I'm pretty sure there must be a status-declined FR to add LinkedIn as oauth option, yet I can't find it. I can only find this answer from @Oded where I could even argue that answer doesn't address the question :) anyone with better search fu or maybe favorited somehwere? Because I wanted to drop that link here
@SmokeDetector I would expect that a moderator who also happens to work at Ubisoft would simply delete a question that advocates piracy... why just closed??
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Still illegal, but that site allows it as long as the question shows an understanding of the concepts involved (i.e. isn't just "pls gimme facebook passwd kthx"). So it's certainly not an issue of legality so much as topicality.
@forest please, no devil advocate on that. Again, one thing is knowing how to do something, one is actually doing that. I think that everyone would recognize the difference between ethical hacking and stealing credit card numbers. The user who posted that question is not asking "how roms works" in order to learn how to program an emulator... He is asking were to find a rom in order to not pay the game.
@Derpy Sure and it's certainly off-topic, but strictly speaking would not be breaking the ToS since only hosting (storing) illegal content on the network is prohibited.
The smartest bots I've ever seen used a recursive neural network instead of dumb spintax (article spinning syntax format) to generate text, and ran full Firefox in a VM, using very human-like movements to the mouse.
But it still was easy to spot as a spammer when you followed the links. :P
@Glorfindel You can. It'll result in a lot of dominomussen :P
I do remember the tension at the end of each event, where they had people count the stones that didn't topple.. and then waiting to see whether the record was broken!
Cost-benefit sort of thing. The abuse is generally low the potential benefit of helpful edits are high and they're both reviewed to avoid the abusive ones from getting through.
Or, do you mean why would someone try to make that sort of edit?
@WhatsThePoint if anonymous edit is rejected, I think anonymous visitors can't suggest edits for several hours. Think Shog once mentioned this in chat but not sure it's documented officially.
@Catija lots of stalkers who read but prefer to not have active or public part in the site. :)
@JNat Out of curiosity, why migrate this blatantly off-topic post It gives off the wrong aura, that they can just post here and have their question migrated to the right site.
There's another reason for IP blocks. Anonymous edits are also subject to an additional filter for content and changes. If the edit trips it, it will result in an instant 7-day IP ban.
Logged-in users aren't subject to said filter, and accounts being accessed through banned IPs aren't subject to such bans.
From my tests, it appears to check for large additions and removals. An edit that adds or removes a large amount of content is more likely to trip the filter. It's a wide-ranging check, and it is subject to a lot of false positives.
I've had a case where I got banned for simply expanding a paragraph, but when I submitted the same edit without that expansion, it was allowed. Another interesting case was another massive addition where when I removed a sentence, it was allowed through.
There is a counter for the number of anonymous edits approved versus rejected in each edit review. Unlike the IP ban logic, this counter is entirely cookie-based; it's how I was able to prove that I was the anonymous editor, despite editing through many different physical locations and VPN IPs.
@doppelgreener Evasion of automatically-placed bans as a result of false positives, and the contributions that got through after evading said bans were overall positive. On Wikipedia, there's an actual policy that says that if a rule prevents one from improving or maintaining the site, ignore it, and it appears that was done.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog What you don't know is that we have honeypots to detect this very thing, and they're one of the most fruitful sources of IP addresses to block from posting.
But the spam system will trap you pretty quickly if you step in too many of those, and it will prevent any new accounts from your entire network (determined by CIDR lookup) from posting.
@ArtOfCode Right, here's a full list of every single anonymous edit made to this site from the beginning of that feature until the end of 2017. There are 528, of which at least 315 were made by me. (There are 42 I haven't evaluated yet, since I don't remember each and every edit I made.)
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog That would be useless. Unless we implement an evercookie sort of scenario (which we'd likely never do for ANY reason out of ethical concerns) but most bots wouldn't accept them or send them anyway.
Anyway, all I'm saying is, poking around trying to evade bans or exploit what you think is a loop in the system will likely lead to you, or your whole office being unable to post.
@TimPost But has there been any sort of test showing whether it would be effective or not, by implementing a log-only cookie? Basically, the way it works is that if someone encounters an IP block, it sets a cookie on their machine, so if they try to move to another location they will still be blocked.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog We're not Wikipedia. I can't say that enough. Wikipedia uses PHP session cookies. We don't even use sessions in the conventional sense.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Bananagram and some other word type games that don't require a franchise license to co-brand also came to mind. They're as nice for users as they are to potential clients / etc. That was a good idea.
@JoelHarmon yeah Secret Hitler , for example, has one "Hitler" one or two "Facists" and everyone else has no idea who has what role (neither does Hitler, so he has to sort of guess who is with him)
There is also a similar game that replaces Hitler with a werewolf.
in the wolf one, one player gets to be the werewolf, a few are some werewolf hunter and the other are common people. No one knows who is who. The hunter must kill the wolf, the wolf must kill all the others.
Cards Against Humanity has a free download for a PDF to print custom cards (e.g. PDF for printing custom white cards). However, it seems that these cards are not the same shape/size as the official cards which you get when you purchase the game. The reason for this, clearly, is that while the gam...
Tl;dr: Instead of defining kilogram and measuring Planck's constant, the scientists have decided it would be easier to define Planck's constant and then measure one kilogram.
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