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hichris123

12:46 AM

@Undo The question is why?

animuson

12:59 AM

Writing cover letters is hard.

Louis

1:26 AM

This ought to cheer you up...

... or give you nightmares... one or the other.

hichris123

Eeeek!

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/23690659/blackberry-10-cascade-json

Laszlo Papp

his/her other question is also a pretty good canditate for closure...

hichris123

@LaszloPapp You didn't see the first one that was deleted.

This one: stackoverflow.com/questions/23690953/mp3-player-blackberry-10

Doorknob

2:00 AM

> social network: a dedicated website or other application that enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.

help. people are calling SE a social network. :O !!!

hichris123

@Doorknob ... where?

Doorknob

(see previous message?)

Laszlo Papp

cv-pls-downvote-naa-pls stackoverflow.com/a/23691385/2682142

Sigh, you guys are so pedantic. My answer was right and involved a click for him. I was helpful to him, and you guys are just being lame IMO. Downvote more if it makes you feel better. — Hamza Kubba 32 secs ago

meh ^^

Undo

2:23 AM

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 9 secs ago, by Undo

waits for Bart to show up with his flag-hungry-toes.

animuson

2:41 AM

I'm coding my cover letter with HTML and CSS...

Laszlo Papp

4:17 AM

why did this crap get undeleted? stackoverflow.com/a/23691385/2682142

please downvote it to oblivion. I flagged it again.

Paul Hicks

Would if I could.. it seems I'm limited to a single downvote! Silly rule..

Laszlo Papp

heh

Paul Hicks

Why is it greyed out? I don't come across enough deletions like this to recognize that state..

Laszlo Papp

-3

Paul Hicks

Ah. ty.

Laszlo Papp

4:23 AM

some comments were already removed, but he seems to be very argumentative.

Paul Hicks

Yes. Defensiveness impedes learning. I'm still struggling with that myself, sometimes.

animuson

> disputed low quality review (auto) Post was undeleted by the author

Laszlo Papp

5:27 AM

@animuson: thanks

Braiam

10:50 AM

I felt so lonely :(

SE chat is down still

Martijn Pieters

comforts Braiam

SO chat is up.

3ventic

I was redirected to area51 when I tried to open this chat..

Martijn Pieters

@marcgravell @StackStatus Out of curiosity, how did http://chat.meta.SE end up redirecting to Area 51 of all places?

Tweeted by tmslft on May 16, 2014 at 7:25 AM in reply to marcgravell

Stijn

11:09 AM

chat's working!

it's as if my whole world was falling apart this morning without SO

Braiam

@Stijn could be worse, could be monday

Laszlo Papp

11:25 AM

if this chat is down, there is a #stackoverflow channel on freenode (irc)

Stijn

@LaszloPapp thanks, didn't know of its existence. And I still remember my freenode login after so many years :D

durron597

> There was a failure in the UPS feeding our equipment that went undetected by our provider.

Stijn

@durron597 and that's why it is important to regularly simulate a power fallout and see if your backup works

durron597

Room, I ask you: if you are a web hosting provider, what is your entire job that you are being paid to do? "take care of the hardware"

You have NO OTHER JOB

it's like a bus driver randomly deciding to skip stops

3ventic

You had one job!

Martijn Pieters

11:35 AM

Turns out our "independent" power feeds which we built full redundancy behind all went to the same (now failing) UPS. One. Fucking. Job.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on May 16, 2014 at 9:51 AM

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Stijn

@MartijnPieters wow...

Martijn Pieters

And in that context:

Today is @Nick_Craver appreciation day, where you appreciate that you're not Nick Craver :D #stackoverflow

Tweeted by tinkertim on May 16, 2014 at 11:20 AM

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Bart

:D

durron597

:)

Bart

And now we wait for the "Hey, SO/SE was down for me. Was that just me or did others notice the same?" Meta posts

3ventic

11:37 AM

Yep..

durron597

lol

Bart

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/231724/…

durron597

@BrentO Both of our "redundant" feeds went through a single UPS path (which we were lied to about), we're...having words at the moment.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on May 16, 2014 at 10:42 AM in reply to BrentO

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Bart

Can't wait to "correct" that one to "I'm a banana"

@durron597 /me grabs popcorn

durron597

@Bart collegehumor.com/video/40471/pbj-on-family-guy

3ventic

11:40 AM

Yep..

