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bjb568

12:05 AM

the blue has arrived :o

Shog9

@bjb568 that's not actually what you said though.

which makes me suspect you're not quite sure what you wanted to say

bjb568

"weakness in the human brain" — in general, not anybody in particular's brain.

rene

@NormalHuman can you merge a PR and re-deploy Smokey?

Shog9

Once again, The Tavern has proved that keyboards are weak and hard to manipulate reliably.

bjb568

My point is religion is a mass exploit, that's all.

rene

12:08 AM

Some might consider that offensive, just saying

Shog9

"religion" is a category into which we group a vast range of practices and beliefs. You might as well say "programming is a vast exploit", intending to refer to Heartbleed.

bjb568

Organized religion is an exploit that spreads contagiously. Local superstitions are similar in that they are corruptions of the rational mind, but do not actively spread.

So I guess there is a bit more nuance. But not much more.

user259867

@rene Done. CI complains about trailing whitespace even in comments...

tchrist

invokes rule #1 for getting out of a hole

rene

@NormalHuman yeah, I saw that to late, sorry about that

Jason C

12:12 AM

Did you guys get us in trouble talking about religion

bjb568

waves innocently

rene

We blame brains

Jason C

Oh whatever. slaps the oversensitive weenie with a PC trout

user259867

@NormalHuman Nope, urban planning proposal still alive: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/88933/urban-planning

Jason C

Now back to shellacking my ugly bookcase

Shog9

12:14 AM

@bjb568 ah. So religion is only ok when it's local, eh? Like local produce, being on a highway somehow taints it, but as long as it's sold from an unpainted building on a dirt road it's wholesome?

Sounds like we need a Sustainable Religion movement, pushing folks to participate only in locally-sourced, in-season, organic free-range beliefs!

bjb568

:D

tchrist

No more gored oxen.

bjb568

@Shog9 Given that it's inherently contradictory to the amelioration of scientific knowledge and understanding, a limited reach is better than a spreading and growing reach.

Shog9

@bjb568 what is?

tchrist

That's pretty wrong.

Not helping.

Shog9

12:18 AM

You've alluded to "religion", "organized religion", and "local superstitions" now, without really defining any of them.

bjb568

@Shog9 Irrational ideas, in particular superstitions and glorified and organized superstition known as religion.

Shog9

I'm starting to suspect you're just trying to put down a vague group of people without actually saying anything specific enough for them to know if they've been targeted much less defend themselves.

@bjb568 let's start with that thing where C programmers are supposed to use blocks for single-line conditionals then: localized superstition, religion, or organized religion?

bjb568

@Shog9 Religion: I'm only concerned with the aspect of the propagation of irrational ideas and behaviors (eg worship). Organized religion: same thing, institutionalized. Local superstition: irrational ideas that don't get shoved down other people's throats and therefore may be limited to a locality (but doesn't include cults).

tchrist

@JasonC Slaps the PC bookcase, now back to shellacking my ugly oversensitive weenie with a trout.

bjb568

@Shog9 A norm? Convention?

Shog9

12:22 AM

@bjb568 right, so... The "all conditionals must be followed by curly-braces" thing: which of your definitions fit that?

It's pretty localized, but... It certainly does get shoved down folks' throats.

Oh, and now we have cults too... Need a definition for that also.

bjb568

I don't think that has much connection to religion or superstition, it's just an idea that some people like.

Shog9

@bjb568 ah... Like Pentecostalism?

Or maybe transcendental meditation?

bjb568

@Shog9 Cult: homogenous group of radicals that aggressively indoctrinate and usually are widely disliked.

Shog9

@bjb568 so, like Rational Unified Process consultants?

bjb568

@Shog9 I don't see the connection (just skimming the wiki article tho :p)

Shog9

12:27 AM

@bjb568 it's an idea that some people like

bjb568

@Shog9 Sure (tho the label of cult would usually wouldn't be applied seriously)

user259867

@SmokeDetector gone

Shog9

@bjb568 ah. Does that matter?

