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user202362

12:39 AM

If mini drone is legal, then mini missile defence system should be ...

1:13 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected, repeating characters in answer: What does the Fi in Wi-Fi mean? by Clarimond Clarry Gallo on superuser.com …

John

Holly smokes

Well that offensive answer went away very quickly.

SmokeDetector

2:30 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: While doctors suggest that those who have had a normal by Refore499 on drupal.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

It's started early

bjb568

3:06 AM

Hallo

JamesENL

How's holidays?

Quill

hey there @bjb

SmokeDetector

3:25 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: You incline in a Chinese supplement by Noce1951 on arduino.stackexchange.com …

bjb568

@JamesENL Holidayeyful.

SmokeDetector

3:48 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, link at end of body: http://getmenshealth.com/mega-maximus/ by Flipper Jil on arduino.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

4:03 AM

sd 2k

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[ SmokeDetector ] Link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Different kinds of speed workouts, trying by Wortatuslege1939 on webmasters.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

sd k

user315433

7

A: I am getting this following error

Read the page you are screenshotting, carefully.

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[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, link at end of body: http://fornatgaex.com/celexas-male-enhancement/ by Sanocozz on security.stackexchange.com …

user315433

The weird thing is how the post sat there on SO since May 21

SmokeDetector

4:24 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: should be changing your workouts by ebrujick juvi on arduino.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

sd 2k

Quill

sd 2k

SmokeDetector

4:39 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Top Points To Consider For Building Muscles With Supplements by satileknic on security.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

sd k

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: The Best Anti Wrinkle Cream For Men by philiplmeeks1 on workplace.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

sd k

SmokeDetector

5:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: http://deal4supplements.com/is-staminon-scam/ by user62079 on drupal.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

6:05 AM

sd k

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: 3 Ideas To Faster Muscle Building by Roy Burge on drupal.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

sd k

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body: blackcore Edge Max sexual activities then by maellyhakcy on drupal.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

sd k

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[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, link at end of body: http://getmenshealth.com/mega-maximus/ by katyhulett576 on drupal.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

6:15 AM

sd k

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body: Are you Looking Testx Core Reviews supplements by user5271 on opensource.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

sd k

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[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: https://probioslimdrozreviews.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/erect-on-demand// by juliayasmin on arduino.stackexchange.com …

JamesENL

sd k

Martin

7:15 AM

Does SmokeDetector monitors the whole SE network or only some sites?

Quill

The entire Stack Exchange network except Area51

Martin

Thanks for the info Quill! It's good to know.

Bart

Good to know eh ... I think @Martin is trying to post spam. Sneaky ... :p

Martin

Lol! No. I flagged a post a spam on MathOverflow. I just came here to check whether it was reported by SD. This is the link but it has been deleted now: mathoverflow.net/questions/169266/…

Bart

Might have been one of the (removed) entries

Martin

7:19 AM

The body of the message contained latestdatabase.com if that's relevant.

@Bart Yes. That's possible. I guess room owners or mods can check whether it was indeed the case.

I guess the messages by SD are removed if the post is deleted within the grace period, right? (I mean if the message is not too old to be deleted in chat at the time the post is deleted.)

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[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Get rs3gold 10% off rs3 gold for sale for World 111 during 6.1 to 6.30 by kelljackson on gaming.stackexchange.com …

Bart

@Martin yup, exactly

JamesENL

7:43 AM

sd k

SmokeDetector

7:54 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: How to remove elements from pdf header. by Akash garg on salesforce.stackexchange.com …

Quill

8:08 AM

@Martin usually they're mod deleted, which can happen at any time

Martin

I see. I thought that if it is within grace period, then SD does it by himself.

Bart

Afaik it will try to delete the chat message automatically if it detects the spam has been deleted.

Bart

8:32 AM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/37667639/game-programming-career

JamesENL

Done

Bart

Thanks

Can't believe that was open for 10 hours and got 2 answers

JamesENL

Christ yes

SmokeDetector

9:15 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body: their products ever due to the fact by WeogIput on apple.stackexchange.com …

user315433

> Upside: I now own a phone # that spells IMKASRA Downside: Florida area code. -- sand-bewitched at 11:32 PM - 6 Jun 2016 via Twitter

JamesENL

First regex question..... waits for it to get closed immediately

Derpy

So... new "idea" from a customer.

