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12:04 AM
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Q: The lowercase letter "Y" in writing

One_IslandI consider the letters "G" and especially "Y" (when uncapitalized) to be very much aesthetically-unpleasant. I hate to look at it with my eyes, it is an absolute eyesore and I consider it to be a disgrace to the rest of the letters of the alphabet. It is, pardon my inarticulate language here, but...

 
sd tpu-
@tchrist Ah this is "can I use the f word in formal contexts" asker
 
Thanks, I hand't noticed that.
Smells like he's a bit wacko.
 
Hating on a single letter reminds me of A Void
 
user163250
12:29 AM
So suggest some actual statistics to detect "bad" users. Show us a query to start with. If it's good, or a good start, it's bound to impress people here. (I know absolutely nothing about programming. I hang out here only for the drama) — Pekka 웃 1 hour ago
 
user163250
LOL
 
user202362
void *
 
user163250
Droid.
 
This is sad. I'm in the second category...
(years of programming experience)
 
user163250
What am I looking at?
 
user163250
12:37 AM
Oh.
 
I was in the second category before I could physically be in the first category.
And yet people with less than a couple years of experience overrun the industry and produce crap.
 
12:51 AM
Ah, good 'ol corrupted repos.
Seems like git fsck doesn't really verify integrity if it's a shallow clone. Maybe @Cupcake would know...
 
user163250
@hichris123 I'll get back to you, I'm actually in the middle of answering another Git question on SO...
 
Oh, it's not important.
 
@miceElf not pingable :(
 
I'm just going to blow away some of these repos & reclone so.
 
12:56 AM
@CRABOLO Perhaps that's because they're back to being Normal Human? meta.stackexchange.com/users/259867/normal-human
 
@norm not pingable either :(
 
I like how it autocompletes to "ᔕᖺᘎᕊ" when I type "@" and no other characters
 
1:22 AM
@SmokeDetector eww
 
@bjb568 Have you been being naughty?
 
No I'ven't been being badly behaved.
 
Why did you say eww?
 
hairball
 
waits
That's twice today.
Pretty sure that means naughty.
Your silence condemns you.
Do we need to have Shog go through the logs?
Done.
 
user163250
1:33 AM
2
Q: Who do I go to when I'm being stalked by a specific user?

Dave NewtonHis serial spree was reversed, so now he's doing one a day. I've had multiple issues with him, for years now, and I'm sick of it.

 
user163250
I see we're into stalking around here now...
 
@tchrist unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval
 
24 hours ago, by bjb568
Hey is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2694603/add-a-number-to-another-number-in-jav‌​ascript actually a thing?
And what’s your beef with that question?
@bjb568 How would you know that?
@bjb568 What’s your beef with the “it is actually a thing” question?
 
me am cat, not beef
 
You know what I want to know.
 
1:45 AM
@tchrist It's what's in the answer.
23 hours ago, by Cupcake
user image
What about it?
 
@bjb568 That answer didn't live very long.
@bjb568 I wondered where you dreamt up the link.
 
@tchrist It's in both the remaining answers, not the deleted one.
 
@bjb568 It lived for 3 minutes.
 
@tchrist teh places in teh metaz!
2
 
Very well. You can understand my concern.
 
1:51 AM
Am confused by discussion, though that question has been mentioned a number of times, e.g. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/6697/2013/3/29/19-20
 
user163250
2:05 AM
@hichris123 I rarely work with Git internals, it would have to be something that I did some research on.
 
user163250
@hichris123 when in doubt, tear everything down and start over ;)
 
user163250
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
2:21 AM
@Cupcake Yeah, pretty much. Though it looks like I might be jumping to conclusions... maybe it's not the repos.
Looks like my setup might just be wrong.
No? Seriously?
bah.
A completely clean sync worked.
 
 
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3:23 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to play a ONE song repeatedly by Windows Media Player by John Baker on superuser.com
 
3:34 AM
sd tpu-
 
4:29 AM
Wheres the spam? I wanna try flagging from mobile
 
 
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6:00 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: XAMPP AND APACHE by user1623207 on stackoverflow.com
 
I guess it's a weekend for the spammers, too. Night all.
 
user163250
LOL, nighty.
 
