Charcoal HQ

@ArtOfCode No reason not to, just impressed at the initiative taken! :O

If I'm walking half an hour each way, I'm making it worthwhile if the lecturer turns up or not :P

Is this first year?

Walking half an hour in the UK... hope u keep an umbrella with u! :P

nah, it's not raining

3:04 PM

@ArtOfCode yet

in fact there's even some blue sky around

@ThomasWard rain is due on Sunday

unrelated disregard the CI build failures in the branch I have on Smokey's main repository - i'm working to see if I can't eliminate the PostData class completely and rely solely on the Post object heh.

@ArtOfCode that must deserve an instagram post?

it's bound to have CI explosions

@CalvT I haven't sunk to Instagram level yet :)

3:05 PM

@ArtOfCode good for you :)

Sorry - being an expat - I love winding my old friends up about the weather so it's a habit ;)

It's been surprisingly good for this time of year recently! Not much rain at all! :O

@Henders do we have another UKian? :D

that makes, what, 3?

We do :)

I'm one for like a 10th of the year

heh

3.1 UKians

2

3:09 PM

I spent three months in the UK this past year, does that count?

:P

(well, I say three months, I was at the US embassy for 3 months but eh)

not if it's not a regular thing

and I'm not gonna count Rory, even though he's currently in here

@Avery because of your manual report yesterday, I got my first declined flag on AU

> Please don't use spasm flags unless someone is attempting to promote a product without disclosing their affiliation. This is a free and well respected resource on scripting. Not spam.

LOL I love that typo though

@ThomasWard I think the embassy counts as a separate country

'spasm flags'

@M.A.R. me too

3:11 PM

@Henders Maybe certain people that say "i iverslwpt" made that typo . . .

Also same typo :D

Btw how do you quote something in chat? Without a url that is

Glad to see that's not leaving the star board for a while...

@CalvT Heh, well @Thomas should tell that mod to fix their auto-comment

@CalvT Like the main site

>

> Quote

14 secs ago, by CalvT

> Quote

3:12 PM

I wasn't leaving a space when I tried it earlier then I guess

@M.A.R. we should of checked the post - the user has almost 2k soooo

@CalvT Oh

Damnit Avery

!!/isblu askubuntu.com/users/289138/hannu

@Henders User is blacklisted (289138 on askubuntu.com).

Might want to remove that too ^^

!!/rmblu askubuntu.com/users/289138

3:15 PM

@CalvT User removed from blacklist (289138 on askubuntu.com).

@M.A.R. eh?

context please.

@ArtOfCode Are you counting me?

@ThomasWard read up to where M.A.R. started, about 10 posts up

@DavidPostill aye

@ThomasWard One of the AU mods has a canned comment with a typo. I'm just telling you to tell them to fix it

3:23 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body: find the digit entered most frequently in list by vencra on stackoverflow.com

Or fix it if it's you

i'm confused. @M.A.R. link to the post in question would be nice?

so I know who to yell at

askubuntu.com/questions/482371/…

I also got the same response @ThomasWard

We incorrectly flagged as spam, and it correctly got declined

But the decline thingy has a funny typ

o

Comment on decline is:

> Please don't use spasm flags unless someone is attempting to promote a product without disclosing their affiliation. This is a free and well respected resource on scripting. Not spam.

Note spasm flags

3:26 PM

@terdon I blep you with a hammer and summon thee.

he's in TL

yes I know he is. I want you guys to tell him yourself :P

i'm not a fan of being a proxy :P

Here works too. 'Sup?

@terdon go up a few posts above my summons for you - they're complaining about a typo in your flag decline comment.

ah, the magic of the superping

3:27 PM

Oh man :)

Heh, that's a nice one indeed.

@ArtOfCode the Chaotic Magic of the Diamonds.

Damned mechanical keyboard makes me think I can type faster than I actually can :)

@ThomasWard more chuckling than complaining :P

:P

@CalvT Truth, but...

16 mins ago, by M.A.R.

@CalvT Heh, well @Thomas should tell that mod to fix their auto-comment

^ that's complaining not chuckling really :P

besides I bet @terdon uses this comment on U&L too

@M.A.R. Hey, had I known it was you, I'd have given you more. Just to keep you happy :P

3:29 PM

so :p

Mods are these overlords that are we rarely get to laugh at sooo :P

:P

mods are overloads?

