it's not really invisible but it's just very VERY hard to click on
(and that invisible link in that one meta post there just goes back to meta.se - that way it's not a spam link detection but shows an example of just how evil invisi-links are)
if it weren't for SmokeDetector we'd probably not have seen it quickly heh
@ɥʇǝS heh, fair enough. Was this the same troll/spammer/hacker that also threatened Tim Post back in the day? Or something else?
Also, what's the story of the stuffed Iguana? How did you get to have it? :)
Sometimes I also don't feel 100% comfortable having real life avatar, but by now it's easy enough to find my real identity anyway, so it doesn't really matter. And I have knifes in my house. ;)
Not surprised to see this page is empty - no way to report privacy breach. Probably too many people used it, and they preferred to just shut down the option to report.
We submitted out policy for review by the US Department of Commerce. Once that goes through, we should appear on that site AFAIK. In the meantime, here's the verification from Privacy Trust (also linked from the bottom of the privacy policy): privacytrust.com/cert/878767.html — Adam Lear ♦Mar 10 at 16:58
I was just looking through the list of All sites to see new sites. I was surprised to see Ask Parents stats: 2.8k questions, 4.4k answers, nearly 10k users and site age is only 3 months!!
So, with extreme curiosity, I've tried to trace it on Area51 but haven't succeed. Then I suspected ab...
@JourneymanGeek no, not really, just some strange request that even if posted on a site where it could be on-topic it would probably be closed. And Oded deleted it so all is good now.
@Shog9 Is there any way for normal people like me to access a list of posts deleted as spam + their original text? Deleted posts aren't in the archived dumps, SEDE's PostsWithDeleted drops the Body for spam, and the API /posts doesn't return deleted ones.
@JasonC Grab Post Id from a SEDE query and then click a lot, assuming you have 10K. (The query points directly to source, saving another click). Presumably, can be screen scraped too, sending your auth cookies. There's no easier way.
Hey @JeremyBanks is there a way for normal people to grab all posts deleted as spam/offensive? I'm out of ideas.
Public data dump doesn't include them, SEDE drops the body, the API doesn't give them back, and scraping SEDE-generated ID lists from /revisions/postid/1 with my auth cookies runs into some sort of issue (maybe rate limiting or some sort of spam protection) that logs me out, even with 5 second request intervals.
@JasonC More or less by design. I believe we sent the SmokeDetector folks a batch of spam/offensive posts (with an NDA) to validate their algorithms. (I'm a bit vague on the details, however.) What are you hoping to learn?
@JonEricson I'm hoping to learn a few things, some related to the proposed whitespace link filter and other smokey filters. I'd rather not get into specifics if I don't have to because I don't want to start any conversations if my premises are wrong.
Also it's just a generally interesting dataset to have.
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"Whitespace link" thing is a non-issue. Not worth the trouble of even thinking about scraping stuff.
I know. But I can't prove it. But also it's a nice dataset to have for other tests too. I'm also kind of interested in evaluating SmokeDetector filters for myself, independent-study style. I have no real goal yet. I'm hoping to discover [un]interesting things.
The data is so close to being publicly accessible that I can taste it (mmm spam). I could just do like 10 requests a day for the next 7.4 years.
I need code in scratch for the game wormy. (the worm eats the apple and gets bigger while constantly moving around the box.)
We are trying to show the differences in languages.
I was just looking through the list of All sites to see new sites. I was surprised to see Ask Parents stats: 2.8k questions, 4.4k answers, nearly 10k users and site age is only 3 months!!
So, with extreme curiosity, I've tried to trace it on Area51 but haven't succeed. Then I suspected ab...
I need code in scratch for the game wormy. (the worm eats the apple and gets bigger while constantly moving around the box.)
We are trying to show the differences in languages.
