Today there was a spam post (10k user required) to Science Fiction & Fantasy whose purpose appeared to be to induce people to click a link. At least one user did:
First of all, the answer box is not the place for this sort of thing. Secondly, what images are you alleging are being infringed? I ...
> Url in title, potentially bad asn for hostname in body, potentially bad asn for hostname in title, potentially bad keyword in body, potentially bad keyword in title, potentially bad keyword in username ---------- Potentially bad asn for hostname in body - mstwotoes.com address 173.82.208.82 in ASN 35916 Potentially bad asn for hostname in title - mstwotoes.com address 173.82.208.82 in ASN 35916 Potentially bad keyword in body - Position 8-21: mstwotoes.com Potentially bad keyword in title - Position 8-21: mstwotoes.com
@Ollie There doesn't appear to be a built-in way to do so. It may just be a private beta feature in order to get people to use the site's Meta. Obviously, you could use any of the normal methods of personally adjusting the page. As with @M.A.R., I'm just too lazy and don't care enough about it to do anything. However, that's mostly because I don't really plan to use the site much (i.e. mostly just for SD report flagging).
OTOH, if it was on a site I was using, I'd definitely remove it. It doesn't seem reasonable to show it to people who are experienced SE users. However, it's not clear to me at what point the cut-off should be, other than being dismissible, but being persistently dismissable adds complexity (i.e. they have to somewhere store that you've dismissed it and check to see if it should not be shown).
So, mostly "meh" and unlikely to be changed by SE. I wish they would use semantic CSS for these things. It would have been fairly trivial to have dropped a CSS class on it like notice-private-beta-use-meta-for-site-discussion. OTOH, it's in an <aside> and there's the s-banner--container, s-banner, s-banner__warning classes along with a role and aria-describedby. That's dramatically better than most of SE's HTML wrt. being able to target the element.
FYI: we submitted a project to the Cardiff Software Academy last year for a final project to classify our spam. They just got in touch and we're listed for this year's students, so we may or may not end up with a student or two here trying to solve our ML problem.
@ArtOfCode Surely there should be someone already available to solve the ML problem? I'm not into ML personally but I can't imagine that it would be that hard.
@Mast There is a lot of FP, but there's 1 TP from 6 months ago, and 3 more from a year back that wouldn't have been caught otherwise. There's no obvious way, to me at least, of tightening up that watch, so I think we can leave it in.
Today there was a spam post (10k user required) to Science Fiction & Fantasy whose purpose appeared to be to induce people to click a link. At least one user did:
First of all, the answer box is not the place for this sort of thing. Secondly, what images are you alleging are being infringed? I ...
