@SmokeDetector fp- the link doesn't really answer the question, but it's in the ballpark. The site itself seems legit (over 200 hits on SE), and I can't see any affiliation.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, no whitespace in body, no whitespace in title, potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title, +2 more (397): kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk ✏️ by John on chemistry.SE
@rene I raised R/A flag. I believe the mods know about this guy. So far, I raised about 10 r/a flags against this guy, never got declined. However, please don't rely on me 100% because I am not a mod there. But, I have the most helpful flags on that site, proud of myself.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected, offensive title detected, potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title, toxic body detected (156): fuck you advanced programmers by Aarush on stackoverflow.com
@rene At least on Chemistry and Academia, I suspect that spam is well known by the site mods. Like scaahu, I red flag those posts, and haven't had any declined so far.
@SmokeDetector A Google translate appears NAA, and probably R/A. I raised a custom mod-flag in order to have the determination made by someone more familiar with the language.
@SmokeDetector This user links a lot to their website. They've disclosed affiliation in a few places, but given the number, it's still excessive. I've raised custom flags on AU, and SO linking to this SE search.
@cigien I don't know if you did, or not, but it's usually a good idea to also link to a record of the posts on MS (e.g. a domain, user(s), search without using regex, posts, etc.). The SE search won't show deleted posts, so will show less and less of a problem as the posts are deleted.
@Makyen No, I didn't link to any MS records, though I could have done that for the domain in this case. I'll make sure to do that from now on. I assume you're handling the SO profile? There's only 2 posts on AU, so it may not seem like as much of an issue there. Should I raise another flag there linking to the domain?
@cigien Nope, not me. Another moderator was on it. Our efforts overlapped (a fairly common occurrence, which I find a bit frustrating, due to multiple people unintentionally spending time/effort on the same thing). If it was me, I'd probably retract my flag and re-raise one which links to MS, perhaps in addition to an SE search, if desired. A link the the SE search won't really show much of an issue at this point.
@Makyen Hmm, that is frustrating. As it happens, I had raised another flag on SO (as yet unhandled), not realizing I should have retracted and reflagged the first one, so I've probably caused a little more duplicated effort than would have happened otherwise. Anyway, I've retracted and reflagged on both sites, with links to the domain on MS.
@cigien It's not your fault. Unfortunately, there really isn't a good way available for moderators to coordinate such that they aren't working on the same thing at the same time. There is some information available that a moderator may have previously looked at a flag, but there's nothing which helps with current activity.
It's routine for me to be working the flag queue and find out that a large portion of the actions which I took didn't actually happen, because some other moderator was also working that list of flags and handled a significant portion of the ones which I thought I handled (i.e. their action was somewhat prior to mine). I fully expect that happens the other way around too, but it's not something which I can really check, other than by asking the other mods (i.e. it's hard to see a non-action).
From my experience it's something which happens multiple times a day. Unfortunately, it significantly reduces my motivation.
