Timeline for Is there a system in place to prevent new users asking, answering and accepting answers to each others' off-topic questions?
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| S Jun 28, 2017 at 5:34 | history | suggested | John Militer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2016 at 3:38 | history | edited | Quill | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S May 8, 2016 at 20:35 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S May 8, 2016 at 20:35 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
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| May 6, 2016 at 6:46 | answer | added | Mark Hurd | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 6, 2016 at 6:10 | answer | added | Nick Volynkin | timeline score: 0 | |
| S May 6, 2016 at 3:34 | history | suggested | John Militer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
slightly improved grammer
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| May 5, 2016 at 23:35 | answer | added | John Militer | timeline score: 19 | |
| May 5, 2016 at 23:09 | comment | added | AAM111 | @John, can you rewrite that as a full answer? This seems (and 26 people agree with me at time of writing) to be a good solution. | |
| S Apr 30, 2016 at 19:28 | history | bounty started | gnat | ||
| S Apr 30, 2016 at 19:28 | history | notice added | gnat | Draw attention | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 1:57 | comment | added | John Militer | @sho9 I think what they should do make it so that whenever a post is closed for being off-topic and the owner has less than 50 reputation, the accepted answer is automatically unaccepted and the user cannot reaccept it. Basically, what I mean is making "accepting answers to closed questions that are closed for being off-topic" a privilege awarded at 50 or so reputation. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 21:36 | comment | added | gnat | @Gilles at Stack Overflow triage does this kind of magic | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 21:08 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Shog9 I wish there was something magical, hitting delete a couple dozen times is boring. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:39 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Not sure there's anything magical about hitting delete a couple dozen times, but... Done, @gnat. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:25 | comment | added | gnat | related: Sudden increase in off-topic posts on MSE - example showing that attacks of certain scale simply can't be adequately handled by community moderation at smaller sites | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:19 | comment | added | Brad Larson | @AlonEitan - Sorry, my amused tone may not have been conveyed there. Those users are part of this group, and the answers appear to be largely plagiarized (thus the second link in my comment). Same self-answering and rampant plagiarism as the rest, and they're all coming from the same university. What a mess. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:17 | history | edited | gnat |
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| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:14 | comment | added | Alon Eitan | @BradLarson Oh, I just thought that I identified another pattern because both uses ask questions and answered to each other, and got downvotes for both their questions and answers. Sorry | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:07 | comment | added | Brad Larson | @AlonEitan - Nothing at all suspicious about this answer: cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/34564/38606 cough: researchgate.net/post/… | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:06 | comment | added | user1228 | @Kaveh holy hell. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:04 | comment | added | gnat | @Shog9 all the TCS moderators appear AFK now (last seen: 5h ago, 2 days ago, Apr 21). And their front page is totally polluted with garbage. Can you please please please use your dev access magic and simply remove mess from there | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:03 | comment | added | Alon Eitan | Thanks @BradLarson, also these two are answering each other questions with a lot of downvotes | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 20:00 | comment | added | Brad Larson | @AlonEitan - Pretty sure that was yet another account of a different troll. I've taken care of their accounts. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:38 | comment | added | Kaveh | Thanks @Gilles. I will do as you suggest and will flag them as low quality. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:37 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | Please downvote and flag. The downvotes help with the automatic post blocks, and we'll delete all the plagiarized or extremely low quality content on sight. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:33 | comment | added | Alon Eitan | @Shog9 LOL thanks, because it was about kitten names and JS arrays (If i remember correctly) so I thought is was related | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:31 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Not that I'm aware of, @Alon. India does not possess a monopoly on bad questions. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:30 | comment | added | Kaveh | @Won't, I do that and also vote to delete, but I can vote to delete only after a few days I think, and even then since there is no delete review queue other users who can vote to delete do not see them, so it is really left to moderators to clean up these. If it was a just a few it wouldn't be a problem but 30 questions in an hour is too much to handle manually I think. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:30 | comment | added | Alon Eitan | @Shog9 I'm just curious - Was this question is one of those idiots? | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:28 | comment | added | user1228 | I always downvote all the things and VTC. Sometime after closed and negative-scored, you can vote to delete. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:23 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | I temporarily blocked new-user questions from a bunch of vodafone IPs, which should slow this down a bit also. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:18 | comment | added | Brad Larson | If you're seeing this on CS or CS Theory, I believe those sites have been subject to a coordinated attack by students from an Indian university. They have been posting terrible questions that are immediately answered by other students (usually using plagiarized content) and then they are voting in a tight ring, inflating posts by 8 or more votes. They just tried to pull this on Stack Overflow, and they'll find they no longer have accounts there. New accounts from that university should now be blocked from posting for a while. I've informed the other moderators. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:18 | history | edited | Kaveh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2016 at 19:04 | history | asked | Kaveh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
