It's possible they're not a spammer, and that they just happened to mention "SEO training" in one part of their profile (and "SEO course" on SO) and link to AngularJS training in another part, and also that the site that they're linking to just happens to be spammed on other sites across the internet, and that they just happen to have also created their Twitter profile that also has no posts in the same month...
Anyway I split the difference and watched the link in SD. If they're not a spammer, they get to keep their shiny user ID, and if they are, we'll catch them quickly :-)
@EkadhSingh adding to the others, if someone do this on purpose (aka a troll) then by all means, any new question from such a person should be deleted, even if edited into shape. That was a good post about it today on MSE.
That's an edge case where "voting by content" isn't correct.
I welcome any details that can be shared, but I understand if there are specifics that cannot be. I am primarily interested in whether the process exists, rather than what that process is.
What's been happening:
In the last few months, and especially the last week or so it seems, there is a parti...
> When the community got wise to that tactic, they got abusive. They posted abusive comments, and even edited the questions themselves to include abusive language, including death threats.
@JourneymanGeek I saw some people blame it on brexit, but... the singer wasn't singing that well from what I could hear either. I think all countries that received zero points from the public deserved it, I even think the 11 points The Netherlands got from the jury were overrated.
Is there a FAQ regarding the use of non-English in chatrooms attached to English language sites? (I'm asking on behalf of someone from Math.SE). I found this from 2012: meta.stackexchange.com/q/136259/334566 This is more recent: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/263092/… but it's on MSO rather than MSE. Those are both good enough, I guess, if nothing more definitive / more recent exists.
@PM2Ring The 2012 still holds I think. I remember using it to say 'hey, if you're going to have your room here (on chat.meta) you need to speak English, because otherwise we can't moderate it.'
But like Geek is saying, moderating those chats is still a pain, because I could translate something Spanish and it would be really offensive, only to be told by a Spanish speaking mod it's the equivalent of Australia's 'cunt' (in other words, not so offensive at all)
@JourneymanGeek Yep. A few years back, there was a SO chatroom where Gujarati was used a lot, which generated a lot of chat flags. It was very annoying to all of the 10kers on that chat network.
@Tinkeringbell Yeah, for some Aussies, "cunt" is virtually a synonym for "bloke". Still, you wouldn't say it in front of your new girlfriend's Mum. :)
I guess my issue is that it's a bit ambiguous. And the 2012 one is saying "avoid non-English because we can't moderate it properly", but it seems that the policy is more like: "use what language you're comfortable with, but if things go off the rails, we'll come down hard".
If question 1 was posted on politics then migrated to history, and question 2 (posted on polotics) is a duplicate of question one is there any way to close question two as a duplicate?
My current pile is at least 4 crochet projects, an exam to study for, and arranging all the crap that comes with buying an apartment. Preferably in that order, though I probably should switch the exam and crochet around XD
Ah sorry, didn't see that it was an unregistered user, then nuking the user is pretty pointless and it wouldn't have taken long for another R/A flag to nuke it by itself.
@MetaAndrewT. in your siteanalytics on sites you moderate under traffic sources do you have a domain named like proxyauth-[....].com.au with significant traffic?
You don't have permission to access "http://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7arimtzVFf8ipfM?" on this server.
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So I'm getting a link to a survey that I'm not able to take. Ok.
I have completed the developer survey three times in the past years. To my surprise, I was just about to visit the survey page and faced this message:
Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1RGiufc1FCJcL6B?" on this server.
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On an unrelated note, chat seems to have a limit on the number of characters you can post, but when I use newlines, the limit appears to be virtually non-existent. I was able to upload like a dozen kilobytes to a single chat message.
I have completed the developer survey three times in the past years. To my surprise, I was just about to visit the survey page and faced this message:
Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1RGiufc1FCJcL6B?" on this server.
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When I click on the 2019 Developer Survey link:
I get this error:
