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[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Why is tuple faster than list? by Asenath Raja on stackoverflow.com

Sarge Borsch

10:21 AM

hey, what's the problem about @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ?

Pinging him in chat yesterday pinged everybody who could be pinged.

Sarge Borsch

cool :)

Q: He who must not be named? (aka Anyone can ping everyone in chat)

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For some or other reason, typing @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ in a chat room pings everyone who's been in that chat room for the last 7 days... Seems to work in all chat rooms (I only tested 2 as I don't want to be a jerk) How should we proceed?

maveň

@Bart cc @bjb568 why you told them ._.

@SargeBorsch lol

in Android on Stack Overflow Chat, 28 secs ago, by maveň

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ hi

not working there :(

Nah, it got fixed

maveň

10:25 AM

@Bart my bad :3

10:36 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body: Can't share over wifi, only have share over ethernet option by user255937 on superuser.com

user202362

10:48 AM

@%_%

Nice try

user202362

what else would you suggest?

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu-

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: How to use Belladermx cream from wrinkle reduction? by Cherry Verry on superuser.com

10:55 AM

Humans, can you DNS-resolve this URL: portuguese.helptousers.com/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: How can i make junit result into csv or other files? by Rajashekar Duvva on stackoverflow.com

One of my users has reported it in public chat as a scraper, but I get NXDOMAIN on it so I can't check whether it's a valid or invalid reuse scenario.

user259867

looks like this

user259867

Not a single link to SE, or a mention of it.

Q: "Era só jajão, quando tu dizias que me morres." Isto é gramatical?

Thanks. That's one of Jacinto's questions, who noticed it.

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A frase vem da canção Jajão, também aqui com letra, do cantor angolano Master Jake. Jajão significa em Angola conversa para enganar. Ora Edno Pimentel, num artigo publicado em Maio passado na revista angolana Nova Gazeta e reproduzido aqui no Ciberdúvidas, classifica este uso de "me morrer" como...

gramática conjugação-pronominal

user259867

11:00 AM

Just some ads, question, an ad, "solution 1", then "solution 2". Nothing about the authors.

11:15 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Easy Diet for healthy post-baby weight loss by user87664 on security.stackexchange.com

11:26 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: 6A80 GETTING WHEN I TRYNG TO PERSO TAG 8201 TAG by Faraz Farooqui on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Best way to start earning coins in fifa 16 by Michael Kunst on gaming.stackexchange.com

user259867

fp-

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore- not spam

Oops just flagged that before reading it properly...

user259867

Yes, people should try to choose less spammy titles for their questions.

feature-request flags undo

Wonder why SE (SO now?) don't have a way to retract flags? Seems easy enough considering you can do it with close votes and I'm sure I've seen it requested before. Would save a lot of time / embarrassment all-round for things like that.

user259867

11:35 AM

The question might still get nuked as broad / POB, etc.

user259867

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Q: Cancel misclicked flags

I'm wondering (since it just happened to me), is it possible to "cancel" ("undo", "delete", whatever) a flag I just raised if I misclicked it, so the mods won't waste time? I looked everywhere, but I can't find such a feature.

That's what I was thinking of, was already one of the 278

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body: ETL TESTING Online Training by shailurao on stackoverflow.com

user259867

White shirt attack in chat...

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Generalizition of standard convex problem by Walter Ruiz on mathoverflow.net

user259867

11:47 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu- spam

user259867

sd 2fp-

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: VPN settings for HMA tool by Jack Fosters on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Changing filesystem on dualboot by Walter Ruiz on superuser.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- essay spam

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Clear-Cut Advice In Pureternal Explained by user52418 on drupal.stackexchange.com

user259867

11:54 AM

@SmokeDetector That's a problem with xkcd.com/810 -- automated helpful and constructive comments are easy to make. Just copy them from somewhere else.

Patrick Hofman

@NormalHuman sup? Got something against ties and Aston Martins?

I thought it was a scarf and Mazda 121

Patrick Hofman

@PeterJ lol. No, it was my wedding picture.

Ahh well I can't be too critical then, I made that mistake earlier in the year too ;)

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: There are numerous sites on the internet by Ritalsamuels on drupal.stackexchange.com

12:15 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Brain Booster Pills most of the difference in the world by zoliuloiz on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Loan Amortization with Insurance by Jenny on money.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: How do dividends of the underlying security in a security futures contract affect the security futures price? by Jenny on money.stackexchange.com

sd 4tpu-

Patrick Hofman

SPAM money.stackexchange.com/a/54254/33482

12:42 PM

!!/report mathoverflow.net/questions/219236/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Generalization of standard convex problem by Walter Ruiz on mathoverflow.net

Still there...

sd gone

Finally

How does a Mac lag?

