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10:00 AM

Spam A (100%): I am Natasha Howard from Indianapolis here in USA, I wanna advise all th..., by Natasha Howard, on money.stackexchange.com.

Shadow Wizard

user name: Natasha
email: abuabdullahloanfirm
hmm...

bummi

a bait

Shadow Wizard

@bummi luckily no bait in avatar

Andrew T.

> I wanna advise all those looking for a loan to contact Abu Abd*llah

indeed a bait

anyway, I don't understand why recently android.se got weird questions with meta message like android.stackexchange.com/questions/97110/… and android.stackexchange.com/questions/97198/… :S

bummi

@AndrewT. another tour of stackbot?

Sam

10:07 AM

Maybe we should write a bot to spam spammers' email addresses with a nice fat article on "How to Stop Spamming".

bummi

@Sam would this be legal in your country?

Sam

@bummi I was partially joking ;)

bummi

@Sam I know ;)

Sam

I once heard of a guy that sent the entire transcript of one of Shakespeare's plays via a text massage to a spammer (since he had unlimited texts) :D

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Weight Loss Programs A Real Paradigm Shift by nelson dima on meta.stackexchange.com

bummi

10:11 AM

Culture as spam, nice ...

"simply Typo" question, or might it be useful? stackoverflow.com/a/28211076/1699210

gasp

^ great show about youtube

Pham

Spam Q (91.1%): Deadlifts Would Be The Best Bodybuilding Exercise?, by HeatherAlsop, on drupal.stackexchange.com.

Low Quality A (100%): Wtf a load of pooy peckas if u ask me, by poo, on webapps.stackexchange.com.

Shadow Wizard

so much brown....

Bart

10:24 AM

Is this how it is @ShadowWizard? I dupehammer something and now you do the same? it is on!!

Andrew T.

@bummi not a typo, but it's unclear why changing IDE could run the code.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart well, as long as our hammers don't clash this should be fine :-D

Bart

:D

Shadow Wizard

grrr keys are too small

bummi

10:38 AM

spam superuser.com/q/871043/172747

Pham

Spam A (100%): I am Natasha Howard from Indianapolis here in USA, I wanna advise all th..., by user25060, on money.stackexchange.com.

bummi

and again

Sam

Ugh, more facebook spam.

bummi

and the answer spam too superuser.com/a/871044/172747

Unihedro

Yahoo answers has a great algorithm for "best answer"...

Sam

10:44 AM

lol

Andrew T.

I thought "best answer" is manually selected by OP

bummi

@Unihedro DESC

Unihedro

@AndrewT. nope

Bart

@AndrewT. that would be ridiculous. What site in their right mind would allow such answers to be on top?

Andrew T.

Ah, you're right!

Unihedro

10:46 AM

Mystery revealed: The person posting the "best" answer has 1502 points where everyone else had less, so it was "the best" answer...

IMHO, Stack Exchange should switch to that system so new users won't be able to farm points.

Pham

Spam Q (91.1%): Lipogen Rx Garcinia Cambogia, by Yvonnesaiz, on askubuntu.com TP Acknowledged.

Shadow Wizard

@Pham tpu

@Unihedro isn't "Best Answer" chosen by OP?

Unihedro

4 mins ago, by Unihedro

@AndrewT. nope

Sam

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 50 secs ago, by Pham

Spam A (100%): I am Natasha Howard from Indianapolis here in USA, I wanna advise all th..., by Natasha Howard, on money.stackexchange.com.

Shadow Wizard

Aug 6 '10 at 4:26, by Shog9

oh...

bummi

10:51 AM

@Sam the question needs to closed money.stackexchange.com/q/43721/22839

Sam

@bummi Well, I've flagged it.

Pham

Spam A (100%): I am Natasha Howard from Indianapolis here in USA, I wanna advise all th..., by Natasha Howard, on money.stackexchange.com.

Unihedro

@Pham gone

Man they really should ban gmail.com emails in posts.

bummi

curios if Natasha will lead us to more OT questions ....

Sam

@Unihedro agrees

Unihedro

10:56 AM

@bummi The Spammer Of The Light!

