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8:02 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website, url in title: http://diabacordoesitwork.com/garcinia-extract-elite/ by xonzejoanxy on meta.stackexchange.com
 
8:13 AM
will this room please WAKE UP!!!
 
Morning!
 
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@bummi gute morgen Herr bummi ;)
 
I took a bite from it....
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MY HTC ONE X DOES NOT PLAY AUDIO AND BEAT AUDIO IS GREY by desele on android.stackexchange.com
 
8:20 AM
If you're shouting that loudly, chances are you are just deaf.
 
or you have been on the moon for the last thousand years
 
Or the root-cause is that the caps-lock is stuck, which is also used to mute the audio?
 
@rene anyway, more seriously. Anyone here would support a meta proposal for a feature that zalgoify all answers on questions whose title is all caps lock?
 
8:32 AM
I would definitely upvote that on Friday...
 
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[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: doctor you deal with the sort of thing by shmin hsmin on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user, blacklisted website: Change Windows 7 Product Key by Rich Bunnell on superuser.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SUM THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DATES by DylanW80 on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user, blacklisted website: How to find Windows 7 Product Key? by Rich Bunnell on superuser.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: the next process of fraud in the market by dbina duna on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
8:49 AM
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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website, repeating characters in body: how does skin problem by Edith juriya on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Think of your toned lean muscle tissuhat whape body and will help: by long wire on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
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[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Pilates Mat Exercises For Runners And Fitness Gym Fans by user295323 on meta.stackexchange.com
 
9:00 AM
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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ERROR 1054 (42S22) by Nilton on pt.stackoverflow.com
 
I guess removing Obrigado and leaving a comment with a link to Should 'Hi', 'thanks,' taglines, and salutations be removed from posts? is pushing my luck...
 
@rene I'm trying to improve my judgement speed here: stackexchange.com/questions?tab=realtime and have to admit I'm feeling my age :/
 
Is there a "save this page for offline browsing" feature on Chrome?
 
blacklist candidate longhorn-reloaded.org
 
9:15 AM
@bummi do you use Jan's userscript?
@Unihedron don't tell me that is the only thing IE is good at...
 
@rene no, don't even know about, just watching the page
blacklist candidate longhorn-reloaded.org
 
@bummi hold on
 
@rene IE also has a better [personal preference] mascot than chrome's, so that makes IE up by 2 points
then you look at the parts where chrome does better and those two points are insignificant
 
^ i think the incognito man is unremarkable.
 
9:19 AM
lol
 
^firepony is better.
 
^ that's just fanart, not the actual mascot :P
Mozilla was the mascot of the now disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation and subsequently the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla took the form of a green and purple cartoon lizard. Programmer Jamie Zawinski came up with the name during a meeting while working at the company. Mozilla was designed by Dave Titus in 1994. The name "Mozilla" was already in use at Netscape as the codename for Netscape Navigator 1.0. The name stood for "Mosaic killer", as the company's goal was to displace NCSA Mosaic as the world's number one web browser. Initially the mascot took various forms, including that of...
am i the only person who thinks the creative department of mozilla really stretched themselves there
 
@rene thanks, I'll take a look if I get clear with it these days :)
 
and then there's the mascot of IE
Inori Aizawa (Japanese: 藍澤 祈, Chinese: 藍澤祈), also known as Internet Explorer-tan, is a moe anthropomorphism mascot character of the Internet Explorer web browser, created by Microsoft Singapore and designed by Collateral Damage Studios. Aizawa was created in celebration of Anime Festival Asia 2013, and is featured in a video, Facebook profile as well as a special edition of the browser. Inori's purpose is to help advertise IE, and to convince anime fans to return to using the browser, due to its falling popularity. The character has received mostly positive reception. == Character development... ==
though the browser itself still sucks
 
@Unihedron ctrl+s seems to work for me... that gives me an html file and folder with images
 
9:24 AM
@rene but 1. I can't browse the original website like it works, 2. localstorage is rekt 3. the address changes and my userscript cries
 
@Unihedron what do you expect? It saves the current presented view state of the page.
and that works, even if you save in Chrome and open in IE
which proves again how awesome IE is...
 
ugh
something is wrong today, i'm getting this urge to switch to IE
but i'm not on windows
 
@Unihedron www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/firefox-joins-herd.html
you Totally sure?
 