I mean, if they're going around exploiting minds and so on, is it a problem that folks aren't serious about labeling them?

bjb568

@Shog9 It's irrational and actively harmful to individuals' productivity and effectively works like the steriotypical young child's "imaginary friend": a shield from reality. And it's part of a larger religion.

@Shog9 no

Shog9

@bjb568 oh. So you don't like it then?

bjb568

12:31 AM

@Shog9 No

Shog9

@bjb568 do you like that thing with the curly braces?

bjb568

You can imagine this as a 3D graph of ideas, where irrationality is one one axis, harm to an individual is on another, and spreadability is on another. For ideas that are positive in all 3 axes, the total harm is the distance to the origin.

@Shog9 Makes no difference. It's better to stick to one style over the others because consistency makes things easier to understand, but with brackets it doesn't really matter which particular style you choose.

Shog9

@bjb568 it's being taught though, taught as the right way to do things. To children even. That doesn't bother you?

In many cases, it's part of a larger system of beliefs referred to as "best practices"

The very name of which smacks of totalitarianism

and yet you say it makes no difference?

bjb568

@Shog9 Not really, on the graph it would have low irrationality (brackets are good because reasons), spreadability may be high, but it doesn't do individual harm so it's not that bad as a whole.

Shog9

Here you have people running around, exploiting vulnerabilities of the mind left and right, and you just shrug because you don't personally see the harm...

bjb568

12:37 AM

Maybe instead of the distance formula, the harm is the product of the 3 factors.

SmokeDetector

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Shog9

...what did those Pentecostalists do to you, @bjb?

How did they hurt you?

bjb568

@Shog9 It's better to learn not-the-best best practices than to learn VB without guidance then get hired to do actual programming work.

Shog9

@bjb568 what do you base this assertion on?

Also, did the Pentecostalists make you handle snakes?

bjb568

@Shog9 It's order that's important to maintainable code writing. It's not which particular order, some regularity is always better than none. Easier to refactor consistently bad code than inconsistently bad code.

Shog9

12:40 AM

Just trying to understand your visceral reaction to the one in the face of your apathy toward the other.

@bjb568 always better?

any order?

Doesn't matter what you practice, as long as you practice something you can believe is best?

bjb568

@Shog9 They negatively affected the market by being inefficient, tho the direct impact to me is small.

Shog9

what market?

what inefficiency?

bjb568

The economic market. The inefficiency in their mind that causes them to consistently perform suboptimal analysis and as a result make poorer choices.

Shog9

you're hand-waving here; I get the impression you want me to just accept these "best practices" without any critical thought.

you're waving around these scary-sounding fates: inefficiency, suboptimal analysis... And this terrifying "economic market" place. How do I know any of this even exists, much less is a guaranteed outcome if I don't buy into your "best practices"?

bjb568

Writing code in a slightly less efficient (note that this can't be proved anyway) isn't a huge problem, given that if they hadn't been indoctrinated into the Evil co best practices they would be even less efficient programmers. The principal issue in programming isn't people using the wrong best practices, it's people not being passionate about their field.

If indoctrinating people into the (unprovabley) wrong best-practice camp makes them passionate about programming (or even a subset of it, namely the best practices camp), hooray I say. Even if this group of suboptimal best-practicers is a cult, so what? Their damage is negligible in this context.

Jason C

12:50 AM

@tchrist Oh my, there are children here.

My star indicates that @tchrist's ugly oversensitive weenie is representative of this chat room.

bjb568

@Shog9 The difference I see between the coding practices example and organized religion is with their respective goodness confidence intervals. With coding practices there is a bit of harm done in getting people to potentially code in a suboptimal way, but this is local to that particular part of programming, itself a small part of their life.

Combined with potential benefits of standardization and making the new followers smugly superior and more dedicated to a programming related topic (and indirectly more dedicated to programming), the signed net harm of coding style indoctrination easily crosses 0, meaning that the harm is negligible.

