@Federico The feedbacks and spam flags are probably the result of people applying "Are job offers spam?" generally. Obviously, that's a Stack Overflow meta, so really only applies to SO. On the other hand, such posts really are spam, as they are designed to promote the thing which the user is interested in (the job, position, task, etc.).
In fact, posting such is using a question to substitute for a service which SE sells in their "Jobs" offering, and for which there's an entire, paid, industry devoted to matching people seeking help in the form of a dedicated person with those individuals willing to provide such help (usually for remuneration of some type).
How such posts are handled are, as far as I know, decided on a site by site basis. However, such posts are promoting the user's thing, without any benefit to the goals of the site (developing a repository of questions and answers which are of benefit to future visitors). So, while applying the spam penalties might not be what's appropriate, I wouldn't consider spam flags wrong on such a post.
Overall, my response to seeing such posts is to delete them, which might be a straight delete or a spam-delete, depending on the circumstances surrounding the post (e.g. the tone of the post, what they are promoting/soliciting for, user's other participation, etc.). I'd mark any spam flags as helpful, or, at most, disputed.
After deleting, I commonly leave a message similar to the ones which you've left on those posts, for which the user will still get a notification. My leaving such a message also depends on the tone of the post. If it's a new user who appears to be confused, I'm more likely to do so than for a user that appears to be here just to promote the fact that they are looking for someone to fill a role, even if that role is just getting someone to volunteer for something I agree with.
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad ip for hostname in body, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted username, blacklisted website in body, +1 more (553): EdbMails MBOX to PST converter by Amara watt on economics.SE
@hyper-neutrino Another alternative is SIM - SmokeDetector Info for Moderators (install), which will add a "smokey" button to the post menu on each post. Clicking it will show a popup with information as to the post being detected by SD, some feedback, flagging, a link to the report, etc.
Yeah, it'd be a nice accommodation to put some more spaces between those very different feedback options. I should learn how to do web programming again and submit a fix
Has anyone ever actually had to use the "Request admin attention on this post" button on an MS report? If so, for what reason (if you don't mind my asking)?
Well, there is a check for nil, just on a different variable (@post instead of post), it seems like a typo tbh but I'm just trying to reproduce it locally before I push a fix.
Oh hm "Hi! It seems there are still plenty of builds running. We're pushing back the shutdown date to June 15th. Please consider migrating to travis-ci.com."
I think that it's a dependency which has changed. I suspect that it changed prior to the dependabot changes, but that the dependencies were cached, and that now enough time has passed such that the cached version expired. There are lots of deprecation warnings for the packages we're using.
Nothing really specific (off the top of my head). IIRC, as you've already mentioned, Rails appeared to be behind by quite a bit, which appeared to drive other dependencies.
@Spevacus My actual "inbox" folder isn't that bad with only about 29k messages, but that's because I aggressively automatically filter messages into folders when they come in. If you're asking only about GitHub messages, I've received somewhere above 50k emails from GitHub. The GitHub messages are in multiple sub-folders which are partially by project and partially by how closely I'm following the project/repository.
