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Undo the Snowman

12:00 AM

@animuson Oh. That's part of my orders here too.

But only because I want to be able to open and close my gates.

animuson

It sucks because I don't have a coat, and it's still cold and snowing outside.

Undo the Snowman

Hmm....

Build yourself a snow fort with the snow you're shoveling away from the main gate!

Like an eskimo!

animuson

How about I make a hand, with one particular finger sticking up? Hint: it's not the thumb.

Undo the Snowman

^ sample graph.

I feel so proud of myself.

Now, I hope Space.SE's meta doesn't become really popular all the sudden and cause my server to go boom.

Actually, I'd like for its meta to get popular. Just not the boom part.

michaelb958's a Sleigh

@UndotheSnowman begins rigging botnet to ping -t

animuson

12:05 AM

I've had to kick a couple people off the property because they though coming in to drive around in the parking lot and see how much they could slide in the snow was a good idea.

Undo the Snowman

@michaelb958 begins rigging IP banning mechani.... oh shoot.

@animuson The car salesmen tell them to do that, to test out the anti-skid mechanism.

animuson

Someone go slap those car salesmen.

Undo the Snowman

So, how do you approach someone in a heavy moving vehicle sliding around on ice to tell them to leave?

animuson

Park my big ass van in front of them.

Undo the Snowman

You even get a big van?

Lucky.

Why can't you attach a snowplow to the front of the big van to keep the main gate clear?

animuson

12:11 AM

Ford E250

Undo the Snowman

Oh.

You could just open and close the main gate constantly; then it will keep itself clear.

animuson

They actually have snow plows here. We're just not authorized to drive them.

Undo the Snowman

That's maddening.

Hmmm... not sure it's good to have a Fanatic badge on mSO.

animuson

They even have one of those cool street cleaning vehicles.

Undo the Snowman

Ooohhh!! I've always wondered how those drive.

I bet there's a big lever inside it that says 'CLEAN'.

animuson

12:14 AM

You mean 5mph? Lol

Undo the Snowman

Lol

The actually go a lot faster than that. Once I saw a policeman pull one over.

I think for speeding

animuson

So Grand Theft Auto has been lying to me about their max speed!?

Undo the Snowman

Sounds like it.

Shog9

2:05 AM

@UndotheSnowman seems fine; scale is kinda worthless right now, should get more interesting over time.

animuson

3:03 AM

Haha apparently when Chrome for Android crashes, loading it back up loads a grey-scaled version of the last site you were on until it reloads the page (which was Meta SO). I thought Jin might've gone overboard with a new full-grey Meta theme.

michaelb958's a Sleigh

3:29 AM

@animuson How does that even happen?

animuson

3:44 AM

I don't know. I typed in a search in the address bar and when I hit enter the app just crashed on me. When I loaded it back up everything was grey. o.o

michaelb958's a Sleigh

@animuson I mean, how/why does everything randomly go grayscale?! It's like that bug with the SE Android app where the numbers in a list got bigger.

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Q: Scrolling question list quickly causes vote count text to grow

I've found that the vote counts in the question list on the Android app will gradually grow larger in size if I fling the list up and down, forcing it to scroll very quickly. I don't have a truly "scientific" method of describing this insofar as I cannot give you specific scrolling speeds or thin...

That's... That's... How does that even happen?! — michaelb958's a Sleigh Oct 25 at 5:00

jadarnel27

4:09 AM

I remember being really weirded out the first time I saw that too, @animuson.

It happens to me sometimes when the page is just being slow to open back up (when I've had the app closed for a while, or I'm switching tabs).

animuson

4:41 AM

Home sweet home.

JoshC

4:59 AM

@animuson Do you mind taking care of this last tag for me? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/204543/burninate-adding

animuson

@JoshC Done.

JoshC

That was fast! Thanks.

jadarnel27

Thawing out now, @animuson?

teresko

7:09 AM

got hit by serial downvote just now in main SO site

michaelb958's a Sleigh

@teresko Wait for it to be reversed by the serial downvoting script at 03:00 (it's 07:10 now). If that fails, then bring it up here or with a mod flag.

animuson

7:33 AM

Ohhhh I passed Mr. Skeet in Meta rep.

michaelb958's a Sleigh

9:23 AM

French lasers on Meta again.

