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10:16 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body (57): Marketing | Finance: How to view this investment information by Regina_HJ on quant.SE

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in answer (1): How to travel a graph and return a minimum path? by Soham Deshpande on stackoverflow.com

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Makyen

10:33 AM

@RyanM It's mainly going to be a matter of asking.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (31): What portion of tariffs was paid by Southern states before American Civil War? by Robert W on history.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in body (69): Which is the best cheap web hosting? by Infilate on superuser.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Toxic answer detected (80): where do i find option to change light bounce? by shut up on blender.SE

Glorfindel

11:00 AM

!!/allspam gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/140650/jessica-beil

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (batch report: post 1 out of 2) (93): Which is the best development company from whom I can get a Swiggy as an app developed? by Jessica Beil on gamedev.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (batch report: post 2 out of 2) (93): How is Blockchain in supply chains better than a regular system? by Jessica Beil on gamedev.SE

Glorfindel

^ seeds, of course

user435118

@Makyen Your batch reports here got me 2 declined flags :(

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user435118

!!/report gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/183666/139419

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11:02 AM

@Daniil Post 1: Already recently reported [ MS ]

Makyen

@Daniil Which ones? Or at least which site?

user435118

@Makyen The two SO ones

user435118

I still have a 99.5% helpfulness rate on SO, is that ok?

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user435118

this one: stackoverflow.com/questions/55235501/…

user435118

11:05 AM

> declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it

user435118

and this: stackoverflow.com/questions/49644234/…

user435118

> declined - editing out the end of the answer fixes the spammy aspect

Mithical

@Daniil definitely not

I've been in a forest on a bicycle all day

Makyen

@Daniil I didn't report this one.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): How to filter data checkbox with ajax and jquery? by Fikryrmdhna on stackoverflow.com

user435118

11:13 AM

@Mithical Sure sure

user435118

@Makyen You did report the other one

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer, pattern-matching website in answer (109): Which is the best development company from whom I can get a Swiggy as an app developed? by James Cathelon on gamedev.SE

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body (38): Drag and Drop with arrows by hamza baloch on stackoverflow.com

Mithical

user435118

@Mithical That doesn't really prove anything but ok

Mithical

*rolls eyes* want me to include the SO water bottle I have with me in the pic

user435118

11:19 AM

Where did you get an SO water bottle?

Mithical

262

Q: Announcing Our Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way!

Mar 5 UPDATE: This order is proving a bit more laborious to expedite than our vendor had originally anticipated, so these boxes haven't been shipped out yet. Anyone who filled in a form should receive an email with tracking information as soon as their box is shipped. Anyone who didn't catch t...

(no time gotta go)

user435118

Cool, I missed the mod swag unfortunately :(

user435118

@Mithical Getting out of the forest now? :P

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): Problem with useState in ReactJS and pagination ✏️ by Бастьен on stackoverflow.com

Wai Ha Lee

!!/allspam stackoverflow.com/users/13774378/atharva-system

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11:27 AM

@WaiHaLee The specified user has no posts on this site.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body (97): How can I use WO-Mic in Ubuntu via USB? by Tirth Bhagwat on askubuntu.com

user435118

!!/test-a atharvasystem.com

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@Daniil Missing an argument.

> Would not be caught as an answer.

user435118

!!/watch atharvasystem\.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ip for hostname in body (1): paper-input float label on clicking the input field by Nilavo Saha on stackoverflow.com

Makyen

@Daniil This one the moderator handled prior to seeing my custom flag with the context of the multiple spam posts across multiple sites and the sock-puppet account. The spammer was more careful about their primary SO account, so the extent of the problem wasn't obvious, and the spammer had other good contributions on SO.

I agree that someone could have edited out the promotion of the user's company in this post. In fact, that might have been the choice I would make if the only spam which the user had posted were the two on SO. OTOH, the fact that the other post was clearly spam would have mitigated against that. However, even without that, your spam flag should not have been declined.

A) The spam flag's explicit description includes "does not disclose the author's affiliation". A flag should never be declined when the user is following the instructions in the site's UI. OTOH, it would have been reasonable to "dispute" the flag.

B) It's not incumbent on users, especially users who don't have full editing privileges, to make such edits. It's good if experienced users, who also have full edit privileges, choose to make an evaluation of the situation and decide that the offense doesn't really require the intervention of a moderator. But, that's something users are not required to do.

If the user doesn't want to make that edit, and expose themselves to the OP, then it's reasonable for them to raise a flag. However, a custom mod-flag would be better in that situation.

Basically, the take-away for you from this is that moderators often don't see the cross-SE context which we see in here. If a situation is unclear, or requires context from more than one site, then a custom mod-flag is often the better choice.

user435118

11:31 AM

👍

user435118

@Makyen You planning to nominate as an SO mod?

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially problematic ns configuration in answer (1): Are men more likely to be LGBT than women? by William James on skeptics.SE

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Makyen

11:48 AM

@Daniil I'm seriously considering it. There was a considerable portion of the last year when I would have said "hard no". However, SE's more recent actions have relaxed my position on that, so the overall situation with SE and its relationship with moderators, the community, and users in general is something I need to think about.

Stepping up to be a moderator entails a lot of responsibility to other people (i.e. the community). While I know I can handle it, and believe I'd do a good job, at least to the best of my ability, I'm unsure if I want to make that commitment and take on that responsibility. In addition, being a moderator is a significant commitment in time and effort, which I need look at if I want to commit to.

user435118

@Makyen If you nominate, you have one of my three votes :) I personally wouldn't want to be an SO moderator. Whilst I enjoy with helping out in user-level moderation (closing/flagging), SO is too big for me and is a bit too over-whelming

Robert Columbia

@SmokeDetector k

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Body starts with title and ends in url, potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title (100): PayPal, Bank & cash app funds Transfer by danilludvig on bitcoin.SE

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Makyen

@Daniil Thanks. Yeah, it's not a small task. OTOH, you're sharing the overall job with several other people, all of whom have strengths and weaknesses. Working as a group, the task isn't as difficult, or impossible, as it would be to do on one's own.

!!/watch- (?-i:bestfinancialmarket)(?#t.me)

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Robert Columbia

11:56 AM

@SmokeDetector k

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, link at beginning of answer, potentially bad asn for hostname in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, potentially problematic ns configuration in answer (120): Java: Could you explain this simple statement (System.out.println)? by scribania on stackoverflow.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected, potentially bad keyword in body (44): MediaPlayer getDataSource error permission acces file by user3065266 on stackoverflow.com

Makyen

!!/watch- assignment\.org\.uk

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Makyen

12:11 PM

@SmokeDetector ignore-

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in answer (1): 'firebase' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file by Anurag Gorkar on stackoverflow.com

Mithical

@Daniil no, sprinting contest

Anyway, here's the picture I said I'd take: i.imgur.com/oHLxQzDr.jpg

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer (93): Buy X Get Y free is not working by Alan on magento.SE

Processed Meat

12:27 PM

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Q: Cannot unfollow locked post from Following tab

Initially I was unable to unfollow deleted posts from the Following tab in my profile. That seemed to been fixed recently so I was cleaning out the deleted posts when I encountered one that would not unfollow. Conversion pdf document which includes tables to csv file using python or any other lan...

support bug spam

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): How to secure our laptop with biometric authentication in ubuntu? by Liam Smith on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer, link at beginning of answer (124): Is there any Magmi alternate for Magento 2.3.5? by Alan on magento.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): How to handle cloudfront error with securepay js payment gateway integration by shadath on stackoverflow.com

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1:02 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer, potentially bad ip for hostname in answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer, potentially problematic ns configuration in answer (96): What is cloud foundry? ✏️ by Irshad Mohammad on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected, toxic answer detected (158): 10 Gb network card connection by Вася Рогов on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (31): How to do call by reference in Java? by Swetha D Murthy on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ip for hostname in body, potentially bad ns for domain in body (2): window covers with back emf for charging ✏️ by Wolfram on electronics.SE

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1:41 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): How do I run tests on multiple browsers in lambdatest? by Harshit Paul on stackoverflow.com

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user12986714

@SmokeDetector k repeated posts from user promoting the same website

user435118

@Mithical Oh cool, how was it?