LOL

It was a one-off comment, there's no way I know of to use canned comments for flag responses.

3:29 PM

@CalvT Nice typo :)

ERROR SYSTEM OVERLOAD MOD HAS ENTERED THE VICINITY

@ArtOfCode yeah slacker

@terdon hax. but meh.

aka userscripts

If I'm not afraid of you, you're not doing your job

3:30 PM

Well overload of mods after my comment :P

ERROR: SYSTEM OVERLOAD: TOO MANY MODS IN VICINITY, SYSTEM SELFDESTRUCTING... ERROR ERROR ERRO.... BOOM!

Look at all the blue usernames

@M.A.R. BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID

@CalvT It's gotten even worse after David got the diamond

ssh I didn't typo that twice

3:31 PM

FRAID

@ThomasWard E: MarkdownParseError

MY EYES, MY EYES, ALL DIS BLUE..... CAN'T TAKE IT

@ArtOfCode it's called superduperboldeneditalic. Only available to real mods

@M.A.R. Ah, but a mod not doing their job is therefore no longer constrained by all the pesky rules about being nice and fair and all that. On the other hand, said mod would still have access to all modly powers making them far more scary than a mod who's doing their job.

Careful what you wish for, and all that.

@M.A.R. clearly Thomas is not a real mod. IMPOSTOR!

3:32 PM

@terdon That's when we end up invoking the Great Ones and summoning Them for the dispersal of the Unruly Ones.

@terdon but if they're more scary, then now users are afraid of them and they have to follow the rules... but then they're not scary... so they become scary... PARADOX

Andy

Is the uprising starting? I'm here to stab people with my diamond.

@ArtOfCode some of us who have been given mod are chaotic evil by nature

that alone should instill fear in people.

laughs evilly

#rekt

3:34 PM

That doesn't look chaotic to me

@M.A.R. chaotic drunk, not chaotic evil.

2

Well, I don't think you're helping his case

@M.A.R. I'm still waiting on the chaotic version of that picture.

my camera broke :P

Chaos directed at the wrong thing at the wrong time

@M.A.R. does my fifty seconds in gimp work for you?

(trust me you don't want to see me at my chaotic evil. It's evil.)

3:43 PM

@ThomasWard More like two supernovas happened in your eyes

Ha, well played.

Are you OK?

@M.A.R. Chaos is taking me over. It's fueling pure energy of supernovas right from my eyes upon everyone in the area. I need ultra powerful sunglasses to protect the innocent now.

@ThomasWard That should be your new avatar :)

@DavidPostill I'm tempted lol

Andy

3:44 PM

Looks like you were going for this:

@ThomasWard Great, first you were chaotic drunk and now you're chaotic stoned.

@Andy What I want to go for is a fiery background with demonic glow from my eyes. But I'm not an artist so I suck at it.

@terdon Considering i've got a commission in the works of my dark chaos mage from my DnD campaigns now in the works by one of the artists I like, that shall eventually become my avatar.

heh :)

Sober this time, one hopes.

lol

chaotic evil character, glowing red eyes, two hell hound companions, and a ring of black flames surrounding him as if it's an aura, with two massive balls of black-as-night energy in his hands, while he's hovering above the ground with magical energy. That's me as a moderator infused with "BURN THEM ALL" for when we go after spam. Or when I'm just burning the flags queue :)

now, if that isn't chaotic then blah.

Spam? superuser.com/questions/1204308/…

Or just a weird question ...

3:50 PM

Hmm Unregistered but has avatar/profile picture/whatever

not spam IMO but i'm not clicking links. OT definitely though.

@CalvT could be pulled from gravatar based on email address provided at the setup step.

Nah link is ok

Welcome to IID e-learning TRIZ course

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, offensive answer detected: how do i unset the session id so as to logout the user? by user7937591 on stackoverflow.com

@DavidPostill Spammers don't go as far as making such a huge username

tpu- by MAR

3:52 PM

@SmokeDetector The ordering is wrong

are there any willing volunteers around here I can send an email to to check it's working?

Nisse Engström

@CalvT I got some annoying ads thrown into my face, and it broke the back-button. Flagged as spam.