Because mine is lagging horribly

Open up activity monitor

Some ReportCrash

And Chrome

Then it's chrome's problem. Complain to hichris.

12:56 PM

Hichris does chrome?

Yorp

Works at google?

Lol

…

@hichris halp plz

Its so OP when you have the computer admin password, and everyone else thinks you don't have it

Tests FeedStalker

OP is overpowered there?

sounds stupid

like most stuff on urban

1:00 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in title, title has only one unique char: сссссссссссссссссссссссссссссссссссссс by sssssssssssssssssss on ru.stackoverflow.com

Lol

ru.stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/30897

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: How do i properly position absolute divs within twitters bootstrap css framework by hoihoi on stackoverflow.com

VTD

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: How do I use today's entered data in excel for a formula? by Kevin on superuser.com

Lol

sd fp

1:04 PM

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica [:4010264] Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: What should I do about Canon PowerShot "Lens error, restart camera"? by fahad on photo.stackexchange.com

sd tp-

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica [:4010318] true/tp cannot be used for answers because their job is to add the title of the question to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'. If you want to blacklist the poster of the answer, use trueu or tpu.

...

Yey

Feedstalker works

Now lemme test WebsiteStalker

😽😽

??

What do you see?

Darn finder, wai u keep indexing?

1:29 PM

> This is an example of stupidity in action

-CS teacher on building layout and room numbers

Lol

What's it?

confusing

yesterday was the open house for parents. They were confused

Mmm

I still get confused in some sections of the skewl

School == Fun

1:42 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body, repeating characters in body: Showing query results on screen by K.Aas515 on stackoverflow.com

Wat

sd why

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica [:4010514] There is no why data for that post (anymore).

josilber

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica Already rolled back

Oh

vaultah

this question is probably a dupe

1:52 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: How to insert an image in python by ainsley on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector Typical: has Dutch comments in his code, his name is "C.Heese"

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: What is 'print' in Python? by akhii on stackoverflow.com

@PraxisAshelin lol

Why you would program in any language other than English is beyond me however.

So annoying.

2:07 PM

I agree

we have French and Dutch developers where I work, and ppl just randomly comment in their own language, quite annoying

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Sous Vide Tools: Achieve perfect sous vide results with our simple calculator by Kimberley Homer on cooking.stackexchange.com

I'm just glad the Indian devs we have don't do that

I had some French colleagues who tended to do that.

then I started passive-aggresively commenting in Dutch too

:D

2:09 PM

oh well

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Cannot invoke initializer for type 'NSMutableDictionary' with an argument list of type by mosaic6 on stackoverflow.com

user202362

Police have released CCTV images of a man in connection with a string of indecent assaults ... am I the only one thinking he's laughing while running away?

2:25 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SAS LAGS NOT INCLUDING MISSING VALUES? by Sasmania on stackoverflow.com

@chmod711telkitty looks like it

Ooker

Can some mod look at this question? How to make more pressure on the mods?

I think it is a network-site issue

I need a mod of mod opinion

since I'm complaining about the mods

@Oded can you come and give me your opinion?

Why Oded?

Dare you to call Shog

@Ooker I'm not a mod or a Health.SE user but that post makes little sense to me, seems like a rant without any clear indication of a specific problem or solution

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Sophomoric question related to TOC item counts by Jeff Stanford on gis.stackexchange.com

user202362

2:36 PM

@Bart Indecent assaults ... could be anything really. Maybe he wasn't aware that he had breached the law.

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Kernel panic 1/10 times after resume from suspend by Martin on askubuntu.com

@Ooker I agree with @PeterJ. And keep in mind Oded is not a mod, but a developer employee of SO.

Q: The yellow star in the sprites.svg image looks "unfinished"

See this:

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(Probably one cannot come up with a more irrelevant, bike-shedding bug report than this one) The favorite question star in the sprites.svg image has an outline that does not align with the content: The upper left and lower left sides have some empty areas shine through. My suggestion: Make ...

bug design images favorites

It's fixed here:

Btw @Ooker, more pressure is not really what mods need in any case. So if you clarify your post, perhaps also take into consideration that if something is lacking, you might want to look for an angle where you (the community) help them out instead.