SPArchaeologist

@MartijnPieters I can figure the whole scene. Two valiant explorer starting in opposite direction following the 2 power cables ... only to end up in front of the same UPS...

5

durron597

@SPArchaeologist s/UPS/paperweight

Bart

SPArchaeologist

@durron597 maybe we can still use the dead UPS for increasing the Feng-shui / Karma of the server

durron597

@SPArchaeologist It really tied the room together.

3ventic

11:50 AM

I hate accidentally pressing mouse4..

SPArchaeologist

@durron597 Be optimistic! Worst case, you have just found the prize for the next site giveaway contest.

michaelb958

Oh dear, that was interesting. I felt like half my soul was immutable too. Whose bright idea was it to use the same UPS for everything anyway?

Martijn Pieters

15 mins ago, by durron597

@BrentO Both of our "redundant" feeds went through a single UPS path (which we were lied to about), we're...having words at the moment.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on May 16, 2014 at 10:42 AM in reply to BrentO

That someone is having to deal with Nick now.

michaelb958

Well, actually, it still is interesting, because everything's still read-only and I can't close that post-ban post that @Bart posted. sigh

Stijn

Someone's getting fired I bet

Martijn Pieters

11:54 AM

@Nick_Craver What would be the "not doing your job" fail that would make #stackexchange switch providers? Hard to imagine worse than this.

Tweeted by durron597 on May 16, 2014 at 11:42 AM in reply to Nick_Craver

@durron597 Let's just say we're moving June 4th

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on May 16, 2014 at 11:43 AM in reply to durron597

Someone is losing a major customer.

Bart

Ouch

I'd love to hear if they even attempted to come up with an excuse

Stijn

"it was a temporary situation"

balpha

for completeness we should mention that the move was planned before

Martijn Pieters

Okay :-)

Because that looks like SE is moving because of being lied to over a critical point of failure that just gave out.

michaelb958

Bart

11:58 AM

Booo for completeness @balpha. Totally takes the drama out of the situation.

6

Stijn

Lots of stars to be given out today :)

3ventic

@Stijn Need to make up for the lack of stars during downtime

Bart

And there were no more starred messages visible for me. Unacceptable of course.

One might think I've actually been working.

michaelb958

2

durron597

@balpha I hope you're getting out of NY

badp

12:01 PM

balpha

@durron597 I think we are, IIRC our new DC is in Jersey

not 100% sure though

Stijn

Where did @ShadowWizard's starred message go? Should be there forever, imo

michaelb958

Martijn Pieters

Apr 29 at 8:06, by Bart

"Hello, my name is Shadow Wizard, and I am a rep vulture." ... HI SHADOW WIZARD!

That one?

michaelb958

I've discovered memegenerator.net. Send help ASAP.

Bart

12:04 PM

I guess it expired @Stijn

Stijn

@MartijnPieters Yeah, wasn't it pinned or something? It was always at the top of the list

MBraedley

@michaelb958 tvtropes.org

Martijn Pieters

13 stars.

balpha

@Stijn messages get auto-unpinned after two weeks

durron597

So I just noticed. Twitter @StackExchange is following one person... @RyanSeacrest

Good choice imo.

Braiam

12:06 PM

@michaelb958 vimeo.com/26858445

michaelb958

@MBraedley Yeah, got there two years ago, still stuck.

Tim Post

Be nice to Nick today, he really needs cheering ups

Stijn

Should we all send "get well" cards to him?

terdon

@TimPost Stop mentioning UPS!

Tim Post

@Stijn Yes, for life's UPS and downs.

michaelb958

12:10 PM

Tim Post

Can't f***ing believe they did that.

terdon

Kinda defeats the whole purpose of having one really...

Tim Post

That's like .. plugging an extension cord into itself and wondering why there's no voltage.

durron597

@TimPost Do you mean "cheering UPS"?

Tim Post

Oh the puns, they'll be a flyin' today.

durron597

12:13 PM

wow that was message 2050000. woohoo being a 10-fingered species

Tim Post

I have an idea to bide the time. Why don't you all get out your crayons and pencils and make nice thank-you cards for our SRE team. When the sites come off read only I'll open a contest on MSE and send out some swag to the top 10.

Must be able to fit in an answer to the question I open.

Doorknob

:D

Tim Post

Must depict something about a UPS.

durron597

@TimPost Can you send one of these?