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ip for hostname in answer (1): Wifi won't turn on after rooting, still won't turn on after factory reset by alex on android.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ip for hostname in answer (1): Wifi not working after rooting by alex on android.SE

Nisse Engström

2:07 PM

"Harshit Paul -
Digital Marketing Mangaer at LambdaTest"

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Nisse Engström

@SmokeDetector tpu-

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): None of the characters visible in any window of Ubuntu 18.04 by Devesh Anand on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): Is this the most epic photo taken by a mobile ever? by user13776098 on stackoverflow.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in answer (1): Issues creating terraform resources with dependencies to resources not yet created by Dexley on stackoverflow.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ip for hostname in body (1): Sign PDF in a modern browser natively? by ferikeem on stackoverflow.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): wordpress contact form 7 disable email by Splash on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in answer (1): Terraform - Use security group ID created in separate file for EC2 instance creation by Dexley on stackoverflow.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (31): Windows preload software before login by Michael on superuser.com

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3:15 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in username (1): error reindex from a duplicate axis in groupby by ssjjll on stackoverflow.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body (97): Contact form 7 cannot be submitted by Dexter Web Tech Solutions on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): Is this a valid way to hack into Facebook applications? (and possibly Facebook)? by Acebella on stackoverflow.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): ProcessManager and ActivityManager keep killing apps by Devanshu on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body (57): Infectious file downloaded by mistake on macOS by Anon on stackoverflow.com

Glorfindel

3:51 PM

Question: on ELL.SE, we have a user who repeatedly evades question bans by creating a new account. The questions are on-topic but low quality. Would it make sense to have Smokey watch for a specific pattern in the user's questions? I can convince the other mods to mark spam flags as helpful, and even if someone FPs the post, I'm still notified for those posts (through this project).

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body (97): Contact form 7 cannot be submitted by Dexter Web Tech Solutions on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, repeated url at end of long post (393): How To Use Primal Grow Pro? by primeusa19 on workplace.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): Reindex programmatically in magento by Saghir Ashraf on magento.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, no whitespace in answer, repeating characters in answer (263): How to auto left click a specific location of a specific window while im working on another window? by user1189538 on superuser.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer (78): Python with selenium: unable to locate element which really exist by niloofarizadpanah on stackoverflow.com

user435118

4:17 PM

@Glorfindel Not sure... Link to one of the Q's?

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, link at beginning of answer, pattern-matching website in answer, potentially bad asn for hostname in answer, potentially problematic ns configuration in answer, +1 more (268): Java: Could you explain this simple statement (System.out.println)? by scribania on stackoverflow.com

Glorfindel

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Q: Does "law" here refer to a scientific law?

Does "law" here refer to a scientific law? The first outstanding incident was the mediumship of the Eddy brothers, which has probably never been excelled in the matter of materialization, or, as we may now call them, ectoplasmic forms. The difficulty at that date in accepting such phenomena lay ...

meaning

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user435118

@Glorfindel Personally, I'm inclined to say no since it's not spam. Not sure what everyone else thinks though...

Glorfindel

@Daniil we've used it to combat trolls in the past.

This isn't a troll either, I know.

But SmokeDetector is the only tool capable of this.

If it doesn't work, I'll have to write something myself.

user435118

4:23 PM

@Glorfindel What's the average flag count on ELL.SE/day?

