[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: mycrazymassreview.com/ by carol minki on workplace.stackexchange.com
@Glorfindel It happens on all sites, but Super User’s quote formatting is weird. Most sites either have only yellow or only grey elements. Super User is one of the few (or only one) that mixes it.
Meh ... I stick to macOS. Consumer friendly, it's basically Unix so you can do everything you want under the hood and its hardware is ridiculously expensive.
@Glorfindel you could try elementaryOS, it is based on ubuntu AFAIK and is very similar to macOS. In fact, I think it was designed by some ex-apple designers
I've just ordered the parts for a new PC, it's going to be good to finally have a full copy of linux running on my main machine, without having to use a very old and slow laptop.
I'm good friends with the IT teacher at school, so I managed to convince him to give me a free hard drive from on of the old computers which I can dedicate to Linux.
I could do dual-booting off the same drive, but then I'd be running short of space on my SSD for my games etc.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] 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: nuvieskincareserum.com/xiphos-supplement/ by user627698 on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: tophealthmart.com/extreme-mxl/ by Greptol8 on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com
@angussidney yeah, me neither. Well, please discard the PR then. On Stack Overflow, there are enough eyes to report these posts manually, if needed.
@angussidney I'm in favor of automatic flagging, but I'm very curious about what Stack Overflow (the company) thinks of it. I'd ask that first, before we start debating here.
Well okay! This all sounds amazing, and that's really saying something because knowing you all I had high expectations to begin with. (And it makes me feel even worse for not having much to say back to you today.) I'm going to keep poking around both at smokey and on our end. Feel free to ping me if you have further questions/requests/ideas, I will definitely be back in the coming days with more info about my thoughts.
I'm often surprised by the ease with which spammers can post literally the same over and over again. I have the idea their own blocks are only effective against post-banned users. But, then, spammers aren't likely to complain on Meta :)
Well, once you think about it, what's getting through is mostly nonsense. SE does a pretty good job themselves, blocking tens of thousands of spam posts a day, but ~100 or so each day gets through, which we catch
Anyone is, of course, welcome to set up their own auto flagging based on smokey data - that's what the API is for, after all - it just wouldn't be done as part of smokey.
But anyway, I'd like to get serious about it again, but as a non-mod I don't really have access to the appropriate channels to talk about this stuff, so I'd appreciate it if you or @Undo could throw your weight around and get some responses on the topic
@Pops some relevant discussion ^. We've got significant interest in making moves towards automation here - you know the ideas already. Any chance you could give this a push along?
I'm looking at the metasmoke API. Is it true that if I want to find out if a post is in Metasmoke, I have to use /posts/url - make one request per answer, and download the entire body of each that is reported, potentially in several revisions?