@SPArchaeologist i'm well aware that the official firefox page reposted the fanart, i saw that on hackernews
 
@Unihedron actually they also use it internally and had attempted to have the konami code switch icons in the about firefox page. All dropped because of the legal implications with Hasbro.
 
9:31 AM
yep
 
So, now you have the plugin to switch the two.
officially "fan made"
 
@SPArchaeologist Officially.
 
@Unihedron so officially that it is the last message in the bug tracker page for the ponami code issue "Cannot complete because of legal issues, use this instead"
 
9:43 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: A fight how is probably I guess there is really by eloisesimm on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
@Unihedron Stop using lowercase "i"...please....
 
slow day - so boring
 
@InfiniteRecursion oh?
I would but my keyboard isn't behaving well recently :( it likes to miss my s, c, v, shift, and p strokes
 
@Unihedron ants
 
9:47 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: How can we help students who are very anxious about math? by Allen Seay on matheducators.stackexchange.com
 
Looking for s: I'm a hardcore typist, so the keys should be strong to stand the way I type; prefer ones that works with 6+ keytaps at once; bonus points for free shipping; extra bonus points for pest-free ones
 
inb4 on LH: Ants ate my keyboard. How can I restore my keys?
 
@Unihedron buy any keyboard and wrap it in bubblewrap </lifehack>
 
@Bart nice promotion, but the enter key is flat - no-go
I want an L-shaped enter key.
 
9:51 AM
It has an L key ...
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[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Improve Your Memory With Supplements by lijhya wioz on meta.stackexchange.com
 
@Unihedron thinkgeek.com/product/1631 no ants in this one .
 
@Unihedron needs moar ants
 
I'm impressed by ultimatehackingkeyboard.com but they don't have their builds up yet
 
9:56 AM
@Unihedron Razer black widow, hand's down the best keyboard I have ever owned.
 
@SPArchaeologist it's not really a keyboard, but mmkay
@TimPost looks promising
whoa the chroma version has pretty colors :P
 
@Unihedron enter in NOT L
 
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@Unihedron but the enter key is NOT L !!
 
9:59 AM
@InfiniteRecursion it's fine
 
Yeah, it's pretty awesome looking. But it's the design of the keys themselves, the feel of it in general, the sound - it's just awesome. Just the right amount of pressure needed to press and get good tactile feedback, but you can seriously race across this thing at high speeds when you need to
 
@Unihedron No. Your ants will get confused while entering the keyboard.
 
:o
 
a rapid youtube search gives some idea for an alternate solution
Embrace the ants and live with them.
Make friends
 
The code keyboard is also quite awesome looking, but I'm so happy with the switches in this one that I'm kinda reluctant to fork out 150 for something I don't really need
 
10:01 AM
I'm currently using a crappy keyboard I bought with five bucks which I've been pretty happy with - except for how ants destructed it pretty thoroughly
 
@TimPost but you know you want to
 
> About Me box under revamp - sorry for inconvenience, come back later ;D <3
 
@InfiniteRecursion It's been like that for five months so this revamp thing didn't work out :D
 
Very tempted by all those keyboards, but I'd have to switch back to qwerty again ...
 
Are you using an azerty board now?
 
10:09 AM
Qwertz. Swiss-french.
With all the programming keys in weird places
 
lol
 
I finally gave in some years ago when I realized nobody would get me a Qwerty keyboard.
 
@Bart Frisky Dingo Ant farm keyboard isn't Qwerty
 
@rene here on SharePoint we don't use keyboards anymore. We now use magic wands.
 
10:11 AM
As if SharePoint alone is not magic enough...
 
cute spam
 
did the spelling-checker changed sharepoint into SharePoint?
 
@InfiniteRecursion raised a cute flag.
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@InfiniteRecursion went there hoping they would be selling some pony plush. I am not trusting you again.
 
Is this off-topic for MSO?
@SPArchaeologist :O
 
10:30 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in answer: Events in WCF Service Architecture (Server Side) by Syed Osama Maruf on programmers.stackexchange.com
 
@InfiniteRecursion why offensive? NAA seems more appropriate?
 
> Silly question
that's kinda disrespect/insult to OP, I guess
 
@Bart Silly question
 
I think he means "I have a silly question"
At least that's how I read it
 
10:38 AM
most of answer from same guy are just one line answers
 
even as a NAA it is just waiting for someone to start the spark by replying something like "Another silly question: why you replied instead of using a comment?"... and then flame war.
 
