> What we're doing now is keeping a history of these odd posts that spam networks like to target, and if a new spammer is caught targeting one of those, we dish out a much heavier penalty in the system that keeps only anonymous edits from that neighborhood out.
I'm using the Facebook Graph API to return users who likes a particular Post. On the Facebook page query summary return me a number of users, only in the array have less users. The post below, for example, had 27 likes, but return 26 members in the array. Why does this happen? Is it any user priv...
@MartijnPieters The most recent edit was flagged as PostSuggestedEditSpamHoneyTrap, which blocked the IP. I think it was immediate. As a result, 6 other suggested edits were blocked later. So the trap was pretty effective. It's just annoying that they seem to hit the same posts over and over again.
Hey @Jon did you used to write articles in a popular blog or something before (or while) you worked for SE? The first time I saw you here I felt like I recognized your name from somewhere on the internet in the past 5-10 years.
Sure. Although the fact that he's only getting to 7%, instead of the 60% or whatever that we were getting to before, suggests that maybe they are in the process of uploading a new release..?
Ohh... we can just download the data dump pieces individually, directly from IA. So if the the torrent metadata isn't actually corrupt, and those files aren't either, we might be able to manually download and seed the pieces. Maybe.
@JeremyBanks The direct download didn't work for me either. First, it's listed as .zip when it should be a .7z. I can at least open it when I change the extension, but it can't extract many files. It fails with CRC errors on most of the StackOverflow XMLs.
I'll admit I didn't try smaller sites. I was just interested in the SO ones
@JonEricson See, that's the kind of info that helps me tolerate the suggested edits.
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Heh. Just tried manually loading the stackoverflow.com-Users.7z into my torrent client to test. It didn't match the torrent hashes. I guess the torrent might actually be describing the valid data, and could work once that data is ever seeded.
@MartijnPieters Hmmm... We could probably stand to toot our own horn on this a little more. At least it might be worthwhile to let people on the review page know that by blocking this spam edit, they blocked X more edits.
@JonEricson That'd certainly help here; only because I was aware of Tim Post's explanation on how these suggested edits are now treated did I not grumble (much) about this before.
@hichris123 That was issued 5 minutes ago to the town I work in. I'm glad I stayed home today. We're just getting some rain right now. The bad weather looks to be about 30 miles north of me
@hichris123 Uh yeah. I remember a long time ago migrating from CVS to SVN. The increase in productivity gained by not having to manage source structure directly on the CVS server and fix corrupt repositories was incredible.
Synology finally removed the CVS server from their fileserver app list relatively recently. That made me happy. People were holding onto it for a loooong time. Every time support for a CVS server is dropped, humanity moves forward just a little bit.
Don't steal features from other apps, they are potentially copyrighted. This question is also far too broad to be answered in its current state (hint: I'm thinking it's the proximity sensor. not the camera). — cybermonkey7 secs ago
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@LynnCrumbling I didn't delete anything and I don't remember what comments were there (assuming you're talking about stackoverflow.com/q/29542477/656243... I had to trace it back through chat comments). Guess it's taken care of.
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I might just go for a more generic approach for now: "Do you need it?" Yes: Don't touch it. No: Remove it. I don't know: Does it display anything on the screen that you have to close? If so, remove it, otherwise, don't touch it. Which is basically the process I go through anyways.
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