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Charcoal is the organization behind the SmokeDetector bot and other nice things. … Discussion We are confident in SmokeDetector and the three years of history it has. …

On Tuesday, September 3, 2024, around 15:05 UTC, GitHub sent out email notifications to SmokeDetector and all users who had a fork of the repository, notifying us that it had been disabled because of an … In some more detail, SmokeDetector operations continued throughout the incident with reduced flexibility. …

There have been several posts complaining about increased visibility of spam posts.1 At least part of the reason was the fact that the Charcoal team participated in the strike and SmokeDetector wasn't …

I recently noticed an odd warning by the SmokeDetector bot about this question: What does this mean? Should I be worried about it? …

I'm just curious about why (not how) metasmoke and SmokeDetector can get reputation. Their profiles state that they are bots, but SmokeDetector even asked a question on Stack Overflow. …

Simply, how can I make a chat room that only has SmokeDetector posting about Ask Ubuntu and Ask Ubuntu only? …

Additionally, if questions about SmokeDetector are allowed to be asked here, is this topic important enough to have a separate tag? … (In connection with tags I will add there semm to be two comment spellings smokedetector and smoke detector. …

Today, SmokeDetector/metasmoke was unable to raise either automatic or manual flags due to Cloudflare asking for human verification on the SE API for a significant period of time. … bright side, the company has been working with Charcoal to have additional secure methods to ensure that the company is able to clearly and securely identify requests which are originating from Charcoal (SmokeDetector …

For a bit over the last hour, SmokeDetector (SD) has, once again, been seeing a flood of SE API errors. This is well outside what's "normal" to see for SmokeDetector. … The only recent change (yesterday) to SmokeDetector in the area of the SE API was the switch to using the 2.4 version of the SE API in order to support scanning questions in the Staging Ground. …

SmokeDetector automatically recovers from this happening, so it's really not a big deal from our point of view. … [Note: the SE API servers being slightly out of sync is common, so SmokeDetector filters smaller differences out. …

Here are some examples of things that have come through so far today - all three of these posts still exist because they're not actually spam, but they do have titles in all caps [ SmokeDetector ] All-caps … title: INSTALLING WINDOWS PROGRAMS AND LEXMARK X4650 PRINTER [ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CAN NOT MAKE A BOOTABLE UBUNTU ISO IMAGE [ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SNORT NOT SHOWING DROPPED/BLOCKED …

What SmokeDetector finds are basically the posts that passed their tests. Two questions: Is there any other feedback loop from SmokeDetector to that system, except posts being flagged as Spam? … Are there statistics available that show that SpamRam got better by keeping spam out due to the successful efforts of the SmokeDetector and its human slaves? …

In the last 4 hours, SmokeDetector has reported 60+ errors when making normal requests to the SE API. … Since 2016, SmokeDetector has, on average, reported such SE API errors 47.5 times/year. …

MEE is Johann Gambolputty made a comment that SmokeDetector is a community run project to help to fight spam. Therefore your question is unfortunately off-topic for this site. … SmokeDetector, FireAlarm, Natty, Queen, etc.) are off-topic here on Meta Stack Exchange, is there anywhere on the Stack Exchange network where one can post a Question and Answer-style question on them, …

There was a questionable post caught by SmokeDetector containing an invisible link set forth on white space like follows: [ ](hxxp://some-nsfw-image-link-or-spam-link) ... which renders pretty much … This removes a hard-to-see 'spam linking' vector that might otherwise only be caught by SmokeDetector. …