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1:00 PM

@Oded easy: change the code so that any post containing bamwar will be auto deleted upon submission, and its author account nuked. :D

15 minutes of work for you, eternity of pain for spammer

Sam

(auto seems to have stopped working :|)

Shadow Wizard

-7 - someone has downvoted....

tchrist

@TimPost Any reason not to preëmptively ban across virtually the entire SE network any post containing some considered selection of (1) Any Hangul at all. (2) Any Hangul in the title. (3) Some absolute number of Hangul characters. (4) Some proportion of Hangul characters to non-whitespace non-Hangul. (5) Some hybrid strategy involving subtler criteria.

Sam

...

tchrist

Fighting the ɹɐʍɯɐq wars would be more fun as a video game.

3

Unihedron

1:04 PM

@Pham gone

Lynn Crumbling

^ new app idea?

Unihedron

@tchrist YES

A++ will totally kickstart

Shadow Wizard

wondering if this will be spam in 3.. 2.. 1...

tchrist

My from-the-hip shot at a selection filter is one where the alphabetic code points are too heavily Hangul in proportion to non-Hangul.

Sam

Nvm.

rene

1:07 PM

is this only borked for me?

Shadow Wizard

@rene borked how? I see the page

rene

nevermind

cloudflare was borked in Amsterdam

user259867

Biology is getting its design, meanwhile.

ProgramFOX

!!/rev?

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX f20b510 (ProgramFOX: Use shortlinks for Q/A urls)

ProgramFOX

1:10 PM

Alright, everything fixed.

user259867

Good. There are some URL stubs that look pretty bad in browser history. :/

ProgramFOX

yay, valid shortlink! \o/

Shadow Wizard

I wonder, did the spammer see this when deciding to target SE today?

5 hours ago, by Shadow Wizard

so quiet here

Nice work, @Pro smokey is now faster than @Pham!

Sam

Alright, time for Pham to retire to the HQ...

ProgramFOX

@ShadowWizard If only it was like that for bodies too... :P

Sam

1:13 PM

:p

user259867

We missed this one: writers.stackexchange.com/q/17226/12726 (it's 6 min old)

Shadow Wizard

6 minutes?? what a failure!

Jan Dvorak

@Pham why

Unihedron

@Pham log

Andrew T.

I wonder why "abam26" is not yet a blacklisted/banned keyword

user259867

1:16 PM

Bicycles are getting updated design

Andrew T.

ugh, googling "abam26" tells a worse situation on the internet

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: SMTP Header Injection by Johnny_v on security.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@Yes Could not register title as false positive.

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector ignore, sample header

ProgramFOX

1:18 PM

@SmokeDetector ???

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Could not register title as false positive.

...

...

ouch

bayesian file explodes?

ProgramFOX

1:18 PM

the shortlinks broke the FP/TP system

Shadow Wizard

49 mins ago, by Shadow Wizard

looks like there are thousands of victims... https://www.google.co.uk/#q=bamwar+spam

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector tpu for test

Shadow Wizard

@Sam what happened to @Pham?

Qantas 94 Heavy

Would you consider this research spam? stackoverflow.com/questions/30215345/…

Ian Kemp

@Qantas94Heavy certainly smells like it

user259867

1:21 PM

@ShadowWizard I think Sam disabled auto-report to avoid posting everything in duplicate.

SouravGhosh

delete-vote please stackoverflow.com/q/27740391/2173917

Shadow Wizard

@Qantas94Heavy no spam since there's no site/product involved - just the usual SO crap

user259867

That was my last flag on writers. :/

SouravGhosh

@SmokeDetector 404

Jan Dvorak

@Qantas94Heavy not spam, but "abusive" might fit

bjb568

1:25 PM

(removed)

Unihedron

...

Shadow Wizard

Unihedron

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Oded

You are welcome

bjb568

What's with the removed?

user259867

1:27 PM

More variety in titles: the RPG did not have BAM in it.

Shadow Wizard

status-too-much-spam-causing-side-effects

2

:D

Braiam

I wonder how those bots select tags...

user259867

Are they really bots or mechanical turks?

Oded

OK, that should do it.

Unihedron

What did you do?

Oded

1:33 PM

status-countermeasures-deployed

Unihedron

#define countermeasures wolves

bjb568

What is this even?

inline is a word

Unihedron

why are you surfing macrumors?

bjb568

Bored.

