known spammers through it

well, a online regex engine :p

ArtOfCode

\w{5,}(sh)?elly$

Magisch

@ArtOfCode @hichris123 's [a-z]{5,}(sh)?elly seems to play nice with the test cases I tried so far

Ferrybig

@ArtOfCode Now my inner curiosity want to know how you managed to ping such old chat message

tripleee

@Magisch here regex101.com/r/wB7xlG/1

ArtOfCode

@Magisch sure, but [a-z] only matches alphabetical lowercase. \w matches "word characters", which IIRC is alphabetical either case plus numbers

@Ferrybig iPad and caching

Magisch

11:02 AM

@ArtOfCode I mean, you're the code guy here

So put in what suits you best

tripleee

@Magisch do you have a bunch of test cases? that's really the litmus test for what's best

Magisch

I'm not supposed to touch actual code

@tripleee stackoverflow.com/…

All the shellys from new york in that list are spammers

tripleee

looks like [a-z]{5,} would be sufficient at least for now

easy to extend if they change, and likely that they change more than that if they do

Magisch

I wonder what we could do about spam on profile pages @ArtOfCode? Because most of these have profile pages like this: stackoverflow.com/users/6750867/dirsashelly

That still ends up in google search index

tripleee

looks actually like [a-z]{4,}ashelly

do you have any which are not ashellies?

there's one [a-z]{3}ashelly even

without "new york"

@Magisch should these be reported to SO actually?

Magisch

11:09 AM

We have quite a few [random chars]anelly too

@tripleee No clue

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: Quick Tips For Building Muscle by heatherpaik on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

Magisch

Maybe I should open a meta about that

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Magisch

tripleee

@Magisch I'm thinking maybe behind the scenes, but then they might already have access to this chat room anyway ...

Glorfindel

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Q: We should be more watchful of 0-activity spam users

Today I was running some data queries in the data explorer and ran across some interesting user profiles. In particular, I was looking to see whom of those who states their location said San Diego (where I live). http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/516379 LockTechs San Diego Per...

SmokeDetector

11:17 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body: blackcore edge max Notice SHOCKING 2016 - it Really Work? by zamrikhan00 on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Kyll

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: How to use SOCKS proxy with yum? by RODNEY ZHANG on unix.stackexchange.com

tpu- by DavidPostill

tripleee

@Glorfindel so as the post suggests, maybe just contact the team

@Magisch ^

how long as SEDE been down already?

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: Responsive web design company in Noida? by Anr weblounge on stackoverflow.com

Glorfindel

Can somebody with privileges report this post please: ell.stackexchange.com/a/107455/18673

tripleee

@SmokeDetector f

!!/report ell.stackexchange.com/questions/107424/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: When a girl mentions her girlfriend, does she mean it like lesbian girlfriend? by Harsh Mittal on ell.stackexchange.com

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Get Huge Muscles Virtually Muscle Building Tips by Johnineszx on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] No whitespace in answer, repeating characters in answer: Applying for an Indian passport without school leaving and birth certificates by gvchn on travel.stackexchange.com

tpu- by DavidPostill

ArtOfCode

11:31 AM

@Magisch profile pages can have what you like in em

It's a warning marker, but not something we can act on.

Magisch

@ArtOfCode So having a profile page praising some BS supplement or medicine on a site like SO isn't grounds for account destruction?

tripleee

@ArtOfCode we can't, but SO can

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body: Humans are operating difficult to take their Ultra Fast Garcinia life? by KollieBaca on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body: Discovering Pores And Skin Care That Are Excellent For You by syanalizy on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by tripleee

tripleee

@ArtOfCode have a look at the query Magisch posted, there's hundreds of'em, all clearly created by the same spammer

DavidPostill

@ArtOfCode Up to a point. But that point doesn't include spamvertising :/

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A: Offensive profiles - where to draw the line?

If an average person would clearly take offense at an avatar or profile due to: Graphic violence, nudity or sexual content Targeting of any race, religion, gender or ethnic group Exceptional cases where very poor taste would be likely to offend most people ... then you should flag it for mode...

Spam is not offensive enough ...

Glorfindel

11:36 AM

@DavidPostill Flag any of their posts as 'other' - that's hard if they don't post at all.

DavidPostill

@Glorfindel My point is that spam profiles don't pass the offensive test and therefore should not be flagged ...

Magisch

@Glorfindel Or if they have posted but got spam nuked and perma banned from posting

tripleee

even if they are not by themselves "offensive" they abuse Stack Overflow for their own purposes

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in body, link at end of body: Social Network Marketing !@ www.injectfollowers.com by alishmarsh on security.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

tripleee

submitted a link to this chat with some background via the Stack Overflow "contact us" form

DavidPostill

11:39 AM

@tripleee Please keep us updated on any response :)

tripleee

@DavidPostill I don't expect any

but sure

DavidPostill

@tripleee :/

Magisch

!!/test-a www.injectfollowers.com

SmokeDetector

> Would not be caught as an answer.