6:40 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HTTPD DOCKER IMAGE by ROHIT JOSEPH on stackoverflow.com
 
6:51 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Aurora Mineral Plus by agnesantonio on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
7:02 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LOAD MORE BUTTON by Simon Muoki on stackoverflow.com
 
7:51 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Unknow encryption type? by Kenny on stackoverflow.com
 
 
1 hour later…
9:01 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Safe to delete C:\\drivers? by Dwarakesh Babu on serverfault.com
 
@SmokeDetector edited (well, rolled back)
 
11:04 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PLEASE CHECK ESSAY,GCSE by Ahkie Shah on german.stackexchange.com
 
omg are those questions even on-topic there?
> put on hold as off-topic by Wrzlprmft♦ 21 secs ago
probably not
 
Please see above. — Wrzlprmft ♦ 27 secs ago
lol
 
Not sure how good the Google translation is but it's worth looking at, it contains a few gems like "I find that my hair very good because have a lot of girlfriends".
 
@PeterJ ich finde, dass meine haare sehr gut, weil habe viele Freundinnen
That is pretty clever from Google translate
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Days withProvenge a long way a break the by tildotomko143 on stackoverflow.com
 
11:17 AM
sd tpu-
 
user202362
 
user202362
my PS skill is terrible
 
user202362
also ice cream cone does not look like unicorn horn :'(
 
user163250
@chmod711telkitty looks like unicorns to me.
 
user163250
+1
 
11:30 AM
in Shadow's Den, 31 secs ago, by FOX 9000
@ShadowWizard [Powered by Yandex Translate] I find that my hair very well, because I have many Friends
@chmod711telkitty are those Jeff and Joel?
@Moosebot salute
 
user280395
@ShadowWizard Yes, sir! 21-gun salute now commencing...
 
user163250
Guys
 
user163250
This is disturbing
 
user163250
 
user163250
It's a sign.
 
user163250
11:39 AM
Of teh end times.
 
user202362
lemme upvote a lil
 
user202362
wait ...
 
user202362
I like c.

Thats it pretty much.
 
user202362
no upvote given ... dat attitude ..
 
11:55 AM
@Cupcake this is much more disturbing:
over four full pages of those ^
(and only 3 pages of users with 777 - evil wins!)
 
user163250
@ShadowWizard :O
 
sd fp
 
@ShadowWizard [:4088749] Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
12:01 PM
Weird, but not spam or offensive, it's a valid question
@bjb568 is "boop" trademarked? Or can others use it too? ;)
 
@ShadowWizard ???
Wow
Images for deleted proposals still stay
 
@YummyUnicornRainbowTails why not? They don't expose anything, and removing them is just an extra needless effort.
 
12:19 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in title, url in title: http://healthsupplementcare.com/brain-r8/ by DawnJenet on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
12:38 PM
@Yummy that's not spam in my opinion, just an answer with bad grammar and spelling (I suggested an edit) with the e-mail just included as a signature
 
Oh :(
I flagged
> $ nodejs --version
v0.10.25
WAT
 
!!/help
 
@ShadowWizard I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.
 
@ShadowWizard Invalid format. Valid format: !!/rmblu profileurl or !!/rmblu userid sitename.
 
12:45 PM
?
 
@YummyUnicornRainbowTails User removed from blacklist (44679 on diy.stackexchange.com).
 
@ShadowWizard HAHAHAHAHA
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to completely uninstall iCloud? by Godhelpme on apple.stackexchange.com
 
@Pro why !!/rmblu requires the full URL?
sd tpu-
that person need to wash his/her mouth with lots of soap
 
12:47 PM
@ShadowWizard reasons...
 
uh, you can also just pass the user id and site name
 
@ProgramFOX yeah, but much more work. :)
 
@ShadowWizard Passes soap to @Sha
YAY
5th travis test passed!
 
@ShadowWizard so... pass the URL?
 
12:48 PM
@ShadowWizard copy-paste profile url, remove username seems more work
@ProgramFOX maybe @ShadowWizard lost his ctrl, C and V keys?
 
So are the SO employees in Disney now?
 
@ProgramFOX yeah now I know, just assumed the display name in URL is noise. :)
 
We are Disney World, they are outside
 
@YummyUnicornRainbowTails no, they are back
 
user163250
12:51 PM
So much drama going on over at Meta.
 
user163250
Within the last week I mean.
 