Johannes Kuhn

@animuson If you pass his SO rep with Meta rep, that would be awesome.

I don't understand how this question can get a score of -9.

If everyone who sees that question flaged it as spam, it would be gone within 1 min.

But some people are lazy and just downvote.

michaelb958's a Sleigh

@JohannesKuhn The last time we had a French lasers question, the consensus was that it was a plz-c0mp4r3-teh-things question rather than outright spam. (Note: I don't have the original on hand; I could be wrong.)

Duncan

10:17 AM

@animuson That must feel like finally beating your father at sport. At first, joyous. Then, devastating.

user234239

hi

user234239

I am now Dr. Scrooge

user234239

that is all

michaelb958's a Sleigh

You can't fool me, @UV-D. I know what you are, where you are, and what you did with those chocolates in my stocking last Christmas.

user234239

they were delicious

Duncan

10:32 AM

They weren't... chocolates.

user234239

still...

michaelb958's a Sleigh

dundundun.net

(Yes, I totally stole that off the starred sidebar, and it was only there because I starred it.)

user234239

both get stars from me

Bart

Wtf is up with the delete votes on this answer? It had one, and now seems to have gotten another.

user234239

wow!

user234239

10:43 AM

hey @Bart

Bart

Hola

user234239

you know who I am really don't you?

Bart

The electromagnetic radiation within a certain range of wavelengths is giving it away.

user234239

excellent!

user234239

wait a sec - it says 'Scrooge' for me (my new screen name for the bah humbug season)

Bart

10:46 AM

Yes, for me too

user234239

phew, thought i was going crazier than usual

Bart

That's possible?

user234239

yes, in quantum-madness theory

Bart

where Quirks are elementary particles.

user234239

indeed

user234239

10:49 AM

now with the title 'Dr', I have a duty to be insane

Bart

Oooh, how fancy. See, that's why I quit. I wanted it to remain a hobby

user234239

for me it is still a hobby, a lifestyle and now a duty

rene

11:03 AM

I'm eager to mark this question as spam but I recall that a flag of mine was rejected for the same site earlier. Am I over sensitive?

Bart

it's not spam really

rene

Hmmm but he will generate extra traffic because of the full link. Shouldn't OP's be encouraged to use abstract links?

Duncan

The link is certainly unnecessary. I've voted to close alongside Bart's reason.

Bart

Meh, the main thing he should do is make it a real question. And I guess the link could be unlinkified. But it's not really spam.

rene

Ok, the close vote it is then.

Duncan

11:09 AM

Is there a neat way to unlinkify something without just making it a code example or similar?

(Note: I'm mid-edit)

Bart

Block-quote really

michaelb958's a Sleigh

Untested wild guess: [link]()

Uses it as the content of a link to nowhere.

Bart

wait, makes no sense. Code will do fine

Duncan

I agree code will be fine. @michaelb958'saSleigh is correct though.

RobinHood

12:18 PM

Whats wrong with repo? Daily ~~serial~~ up-vote and on next day it reversed!

Bart

Are you sure you want to discuss that publicly @RobinHood?

It seems someone is targeting you with upvotes

See meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/126829/…

ThiefMaster

i sent the reponsible user a message about targeted voting. hopefully he stops

Bart

Pretty damn annoying

ThiefMaster

yeah, I hate red bars in my reputation history, too. and -330 is hard to get back into green unless you are lucky with accepts/bounties

RobinHood

Thanks ThiefMaster

Bart

12:26 PM

Heck, even the 40 rep from yesterday that I (probably) really shouldn't have annoys me.

rene

1:39 PM

In this suggested edit a link to a deleted post is removed in the edit. I can see deleted posts so for me there is no reason editing that out. What is the general guidance on this?

This one

RobinHood

@ThiefMaster my repo was 5246 after reversed its 5071 .

difference of 175?

