So, the guys over in  have been working on a Smoke Detector that detects potential spam so it can be flagged quicker. One thing that has been noticed is the number of posts that get raised with an all-caps title. 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 PACKETS  Would it be possible to add something into the quality filter that advises users against typing out their titles in all caps?
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RECENTLY ON THE ANDROID SITE WE GOT  WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS.  THIS WAS SURPRISING TO ME, SINCE I ASSUMED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY THE QUALITY FILTER &mdash; BESIDES BEING INDICATIVE OF OTHER POST QUALITY ISSUES, IT'S AWFUL TO LOOK AT AND REQUIRES A LARGE AMOUNT OF EDITING TO FIX (EVEN IF YOU RUN IT THROUGH TOLOWER() FIRST).  WE ALL KNOW THAT CAPS LOCK IS , BUT STILL: CAN WE BLOCK THESE QUESTIONS?    RICK  RICK  OH MAN THAT STUFF JACOB G  IS COMEDY GOLD  RIIICK     Note to editors: This post looks exactly like it is supposed to look, as an example of a question in all-caps. Please do not replace the uppercase letters with lowercase.
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I think the community does a great job policing questions/answers, etc. and the community has some good tools available to do this.  Between flagging questions with some reasons behind it and editing posts, closing them, and deleting them, the only thing that seems to be missing to me is the ability to flag a user.  Reasons to flag a user as abusive:   Duplicate User Abusive Behavior Offensive user name or profile User profile consists of spam Others?
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A question from  popped up in the "Hot Network Questions" list, and I couldn't help but notice that its icon is a little bit... lacking.        Shouldn't there be some letters there or something? Maybe "Ec"? Both the main site and the meta are equally nondescript.             As pointed out by  in the comments, this is a high-DPI specific issue.     This is another one of those "shows up on normal DPI, but breaks on high DPI" bugs because  is missing the Ec, but  is not.
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Fine, the 's math  did in the old pop-up. That makes sense. But this is just silly. Why do I need to be notified that a post I downvoted got deleted?    (The title links next to the red -1s were removed from the screenshot by me. They're present in the real pop-up.)  So I can break out a bottle of the '82 Rothschild? It's especially pointless because there's  that caused the change.  Please don't display the Rep Signal when the change is only due to someone else's deleted posts.
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I've seen plenty of posts about flagging spammy questions, but now it seems to be mutating to profile spam. Not that much of a problem, but there don't seem to be any moderation tools for this on the site.   Am I wrong?   Example:
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I just had a random thought; what if you append "[closed]" to the end of a question title. Is it filtered out, or in some way disallowed?  If you are seeing this, it isn't. It could potentially be used for some trickery, right? Or maybe not. I don't know, that's why you're here: discuss!  EDIT: Just a recap: Juan Manuel edited and removed "[closed]" from the end of the title and then answered (see below) - but it is technically possible.  Edit 2: Looks like it's still possible, if you play silly tricks with Unicode. (There's a  character in the new title.)
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I was reviewing Low Quality Posts today and saw this message. Is this something new?     This post doesn't cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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I noticed that the posts of the recent spam surge on Ask Ubuntu were all edited by community members into something like     EDITED - REMOVED SPAM ANSWER   or similar.  While I understand why the users have done this and I too don't want to leave the spam content visible for longer than absolutely necessary, it made flagging more time consuming for me.  I had to check the revision for every of those possible spam posts to check if it is actually spam, instead of being able to flag directly from the review site. Spam flags carry a serious penalty, I'm not willing to add my spam flag without checking that it's really spam.  I see the benefit of editing spam, but it also causes some more effort for the later flaggers. Should we as a general policy edit out the content of spam posts, or should we deal with them solely by flagging?