The Santa Fe train station is still classy. Leaving #SOinSD for Disney! http://t.co/va5xKjvltY
 
user163250
I've been catching people doing naughty things.
 
huh! Missed that.
@Cupcake like?
 
user163250
@ShadowWizard voting-fraud, serial downvoting harassment, and sock-puppetry/voting ring.
 
12:54 PM
Wat am i doing
I am joining a thread from the thread itself
Is that a thing?
 
@Cupcake boring, I thought you meant something IRL ;)
 
user163250
@YummyUnicornRainbowTails can't tell, not even sure what you're talking about :P
 
user163250
@ShadowWizard lol, no.
 
@Cupcake his programming trial and error
 
user163250
12:55 PM
Ah.
 
@YummyUnicornRainbowTails eating soap
Result:
 
I don't have a TV
 
Too bad
 
12:59 PM
I need to make a jQuery like thing for Java swing
Instead of this:
JButton b = new JButton("Hi");
b.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent  e) {
    //Something
  }
});
 
user202362
I lived in San Diego for about 6 months, I have never been to Disneyland, lol.
 
@chmod711telkitty how far is it?
 
I found out what happens when you join from the thread yourself
It work
 
user202362
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: What exactly is an anti-neutrino? by sadadfs on physics.stackexchange.com
 
1:14 PM
sd tpu-
WHY AM I FLAGGING EVERYTHING AS SPAM?
Anyone wanna approve?
Sitting there for 7 hours
First time using mobile site
 
user202362
@ShadowWizard 150km? 1-2 hours drive
 
user202362
I didn't have a car back then mind you
 
user202362
Been to Tijuana a few times though
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: c++ : methods logic by Ch HãmXã on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How bad is the use of "n***er" today? by MikeFab1 on english.stackexchange.com
 
Sigh
That bug strikes again...
status-restarting-ide
 
user163250
1:28 PM
Anyone want to help reopen this?
 
user163250
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Q: Who do I go to when I'm being stalked by a specific user?

Dave NewtonHis serial spree was reversed, so now he's doing one a day. I've had multiple issues with him, for years now, and I'm sick of it.

 
@Cupcake why?
 
user202362
@Cupcake who is that specific user?
 
@chmod711telkitty you're in the mood to do some evil things?
 
user202362
nope, just curious ...
 
user202362
1:33 PM
since for some reasons, everyone in that thread knew who the other user was
 
lets keep it secret then ;)
 
user202362
I could find it out from banned user list ... but I am too lazy
 
@Cupcake yeah, valid issue though already discussed on MSE
 
sd tpu
 
1:36 PM
@ShadowWizard [:4088987] Blacklisted user.
 
spammer
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Multiplicative Inverse of a Power Series by sujal on math.stackexchange.com
 
user202362
I have a chat user actively trying to get me banned on chats. Why isn't that abusive?
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: How do I troubleshoot the token module? by Ashe Higgs on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
I wanted to 2tpu until I opened the links
@chmod711telkitty FLAG???
 
1:45 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LOCATION OF YII EXTENSION FOLDER by helpme7 on stackoverflow.com
 
user202362
@YummyUnicornRainbowTails I shall some days ...
 
Looks like @Boom
 
1:58 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: During a phase change in matter, why doesn't the temperature change? by mad sheep on chemistry.stackexchange.com
 
2:21 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: which website is good for ssc stenographer exam material? by smartibook on mathoverflow.net
 
> Url in title
----------
Title - Position 1-26: http://www.smartibook.com
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: which website good for ssc stenographer exam material? by smartibook on academia.stackexchange.com
 
I need a userscript
It does preventDefault() on Control + S on all SE sites
I always enter Control + S after what happened to my friend while animating
 
2:28 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: YOU WERE HANDED 10 APPLES AND YOU ATE FOUR OF THE APPLES. by user274246 on puzzling.stackexchange.com
 
0
Q: How can I make a certain JFrame have a different LAF from other JFrames?

Yummy Unicorn Rainbow TailsLet's say I have 2 JFrames. After setting JFrame to visible, you cannot seem to change the LAF without setting the visibility to hidden and normal first. This means a flicker, and the JFrame jumping to the top. Otherwise, you get this: (Some mixture between Metal and the Ubuntu system LAF) A...

sd fp-
I had to:
@tinkertim Looks yummy. Is it Unicorn Tails?
sd fp-
 
@YummyUnicornRainbowTails will implement on DD
 
> Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
5
 
Just give him a matchstick flamethrower pointing at himself
 
2:45 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: I CAN'T DISABLE MY DOWNLOAD MANAGER by akira on android.stackexchange.com
 
Sets @bjb on fire They say this winter is cold.
2
 
:o
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Difference between a heap and a priority queue by osama_bachoda on programmers.stackexchange.com
 
sd tpu-
 
2:54 PM
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Winter is coming.
But not yet.
 
