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The question DETERMINISTIC FINITE STATE MACHINE (10k link) had the content of:

DESIGNING A SIMPLE DETERMINISTIC FINITE STATE MACHINE TO RECOGNISE A VALID DUT PASSWORD NUMBER. IT ,MUST FIRST INCLUDE LOWERCASE LETTER,NUMBER AND SUBSEQUENT SYMBOLS @!%$&

What was the quality score for this? How did it get through the quality filter? And does someone need to change the settings on the threshold for the quality filter for P.SE? or add more rules to the quality filter (e.g. '80% non symbol characters in the character set [A-Z] should get automatically rejected)?

This is tagged as both bug and feature request - its either bug that it got through or a feature request to improve it if this was working as designed.

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    – gnat
    Commented Aug 28, 2014 at 19:25
  • quality filter is probably case insensitive
    – ratchet freak
    Commented Aug 28, 2014 at 19:26
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    @ratchetfreak I would consider that a bug if that is the case.
    – user40980
    Commented Aug 28, 2014 at 19:26
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    probably worth noting that quality wise letter case matters - I for one perceive all caps much more frustrating compared to all lowercase
    – gnat
    Commented Aug 28, 2014 at 19:33
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    Related reading: Capslock on VS capslock off
    – user22815
    Commented Aug 29, 2014 at 3:12
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    And yet DBAs are still allowed to live, @gnat. There's no justice in this world, I tells ya.
    – Shog9
    Commented Aug 29, 2014 at 17:40
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    @Shog9 one has to excuse those who can only count "0, 1, many" at times. That said, it would help if the quality filter could be mad aware of such loud postings.
    – user40980
    Commented Aug 29, 2014 at 17:46
  • I think we've got an accepted answer
    – gnat
    Commented Oct 15, 2014 at 9:43
  • possible duplicate of Is the ALL CAPS question filter broken?
    – gnat
    Commented Jul 9, 2015 at 19:38

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The quality score on that post is 75 out of a possible 100. The threshold for sending it straight into review is 70. Yeah, that's pretty useless.

We're working on a better one, based on some analysis of the available data. It ain't perfect either, but it would've flagged that one right out of the gate.

The new system isn't quite ready to go live yet though, so for now, I threw this in:

DON'T SHOUT

Update: check is back on - for titles and bodies of the questions.

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  • just... Add a “Magic 8-Ball” feature to the Ask a Question page :)
    – gnat
    Commented Aug 30, 2014 at 10:04
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    this check seems to be done only on the text of the question but not on the title (SIMPLE DS PROJECT), would it make sense to extend it to question title as well?
    – gnat
    Commented Sep 1, 2014 at 7:06
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    Shog, WHY CAN YOU TURN ON THAT FRIGGIN' MAGIC ONLY FOR QUESTION BODY? ALL-CAPS TITLES ARE JUST AS FRIGGIN' ANNOYING, ESPECIALLY IF YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT HOW THESE POLLUTE SITE FRONT PAGE
    – gnat
    Commented Oct 2, 2014 at 20:41
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    Magic is now off - I need a fix before it'll work properly. Will enable for titles as well once I have that.
    – Shog9
    Commented Oct 2, 2014 at 20:42
  • @gnat because that would be a new feature request.
    – user53019
    Commented Oct 2, 2014 at 20:42
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    @Shog9 do you need a magic switch? I know where to get some at a local hardware store...
    – user40980
    Commented Oct 2, 2014 at 20:44
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    Ok, back on - for titles and bodies, @gnat.
    – Shog9
    Commented Oct 14, 2014 at 17:29
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    Are you sure that its enabled and working properly? i.sstatic.net/4ZmDp.png
    – user40980
    Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 4:32
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    programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/… @MichaelT - that guy was warned 15 times (about that and other issues)... Didn't stop him from banging his head against the wall though.
    – Shog9
    Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 4:34
  • Just making sure... (and oh, thats a neat trick for linking directly to asking a new question). I'm a bit surprised it made it past the quality filters though with an all caps body.
    – user40980
    Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 4:36
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    Yeah, well... It took him a few tries to get past the filter too. A good few.
    – Shog9
    Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 4:36
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    Thats... disappointing (not the filter, though it would have been nice if it caught this too - but rather the "all of these things are saying 'don't post questions formatted like this'").
    – user40980
    Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 4:48
  • Which position is the magic switch in? I'm just wondering if its still working and blocking sufficiently low quality posts.
    – user40980
    Commented Jun 9, 2015 at 16:33
  • Shog, people here complain that FRIGGIN' ALL CAPS FILTER IS BROKEN YET AGAIN, we started getting questions with all caps in title and text
    – gnat
    Commented Jul 6, 2015 at 18:18

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