Charcoal HQ

!!/blacklist-website halfrain\.com

@YvetteColomb Blacklisted halfrain\.com

@SmokeDetector thank you

CI on 06ed5f5 succeeded. Message contains 'autopull', pulling...

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 06ed5f5 (SmokeDetector: Auto blacklist of halfrain\.com by Yvette Colomb --autopull) (running on teward/Lunar Eclipse)

Restart: API quota is 17310.

6:34 PM

@SmokeDetector what is this API quota thingy you speak about?

@SmokeDetector tpu-

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer, username similar to website in answer, blacklisted user: View Windows Server 2008 password by HalfRain on superuser.com

tpu- by J F

@SmokeDetector tpu-

@NVZ Each device using the Stack Exchange API gets a quota of requests it can perform each day. Unauthenticated clients get 300, and everyone else except Smokey gets 10,000. Smokey gets 20,000.

okay, so smokey rests after 20,000?

@NVZ yep can't poll

6:39 PM

or does smokey have more clones?

@YvetteColomb poll?

@NVZ We’ve never [citation needed] reached the limit.

sorry, i'm not a programmer or anything. :)

If it does, it can’t fetch posts from SE, which pretty much makes it useless. Fortunately, quota is per-IP, so we can switch to another instance.

@NVZ what he said - which is also what you're saying - can a clone do it - so it can be run from another pc

@NVZ Don’t worry, lots of Charcoalers aren’t either :)

6:41 PM

ah, so smokey is all knowing, all powerful, transcendent

@NVZ like a magic 8 ball? yes

smokey is a god.

there's a new church of smokey starting up :)

i hope that day doesn't come when smokey insists on having a partner, and then takes over the world.

Mithrandir

!!/wut

6:43 PM

@Mithrandir Whaddya mean, 'wut'? Humans...

@NVZ ? why a partner?

@YvetteColomb smokey is lonely, and actively looking for company, i can tell.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: How can I delete voicemail number in windows phone 8.1? by Reza on windowsphone.SE

fp- by J F

sd - why

1. [:40058669] <skipped>
2. [:40058667] Post - Scam aimed at *windows* customers. Keywords: *phone, help*

6:46 PM

FR: add sd y as an alias for sd why

@NVZ smokey had closey for while in socvr - but Closey is ...... dead

naa- by Yvette

Paul Stenne

@JF Also needs WHYY DO YOU DO THIS WHYYY

@NVZ I saw that in socvr :)

@YvetteColomb saw what?

6:51 PM

@NVZ dropping into the socvr and quickly leaving - twice

LOL

i'm confused

did you get that ping from that room?

Byte Commander

@YvetteColomb i clicked your link to socvr, duh! :P

i peaked in there a second time to see what you were talking about.

@NVZ yeh I know

I'm teasing you

I see you're a high rep user on English

6:55 PM

@YvetteColomb i know you are, but what am i? ;)

I have found my grammar has deteriorated with the advent of online social networking

@NVZ a dizzying array of random letters

@YvetteColomb i'm on the awkward silence now more often, nay always.

@YvetteColomb nothing is random, if yanno how to look at it. :)

@NVZ I have it favourited, but am not chatting much there. I'm in too many rooms

@NVZ do you pronounce the Z zed or zee?

@YvetteColomb you are in too many rooms, and we're chatting back and forth across all the rooms. lol

@NVZ ikr

6:59 PM

@YvetteColomb mostly i pronounce it as Z, but sometimes Z.

@NVZ I hate you :D lololol

@YvetteColomb and i hate you for pinging me throughout the network of chats. please staahp. pick one room. :P

Rory Alsop

@NVZ is that not what you tried to do to me earlier?

:-)

I just tend to answer depending on what room I am most currently in

as all the tabs are open anyway

@NVZ I took it to tavern so we weren't cluttering up smokes work :)

@RoryAlsop are we all sick? lol

Rory Alsop

7:28 PM

@YvetteColomb heh

@RoryAlsop joke. all the chat tabs :)

7:46 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: How do I remove a word from the Skype user dictionary? by Donald on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by Floern

quartata

Accepted answer on that is NAA too

8:04 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in title: strongmuscleshop.com/juveniste-serum/ by jacin23 on meta.SE

tpu- by ByteCommander

1 hour later…

9:07 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, mostly dots in body: P.D.F question? by overtherainbow on math.SE

tp- by Yvette

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body: Of the shoah (holocaust) witnesses by user41972 on skeptics.SE

fp- by DJMcMayhem

tpu- by DavidPostill

Conflicting feedback on Of the shoah (holocaust) witnesses.

DavidPostill

9:28 PM

@DJMcMayhem That's the holocaust troll. Please flag as rude/abusive.

DJMcMayhem

Oh, I've never seen that before

DavidPostill

@DJMcMayhem metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/…

9:47 PM

It’s kind of funny reading all of their posts at once.

@YvetteColomb can you change your feedback on the one you fp-ed in that search results list?

10:02 PM

@JF hm?

have you got a link?

fp- by Yvette on How many holocaust witnesses are jews or Nazis? [MS]

oh never mind done

@SmokeDetector Anyone know why that happens?

angussidney

Urgh mobile typing

@NVZ that wouldn't help. Our biggest spammer group (and I assume the majority of the others do this too) has their human workers register an account and then either manually type out or copy-paste some text into a question and then submit it. They get paid when they show some sort of proof that they posted it (we assume a screenshot). Anyway, forcing registration wouldn't do anything because it's humans, not bots, doing the spamming already.

How do we know this? One of our members (I think Undo) went undercover a while ago and tried to sign up to be a spammer.