Charcoal HQ

Mithrandir

08:00

Well. I'm just trying to be a nuisance for the spammers.

there are a heck of a lot of living spam posts by the pharma spammers on Medium

Suraj Rao

your spam folder must always be empty then @Mithrandir

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, +2 more: Keto Ultra Diet by hanasures on askubuntu.com

Mithrandir

it is

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tpu- by tripleee

Mithrandir

Actually, not true. There are currently two things in it, both from stuff I created an account on but don't feel like reading the emails they send me.

tripleee

08:02

so just to try to connect the dots, you find Medium spam posts linking to newsletter4health.com?

Mithrandir

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +4 more: supplementlab.org/herpes-blitz-protocol/ by sazv on apple.SE

tpu- by PeterJ

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body: Hire a Specialized Web Design Company to Get Good Return on Investment on Your Website by Techcentrica on hinduism.SE (@NogShine @Pandya)

Nog Shine

wow new kind of spam.. a relief

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tpu- by Makyen

Nog Shine

@SmokeDetector k

Makyen

08:15

!!/watch techcentrica\.com

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@Makyen Added techcentrica\.com to watchlist

fp by ArtOfCode on How to make frozen pizza taste good? [MS]

tpu by ArtOfCode on Осветлить фон яндекс карты [MS]

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fp by ArtOfCode on Is there a Google Calendar app for Mac desktop? [MS]

fp by ArtOfCode on Multiply two numbers [MS]

fp by ArtOfCode on Books, sites, guides about mental arithmetic by hand and tricks? [MS]

fp by ArtOfCode on A value for the author field is required, A value for the publisher field is required [MS]

fp by ArtOfCode on Notification like facebook using ajax in django [MS]

tripleee

@Mithrandir excellent idea, please keep us posted!

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: IQ 180 Cognitive Their kale snacks are never by Ivanapecova on askubuntu.com

fp by ArtOfCode on i want change language according to access point [MS]

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Mithrandir

@tripleee i'm dumping all the links of stuff I'm reporting in my chat office, just FYI

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating characters in body: i want her name or a movie she palyed by reza moradi on movies.SE

tripleee

08:18

@Mithrandir "my chat office" means chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58064/miths-desk right?

Mithrandir

indeed

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fp- by tripleee

tripleee

@SmokeDetector unclear, off-topic by site rules

but not spam as such

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: How to handle OTP screen in Selenium Webdriver? by Katherine tk on sqa.SE

fp- by A J

A J

oops

SmokeDetector

08:21

tpu- by Glorfindel

Mithrandir

!!/test Modafinil

SmokeDetector

> Would not be caught as a post, title or username.

Mithrandir

...so, would it be legit to !!/watch stuff like that on the basis of Medium spam (ref: medium.com/@redmeds123/…)?

actually, watching reliablemedstore.com would be more useful

Glorfindel

If you think they have a decent chance of coming here, yes.

A J

@SmokeDetector k

Mithrandir

08:25

they've been hitting lots of other sites, so it's possible

!!/watch reliablemedstore\.com

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@Mithrandir Added reliablemedstore\.com to watchlist

Mithrandir

no harm in it in any case

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tripleee

@Mithrandir agreed, but if they are really doing this on an industrial scale, they probably have some domains which will never be used in spam on half the sites they target so that they can do various kinds of A/B testing (including, but not limited to, restricting their spamming on sites where the backlash is strong)

Mithrandir

Possibly. We'll see what happens, it appears to be a recent effort.

SmokeDetector

08:30

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body: How to run test cases in failed state from a Testsuite through command line using TCM.exe by user3081672 on stackoverflow.com

A J

@SmokeDetector f

Edlothiad

Can someone inform Smoke detector that this guy is being mean? scifi.stackexchange.com/a/187340/68872

micsthepick

!scan scifi.stackexchange.com/a/187340/68872

Mithrandir

!!/scan scifi.stackexchange.com/a/187340/68872

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Toxic answer detected: Can Deadpool bleed out? by Only on his period on scifi.SE (@Mithrandir)

Edlothiad

08:35

Thank yous

There's two on there, fyi

Mithrandir

@micsthepick Shiro snytax != Smokey syntax

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tpu- by tripleee

micsthepick

oh lol

Nog Shine

@SmokeDetector k

Mithrandir

!!/scan scifi.stackexchange.com/a/187339/33591

SmokeDetector

08:36

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Toxic answer detected, blacklisted user: Can Deadpool bleed out? by Only on his period on scifi.SE (@Mithrandir)

Edlothiad

I dunno, this think used to just do things on SFF, now it seems not to have done things.

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tpu- by Glorfindel

Nog Shine

@SmokeDetector k

Mithrandir

@Edlothiad yeah, not sure why these weren't picked up. perhaps we should lower the queue size on SFF.

