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7:04 PM
 
Tnx!
 
@rene You are welcome. Nothing pleases me more than virtually fulfilling others' needs.
 
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New version of my questions/visits chart. Now with a selector for the range of years!
 
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Does the selector of years actually work?
 
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(I know it works for me, but the years are supposed to be changeable by anyone).
 
7:20 PM
@1999 Worked for me. I changed it to 2011
 
@1999 shouldn't that be per-client?
 
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@Braiam I prefer Twitch-style spreadsheets
 
user259867
I suppose you can make a copy in your account.
 
inb4 StackExchange plays spreadsheets
 
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I considered making something per-client, but that would involve writing a script, and for this task I didn't want to.
 
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7:24 PM
Not expecting a huge amount of activity, anyway.
 
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@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
you could make an animation now...
 
Jon Chan on July 2, 2015
There was a lot that went into building our new blog - including the new engineering channel. See why it took us six to eight weeks to move to a new system, migrate our old content, and redesign the site.
 
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Let's see how much comment spam this post gets.
 
7:42 PM
That is a very long blog post....
 
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> We looked at the top 50 high trafficked posts and the 100 most recent posts and manually went through to make sure everything was formatted well. This was done with a lot of help from our marketing team.
 
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This explains that chain of one-file commits.
 
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@SmokeDetector fp-
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: How can the Orcs be so easily killed? by Ivan Markovich on scifi.stackexchange.com
 
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@SmokeDetector NAA
 
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7:50 PM
What is this question about? Making spicy foods in a frying pan by Will Martin on cooking.stackexchange.com
 
what the...
 
@1999 He is asking what else he should put in the frying pan?
 
Yell "It'll be ready when it's ready!!"
 
Needs meat.
I'm not a huge fan of eating stir-fried spicy onions and garlic.
Although @TimStone might like it.
Jan 25 '13 at 7:01, by Tim Stone
You can never have too much garlic. Unless you bought like ten heads, in which case that was just silly.
 
@rene whaaat? Two ice creams?! fumbling through my house
 
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@SmokeDetector tpu- spam
 
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It's not just diet pills that get promoted...
 
Estimate Number of Rows: 307
Actual Number of Rows: 122186

Not even close, SQL Server. Not even close.
 
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8:16 PM
@SmokeDetector delete
 
!!/lick
 
@SantaClaus licks ice cream cone
 
OK here we go!
@rene this one is for you ^
@Braiam - you sound like someone who love fruit, so this one is for you ^
 
LOL!
quite sure they really didn't see it coming...
 
8:23 PM
No, I don't think they did. Or they were trying to be funny "We're blasting you with.... rainboez!"
2
 
@TinyGiant nah, that's what Unicorns do ;)
 
Yes, but I doubt those rainbows would hurt.
 
You can't know until you feel one...
 
test
yay it works
I shall leave you all to wonder what I'm doing :P
 
teasing us?
 
8:30 PM
Definitely wondering what you're doing
 
I won't sleep until I'll know what you're doing @Undo
 
@Undo I know what you're doing >:D
 
overheard on the news just now: "The fire released a toxic and highly flammable gas"
Well okay :P
 
Hallo
 
user image
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@bjb568 Hello
 
8:37 PM
@TinyGiant yup. typical quality of that site.
 
Or askpatents.
 
@Undo huh? is it related to your test? D:
@bjb568 ask what?
 
@jadarnel27 It's true, I would
 
@ShadowWizard Lekker!
 
8:44 PM
hmm...
UD got interesting meaning for that, @rene ;)
 
Just use google translate then...
 
!!/translate
oh smokey... why you no translate? :(
yummy... how simple :D
 
That saved me from being flagged I guess...
 
I thought I found the right link, after reading I realized it wasn't. Still looking for it
 
9:47 PM
I should change my name to "Pepe the Frog", or just "Pepe". Santa Claus is getting stale.
 
Porking is not allowed
 
chews pork
 
10:16 PM
Who want's some cat chunks in gravy with beef?
 
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*wants
 
Damn, typo
 
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We heard you like our blog.... (I think one link would be enough there)
 
@TinyGiant meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
 
10:27 PM
Lulz
 
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11:01 PM
> So that drivers license photo turned out well, what do you think? pic.twitter.com/EhhMbV72LN -- Geoff Dalgas at 2:54 PM - 2 Jul 2015 via Twitter
 
Great picture
 
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Q: Prevent "guest users" from voting and commenting

SklivvzThe problem As a site, we slightly diverge from the SE standards: We have unique rules regarding voting, for example unreferenced questions should be downvoted to zero no matter how much we agree with their conclusions. Our format allows us to tackle controversial topics in a civilized manner,...

 
huh.
 
user259867
> * Change the "comment everywhere" privilege to require 105 rep instead of 50
* Change the "vote up" privilege to require 125 rep instead of 15 (similarly to the "vote down" privilege)
 
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Normally I wouldn't pay attention, but when an employee proposes this..
 