Duncan

1:57 PM

@rene In that specific case, I think the text is unneeded anyway. So removing it tidies up the question a little. In general, if there is some need to link to a deleted question, I don't think it should be removed just because non-10k users can't see it. But such a question will rarely be required outside of meta.

And when they do appear on meta, people tend to suffix it with (10k only).

rene

@Duncan Ok thanks. I also just posted a question on meta on this same topic

This was on SO, but I understand you want to have different rules per site?

Duncan

FWIW, I reiterated my chat statement in a slightly elongated answer.

rene

Much appreciated, tnx!

Duncan

2:16 PM

I think sometimes Microsoft just needs to admit "Well, we don't really have that feature." office.microsoft.com/en-gb/powerpoint-help/…

I think I also need to read the first paragraph in websites sometimes.

Pëkka

@Duncan looool

Duncan

2:31 PM

It's quite embarrassing how much that first paragraph sums up my smart-ass point. Touché, Microsoft.

Laszlo Papp

3:58 PM

Hi, I am wondering how active flags can be lost in the queue? I have one of them from yesterday where an "answer" was not a real answer, but I also have few weeks old flags around.

Duncan

@LaszloPapp Moderators handled hundreds of flags on busy sites. I suspect they just haven't got around to it yet.

Laszlo Papp

well, my flags after that one yesterday were handled.

and there were about a few hundreds just from me after the active ones that happened a few weeks earlier, or even month.

maybe mods only handle flags that are trivial looking.

Duncan

I'm pretty sure @Shog9 posted an answer about this recently. The flags are grouped into categories and some categories require more immediate action than others.

What type of flags were they?

Laszlo Papp

"not an answer" usually, e.g. stackoverflow.com/questions/10112827/…

Duncan

NAA flags would go to the 10k users. Perhaps we've just not got around to it. I think they appear in random order in the flag review queue, but I might be mistaken.

Currently 197 answers flagged as NAA.

Laszlo Papp

4:08 PM

for 10K users, you mean?

Duncan

Yes.

Laszlo Papp

I see. That is a lot, but it depends on the daily limit and the number of contributors.

it is not as bad as the 100+k close votes.

@Duncan: thanks.

Duncan

4:29 PM

It's a more achievable number. It's rarely down to zero though.

DanteTheEgregore

5:09 PM

@LaszloPapp It may be lost forever. I have a duplicate flag that's been active for 91 days now.

:P

jadarnel27

Duplicate flags now go to the close vote review queue, so that one makes more sense.

Laszlo Papp

5:33 PM

@DanteTheEgregore: I have a pending from aug 9.

that is even more than 91.

ThiefMaster

6:13 PM

@LaszloPapp: Regarding your question in #pocoo: Check your view functions if there's any that doesn't return anything.

Jeroen Vannevel

6:26 PM

How did he add an answer 3 minutes after the question got closed?

0

A: Can someone figure this thing out for me?

I think you want to change this int found = input.indexOf("you", i); if (found == -1) to this int found = input.indexOf("you", i); if (found != -1)

Undo the Snowman

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Q: How was this answer posted after this question was closed?

Question: lot of .exe folders are created on my windows7 Answer: try that... The question was closed at 11:57:57 (according to the hover-over-"x-mins-ago" bar) and the answer was posted at 12:16:35. It's a fairly lengthy answer, so it's possible that it was started to be written before it was c...

bug status-bydesign answers closed-questions

Jeroen Vannevel

Small sidenote: when you edit a post on a locked question and use the inline refresh of the post, it will remove the locked message

Undo the Snowman

@JeroenVannevel Report it.

Jeroen Vannevel

Alright, will do. Thanks for the link by the way, clears it up.

no problem ;)

6:29 PM

6:47 PM

1

Q: Refreshing an answer to a locked question after an edit removes the lock message

When a question with answers to it gets locked it displays the locked reason with the people that voted for it. However when an answer is edited after the post is locked and you use the inline refresh to get the updated answer, it will remove the locked message. Refreshing the page will display t...

bug edit locked-questions

Can I have some closevotes?