Jason C

I don't know what you are talking about but there is no harm in getting people to code in a suboptimal way. It just means that if you're good at what you do you get the big bucks fixing it some day.

Same with everything really.

Shog9

@bjb568 a small part of their life?

bjb568

With religion, the negative aspects are much larger, mainly because of scope: religion affects your whole life. It influences every decision you make, corrupting your entire mind and making you as a result more opposed to scientific thinking. To balance the downsides, the positive social aspects of religions are weak. Because of this, we can be somewhat confident that religion does non-negligible damage to individuals and society as a whole.

Jason C

^ I.e. bjb is old enough to passionately rehash the same old conversations, but not quite old enough yet to not care any more.

tchrist

12:56 AM

I lost count of what was wrong with that way before the first period.

Jason C

Don't worry bjb it's just a phase. In 10 years you'll just sit on the porch, happy with whatever, quietly giggling at the absurdity around you.

bjb568

@Shog9 Yes, your coding style doesn't correlate with opinions on unrelated topics, but religious fervor does. Take for example the denial of climate change… not affected by coding style, but some make it a principally religious issue.

user259867

@JasonC Unless he moves to NYC to rent a tiny apartment, i.e., no porch.

bjb568

@JasonC Essentially what I said, it's a matter of opinion and has no non-negligible repercussions.

Jason C

@NormalHuman It's funny I was just thinking, "dammit, I wish I had a porch"

hichris123

12:59 AM

I've read through this discussion at least twice and I still have no clue what's being discussed.

bjb568

@JasonC Oh, I don't actually care much now, I'm just bored and on the road.

tchrist

2 hours ago, by bjb568

Tho religion is the epitome of weakness in the human brain too…

Two hours. Bah.

hichris123

Mm, not sure I really care at this point. :P

Jason C

Nothing has repercussions because the Earth's tectonic activity will eventually erase most evidence of our existence, the sun will explode and take care of the rest, our galaxy collides with another one in about 4 billion years, then the universe reaches heat death, and whatever.

bjb568

Talk about nihilism…

hichris123

1:01 AM

23

A: What would be the first thing which will render the Earth uninhabitable?

I'll try to put time scales on each of these events. The Sun as a red giant - 5 to 6 billion years$^1$ The Sun is currently on the main sequence, which means that it's a "full grown" star - think of it as being middle-aged. It's been on the main sequence for around 4 to 5 billion years, and in...

Jason C

I did once have a client tell me not to talk to the press because I'm just a "surly nihilist".

user259867

@hichris123 tl;dr the Hot Network Questions are the root of all evil. This is where it began.

tchrist

@JasonC Did you tell ’m to quit calling you Shirley?

Jason C

Ba dum bum

Shog9

@bjb568 ok. Now we're getting somewhere. So organized religion doesn't bother you as long as it doesn't actually influence opinions you care about.

user259867

1:04 AM

And to think that they happily lived in their obscure paradise of the old top bar until Jeremy Tunnell had the bright idea to evict them and put them in the sidebar...

bjb568

@Shog9 Essentially.

tchrist

@NormalHuman It all comes from here, the stench and the peril.

Shog9

Ok. Was a long process, but I think we can finally figure out what @bjb meant to write:

> Tho people I disagree with are the epitome of weaknesss in the human brain too...

tchrist

Well, at least the feeling is mutual.

Jason C

Nah

It's just a matter of perspective.

Shog9

1:06 AM

clearly a rationale sentiment that no right-thinking person could disagree with; I have no doubt if you'd written that from the outset you wouldn't have gotten flagged and I'd have a lot more turkey de-boned right now.

Jason C

The human brain's ability to construct realities to rationalize its own shortcomings is a thing of absolutely beauty.

You just need to learn to appreciate it.

I mean how cool is that that you can take a fear and eliminate it by coming up with whatever constructs are necessary to make the whole thing acceptable, without even trying. Even the least intelligent people can bang that stuff out second nature. It's kinda awesome.