Unihedron

(translate: it's your fault)

bjb568

1:35 PM

Stuck in gym with second study hall of the day.

Because PARCC.

Andrew T.

I wanted to post a new question with ab@m/b@mwar to know what's the countermeasure, but decided not to, in case the countermeasure is account auto-nuked :)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: iOS' Quick Reply feature on WhatsApp for Android by NiLS on android.stackexchange.com

Andrew T.

(probably I need a sock)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in username: dsadauioosdasdasdd by 강남풀싸롱 on ham.stackexchange.com

Unihedron

I bet a cooler countermeasure is to XSS whoever that tries to post spam

@SmokeDetector tpu

NEW SPAM ALERT

Andrew T.

1:40 PM

oh, not again...

user259867

Yay, a new site, fresh flags!

user259867

And they appear to be working around the title filter.

Lynn Crumbling

@SmokeDetector gone

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector mod's online and nuked the post...

Oded

That was me.

Unihedron

1:44 PM

It's you all along!!

I knew it

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Unihedron): I think you answered your own question., by ■ Little Kobold, on history.stackexchange.com.

Andrew T.

oh, oops. but thanks. was writing a comment when it's been deleted.

ProgramFOX

!!/rev?

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX fcb6504 (ProgramFOX: Fix TP/FP for shortlinks)

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector fp

Oded

1:46 PM

Obvious troll is obvious.

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

ProgramFOX

\o/

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

1:47 PM

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

ProgramFOX

@AndrewT. Hmm... let me check your privs.

Andrew T.

@ProgramFOX it's working, just a slight lag

ProgramFOX

Oh. I didn't see the reply. blames caching

Unihedron

...

user259867

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

1:52 PM

@Yes Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

user259867

The latest post on Ham confirms that the bamwar spammer is not a bot; being unable to use the preferred title, they went to some asdf.

Sam

@Yes Yep.

Dark Ashelin

@Yes or a very smart bot?

Sam

@ShadowWizard He went on holiday with Gham to the HQ.

Shadow Wizard

while looking for possible spammer accounts, I found @TimPost's possible sibling

2

Mr. David, Martha's Vineyard

1 1

@Sam oh, but he's still in the room :)

Sam

1:58 PM

@ShadowWizard That's what he wants you to think.

Tim Post

@ShadowWizard He's adopted, we don't talk about it

Shadow Wizard

:D

user259867

rude/abusive physics.stackexchange.com/a/183775

Lynn Crumbling

@Yes gone

@ShadowWizard gone

Dark Ashelin

I'm a tad bit confused. On Meta.SO you have the same rep as main SO and you can't increase/decrease it on meta
But on Meta.SE your rep is independant?

Unihedron

2:03 PM

Meta.SE is its own site

user259867

@DarkAshelin Yes, because meta.SE is not attached to SO, it's for the whole network.

Andy

@DarkAshelin That is correct. MSO is a child meta site. MSE is a main Q&A site that happens to be called "Meta" (and doesn't have a child meta)

Unihedron

While Meta.SO / Meta.X is a child meta

Shadow Wizard

haha so many replies

Dark Ashelin

@Andy ah I see

that's so meta

does that mean there may be a meta.meta.stackexchange?

Shadow Wizard

2:04 PM

36

Q: What about meta-meta Stack Overflow?

Meta Stack Overflow is great; it gives you a chance to talk about Stack Overflow in a disconnected forum so that you don't have to break the fight club rules of talking about Stack Overflow on Stack Overflow. (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/) But what about the cases when yo...

user259867

No. In fact, meta.SE sometimes pretends to be the meta site of stackexchange.com, but this is just for the show (in the site switcher).

Unihedron

@DarkAshelin why not?

And then we need MMMSE, a blog discussing about MMSE

Shadow Wizard

Anyway, the Meta site for MSE is MSE. (yeah, infinite recursion)

Unihedron

If that's not enough M's for you, here's an album: souleyedigitalmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mmmmmm

Andrew T.

@InfiniteRecurs... oh, No.

4

Unihedron

2:05 PM

:O

Shadow Wizard

even got special tag for this: meta

> Governing meta for all of Stack Exchange sites. Use this tag to ask questions about this very site, aka MSE.

Unihedron

status-so-meta

Shadow Wizard

> Water, falling from his ducts, drowned out the little ants as they pleaded for mercy. Today they would not die of a magnifying glass, but the salty embrace of mercy.

Unihedron

... Wait, what?