"Can we make it so we don't need to specify this required field?"

"Well... we will just make it not required then"

"Nonono, you don't get it... The field is still required, but we can skip it"

Quill

wat

Derpy

"If we don't skip it, we have to provide a value, but if we want to skip it no value should be needed"

Will report back when (IF?) I understand what they really need...

Bart

9:29 AM

"What we can do, is make the star next to it a lighter shade of grey, to indicate it's required, but they can skip if they want to".

user315433

"Skipping this item is strictly forbidden. Unless you really want to, then it's ok"

Derpy

@Bart "We need you to draw seven red lines. All of them strictly perpendicular; some with green ink and some with transparent. Can you do that?"

Bart

Exactly! :D

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[ SmokeDetector ] Messaging number in body: Student academic qualifications, settled in Beijing if the handle, concise, not wordy by 杨敏镇 on mathoverflow.net …

user315433

Wonder what is the total amount of reputation lost in AU targeted voting case... Five-digit corrections here and here.

Quill

9:44 AM

user315433

@Quill there is more, one user lost over 22000: askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox?tab=reputation

Mast

@SmokeDetector Poof.

user315433

"poof" is essentially obsolete now, since Smokey watches the posts for deletion. If it was still possible to remove the chat message, it would.

Quill

> -22225 reputation

wow

user315433

I don't really understand how things develop into such a shape (see askubuntu.com/… for the list of users that were affected the most).

user202362

9:48 AM

looks like an abstract art of a high heel shoe

user315433

There was something of the sort on Math, but tightly localized and the few people involved were suspended.

Quill

@Shog9 laying down the law!

user315433

Suspensions are over by now, but most of them never came back to the site.

Quill

one of the mods lost 250 rep

user202362

max daily rep gain is 200? dude, it has been happening for nearly half a year ...

Mast

9:51 AM

@Quill Wonder if he'll get a letter from SE asking to explain himself.

Quill

> I've written a query to identify votes that were overlooked because of these flaws, and am currently running it against past voting data; 192 users were affected, most by only a few votes but some by hundreds - those people greatly affected by this I've sent messages in preparation for some consternation.

@Mast I get the feeling it was a broad effect and a few users were just caught as collateral damage

user315433

Yes, an obvious concern is not losing a bunch of highly productive users over imaginary points.

Mast

@Quill Now I wonder whether they'll pull the same thing on other SE sites.

user315433

Which is exactly how the Math situation played out.

user202362

new item on fiverr: 3 upvotes on stackvoverflow or stackexchange network for $5

Mast

9:53 AM

@sandwich Did Math survive the hit or are they crippled now?

Quill

I don't think it was a big effect on other sites @Mast

user315433

@Mast IMO it's better off without a few overly eager homework-helpers. But it's just me...

Quill

Hey @Shog9, any word on similar effects on other sites?

user202362

teachers & tutors help with homework questions too ... not the main point here of course ...

user315433

By "overly eager" I meant flooding the site with cookie-cutter solutions to calculus and college algebra problems, matching a similar flood of do-my-homework questions.

user315433

9:57 AM

Anyway, this is focusing on the negative... it's about time for Korean Language to launch, hopefully today (UTC).

user202362

May 27 at 1:13, by sandwich

Korean Air is nice, though. I wouldn't want to do this with a U.S. airline.

user202362

what coincidence!

user202362

What is the difference between Japanese and Korean sushi?

SmokeDetector

10:45 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Is the repayment of monies loaned to my company considered income? by lord habat on money.stackexchange.com …

Mast

@sandwich There's no indication for the users in this room though.

Quill

unless you have the userscript that shows the post in the message

Mast

Smokey has a userscript?

Quill

@Mast someone wrote a userscript that shows the post beneath each of his reports

SmokeDetector

11:09 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: the valuable territories will keep execute by Caltome55 on arduino.stackexchange.com …

user315433

11:39 AM

Should we flag different on Ask Different? by techraf on meta.apple.stackexchange.com

user315433

In my experience, yes... I have 4 declined flags out of 180 on that site.

user315433

(Which I consider to be a high percentage).

Quill

Yeah, they're a bit lenient on rude/abusive flags, I hear

user315433

Actually, that's 4 declined NAA flags + 3 declined abusive flags.

Mast

11:57 AM

Each SE is different.

As long as mods will be volunteers and not SE employees, it will stay this way.