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On Stack&nbsp;Overflow, I'm a pretty frequent contributor with over 3K in reputation. Almost all of which earned by answering real user questions about Windows programming and other topics.  Last night, somone posted a .  I knew the easiest thing to do would be to direct him to an appropriate documentation page on MSDN that I thought would help. And I literally did this:   Copied the URL directly into the post. Below the URL, copied two lines of content from that page that was relevant. Small code snippit below that.   Literally, this is what the answer looked like:           This warning is automatically promoted to an error. If you wish to   modify this behavior, use #pragma warning. For example, to make C4235   into a level 2 warning, use the following line of code  #pragma warning(2:4235)    I felt that by cutting and pasting a quote from the website, and attributing it with the URL was proper form. Such that it's not ambiguous where the answer originated from - both from a copyright perspective as well as a courteous to the content owner.  About an hour later, I observed two things:   One moderator downvoting the answer and flagging it because "Copy/pasting. Nice. Did you see "© 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved" at the bottom of that page" Another moderator deleted it with just a link to the FAQ - which says nothing about cut and paste or copyright rules.   Well that was disappoining. It wasn't like I was pasting a writeup without giving credit to the original author. Just a small quote from a well known reference site.  So here's my questions:   What is the policy around answers coming from other online reference sources? Is pasting a URL to a page with an answer OK? Is pasting content from the URL OK?  Even if it's attributed? Is there a proper way to attribute content when it originates from another site? Is there a proper way to attribute an answer if it originates elsewhere? Was I wrong to paste a snippet of content from MSDN, or was I wronged by aggressive moderators?   Now here's the real kicker - my day job is a software engineer at Microsoft. I am certain that my employer would not take issue at all with me helping the Windows development community by referencing pages they publish. So in some sense, the Stack&nbsp;Overflow communinity is just making it harder for the Windows experts to help the Windows community. It seems odd.
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Consider this:    We need a space there! Yikes. At first I thought the user's full handle was developingo31. Maybe if it was a different color too that might be neat? Like a slightly lighter (or darker) gray than the "asked xxx ago"?
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How do I post text so that it is formatted as code?  What do I need to do so that my code shows up properly &mdash; not escaped or removed &mdash; when posted? And how to get the correct syntax highlighting?     For more information, see "" in the .
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(Posted here as probably applies to all sites).  I was examining my reputation gain yesterday on Stack Overflow: 190. I believe I should have hit the 200 cap. Mainly due to         Respectively, I had 10, 7, 3, and 2 upvotes on those questions alone. There are a couple of other minnows in the list but the above alone should enable me to hit the cap.  There was a user removed sometime yesterday which knocked off 10 points (and possibly accounts for the disparity) but I think (1) the cap should have been recalibrated and (2) I answered (3) after this event before turning in for the night.  I checked all the usual suspects: the reputation graph on your profile and  the achievements tab, but they are all showing 190.
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While idly chatting over at  (boring room name, I know. Anyone have any better ideas?), we noticed that  articles (like ) don't onebox. There , while . After some more , it looks like the system only takes two-letter language codes. This should be expanded to accept any language or flavor of Wikipedia.
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When a post gets six spam flags, it is .  However, the user account remains in the system.  When this happens, an automatic flag should be raised to allow moderators to check the account to see if it needs to be destroyed, similar to the PostVandalismDeletionsAuto flag.   I will periodically run searches, such as , and see blatant spam that has been deleted, but the spammer's account remains.  When combined with the feature that will , SE will be able to get better information on the spammers.
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Is something wrong with StackOverflow's spam filter? Recently there have been huge numbers of spam topics related to football streaming. They have all been spam flagged and deleted but there are more getting posted all the time, I just flagged another 6 or so a few minutes ago. This has been going on for around 3 days now with these topics getting constantly posted over and over again in the  tag.
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Of course spam posts should be flagged, and if they come up in review, rejected.  Over on Mi Yodeya during the past 24 hours I’ve helped delete and reject four spam posts through the review queue, and I can only imagine that others were posted over the course of the night. To clarify, I’m referring to edits and answers that were about 99.274% words that I don’t think any decent person would use in everyday discussions, even if someone got them really angry.   Thing is, if the only thing we can do as a community is delete his posts/reject his edits, and as moderators to ban his account, can’t he just create a new account? Further, some of these posts . Maybe the mods can ban his IP address? I’m not one, so I have no idea what kind of power they wield in that respect. But he can always just get a new computer.   I don’t have the numbers to see what this is like on other sites, but I know this doesn’t happen often on Mi Yodeya. I wonder, then, whether this is the optimal solution, or whether an automatic spam filter be put into place - say, a new review queue that automatically deletes posts or rejects edits that can then be voted on whether to be reposted if it’s a false alarm. Perhaps it can be automatically triggered by certain keywords (like ****, %$#^, or @$+^).   Now, all of these posts that I voted to delete/reject came up in Suggested Edits and First Posts. Maybe such edits would show up in Low Quality in general, and that just wasn’t the case here because of precedence rules. I don’t know. But perhaps the above would be a better solution, if this is even as big of a problem as I’m making it out to be.
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Update from Shog9:     Also affects Aviation, Cooking... Probably everything on the "not yet in progress" list here:  - I've passed this on to the devs. – Shog9     The  got busted in the last few hours.  It looks ugly and now needs to be scrolled, see below.  Other review pages (, ) are still fine. And the problem appears for me in both Chrome and Firefox -- and whether or not I'm logged in.        versus: