@Spevacus Oh, yeah, you're right. Hmm, I don't think I used that SEDE search correctly. So we shouldn't blacklist them right? All their spam seems to be pingpongbuzz.com which is now blacklisted anyway.
Right, yeah. I think covering the spam they're frequently posting might be enough. Something tells me that they might continue to be a problem, though, so I'm okay with leaving that PR open for a bit.
I mod flagged the Freelance one so that it's obvious why there are spam flags on it. The spam is somewhat easy to miss.
@cigien ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's possible that we should instead move to watch the username instead of blacklisting it. I leave that in the hands of another blacklister. A couple days at most. Their stuff is going to start getting deleted and we'll see how much more they'll want to spam it.
> Potentially bad ip for hostname in body, potentially bad ip for hostname in title ---------- Potentially bad ip for hostname in body - plugable.com suspicious IP address 23.227.38.65 Potentially bad ip for hostname in title - plugable.com suspicious IP address 23.227.38.65
@SmokeDetector Spam They posted 10 answers in 18 mins yesterday promoting their library, and just now posted 3 answers in the last hour doing the same.
@EJoshuaS-ReinstateMonica Your flag-pls in SOCVR seems to have been recorded as a comment on this MS report, though it says that Smokey made the comment. Dunno what that's about.
@ppwater Thanks, that's a good link. There seem to be opposing views about it. I feel like cross-posting on different language sites is problematic, but I'm not sure.
This user cross-posted on English and Spanish SO within an hour. I FPed the first one, but I'm not sure what to do about the second.
@cigien I'm not aware of an actual ban. However, it's a topic that is commonly trolled, and one that needs to be handled carefully, if there's a real question. Thus, I'm not surprised that such a low quality question as that one, which looks a lot like typical troll fodder, would be summarily closed and deleted.
@cigien It's based on the significant history of similar troll questions, combined with someone asking it with a username of "Jewa". That might be a real name, but my opinion is that the whole thing is much more likely to be trolling.
@Makyen Ok, I think I understand your rationale for the feedback, and it makes sense. For myself, I'm going to refrain from giving feedback on those kinds of posts for a while till I see more posts of that nature, and I get a sense of how I should respond to them in general. Thank you for the clarification.
@Yatin I think there's some component of how aware I am of those religions and what people are sensitive about in those cases. e.g. I'm quite comfortable giving feedback on islam.se and hinduism.se posts. Less so on christianity.se and judaism.se.
@ppwater No worries. Also, the PRs are close enough that they would be seen by the same person, so it would be fine. But I left a comment just in case, since duplicating the watches breaks the CI or something.
@ppwater Oh, good idea. I don't actually know what the blacklisters look at when they're approving PRs. Comments on GH does make more sense than chat messages.
@ppwater I am aware of 46 blacklist managers. Currently in this room: Makyen, Mithical, John Dvorak, DavidPostill, ArtOfCode, thesecretmaster, Suraj Rao. Not currently in this room: iBug, Jeff Schaller, doppelgreener, WELZ, rene, CalvT, A J, a spaghetto, NobodyNada, Thomas Ward, Ferrybig, angussidney, K.Dᴀᴠɪs, tripleee, Zoe, Ashish Ahuja, mag, Shree, Spevacus, Erik the Outgolfer, micsthepick, Byte Commander, Eliah Kagan, paper1111, ProgramFOX, Das_Geek, Henders, double-beep, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Andy, bertieb, bwDraco, Undo, Glorfindel, Mast, Nisse Engström, Machavity, Kyll, Ryan M.
@VictorVosMottor Usually, don't delete your own posts either, that's why delete is disabled and force was required in this room. There are exceptions to this policy.
@cigien Yeah my mod flag on Blender was helpful and the question over there was deleted. Freelancer's post still stands. They got a 7 day suspension over on Buddhism for promotional content. They're quite persistent...
Can a >2k reputation SO user tell me how old this review audit's answer is? This PR requests a watch of it and I'm unsure it's necessary (we don't have it in MS)
Shame, I thought you could if you're looking at the review. Now I remember that you have to be one of the users who participated in that review or otherwise are over 10k.
