@Xnero Like that. The above message from MS is the result of me clicking a "Validate all conditions" button for your account on MS, which causes the normal MS validation for that account to be run in the background. The flagging conditions are validated for all users on a periodic schedule, because it is a compute intensive task. So, your conditions would have been disabled anyway the next time it ran (once a day, IIRC). I believe it's also run for all users involved in a autoflagged FP.
@hyper-neutrino Yeah, basically everything that we want to block at the system level is tp. In the case of garbage posts, I would also blacklist the user, so tpu, but that's not as important. And if someone has already given tpu feedback, then you can just give tp, as it won't make a difference.
@Xnero Hmmm... That gives the wrong impression. I was intending to emphasize the part "The flagging conditions are validated for all users on a periodic schedule, because it is a compute intensive task. So, your conditions would have been disabled anyway the next time it ran (once a day, IIRC)."
@hyper-neutrino That's a good question. NAA and FP are basically the same thing, as far as SD is concerned. Here's one expanation; there are others scattered across the transcript (and possibly somewhere in the wiki). I wouldn't worry too much about the distinction, but try to use the right one as far as possible.
@hyper-neutrino IMO that wasn't posted in good faith, so I would tp it. What flag you raise depends on the site, but in the case of ELU (where I hang out now and then) I'm pretty sure a R/A flag would be accepted on that. As Mast points out, providing feedback and flagging is pretty much independent anyway (although FIRE/etc lets you do both of them with one click).
@cigien That makes sense. I guess if I'm really unsure about the site culture I can always just tp it on SD and then not flag it (or just not give feedback and let someone who knows deal with it). It does look like it wasn't in good faith though, so I agree with that. Only been to ELU a couple of times (IIRC).
@DavidPostill Re this report, it's not the account's first offense. They've been doing it across the network, in addition to suggesting edits that add in the link to their website.
@DavidPostill Actually I was wondering how you and JourneyManGeek flagged the post (earned the citizen patrol badge) at exactly the same time, even though JourneyManGeek hasn't been in this room for a long time. Then I thought maybe there was something about it in the TavernOnMeta, but the question didn't seem to appear there at all. Then I found that the question was in TavernOnMeta but got moved to Chimney so that's why I couldn't see it.
@DavidPostill This was the post that you guys helped us remove: mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/revisions/… I find it quite bizarre though, that someone would go through that much effort, to actually research what LDOS and PDOS mean, and copy and paste the definitions of them from ResearchGate (but change the original text a bit) just a promote a blog about movie reviews that doesn't even seem financially lucrative?
Is it common to get this type of "intelligent" spam?
