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18:03

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: VAIO with GMA500 running Ubuntu 14.04 made my sex life great! They both fuck me on a regularly basis. I am SPECIFIC! by Ra.Shu. on askubuntu.com

Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector The body is about as useful as the title

bjb568

18:19

How do you say you found xy = sin(x) from xy' + y = cos(x)? Antidifferentiation?

jadarnel27

I haven't done math in a long time, but it seems like you would have used a trig identity to get that solution.

bjb568

It's just product rule backwards

Lynn Crumbling

18:41

@codymanix Please... delete this answer. It's blatantly wrong, and doesn't even answer the question, "where is gacutil.exe?" — Lynn Crumbling 38 secs ago

... pleading with a 10k'er to delete their -1 score answer (+6/-7).

Andy

Well, that and the user hasn't been since since August of last year

Lynn Crumbling

@Andy That's quite an absence. How on earth do people not visit SO at least once a week in search of how to do something?

Unless he's quit programming altogether.

Andy

Not sure. I'm not the one to ask such a question

Lynn Crumbling

@Andy Ha. I tried for the fanatic batch earlier this year. Got to 67. Meh.

Andy

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/a/28439425/189134

^ Someone has gas

lots of it

actually...that's abuse, not just a regular cv

Lynn Crumbling

18:49

@Andy scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll Oh.. THERE'S the flag link.

@Andy I flagged offensive. So - yeah.

bummi

some answers on this question need urgent care: english.stackexchange.com/q/26695/30774

Lynn Crumbling

@Andy FREE FLAGS

@Andy Why didn't Smokey pick this up?

Is that not a keyword?

Andy

Smokey is a slacker

Lynn Crumbling

!!/alive?

SmokeDetector

@LynnCrumbling Kinda sorta

Lynn Crumbling

18:51

fine.

Andy

Oh yeah @SmokeDetector. Ya slacker

user259867

@bjb568 Rewriting xy'+y as (xy)' is "using the product rule [backwards]". Then you integrate.

user259867

and it's xy = sin(x)+C

Bart

Abusive: stackoverflow.com/questions/7783466/…

ChrisForrence

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/28439318/899126

Lynn Crumbling

18:52

@ChrisForrence cv'd.

Andy

@Bart Less gassy on that one.

Frank

@Bart gone

Bart

Nice. Keeping an eye on that user. Let's see if he's banned already

Ah he's gone

rene

Your wish...

Frank

Man that guy has a lot of acute indigestion

apparently

Bart

18:55

It's unfortunate but off-topic on SO. We're full of crap. Not gas.

3

Shokhet

@ShadowWizard :) ....the only thing that would make it more perfect is a shadow of a wand in someone's hand :P

bummi

Still flags needed here 4 "answers": english.stackexchange.com/questions/26695/…

ChrisForrence

@bummi - Flagged

rene

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28439636/phones-that-use-gps

something with a phone...

Frank

@bummi gone

ChrisForrence

19:07

@Frank @bummi In addition, it looks like that user's been deleted

bummi

thx :)

Frank

@ChrisForrence I posted in ELU chat, so a mod prolly saw it

there were actually two 'users' there

Undo

@LynnCrumbling not a keyword

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

Undo

19:12

I'd be in favor of a regex for the same 1-10 characters repeated at least x times, though.

rene

feature-request tags should automatically append status-declined tag — Will 2 hours ago

Lynn Crumbling

@Undo In favor of making it a keyword?

@Undo But yes to this.. for sure.

Frank

^^

Undo

@LynnCrumbling Errmmm maybe

that's something I'd want to ask @ProgramFOX

Frank

@Undo Thing is a lot of code is that way..

ProgramFOX

19:21

@Undo I missed the spam, what was it about?

Undo

@Frank we already have a way to strip out code

@ProgramFOX uh lemme get you a screenshot :)

ProgramFOX

hmm...