Sam

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 11 secs ago, by Pham

Spam A (100%): I am Natasha Howard from Indianapolis here in USA, I wanna advise all th..., by Natasha Howard, on money.stackexchange.com.

Bart

Natasha is persistent

Unihedro

@Sam The reasoning is that spammers can't afford a proper domain for MX mailing.

Shadow Wizard

Looks like that site doesn't have auto ban feature in place.... and no active mods

Sam

@ShadowWizard Whatcya talking about? We're the active the mods. ;)

Bart

11:00 AM

@ShadowWizard 3 mods, all in the US

Shadow Wizard

@Sam but we can't nuke the account, and sooner or later we'll run out of flags.

Sam

@Unihedro Yeah, that and every post with a gmail email address is either spam/lq.

Unihedro

@Sam or they are used under # author.

Sam

@ShadowWizard True.

Shadow Wizard

Hey, you have a very persistent spammer roaming your site can you please nuke the account? money.stackexchange.com/users/25061/natasha-howard — Shadow Wizard 10 secs ago

last seen 20 minutes ago so chance he's awake

Sam

11:02 AM

Upticked.

Unihedro

@ShadowWizard or you know, use a mod flag

Shadow Wizard

@Unihedro on what? random post?

Unihedro

@ShadowWizard his (the mod's) post, with a link to the spam user

Shadow Wizard

I believe mods pay more attention to their inbox than to the queue

bummi

"She" should have reached the automatic question ban and need a new user

PeterJ

11:07 AM

Just put the final flag on last answer >-)

Morning!

Morning!

Morning!

Morning!

Evening! It all ends here...

Shadow Wizard

11:11 AM

@PeterJ serial train wrecker....... :D

PeterJ

Heh, only just noticed this on Area 51 but assuming it's true sounds like Google want to put an end to Glassholes... discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/19594/…

Shadow Wizard

@PeterJ not really an end, just focus on a different market (not private people anymore)

but yeah, the proposal is quite pointless now

Infinite Recursion

@Bart Have fun :D

Pham

Spam Q (91%): will maintain skin wetness, by millyebacky, on drupal.stackexchange.com.

Bart

@InfiniteRecursion :D

SmokeDetector

11:23 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: will maintain skin wetness by millyebacky on drupal.stackexchange.com

Infinite Recursion

I pinned your ~~rant~~ brilliant contribution

Unihedro

@InfiniteRecursion A++ will pin again?

Infinite Recursion

@Unihedro Sure. What do you want me to pin? I will unpin something to free space from the star wall.

Mooseman

New famous question :)

Shadow Wizard

@InfiniteRecursion can you pin a pin?

Mooseman

11:29 AM

Don't sit on a pushpin. That smarts!

pin-pls ^^

Pham

Spam Q (91%): Work at home best apertunti, by ali raza, on meta.stackexchange.com.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Work at home best apertunti by ali raza on meta.stackexchange.com

Infinite Recursion

@ShadowWizard Sure. Post "a pin" :D

Unihedro

a pin

3

Behold, the great pic of revelation of all time:

4

PeterJ

@Shadow, not really too keen on Google Glass. It reminds me too much of The Borg and after a few drinks could see myself thinking it was probably one trying to assimilate me and take actions that could lead to legal problems.

Mooseman

11:32 AM

Hololens killed Glass. Google knew that nobody would buy Glass for $1500 once Hololens was announced. It's expected to be $299, but that's unconfirmed. I'm sure it won't be $1500 though!

Shadow Wizard

@PeterJ bit extreme, but yeah, I always thought it looks weird. But weird that most people can get used to :)

bummi

spam drupal.stackexchange.com/q/145805/20140

Morning!

Morning!

again...?

11:42 AM

@bummi nice, it evaded both bots

Mooseman

^^ Party pooper

Unihedro

^ train maniac

bummi

new one

Morning!

bjb568

Morning!

Unihedro

Morning!

Shadow Wizard

11:43 AM

boom!