Chris

!!/report biology.stackexchange.com/questions/58563/…

SmokeDetector

08:37

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Can plants produce oxygen at night (without light)? by Rishabh Pratap Singh on biology.SE

tpu- by Glorfindel

Glorfindel

!!/watch belfiorestores\.com

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@Glorfindel Added belfiorestores\.com to watchlist

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Alpha TRT Diets damage your body and by soraibali on askubuntu.com

tpu- by Glorfindel

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body: GCC compiler void value error by Muhit Safayet on stackoverflow.com

tripleee

!!/watch alpha\W?trt

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@tripleee Added alpha\W?trt to watchlist

fp- by tripleee

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +2 more: www.healthsupplementsreviews.info/iq-180-cognitive/ by theresabarreras on psychology.SE

tpu- by Glorfindel

tripleee

!!/blacklist-keyword iq\W?180(?:\W?cognitive)?

SmokeDetector

08:48

@tripleee Blacklisted iq\W?180(?:\W?cognitive)?

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fp by Glorfindel on Осветлить фон яндекс карты [MS]

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, blacklisted user: Осветлить фон яндекс карты by exe.c00ller on ru.stackoverflow.com

fp- by Glorfindel

micsthepick

can't get a good translation out of that

tripleee

Chrome translates it well enough for me; 'Brighten the background of Yandex maps

How to do so, to "lighten" the Yandex card.'

probably helps if you know that Yandex is a popular service in Russia

'If you need to lighten the photo, then apply the filter css to the div, if the card itself, then see api. Yandex cards xs, but Google's cards can be exactly changed. Example mapkit.io';

SmokeDetector

09:05

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in answer: Espresso tests not working with new Google Android Emulators by sam on stackoverflow.com

fp- by tripleee

tpu- by ArtOfCode

tripleee

... yeah actually I guess it's spam

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tpu by tripleee

Glorfindel

@tripleee FWIW 'хз'/'xs' means I don't know.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: tamarind and extraordinary HCA that controls by Bauerboyz on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Flawless Keto This supplement is best simply by davonevinko on graphicdesign.SE

tpu- by tripleee on tamarind and extraordinary HCA that controls [MS]

tpu- by tripleee

tripleee

I almost posted a public question but the Teams GUI helpfully asked me "are you sure you want this to be public?"

I guess when you are on Teams it will always do that even when you do want to post a public question ...?

user5389107

09:13

@tripleee did you have words from the team name in the question?

Mithrandir

hoping that we are guardians of the Internet at large; - well, our site does say "spam crusaders of the internet"

tripleee

@user5389107 not directly

@Mithrandir yeah I think we need to think about changing some of the materials we have, not much but slightly

I originally wanted to ask about creating a presentation page for including into abuse reports but if we can polish the materials we have, a dedicated page just for abuse reports is probably superfluous and distracting

Mithrandir

medium is going to be annoyed at me, aren't they :P

tripleee

@Mithrandir maybe you want to approach them by email and explain what's going on and perhaps ask if there is a less annoying mechanism you should be using

Mithrandir

I was just thinking that.

tripleee

09:18

but god knows I've tried that and received mostly silence and/or odd misunderstandings

"you can send reports by email" seems to be the best reply I have received so far

but not every organization will accommodate even that

I know of some microformat for email abuse reporting (I mean, reporting abusive email, by email) but I don't think I've seen any attempt at formalizing this for web content

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body: BeeFree e-mail templates - any recommendations, tips or feedback? by Talli Sharron Rozowsky on graphicdesign.SE

tripleee

if there was a format, we might want to publish our TP verdicts as an RSS feed or something

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fp- by tripleee

Mithrandir

I'll shoot [email protected] an email, explain what I've been doing, and ask how they want to proceed. If they don't answer I'll just continue with what I've been doing.

tripleee

sounds like a plan

SmokeDetector

09:23

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, mostly non-Latin answer: Notepad++ inserting special Unicode characters in UTF-8 by Blya on superuser.com

naa- by tripleee

tripleee

if there was a separate up arrow for silly content I'd certainly click on that

Mithrandir

How does this sound? I'm bad at writing emails: gist.github.com/superplane39/7204752e954c877fc18825135a1ad60b

(oh, forgot to link the pharma spammer in the gist, but that links to meta.stackexchange.com/q/298538/294691)

angussidney

Hmm, I still can't comment on Teams

Mithrandir

@angussidney I was having that issue as well, I thought it was my internet connection.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body: Discover best Maintenance of your Database with Cognegic's DB Installation Support by adi Smith on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by Mithrandir

angussidney

09:37

Sorry tripleee if you get some notification spam, I hope you don't mind while I try and figure out the issue :)

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tpu by Stephen Kennedy

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +4 more: lumalifteye.com/bellanu/ by JoseMurt on graphicdesign.SE

tpu- by Cai

angussidney

@Mithrandir do you have SOUP installed?