GnomeSlice

@JeroenVannevel Ergh. I can't on MetaSO.

I keep forgetting.

Jeroen Vannevel

It's fine, I have updated the post now. It now demonstrates the problem :)

GnomeSlice

9:11 PM

Is this like where all the famous people hang out or what

Undo the Snowman

9:34 PM

It's maddening to have read the entire mod FAQ and have every diamond you reach for run away from you.

Bart

Don't reach for other people's diamonds @UndotheSnowman. Just wait for your turn in the next election.

Undo the Snowman

@Bart Lol.

I know.... I just want to do more in my little corner of beta-land. I've racked up >250 flags, made a live stat system, wrote almost all our tag wikis, and yet somehow I manage not to get chosen.

Almost like life isn't fair!

animuson

Effugio!

Undo the Snowman

Gets out latin dictionary

Bart

Flagged as offensive. Such language /me looks up word.... ah....

animuson

9:43 PM

Well, at least you recognized it was Latin...

Undo the Snowman

I've taken two years of the stuff.

animuson

One of the few words I remember from my four years of Latin classes.

GnomeSlice

@Bart very harsh. such language. wow.

Bart

@GnomeSlice that's me. How I have not yet been suspended is beyond me.

GnomeSlice

@Bart I've been suspended loads of times. It's not the end of the world.

Bart

9:46 PM

I keep trying. I post drivel on Meta on a daily basis, yet it keeps getting upvotes and people accept it. I stumble from one accidentally helpful contribution into another. It's weird.

animuson

@Bart It's the glasses.

Bart

That would explain so much.

animuson

Oh my, I have an email in my inbox that's not useless!? I'm so used to my work sending me those annoying "this is a reminder that you're scheduled to work this day" emails that they won't let me unsubscribe from...

Bart

I have found that GMail's automatic "Important" filtering is actually quite good at finding those emails which I could blindly delete.

Cole Johnson

New Area 51 proposal: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/62657/spam-review

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GnomeSlice

9:51 PM

@ColeJohnson +1

Cole Johnson

65

Q: We need to improve the quality of our spam!

Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE): There are a great many things wrong with this artifact: There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.) The only pun...

discussion spam fun always-friday-in-iceland

Undo the Snowman

Oh dear, what have I started...?

animuson

Is that a serious proposal? Or are you trying to see how fast Robert will close your proposal?

Cole Johnson

@animuson Yes

Bart

That clarifies it.

Undo the Snowman

9:53 PM

@Cole I'm kinda afraid to follow it.

Cole Johnson

10:09 PM

@UndotheSnowman do it. You know you want to

HostileFork

►

You have to take into account the impact on the Koy4Goff people.

michaelb958's a Sleigh

Yayay, I haz A51 repz! (From spam!)

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GnomeSlice

11:05 PM

Quick question guys: does everything on this page appear to be in order?

Cole Johnson

@michaelb958 Just be careful not to downvote Jon Spam.

michaelb958's a Sleigh

@ColeJohnson I didn't. I just called out the blasphemer who did.

animuson

Assassin's Creed IV makes me want to quit playing video games. There are no words to describe how terrible that game is.

GnomeSlice

@animuson desura.com/games/ogre-stomp

Is it worse than Ogre Stomp?

Anna Lear

@animuson what's wrong with it? other than the fact that they somehow managed to break freerunning controls that were so awesome in III

Cole Johnson

11:07 PM

@michaelb958 We need to get a community manager in and nuke the loser who did.

Anna Lear

what is even happening

animuson

@AnnaLear I cannot say that I remotely enjoyed any of the story line, and the underwater exploration controls are like 20 times worse than the free-run controls.

@AnnaLear They're talking about this proposal and their endeavor to see how long they can go without it being closed.

michaelb958's a Sleigh

@AnnaLear Area 51 is happening! (Also, someone downvoted Jon on A51, and needs nuking.)

Anna Lear

Are y'all seriously trolling A51?