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BTW one of the spam posts had this: i.stack.imgur.com/3jVsJ.jpg - is this our spammer ?!?

and keep an eye out when a new question gets posted and refrsh

8:06 PM

@Fabby Ah, you met one of the internet crazies?

@hbdgaf Good one!

@Whaaaaaat Yeah, all of the time...

I attract crazies everywhere: in the bus, on a bench, in the chat room, on the site...

(The first crazy in the chat room was you if I remember well) :D ;-) @Whaaaaaat

user136984

@hbdgaf: Why do they hate us so much?

@hbdgaf So someone's spamming AU to make a point?

@ParanoidPanda They don't hate us!

user136984

It is starting to feel like a war against spam...

8:08 PM

I don't know. Could go either way.

they're just trying to make a dishonest £££! @ParanoidPanda

@Fabby Evidently the discussion has been had meta.askubuntu.com/questions/6321/…

please leave some for me

guys

</3

Lol.

Wow. I think that's a new record. I couldn't click flag fast enough.

8:09 PM

nooo waaaaayyy :)

You need to stay on the home page holding down F5 :P

I flagged it :D

@Whaaaaaat just keep the newest questions pahe open in a tab

Whenever the number changes, hit refresh

and click-click-click.

wtf

i didn't even see that one

I saw 2

8:10 PM

Smokey is faster than the main page

prntscr.com/8plfdm

user136984

I haven't seen the last 2...

Tons of people keeping a keen eye on it!

GOT ONE :D

Im getting quicker than Smokey :)

8:11 PM

@Whaaaaaat :D

@Takkat I disagree...

I've had TWO that had 0 spam votes like that today!

I think it's probably better to follow smokey links than hit refresh every time. Less page view load on the SE servers, and they're good people.

@Fabby well at least here in the depths of the German internetz

i should bounty a spam for the lolz

I've only got a 24mbps ADSL line right now (not at home)

@Fabby i've only got satellite

8:13 PM

There I've got a 50Mbps SDSL

@Whaaaaaat Yeah, sure! :P

@Fabby Wildblue sucks.

here's cables but pings can be quite slow..

@A.B. Man the SPAM stations!

@fabby stop stealing my line

@Whaaaaaat It's so good I love it!

8:14 PM

@SmokeDetector Hah. That one was actually named "seo manager"

why can't we make a better spam algorithm?

like idk. have 1rep posts need approval?

@Fabby yes sir your will my life

Lord

@Takkat: just had another one before smokey!

@A.B. :D :D :D

@Whaaaaaat then what other fun things could we do on a Friday night ?

Your wish my master?

8:16 PM

@A.B. Give me monies.

@A.B. :P

Or make me good at art.

Either/or.

:D

@Whaaaaaat I'm sorry. You can't teach autism.

Deviantart

8:17 PM

@hbdgaf :D :D :D

@Fabby triggered

@Whaaaaaat you have a Deviantart account?

@A.B. Nope.

Let me put it this way.

I screw up drawing lines.

Not? :\

@Whaaaaaat With out without a ruler?

8:19 PM

@Fabby Without. I'm not that bad.

OK, there seems to be a calm in the eye of the SPAM storm

I need a SMOKE! @SmokeDetector

Can confirm. Newest posts are pure ham.

MMmmm Ham

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, phone number detected in title: ~!@Support 1.855.662.4436!@# Brother Printer support phone number, Brother Printer customer care number? by user459520 on askubuntu.com

DAMN IT

DAMN IT ALL TO HELL

8:21 PM

@SmokeDetector Wow. That one only got to negative one before community popped it. I've never seen that happen.

Now they are getting Lazy, not using decent usernames :/

Uh guys...

Why doesn't the captcha work?

Check meta. That question came up last time.

We has a capatacha ?

desprosal.deviantart.com

SmokeDetector

8:22 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, phone number detected in title: CALL**:*:1.844.247.1987:*: DELL Printer technical support phone number? by dhamneder on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, phone number detected in title: ~!@~Support 1.844.461.2828!@!brother printer tech support phone number, brother printer support phone number by user459521 on askubuntu.com

mlg touchscreen anti-spam game

So i am thinking if buying a broadcom card and play with it. Think it's worth it to experiment ?

Don't do it. Give me Aetheros or give me death.

@Serg, depends if you like being probed

askubuntu.com/revisions/601869/1 wat.

I wonder why he's on Social Security Disability.

8:25 PM

Lol. I am RTL fan but i just wanna learn stuffs

Still 47 flags remaining...

@Whaaaaaat because they're using humans...