Shadow Wizard

lol

anyone that spends enough time on MSE should know those, @Uni ;)

No.

2:09 PM

@AndrewT. \o/

Lynn Crumbling

@No. /\/o.

5

^ see what I did there?

@No. How are ya, anyway?

..and what inspired the change of usernames?

No.

@LynnCrumbling I am happy \o/

Lynn Crumbling

yay :)

No.

May 8 at 18:51, by Infinite Recursion

Now we need a user named "No".

Lynn Crumbling

I am tired of cars. And their drama.

Shadow Wizard

2:15 PM

@LynnCrumbling switch to bikes.

No.

^^^^

Sam

@LynnCrumbling Switch to legs.

Unihedron

@LynnCrumbling There's a thing invented back in ~1200 called running, you'll love it

user259867

The distance from Lancaster, PA to Lynn's job is a bit long for those.

Shadow Wizard

@Unihedron invented? I'm pretty sure the first human ever to live ran a lot ;)

No.

2:19 PM

Apr 20 at 21:50, by Lynn Crumbling

@ShadowWizard More like... if I LIKE the car I'm looking, I have to decide if the seller isn't telling me why it's 1.5k less than every other car in the area...

bjb568

Bell rang at wrong time, much confusion.

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Sam): No0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000..., by □ zues, on sharepoint.stackexchange.com.

ProgramFOX

@Pham I've seen that user's face before.

No.

BJB spoke at wrong time, much confusion.

Sam

@Pham Even that guy knows Inf's new name.

SmokeDetector

2:21 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: iptables problem in Evil Twin by Khalil Bz on security.stackexchange.com

Shadow Wizard

@SmokeDetector needz formatting badly

user259867

In what language is /////////////// a good style for separating things?

Bart

@No. is it ever the right time when he speaks?

I guess your name answers that.

2

Shadow Wizard

@Yes any C-style language where it's a comment :)

SouravGhosh

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/30217367/2173917

bjb568

2:24 PM

@Yes what's wrong with \n\n?

nicael

0

Q: Post score in the Top Network Posts borked somewhere

Noticed in Jeff Atwood's profile: And then mine: Neither of those posts got any votes recently.

bug profile-page

Weird bug.

Andy

I'm going to downvote every post of yours that contains that awful pink color. Policy says it must be red.

WHY ARE YOU VIOLATING POLCY?!

Shadow Wizard

@nicael just curious, you really view everything with max zoom, always?

SPArchaeologist

and now, for all the Final Fantasy fans out there...

Derpy De Chocobo - [Superpsyguy]

►

bummi

blacklist candidate premium-inkjet.com (pseudo for below)
blacklist candidate priceless-inkjet.com

Andy

2:33 PM

^ That is how you name your software.

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@Andy Registered answer as false positive.

Shadow Wizard

@Oded now with the spam successfully eaten/nuked/burninated if you got a minute can you please take a look on this bug?

24

Q: What's your * question? Be specific

I'm seeing questions with this title across the network, here (edited in grace), here and here. Here, here, here, here and here. Oh, here and here as well. Ask Ubuntu report about it here. At first I thought it was users typing it out, but see this comment: @MARamezani placeholder which for...

bug questions title

Looks like quite a major bug to me, though couldn't reproduce myself

suspect some browser, maybe with some addon, is borking the placeholder check

glaring at Firefox

rene

@TimStone I'm sure you're watching the SEDE tag but can you follow up on this new report and put some status on this older one. Tnx.

Tim Stone

Yep :)

rene

:)

That was quick...

nicael

2:56 PM

@Andy :D My bad. I was slightly going through Shades Of Red (different in each post) unless I suddenly came to pink. Nothing that I can do! :P

Andy

You can go back to red

nicael

Trying my best. Next post of mine will haz moar red and less pink!

Ian Kemp

nice troll comments on @nicael's question

Lynn Crumbling

@Yes shiver

nicael

@ian huh? :D neither seems to troll

Ian Kemp

3:07 PM

although i concur that his mspaint handwriting is bad, and that his pink mspaint handwriting is worse

Lynn Crumbling

Ok, I gave this OP a chance. cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/30216665/656243

Shadow Wizard

@IanKemp I'm a magical troll

Ian Kemp

@LynnCrumbling why would you even do that

Lynn Crumbling

@IanKemp Give the OP an opportunity to add code?

nicael

No. Never. Close!