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly punctuation marks in answer (35): Correct way to make a RegExp that returns the initials of a name? by Talmacel Marian Silviu on stackoverflow.com

Glorfindel

@Daniil 10 or so

ArtOfCode

@Glorfindel I'd be tempted to say yes... it's not strictly spam, but we've given moderators a hand with whack-a-mole before

user435118

ELL has the most filled LQP queue I've seen on a medium-sized site

ArtOfCode

That said, if we are going to do that, any detections for it need to go in as a new, experimental, reason, locked to 1 weight

Glorfindel

4:27 PM

@ArtOfCode thanks. I do have to think a bit more about the pattern; sometimes they mention the book "history of spiritualism", sometimes they only quote a part of it

So it might be easier for me to have another script monitor new questions on ELL.SE and check the contents against the entire body of that book, and use my own credentials to cast a delete vote.

I just want to know what the options are so I can figure out what the best solution is :)

user435118

If Art doesn't want to do that, I have my own Smokey instance I could try and boot-up @Glorfindel

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Glorfindel

Let's keep the codebases for all Smokeys equal. That greatly simplifies things.

Thanks for the offer though.

user435118

No problem (I was going to boot it up to do some tests of my userscript anyway so I thought I''d ask) :)

user435118

But it looks like my userscript collaborator has disappeared for the week so I might not

Robert Columbia

4:45 PM

@SmokeDetector k

@Daniil I saw your grand return post on Meta Travel.SE. Welcome back! I was wondering how you managed to get all your rep and posts back from before you got wiped in November 2019. It was my understanding that nuked users were lost forever. How did you do it?

user435118

@RobertColumbia Are you done with the editing now? :)

Robert Columbia

@Daniil yes :)

user435118

I saw your grand return post on Meta Travel.SE. Welcome back! - Thanks! :)

user435118

I was wondering how you managed to get all your rep and posts back from before you got wiped in November 2019. It was my understanding that nuked users were lost forever. How did you do it? - It is possible to get your posts re-attached, most users wouldn't get it (say if they willingly deleted their account) but I was an 'exception'

user435118

But after ~5 emails of persuasion, I got everything back :)

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4:51 PM

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Robert Columbia

@Daniil yw I'm glad it worked out.

user435118

@RobertColumbia Same :)

user435118

!!/watch bnson\.co\.uk

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@Daniil The regex contains an unescaped "."; in most cases, it should be "\."; append -force if you really want to do that.

user435118

@SmokeDetector Happy now?

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5:06 PM

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ip for hostname in body, potentially bad keyword in body (2): Batch file to open most recent file from a directory by James Preston on stackoverflow.com

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Robert Columbia

@SmokeDetector f

user435118

5:25 PM

@Glorfindel If you're free right now, could you help me a bit?

user435118

(or anyone else with some code/web knowledge)

Glorfindel

@Daniil sure

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user435118

@Glorfindel Is there any way to create a personal copy of metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/posts (refreshed when I want it to be) and 'tick-off' posts for myself?

user435118

So say whenever I want to update with new posts I do/click something while all of the previous 'ticks' will be retained. Something a bit interactive (rather than copying everything into a note file/document)

user435118

5:30 PM

Just that page, no sub-pages (i.e. post content/domains) necessary

Glorfindel

@Daniil let me tell you what I did for this project: meta.stackexchange.com/a/318926/295232

I have a Java program running on my server which monitors several 'sources', one of which is the metasmoke WebSocket.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): Looking for an image compression tool by Divya Mishra on stackoverflow.com

Glorfindel

Not sure if you know about WebSockets, but they're a technology to allow servers to send messages to clients (instead of the other way around, which is the traditional direction).

