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IͶΔ

6:03 PM

@hichris123 What SO post?

hichris123

Someone must've made that go poof. :P

Brock Adams

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@SmokeDetector k cross-site spammer.

SmokeDetector

6:20 PM

Restart: API quota is 2411.

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer, non-English link in answer: only download a file if its missing by Khanh Tran on stackoverflow.com …

IͶΔ

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

6:49 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Mostly non-Latin answer: Is it possible to tune guitar down an octave?(or to f#?) by რუბიკონი გადალახულია on music.stackexchange.com …

IͶΔ

What the hell

Which language is this even?

SD K

Brock Adams

I think it's been Google-translated at least twice. It's now gibberish in any language.

> Khui for anyone, even if Nash znaet ur trust one type of saying everything is possible Kai dzmisgul -- Rubicon overcome

404

7:11 PM

8

A: answer deleted as spam/offensive, doesn't seem to be

I am one of the people who flagged that answers as spam. It was reported in the SOCVR chat room by the spam detecting bot SmokeDetector created by the Charcoal Team That link at the bottom has nothing to do with the question and we should not edit spam links out of a answer. The only recourse ...

Undo

Reads like project spam. SO users have a pretty good record detecting crap like this without the help of a bot. Well, other than the OP :) This kind of organized witch hunting is very creepy. — Hans Passant 13 mins ago

Smokey fanmail!

404

7:26 PM

Not all publicity is good publicity.

rene

Hans picked up some Dutch humor and snarkyness during his time at the TU Delft I guess...

Brock Adams

Sure it's creepy. Sure it's been abused on occasion (and such abuse stopped when it's noticed). But organized spamming is way way worse, IMO.

Undo

The value of stuff like SmokeDetector isn't so much that this stuff wouldn't get caught otherwise, @Hans... It's that it might not get caught as quickly. Two minutes after that answer was deleted, the same user tried to post on another question... But was blocked by the system since his previous answer had been identified as spam. This is a minor convenience on Stack Overflow, but a huge boon to other sites where a delay might mean dozens of such answers waiting for a moderator to wake up. — Shog9 ♦ 5 mins ago

IͶΔ

Now I can @Undo better.

@SmokeDetector F

It have never felt as hard to f a post.

Ferrybig

7:43 PM

@Undo, when is https support to be planned back?

Undo

no idea

busy handling flags, writing tests, and taking tests.

404

6-8 weeks, then

Undo

@Ferrybig why?

What are you doing that depends on https support?

(and would it be better to just ask @ArtOfCode nicely to update the userscript to try http first and follow redirects?)

Ferrybig

It's annoying to change the https to http on smokedetector reports, and to update all my bookmarks

Undo

oh. Yeah, that's valid. I'll see how hard it is to get working again

hichris123

7:48 PM

@BrockAdams I'm... not sure it's good to compare us to Henry VIII. :P

404

I see, Metasmoke ... links are protocol relative, so for https chat users they are broken currently.

Brock Adams

@hichris123 ♫ I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am...

I click all day, a fight'n spam... ♫

Undo

@Ferrybig done

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) data download in R by André Bertoncini on opendata.stackexchange.com …

Undo

!!/reboot

SmokeDetector

8:00 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev 2fdd9f0 (Normal Human: godiabetesrevenge, reflectivevestsindia) (running on Raspberry Pi)

Restart: API quota is 1787.

Brock Adams

@SmokeDetector n

Ferrybig

@SmokeDetector Why doesn't metasmoke work on this post?

SmokeDetector

@Ferrybig Body - Position 301-328: [email protected]

Undo

@Ferrybig Apache was probably restarting

Ferrybig

No smokey, I didn't mean to do why...

rene

8:04 PM

Can we fix this a bit: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/320557/…

Brock Adams

@rene This is now a "Catch 22" scenario. :)

404

!!/report money.stackexchange.com/a/62580

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: What type of credit or loan to get for job relocation? by Susan Carroll on money.stackexchange.com …

404

> get back to us as soon as possible.

Not detected, because no contact information given.

Undo

@rene meh. Shog made a good point, some people upvoted it. Don't really see the issue.

No one thinks we're a cabal, literally everything about all of this is public.

(cabal: a secret political clique or faction.)

And if someone raises a concern, we can address it

But... SOCVR is a group of moderation-minded users, and we're a group of moderation-and-automation-minded users.

So we work together pretty well.

If actual legit stuff is getting deleted by this 'cabal' of moderation-minded folks, then we have a real, material issue we can address.

Ping me the day that happens and we can change something.

SmokeDetector

8:13 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, blacklisted user: What can happen if I do not pay $735 for my negative balance to PayPal? by Susan Carroll on money.stackexchange.com …

404

sd 2k

Remembered email now.

@Undo SOCVR have some pretty good automation of their own.

Undo

@404 Right, in close votes.

Spam flags are a little graver, we're providing basically everything in that regard.