Everybody's ridiculous and it's great.

bjb568

@Shog9 Not really disagree with vs accept, more like organized propagation of influential irrational ideas thru indoctrination that encompasses major areas of life and impacts other people vs like, just, your opinion, man that I don't care about because of its limited effect.

Jason C

The most hilarious truth would be if god really existed but was totally into kiddie porn.

Shog9

@bjb568 right. Influences that touches on ideas you care about in ways you disagree with are irrational and a failing of the human brain, while those that touch on ideas which you're apathetic to are a non-issue. I understand now, you don't have to keep reiterating it.

bjb568

I'm fine with disagreement; it is, in fact, what pushes the frontier of rational ideas forward. Science isn't about why?, it's about why not? and by extension why your idea is impractical and stupid. So disagree with me and support your argument and I'll like you even if you are wrong.

Jason C

1:12 AM

Jeez Shog everybody's like that in a way.

bjb568

@Shog9 eh, ok, I guess that's a summary of my thesis in a different PoV.

Shog9

@JasonC yup

Jason C

(And it's OK)

(According to me)

bjb568

But then the "epitome of weakness…" would have to be prefixed with "IMO" because that wording is from the "I'm fallible" PoV, and to make my statement I had to step back and assume the opposite.

So, to be conservative, I'm fallible. But without too big of an assumption, organized religion is objectively bad.

Shog9

@bjb568 Exactly. I get it, don't worry. Like Jason said, everyone's like that.

it's why we spent yesterday afternoon sitting in a bar watching news on TV waiting to hear if friends were still alive or not. Because it's easier to attack the folks you disagree with than it is to find a way to communicate effectively.

Easier to believe they're evil or stupid than it is to face up to the idea that they're just like you, and somehow are still doing something you find reprehensible.

So yeah, I get it.

bjb568

1:18 AM

Well, any blanket statement (read: anything involving philosophy) will necessarily require assumptions and generalization by extrapolation.

@Shog9 My intention with the original statement was to highlight how their religion shows my fallibility and weakness, as it does everyone's.

Shog9

you don't really need religion for that

wake up and turn on the news. Take a short trip down to the convenience store. Buy some coffee and a snack. Go home and listen to the top 40. You haven't done anything of account yet, and you've already been influenced, your weaknesses exploited multiple times.

bjb568

@Shog9 Well, no. But I said it was the epitome of it :p

@Shog9 yeah, I see your point. I'm snacking now.

user259867

mmm... weakness exploits

bjb568

Crunchy.

Shog9

You want the epitome of it? Look at snack food. A bag of corn chips is the epitome of our ability to be influenced.

There's no good reason to eat corn chips. Ever.

But damn, they're sooo good.

Epecially Fritos Brand Scoops

bjb568

1:25 AM

Corn chips, ha! Shows your age, the kids these days are all eating these blasphemous potato chips.

Shog9

Only the oven-baked ones though. They appeal to my desire to eat healthy without putting any effort in. Those heathens who eat the fried ones are gonna burn in their own body fat.

bjb568

Idea for cats: hoomans flammable.

Braiam

meh, I don't like them

Shog9

what, flaming humans? They're ok.

bjb568

:3

Jason C

1:41 AM

@Shog9 That's a good reason to eat corn chips.

(My second favorite snack to Cheetos, btw)

(Tied with cheese balls, but only Planter's. RIP. Utz can go to hell.)

@Shog9 Question

user202362

Software/internet is an anomaly - it's a supply driven market - because every time a supplier (i.e. microsoft, apple, C++/Java standards etc) upgrades, it drives the demand for more software developer/engineers to upgrade existing software/website etc. :p

Jason C

In your experience what are some successful ways to attract knowledgeable, answering users to a respectable beta site?

Just keep on trucking and let it grow organically?

Spam links on forums? Stand outside with a sign? Threats?