Stack Exchange is full of WebSockets, e.g. the live update of post scores, and new/edited questions in the question list

Even this very chat is real-time thanks to WebSockets.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body (38): How to write unit test case for directive for mouse events dragging and moving by Sudhakar Reddy on stackoverflow.com

user435118

I've heard of them before, haven't used them. But I don't want to always update the page (only when I click/do something)

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5:36 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in answer (1): While in a remote desktop session in Windows 7, alt-tab to go back to the host machine ✏️ by Kartik Podugu on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, repeating characters in body (167): Why such an error when creating a custom module? ✏️ by antongordon25 on drupal.SE

Glorfindel

I guess you could write a userscript for that very page, and in local storage keep track of which posts you 'handled' or not.

Perhaps by checking feedback records?

saves you the trouble of bookkeeping

user435118

True, good idea. Would it be complicated?

Glorfindel

That, plus perhaps a local storage containing the date of your last refresh.

I mean a way to mark all posts older than <date X> as handled.

user435118

Maybe highlight all posts with no feedback from me?

Glorfindel

that should be rather easy - iterate over all posts, check adjacent DOM elements and apply styling

My first Charcoal userscript, AIM, more or less started that way

user435118

5:44 PM

Sounds complicated for me :)

Glorfindel

(though it needed a few API calls to metasmoke)

@Daniil I can imagine. When I was your age, I was still dabbling in BASIC.

user435118

Ill probably finish my FIRE additional functionality userscript first

Glorfindel

sure, taking small steps and 'celebrating' each achievement is the way to go

taking on a large project at once is doomed to fail

AIM originally only indicated if you autoflagged, nothing else

the number of autoflags, feedback, and graying out deleted posts came much later

up to a point where JF enhanced the script so much that it took a week for me to figure out how the new structure worked

(mainly because I was too embarrassed to ask; after all, I considered myself relatively proficient in JavaScript)

user435118

Who's JF?

Glorfindel

haven't seen them recently

charcoal-se.org/people

I should have said 'J F'

user435118

5:50 PM

I was hoping to make reasonable progress with my userscript this week but double-beep hasn't been responding (they said they've been busy this week) so I guess ~~I'll have to find someone else to collab with~~ I'll properly start next week

user435118

@Glorfindel Never heard of them, quite a few of dev's have abandoned us

Glorfindel

yeah, even I am much less active here that I used to be

It's natural, it happens in real life too.

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Nisse Engström

6:17 PM

@SmokeDetector tpu-

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Makyen

!!/watch- (?-i:KTBIO\.jpg)

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Makyen

6:48 PM

@Daniil I'm very surprised at that. At least in the USA, if your account was deleted for the reason yours was , then it would be illegal for them to have kept any records. However, I'm not sure of the actual requirements of the applicable laws in your jurisdiction. Note that in the USA the issue would not have actually existed for you specifically, at that time, due to different requirements.

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Makyen

@Daniil Just FYI: I have code that does much of what you've described above for MS: makes the feedback and comment indicators "live" on such lists of MS posts, hides/shows posts where you've given feedback or that are otherwise "complete", etc. My intent is to put much of that into MS as standard features. How much of the code to make standard is not yet determined.

user435118

7:03 PM

@Makyen Is there any way I could test/get access to this code?

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Makyen

@Daniil Not at this time. If I'm going to spend time, I'd rather spend it getting the code onto MS, so it benefits everyone, rather than spend time to benefit a limited number of people who happen to find/run the code.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (93): help me to get student badge soon, thanks'lot by Raqhni Sandiko on meta.SE

Nisse Engström

!!/watch infilate\.com

Makyen

@SmokeDetector While much of this is a copy from pages displayed by SE, there is enough that's unique to the question such that it looks like it might be an actual question asking a question related to the quoted (but not in a quote block) material.

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@SmokeDetector The user seems to have a couple of normal-looking posts on Ask Ubuntu

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user435118

8:01 PM

@Makyen Any timeframe on the code? If it's going to take quite a long time I'll make my own...

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!!/watch cricgenie\.in

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Makyen

8:19 PM

@Daniil Hopefully not long

user435118

@Makyen Any rough timeframe? A week? A month? ...