Frank

@Undo What if a smart troll puts offensive stuff in his code/

ProgramFOX

Google finds 530 results for searching "farts" with site:*.stackexchange.com

user259867

A possible test: split text by space; if all words are of the same length the post is nonsense.

Undo

19:23

@Frank how many smart trolls do you know?

Frank

@Undo true... lol

Lynn Crumbling

@ProgramFOX What's the context on a small sample of those?

user259867

@Frank Currently, code is removed only for repeated characters test.

Lynn Crumbling

(sample = [3,5])

Undo

@LynnCrumbling I bet a couple hundred of them were on Gaming

Andy

19:23

@Undo This is not an accurate depiction of the spam. I didn't have to scroll seven times to see the entire thing.

user259867

But I don't know how often such posts come up.

ProgramFOX

@LynnCrumbling I found posts on English, Homebrew, Parenting, Scifi, Skeptics and even Electronics.

user259867

A one-off thing doesn't justify coding a filter for it.

ProgramFOX

and Pets, and Puzzling

... and even more sites

Undo

@FamousBlueRaincoat I've seen "trains" over and over in posts

SmokeDetector

19:24

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: chemical compound hager werken embalming +27736556295? by ham bemba on stackoverflow.com

Undo

and other, less fun things

user259867

"brain fart" can come up on any site.

Undo

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Undo Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Lynn Crumbling

@FamousBlueRaincoat yeah, that's valid.

Undo

19:25

hrm

user259867

@Undo As a part of post, or as the whole thing?

Lynn Crumbling

What are those bottles of, in that user's profile?

Undo

@FamousBlueRaincoat the whole thing

@LynnCrumbling dunno because it's gone :P

ProgramFOX

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 24 secs ago, by Pham

Low Quality A (55.6%): HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYS U GUYS SUCK, by □ John, on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com.

^ flags pls

Frank

@ProgramFOX why not just tpa

ProgramFOX

19:26

@Frank I did, but it didn't repost. cc @Sam

user259867

@SmokeDetector gone

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Undo): HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYS U GUYS SUCK, by □ John, on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com.

Frank

@ProgramFOX huh

ProgramFOX

well... now it did

Undo

oh lol

user259867

19:27

!!/addblue graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/38234/john

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat User blacklisted.

Lynn Crumbling

Undo

@ProgramFOX I think you need @Sam to give you keys

user259867

Good, extra "e" wasn't a problem.

ProgramFOX

@Undo I already have those.

Undo

19:28

... huh

user259867

But the blacklisted user got deleted that same minute

Lynn Crumbling

Is that... cyrillic?

Andy

@LynnCrumbling clearer picture: addictionblog.org/cherrycake/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/…

Lynn Crumbling

Oh.. cavity fluid .. everbody needs that.

@Andy Thanks Andy

Undo

Makes you wonder why they thought programmers would want embalming fluid.

If anything it would be the people on Chemistry or something

bjb568

19:29

@FamousBlueRaincoat I said I integrated, teacher said I did voodoo magic.

Frank

Whoops, accidentally flagged this as spam a couple days ago instead of ot. I'm so clumsy.

Undo

@Frank minitech commentified it.

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Mooseman): this is not the answer, but similar problem looking for answers as well ..., by □ James Page, on askubuntu.com.

Frank

@Undo I meant the question.

Undo

... oh :P

Frank

19:34

I think I naa'd the commentified answer at the same time

ProgramFOX

@Undo Suggested word-repetition regex: regex101.com/r/hE4cR6/1

Undo

ooooh

Lynn Crumbling

@Frank Interestingly enough.. someone from context.io commented on it, saying "call us" ... but he has 1 rep. The comment was left two days ago, so how did a 1-rep user post a comment? Wonder if he was flagged a spammer and had -100 slapped on him?

Undo

looks great

ProgramFOX

Should we strip code blocks for that one?

Undo

19:36

@ProgramFOX I'd bump it up to 5 or 10 repetitions

@ProgramFOX Prolly should

ProgramFOX

k

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Mooseman): @Piyush, I wanted to add comment but due to new account, i haven't much ..., by □ Vijay, on magento.stackexchange.com.