Shog9

in my experience? Never seen it happen unless there are knowledgeable answerers there from the start.

folks'll sign on to one-up someone they think is doing well already, but no one wants to join up to clean up a cesspool.

bjb568

cough cough SO cesspool expert exodus

DevDoodle will do it right from the beginning. Probably.

Jason C

@Shog9 This particular site has very knowledgeable users but it seems like only a small handful (< 5) answer the vast majority. It's good but doesn't seem sustainable.

Not a cesspool at all. So it sounds like, just keep on going, and as long as the existing answerers keep at it for a while eventually others will be inspired to sign up.

bjb568

1:57 AM

That's what you'd hope for. But the scope of the site may be too narrow to attract enough experts.

Jason C

data.stackexchange.com/woodworking/query/400562/…

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

user259867

I guess enabling that for post body wasn't smart.

Shog9

@JasonC relevant: meta.hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/312/…

Jason C

Oh word, that is inspiring.

user202362

2:08 AM

What if it's the climate change that made dinosaurs extinct?

user202362

I know it's a very daring proposition

user202362

we don't quite understand why there were glacial periods

user259867

From back in the days when Shog was going around the network scaring people with titles like Is Poker a site we should keep around?

bjb568

@chmod666telkitty IIRC, it's one of the top contenders along with the single meteorite impact hypothesis

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a mass extinction of some three-quarters of plant and animal species on Earth—including all non-avian dinosaurs—that occurred over a geologically short period of time, 66 million years ago. It marked the end of the Cretaceous period and with it, the entire Mesozoic Era, opening the Cenozoic Era that continues today. In the geologic record, the K–Pg event is marked by a thin layer of sediment called the K–Pg boundary, which can be found throughout the world in marine and terrestrial rocks...

Wikipedia seems to support this.

Jason C

On ww right now four users account for over 50% of accepted answers. I hope they don't burn out any time soon.

... Or at least, I hope they don't burn out until they answer all my questions.

Now the question is, if I made a meta post expressing my concern, would it do more harm than good...

I can't decide if it's best to just let it keep doing its thing or if it somehow risks upsetting the balance by calling attention to the fact that so few users are carrying the site at the moment.

Well I guess I could come up with a positive spin without drawing attention to specific users and creating pressure.

OR

I could order chinese food, eat it, then go to bed.

Yes. That is a good plan.

bjb568

2:22 AM

Agree.

Jason C

bjb568

:D

Jason C

Btw, your mom is marked by a thin layer of sediment.

bjb568

:o

user259867

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

2:26 AM

@NormalHuman You doubt me?

Jason C

@SmokeDetector I doubt you even more when you're running.

bjb568

burn!

Jason C

Suck it, bot.

bjb568

Uh… I don't think it's that kind of bot.

SmokeDetector

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Jason C

2:29 AM

Lol

Wow, that's epic.

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Jason C

@Shog9 ^ Feel like dishing out an IP ban?

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: I sat on my wife? by Wee Jeffy Hoplay from the fall on parenting.stackexchange.com

Jason C

I think some of it is to the tune of bohemian rhapsody.

user259867

This is a long-time troll who's been targeting a site's moderator with disturbing posts for weeks if not months.

SmokeDetector

2:36 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: I sat on my hamburger by Wee Jeffy Hoplay from the fall on parenting.stackexchange.com

Shog9

@JasonC yeah

2

Jason C

That's the spirit.

bjb568

Yay, home sweet not-wilderness.

Back in my Casper brand mattress on my laptop :p

tchrist

@bjb568 In wildness is the preservation of the world.

bjb568

Designed by Apple in California.

@tchrist hey you interrupted my spam

SmokeDetector

2:42 AM

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bjb568

In wilderness is the preservation of my bewilderedness at the lack of LTE.

tchrist

@bjb568 Don’t misquote wildness.

bjb568

Ah ain't a-quotin' noh-body buht me-salf!

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user202362

@bjb568 well, I am only mentioning this because people seem to have this idea that they can actually reverse the climate change

bjb568

2:46 AM

@chmod666telkitty We aren't dinosaurs. Even if it caused their extinction, it doesn't have to cause ours.