Unihedro

@ShadowWizard -1 no mute button

bummi

himpf

Shadow Wizard

I wanted to see how it feels like.... it feels warm

Unihedro

@ShadowWizard it should be severely hot soon, since I'm sending a sea of lava with lots of hostile silverfish your way

2

Shadow Wizard

pfft, lava.... I can have a lava bath! :D

SmokeDetector

11:53 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SHARED FILE ON DROPBOX by chris on webapps.stackexchange.com

Mooseman

12:05 PM

WOW stackoverflow.com/q/28214340/1234256

Unihedro

@Mooseman spam?

Mooseman

@Unihedro needs-code

Unihedro

> This question is effectively an advertisement with no disclosure. It is not useful or relevant, but promotional.

Shadow Wizard

no spam, just utter crap

Unihedro

Check, check, check, check. :P

Pham

12:06 PM

Low Quality A (23.7%): Since 3 weeks i loking for that aslo..THANKS !!, by bob gratton, on android.stackexchange.com.

Unihedro

Aww, edited.

Shadow Wizard

Valiant effort by @bummi but likely too late

Unihedro

Downvoted the reddit post.

Shadow Wizard

lol

SO effect

can you even downvote in reddit??

Unihedro

@ShadowWizard reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/2tpj9h/…

<- unproductive redditer

user202362

12:08 PM

Why are there so many people thinking AI is going to threaten the human race, when we can't even substitute a cleaner with a robot? It's like to fear the your chicken's egg is going to hatch a monster, when a) your chicken is only 3 weeks old & b) it will probably end up a being a rooster

Unihedro

@chmod711telkitty Robots die to water. Duh.

user202362

that too!

Shadow Wizard

@chmod711telkitty eh, obviously you didn't read Hyperion ;)

user202362

you need to quote sci-fi, really?

user202362

Back to the Future told me that time travel is to be invented about now

Shadow Wizard

12:15 PM

@chmod711telkitty not quoting anything just yet, just mentioning the books... the AI there is the most advanced I've ever read about, and the author is trying to explain it with realistic details

@chmod711telkitty but what time travel got to do with AI? /confused

user202362

what about 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Pham

Spam Q (91.1%): Also represent transformation, by Bmingat Gat, on drupal.stackexchange.com.

user202362

what I am saying is that, maybe we aren't capable of doing something that fancy?

user202362

can human produce AI that are smarter than themselves?

Mooseman

2

Sam

12:18 PM

@Mooseman lol

Mooseman

2

Pham

Low Quality A (24.7%): You have no idea about what u r doing, by Awesomeness, on stackoverflow.com.

Mooseman

^^ offensive

Shadow Wizard

@chmod711telkitty for this you need to first define "smarter" - in what aspect? If it's only stuff like playing Chess, AI already outsmarts any human being for a long time

Mooseman

OFFENSIVE math.stackexchange.com/a/1124887

bjb568

12:31 PM

Morning!

Sam

Morning!

Unihedro

Morning!

user259867

49 mins ago, by bjb568

Morning!

Bart

@chmod711telkitty all AI is pretty much smarter than I am. Then again, I couldn't produce it, so perhaps that doesn't count.

user202362

@ShadowWizard in common sense

user202362

12:39 PM

how it's used everyday ... like 'Issac Newton is pretty smart'

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls typo stackoverflow.com/questions/28214994/…

user202362

@Bart thanks for letting us know ... ~_~

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: What am I meant to do with Elder Scroll (Dragon) after completing Dawnguard? by carl on gaming.stackexchange.com

Shadow Wizard

12:56 PM

right on spot Smokey, nice catch!

@chmod711telkitty well, this is something AI will probably never achieve, but I don't think it's needed to fight the human race. AI can extinct us all without any hint of common sense at all. :D

Bart

common sense or Your Common Sense?

Shadow Wizard

lol, he's already extinct

by the way all the recent pin stuff reminded me of something

user202362

he could be in anna's apartment, kidnapping her darling cat for all I know :p

Bart

Catnapping?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Err archive.canonical.com trusty/partner Sources by Sagar Chand on askubuntu.com

Shadow Wizard

1:00 PM

In theory, we can't star our own messages. But when a message room owner pins gets unpinnd, it's still starred by the room owner, even if posted by him/her. Is this a bug, or special power?

user202362

that's it! I know now why it's called kidnapping - it usually happens to a kid when (s)he is napping!