Precautions necessary.
 
I would like that it arrived already
 
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M runs for me?
 
@Braiam How could you tell if it had arrived? Does anything actually change for you?
 
SEDE is annoying on my side.
@rene Racism Floverism! This is OUTRAGEOUS!
 
2:59 PM
Pour some chemicals on your computer
 
Yes, it ran for me.
 
Pours some chemicals on @Uni's computer
 
Hm, don't run that on a busy site.
@rene Is there some way to get that to work on a busier site?
 
3:02 PM
@tchrist let me check
 
@YummyUnicornRainbowTails Your real you.
 
Probably by restricting the date range.
That might work.
 
Argh headphones no work
Or, more like computer headphone jack no work
WAI
Computer audio itself is borked, restarting
 
@tchrist like this?
 
@rene Yes, thank you!
 
3:10 PM
the posthistorytypeid might have an index, the forked query uses that....
 
The original looks like it has an instance of 120 that should have been 20, too.
 
Yeah, fixed that as well
 
I'm wondering how to understand the close flag count.
What does that actually mean?
 
@tchrist It's single votes.
i.e. votes by mods or by people with dupehammers.
 
Ahah, that explains it.
 
3:13 PM
@amuni you can change back to unihedro(n?) now...
 
afk
 
@ShadowWizard totally trademarked
 
@tchrist cold fronts desend from the north and lower the temperatures of this hell-like weather
 
I thought you were tropical.
 
historically speaking, our temperatures are higher by ~20%
 
3:25 PM
ROFL WHAT
Oh and restarting doesn't help
Put this in your bashrc:
echo "sleep 1" >> ~/.bashrc
 
@Braiam Wouldn’t switching to Kelvin help? :)
 
@bjb568 ok
 
3:41 PM
What does the ex command do?
It just seems to be a part of vi
 
ex is a line editor, vi is the screen equivalent
 
ex is ed++.
vi is just the visual mode.
 
So vi is a wrapper?
 
Not exactly.
 
max ex aliases to vi
 
3:42 PM
ex became vi when it gained a screen interface so you could see the whole page
 
ex, short for EXtended, is a line editor for Unix systems originally written by Bill Joy in 1976, beginning with an earlier program written by Charles Haley. Multiple implementations of the program exist; they are standardized by POSIX. == HistoryEdit == The original Unix editor, distributed with the Bell Labs versions of the operating system in the 1970s, was the rather user-unfriendly ed. George Coulouris of Queen Mary College, London, which had installed Unix in 1973, developed an improved version called em that could take advantage of video terminals. While visiting Berkeley, Coulouri...
If you hit Q in visual mode, you'll drop down into ex, so all colon-commands, essentially.
When you type :g/foo/s/bar/bell/g you're typing an ex command.
 
Let's put it this way:
When you run vi commands, vi just calls ex?
 
No. It's the same binary.
 
Just different operating modes.
vi includes ex.
 
3:47 PM
Oh
So you mean same binary file that gets executed?
 
You can run ex when you have no screen.
> ex was eventually given a full-screen visual interface (adding to its command line oriented operation), thereby becoming the vi text editor. In recent times, ex is implemented as a personality of the vi program; most variants of vi still have an "ex mode", which is invoked using the command ex, or from within vi for one command by typing the : (colon) character.
Although there is overlap between ex and vi functionality, some things can only be done with ex commands, so it remains useful when using vi.
 
 5706528    72 -rwxr-xr-x  3 admin     35332 May 14  2014 nex*
 5706528    72 -rwxr-xr-x  3 admin     35332 May 14  2014 nvi*
 5706528    72 -rwxr-xr-x  3 admin     35332 May 14  2014 nview*
Same program.
Same inumber.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Insert image into acess from php by mrpostiga on stackoverflow.com
 
sd why?
 
