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A: Closing questions just makes people feel really bad - can we make it harder in general?

Jeff AtwoodI think a focus on "feelings" is the wrong idea. Do people get their feelings hurt when they are turned down at a job interview? When they don't get the promotion they wanted? When they are unable to attend a college or school they applied to, but were not accepted into? Sometimes, having stand...

Seems he did look into that cv-pls issue then :-D
me eat pizza yum!
@bjb568 English, pleasse
00:08
meh
purrs
@Braiam And people downvoted the question. :(
flags an 'acceptance rate' comment with 20 votes
user259867
@hichris123 Why not? The "question" is an implicit feature-request, "- can we make it harder in general?". With which I disagree, so...
@FamousBlueRaincoat "implicit feature request"... then what is a discussion question? Aren't all discussion questions discussing if something should change?
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Okay, it's an explicit feature request: make it harder for question to be closed. Not only in the title, also in the body of the question.
00:21
I hate downvoting discussion questions, because they never get a spot in hot meta posts, and they only get a small group of meta regulars. Okay, it makes sense if it's a duplicate question or something like that, but it gives off not only "We don't want to change", but "We don't want to discuss this."
@FamousBlueRaincoat I read it more as "Should we make it harder for questions to be closed?"
user259867
I also don't want to discuss this; and in particular to discuss by taking that article as a starting point.
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> I would like to be able to check for the repeated (spammed) use of one character and one character only
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The OP is building own Smoke Detector. So meta. :)
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A: Closing questions just makes people feel really bad - can we make it harder in general?

Shog9I'm glad you brought this up; I found that blog post rather interesting, as - for all the hyperbole - it managed to get a few things right that far too many similar critiques get wrong or miss entirely. In particular, I liked this observation: Remember, I said that the website serves two pu...

00:39
Why isn't Marshal awardable multiple times?
I guess it would be called "Mercenary", then?
Seems the next 500 is as hard to get as the first.
> Warning: You may only attempt to flag this comment every 3 seconds.
wat
user259867
@Frank Yeah. May attempt every 3 seconds; and flag every 5 seconds.
What a weird limit...
user259867
Yes, they should be set to the same duration. Both make sense: one throttles the opening of the flag dialog (which is some load on the server, because it checks what to bring up), and one the flag submission (because who knows, maybe someone bypassed the dialog with JS hack). But getting one after the other doesn't.
00:51
another one for the psychics... stackoverflow.com/q/28574003/1864610
I think Shog kicked off another batch of "should these still be closed?" into the Reopen Votes queue.
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A: How do I buy an Enterprise license?

benmarks:sadface: Send me an email please: [email protected].

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Magento is a strange place.
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(Don't bother flagging NAA; it's a post by a moderator.)
@FamousBlueRaincoat WUT
01:00
@FamousBlueRaincoat WUT
@FamousBlueRaincoat so weird
@hichris123 Another 20 pointless reopen candidates batted into the outfield where they should have been left. Is Shog9 expecting us to go through 8 million questions like this?
@HoboSapiens Not all of them are horrible. In fact, I voted to reopen two of them.
@hichris123 Maybe you struck lucky ;). I just looked at 20 questions none of which were on topic. The same happened last week :(
Now over 52% of my 500+ GL answers are accepted
01:13
Whoa, 149 in the reopen queue. Did Shog adjust things again?
@hichris123 weekly, there run a script with views_since_last_run > X or upvotes_since_last_run > X and drop them there
user259867
@KevinBrown I think it's not exactly an adjustment but a script he runs occasionally.
@KevinBrown It could be related to this: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/268213/…
Just found this in the LQP queue
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A: IP tracing functions in django

ionFish(can be adapted from PHP to django) To just show publicly the visitor's IP: <?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?> To log to database: <?php $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $sqlserver = 'localhost'; $sqlusername = 'database-name'; $sqlpassword = 'password'; //password to the user mentioned ab...