Undo

hmmm, should we match one-character "words"

or should we limit it to >4?

ProgramFOX

"a" and "I"?

Well, I cannot think of a sentence where "a a a a a" would be valid, so probably not.

Lynn Crumbling

@Pham I THINK that's an answer... thoughts?

Undo

19:37

right

Lynn Crumbling

It was TPA'd by Mooseman - but is it actually a tp?

Andy

@LynnCrumbling It was originally posted as an answer. A moderator converted it to a comment.

Undo

:D

ProgramFOX

... oh, right, now it also matches "aaaaa" because the space is optional

Lynn Crumbling

@Andy Ah!

Mooseman

19:38

@LynnCrumbling yes. it should be a comment on the accepted answer. even the answerer thinks that.

ProgramFOX

I'll make the space non-optional

Frank

@LynnCrumbling He posted as answer, I flagged naa (others prolly did too), and it was converted to comment.

Undo

@ProgramFOX Looks awesome, thanks!

ProgramFOX

yw

Lynn Crumbling

@Mooseman I know he says that he wanted to comment but couldn't, but then he says "Here is my solution" .. which screams "answer"... :-/

ProgramFOX

19:44

!!/rev?

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX f9e97c5 (ProgramFOX: Add regex for repeating words)

ProgramFOX

:)

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Mooseman): same problem on my nexus 7... did you find how to restore fastboot ?, by □ David COHEN, on android.stackexchange.com.

Shadow Wizard

@Shokhet nah, too complex ;)

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Frank): i have same problem in my lumia 720, by □ karnik, on windowsphone.stackexchange.com.

Frank

20:34

1

Q: How does the Simplex method handle test ratios with zeros?

I've been running into an issue choosing a pivot when there are constraints with an RHS of zero. It appears that sometimes you should include zero test ratios when searching for the minimum test ratio, and sometimes you shouldn't. What is the hard and fast rule to handle zero test ratios? For a ...

I know this guy irl

He's the best software dev I know personally.

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Frank): Take legal action against the buttwipes, by □ grumpy, on webapps.stackexchange.com.

Frank

grumpy

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Frank): Hello I am living in Syria and I am palestinaian syrian, and I am going ..., by □ Hani, on travel.stackexchange.com.

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Frank): i wish someone would answer this damn question i am having the exact sam..., by □ Blake Dozier, on gaming.stackexchange.com.

Lynn Crumbling

@Pham This is sad :-/

Hobo Sapiens

Bother - out of close votes again: cv-pls 'not really a question here' - stackoverflow.com/questions/28441360/…

Lynn Crumbling

20:49

@HoboSapiens cv'd.

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Frank): hi you have got my interest as I work with both SharePoint on premise of..., by ■ westerdaled, on sharepoint.stackexchange.com.

Hobo Sapiens

@LynnCrumbling TY:)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: A more politically correct term for "Rep-Whores" by Fractal on english.stackexchange.com

Lynn Crumbling

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@LynnCrumbling Registered answer as false positive and whitelisted user.

rene

21:09

Anyone on french here: stackoverflow.com/questions/28441751/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Why didn't Jamie Lannister succeed Aerys Targaryen in place of Robert Baratheon? by user32531 on scifi.stackexchange.com

rene

@SmokeDetector he used shit once ...

Lynn Crumbling

@rene Yeah.. seems like a valid answer.

rene

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@rene Registered answer as false positive.

rene

21:19

@LynnCrumbling yeah. couldn't find the offensive word at first...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Message Authentication Code by xxx on crypto.stackexchange.com

Frank

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 1 min ago, by Pham

@Frank Term found: (?i)\bshit\b (Sensitivity: 0%. Specificity: 100%. Ignored: 50%. Score: 10. Auto: False)

yup Pham found it too

He's so helpful, cuz He explains himself

rene

yeah, nice

Lynn Crumbling

@SmokeDetector Flagged for mod attn: rollback

@rene Same problem here. He packed a lot of discussion into that answer!

rene

@LynnCrumbling I created an account first to do a rollback only to find out that an edit was already pending....

