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4:02 PM

Makes you wonder what role that OP has on the project? Maybe he is the buildmaster and only has access to build tools but not to the actual source code...?

Or he is just to confused to understand what he is doing...

Laszlo Papp

I believe he is just a newbie in an NDA'd project.

rene

lol

Martijn Pieters

4:24 PM

@balpha: why does the 'just fine' link in my answer here not work?

I cannot seem to create a text link to

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23741106/why-does-node-js-assert-js-use-val‌‌ue-in-their-code-what-purpose-does-it-ser?noredirect=1#comment36497903_23741106

anywhere.

It appears to be the title of that link that is tripping things up.

Replaced it with a link to a different comment,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23741106/why-does-node-js-assert-js-use-valu‌e-in-their-code-what-purpose-does-it-ser?noredirect=1#comment36498545_23741106

.

Mat

There's some unicode badness somewhere inside "-val‌‌ue-"

Martijn Pieters

The only difference between the two comments is the comment id.

Hrumph, did my browser manage to include a zero-width character?

Ah, indeed it did, that's whay.

Thanks @Mat

Mat

00000000 2d 76 61 6c e2 80 8c e2 80 8b 75 65 2d 0a |-val......ue-|

Martijn Pieters

U+200b ZERO WIDTH SPACE

as well as U+200c ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER

Good Person

Are there any good meta questions that discuss rep on the less popular tags

rene

4:38 PM

why do I get this as review task if it doesn't appear to be an audit but the question is closed days ago?

@GoodPerson In what sense? How to gain rep?

ThiefMaster

> This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying attention. You passed. Closing is appropriate for questions with serious problems.

It was an audit.

rene

I'm not informed anymore that it was an audit?

Braiam

lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Ameta.stackexchange.com+lmgtfy+links — Will 35 mins ago

heh

Good Person

@rene: how to gain rep, and how certain site features are denied for a far longer period of time - parsererror - retry / cancel

(ignore the end of that)

rene

you could try this

I'm not sure I fully understand how certain site features are denied for a far longer period of time

Good Person

4:47 PM

@rene a user asking/answering questions in say, the python tag will quickly get to 1000-300 rep

since they will get 5+ questionups even for simple questions

a user asking question, in say, [prolog] won't get that many people looking

@rene: that link is missing something: "only answer in [python], [java], or [android]"

rene

Instead of asking questions you could try to answer. That gives rep quicker.

Good Person

sure, I could do that too

and I do

but that isn't the point

rene

I admit that prolog is one of the more obscure tags...

Good Person

the point is that the proportion of rep given in popular tags is quite high

/me wonders if this poor man's IRC supports /me

apperently not

rene

If you're active in less popular tags it can take a while. If I compare my SO and MSE rep progress it takes longer on MSE but so be it. it doesn't make me unhappy that is just how it is. I'm just not good in discussions and I'm not able to learn that. On SO I could re-activate my cobol or prolog knowledge.

Good Person

4:57 PM

exactly.... I was wondering if there was any existing discussion of this

on meta.

rene

Maybe this

rene

5:14 PM

Does anybody else have the issue that the duplicate is not showing in the close vote queue in IE11?

Mat

"Does anybody else have the issue that they use IE11?" (fixed that for you)

rene

Not funny @Mat ;-)

I think this is related...

a refresh solved it...

Bart

Nah, that circumvented it. Installing an actual browser will solve it

rene

5:49 PM

Who starred that^^^^ ! ^%$#@

Mat

Did you mean "that pearl of wisdom"? Looks like your browser ate some chars again... time to get a real one (-:

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rene

lol

Stijn

6:14 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/23744125/mono-socket-library

rene

@Stijn we hit the same question

Is that something for SR?

Stijn

@rene Possibly, it seems to be quite specific in the requirements.

rene

Yeah, that is also my idea.. I'll leave a comment or the OP

Braiam

"put on hold as off-topic" Yeah... Justice... And what about this one? stackoverflow.com/questions/1408780/… — Sonny 53 secs ago

THANK YOU!

rene

And thanks for finding that other question. We will close that too. — rene 11 secs ago

rene

6:35 PM

He followed some advice

Stijn

@rene good to see :)

rene

That other question he found needs one more CV

TGMCians

6:55 PM

done

closed

GnomeSlice

behance.net/gallery/16437475/Garnata-Display-Font

rene

That won't play any music :-(

TGMCians

I flagged three answers of this question and all have been deleted

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Q: What's the best online reference for JSF tags?

What's the best online reference for JSF tags? Nothing much turns up in Google for this technology, so I find it really hard to know what tag to use and when. Mostly I find examples of people asking "how do I do XXX" - I want the document the people answering have read! I just need a simple lis...

now one answer should I flag it also or simply downvote then leave it ?

Mat

The problem isn't really the answers, it's the question. If you want to flag something for deletion, flag the question.

TGMCians

Hmm

Carrie Kendall

7:18 PM

any mods care to explain the decline on this not an answer flag: stackoverflow.com/a/8662469/998328

rene

How are they not an answer?

Carrie Kendall

first of all, the links don't work for me

Jan Dvorak

link-only answers are not allowed here

Carrie Kendall

and that^ (ref: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/…)

TGMCians

@CarrieKendall yes same for me

rene

7:24 PM

Hmm, other would have been a better option, explaining the links are dead

Carrie Kendall

no, it was flagged properly

rene

@JanDvorak and I don't agree with that

@CarrieKendall No, it was not.