Tim Post

NOW GET COLORING!

durron597

12:14 PM

Stijn

I'll get to work when I get home tonight :D

Doorknob

... I would pin that, but my chat account switched from PPCG to Meta SE for some reason -_-

Tim Post

@durron597 Nope. Those are special-order by commission only, and take like a month to make.

Doorknob

... and yet I still have access to TL

Tim Post

(they're also like 200 bucks)

durron597

12:16 PM

@TimPost damn. whoever makes them should figure out how to mass produce them, they'd make bank

Bart

@TimPost Unicoin?

durron597

partner with gund or something

TGMCians

Hey all !

Doorknob

@TimPost ... when would that be? I'd like to work on this during school, but I don't want to get FGITW'd by other people who don't have school :P

Bart

o/

terdon

12:18 PM

@TGMCians S'UPS?

TGMCians

\o

Bart

@terdon I see what you did there.

terdon

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Tim Post

@Doorknob Later, after things stabilize, probably in 3 - 4 hours, and the context will be open for 24 hours.

Martijn Pieters

Tim Post

12:19 PM

@MartijnPieters IT ATE A UPS?

terdon

@MartijnPieters Did that thing eat troggy?

Doorknob

Alright, I might be able to take a picture of it during lunch and then edit in a scanned version when I get home :P

Martijn Pieters

Both.

terdon

@TimPost With any luck, it'll throw it UPS

Doorknob

Wow, there's really been an UPShoot in the amount of puns lately

michaelb958

12:20 PM

@Doorknob That's because everyone's really UPSet.

Doorknob

... I think @michaelb958's stuck in an infinite loop

Bart

@Doorknob That's about the only UPSide I can think of

Doorknob

Someone break memegenerator.net or something

Oh man...

12:22 PM

is it possible to order the featured question by bounty?

Martijn Pieters

No, there's no sort-by-bounty-size option.

michaelb958

19 mins ago, by michaelb958

I've discovered memegenerator.net. Send help ASAP.

terdon

@michaelb958 Misery loves company huh?

Martijn Pieters

@TimPost: chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/16509055#16509055

Just doing it for him.

Bart

12:24 PM

Seem's you're turning into Won't @michaelb958

michaelb958

Wait. Has anyone considered the possibility that it was sabotage by a question-banned user?!

Tim Post

@MartijnPieters Odd, that all got sent out

UPSey daisy

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Martijn Pieters

@TimPost That about sums up the outage!

Stijn

@michaelb958 maybe it was that indian hacker team

michaelb958

Jan Dvorak

12:26 PM

any idea why the latest activity on SO is 52 seconds ago despite it being in read-only mode since yesterday?

Tim Post

caching

(I don't believe Redis is in read-only mode, just the DB servers)

Stijn

Mm, people are actually posting right now

Doorknob

@TimPost Oh, btw, I was told to ping you for a fancy mod hat. Don't worry about that right now (for obvious reasons), just remembered and wanted to not forget later :P

Tim Post

@Doorknob can you send me an email to remind me?

I'm sending out a boat load of swag this weekend.

balpha

@Stijn we're back in New York and in write mode

the message will be gone in a minute

Doorknob

12:28 PM

Ok, after I'm done eating breakfast (which I'm doing right now)

Jan Dvorak

but the latest activity keeps changing upon refresh

SPArchaeologist

@durron597 it is normal that every time I see that draco-S plush I think about how it resemble Discord?

balpha

@JanDvorak yeah, people are happy that they can edit again :)

Jan Dvorak

still read-only and ad-ridden for me

balpha

2 mins ago, by balpha

the message will be gone in a minute

SPArchaeologist

12:31 PM

SharePoint is up, meta is readonly.

TGMCians

here still SO is in read-only mode only

> This site is currently in read-only mode; we’ll return with full functionality soon.

balpha

39 secs ago, by balpha

2 mins ago, by balpha

the message will be gone in a minute

SPArchaeologist

For once, we can say "SharePoint was faster"

balpha

it depends on what web server you're hitting

Bart

Nex time just state "6-8 minutes" @balpha

Jan Dvorak

12:32 PM

@balpha could we please be redirected to the one that works?

Braiam

meh, AU was in rw, and went ro :(

Jan Dvorak

at least for the purposes of voting and flagging

Martijn Pieters

@balpha: what's the IP of the NYC servers?

balpha

@JanDvorak they'll all work in 1m38s or less

Martijn Pieters

198.252.206.140 is Oregon, I think?

balpha

12:33 PM

nope, that's NY

terdon

I guess the one we go to depends on our location right?