A PHP answer to a Python question
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@KevinBrown Luckily it's in the LQ queue and not a mod queue -- where NAA flag would be declined because the post could conceivably be an answer to some question in the universe.
01:18
@SmokeDetector Sketchy edit by OP triggered that one
user259867
@SmokeDetector fp the question involves excluding "bad" words from a list, and sample list was edited in.
@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
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01:27
Smokey being triggered by posts about text processing of the kind that Smokey does... reminds me of this:
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/bu|[rn]t|[coy]e|[mtg]a|j|iso|n[hl]|[ae]d|lev|sh|[lnd]i|[po]o|ls/ matches the last names of elected US presidents but not their opponents.
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Can I beg an opinion? I got sucked into the mess that is this question stackoverflow.com/q/28522294/1864610 a couple of days ago. It's basically the OP iteratively trying to correct a string of syntax errors and editing the question each time one is found and fixed. It's been closed and re-opened, but it falls under 'typographical error' or 'too localised', at least. Should this have been left closed, or are we expected to be a team of syntax checkers now?
user259867
@hichris123 It has no answer. One downvote is enough. (and provided)
@HoboSapiens too broad fit
"it has many errors, that is silly just trying to fix them all in a single question"
01:33
@FamousBlueRaincoat Ugh I forget these roomba rules.
and a link to w3c html validator
oh, is php
Wait so what is it @FamousBlueRaincoat?
@Braiam Another good close reason....
user259867
@hichris123 What is roomba? 30 days old + negative score + no answer => deleted by weekly script.
@FamousBlueRaincoat And no need for it to be closed? Is that run on Sundays?
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01:35
@hichris123 Right, no need to close. Runs Friday afternoons.
@FamousBlueRaincoat actually, 30 days old + less than 100 views + no answers
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status-citation-needed
@FamousBlueRaincoat dammit, that's one of the proposed
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A: Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?

Jeff AtwoodJust to formally document the exact policies we have in place to remove old abandoned / dead questions, the Community user will delete questions in the following circumstances: If the question is more than 30 days old, and ... has −1 or lower score has no answers is not locked ...or... it ...