Quill

That usually doesn't change the content of the abusive flags

and the mods are open to suggestions and improvement

user315433

All Apple mods are mods since at least 2013. And users don't seem to review much in the LQRQ: according to apple.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/stats there were 6 reviews today so far, that is in 12 hours.

user315433

It's a pretty stable arrangement at this point.

user315433

Those 6 reviews are from 2 users... nothing is very likely to get the necessary number of recommend-deletion votes (6) on that site.

Quill

12:25 PM

> I don't envision anyone over here suing you in the near future. I may sue Undo, and possibly ArtofCode, but only if I get super-bored, and most likely for reasons unrelated to their use of SO/SE.

0

A: Gathering and Reporting SE Site Stats

Semi-Official Not-Quite-Legal-but-Pretty-Authoritative Answer I don't envision anyone over here suing you in the near future. I may sue Undo, and possibly ArtofCode, but only if I get super-bored, and most likely for reasons unrelated to their use of SO/SE. The lawyers would probably want me to...

user315433

@Quill Wrong capitalization of ArtOfCode

Bart

I would sue

Quill

@sandwich fixed

nicael

@sandwich Wow, what's with so many voting frauds on askubuntu? Or they weren't voting frauds?

Bart

9

A: I lost 3000+ rep as a reversal

This is in reaction to the issues raised in Exchange votes or favours As I wrote there, I've written a query to identify votes that were overlooked because of these flaws, and am currently running it against past voting data; 192 users were affected, most by only a few votes but some by hun...

nicael

12:37 PM

Ah, here it is, thanks.

Bart

Still, to lose over half your reputation as a result, that's amazing

user202362

iscicadabannedyet.com

user202362

lol

user202362

when you are banned that much ...

Bart

12:58 PM

istelkittykickedfromchatyet.com

user202362

I was never completely banned from SE chats - always free to chat somewhere

user315433

AU has 9 candidates now; only one with CS >= 20.

user202362

which makes it very awkward ... coz I always get to whinge about one chat on another one

Bart

That said, we haven't really heard you whinge recently. Are you okay?

user202362

I have not been kicked or banned anywhere

user202362

1:05 PM

Since April fools day that is, on which I got Q banned again on meta

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Arduino Wireless USB Cable by Rocky Belts on electronics.stackexchange.com …

user315433

> Im a female any advice would help.

user315433

Not following the logic there.

Bart

@sandwich Well, <insert sexist statement here>

bacon

Still better than "please a dude"

Bart

1:17 PM

:D

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in body: Is it Possible to change your skin in Minecraft (Multiplayer [Servers]) in cracked version? (PC) [w/o Premium Acc.] If Yes How? by Nhori on gaming.stackexchange.com …

Mast

@sandwich How has that answer not been deleted yet.

user315433

12 minutes is not a lot of time on Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair

Mast

@SmokeDetector Had to mod flag it, couldn't figure out what other flag would be fitting enough ^^

Hmmm, true, must have misread the timestamp.

Quill

sd gone

Bart

1:26 PM

@Mast not an answer?

user202362

Why do I get this feeling that SO/SE people are more into sadistically cutting down new inexperienced people rather than helping them getting better?

Quill

yeah that's NAA also a bit wtf

Mast

@Bart It's a question.

Bart

Exactly

Ah, nevermind. Need coffee. It's urgent

I misread

Mast

^^

You can't flag questions NAA unless they're posted as an answer on another question. This was asked as a question.

Bart

1:29 PM

I thought you were still talking to @sandwich about the answer before it.

And why are you talking to sandwiches anyway? Sandwiches disguised as sushi ... you're weird. And I'm normal. Perfectly normal.

Quill

besides lacking coffee, you're definitely normal <_<

Bart

My mom had me tested

user202362

Unicorn next to bacon, must suppress any evil thoughts ...

Bart

Waiting for bacon sushi ...

user202362

bacon next to the head of a small hog

user202362

1:41 PM

classic

Bart

That's no way to refer to Balpha

4

balpha

<_<

>_>

<_<

Bart

:D

user202362

2

Bart

^ That was the user avatar situation at the time of writing :p

Shadow Wizard

1:58 PM

!!/blame bacon

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard It's Quill's fault.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart Fixed. Unicorn is no longer next to bacon.

