So we have very accurate numbers for more than half of the 51360 posts where the following is true: (1) MS had deletion information, and (2) Shog's dump had deletion information
Now I'm going to look at one of those +/- 10 second delta posts and see what's going on. Hoping it's clock skew that can be corrected historically without changing our systems.
MS post 46907 is stackoverflow.com/a/40637555. MS records deletion at 2016-11-16 16:53:10, Shog's dump claims deletion at 2016-11-16 16:53:20 (10 seconds later). Shog is right according to the web interface.
Art's Midnight Musings #2: Apparently I am writing that paper now... not quite sure how that happened, but apparently the fingers decided to type and here we are
I flagged this post for obvious spam link inserted in the end when posted in Charcoal HQ. Check the first version here.
After looking at the user's profile and the link in the end, I flagged it as spam. I also posted a comment asking the user to state any affiliation to the site. In reply to tha...
@iBug it was just funny that right after being removed... (at least it was caught for something else - though it was obviously spam, so prob would've been caught anyhow)
@iBug Hmm.. and to think, I get frustrated at my ISP for throttling youtube at peak time :\
Or more dishonestly.. unthrottling all data to speed tests
@iBug A couple options. One could register their FKey with MS, rather than just the oauth token. Or potentially less dangerous; a userscript which detects flagged posts which need to be retracted
Granted, the second option requires people to be online
@Rob Just a machine which is on and has an internet connection through which they are logged in, which could be a mobile device. Doing it on the user's equipment isn't as convenient as having it done via MS, but it's certainly not that difficult.
@Makyen Well, yeah, that could work. Though then we'd need mobile apps, desktop apps, and so on. Rather than just a userscript
And a further alternative, if we're worried about nuking non-spam, would be to post a message to a mod chat room, so that the flags can be declined/cleared
@TetsuyaYamamoto Probably HK not affected. It's because Winnie is "visually similar" to the current chairman, whose proposal to remove the limit of consecutive terms that a chairman can serve for.
People have used Winnie to refer to the chairman, Xi, as a circumvention of keyword filters.
@iBug your orthography doesn't look correct for how I pronounce it. In Italian /gh/ is used to mark a hard g (the normal is for g to be soft before e and i) but in some other languages it specifically spells a soft g, or an uvular R, or a number of other sounds ... but I guess this is what you are getting at?