Martijn Pieters

ah, then my browser has already switched back.

balpha

@terdon no, that's the load balancer's decision

terdon

Ah.

Jan Dvorak

then why does my instance keep being dead the longest?

terdon

12:34 PM

And there we go, working again!

Bart

Hellban @JanDvorak

Stijn

@Jan try again, mine started working just now

SPArchaeologist

Any hope @drawyourtweet is actually reading this chat and wants to draw the "two power cords, one UPS" tweet ? ^_^

Jan Dvorak

RO

Stijn

and already back to work!

> marked as duplicate by Antony, Łukasz 웃 L ツ, Bart, Stijn, bluefeet just now

michaelb958

12:35 PM

DAMMIT BLUEFEET

durron597

@balpha puzzling is still missing it's css file

Bart

@Stijn yay

Jan Dvorak

still down

TGMCians

yeah SO is working, now in write mode

balpha

@durron597 looking

Jan Dvorak

12:37 PM

Prague, Czech Republic, down for me.

Laszlo Papp

why is it up again? Bad questions will keep coming :P

TGMCians

lol

Jan Dvorak

It should be closed for askers and open for voters, not vice versa.

durron597

@balpha meta.puzzling seems to have correct CSS, though

balpha

@durron597 should be good now (or shortly)

fine for me now

eggyal

12:42 PM

My day, as a meme...

durron597

@balpha Yup fixed now thanks

eggyal

Kedarnath

What happened to SE sites in last few hours ?

eggyal

TGMCians

@eggyal it is working now for me

eggyal

12:43 PM

Bart

stackstatus.net/post/85902805739/… @Kedarnath

Nice !

ok

(sorry for spamming :P)

i just... had nothing else to do all day.

Louis

12:48 PM

Doorknob

-3

Q: SE out for hours - what has happened?

The SE was out for many hours today... The sites were in read mode or not available at all... What has happened? Was it some trivial incident, or SE got hacked and we should now change our passwords ASAP?

... :/

Jan Dvorak

still R/O for me

Tim Post

It'll take a little while to work out for everyone

balpha

@JanDvorak then you have a really old value in your DNS cache, I suppose

Tim Post

You can try flushing your DNS cache

Jan Dvorak

12:55 PM

DNS flushed, works now. Thanks

I'm not logged in, though :-(

oh, I got a "welcome back" upon clicking "log in"

oh, even the realtime socket works for me now.

Laszlo Papp

-5

A: Sublime Text: Regex to convert Uppercase to Title Case?

JUDY ALEXANDER IS UPSET DO TO THE ADVISOR IN THE STORE TOLD HER SHE COULD NOT GET THE RANGE IN BISQ. SHE WANTED TO CANCEL THE ORDER WHICH I TOLD HER SHE COULD ORDER THE RANGE IN BISQ. WHICH WE DID FOR THE EXACT PRICE THAT WAS GIVEN TO HER IN THE STORE. THE STORE GAVE HER A PRICE MATCH SO THAT IS ...

Bart

That user has a point.

Tim Post

GUISE .. GUISE .. I GOT A WIRING DIAGRAM!

We've documented the #stackoverflow UPS wiring diagrams here: http://i.imgur.com/uXc7acf.jpg

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on May 16, 2014 at 1:03 PM

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Jonesy

1:12 PM

hey, where does one go to report abuse from a user/

?

Doorknob

@Jonesy here or meta.stackexchange.com

But often it's not "abuse" so much as "the person who's claiming abuse just wants to get out of a q-ban or something," and we're getting kind of tired of that, so be careful :P

Jonesy

gotcha

well I critiqued a user for posting his entire code base to download on SO, then he downvoted dozens of my answers/questions. Just wanted to see if there's an action i can take for things like that

Stijn

@Doorknob isn't the usual advice to cast a moderator flag on a post from the offending user?

@Jonesy That'll automatically be reverted within 24 hours

You won't need to take any action :)

Bart

236

Q: What is serial voting and how does it affect me?

I just noticed that I lost a bunch of points from my reputation score on Stack Overflow, and I used the "reputation" tab on my user profile page to try and track down the cause. During my investigation, I noticed there was an unusual event of type "reversal". In the normal place of a question ti...

support faq reputation voting serial-voting

^^^^ @Jonesy

So don't worry.