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11:11 PM
+1 for raising upvote privilege to 125.
 
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+1000 if done network-wide.
 
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Not so sure about comments. There are enough NAAs already.
 
I think that you shouldn't be able to review until you can close vote. That would solve so many bad reviewing practices.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Is it possible to program in binary? by Marcelene on stackoverflow.com
 
^ spam 2x
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in title, title has only one unique char: tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt by Oliver Cavanagh on arduino.stackexchange.com
 
What's the unique character?
 
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You'll never guess... Also, that question about binary programming is kind of weird. Not sure if closable.
 
11:28 PM
Can we just delete the H&I queue? It got oops-ed this morning, and now it has over 400 questions, and most of the ones I've looked at should just be closed...
 
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I think there's nonzero chance that this will happen in some way. But for political reasons, something will probably have to be put in its place. Simply discarding would look bad after CEO went on record touting the innovation.
 
Why not just have [Good Enough] and [Should be closed] as the only options in the triage queue. Hell even keep the button for [Should be improved], but just have it send a notification to the OP that someone thinks their question should be improved. That's the way the users who actually use it seem to think that it works anyways.
 
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Q: Off topic questions have to be cleared out of the way, but NOT via closure

Your Common SenseRecently I ran across a particular question on Stack Overflow. Despite its being quite easy to answer, it has got no answer yet (and most likely won't, as questions older than a hour hardly receive any attention anymore). Besides that, the OP told me that he wants an answer from a professional de...

 
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Yes, yes... We celebrated the anniversary of your expanded auto-deletion proposal yesterday.
 
still needs to happen
 
11:40 PM
So why hasn't it happened?
 
optimism?
 
vehicles without fuel?
Or are we not listing things that get you nowhere.
 
user259867
Optimistic people should spend more time in the trenches of popular tags, actually answering questions (or trying to).
 
I've met very few people who can remain optimistic in those circumstances.
Which is why I've come to rely on Tim for communication here, because he's somehow managed to retain a fairly sunny disposition in spite of his time moderating SO.
He is my synchromesh in these discussions.
 
So what happened with your tests on the H&I queue?
 
11:46 PM
still running
 
Ahhh.
 
hence the current insane fluctuation in the backlog
I'm trying to keep it at ~200 for the next week.
Folks keep reviewing the damn things.
 
I don't think I've actually ever successfully found a question worth editing in the H&I queue. I tried using the "very low quality post" link on all of the very low quality posts I saw there, but I just ended up with a whole bunch of disputed flags
 
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I've edited a couple, but didn't seem much advantage of doing that vs editing posts as I see them.
 
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I'd rather edit things that appear to be of some interest than things that simply come up in a queue.
 
11:51 PM
The original thought here was that very few people would actually want to use it.
We made it too appealing somehow.
The "find stuff to flag" use-case is... definitely not intended.
 
user259867
And those very few were expected to handle the hundreds of posts coming from Triage every day?
 
there's a whole VLQ queue that needs help
@1999 lord no
 
Yeah, and I get 20 votes per day. How am I supposed to make an impact with that?
 
I figure there's maybe 10% that are actually worth the trouble? Maybe 20 if you wanna really shine up those red glasses.
 
@Shog9 Very simple explanation. It's a new thing. People want to play with new thing. Yaaaay new things.
(also badge hunters, I would assume)
 
11:52 PM
@Doorknob not THAT new anymore
 
newer than LQP
 
:shrug:
I can't really complain
But, I do feel like there's a huge piece missing
If you review a question that ends up not doing well, you should be able to find that out rather easily.
And you really should be made aware when your edits are helping.
We don't really expose that at all right now.
 
user259867
You are responsible, forever, for what you have reviewed.
 
Auto-deletion would help a little bit there (you'd usually only see undeleted reviews in your activity record), but sorta a roundabout way of going at it.
I'm partial to some sort of simple stat replacing #reviewed in the leaderboard. #reviewedThatDidn'tEndUpEatingDirt
 
I've been looking at some of the edits done in H&I by some of the listed recent reviewers there, and a lot of it ends up being removing "thanks" and salutations and such.
 
11:59 PM
lotta turd-polishing
 
No real gains just a little bit of noise removed on questions that should be closed anyways.
 

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