Now the unicorn is looking on you, @Bart

Bart

Disapprovingly I might add

Shadow Wizard

not anymore! Now you're stuck between my son and a cat, @Bart whooops not anymore too :(

@CRABOLO just trying my luck.... looking for life signs.... ;)

Quill

2:17 PM

@SmokeDetector thanks, buddy

Aaron Hall

John Cleese, Connie Booth - Bookshop

►

^ this is not entirely irrelevant to Stack Overflow.

SmokeDetector

3:48 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer, blacklisted user: What is the difference between 几乎 and 差点儿? by nero on chinese.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: What is the difference between 几乎 and 差点儿? by nero on chinese.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Do 2FA sites leak info by confirming a correct password guess? by Chelsea Hancock on security.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: How to distinguish between 吧 and 嘛, 罢 and 嘛 by nero on chinese.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: What does 你找我有事吗 mean? by nero on chinese.stackexchange.com …

SmokeDetector

4:29 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: "Manifest" vs. "manifested" by ugyuy on english.stackexchange.com …

Sunshine

6:09 PM

@ShadowWizard He left :-(

John

6:27 PM

Holly smokes

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: click here>>> testosteroneboostclassi.com/viatropin-and-viarexin by Johnlores on superuser.com …

Shadow Wizard

@Sunshine how you know for sure? He left a message somewhere? :/

bacon

At last, got invited to SO Doc beta...

SmokeDetector

6:47 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: How do I change pathname of a file in a zip by kasthepahne on superuser.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Anyone know of any other alternatives to Edraw Office Viewer Component? by kasthepahne on superuser.com …

Braiam

7:42 PM

@sandwich it's depressing

nicael

8:06 PM

wtf

Can someone clarify?

Braiam

@nicael hahaha

you were awarded for a post that was inactive for 6 months

Nathan O'Tᴇsting Tuggy

@nicael Hey, me too! meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/158/excavator?userid=274165

nicael

3

Q: Something's wrong with excavating

The excavator has been awarded to... many users just some time ago. What a... bug? Certainly it is, too many unavailable posts :D

bug

Nathan O'Tᴇsting Tuggy

I just got Marshall, twice, on sites I already had it on.

Problems, we have some.

mikeTheLiar

So the general consensus is that there's something wrong with badges right now?

Nathan O'Tᴇsting Tuggy

8:14 PM

Suuuuuper wrong.

mikeTheLiar

Because I just got marshal on SO but have more than 500 helpful flags

Nathan O'Tᴇsting Tuggy

Indade.

mikeTheLiar

Hmm. It looks like this is actually my second marshal

But I don't have enough flags to get two badges

Braiam

and the condition isn't "for each 500 helpful flags" either

Nathan O'Tᴇsting Tuggy

So many badges... *drowns*

(I'm now up to triple Marshall on SO. I'm just that good.)

Quill

8:17 PM

yeah, I just got my third on Code Review

mikeTheLiar

Yep, just got another

Aaron Hall

I didn't realize you can get multiple Marshall badges...

Quill

26

Q: Something's wrong with excavating (and some other badges too)

The excavator has been awarded to... many users just some time ago. What a... bug? Certainly it is, too many unavailable posts :D Seems to affect Marshal and Excavator. Also looks like it's everywhere. SO's got a similar problem a couple of minutes before. Moreover, I can has THREE X marshal...

bug badges

Nathan O'Tᴇsting Tuggy

@AaronHall You can't, normally.

Braiam

you shouldn't...

Aaron Hall

8:19 PM

:(

Quill

in The 2nd Monitor on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 21 secs ago, by Mast

haha

hichris123

All the fun stuff happens when I'm gone.

Nathan O'Tᴇsting Tuggy

Gotta admire 6-minute response time on that bug.

hichris123

2

nicael

Woo :D

hichris123

8:27 PM

All sorts of Marshals.

2

Hey, @nicael. Haven't seen you in a while.

nicael

Hi :)

Nathan O'Tᴇsting Tuggy

Pun title: "Marshalling the Excavator hordes"

rene

Ok, with the drama over, who is to blame? Not Nick .... again ....

hichris123

Well, that's one way to rep cap.

rene

They never accidentally delete all questions that are in the CVQ ...

hichris123

8:33 PM

That would have to be a pretty big "accident"...

Aaron Hall

Never look for someone to blame. Just look to solve the problem.

