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Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

6:52 AM

Happy... oh late...

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rene

8:24 AM

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8:37 AM

@JourneymanGeek Spam account: meta.stackexchange.com/users/911125/fesin-worth

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9:55 AM

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Pretty sure the article above is markov chain generated

10:48 AM

@JourneymanGeek which article?

@JourneymanGeek where? One of the spam reports?

@ShadowtheHatterWizard the one riiiighttt above what I said ;D

@JourneymanGeek oh.

Anyway, it looks correct and to the point. I did wear studded leather armor in my days playing D&D.

It's indeed better in 1 AC point than ordinary leather armor, etc.

lol

So why you think it's auto generated?

It also looks like it was thrown toghether from random scraps of internet

10:55 AM

Maybe the author just copied from existing articles, sure... but still, doesn't look automated. :)

beep

11:24 AM

@JourneymanGeek is this a legit user? They had account before, said something about "friend" using same computer, and all in all, very fishy.

Example question of previous, nuked, account.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but after the last comment, pretty sure there no friend involved.

DavidPostill

11:36 AM

@ShadowtheHatterWizard What was the last comment? I can't see deleted questions on MSE. He seems to be a sock on SE (IPs match and there is an upvote and accept) to a different account (superuser.com/users/1243708/resourceuser1990?tab=profile)

So this other account (the master) is already suspended on meta.SE and SO for voting irregularities ...

I'm on the edge of nuking Giraffe

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@ShadowtheHatterWizard it definitely had some "interesting" posts on MSO.

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Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog

1:08 PM

@ShadowtheHatterWizard We'll take a look

Gotta confess - initially I tried solving that WB quiz question by looking through user IDs to see which one was the last one before July 31, 2009. Guess that wouldn't have worked, since...

Q: The number of accounts created during the private beta doesn't seem to match the user IDs

One of the questions on the Winter Bash 2020 quiz asks how many accounts were created during the first year of Stack Overflow beginning on the day the site was created, on July 31, 2008. The resource of where to find the answer says that [x] accounts were created during that time, and that answer...

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3:16 PM

@ShadowtheHatterWizard that giraffe? you can see their (deleted) MSO posts if you want...

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Tech Expert Wizard

4:18 PM

@Sonic That sure is interesting :) I thought user IDs and post IDs corresponded to the number of users and posts created (including deleted ones, X-D).

4:59 PM

@JourneymanGeek "we" as you and Tink? ;)

@MetaAndrewT. where? I can't see deleted posts in profiles, I'm not a mod. :/

5:22 PM

@ShadowtheHatterWizard umm, The Meta Room, an archive of daily drama :|

@MetaAndrewT. oh, never saw that room before. Will grab popcorn and head over there then. :D

Tech Expert Wizard

@Meta @sha I'm going to check out that room too. Thanks!

Tech Expert Wizard

5:48 PM

@sha Popcorn?

@TechExpertWizard corn that pops

pop

@JNat can you please take a look on this user? He posted two jibberish answers on MSE today (example), and got account on many sites... if he's doing this on other sites maybe better nuke, it's waste of time for the users who have to clean up the mess. Thanks!

!!/addblu meta.stackexchange.com/users/518959/marcin-wi%c5%9bniewski

SmokeDetector

@ShadowtheHatterWizard User blacklisted (518959 on meta.stackexchange.com).

@ShadowtheHatterWizard Won't tpu- feedback on their posts blacklist them?

@Ollie yeah but none was reported as it's not spam or offensive.

Just... crap.

Ah.

5:59 PM

So we better get indication when they crap again on MSE, so that we can clean it up. ;)

Or anywhere on SE, they're blacklisted now...

That makes Smokey a crap detector as well. :D

@Ollie think it's per-site. No? @Mithical you know?

User can be a horrible troll on one site, and totally legit user on other sites of SE.

@ShadowtheHatterWizard I don't think so. Knowledge gathered through fighting waffles in Charcoal.

Ohhh, thanks for linking that user, Shadow. Found a bug.

@Ollie ?

Spoilers don't render in the network profile. They show the hidden text without being clicked.

6:01 PM

@Ollie not a bug

No?

It's by design, at some point network profile about me "lost" all formatting.

Oh. Is there a post about that?

After spammers used it to post links.

Ahh yeah, thought it might be related. Never mind.

6:03 PM

hmm...

Wait, maybe you're right.

@ShadowtheHatterWizard nothing interesting on my site...

A: De-linkify links in network profile if a network-wide suspension is applied

Update: As of November 13th 2017, all Website fields and links in the "About Me" profile sections are unlinked on stackexchange.com, for all users regardless of their reputation on any site. We can thank the increasing spam activity on the network (a.k.a. The Great Super User Spam Invasion of 201...

@Ollie ^

Yep, got it.

They removed only links, so maybe removal of spoilers wasn't on purpose.

I'll try a few other things.

6:05 PM

@MetaAndrewT. hmm... well 30+ others to check. ;)

Looks like no formatting in there. Bold, ## headers, spoilers, even italics. All shot.

8:05pm - time to bath the kids. More accurate tell two to go bath themselves, and bath one by myself. Then bed time for kids, then supper with wife in front of TV. Then tomorrow beginning of third lockdown. Fun times!

@ShadowtheHatterWizard also, just visited only 6 sites today, and it's wearing a hat, so... bad hat hunter...

@ShadowtheHatterWizard Then tomorrow afternoon-evening, spam fighting! For me, at least.

@Ollie you fight spam while in lockdown? That's nice. :P

@Ollie worth bug report, in the report link to that answer. Maybe they removed all formatting and Adam forgot to mention, or it's an overlook.

6:08 PM

Yeah, I'll go and ask about that.