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Manishearth

1:06 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Possible spam: HELP WITH SELECTING OUR THESIS STATISTICAL TREATMENT

rene

false positive, I have an account on cross validated now and edited the title

Sumurai8

opens a window <-- well, that was not really a fire :P

rene

:-)

Sumurai8

Have you editted in a no-smoking sign into that post too?

rene

No, but if you want to gain some rep there you could do an extra suggested edit ;-)

I still expect some football spam...

Sumurai8

1:14 PM

I fear they might consider that "non-constructive"

Shadow Wizard

sigh.

It gets worse by the day.

soon all the good reviewers would stop reviewing and we'll get crap like that anywhere.

rene

Isn't there a feature request for rejecting whitespace edits all together? Much like the minimal 6 chars change?

Shadow Wizard

another one, even worse: stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3957507

Just removing random part of the post

will be approved in 3.. 2.. 1

@rene no, code formatting is achieved using spaces so if those whitespaces are inside code they count

rene

That last one didn't make it... I see in your rejection reason that you're annoyed...

Shadow Wizard

1:30 PM

@rene yes but actually "defaces the post in some way" fits perfectly.

This is deliberate abuse of editing

!!/shutdown

oh

That was fast

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Doorknob of Snow

Lol, already?

(I just woke up)

Shadow Wizard

Well, it was a long shot to begin with, was surprised it got launched at all

Qantas 94 Heavy

Oh wow that c++ moderator question has got to be my fun of the day

Shadow Wizard

@Qantas94Heavy hmm... what?

Qantas 94 Heavy

@ShadowWizard: stackoverflow.com/questions/21511214

Shadow Wizard

1:41 PM

lol

rene

lol

those C++ people are....weird...

Shadow Wizard

Kudos to Mr. Lightness who added a shiny tag

Manishearth

[ SmokeDetector ] Possible spam: Permuting “123456728905”

Qantas 94 Heavy

Err, not spam but a crap question anyway.

Tim Stone

@Manishearth ENCODING BUG!!!

coughs

Qantas 94 Heavy

1:47 PM

@TimStone: please don't die, I don't want you setting off the smoke detector

Shadow Wizard

If any post with a number is possible spam I fear this bot is going to flood us with tons of false positives.

3ventic

@ShadowWizard with a number that's the length of a phone number

Manishearth

[ SmokeDetector ] Possible spam: Permuting “123456728905”

3ventic

Someone edit the title..

Shadow Wizard

So the bot will keep alerting until the end of all times, or until the "possible spam" will be deleted?!

3ventic

1:56 PM

or it's edited

I can't figure out a good replacement title though

Sumurai8

title seems okay with me

3ventic

Yeah it seems okay, but it's spamming us until Manish comes back to fix it..

Sumurai8

You can throw ban-hammers at him

Tim Stone

@3ventic I thought it only did it a second time because an answer was posted.

Sumurai8

although I seriously hope he has built something in so it will only repeat an x amount of times

3ventic

1:58 PM

@TimStone every time it's bumped

Tim Stone

Not that that makes sense for it to do either since the answer is fine, but.

That's silly.

3ventic

The script monitors active feed so it can detect old spam too

Shadow Wizard

math.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/159462

Manishearth

[ SmokeDetector ] Possible spam: Permuting “123456728905”

3ventic

The script needs to check for numbers starting with + or 0 only..

Doorknob of Snow

2:00 PM

why flag? -_-

Tim Stone

@3ventic What the hell is old spam? I'm pretty sure stuff like what this is supposed to be targeting tends to get cleaned up without much issue. :P

Doorknob of Snow

voted for invalid

Shadow Wizard

@DoorknobofSnow if I'll post the same thing three times it will be annoying

Doorknob of Snow

@ShadowWizard but it's a malfunctioning bot! :P

3ventic

@TimStone True, but there are still spam posts from 2008-2009 getting flagged some time

Shadow Wizard

2:01 PM

yup

edited!

If only the OP there would know the reason for the edit was to stop a broken bot... LOL

Tim Stone

Yeah, that's...kind of a bad precedent.

3ventic

I already edited a few titles leaving a note about broken bot in the summary

lol

Doorknob of Snow

@ShadowWizard Wait, you didn't change the title...?

Manishearth

[ SmokeDetector ] Possible spam: Permuting “123456728905”

Doorknob of Snow

lol fail

Shadow Wizard

2:05 PM

lol fail

We are doomed

and no, why change the title? It's valid, it's not spam.

I thought any edit would stop the bot as in "hey bot, it's still alive, it's edited, don't mess with it anymore"

My bot would be smarter :D

Sumurai8

Your bot would write it's own code?

