@QueenieGoldstein I am aware of 8 admins. Currently in this room: ArtOfCode. Not currently in this room: tripleee, Makyen, Andy, Undo, Thomas Ward, thesecretmaster, angussidney.
foo in (India|<city in India>) is always invariably spam. This is a question that doesn't reference a specific product and it's asked on the correct site, but still likely was posted merely to elicit illicit responses.
I'm not sure what the specific trigger is, but we have triggers with much lower true positive rate and they're still useful.
There have been exactly 204 posts containing "India" and caught for bad keyword in the body that turned out to be false positives, and 699 true positives.
Specific cities are (TP/FP): Hyderabad gets 136/12, Pune gets 110/12, Bangalore gets 170/15
Of the 15, only one got autoflags - and it was deleted as spam anyways.
Yes, and it was actually marked as a false positive by other Charcoal members (I'm one of the ones who fp'd it :D). Nobody flagged it, nor was it autoflagged.
Opening up the metasmoke report on it, just to the right of the title, there are some X's there. Those are indicators that this particular report had gotten some "false positive" feedback.
Nope. Most (almost all?) spam comes in the form of questions and answers. That's all Smokey's designed to scan.
Also, not every post it sends to chat is autoflagged. Reports that have more than ~200ish weight are the ones that Smokey's pretty confident are spam, and those are the ones it autoflags.
Smokey aims to report as many things it think might be spam as possible. The philosophy is... Smokey wants to report anything that might be spam so it doesn't miss ANY spam, but only wants to autoflag posts that it's absolutely sure are spam.
To me, this is the same as trying to ban curse words -- it's a fundamentally broken and bad idea.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/obscenity-filters-bad-idea-or-incredibly-intercoursing-bad-idea.html
For every one we detect (even if we do an INSANELY EXPENSIVE HTTP REQUEST on every unkn...
We can't auto block them, but they're indeed discouraged over SE, as far as I can tell.
Not as far as spam flags, but editing the post to put the actual URL? Yes.
There's a whole room packed with Bots posting cryptic comments that people reply to; that controls their operation, similar to Smokey's commands. You need permission, and they don't appreciate random chatting in that room, only pertinent posts.
@Ollie Why not flag: Very low quality - This question has severe formatting or content problems. This question is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed. ?
In the last 30 days, we've closed 269 questions as "Not about the software that powers the Stack Exchange network." This makes up 66.42% of all questions closed over those 30 days. On average, that's almost 9 blatantly off-topic questions that get closed each day. That's... a bit wild to me.
Image uploads are slow. It takes at least 6-8 seconds to upload one image (demo: https://youtu.be/laNmsiLhcFY). This is not due to upload speed, but because Imgur processing is slow (in the YouTube demo, the network speed can be viewed at the top of the screen).
It would be a more user-friendly e...
Yeah I was just wondering if there was some diamond-tooling for searching for questions deleted/del-voted by a particular user, that also happen to be closed for a given reason.
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@Rob I do have a TV. Not big, not smart, but a TV. ;)
I want to review questions I have posted bounties on across the Stack Exchange network. I'd like to do this so I can check for active bounties with answers I need to review.
I can view my offered bounties for a specific site by appending ?tab=bounties to my user profile, but this isn't an option...
What is a tag wiki?
Each tag on Stack Exchange has two pieces of user-editable content associated with it:
a short tag wiki excerpt of up to about 500 characters of plain text, and
a full tag wiki page describing the tag in more detail.
The excerpt is the "elevator pitch" for the tag, and is ...
the wiki needs to explain when the tag needs to be applied to the question. In other words: which topics covered in a question warrants adding that tag.
@NordineLotfi Is there any reason that it should look any different than this: stackoverflow.com/tags/operators/info - be certain to include a <sup>Copied from: stackoverflow.com/tags/operators/info </sup>; as the last line of the wiki (not the excerpt (top)).
This one's good. I set up a trap for bounty hunter cliques: the bounty is actually a preassigned one, but disguised as a draw attention bounty. The clique appeared and attacked the bounty. So I revealed the true preassignation and then flagged the answer as bounty hunter clique. The flag got discarded because the clique is in control of the site.
@NordineLotfi If it should be identical (which I guess it should) then it's possible to copy BUT you must include the 'copied from' line to avoid a plagiarism complaint.
what is even "a bounter hunter clique"? I know it sounds exactly as what i think it is, but i can't picture this: bunch of people who hunt down bounties??
But even so, you make it sounds like it's a bad thing? just curious
@Rob yeah, i guess using what is already approved on SO would be faster (for getting an approved edit)
@NordineLotfi minimum effort group initiatives towards winning draw attention bounties. The draw attention bounty is broken. If drawing attention fails, once a while passes, someone posts a simple answer and surprisingly in a small time it's upvoted enough to win. Unseen in other sites
@202324 so basically, many ppl at once come when there a bounty, and make low effort answer. The one who's first/get the most attention win the bounty. Is that it?
@202324 I seen the same thing happening to one of my post, except i wasn't the first to post an answer (posted after 20 hours or so i recall) and while my post was by far the most detailed, it didn't have as much upvotes as i thought...but i don't think it was unfair given 20+ hours passed.
@202324 it's probably one of those sites. you know? Like the kind where you can buy views for X site etc. I do not know ones but that wouldn't surprise me if this was a thing for upvotes.
There a couple ways that you could do this:
Vim
Emacs
Git
Bash/External tool
Git-annex (all-in-one solution)
Which are all detailed here:
If you want to do this in Vim:
Then I'd recommend using undo history, which not only (as it's name suggest) relate to the act of undoing an action in the V...
@202324 isn't that normal behavior? not all ppl scroll down to see other answer, and usually only use the accepted answer or search for the one they want...and then don't bother upvoting/downvoting anything else.
@NordineLotfi I'm discussing bounties on low traffic questions, you are discussing accepts on high traffic qeustions. I can try to wear your boots on this, but isn't quite easy.
I personally hate bounties. they get people to answer for the wrong reasons, promote bad questions getting attention when they should instead be closed, etc
if you have a group of users who happen to be the people who answer bounties a lot for a given stack or tag, it's easy to look at their answers and assume that they're getting some kind of special treatment, or that they treat each other differently, because they are, and they do.