Ian Kemp

3:11 PM

@LynnCrumbling oh, so you're a "glass half full" type

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: FUNCTION EXERCISES by Ionela Bustenea on math.stackexchange.com

Ian Kemp

my approach is more "post code up front or gtfo"

some may call this ruthless. i call it, efficient.

Lynn Crumbling

@IanKemp Well, (1) it's a new user.. if we can get them trained on asking good questions now, we'll save them (and us!) trouble in the future, and (2) there's a 5 minute grace period after a question is asked, to give the user time to flush out their question fully. I generally abide by that 5 minutes unless I can already see that the question is completely OT.

5 minutes is up for this Q.

Ian Kemp

@LynnCrumbling ah yes, i'm coming in an hour afterwards, so of course i'm feeling less charitable

Lynn Crumbling

@IanKemp And now.. so am I :) Especially given that I asked the OP twice to provide code.

Ian Kemp

3:15 PM

@LynnCrumbling and were greeted with deafening silence

Lynn Crumbling

Not golden, in this case :)

SPArchaeologist

@Andy perfectly fine use of Pinkie Pie pink there. We see no problem whatsoever.

Ian Kemp

i would be quite interested to know what % of questions that are initially posted without code, actually end up being good questions. i'd wager it's a low number.

Dark Ashelin

the designer next to me is using a ruler to measure something on his screen, I giggled

SPArchaeologist

@DarkAshelin well... IE new developer toolbar removed the ruler tool, so... maybe...

Ian Kemp

3:21 PM

@DarkAshelin i can't begin to imagine a scenario where that is useful

nicael

@Dark He is watching you, wake up! :P

Dark Ashelin

@IanKemp haha me neither

@nicael creepy ._.

Lynn Crumbling

@IanKemp I'd be curious about this stat, too...

Dark Ashelin

@LynnCrumbling go nuts on data.stackexchange?

Lynn Crumbling

@DarkAshelin Not even sure how you'd qualify no-code posts... check for presence of a code tag?

Ian Kemp

3:26 PM

i'd hit up SEDE but (a) i hate sql (b) i'm a lazy bugger

Lynn Crumbling

Yeah.. I have my own code to write, .. here.

Unihedron

My code is compiling.

nicael

^ I am a bug!

Andrew T.

^ How do I stop compiling a bug?

nicael

Eject accum.

or plug out

Andy

3:30 PM

@AndrewT. RAID. Deals with most bugs

Lynn Crumbling

@Andy Especially if you spray it directly in the offending programmer's face.

2

SPArchaeologist

@nicael so you where the one under Sugarcube floor in last august LOE open weekend?

nicael

umwut

Lynn Crumbling

[cv-pls] stackoverflow.com/q/30219401/656243 <- @IanKemp This person will not qualify for my 5 minute grace period, with 3 previous questions.

Ian Kemp

@LynnCrumbling 3 previous questions, 0 clues

Lynn Crumbling

3:39 PM

@IanKemp I edited out his deployment strategy, since it's just wasted space.. and now the question text is just one sentence.

nicael

Not the best icon :D (mythology.se)

Lynn Crumbling

@IanKemp I really want to copy and paste the hover-text for the down-arrow as a comment.

@nicael Needs more unicorn.

Ian Kemp

@LynnCrumbling sadly, if he hasn't got a hint from his last 3 bad questions, chances are even something as obvious as that won't help

Bart

Lynn Crumbling

@nicael Ok.. proof of concept.

Andrew T.

4:09 PM

Probably too rough / not cute, but anyway...

jpg artifact on png? okay.

ASCIIThenANSI

@nicael Maybe we could use an Ouroboros, but that might not come out well if it's small. In addition, the "infinity" symbol is taken by Arduino...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Is my current email address unprofessional? by Laura on workplace.stackexchange.com

ASCIIThenANSI

^^^ Asking a question about her e-mail - not spam

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

nicael

4:42 PM

I learned how to generate spam using Google Keyboard's auto complete!

Oh no problem with you can you want to me a few days and I the way to the do you want can you want to do not be the first way of the best first time one is the a new and I the to the first thing is not the best to the first thing time to and then I am can get a the to for a few great weekend but so join the first thing one of my this is not the or any of the way to the do you not sure that you want you are

Wait. One percent left again.

SmokeDetector

4:57 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: Is it possible to make a custom difficulty setting? by SPARTA on gaming.stackexchange.com

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector tpu, spartans' way of thinking?

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. Blacklisted user.

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