Jonesy

cool sounds good

although i wouldn't mind a "take your vengeance" button

:)

thanks!

Laszlo Papp

1:57 PM

final close vote anyone? stackoverflow.com/questions/23684904/how-to-minify-qml-files

Louis

Uh... SO keeps going into read-only mode for me and I keep having to fix it by doing hard reloads.

Laszlo Papp

@Jonesy: wow, 34 downvotes all in two minutes :) What did you do to him?

Tim Post

@Jonesy I'm taking action on that now. Did you kill his turtle or something?

SPArchaeologist

@LaszloPapp The real problem here is that if he keeps doing that he will end up with no more downvote to randomly cast on your answers!

Tim Post

@Jonesy I've invalidated those votes and queued you for a recalc, you should see it reversed shortly.

Jonesy

2:21 PM

I wish the he hadn't deleted his question. He got so mad when I told him to post specific code, not a link to download his entire project

Tim Post

@Jonesy Reversed now, have a look at your rep history.

Jonesy

thankyou much

SPArchaeologist

9

:P

Bart

Hahaha

SPArchaeologist

(still no reply? I should start running... he must be searching for his shotgun)

Laszlo Papp

2:32 PM

LOL?

:D

Braiam

anyone knows about this? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255131/…

Laszlo Papp

1

A: QPushButton usage

Where i should emit signal? And how to override it? This part of your code looks correct if the sender and receiver objects are pointers. Please make sure they are.

@SPArchaeologist: something began :P

just got a downvote without explanation, although that is not necessarily the best answers of mine, admittedly.

@SPArchaeologist: also, what happens after upvoting a post with 9999 scores? :P

Martijn Pieters

@Braiam As I said, I don't see it anywhere else.

It's been over an hour since it became available on SO, so I don't think so.

Jan Dvorak

@LaszloPapp indeed. I am wondering if it's an answer at all, or rather a comment.

Braiam

@LaszloPapp you win :P

Laszlo Papp

2:37 PM

@JanDvorak: it is a christmas comment'ish answer.

apparently, I was active during the morning on the first christmas day :P

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak Since it is actually accepted I would suspect that the problem was the one described though.

Laszlo Papp

yeah, and provided there are no other answers, nor is it closed, I would keep it answer, personally, but it is not a biggie for me either way.

but unexplained downvote is unexplained :)

I would not submit an answer for that today if you ask me.

SPArchaeologist

Let's just say that since I don't even get what the OP was asking I refuse to make comment on the answer -_-

Laszlo Papp

ah, right:

Sory, but i just fogot adout * when connect button with the slot) — zuzman322 Dec 25 '13 at 8:44

indeed, my answer is the solution.

which in turn means, I cannot understand the downvote.

nor do I care ;)

SPArchaeologist

forgive my lack of comprension on that code snippet... but does the original code in the question show that the * was missing? If so you can edit the answer to something like "you are missing bla bla here the actual code bla bla"

Laszlo Papp

2:45 PM

@SPArchaeologist: nope, the original code does not, but I asked for details in comments, and apparently I got the response. Too bad that the OP has not updated the original question, perhaps that should happen and that would clarify all this without doubts.

anyway, it is strange to downvote my answer only, and not the question, at least, too. ;)

SPArchaeologist

maybe it appeared in one review queue?

Laszlo Papp

it is selected, so the review queue cannot do much about it AFAIK.

moderator could only delete it.

SPArchaeologist

anyway, could the question be edited so that the code actually show the problem?

Laszlo Papp

sure

YCS gets a lot more unexplained downvotes than me, daily. I feel sorry for him even though I do not like his answering tone.

SPArchaeologist

That could be an option.

Laszlo Papp

2:52 PM

yeah.

SPArchaeologist

I was doing some changes on a sharepoint page. Since I didn't want it to be public yet I had that checked out. One genius admin saw the page and concluded "a page forgot in check out? No need, let's discard!"

Anyone know any good taxidermist that can make me an IT Admin Trophy?

Laszlo Papp

perhaps I would already have gold badges if I could extract the unexplained downvotes :P

Bart

I guess your downvotes are no longer unexplained then.

Laszlo Papp

@SPArchaeologist: oh, and my comment to ask for details were not upvoted of course, just my answer ;)

SPArchaeologist

don't be sad. At least you have 10k. On SharePoint we have no hope.