Jan Dvorak

@rene no. NAAs go the the queues, others require mod time

rene

If a mod sees NAA flag for a link-only answer that doesn't have this form see link your flag gets declined.

Jan Dvorak

@rene this answer has that form

rene

7:29 PM

That links are bad, I agree, the answer should be downvoted, the question closed but I doubt flagging as NAA gets declined on first sight

Carrie Kendall

any mods want to address this? I can post on meta, just figured i'd save everyone time and ask here

rene

@JanDvorak I disagree

Carrie Kendall

@rene do the links work for you?

Louis

FWIW, I agree with Jan.

rene

No, they do not work for me

TGMCians

7:31 PM

I flagged that answer because links are broken

Carrie Kendall

@rene then are you arguing for the sake of argument?

it is NAA because it is a link-only answer. the fact that the links are broken only makes the decline that much more invalid

rene

No, I try to answer your question: Why was my flag declined

Carrie Kendall

you can't answer that because you're not the one that declined it

Mat

@Carrie: Link-only does not imply NAA. Link-only with unfixable links => flag as other, explain the issue

TGMCians

^^^

Jan Dvorak

7:33 PM

I believe that it was declined due to a bad review from the community

Carrie Kendall

@Mat can you provide a link that backs that up?

TGMCians

that is what I did flagged as other

Jan Dvorak

@Mat that's not what Shog is saying

TGMCians

Quick Question :

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why names are different who voted to close this question

rene

@CarrieKendall I honestly try to explain what might have happened. I totally agree that the answer and the question are useless now and should go and I have done everything to reach that goal.

Mat

7:35 PM

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Q: How do I properly use the "Not an Answer" flag?

What is the "Not an Answer" flag? What is the purpose of this flag? When should I use this flag? When should I not use this flag? Return to FAQ index See Also What is an acceptable answer?

support faq flags answers not-an-answer

Braiam

@TGMCians someone retracted the vote?

Mat

@JanDvorak, @CarrieKendall ^

Louis

Shog gives much more details about the issue of link-only and NAA:

114

Q: Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?

I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

discussion link-only-answers not-an-answer

Jan Dvorak

^

TGMCians

@Braiam How could I see that

Braiam

7:37 PM

@TGMCians mm... you cant

TGMCians

rene was the first to close that question

but rene name is not appearing when I open the question

Jan Dvorak

@TGMCians not even in the revision history?

@TGMCians Then it sure sounds like a retract

TGMCians

@JanDvorak No

rene

waybackmachine has some content left web.archive.org/web/20130926174805/http://www.bitcandies.com/…

TGMCians

@JanDvorak How can you retract your vote I don't have any idea. Do you have any link related to this

Braiam

7:40 PM

@rene IMO asking for a tutorial is a bad question

Mat

@JanDvorak: In that case I'll repeat what I said to TGMCians not long ago - the problem isn't the answer but the question. If you look at that answer in the context of the question, the links (if they were valid) would be an answer. So flag/vtc the question. (And if that type of question was valid, the titles should usually be enough to fix the links - not the case here)

Jan Dvorak

haven't checked the question yet; sorry

yeah... close

rene

@Braiam I already CV-ed that question.

Braiam

now the next step is del-votes ;)

Jan Dvorak

@Braiam after it gathers two more closevotes, you mean?

Braiam

7:44 PM

@JanDvorak yeah

BTW, someone might want to copy those answer down somewhere, the second one isn't totally useless

rene

@TGMCians I don't understand a single bit about what might have happened there

TGMCians

see in the screenshot who voted to close this question as rene, Jay .. , Rob .., Brian, TGMCians

but when you open this stackoverflow.com/questions/23743004/…

it is displaying put on hold as too broad by gunr2171, David Heffernan, Rob Watts, Brian, TGMCians 29 mins ago

your name and "Jay Blanchard" is not there

that I asked there

rene

The screenshot is from the close queue?

TGMCians

yes

@CarrieKendall I see that now has been deleted

rene

8:01 PM

@TGMCians I checked another one and it is off as well

this question against this close review

Jan Dvorak

I smell a bug report

TGMCians

hmm

rene

Let me find another one

TGMCians

Should I ask there ?

rene

this question against this cose review

@TGMCians George should have closed the question as wel...

TGMCians

8:08 PM

hmm

@rene I am asking the question on meta related to cv bug

rene

Ok good, you can use the links I provided

on MSE or MSO?

TGMCians

yup

MSO

Should I to MSE ?

rene

MSO is fine

TGMCians

might it is not in other network, okay well

TGMCians

8:21 PM

done

rene

top

Now we wait for a dev to panic...

TGMCians

Hmm

Mat

@TGMCians: if I see you putting normal words in code formatting again, I will hunt you down to slap you with a very large trout. (Then we can cook it and eat it if you like that.)

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Jan Dvorak

8:55 PM

flag-pls programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/240544

based on the user name, I guess it's offensive

rene

yeah

check the user profile (NSFW), at least it is done safe...

Jan Dvorak

just run it through google-translate. The question itself is quite normal, just short as hell, repeated a brazillion times and in arabic.

at least until the ninja-edit

rene

weird creatures those humans

Laszlo Papp

9:12 PM

yeah, right ... stackoverflow.com/questions/23745210/…

cv-pls-lack-of-information stackoverflow.com/questions/23743306/…

Benjamin Gruenbaum

@Shog9 wanted to update you the dupe hammer is working out great, just today a friend from the PHP room wrote a canonical answer to a commonly asked questions and I closed almost 50 dupes that were tagged javascript.