10:51 AM
@SPArchaeologist good idea. brb
 
to late. it is gone.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website: Odds are to have an Austrian farm by Daniel Rose on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DELETE DELETE DELETE DELETE by Francis Clochard on math.stackexchange.com
 
11:06 AM
@SmokeDetector rollback! rollback! rollback! rollback! rollback! rollback!
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@rene Homegrown Tomato required
 
Yeah, I don't have the priv
 
It's been done already
 
great
sorry for the ping HomegrownTomato
 
Probably someone wants their homework to disappear before they hand it in...
 
11:09 AM
I guess so
Not on these sites. Once posted it is OURS!
 
@PeterJ yeah probably
 
11:25 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username: Mr Robot: Episode 2 by Black Magic on movies.stackexchange.com
 
Boredom.
I think I will start a new game.
"Smokey Untrainer"
Post valid questions around the network that will be recognized as false positives.
 
@SPArchaeologist so basically you will post stuff on Arqade?
 
@Bart That's the idea. But let's not forget LE
 
@SPArchaeologist Other options include LifeHacks.se and Islam.se
 
^ had a typo there. LE was meant to be LH
 
11:48 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: a lot I'll what we bought loll %uh by yculx ecnirp on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
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@SPArchaeologist blame ants, seem to be common practice here...
 
@rene Actually, I am typing by levitating a small bronze weight from one key to the next using alicorn magic and I lost concentration after triggering one of the left over hidden party cannons... but ok, but ok, I will blame ants
Also be happy, @rene. Uni could start blaming Herobrine for his error too.
 
@SPArchaeologist who on (or off of) earth is that?
 
11:55 AM
cool cool
 
also know as "how a urban legend became an horror story first and a thousand different mods after"
Basically he is the Minecraf version of Mario64 LisReal2014 or Ocarina ElPuerco
 
*Minecraft
 
@Bart not liking blocky sandboxes?
 
@SPArchaeologist like them far too much. FAR too much
 
@Bart if you prefer I could illustrate you the benefits of join our team in the next LoE beta test open weekend....
 
12:09 PM
And those are?
 
Legend of Equestria ^_^, pony based online MMORPG
 
12:21 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Brain Booster Yahoo 123 by ferry zerry on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
Nice when a user accepts an answer a year after I wrote it xD
 
@Mooseman just one? be grateful
 
@Unihedron Well there are many still unaccepted... :p
 
In Linux I have a $VAR which contains /path with spaces/target. If I do find '$VAR' $VAR no longer gets expanded. How do I fix that?
 
12:26 PM
This post (and a few others, rarely) don't follow the site's usual syntax highlighting style. Does anyone know why? Is it a bug? There's no language specified for those code blocks.
 
@rene "$VAR"
 
@Szabolcs maybe one of the tags has an language associated
mods can see that
 
@rene That should never be the case on this site.
 
@Louis thanks, that worked!
 
@rene anyone can now
 
12:30 PM
Oh cool
 
@Szabolcs it's using "default" so, it basically guesses what syntax highlight it should use
 
@Braiam On Mathematica.SE all code blocks are supposed to default to Mathematica instead of guessing. This is what usually happens, and what happened in the past. These stray wrongly highlighted code blocks only appeared some weeks ago.
 
caused by the table tag
You can post on meta to request its code language removal
 
@rene You're right.
@rene Can local mods do that?
 
Yes.
 
12:33 PM
there, a @Doorknob to the rescue
 
Thanks for the help!
 
12:57 PM
Quite strange to see a knob handle a situation
 
@Szabolcs apparently they are aware meta.mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/1566/11075, maybe another ping is necessary
 
Though Anna marked it as status-completed
 
user259867
1:14 PM
@SmokeDetector fp- some consulate's email
 
42
Q: One-box repositories, issue tickets and such on GitHub in the chat

UnihedronGitHub links are posted in chat quite frequently, but the support of the appearance is somewhat poor: <html><head><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn-chat.sstatic.net/chat/css/chat.stackoverflow.com.css"></head><body><div id="transcript"><div class="monologue user-2246344"><div class="si...

that number :D
 
@Unihedron downvotes
 
1:29 PM
was purple pony number but someone upvoted it
 
1:44 PM
@SPArchaeologist what on earth is purple pony number?
 