404

And they could easily clone Smokey and run own instance, if they wanted.

Undo

Exactly.

Heck, the Lounge could do that and I'd have no problem with it.

404

Meaning we don't really have a ton of bricks to dump on anyone.

Undo

8:16 PM

@404 removing privileges from "The" smokey instance is the best we can do, and it's enough in my mind

404

Though I see the point of your message: while it's this instance, we have to watch how it's used.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, blacklisted user: Repay My loan to my relatives for school debt by Susan Carroll on money.stackexchange.com …

Undo

We have the Tavern, SOCVR, CHQ, and a few other places, so we're kinda the authoritative, representative instance.

Brock Adams

@SmokeDetector k

hichris123

@SmokeDetector Is this one of Evan's relatives?

rene

8:26 PM

@Undo sure, I stated in the SOCVR that I don't like it but it looks like your position is preferred over mine. Life goes on I guess...

Undo

@rene It's not really a big deal that it got mass-upvoted.

I agree that it doesn't really look great

404

The answer didn't have to emphasize SD, really; but too late to change now.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps answer, few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: ask the user for three names and print them in alphabetical order by F U on stackoverflow.com …

404

sd k

SmokeDetector

API quota rolled over with 1550 requests remaining. Current quota: 9999.

stackoverflow: 1652
superuser: 539
askubuntu: 452
unix: 225
drupal: 202
math: 172
mathoverflow.net: 168
electronics: 158
english: 157
security: 148
dba: 145
magento: 131
gis: 126
salesforce: 121
gaming: 119
wordpress: 113
sharepoint: 113
academia: 110
scifi: 108
apple: 106
travel: 103
puzzling: 103
programmers: 96
money: 92
mathematica: 90
meta: 88
ell: 84
webapps: 83
stats: 83
worldbuilding: 75
physics: 73
tex: 70
gamedev: 66
ru.stackoverflow: 65
android: 63
movies: 63
rpg: 58
cs: 56
raspberrypi: 53

SmokeDetector

8:57 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: How to run Nginx on multiple ports by zcoloringpages on stackoverflow.com …

404

sd k

Undo

@SmokeDetector was that a... coloring book spammer?

SmokeDetector

10:00 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: Mathematical Modeling of Real-World Situations by user329287 on math.stackexchange.com …

Undo

sd k

404

That's a 4451 view question which is utterly unhelpful, basically clickbait. Voted to close.

SmokeDetector

11:04 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Cannot login into amazon.com by fuck you on webapps.stackexchange.com …

Jeffrey Bosboom

I suggest you call customer service: Amazon customer service in the US and Canada: (800) 201-7575 Amazon customer service outside the US and Canada: (206) 346-2992 or (206)-266-2992 — Dave Rook Sep 11 '12 at 14:22

Is that legit? I've been conditioned to be suspicious.

@SmokeDetector k

404

Yes, suspicious....

hichris123

That user doesn't seem to exist anymore on SU... (or maybe they do under another name)

Jeffrey Bosboom

Okay, Slate reported the first number back in 2004. No idea if it's still valid, but it doesn't seem like a trap.

404

@hichris123 Comments do not get linked to account after migration, even if user exists.

hichris123

11:10 PM

@404 I searched on SU though -- no Dave Rook.

404

But the previous comments by the user indicate this isn't a spambot.

So, all things considered, I'm going to let it be.

hichris123

I think I will start to collect stats on other review queues for SO. Easy enough to do.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: (fuckyoueditors)Gmod single player won't launch by hotdog on gaming.stackexchange.com …

404

rolled back...

SmokeDetector

11:31 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Gmod single player won't launch by hotdog on gaming.stackexchange.com …

404

sd 2k

Hammering this with flags might be more effective than rollback war. That, or a mod hammer of course.

Undo

artillery summoned.

!!/report gaming.stackexchange.com/a/261668/61631

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Gmod single player won't launch by hotdog on gaming.stackexchange.com …

hichris123

|| *Id* || *QueueId* || *Time* || *NumInQueue* || *ReviewsToday* ||
|| 1 || 2 || 2016-04-06 23:35:44 || 227 || 3071 ||
|| 2 || 3 || 2016-04-06 23:35:54 || 83 || 9381 ||
|| 3 || 5 || 2016-04-06 23:36:04 || 0 || 3268 ||
|| 4 || 4 || 2016-04-06 23:36:18 || 8 || 6338 ||
|| 5 || 8 || 2016-04-06 23:36:25 || 5 || 1197 ||
|| 6 || 6 || 2016-04-06 23:36:32 || 19 || 933 ||
|| 7 || 7 || 2016-04-06 23:36:38 || 7 || 104 ||

Looks like it's working...

SmokeDetector

11:58 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Determine whether the relation is reﬂexive, symmetric, antisymmetric, transitive, and/or a partial order. by faggit on math.stackexchange.com …

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