@Magisch Hi Magisch; I'm not replying to your message, but rather pinging you to discuss the case of Thierno Sow. I'm a moderator at MathOverflow. I have some noob questions. How close is the relationship of SD or Charcoal to SE Community Management? If I want to ask that certain items get blacklisted, is it considered the done thing to get CM oversight first, or do SE site users normally interact with SD more independently? Can character strings get blacklisted? More questions to come.
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This morning, the following question involving the Riemann Hypothesis was posted:
The Riemann Hypothesis Proof
(in case it gets deleted: here is its content, albeit in a less readable form)
It was detected by Smoke Detector as possible spam. A quick search on Google reveals that the article it...
@ToddTrimble I don't think anyone answered your first question about our relationship with SE; basically we're in good enough terms with them that they're considering integrating our system into theirs. Right now however nothing much has happened apart from some basic talks, as @Pops (the CM who deals with us) has been a bit busy lately.
We have complete control over how our system works, so there isn't any need for you to ask the CM team or anything before we blacklist keywords or add new checks.
@ArtOfCode yeah, that
Also @ToddTrimble, sorry if it looked like a bunch of us jumped in and let you know about our opinions etc, we just like to keep close tabs on everything happening around the network related to spam.
@angussidney for the future: what should I do to avoid that? Ideally, I'd like to just have posted a question and allow the 'local' community to react. I understand you're all eager to vent your opinions about spam, but if I'd be interested in them, I would just ask it here :)
I keep in mind the little problem we had with Graphic Design after one of the mods locked a spam post and some of us got a little angry about that.
Blacklist control is managed by the code admin permission, which is applied via metasmoke.
@Magisch I'd say probably not, for the same reason moderators don't have access to it. There's probably context or experience or convention you need to be able to accurately blacklist with Smokey, which CM's and/or moderators don't have.
@angussidney Angus, it's totally cool. It looks like you and @Magisch and @Glorfindel and @ArtOfCode were all being circumspect, and anyway you made absolutely the right call on this Thierno M. Sow. (What he calls mathematics "isn't even wrong"; it's gibberish on so many levels, like type mismatches, that you can't even assign a truth value to it.) Anyway, glad you all stepped in.
@ToddTrimble we're all glad to help and make Stack Exchange a better place. We are pretty good at catching spam once we see a pattern, but we sometimes do need help in identifying those patterns. As I said on Meta MO, if you ever see such a pattern, please post it here and help us increase our awareness level.
@ArtOfCode Re the conversation we had, the denizens of the main RPG chat are cool with having Smokey post messages there, especially since the RPG spam is fairly low-volume. Do we need to do anything special to set that up?
@Jamal there's a specific permission that has to be manually applied to your metasmoke account before you can sign up; we add the permission when you reach 50 feedbacks, if you want it.
@Jamal Ah yeah, I remember that. Not entirely sure what's happened to it, because it isn't associated with your metasmoke account. Did you go through SE authentication?
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This morning, the following question involving the Riemann Hypothesis was posted:
The Riemann Hypothesis Proof
(in case it gets deleted: here is its content, albeit in a less readable form)
It was detected by Smoke Detector as possible spam. A quick search on Google reveals that the article it...