Magisch

Used once so far

Strike one for injectfollowers.com

SmokeDetector

11:40 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Safety considerations for a space flight by gvchn on travel.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, blacklisted user: Is it haram to have a trial marriage in Islam? by Harris Ntasha on islam.stackexchange.com

tpu- by tripleee on Safety considerations for a space flight

tripleee

@SmokeDetector why was that reported again? it was already flagged here before

SmokeDetector

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tripleee

oh shut up you

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Applying for an Indian passport without school leaving and birth certificates by gvcdgfdfhn on travel.stackexchange.com

naa- by tripleee

DavidPostill

As far as I'm concerned spammers are thieves. They steal storage space and bandwidth with their crap. Many spammers are also spamming illegal products (counterfeit) or promoting illegal services (cracking). They should all be locked up like any other thief/conman.

Magisch

11:44 AM

@DavidPostill Spamvertising is sadly still seen as a legitimate marketing strategy

DavidPostill

SE are providing free advertising for the spamming profiles (they are google indexed) and should take some responsibility for that.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body: blackcore edge max Comments: Muscles bigger and better Human Health by Leace1982 on workplace.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Magisch

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body: LOOOO Boo! A Madea Halloween o n l i n e by holesia on superuser.com

DavidPostill

@Magisch When spam earns $7000 per day you can understand why ... Equation: How Much Money Do Spammers Rake In?

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tpu- by tripleee

DavidPostill

Fortunately we reduce those numbers - but we could do more ...

tripleee

11:50 AM

that article is really, really old though

DavidPostill

@tripleee It's kind of indicative though

Magisch

Its really sad that spam is used on such a scale that even if only 22,7% of messages make it through, 0,0127% of messaged people click through, and only 0,26% of those buy one thing, it still comes out to 7k dollars a day

DavidPostill

Yeah, conversion rate of just 0.0000081%.

Jan Dvorak

@DavidPostill We cannot. It's time for SE to step in and give this room more powers. A double flag weight would be nice.

DavidPostill

research pdf for the interested icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/2008-ccs-spamalytics.pdf

2

@JanDvorak Yeah, I was kind of including SE amongst the we ...

Jan Dvorak

11:59 AM

sd f

Magisch

@JanDvorak Don't think that'll happen

If Integration happens, It'll happen more as taking the nice things from SD and putting them on network level, cutting out the middle man (us)

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching website in answer: Can Feudalism Endure Advanced Agricultural Techniques? by Andrew Julie on worldbuilding.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

And, as SD gets sucked into the cogwork of SE, it will be time to adapt the old SD to specialize in what SD-internal doesn't catch and become SD2.

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tpu- by Jan Dvorak

Magisch

@JanDvorak What they most certainly will not do is give any of us anything extra

M.A.R.

12:05 PM

SD K

SmokeDetector

@M.A.R. [:33116396] That message is not a report.

M.A.R.

@Magisch Concur.

@SmokeDetector K

SmokeDetector

12:19 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Non-English link in answer: Windows 10 quick access does not group items by Eisa AlAwadhi on superuser.com

DavidPostill

@SmokeDetector why

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@DavidPostill Post - Non-English link text: **

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector huh you're drunk

DavidPostill

huh? It was i.stack.imgur.com/nGFU7.png with English link text

@SmokeDetector f

SmokeDetector

12:43 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: WHAT is Muscle Boost X Review? by kennethmagana on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

tpu- by Jan Dvorak

Jan Dvorak

WHAT is your name? WHAT is your goal? WHAT is your favorite color?

M.A.R.

WHAT is capitalization?

Glorfindel

CAPITALIZATION IS OVERRATED

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: What is the explanation of this hadith? "...I give judgement on their behalf according to what I hear from them..." by elliest on islam.stackexchange.com

Magisch

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

12:46 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: YOO Doctor Strange M o v i e by holesia on superuser.com

Glorfindel

@SmokeDetector another elly!

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Jan Dvorak

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: www.healthoffersreview.info/testo-boost-x/ by baragozauer on drupal.stackexchange.com

@SmokeDetector k

tpu- by Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector k

12:48 PM

@M.A.R. no need to.

M.A.R.

Well, I'm too fast for FDSC to load.

So I K here.

Jan Dvorak

It loads just fine for me.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, blacklisted user: Allah name in clouds is Allah's miracle or are a part of random design? by elliest on islam.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Jan Dvorak

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: Beard Czar Review - DOES IT REALLY WORK? by zamrizain0 on drupal.stackexchange.com

tpu- by Jan Dvorak

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body: Control Dual Sim Mobile Data by Burks.bro on android.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How can I improve stitching of nadir and zenith shots in 360º hemispheric panos? by Nadir Patch on photo.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, non-English link in answer, non-Latin link in answer: How to add url parameter to the current url? by ahmed zake on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by Jan Dvorak

Glorfindel

@Magisch the name 'Drupal' sounds like it could be the next Cialis or Viagra. Spammers feel at home there, apparently.

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