Shadow Wizard

@chmod711telkitty oh, but she has many cats. They will band together and take all the sense out of him

Bart

@chmod711telkitty actually, it's derived from kid + nab(bing) ... yes, I am great fun at parties.

Shadow Wizard

@SmokeDetector too much baba, flagged as spam.

bummi

offensive superuser.com/a/871094/172747

Mooseman

1:06 PM

I'd like them to explain how Linux is a failure...

Patrick Hofman

I don't care. :)

Bart

Granted, that's how I feel sometimes. But I then usually figure out that I'm the problem.

Mooseman

0

Q: IE Mobile evaluating screen dimensions before user confirm

I only want to go fullscreen if the device is in landscape. Here's my code: if(window.innerHeight>window.innerWidth){ if(confirm('Go landscape then tap "ok".')){ alert(window.innerHeight<window.innerWidth); }else{ alert('You hit cancel.'); } }else{ alert('Device i...

Andy

cv-pls off topic stackoverflow.com/q/28175657/189134

Shadow Wizard

why don't you use the Stack Snippets, @Mooseman?

jsfiddle is so 2013

:D

Bart

1:23 PM

God I hate it when websites pretend as if you can only download by creating an account, but then hide a small direct link at the bottom. Damn you MySQL

user259867

Dammit people - stop reporting bugs I like — Shog9 ♦ Dec 6 '12 at 20:46

Braiam

@Bart mm? really? that looks like a bad design, since the purpose is to make you create an account

Bart

Shadow Wizard

@Fundamental nice find! But why by all the Close Gods is it closed??! Voted to reopen...

Braiam

@Bart ¬_¬

@ShadowWizard waiting for it to get in the reopen queue (hunting badge)

rene

1:36 PM

@ShadowWizard and then what?

Mooseman

@ShadowWizard JSFiddle is easier to load on a phone than stack snippets

Shadow Wizard

@Mooseman how come? Stack Snippet should show a single button to execute the code, doesn't it work on mobile?

@rene what do you mean? After it's reopened?

Mooseman

@ShadowWizard It works, but this is more minimal, imo.

rene

@ShadowWizard yeah, what are you planning to do with that post?

Shadow Wizard

@Mooseman when jsfiddle will die, there will be no way to execute the code :)

@rene nothing. I just seek justice, can't see why a valid bug report should be closed, even if by design.

Mooseman

1:40 PM

@ShadowWizard Perhaps, but it's still in the post.

rene

@ShadowWizard Seeking justice? When did that became a goal on SE?

Shadow Wizard

lol, admit it @rene you only try to get icecream :D

rene

;)

bummi

caugh ..caugh stackoverflow.com/a/28215894/1699210

Shadow Wizard

Andrew is fast

rene

1:49 PM

@bummi gone

Mooseman

@bummi Surprised SE's filter didn't catch that one..

bummi

@ShadowWizard so again a not 100% spam ...

Shadow Wizard

@bummi what do you mean?

Mooseman

@bummi The question is still too broad though.

bummi

@ShadowWizard I've to find the transcript , yesterday with dooknob

Ok started with doorknob, that's somewhere in the middle chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2972429#2972429

Mooseman

1:53 PM

Bad audit: stackoverflow.com/review/triage/6886427

Kevin Brown

Haskell again

Jan Dvorak

Why?

Unihedro

Rule on thought: Whenever seeing Haskell questions as a review task, just skip on sight. :D

Braiam

@Mooseman skip all haskell

Pham

Low Quality A (100%): You could just use the f***ing Google image search!, by Andruseto, on anime.stackexchange.com.

Kevin Brown

1:54 PM

> Nevermind my code, I have tried a ton of things (most probably nonsense), just posted some random snapshot for the sake of it.

