We have a daily task where we need to copy data from one spreadsheet to another
the ideal is... not
I basically press a button, wait 5 min, check through (cause there's some stuff I don't know how to automate), press another button, then send the upload.
@JourneymanGeek well, I get it as "if you don't have to do the boring parts, what's left are the non-boring parts of your job, so it's more interesting". The concept is valid. :)
@Feeds if I saw a post like that on SE with SEO keywords like "assistant" linked to related pages on someone's site in a way that doesn't make sense in the sentence, I would flag it as spam.
@ShadowTheKidWizard with respect to that comment thread
Sometimes I wonder if that period of time that things were super bad (SE basically scrambling to sort out finances, firing people, going community hostile)...
If people were incompetent or malicious (and trying to basically drive stuff to the ground), and which would be worse >_>
@JourneymanGeek not sure what you mean. Yes, things were bad, and there were reasons. Even the grumpy me though don't think anything was done with malicious intent by management. They just.... didn't know how to do it better.
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A lot of this stuff should be part of the UI. But it's not, so...
Also the fact that destroying a user doesn't also ban them for a year is annoying. That would save a lot of spam in our diamond inbox. Like half of it is us banning spammers.
But at least you managed to get me to search for evidence :P
@RyanM Yeah, recreation shouldn't really be a problem if they're suspended, but if they really wait 14 days before posting again from a recreated account, that's dedication XD
A lot of these accounts are definitely created in advance..."aged accounts" is (apparently) a thing, according to a spammer shilling them on Stack Overflow.
it's not unusual for the accounts to be a few weeks old when they start spamming
At any rate, we currently do, as a matter of course, suspend spammers for a year when we destroy them...
@JourneymanGeek no, unless identity stolen, looks like it's really her. Wonder if it's worth reporting to LinkedIn she's spamming sites over the internet.
@JourneymanGeek well goal of spam is to help the company gain visits, so if they hire spammer that taking the identity of one of their own employees it's quite silly.
@JourneymanGeek Lol, when I was originally making the list (internally) I was handling a request from Stack Overflow in Portuguese to change the setting, so it was a necessary clarification at the time :P