Lynn Crumbling

21:24

@rene I don't see the pending edit :-/

rene

the edit link was disabled for me

Lynn Crumbling

Ahh.. just hovered over it.

Frank

0

A: Why can't I flag for moderator attention after flagging as "offensive"?

Here's what I do: Flag all the offensive posts as such. That will help to get them deleted quickly. 6 offensive flags will kill the post. Flag another (random) post, and describe the problem, and provide links for the mods to follow. There is no reason why you should need two flags on one po...

Lynn Crumbling

21:38

HAHHA:

You need to watch more Monk. Really. — Braiam Dec 26 '14 at 3:42

SmokeDetector

21:49

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Should the Windows 10 Technical Preview work in BootCamp 5.1 on new Mac Pro (Desktop) by lambarki on apple.stackexchange.com

Lynn Crumbling

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@LynnCrumbling Blacklisted user.

Lynn Crumbling

Hrmm. Perhaps I shouldn't have added the 'u'.

:-/

Doorknob

It's an unregistered single-post account.

Chances are if it posts anything else it'd benefit from a thorough looking-over anyway.

Lynn Crumbling

@Doorknob ok.. good point.

SmokeDetector

22:00

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: Loads img from i0.wp.com but NOT using Jetpack Photon by user2987394 on wordpress.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

22:51

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Facebook C# Desktop Authentication by PNCDJS on stackoverflow.com

Frank

23:02

@SmokeDetector gone

Sue

@Frank Hi Frank. You street-sweeping?

Frank

yup

Hiya sue, how are you?

whoops, didn't mean to rhyme lol

I'm wishing I could get multiple copy editor badges on one site

Sue

Lol. Isn't that from Boy Named Sue? My name is Sue, How do you do, Now you gonna die...

Frank

never read.

lol

Sue

@Frank That would be cool cuz I do lots of editing.

Frank

23:11

@Sue So do I.

On GL, 1184 revisions, 937 of which count toward copy editor.

Sue

I'm praying for a new laptop so I can make use of the functions of the site, and answer questions better.

Frank

Go buy one from craigslist

xD

Sue

@Frank Glad you're still editing though-keeps up the quality.

Frank

Yeah, badges aren't the main incentive here

Sue

Fun though! Got excavator on biology.

Frank

23:14

awesome!

If Electorate was awardable multiple times, I'd have almost 5 now

You're user#6 on GL (by rep) this year, nice

Sue

You should suggest it-people like badges, and there's no harm if they're earned doing good stuff.

Frank

But I know what they would say I think

Sue

@Frank Cool! Prob cuz activity's been quiet...

Frank

@Sue oh don't be such a pessimist - you worked for it.

Sue

@Frank I've been wandering around meta looking for something before asking, and came across a comment from someone who said they used meta for bedtime reading! Cute!

Frank

23:18

lol

Sue

Hmmm... What's that error?

Frank

@Sue We have been quiet though, but way better than last winter (it kind of dragged along the bottom the entire year), I wasn't there in 2013.

Sue

Where were you

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: Loads img from i0.wp.com but NOT using Jetpack Photon by user2987394 on wordpress.stackexchange.com

Sue

Did you see a green error message on my last post? I re-loaded and it was gone. Chat might have glitches.

Btw, checked out that farmer you suggested-awesome guy.

Yikes-IPad's mad. Gonna reboot. Cya later...

Frank

23:31

@Sue nope

@Sue cya

@Sue I took a break from July '12 - May '14. Time constraints.

And my posts now are drastically better than they were before.

Cuz I spent a lot of time learning about SE

So I made over 15k last year, and am shooting for another 20k this year, but that won't happen unless some of the voters come back.

I laugh how I vote the most by far, yet get the most rep. I guess it's because I'm a high-volume poster

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