Is polling every 5 seconds a nice thing?

2:42 PM

Ask yourself this question: "What would Anna say?" :p

Yes? No?

Right now my feed --tracker-- stalker polls every 5 seconds

Gasp

Gonna hook up to SO feed

Andy

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica Do you need to hit it every 5 seconds? What do you expect to change that frequently?

Dunno

Can change it to whatever I want

Can be every minute or every 5

Andy

Then to answer your question: 5 seconds is not nice.

Ok

> Bot decline offer, console write it's acceptede ERROR

Blech

user259867

3:04 PM

@SmokeDetector why

@NormalHuman Body - Position 2127-2137: muscle.net

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

-1

> How many hours do you sleep at night?

not enough

IKR

user259867

3:08 PM

user259867

I could use a few more hours of sleep...

Meh, I fear the Computer Graphics site may not show enough activity to survive. :(

@Bart That would be a pity.

Yeah, it doesn't look great though. And unfortunately most questions are outside my domain, so I haven't really been able to contribute.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: OBJECT CONVERSION IN EQUAL NAMESPACES / DIFFERENT PROJECTS by Admilson Moreira Silva on stackoverflow.com

3:17 PM

@Bart Same here. Hopefully I'll be able to give it some attention over the weekend. I doubt I'll be able to contribute well, unfortunately.

user259867

^ sites launched in 2015, Views Per Day vs Questions Per Day (excluding imported Russian sites, which are off the chart in the top right)

Myeah, that doesn't look great.

user259867

OTOH it's apparently okay to be slow, as long as there is some activity and the site stays clean.

user259867

Comp. Graphics has more QPD than 19 other betas, including Spanish Language, LEGO, Personal Productivity and Martial Arts -- those sites are 3-4 years old.

user259867

3:23 PM

Personal Productivity is not very productive...

Myeah, they do seem to leave sites in beta limbo for quite some time now.

Here's to hoping then.

@SmokeDetector That had an upvote..??????

user259867

@SmokeDetector poof

Lol

@S.L.Barth yup

3:24 PM

For websitestalker I was adding the stream to the string, not the content

Sometimes I think we need a type of "voting audits", outside the review queues....

@NormalHuman What's its covariance? :p

3:56 PM

@S.L.Barth if (vote.type == 'upvote') user.ban();

xkcdBot

Today's xkcd comic (Picture a Grassy Field):

Wait, I can fix this. Picture another field. In the middle sits the only creature the first creature is afraid of. Now just-- wait, where did THAT one go?

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW TO REMOVE FIRST CHARACTER IN SPECIFIC COLUMN WITH SED by Miguel Angel on unix.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: I bought a GE 14411 mini mouse, wireless 2.4ghz, and the usb is missing from it by Hush564 on superuser.com

5:22 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: Backslash (\) behaving differently by user5377201 on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: How to monitor the highlighted text(or selected text) from other opened APPs in android by Hamreen Ahmad on stackoverflow.com

5:40 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Django Angular Single Page or Componenets (which approach?) by user3900778 on stackoverflow.com

6:20 PM

@bjb568 I'd agree, but you should be using symbolic constants instead of string literals :-P

6:32 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Staying hydrated is merely another label for maintaining? by PeggymIsaac on askubuntu.com

@S.L.Barth meh

@bjb568 Ok, what you want: SYMBOLIC CONSTANTS ARE FOR THE WEAK! REAL MEN DON'T FEAR TYPO BUGS! :-P

6:48 PM

Typo bugs still exist for everything else

That's why I like languages that demand that you declare variables, actually.

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Tolong saya tim google by Muhamad Qodri on security.stackexchange.com

7:07 PM

@S.L.Barth JS is a good compromise

7:21 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: How to define sender name on drupal sent emails by Andy on drupal.stackexchange.com

7:36 PM

@SmokeDetector fp-

hichris123

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica No, but I occasionally contribute to Chromium.

Go fix that occasional bug then...

8:41 PM

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ are you sure StackApps got the new css?

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Bash API Kraken by DeadGame on stackoverflow.com

sd false-, but user needs to answer his own question with the solution instead of editing it in.

sd poof

9:07 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: UNEXPECTED BAND IN WESTERN BLOT by Biomedi on biology.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector It's an alien superbug. Run!