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ArtOfCode

@Daniil 6-8 :P

NobodyNada

@Makyen COPPA protects PII like email addresses, but I don't think that would include stuff like post contents

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NobodyNada

8:28 PM

@Glorfindel FireAlarm could do that pretty easily. I haven't touched it for a long time, but it should just take a little bit of config (creds, sites, chatrooms, etc) to get it up and running

Makyen

@NobodyNada As far as I know, it doesn't cover the actual contents of the post. What I understood it to broadly cover was any information about the user, which includes the connection between the post and the user. Frankly, I'd really have to re-read the law.

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user435118

@ArtOfCode 6-8 what?

ArtOfCode

yes

NobodyNada

@Daniil meta.stackexchange.com/a/19514/258777 .

user435118

8:32 PM

@ArtOfCode ...

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ArtOfCode

@Makyen it would be illegal for them to have retained any PII, including a username, but it's fine to keep all the posts associated with an account as long as the account doesn't contain anything identifying. If you do that, it's relatively trivial to reassign the posts at some point - you do have to just take the user's word that it's their posts, because you necessarily have no way of verifying, but the technicality is not difficult.

Glorfindel

@NobodyNada thanks. I just successfully reconfigured one of my other bots to ping ELL mods in our mod room if a suspicious post arrives, that's good enough for now.

NobodyNada

@Glorfindel 👍

Glorfindel

If the detection is accurate enough, it's just a small step to outright delete those posts (and ping the mods to double-check, of course).

(I do realize the dangers in automated deletion, but if SpamRam isn't effective enough and the deletion can easily be reversed, I'm fine with it.)

user435118

8:40 PM

@Glorfindel Ah cool, what bot?

Makyen

@ArtOfCode That's probably a reasonable way to look at it. I agree that it's not difficult from a technical standpoint. meh. It's really SE's issue and they trust their lawyers, even if I don't. :;

user435118

@ArtOfCode I had to provide my user ID for reattachment, I wondered if I can get any deleted users post back :P

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer (1): Domain expired, GoDaddy holds it and is asking more money by Nishith Bhimani on webmasters.SE

user435118

But they did send me an email on that sad ~~was it Monday or Tuesday?~~ day when I was destroyed with my ID

Glorfindel

@Daniil the one using WebSockets ... not published yet, the source code is quite a mess

Makyen

8:47 PM

@Daniil Was it more than just the user numbers that are used on each each site and your network account (i.e. more than the information that was public)?

user435118

@Makyen It was just the user number for each site I wanted posts back

user435118

I requested: Travel, ELL, MSE, SO, Meta.Travel (and was given all of them)

user435118

I nearly didn't find my SO ID though (only because I posted in chat once before)

Makyen

@Daniil Ah, so, totally public information, which could have been obtained by anyone, with some work.

user435118

@Makyen Yep. On Travel it was easy, just search one of my many messages in chat. Any internet beginner could do it

user435118

8:51 PM

@Glorfindel Is there an easy way to build a bot/maybe this bot already exists that monitors selected posts for any activity?

Makyen

@Daniil It should also have been available from archive.org. Or, at least, I've generally found a copy of most questions on archive.org.

Glorfindel

@Daniil easy, no. WebSockets would work: there's a websocket for all activity on an entire Q&A: meta.stackexchange.com/a/218355/295232

But I'm not sure if it triggers on all things, e.g. reopening a question.

user435118

Is there a bot that is already built for this that I can just fork?

Glorfindel

It would've been nice if the new Follow Posts function would have an API equivalent, but no.

@Daniil perhaps. The folks at SOBotics have written so many of them, no idea what they're capable of.

user435118

There is a bot: GenericBot that can track a post for suggested edits etc.

Glorfindel

8:57 PM

sounds good

Makyen

@Glorfindel It definitely triggers on close. I don't recall testing for reopen or undelete.

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