user259867
Exactly: no view requirement for the 30-day roomba. What was proposed on meta.SO is still that, a proposal.
user259867
@SmokeDetector The only link there is to Stack Exchange...
@FamousBlueRaincoat Looks like English.SE is blacklisted...
user259867
No clue. "lovebiscuits" is blacklisted, but this does not explain the match. Let's chalk it up to some grace period edit.
user259867
The blacklist match is pretty loose; it can be tripped up by the pathname, e.g, the slug of a question.
02:16
!!/status
@hichris123 Running since 01:24:35 UTC
Huh, Smokey missed an all-caps. Triage?
@hichris123 chat was dead for several minutes
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02:35
@SmokeDetector fp
@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
Way to count flag count across the network?
@Frank I doubt it's possible via one query.
Flair for helpful flags
02:54
This effect is also known as "OW OW OW MY EYES DAMMIT MAKE IT STOP," although that's industry jargon. — Lauren Ipsum 6 hours ago
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03:05
WE WON!!! @jarrod_dixon and @bretcope are the #champs of the @usv square cup! #stacknyc #stackexchange http://t.co/O0arQC7RLW
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^ extremely uneven distribution of hair
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"GREAT JORB"
@bjb568 seen that -_-
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bjb criticizing someone's spelling -_-
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actually, ^^ exactly
looks like something he would do :P
03:11
:P
q:
JIHUYTEWWYRUTUHKBHVCTYRRR gy7t 7tyg 1 GFUTUYIHHJFTYKH
I'll give you a star if you decode that
WVUHLGRJJLEHGHUXOUIPGLEEE tl7g 7glt 1 TSHGHLVUUWSGLXU
@FamousBlueRaincoat I want that shirt!
03:21
RPOSET IMMED ST S OF COUNTEDDDle7t7 tel1LAST SE POORATE FO
> so I have decided to ask
You didn't ask a question....
academia gone
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> In this case, students get less intimidated by some students around them in classrooms..
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That may be true, of course. I imagine @bjb568's classmates getting intimidated by l33t calculus skillz...
03:30
I wouldn't be intimidated by him.
Rather, I'd be intimidated by poor grammar & spelling... oh wait...
Spelling and grammar, not grammar and spelling.
@bjb568 It... doesn't matter?
People say teh one thing, not teh othar!
@bjb568 Spanish, please...
03:36
Do I take AP Computer Science as a sophomore or put it off and take AP Bio or Physics I (doubling up science) as a sophomore?
Do it all!
@bjb568 Unfortunately for me, they only let me pick so many electives.
:P
I'm thinking… you have english, math, chemistry, social studies, foreign language, and 2 others.
@bjb568 you're pretty good
Oh, is that physics a double-period?
03:38
@FamousBlueRaincoat BOOM
@bjb568 uh no
But both are full year
Oh it says for me it is double-period and meshes with ap bio.
@bjb568 uh
So you can take both AP bio and physics at the same time.
@bjb568 uh
03:40
What? How is it at your skewl?
@bjb568 Simple. AP bio is a full year one period course. So is physics.
BTW, I think you should take physics 2, physics 1 is too easy.
@bjb568 Uh wut.
@bjb568 WE DON'T HAVE PHYSICS 2
03:42
@SantaClaus You at least have Physics C, right?
We probably won't even have AP Physics because we aren't a large enough school so there isn't enough interest apparently.
@hichris123 Here, you have (some science) monday/wednesday/friday double-period classes which mesh with tuesday/thursday double-period classes (or double study hall nightmare). The idea is to have long labs.
@hichris123 uh
@bjb568 wtf
Get a better skewl!
@bjb568 That's so weird.
03:43
((lel))
@bjb568 block schedules are confusing.
We just have a block schedule.
@SantaClaus And efficient!
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@SantaClaus Downside to AP Bio: if you follow pre-med track later, bio would be retaken in college regardless. Downside to AP CS: boring. Go with Physics.
Gonna do that junior year (bio and physics C). The bio teacher here is awesome, otherwise I probably wouldn't.
03:45
@bjb568 Its hard enough for me to remember that I have to go to lunch A on wednesdays instead of lunch B on all the other days. remembering what day of the week it is AND what classes i have to go to would be impossible
@SantaClaus wat
why
weird
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@SantaClaus Google Calendar
@bjb568 we get out an hour early every wednesday
@bjb568 so schedule is different
@FamousBlueRaincoat genius!
@SantaClaus you win, too weird
AND SLACKY
03:46
@bjb568 we don't get all the teacher-in-service days tho
@FamousBlueRaincoat Apple iCal!
@SantaClaus … what's a teacher-in-service day?
@bjb568 must be something about bio teachers. my bio teacher is bald and awesome. (the bald part is important)
@bjb568 its a day when teachers have meetings
We have none of that nonsense. Teachers have meetings all the time and we don't do nutin bout i!
@hichris123 @bjb568 how many AP classes do your schools offer?
@SantaClaus Ours is PhD and smart! (in case you didn't realize, I'm implying that the and part is usually not the case)
@SantaClaus 30 or something… lemme check
03:49
@bjb568 well ours is young single and bald, which make him pretty awesome. i see where your priorities are.
@bjb568 meh, TMTC, and no bragging on wabsite coz not core recruiting season (cue patriotic music abruptly coming to an end)
@SantaClaus Okey, definitely more here.
AP Comp Sci...what does that teach? Is it data structures or is it intro to a language?
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@SmokeDetector gone
@SantaClaus What, you don't even have multivariable calc?
@Andy Java basics and "thinking like a CS guy" – algorithmic stuff, analytical/objective thinking, whatever
@bjb568 we are a school of less than 1000
03:53
@SantaClaus Go to teh big skewl!