And we are causing this extinction event, so that gives us leverage to stop it.

user202362

All I am saying is that it could be caused by something else, something beyond human control

user202362

we are all very insignificant you know :p

Jason C

Louis CK's global warming "third position"

►

bjb568

@chmod666telkitty That's wrong, there's copious data to substantiate that it's humans that are causing climate change and the sixth great extinction event.

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user259867

2:50 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu- spam, the question is about admin work, not end user

user202362

@bjb568 you are using data gathered in the past 20-30 years to extrapolate a time span of 200-300 million years, you know the error rate for such result is almost infinite.

bjb568

@chmod666telkitty I'm using data from the past 50 or so years to say who caused the climate change problem of the last 50 or so years.

There's no extrapolation needed.

user202362

3:08 AM

Oh yes, if you want to produce more convincing result, you need more rigorous proof - you need to make sure everything being constant & vary only 1 variable (i.e. greenhouse gas). But not even 1 scientist was able to do that. We don't even understand why there was oscillation in CO2 when humans were absent.

user202362

Also humans have become fatter in the past 50 years. Could I contribute that to Co2 concentration too? @bjb568

bjb568

@chmod666telkitty Why do the non-human CO2 patters matter? We've had an unprecedented explosion of it in the last century, going way outside the normal bounds. It's not a natural occurrence, it's the product of human intervention.

user202362

3:24 AM

user202362

doesn't look like explosions

Braiam

3:41 AM

in Unix and Linux on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 31 mins ago, by mikeserv

there ought to be a close reason like: this must be a dup. why should i have to find it if the asker doesn't bother?

user202362

One of my chooks is sick ...

bjb568

aww

@chmod666telkitty look at it with a time scale of decades

bjb568

4:01 AM

Anybody know why gravatars cache for only 5 minutes? Seems awfully short to me…

Jason C

To annoy you.

bjb568

Ah, just like how that useless button is there to make kids like you wonder what it's there for :D

user202362

Jason C

4:20 AM

unicorn meat, there's a new one

SmokeDetector

4:42 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: THREAD 1 SIGABRT by Xcoder on stackoverflow.com

user259867

sd why

SmokeDetector

@NormalHuman [:4255599] Title - All in caps

Santa Claus

Wonder why that user revived such an old question...^

user259867

Yes, this was not necessary.... just pointing out that why is now available for all reasons.

user202362

probably guided by google search

user202362

4:47 AM

it's a common error for newb ios developers after all

Santa Claus

Who upvoted it...

SmokeDetector

5:07 AM

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Santa Claus

5:18 AM

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6:08 AM

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Santa Claus

6:21 AM

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

Title - Position 70-75: Molvi
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Santa Claus

Creative, I'll give them that.

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@SantaClaus Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Shadow Wizard

6:50 AM

huh, looks like the spammer is pissed off

user259867

And is threatening Smokey with a trade knife.

Shadow Wizard

@SantaClaus I see many times people upvote obvious spam, so I'm really not surprised anymore. Might be hidden socks of the spammers, or just stupid people. Dunno what's worse.

@NormalHuman well, knife can't do much against smoke so Smokey is safe. ;)

SmokeDetector

7:03 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: Define function J by kristin on math.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore- naa (unregistered user can't delete own post)

user259867

What was the most successful new site of 2015, excluding special projects lang-SO?

user259867

By the stats, it appears to be elementary OS, which gets 8.7 questions/day and 1605 visits/day

user259867

Honorable mention: Law with 8.9 questions/day and 739 visits/day.

user259867

The least successful: probably Mythology, 0.4 questions/day and 234 visits/day.

user259867

7:18 AM

Although Open Source is a contender for the worst start, with 1.7 qpd and 108 vpd.

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user259867

8

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Currently in definition.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Related to parenting spam:

Shadow Wizard

@SmokeDetector ignore edit suggested

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

user259867

7:50 AM

@SmokeDetector fp-

user202362

8:42 AM

When my chickens eat too much prawn heads, they start to smell like seafood ...