@NisseEngström to that I say thank you Ghostery

(deletion in 30 seconds)

ya know that doesn't fool harvesters right :P

3:55 PM

no but as there's about fifty layers of security on that mail server :P

ding

test completed, O.J.

ding

Imfoolingyouharvester AT somedomain DOT io

OJ?

3:56 PM

@ArtOfCode knows what that means :p

@CaffeineAddiction Of Jourse

orange juice

No, Of Jourse

Overzealous Jumping

No, I SAID OF JOURSE

3:57 PM

tasers @M.A.R.

Nom nom electrons

Obstructive Journalist

Obfuscated Jugglers

Objective Java: somehow even worse than PHP

'Orrible Jerry

3:59 PM

@ArtOfCode first.last@gmail.com :)

one jiffy

Ornamental Jab

Occult Jump, lets you move across wide chasms at the expense of manna.

obsidian javelin

Oh Jeez. . .

orange juice

officer Jack

4:06 PM

Only Joking

overt jealousy

Omen Jelly

Opera Junkie

oviraptor jaws

Open Jellybeans

4:16 PM

~~Overload~~ Overlord Jaffacake

Nisse Engström

Overly jovial

Outspoken Jackass

I'm bored allacronyms.com/OJ - has 72 for you to look at :)

Glorfindel

Why are you making so many Off-topic Jokes?

lol

Nicely played

4:20 PM

yay for money issues >.<

i'll have to close off the Aurora VPS and put Smokey somewhere else :/

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How to fix my HP Windows 7 Laptop by Andry Khan on apple.SE (@CalvT)

tpu- by MAR

Wait

Can it be edited out?

maybe it can be reaperd

Hmm, well, the misspellings are indeed indication of spam

The question could be a seed?

4:26 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Windows 10 partition disappeared after resizing by Andry Khan on apple.SE (@CalvT)

tpu- by MAR

@SmokeDetector well definitely spam now

@CalvT "HP Windows 7 Laptop" in the mac SE?

@CaffeineAddiction exactly, the answer fits the question, but the question is only there for the spam answer

!!/report apple.stackexchange.com/q/282184/220693

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: How to fix my HP Windows 7 Laptop by Lee on apple.SE (@CalvT)

tpu- by caffeineaddiction

4:28 PM

!!/report apple.stackexchange.com/questions/282165/…

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: Windows 10 partition disappeared after resizing by MrBlargg on apple.SE (@CalvT)

tpu- by caffeineaddiction

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body: I need examples in symfony by Alvino Mota on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector why

@ThomasWard Post - Obfuscated email alvinomota.cv95 @ gmail.com

@M.A.R. Possibly, although this user has made legitimate posts in the past. — Jason C 1 min ago

It's blatantly OT, not spam

Retracted flag

@SmokeDetector f

Magisch

today was the day

4:35 PM

@M.A.R. is it off-topic though? Seems like the OP is talking about a windows partition on a mac

@SmokeDetector f

Conflicting feedback on Windows 10 partition disappeared after resizing.

Magisch

a guy got a reprimand at work for tinkering with network cables to browse the web on his decidedly not intended for the web windows 2000 work pc and catching a virus

The second time this week, no less.

It's just a shitty question

@Magisch haha

Conflicting feedback on Windows 10 partition disappeared after resizing.

4:38 PM

@M.A.R. probably should invalidate the feedback

@Magisch how can he even browse??

Conflicting feedback on Windows 10 partition disappeared after resizing.

You can invalidate feedback from FIRE right

Conflicting feedback on Windows 10 partition disappeared after resizing.

@quartata don't think so

4:39 PM

Hm

Well you can just use MS anyways

Clicking on spam again tells you you've already reported it, clicking on fp adds a fp report, but doesn't invalidate tpu

Conflicting feedback on Windows 10 partition disappeared after resizing.