Mithrandir

yes

angussidney

Disabling it specifically seems to fix the issue for me

Mithrandir

Can repro that

ArtOfCode

09:42

@Mithrandir looks good

Mithrandir

danke

i guess i'll send it off then

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, username similar to website in answer: Proper way to comment code. Python by Indian Cyber Security Solution on stackoverflow.com

Glorfindel

Still alive: sqa.stackexchange.com/a/33594/22114

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Proper way to comment code. Python by Indian Cyber Security Solution on stackoverflow.com

Mithrandir

@SmokeDetector k

angussidney

09:45

I'll see if I can figure out the specific problem, then post an issue on the SOUP repo

tripleee

!!/watch indiancybersecuritysolutions\.com

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@tripleee Added indiancybersecuritysolutions\.com to watchlist

tripleee

!!/blacklist-keyword flawless\W?keto

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@tripleee Blacklisted flawless\W?keto

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tripleee

@angussidney no spam, just a single notification

SmokeDetector

10:02

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, +2 more: Rapid Tone Diet eating healthy to lose weigh by user390293 on meta.SE

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +5 more: supplementlab.org/herpes-blitz-protocol/ by ytasaju on askubuntu.com

tpu- by PeterJ

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer: Creating website wireframes on GNU/Linux with a free/libre tool by Charles on softwarerecs.SE

tripleee

stackoverflow.com/c/charcoal/users <- reputations seem to be off, is this a bug?

Glorfindel

!!/watch mockuptiger\.com

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

@Glorfindel Added mockuptiger\.com to watchlist

Glorfindel

@tripleee reputation gained in the last month.

tripleee

ohhh, I didn't see the tabs, they are too far off to the right

SmokeDetector

10:07

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, +1 more: happens to uphold pending the beau id steadiness by Hasts wearce on drupal.SE

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, +3 more: check outwww.muscle4supplement.com/iq-180-cognitive/ by user903189 on superuser.com

tpu- by tripleee

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +6 more: www.nutritionfit.org/rapid-tone-diet/ by Mals1962 on askubuntu.com

tpu- by PeterJ

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching product name in body: The terrific opportunity to male by bohatkuri on askubuntu.com

tpu- by PeterJ

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer: How to confront friend who won't give back borrowed money? by AMC on interpersonal.SE

tpu- by PeterJ

tripleee

10:27

!!/test-a healthcares360.com/spam-spam-spam

SmokeDetector

> Bad ns for domain in answer, pattern-matching website in answer
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Body - Position 7-27: //healthcares360.com
Post - healthcares360.com NS suspicious dns2.namecheaphosting.com.,dns1.namecheaphosting.com.

tripleee

!!/test-a testosteroneboosters.com/spam-too

SmokeDetector

> Pattern-matching website in answer
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Body - Position 9-32: testosteroneboosters.co

tripleee

!!/test-a testosteronboosters.com/spam-three

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> Pattern-matching website in answer
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Body - Position 9-31: testosteronboosters.co

A J

10:30

@SmokeDetector k

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body: Fundamentals and Structure Of WordPress by Gaurav Shah on wordpress.SE

fp- by tripleee

tripleee

there's a lot of FPs on this phrase, can we remove it or restrict what it's supposed to match?

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@tripleee Body - Position 567-579: good Article

tpu by suraj on Proper way to comment code. Python [MS]

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, bad pattern in URL body, blacklisted website in body, +3 more: Vitamingrow.com/erx-pro-male-enhancement-review/ by syaovewa62 on askubuntu.com

tpu- by PeterJ

tripleee

if Pulse Monitor could tag Halflife posts which contain //medium\.com/ with a_unique_string you could get a pretty nice RSS filter out of chat.stackexchange.com/feeds/search/a_unique_string

but @medium or #medium won't work because the search stupidly ignores the punctuation

the notification logic could easily be refactored to do this, just expand it to assign arbitrary output tags to arbitrary regex matches

instead of just pinging the user who set up the regex

sadly chat.stackexchange.com/… doesn't do anything useful

SmokeDetector

10:46

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, potentially bad keyword in body, +1 more: Alpha TRT One scientist theorized by iylena12 on askubuntu.com

tpu- by tripleee

tripleee

alpha trt 2/2, blacklist on next sighting

Mithrandir

@tripleee possibly restrict it to answers? Is that possible?

tripleee

@Mithrandir technically speaking absolutely, but I have not looked into where exactly this is currently defined ... if it's part of a more-complex regex maybe some refactoring is required (in which case maybe just remove it and see if we can live without a separate rule just for that)

watched_keywords.txt:3144:1524738079	Mithrandir	(nice|useful|good)\W?(article|blog)

should all of that be an "answers only" expression and what's the current value it provides?

Mithrandir

> Hi <redacted>,

Thanks for reaching out to us and for your help with flagging spammy content.

We're reviewing the reported posts, and we'll be working on suspending those accounts in accordance to our rules.

I'd be very interested in taking a look at your list - would you be able to send it to us so we could review it?

Thanks,
Jonas
Trust and Safety

tripleee

wow, excellent!

Henders

10:56

Nice! :)

Mithrandir

@tripleee it was meant to catch those "nice answer <spam link>" answers, and so could probably be narrowed

micsthepick

wonderful

tripleee

so maybe add \W*(something url-like) after?

Mithrandir

@tripleee yep. I'm on mobile at the moment, but will be adding that to Teams soon.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad keyword in body, bad pattern in URL body, blacklisted username, blacklisted website in body, +2 more: Ginkgo Biloba – Helps to naturally boost your libido. by beaversjuriya on graphicdesign.SE

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