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Lol

Seafood chicken

SmokeDetector

9:48 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in title: Pure Phytoceramides Review | fun-flicks.com/pure-phytoceramides by luliechuse on superuser.com

rene

sd tpu-

Shadow Wizard

10:01 AM

@chmod666telkitty why do you smell your chickens?

rene

10:12 AM

I don't think I want to know the answer...

Shadow Wizard

I do ;)

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[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: Data Science conferences? by mowu on datascience.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

Shadow Wizard

sd fpu

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@ShadowWizard [:4255719] Registered answer as false positive and whitelisted user.

Shadow Wizard

Valid answer for that question

SmokeDetector

10:25 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: Uttarakhand Matrimonial by kamalbisht on drupal.stackexchange.com

tchrist

!!/report codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/65205

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[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: substring conversion (in Haskell). Can you beat this? by user47719 on codegolf.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron @Doorknob)

tchrist

I just blew away some spam by that user on PLU; they appear to be a network spammer, but I see no other posts.

Shadow Wizard

Appears to be random trolling, not spam. Flagged as offensive though, as no idea what he's saying.

S.L. Barth

10:41 AM

Either trolling or some attempt to poison the spam filters.

tchrist

S.L. Barth

@tchrist PLU = Portuguese Language & Usage ?

tchrist

Something like that. It's really just Portuguese Language.

S.L. Barth

That's why I was wondering, didn't see where the U came from.

tchrist

Habit.

Guess could call it PTL, but that has the wrong connotations.

pt.se isn't hard to type.

S.L. Barth

10:47 AM

Meanwhile PTL has a lot of meanings.

SmokeDetector

11:38 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Crawl multiple unique items for a same name using scrapy by Hotels Tour And Travel on stackoverflow.com

rene

Also an account on travel.se, but no posts yet

S.L. Barth

The username just screams "I'm a spammer!"

@SmokeDetector FYI. Just encountered it in the VLQ queue. (Skipped because I've already flagged it as spam).

Shadow Wizard

@rene no worry, he/she will post. It's an obvious spammer. :/

user202362

@ShadowWizard I pet my chickens, they sometimes look into my eyes and cluck softly while I am at it ... right in front of my nose

rene

I do hope they post! I need flag weight to prevent me from floating away...

S.L. Barth

11:45 AM

On Travel.SE? Didn't you get your flag weight there before the CJK block was implemented?

....finally done reading yesterday's transcript....

Shadow Wizard

> 29 helpful flags

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[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: Getting -: Uncaught DOMException: Blocked a frame with origin "https://c.ap2.visual.force.com" error by nishant khandelwal on salesforce.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

Shadow Wizard

Flags hungry flower ;)

S.L. Barth

I've got 75 helpful flags there.... 5 more spams and I get a badge.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Convert .c to .java by francogrex on stackoverflow.com

S.L. Barth

11:51 AM

Yeay, a troll.

berserk

yay!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Awesome start for a day.

5

Q: What effect does a bat's echolocation have on other bats?

Bat echolocation is a perceptual system where ultrasonic sounds are emitted specifically to produce echoes. By comparing the outgoing pulse with the returning echoes, the brain and auditory nervous system can produce detailed images of the bat's surroundings. This allows bats to detect, locali...

NO ANSWERS YET. :'(

S.L. Barth

Someone recently said that no answers in 30 minutes meant a question was awesome ;-)

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

That someone is wrong when they're talking about that someone.

S.L. Barth

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. True. You just can't trust fenestranes these days :-P

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

11:57 AM

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Q: Should I report the user for "I don't know" comment or is it a valid contribution?

I asked a question and I'm not clear on how to interpret the comments form a certain user. This is how I perceive it but I'd like to get a second opinion on my interpretation. Me: I wonder about X. User: We can't answer that. (No improvement suggestion nor explanation.) Me: The comment is for i...