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@bjb568 Wasn't building sites in Frontpage mentioned in your syllabus?
We also have a "web design" series of courses which I have absolutely no intent of ever taking
@bjb568 my awesome bio teacher came from a school that graduated 50
(cue thematic skewl musik; partial fadeout, voice-over in neutral woman's voice found in museums:) Over here, we have teh small hallways and too many kids, we kick out like a quarter every year. We have 5 minutes between classes, and since we go ~0mph getting there, it takes 5 minutes. Congestion because too many kids!
@FamousBlueRaincoat nah, that's a different thing
There's a whole tech initiative goin on here.
@SantaClaus same
ooh! I could take a microsoft office course!
> This course will teach students how to design and create Internet pages using web development/application software such as Front Page and graphics application software such as Adobe Photoshop. Students will assist in building pages for the [ibotheredtocensormyskewlname] website along with creating their own personal content web site.
@SantaClaus Same!
03:57
@SantaClaus 30+ AP courses
@AstroCB GENIUS
> This course will teach students to type well and will also teach them to use Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. By the end of the course students should be able to use these programs for all the projects and reports they will need to produce at [teh skewlz], in college, and in later life. They will also learn to create business documents and to manage financial transactions, including credit cards and college loans. This is a lab course, so most work will be done in class.
^propaganda
03:59
@AstroCB huh? what a/b?
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@bjb568 Again, [censoring] while quoting amounts of text that uniquely determine the source...
@bjb568 Different schedule on A and B days
They alternate.
@AstroCB i rated it 5 stars
@SantaClaus Much appreciated.
04:01
Maryland?
FWIW, my high school's twitter account has more followers than it has students.
huh…
@bjb568 Indeed.
yay
Everything operates off of this one file: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56017856/dates.json
There's also a Pebble app, but I haven't checked that in a long time, so it may or may not work.
Typo, Too broad, too localised, two votes needed stackoverflow.com/q/28522294/1864610
@AstroCB Where do you get the snow day data from? Just manually?
We at least have colors to go along with our days, @AstroCB.
@SantaClaus Scraped from their website.
04:06
@AstroCB yeah thats what i do
@bjb568 Yep - it's a typo. They omitted the hyphen in 'tested-for'
My school also tweets memes, which are occasionally entertaining...
^from this morning
@SantaClaus I took it last year as a sophomore and I'm glad I did because my teacher was great and I started a programming club and a class dedicated to people who know how to program already. Now the program's expanding and our school is piloting the new "AP Computer Science Principles" course, which is just pseudocode and concepts.
Except they moved CS from the Math department to the Business department, which I don't entirely understand.
04:09
@AstroCB wut
Yeah, CS is under business here too. Not sure why...
Does it make a difference? @AstroCB @hichris123
What do you mean?
@SantaClaus By the time I graduate, there will be more CS classes in the Business department than there are business classes (which is odd because when I started, there was only one class). It should probably be its own department, but that would be odd because currently there's only one teacher who teaches all of the CS classes and manages the school's tech infrastructure...
04:11
@hichris123 Does it matter what department it's in?
It's just semantics.
@AstroCB Thats what I thought...
@hichris123 you're a freshman, right? Are you in a state doing PARCC tests?
@bjb568 I feel bad for whoever manages scheduling at your school.
@AstroCB Isn't it all computerized tho?
04:13
Yes, but no PARCC tests @SantaClaus.
@SantaClaus no
@SantaClaus Mostly, I'd assume, but you still have to figure out who can take what class when to prevent conflicts.
@bjb are you in a state doing PARCC tests?
Yes. ;)
@AstroCB The options remind me of catastrophic regex backtracking.
@SantaClaus yes, and we're doing paper ones
04:15
@SantaClaus Just missed them by a year.
@hichris123 be thankful
I did a practice one and it was long, boring, hard, and awful.
@AstroCB you're lucky
Y'know, I wonder what state @bjb happens to be in. Oh, I dunno, maybe the same state as say the mythical @Santa?
@bjb568 I could endlessly quote my teachers and their opinions on the PARCC tests, but I'd rather not.
04:16
It looked like a highschool entrance exam except for college in that it's for college people except too easy but still very tedious.
Feb 15 at 1:31, by AstroCB
> All students pass all parts of the [state] Proficiency Test, 100% on the first sitting, and [school name] places first in the state on the test. Upon graduation, [school name] students are accepted by the finest universities and colleges throughout America.
@SantaClaus oh, please!
@bjb568 Yes. The english ones are the worst.
YAS
Wait there's more?
nuuuuuu
Feb 14 at 23:43, by Famous Blue Raincoat
> Dance Expectations: Some of what is seen and heard in movies, on television, and on radio is not acceptable at high school functions. Students should exercise modesty and good taste in dress and behavior. Provocative dress and lewd dancing are not acceptable.
04:17
@bjb568 Well the CS/precalc teacher said he couldn't finish the math one on the computer in the time allotted. (so its good we are doing paper too)
somebody add a criticism section to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARCC plox
@AstroCB OH I NEED TO QUOTE MY HANDBOOK ON THAT
@bjb568 ill get on that
@AstroCB heh
@bjb568 our principal talked some crap about the parcc tests at a class meeting a few weeks ago
come on, we're all >6 yo probably sorta here right?
We recognize that swear words can add clarity to language?