Laszlo Papp

2:56 PM

so much suspicion that it is hard to take these downvotes seriously.

yeah

IMHO, the binding close vote for duplicate should be anonymous

I do not see the point of it not being anonymous, otoh, it opens the gate for abuse.

Jan Dvorak

@LaszloPapp normal close votes are not either

Laszlo Papp

perhaps the whole commenting system should be anonymous :P

Jan Dvorak

@LaszloPapp definititely not

Stijn

Does anyone know why was meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251758/… locked?

Also, closed as primarily opinion-based? Isn't that the whole point of a discussion?

Bart

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Q: Handling disagreement on tags

User Laszlo Papp is adding the qt-signals tag to many questions to which it does not apply: Interesting task of the processes in Qt Using multiple Ui's and Ui classes in Qt? Q_ENUMS are "undefined" in QML? Referring to a predefined QMediaPlayer No matching function to call - compiler says I cal...

discussion tags

^^ @LaszloPapp

Laszlo Papp

3:02 PM

ah, not that user again...

SPArchaeologist

I could be sitting on a cloud watching Laszlo as the war goes on...

Laszlo Papp

@Bart: he removed tags without actually adding more relevant ones.

SPArchaeologist

(Sorry Mando&Acoustic - but that had to be done.)

Laszlo Papp

@Bart: this is a destroying behavior IMHO.

Bart

It's moving towards a dupe anyway @LaszloPapp. Don't really care about who did what in this instance.

Stijn

3:06 PM

@Laszlo I can understand both sides really.

Laszlo Papp

yes, already agreed with Jan.

@Stijn: I cannot.

He did not give any more appropriate tag, and the whole solution and hence what the question is after is Qt signal-slot mechanism related primarily.

and it is not a tag which would get bloated since it is not so frequent.

if the tag is not for cases like this primary instance, then we can burn this tag IMHO

Stijn

Hypothetical situation: A question has 3 tags. Three completely different solutions are posted, with each solution having a relevant tag. How would you retag such a question?

Laszlo Papp

he did not mention smartly, but he also removed qtcore to which QProcess belongs to and meta agreed about using it when I brought it up.

I will submit an answer, sec ...

Stijn

I should mention I know nothing about Qt.

Laszlo Papp

@Stijn: your hypothetical situation is not related.

there is one solution here to be done with Qt, and that is Qt signal slot mechanism for which this tag exists.

SPArchaeologist

3:10 PM

@LaszloPapp I don't believe it was intended as related. Parallel discussion about the whole "tag by question or by answer" stuff I 'd say.

Laszlo Papp

answer submitted.

heh, -4 downvotes

without explanation again of course :)

and take the site seriously...

bye

@Bart: you helped them with your off-topic comment to make my answer look like bad though. You brought up something irrelevant about the issue at hand.

anyways...

Bart

Hey, if you don't want to get comments on the content of your answer, remove the content.

Don't blame me for votes I didn't cast.

Jan Dvorak

@LaszloPapp link?

Stijn

-3

A: Handling disagreement on tags

If you take a closer look at your first item in your list, you can see what the question is after (without knowing about it) is after the Qt signal mechanism. Therefore, I thought it would be a good idea to tag it so because there were no better tags found in my mind for that particular question...

Jan Dvorak

oh, meta

SPArchaeologist

3:25 PM

@LaszloPapp If I can express my view, problem is that your answer is about a single case while the question is on a different plane. You present a single sample to argument a question that asked for a general policy. Ergo most user will see the answer as a simple continuation of the tag war and downvote it

Jan Dvorak

^

SPArchaeologist

To be clearer, I have the impression that the answer can actually be considered off topic for the specific question. It was asked how to avoid a retag war, not tagging indication for a specific case. That said, I will stay out of there... that tag say nothing to me so I am not in a situation to make reasoned considerations.

Stijn

3:39 PM

Yay, weekend! Bye!

SPArchaeologist

anyway, did anyone saw Alula around lately?

Bart

@SPArchaeologist: I bet he never looked at the top users of the tag. He may be surprised... For now, I am losing my motivation to help with the tag ... I do not see any sign of respect in here. — Laszlo Papp 59 secs ago

If you apply the tag to every freak question @LaszloPapp, you're easily the top user .... j/k

SPArchaeologist

3:55 PM

@Bart <Derpy> Can I tag every question with muffin? </Derpy>

Bart

I'm not stopping you @SPArchaeologist.

Would be fun to be the muffin top user though

SPArchaeologist

@Bart I had attempted that with cthul

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