What's this ᔕᖺᘎᕊ thing that I know nothing about?

there was a bug...

oh, and?

it pinged everyone if you pinged the unfortunate

9:18 PM

that's not good

is it an actual account?

Yes

It was removed, or renamed, I presume?

No, Balpha fixed the sql query

ah

FYI: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/266830/…

9:25 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GOSTARIA DE CRIAR UMA FUNCAO BUSCAR POIS ESTA DANDO ERRO by Matheus Francisco on pt.stackoverflow.com

user259867

I'm tempted to exclude pt.SO from all-caps filter...

user259867

All-caps posts typically have other issues. To propose edits that just do .toLowerCase() without even understanding what's going on in the post seems suboptimal.

!!/report superuser.com/questions/848753/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED on Dynamically Sized .vdi by apptutor on superuser.com

user259867

Isn't disclosing affiliation a good thing? (referring to "This is spam for apptutor.com; username and URL match")

9:33 PM

The website is commercial in nature.

user259867

There is no rule against linking to commercial sites.

I think it's been said before that changing your username is not disclosing affiliation (because you can change it easily)

It's the user's own content and it's being promoted.

In fact, from what I can tell, the user is the operator of the website apptutor.com.

user259867

@KevinBrown Okay, but it also says in the post "I created a video tutorial that ... " followed by a link to said tutorial.

A closer look at the answer will also show that it does not stand alone (the actual content is in the linked page), so it's effectively link-only.

9:35 PM

@NormalHuman I was just pointing that out, I haven't yet decided if I think it's spam

user259867

@DragonLordtheFiery Reading answers before flagging them as spam is indeed a good idea.

@DragonLordtheFiery Copying content from the linked page can make it stand alone, my only hesitation is the "here's a summary of a video"

It reminds me of "here's the chapter list for this book you should look at"

user259867

I'd say that at the present stage it's VLQ/NAA because depends on the link. But not spam.

(I also haven't visited the linked site)

Yes, I do check linked content in a private browsing window to determine if it's spam.

The site is ultimately commercial in nature.

This should make it clear that the user is spamming.

!!/report superuser.com/questions/716649/…

9:37 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: How to change fixed size VDI with modifyhd command in Windows? by apptutor on superuser.com

Same content.

Answers posted within less than an hour of each other.

Welcome, and thanks for trying to help with this question. SU's purpose is to build a knowledgebase of questions and answers rather than a collection of links to answers elsewhere. The objective of an answer is to provide a self-contained solution. You providing a table of contents for what the reader will find somewhere else. Your answer is a teaser for your tutorial rather than an actual solution. If the link breaks, the answer isn't really helpful. Please include within your answer the essential information to accomplish the solution and use the link for attribution and further info. — fixer1234 57 mins ago

user259867

^ I agree with that comment.

apptutor.com/courses/how-to-virtualbox-video-training-course

That should make it clear that this is spam.

There's a difference between a user linking to his/her own blog while providing an answer that can stand alone and a user providing little more than a link to a commercial online video course.

Whenever I see suspicious answers like this, I check the links to determine if it's spammy in nature.

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Google Play Store mobile payment by user129074 on android.stackexchange.com

Spam is spam, no matter how you try to hide it.

9:47 PM

Honestly, I'd give that one a custom flag just to explain your reasoning

hichris123

@SmokeDetector tpu-

!!/report askubuntu.com/questions/539924/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Why can't I resize a dynamic VDI with modifyhd command? by apptutor on askubuntu.com

Exact same spammy content.

I do not participate on Ask Ubuntu, though, so it's up to you to flag it as spam.

user259867

10:22 PM

Super User is also a commercial site. That does not make a link to it posted elsewhere spam.

Okay, the linked content is being promoted by the author of the course in question and full access is behind a paywall.

The primary intent of these answers is promotional, rather than to genuinely contribute useful content to the site. That's what defines spam.

A lazy but innocent user can make links to external content in an attempt to answer a question, sure.

However, this user's behavior is promotional. The answers exist not to merely direct users to an answer located elsewhere.

You can tell the user has a vested interest in not providing the full solution in the answer.

The user's goal is to get readers to pay for full access to the course (and thereby get a commission for each user that signs up).

...and the user is suspended for promotional content: superuser.com/users/501899/apptutor

user259867

Okay, okay. Small icons++