etc etc?
04:21
@bjb568 well I mean I think I got @Feeds taken down because of my use of language so i've gotta be careful.
Feeds?
@bjb568 Remember? The translate bot?
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This is all fun, but ... SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/148828/… only two flagged after me
@bjb My english teacher made quite a point that all the reading passages were public domain (so they didn't have to pay royalties to print any recent literature on a test), because they wanted to reduce costs on the tests. She even made a mention of states-rights to regulate education in there somewhere.
04:28
@FamousBlueRaincoat just cast #6... gone
(that feels so good!)
What does it mean when it says that the predictor "was updated"? stackoverflow.com/users/tag-future/current
Is that supposed to be some sort of regular process, or does that just mean the last time the software that powers the report was updated for any reason?
wow.. that is crazy
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@AstroCB The latter. Source here
user259867
> Famous Blue Raincoat is considered a high activity user --- then I don't know who isn't...
@FamousBlueRaincoat Ah; I always forget to search Meta.SE.
@FamousBlueRaincoat You probably flag things often enough.
04:31
'night all.
'night all.
@bjb568 well i kinda sorta vandalized it
user259867
Well, I did post 20 answers this year... which is 20 more than bjb, hichris and Santa combined.
And lol @bjb some other people have tried some more drastic measures: en.wikipedia.org/w/…
04:35
> On September 23, 2013, Florida withdrew from Common Core and PARCC, citing unconstitutional involvement by the federal government in states' affairs.
Hmm...
Sounds familiar.
> The PARCC testing designers are also in early discussions of allowing some participating states to include a third part to their summative score by adding in one of the optional components – a performance-based test.[15] Other states, however, would still only include the two original tests in their summative scores.
You might get three of them!
@SantaClaus They probably have someone whose sole job is to keep tabs on their Wikipedia page.
@AstroCB uh i get to take the PBA (performance based assessment) and the EOY (end of year)
@AstroCB well now that my changes have been added we'll see how long it takes
@SantaClaus They're pretty subtle; it might take a while.
@AstroCB I try, I try.
huh?
@AstroCB My most recent revision is a little more noticeable: en.wikipedia.org/w/…
But it appears to have survived the bots.
@AstroCB If you can get past ClueBot (who attacks fast), you're usually safe
Or not.
Sound the alarm.
That last one triggered it most likely
04:49
@KevinBrown I should have stopped while I was ahead!
hah
Ooh...I've been warned, what ever shall I do!: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Unicornisaurous
The power of Twinkle...
@KevinBrown Sounds like you have some experience.
You could just try saying something like "it's been met by some resistance and disapproval from teh teachers n parents n students and stuff because of it's length and difficulty"
04:54
@bjb568 no thats too nice
its a shame somebody included retard in their Twinkle regex...
I could never imagine why they would do that...
@SantaClaus Only thing that will work on wikipedia.
@bjb568 Well retard got by MOST of the bots.
Well I'm leaving so if somebody could vandalize the PARCC page i would be forever grateful. Sorry if there are any hardcore wikipedians around that might not like me.
Fun fact: A lot of the bots ignore minor edits because vandals usually don't bother to mark it
04:58
@KevinBrown I thought so :P
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Some really great up stills? by ruth lisa on meta.stackexchange.com
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@SmokeDetector tpu
@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
05:19
gone ^^
Night! Skewl tomorrow.
@bjb568 night!
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscles Building forward in being great grounds by Zoe Lucy on meta.stackexchange.com
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@SmokeDetector tpu
@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
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Q: Lock html with php or htaccess file

FâisâlMy friend always copy my html and css code from my website and upload the website giving his name. Is there any code to lock my website. And website will only open when a specific PHP or htaccess file is present in my directory.So the php or htaccess file will be the key of my website. Like this ...

ummm lolwhat
05:55
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A: How to make html or css file unsupported without htaccess or php file

FâisâlThank you for your answer zero298. My friend always copy my html and css code from my website and upload the website giving his name. Is there any code to lock website which will only open if there is the key ? the key will be (php or js or htaccess) file . Thank You.

^ free flags!
flajjed.
spam ^^^
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@SmokeDetector tpu
@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle Building Title by reil ronaldo on meta.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Bodybuilding Tips To Build Muscle Fast by paulatalbot on askubuntu.com
spams^^
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@SmokeDetector tpu
@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
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@SmokeDetector tpu
06:19
@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
where is jan
@FamousBlueRaincoat gone.
user259867
all spam gone \o/
yay \o/
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^ link rendered unclickable by omission of punctuation; bug or evasion?
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SONY SNC-WR632 SDK by 萩盛樹 on stackoverflow.com

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