@Unihedron 42
@Unihedron already have explained that other times on chat, there are some theories going that associate the mlp character Twilight Sparke to the hitchhiker guide 42 answer. Probably it was intentionally made by the show authors.
if you really want to know the full story ask, but I don't want to annoy you with something you probably don't need to know.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: python 2.7 geopy address error by bcomc on stackoverflow.com
 
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2:00 PM
@SmokeDetector ignore- hangul characters (but an edit would help)
 
@SmokeDetector weird, don't hangul have their own reason? @ProgramFOX?
 
2:25 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Comments natural Max Burn not indicate by lisa bean on meta.stackexchange.com
 
> This account is temporarily suspended for rule violations.
 
3:03 PM
I don't know... is this 404 for biology really lame or not? biology.stackexchange.com/404 seems like its just taking many icons from the regular header image and adding a big question mark , or is there some biology meaning to it?
 
@Dronehinge that is the difference between something visually pleasant and accurate/meaningful images
 
^ this person created an additional account to leave that answer (comment)
 
Lifehacks [Camping] Challenge ends in 9 hours meta.lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/2521/…
 
@Braiam Yes, but I duplicated the Hangul regex. I removed the duplicate, so it should be fine.
 
user259867
@hichris123 So, it's connectify link? But the answer doesn't look that bad.
 
@HomegrownTomato Yeah, I need to check why connectify was added to the blacklist.
 
May 11 at 7:39, by bummi
blacklist candidate connectify.me
 
ah.
There's probably going to be quite a few fps...
 
user259867
3:30 PM
So, they may be spamming, but they have some actual users too. Is this what's going on?
 
user259867
Not that many fps, five real posts so far in 2015: superuser.com/search?tab=newest&q=url%3aconnectify.me
 
@HomegrownTomato right
 
user259867
I consider these an analog of review audits for the taverners.
 
@HomegrownTomato That's infinitely greater than the 0 some of the muscle spam sites have...
 
user259867
I kind of want to set up a popular blog about muscle growth, using Drupal as a platform.
 
3:35 PM
Two more votes to migrate to meta: stackoverflow.com/questions/30504187/…
 
@hichris123 mm... makeuseof is spam now?
 
@Braiam I didn't click the link, but I bet it links to a spam website.
The post also linked to recoverytoolbox.com.
 
yet another spam stackoverflow.com/a/17020782/792066 maybe?
 
@Hosch250 Nothing special actually, the title just gets registered a second time in the Bayesian database.
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector ignore- we've discussed this one.
 
@Braiam That's... strange.
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mmm? we have the name of the creator of a tag?
nope
 
4:02 PM
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
user259867
@hichris123 caching. There is no live feed on that page, either.
 
user259867
4:06 PM
I usually open logitech tag page instead during these waves
 
user259867
The best use of that tag.
 
user259867
Also, technical-debt.
 
user259867
The tags that are consistently used by spammers should be treasured, not burninated.
 
@HomegrownTomato Must be some super strong caching. For a while it was showing me 6 minute old questions.
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Q: svchost.exe high memory usage - wuauserv

OliverI'm running Windows 7, and I've been experiencing high memory usage from one of my svchost.exe processes. Services under that particular process are BITS, EAPHost, IKEEXT, LanmanServer, MMCSS, ProfSVC, RasMan, Schedule, SENS, SharedAccess, ShellHWDetection, Themes, winmgmt and wuauserv. I've ...

^ I thought this was just my problem. Turns out it was an issue with Windows Update. :/
 
user245368
@ProgramFOX This could bias the machine learning.
 
user259867
4:13 PM
Grr. The chat timestamps don't have a title text with full UTC time. (I'm analyzing the time distribution of support phone spam)
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector fp-
 
user245368
Needs Jamalizing, though.
 
user245368
@JasonC Blocking the ticker doesn't work.
 
@HomegrownTomato they do..
 
4:20 PM
wait, is relative, so they don't
 
That is everything Zephyr has seen since Jan 1 with "Support" that has been mentioned as spam by either users or Smokey
The time stamp is Central time
not UTC (I know, shame on me)
 
user259867
@Andy Thanks, but there is some duplication there, and not everything is with "support'
 
user259867
> "Hard To Attract More Male Teachers","2015-05-06 04:19:00"
 
It's searching the body, not the title. I didn't include the body of the post
 
user259867
I see. The timestamp in chat isn't a big issue, since the transcript has it as text.
 
user259867
4:22 PM
I'm using importxml to grab this into a spreadsheet, and parsing afterward.
 