3ventic

The bot can't see edits

Shadow Wizard

@Sumurai8 no but it will be fueled by unicorns

3ventic

It just sees the title from active feed, if it looks like spam, it links it here.

Sumurai8

it doesn't even see the question body?

Shadow Wizard

2:07 PM

@3ventic so how come it still see it in the feed when there's no edit?

3ventic

@ShadowWizard Answers and edits to answers bump it to the top of active feed too

Doorknob of Snow

[bot] The time is 2014-02-02 08:08:23 -0600

3ventic

@Sumurai8 nope

Doorknob of Snow

[bot] The time is 2014-02-02 08:08:31 -0600

Shadow Wizard

Sorry but alerting every post with number having x amount of digits in the title is just plain bad

3ventic

2:08 PM

asdf

True

But it is still a testing version

Shadow Wizard

So I'll give it a D in the test ;)

Sumurai8

Such a meany!

Doorknob of Snow

[debug] chat WebSocket init

3ventic

This is probably not the best chat to test bots though

Sumurai8

!!tickle Doorknob of

of snow even *

Shadow Wizard

2:12 PM

@3ventic why not?

Sumurai8

It's a tavern. Robots don't drink beer.

3ventic

Robots do drink beer.

Shadow Wizard

They even dream, @Sumurai8 :)

hello ProgramFOX!

ProgramFOX

Hello!

Shadow Wizard

What's up?

I always feel bit like Jon Skeet when an answer I posted over three years ago suddenly gets an upvote. Such a warm, joyful, feeling. :-D

Doorknob of Snow

2:21 PM

got 10 messages

got 11 messages

ummm that's not supposed to happen

Shadow Wizard

@Door your bot got out of control?

Doorknob of Snow

@ShadowWizard I suppose you could say that :P

Shadow Wizard

So... show him the door! ;)

rene

Yay, another badge

Doorknob of Snow

got 10 messages

Sumurai8

2:23 PM

What badge did you got?

Doorknob of Snow

got 12 messages

got 13 messages

got 14 messages

Shadow Wizard

@Sumurai8 Edited 50 tag wikis

Doorknob of Snow

bot! stop it!

Sumurai8

slaps bot

Doorknob of Snow

got 17 messages

okay, I killed it :P

Shadow Wizard

2:23 PM

which means.... Research Assistant!

Doorknob of Snow

for some reason sleep 5 isn't sleeping for 5 seconds -_-

Shadow Wizard

ummm... it's 5 mili seconds

Doorknob of Snow

@ShadowWizard not in Ruby it's not

Sumurai8

@ShadowWizard Ah nice

rene

Research Assistant on SO @Sumurai8

Shadow Wizard

2:24 PM

@DoorknobofSnow so ruby is bad! ;)

Doorknob of Snow

:P

Shadow Wizard

@rene only 135 with that badge, nice!

Sumurai8

I rarely see an oportunity to edit a tag wiki

rene

It is easy: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/164537/…

Shadow Wizard

@rene problem is to come with proper wiki

Serious question guys, think you are sober enough to try and answer? :)

Doorknob of Snow

2:28 PM

got 10 messages

Shadow Wizard

!!kill !!killthemalll

Doorknob of Snow

got 12 messages

okay, I'm just commenting out the "got ___ messages" code for now :P

Shadow Wizard

but what are those messages?

rene

just messages

now carry on

Doorknob of Snow

@ShadowWizard it's supposed to print, say, "got 2 messages" if there were two messages sent before the last time it checked. Doesn't seem to work though -_-

Manishearth

2:32 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Possible spam: DR OLORUN CURE ME FROM VAMPIRISM

Doorknob of Snow

(test message)

another test

it's not working :(

Sumurai8

vampirism xD

Shadow Wizard

@Sumurai8 that was a quick response... arqade is good at spam hunting

3ventic

Yeah, active community

+ new questions feed in the chat

that was deleted before the script posted it in the chat though

Bart

Hahaha, we're on to vampirism now? Awesome

Shadow Wizard

2:38 PM

@Bart google.co.uk/…

Perfect place for spammer to hide such spam... or so the spammer might think :D

test

ping

... at least the kid has goals

3ventic

It was posted as an answer to "Is there any way to ensure you become a Vampire?"

Shadow Wizard

2:43 PM

Just noticed something pretty funny.. Stack Exchange is now officially a social network

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3ventic

How come?

Doorknob of Snow

@ShadowWizard nooooooooooooooo.com

Shadow Wizard

@3ventic ^^

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