3:54 PM
@vaultah [:4089164] There is no why data for that post (anymore).
 
sigh
 
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
yesterday, by SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Repair Outlook Data Files (.pst and .ost) by mrpostiga on stackoverflow.com
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Insert image into Access from PHP by mrpostiga on stackoverflow.com
 
4:02 PM
ah, thank you @josilber
 
You can search the tavern for the username to figure out why they got blacklisted
 
@YummyUnicornRainbowTails [:4089174] Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GTX 950/960/R9 380 by Ben on askubuntu.com
 
5:08 PM
Proud of you man. Good going! — Dhruv Ramani 10 hours ago
@Cupcake What are your bets this was the guy who gave him the pity upvote after he undeleted his answer
(Almost certainly one of the pity upvoters on his meta answer)
 
funny how he gets mad when he thinks other user stole his answer when it seems like most his posts he stole from others
 
Yay, finally done implementing CSP! github.com/bjb568/DevDoodle/pull/250
 
FYI, the user has actually been suspended for an entire year now. I actually caught him possibly committing voting fraud on the answer in question by possibly having a sock puppet account voting up his answer immediately after he undeleted it. He's also requested that his account be deleted too though, so I doubt we'll be seeing much of him in the near future. Oh yeah, I also found that 15 of his answers were plagiarized from other sources, and I haven't even finished looking through them all yet. — Bob 5 hours ago
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A: Answer-stealing user with bad attitude

user4417613Great , I have been accused of stealing. Tbh I did a serial down voting cause he stole my original answer

 
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; connect-src 'self' wss://localhost:81; child-src blob:; img-src *
(on localhost)
 
5:20 PM
Content-Security-Policy: none;
It would be really cool if there was a great [downvote] - rant/f-r etc FAQ to put all these gems in one big status declined wiki meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/308293/…
 
I have upvoted this... I do not wish to be the voice of dissent anymore — Dhruv Rai Puri 1 min ago
...
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, bad keyword in username: Service solahart 081313462267 by Service Solahart 081313462267 on tex.stackexchange.com
 
@hichris123 that user i one boxed above looks to have plagerized post on ES. earthscience.stackexchange.com/a/5457 .. copy and paste of this paragraph en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Geology
 
5:39 PM
@bjb568 I wish meta "active" tabs wouldn't hide highly downvoted questions -- I often find those much more interesting than score-0 questions.
 
0
Q: Is ISP email more secure than free email services such as Yahoo Mail?

DragonLordWe just changed ISPs and are getting ready to migrate email from the old ISP's service to another email provider. My parents assert, however, that the ISP's email is intrinsically more secure because the ISP has an obligation to protect its paying customers and therefore provide stronger safeguar...

 
5:59 PM
@bjb568 The humble pie was too good for him
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Formula For Softer Skin! by user462505 on askubuntu.com
 
sd tpu-
 
@CRABOLO Yay...
 
@hichris123 This might be one of those times I'd be willing to jump on TL
 
Such beautiful red and green... github.com/bjb568/DevDoodle/pull/250/files
 
6:10 PM
@BoltClock'saUnicorn Oh, is there some nice context behind the guy?
 
@hichris123 ye
There's a reason his SO suspension is 365 days
 
Oh.
Well.
 
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A: javascript location.search; ,url does not work properly

4chanu are a big old faggot op -4chan

:( please answer muh question — Us3rfirendly 4 mins ago
:(
 
@BoltClock'saUnicorn Why didn't you just delete the whole question? :(
and suspend the user :(
and delete his other question :(
 
6:25 PM
Sad face. Also, why didn't smokey pick that up?
 
@josilber Meta disaster-tourism?
 
@S.L.Barth Well, the posts that are often most interesting to read are those that other care about, and that therefore have extreme vote counts (either very high or very low).
 
....and a long, long list of comments.
 
Yup!
 
6:47 PM
@Undo you might want to read this if you haven't already...
 
The teams proposal nearly has the crown as the most downvoted meta.so post of all time: data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackoverflow/query/377222/…
^ That list provides some nice meta disaster-tourism (or in some cases meta controversy-tourism)
 
@josilber I'm not on that list. I should do better. Point taken ...
 
-109
Q: Why not charge $0.99 per question?

sangonySure, it might slap the Kumbaya open forum model in the face but how about charging $0.99 per question? The board gets a piece, the person who's answer is accepted gets a piece, and the moderators get a piece (maybe). Won't this filter out some of the "poor quality" questions and make people thi...

Nice
(That list was only for questions, not all posts)
 
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