Shadow Wizard

@bummi oh, this. Yeah, the answer you linked to got one spam flag then Andrew clicked "delete". No big deal IMO

Patrick Hofman

@KevinBrown That is the spirit :)

Shadow Wizard

@Pham wow, first time I see the -100 in action. So cool.

Jan Dvorak

yay!

Shadow Wizard

it makes a mess in reputation history though, nobody other than us here and mods knows why the user have 1 rep now

> Post Reopened by Shadow Wizard, Fundamental, Bart, rene, Braiam

yay!

Lynn Crumbling

2:11 PM

@ShadowWizard Will that user have to work back up past the -100 mark? In order words, do they currently have 29-100=-71, or will they they start from 1, and immediately start earning rep?

Andy

1 is the lowest you can go

Lynn Crumbling

@Andy ah, so that user won't be penalized for the next 71 rep points. (well, technically, 72, but, whatever.)

Shadow Wizard

@LynnCrumbling good question, I fear @Andy is right though.

Kevin Brown

When is the 100 rep penalty applied?

Shadow Wizard

Maybe worth keeping watch, if he gets upvote soon we'll see if the rep increase or stay 1

hmm... let me see...

Kevin Brown

2:14 PM

I keep hearing about it, I've now seen it, but I still have no idea when it happens

Shadow Wizard

yay! it does not go up!

Looks like the -100 is applied to the overall reputation

Lynn Crumbling

@ShadowWizard It's -71 under the hood?

Shadow Wizard

oh no.... caching

@LynnCrumbling nope. I just proved the -100 is applied once, when the 6th spam/offensive flag was cast.

user got 6 rep now.

Lynn Crumbling

:-/

Braiam

the -100 is applied to the reputation you had in the moment

Shadow Wizard

2:17 PM

@Braiam yeah, like an ordinary downvote

Unihedro

@Braiam yes, and cap of 1 applies

@ShadowWizard Mega-downvote :p

Shadow Wizard

Now it looks like SE can't do math ^

Andrew T.

interesting, so the penalty isn't shown

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. nope, but maybe only because the post is deleted

Andrew T.

ah, make sense

Unihedro

2:29 PM

user259867

@Unihedro Please close one of two battery indicators as a duplicate. Too distracting.

Braiam

@Fundamental He can't, one saves battery d:

Unihedro

@Fundamental ... But I was planning to make a third!

user259867

SPAM android.stackexchange.com/questions/97238/…

user259867

^ the user also spammed other sites, I just nuked their post on Academia.

Jan Dvorak

2:42 PM

gone

Pham

Spam Q?: Icons in Windows 7 are .LNKs and icons are changed, by Offical_SteveShowdown, on superuser.com.

user259867

@Pham Not spam

Unihedro

@Fundamental You sure?

user259867

@Unihedro What does it attempt to sell?

Unihedro

@Fundamental What about spam defines selling stuff?

This question is effectively an advertisement (check) with no disclosure. It is not useful (check) or relevant (check) , but promotional (check) .

Jan Dvorak

2:53 PM

It's not advertisement

Sam

@JanDvorak The original rev was.

Unihedro

@JanDvorak But it has "microsoft" in it!

user259867

@Braiam Thanks for the edit, but could you include the link to original somewhere in the post, maybe in a comment? Just so that in case an answer gets posted in one place.

Jan Dvorak

@Sam nope, just a well-intentioned piece of crap

Sam

> Advertisement: a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.

Not an exact fit, but pretty close.

Jan Dvorak

2:56 PM

This isn't a product, service, event or a job vacancy

It's a link-only question

Pham

Low Quality A (100%): Why are these morons offering a Windows PC solution for a Mac problem?, by J R, on apple.stackexchange.com.

Sam

lol

user259867

@Sam The user asked a legitimate question. On another site. Did not get an answer. Posted here; the only transgression was posting a link instead of copying the question. That doesn't make it spam.

Sam

@Fundamental Looking at it with that perspective, I guess so.

Shadow Wizard

stars!

Jan Dvorak

3:00 PM

@Pham gone

@SmokeDetector gone

Shadow Wizard

Smokey give up, @Pham is better and faster :D

Sam

lol :D