@HomegrownTomato That was on Drupal. I'll bet you one cookie that it was spam
 
user259867
Sure; just that the title was curious.
 
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user259867
Histogram of "phone" in Smokey reports (support and number would be similar), UTC time.
 
4:35 PM
@HomegrownTomato so, at 16:00UTC there's a spike in reports about phone numbers
 
user259867
@Braiam So it seems...
 
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4:51 PM
 
user259867
^ histogram for "support" keyword
 
user259867
What I'm getting at is: it's quite different from skin care / muscle / brain / aging spam.
 
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user259867
^ this is "skin".
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ERROR INSERT INTO MYSQLI DATABSE by Developer Swag on stackoverflow.com
 
@SmokeDetector fpu close -> typo
 
@LynnCrumbling Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
@Qantas94Heavy not sock, just an incredibly common surname.
 
user259867
5:20 PM
@Shog9 - your link above in your very first comment is pointed to the wrong site (unless you are claiming to be nicael). I think you meant to link to MSO, not MSE. — psubsee2003 9 hours ago
 
user259867
Weird rewrite. Fixed. — Shog9 ♦ 2 hours ago
 
user259867
Yeah, sure. Sock puppet confirmed
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TIL volleyball is much pain
 
@bjb568 you haven't practiced Futbol
 
No, not really.
 
5:30 PM
well, we'll talk then
 
user259867
blacklist candidate healthsupplementtrial.org but we really should try to make the blacklisting of sites more regex-driven...
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector tpu-spam
 
user259867
For example, there is unlikely to be a legitimate post linking to a site with "supplement" in hostname.
 
5:39 PM
6 results on SO search (search is acting strange; there might be more).
Which is a very reasonable false positive rate.
 
user259867
So the regex could be supplement[a-z0-9-]\.(com|net|org)
 
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Q: Apply special font on website

user500468If you navigate to http://www.swedish-supplements.com/?portfolio=fcked-up-forest-raspberry, you can see that the text content is "Fjord One". I want the same font style on my page, but I don't know how to apply that font?

 
user259867
That URL... and is this even on topic?
 
Yeah, I was going to say...
 
@HomegrownTomato If the user didn't have so much rep, and have a history of normal questions, I'd worry.
 
5:45 PM
It would be amusing if whatever process generated that URL slug / query string param actually semi-removes profanity.
But I guess they probably just named whatever "portfolio" is that way.
 
user259867
@jadarnel27 The brand name uses # instead of u, which was automatically dropped by slug generation.
 
Ah, that makes sense, @HomegrownTomato.
 
user259867
How about editing the post to remove the specific reference to a site?
 
user259867
> I saw a site using the font named "Fjord One". How can I use this font on my website?
 
It feels off-topic. But none of the close reasons seem appropriate, which makes me think it just warrants a downvote. I guess it could be "unclear." We don't know what they know / what they're trying to do, so it's hard to determine how much information they would need in an answer.
"I am trying to re-create the famous 'big bang theory' lightning bolt logo in CSS." - apparently The Flash's logo is now more popular for being worn by Sheldon Cooper than by Wally West / Barry Allen / etc.
 
5:56 PM
@jadarnel27 This makes the geek in me cry a little
 
Same here.
Though I am a big fan of The Big Bang Theory (the show, not the cosmological model).
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Why do people turn and face the bomb in CS:GO? by user92151 on gaming.stackexchange.com
 
@HomegrownTomato what the... that guy fails as web dev
 
6:21 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Can I put my iPhone 4 sim card into a new iPhone 4S? by jim on apple.stackexchange.com
 
6:43 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Url in title: http://trymmamusclepro.net/action-fuel-pro/ by kfaulk smith on meta.stackexchange.com
 
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is there a way to disable the 'sticky' voting buttons?
 
Goo Gone.
Oh wow, that's new.
 
@cybermonkey How does it stand as an answer? It's commentary on one of the other answers.
@cybermonkey This answer.
There's even a comment, "This was a great post" (referring to the answer)
 
yeah, I see now, NAA
 
6:55 PM
(I'm sure we'll see a comment appear at some point to the effect of, "How am I supposed to leave a comment with no rep?")
 
@SmokeDetector tpu tl;dr; not enough 'Replication'
 
@cybermonkey Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 

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