Braiam

stuff is getting fixed

Jon Ericson

@rene Ultimately? Blame the second law of thermodynamics.

Braiam

right now only marshals badges are left

rene

@JonEricson but ... can't blame the law ... can we?

Please let Nick work on /review, we can use some fun there ...

bacon

8:48 PM

!!/blame for being a Marshall multiple times

SmokeDetector

@bacon It's Aaron Hall's fault.

bacon

sentient bot is sentient :O

Aaron Hall

:D

Quill

PINK FLOYD HAVE A CIGAR

►

Braiam

@rene well, it was Nick... again D:

Quill

8:57 PM

I think it's fair to say that if anyone is following Nick on twitter (not sure why he's not following me!) you're realise what a headache he's having at the moment... — Jon Clements 41 secs ago

@Quill I don't have unique user counts, but there were 9,102 total grants in play across all sites. 3,420 were on Stack Overflow - the rest were a batch cleanup I wasn't looking at numbers on. — Nick Craver ♦ 35 secs ago

rene

Those fancy graphs with performance data always makes me click on the image to dismiss the dialog and have a look at another perf-counter ...

John

9:29 PM

!!/blame SmokeDetector

SmokeDetector

@John It's Sunshine's fault.

John

!!/blame undo

SmokeDetector

@John It's bacon's fault.

John

!!/blame won't

SmokeDetector

@John It's hichris123's fault.

John

9:31 PM

!!/blame John

SmokeDetector

@John It's Nathan O'Tᴇsting Tuggy's fault.

John

!!/blame guido

SmokeDetector

@John It's nicael's fault.

John

!!/blame Gilles

SmokeDetector

@John It's Braiam's fault.

John

9:33 PM

!!/blame Gilles

SmokeDetector

@John It's Quill's fault.

John

I thought it was Braiam's fault.

Jon Ericson

Ok. Plenty of blame to go around now.

John

!!/blame everyone

SmokeDetector

@John It's Sunshine's fault.

John

9:39 PM

How does SmokeDetector decide who to say who's fault it really is? Is it random?

Mast

@hichris123 I only got 6 :P

Quill

@SmokeDetector that looks realistic

Jon Ericson

@John Presumably.

Mast

Oh, 7, counting is hard.

John

!!/blame Mast

SmokeDetector

9:42 PM

@John It's hichris123's fault.

Quill

@John Smokey has divine Stack Exchange powers

John

@Quill What do you mean?

Mast

@John Thanks ^^

Quill

like he knows all

any word when the Marshal badges are being reversed?

John

!!/blame ^^

SmokeDetector

9:45 PM

@John It's nicael's fault.

Quill

seriously dude, that's enough of the blame <_<

hichris123

@John Random pick of the people who've spoken since the last restart of the bot.

Quill

10:08 PM

in The 2nd Monitor on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 51 secs ago, by Vogel612

also... damnit you're not smokey

Quill

10:47 PM

7

Q: Can I ask about assembly programming in the game "Human Resource Machine"?

There's a Steam/iOS game called "Human Resource Machine", where you solve levels and advance by programming in a proprietary assembly language. The game is essentially an introduction to the fundamentals of programming, at the assembly level, aimed at novices, or kids, or OCD weirdos like me who...

discussion scope

Quill

11:06 PM

It seems some chat feeds aren't working properly....

2

Q: Chat rooms are not receiving question feeds

There seems to be something preventing question feeds from appearing in chat. For one example, the Code Review chat room's feed subscriptions include Recent Questions - Code Review Stack Exchange and Recent Questions - Code Review Meta Stack Exchange, but no chat messages have been relayed from ...

bug chat feed

can a @SEEmployee take a look, pretty please with waffles and sugar on top

Mast

@Quill You know what the international postage is on waffles nowadays?

Quill

probably cheaper to fly to new york and take them to mcdonalds

John

42

Q: Is there a system in place to prevent new users asking and answering and accepting each others' off-topic answers?

Normally new users are not allowed to up-vote until they gain a bit of reputation by receiving up-votes or accepts from the community of a site. But this has a weak point that is being exploited: A number of new users post, answer, and accept each others' off-topic questions before we can...

discussion reputation vote-to-close accepted-answer abuse

SmokeDetector

11:48 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Shortened URL in body: Can you download all google maps data in certain area? by user75695 on gis.stackexchange.com …

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