@Fabby I'm down to 34

I suppose these poor b@st@rds are trying to all get a profile...

... and then all 5 of them trying to spam us at once!

:D

how many users do we have logged on?

Can anyone see that?

Im down to 28 :/

@mods

8:28 PM

@Serg Don't!

@NathanOsman What's on it now?

@Whaaaaaat Shh... we don't want you-know-who to know.

@NathanOsman They're in this very room?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I hope not but that has happened before.

Does anyone remember the "Indian Hacker Team"?

Yeah...

@NathanOsman you mean He who must not be named???

8:30 PM

@Whaaaaaat The room can be read without entering it.

^--- that too

@NathanOsman I don't...

Probably before my time... What happened?

@Fabby "Give us admin or we kill you"

(if you prefer: skype or tox me)

@NathanOsman God that one was irritating. And they escalated to death threats. I know, I got one. The first few times, they didn't modify the email headers, so I could still reply to the emails ;) Being snarky in my responses made my day.

8:32 PM

@Fabby It was a bunch of users spamming the site claiming to belong to the "Indian Hacker Team" who kept threatening us "until you make us mods".

Yeah, that didn't happen.

@hbdgaf :D :D :D

@NathanOsman If that was directed at me. I'll go pull up the gmail if you want. nvm, I read it how you meant it now.

He @Serg =)

Right, I'm outta beer. Party on Dudes !

@NGRhodes Good night!

8:44 PM

So i just was at local Derp partment of motor vehicles to renew my registration. Most confusing system ever. You get a ticket with a number but it doesn't matter cuz no one is going to call your number , you still stand in a line, first come first zerved

user136984

Oh, so the situation with the spam has quietened down a bit I see then...

user136984

Great! :D

Yeah. It got bad that time.

@Serg O_o

@ParanoidPanda funny: @ParanoidPanda isn't around and we get spammed a lot...

He shows up: no spam!

Ergo: @ParanoidPanda IS THE SPAMMER! :D

user136984

:D

8:47 PM

Spammers fear pandas and their cuteness

user136984

Muhahaha! Now you know my dark secret! >:P

user136984

:D

I think last time they were using tor, and we asked SE if they wanted to block tor nodes. They said no.

I heard if you use tor you automatically get on nsa watchlist

user136984

Perhaps they could allow specific sites though to opt-in to block tor nodes.

user136984

8:50 PM

@Serg: Same if you search for "Bacon" (or even mention it on social media)... :P

@Serg Eventually saying "playing chess" on social media will get you on a watchlist or not depending on the side of the argument to which you subscribe.

Turning on your computer gets you on the NSA watchlist.

^^ see?

user136984

Anyway, enough spam for me tonight! :D

user136984

I'm full! :P

user136984

8:55 PM

Have a nice sleep.

user136984

Goodnight! :)

Q: Exim: Email to root ignores /etc/aliases and /root/.forward - always used qualifies domain name

@ParanoidPanda Pumpkin!

;-)

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dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config asks for a domain name to "qualify" email addresses of local users, i.e "root". Let's say I've set this setting to "qualified.example.com" - this causes all email sent to simply "root" to go to "root@qualified.example.com". I instead want all email to "root" to be ...

I'm busy outside this tab.

If the spam wave hits again, ping me!

>40 flags left!

Q: Are "not strictly Ubuntu-specific" questions on-topic?

9:07 PM

@Fabby Okay. ;)

Sorry. That wasn't nice, and people tend not to get my sense of humor. Have a nice night. It's over for now I think. The length of time window for when we got bombed last time has passed.

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10:13 PM

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I know this question has been asked and answered already here: How do we tell if a question belongs here, or rather at stackoverflow/superuser? However this topic came up recently again in a discussion in the comments of a question about sudo, where an user claimed the question be off-topic bec...

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Mateo

10:31 PM

woo, time to plan to make sushi, they had extra nori paper ;)

10:55 PM

@hbdgaf What wasn't "nice"???

Remember: I'm a dinosaur!

1/ They don't make'em like me any more!

2/ I've got a broad back (I can carry a lot of work)

3/ I've got a thick skin (I don't feel the daggers being stuck into my back)

4/ I've got a very small brain (Don't think too much!)

;-)

Q: Installed package but get older version

11:16 PM

Hey, Opera isn't all that bad.

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I've updated NodeJS but the version still displays as the older. What am I doing wrong? I can see it has downloaded the latest (4.1.2). Thanks in advance!

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Terrance

@NathanOsman I use Opera at work all the time. It is very stable, and is able to support the SOCKS proxy I need. =)