@SmokeDetector f

Conflicting feedback on Windows 10 partition disappeared after resizing.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer: Lost all my contacts after flashing custom rom (sg2) by Marrk17 on android.SE

ChatExchange is such a temperamental beast I swear

I'm getting 403s from it on openid.stackexchange.com

why can't it just work

4:53 PM

@quartata time to write your own? ;)

Turns out that was because my password was mysteriously wrong

But then when I went to recover it

I also had problems logging into the email account I made for it

But got it working

Ok Marrk17, you've had 10 minutes to add disclosure

@SmokeDetector k

5:10 PM

@Andy give the latest commit a try when you have a chance

should definitely almost certainly maybe work

@ThomasWard I've just got this :D

5:52 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Spacing between 2 responsive divs by publicinformation on stackoverflow.com

fp- by DavidPostill

Cerbrus

@Ferrybig: I'd call that bug you registered a "feature request"...

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How to properly create a local development environment based on a Docker based micro-service architecture? by Itamar on softwareengineering.SE

fp- by DavidPostill

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: wordpress website admin login not working on https after cloudflare by Rashtra on wordpress.SE

6:12 PM

@SmokeDetector f

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Error while loading a file from xampp local host by Jorge Cecilio on stackoverflow.com

Restart: API quota is 15735.

NobodyNada

\o

6:28 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating words in answer: Water filters - why sand and rocks? by user13038 on outdoors.SE

NobodyNada

lol

6:42 PM

ArtOfCode/EC2 received failover signal.

Restart: API quota is 19999.

tpu- by NobodyNada

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 127a0af (SmokeDetector: Auto blacklist of Skybridge Infotech by tripleee --autopull) (running on teward / Midnight Eclipse)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: SharePoint Online read/write on premise Dynamics AX data by Mike Marcin on sharepoint.SE

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 127a0af (SmokeDetector: Auto blacklist of Skybridge Infotech by tripleee --autopull) (running on teward / Midnight Eclipse)

Restart: API quota is 15491.

7:05 PM

!!/errorlogs 100

!!/alive

!!/standby EC2

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started in standby mode at rev 26c581a (Thomas Ward: Better handle HTML escapes; don't have to unescape all API subelements) (running on ArtOfCode/EC2)

sd - 4poof

!!/location

@ArtOfCode teward / Midnight Eclipse

7:21 PM

@ArtOfCode do I need to fix something?

!!/gitstatus

On branch deploy
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/deploy'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean

!!/location

@ThomasWard teward / Midnight Eclipse

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Shortened URL in answer: Is Late 2016 MacBook Pro 13" Capable of 3440 x 1440 @ 100 Hz? by Matt on apple.SE (@CalvT)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +2 more: www.xaddition.net/apex-forskolin by apexfalksone on askubuntu.com (@ThomasWard)

fp- by NobodyNada on Is Late 2016 MacBook Pro 13" Capable of 3440 x 1440 @ 100 Hz? [MS]

NobodyNada

this still needs flags

naa- by DavidPostill on Error while loading a file from xampp local host [MS]

7:35 PM

feature request: smokedetector on my inbox

@KazWolfe Just use gmail. It catches all of my spam. Straight into the spam folder :)

SA is doing a damn fine job, actually. just thought it would be a cool way-out-of-scope use of smokey tech.

@KazWolfe hm?

oh lol

actually, on a more serious note, how much spam do we see that has a link whose text is a valid URL, but the target differs?

for example: [https://www.google.com](https://www.bing.com)

We had a reason for that

It got a surprising number of FPs

It's in MS: "misleading link"

7:42 PM

ah, i see it.

interesting that it would get FPs, there's pretty much no reason to do that outside of spam (specifically phishing) that I'm aware of.

rather, no sane reason

link shorteners?

Byte Commander

but why would you use a link shortener if you write out the original address later anyway?

@ByteCommander because people think long links are bad?

You wouldn't write out the original address in the title.

try on [tio.net](http://bit.ly/tio-315643)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: Google Answer Boxes by Farhan Majid on stackoverflow.com

Byte Commander

7:56 PM

@JanDvorak 404... also, you could make Smokey test whether the shortened link matches the url/domain that is given as display text, e.g. by querying a service like unshorten.me

OK, let me think about some more contrived but still valid example...

fp- by DavidPostill

actual use i've seen [https://some.support.page.or.something/thearticleyouneed](https://pay-link-sho‌rtener.com/123456)

(not on SE, but it's not uncommon for people to inject their own referrer links to make money off of links, apparently.

How about link lengtheners, AKA accidentally keeping Google's breadcrumbs in?

@KazWolfe yeah, those aren't allowed