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test[square bracket in link]

yeah, and Youtube also still works

now nothing to do but wait

Okay, bug reported

forgot about the bug report tag

ah, okay

How should I report something like that?

so it's not just Arqade chat

okay, so Twitter oneboxing is broken here too

twitter.com/mattwilkinsbio/status/1128840124169687043

I think I'm going to leave policy suggestions to the actual owners of SO. Meta echo chamber mass downvotes anything which even hints at reducing the experience for the regulars so new users actually might want to stick around more

@ShadowWizard automatic

Good news everyone! the serial voting was reversed

@JourneymanGeek I'm almost there on Arqade. Only 45 rep left

@JourneymanGeek I'll stop caring about rep once I reach 10K so I can see deleted questions

@Magisch Generally, 3 downvotes within 9 seconds doesn't really seem like it could be 3 different users, but I might be wrong there

@Mgetz Okay, I'll give it a couple of days, see if it's really someone trying to avoid the downvoting rules. If it happens again a couple times, I'll call in moderator intervention. but yeah, 6 rep isn't really worth calling the authorities over

I feel like if it really happens hundreds of times per week without intervention, it's a systemic issue where people have found a way to skirt the rules without outright breaking them, which doesn't seem like a good thing

so in effect, it's "don't bother mentioning it, because it's not worth the trouble"? Kinda stupid since it costs me 6 rep

Thought as much. Flag for moderator intervention and state "probably serial downvoting"?

Yeah, because the questions aren't really related, nor are they particularly bad

@Derpy I assume that if it's really part of serial downvoting, it'll be reverted in like 12 hours?

Like, just 3 questions downvoted, all 3 within a similar timespan

about 5 hours ago, I had 3 downvotes on questions on SO in short succession, and I'm not sure if I was the victim of serial downvoting

why do I get a feeling this is appropriate to post?

Especially when they're using their bio and website fields to spam

and I also don't really see a reason to keep pure spam users around

@Mithrandir Just moderating the posts leaves the user to later spam again, or even spam other sites

Like, ideally it should be the entire network profile that should just be removed because I doubt they're going to turn from a spam user into a normal user

but there isn't really any way to report someone when they haven't made a post yet, or when they have made a post but it's been moderated without the mod noticing the user is spam?

is that a chatroom on meta?

Well, now it's just waiting for the mods for Chinese Language to respond

@micsthepick PM? I'm not aware of any way to send private messages to other users, unless you mean flagging for moderator intervention

I flagged their one post for moderator attention while stating that they're trying to sell sex dolls on their profile. I assume that's enough?

Like, I can't see any way on their profile page to report them

Question: how do we report users who are using their profile to facilitate spam?

I mean, the snarky comment would be equally inappropriate

Weaponize the feeling of satisfaction people get when they can prove someone else wrong

@Derpy As i clarified, I think it would be less "express frustration" and more "post mild hyperbole about things you're not certain about to encourage people who know better to correct you"

The idea is to stay factual while hoping that someone who did find a solution is pushed to correct you

@JourneymanGeek "The documentation does not explain this topic at all"

@JourneymanGeek You can be factual, on-topic and complete in a question while still showing a small amount of frustration in things like google not giving any response and the documentation being useless

I'm not talking about titles that viciously attack someone or something. not something as intense as in the topic

@Derpy And what's your opinion on the entire discussion topic of small amounts of frustration in titles?

@HTTPS I mean, isn't that close to what smoke detector is?

especially from the HNQ part

the frustration would mildly encourage more people to read it and maybe post their input