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12:14 AM

:o

@Quill So the template part of the string should be highlighted as if it isn't in a string?

12:34 AM

yup

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: What are the default passwords of these users: nobody, daemon, uucp, etc.? by Paul on askubuntu.com

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@Quill Fixed.

I saw ;)

awesome

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You can nest them too!

So hooray for that.

Night!

Night!

1:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Does BitMinter not use CPU's for mining at all? by antigod on bitcoin.stackexchange.com

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2:42 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: I am at an impasse here, I keep getting listed on blacklists for spamming by AdminERPro8 on security.stackexchange.com

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user202362

4:21 AM

If meta chat rose from the dead,
then you have to accept all that I said
On this very site I scribe,
 with these words I pride.

user202362

When will I finally get to rest from this oppression?
They punish the people who are here to ask the questions
And those who have knowledge in their possessions
They may or may not want to making a difference or teach you lessons

user202362

Don't settle for less
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essense

I'm insane, I ain’t the same
But I ain’t intent to change
It ain't nothing like the game
It's just me against the world
And I ain’t going to be tamed

user202362

-Telkitty

5:46 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Missing dollar problem by BillyHatesMath on math.stackexchange.com

6:44 AM

yjt

7:28 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps answer, bad keyword in answer, few unique characters in answer: Why won't Enthir sell me anything? by Richter on gaming.stackexchange.com

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10:10 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Hadoop Training in Hyderabad by TRAFFIKON on programmers.stackexchange.com

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11:17 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Skin Care Scam Product by fara jhon on drupal.stackexchange.com

12:10 PM

@SmokeDetector Hehe that's supposed to be advertising it with that title, right?

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1:14 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Don't get me wrong by Collettezt on askubuntu.com

Unikitty eats a cat

sd k

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Unikitty eats a cat

2:28 PM

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√-1 8 Σ π
... And It Was Delicious!

Wonders where @Norm is

user202362

2:40 PM

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Unikitty eats a cat

??

Solve the maths above plz

me neads halp

(Nice new avatar)

@Unikittyeatsacat who is @Norm?

Unikitty eats a cat

Normal human?

Is it @UniDoggy?

Unikitty eats a cat

@ShadowWizard Don't think so

2:42 PM

@Unikittyeatsacat Huh? Was he ever Normal?

Unikitty eats a cat

nope

Was he ever Human?

So, judging from the lack of downvotes, people agree with this answer??

-1

A: Proposal to make close votes scale with rep

How about we just ban new questions from <5k rep users until this is sorted out? Then, with a clean slate, open it back up again whilst coming down hard on off-topic posts using the dupehammer and a closehammer feature, to stop the queue getting out of control in the future? I'm serious!

Wonder when SE will actually do it, and what will happen.

while (CVQ.size() > 1000)
    Users.Ban(UserType.Everyone, ReputationComparison.LessThan, 5000);

Unikitty eats a cat

lol

@ShadowWizard Obviously a terrible idea. What really should happen before you can ask, is following a 3-year-course of Stack Overflow Question Asking, get your certificate, and get more reputation than Jon Skeet. Then you can ask questions.

:p

Unikitty eats a cat

lol

@ProgramFOX Then SO is useless as Jon Skeet's rep must be the highest

There are at least Infinity system checks ensuring that all the time

2:52 PM

I think raising the bar for joining the site and asking a question would work and is an implementable solution.

Unikitty eats a cat

That was after Nick Craver's rep went above his

Sally, by a fireplace

44.3k 8 21 134

real-analysis functional-analysis pde complex-analysis analysis measure-theory differential-equations

normalhuman.github.io/oldusernames

Unikitty eats a cat

ROFLLLLLL

@bjb568 impressive, think @Norm was a sock of that one all along. :D

Anyway, @Uni looks like @Norm is gone for good, the zombie chat account he used to have is gone and deleted.

Unikitty eats a cat

lol

must be some evil cm

3:02 PM

Not sure if it was on his request or just an accident though

Unikitty eats a cat

lol

in C.R.U.D.E. on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Feb 6 at 23:17, by Live Forever

Sure. Just a tiny minor problem that nobody noticed yet. One has to look closely at the title to see it.

Here: Sally's still in chat.

… intermittently, anyway

Unikitty eats a cat

Meow

> your account is suspended on the parent site and cannot chat for 128 days.

Waits

3:49 PM

KIDS REACT TO 2+2=5 (COMMON CORE)

Unikitty eats a cat

Lol

You watched the 18m video in less than 5s? Amazing!

Unikitty eats a cat

Yep

Speed > MAXIMUM BRAIN OVERFLOW SPEED

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5:31 PM

!!/coffee

@S.L.Barth brews coffee for @S.L.Barth

^ This place is sleepy. Hopefully the smell of fresh coffee will wake people up. :-)

!!/icecream (/¯◡ ‿ ◡)/¯ ~ ┻━┻

Hullo @S.L.

I said

!!/icecream

O_O

!!/blame

@IͶΔ It's IͶΔ's fault.

Don't you mean...

!!/lick

5:35 PM

@S.L.Barth licks ice cream cone

@SmokeDetector ಠ_ಠ

@S.L.Barth Oh, it was my fault after all.

takes whipped cream from ice cream cone and puts it on the coffee

NO HEY THAT'S MINE

@IͶΔ Not anymore >:-)

hides before the Mighty Shog suspends him, for stealing virtual whipped cream.

Flags for mom attention

Waa waa

5:37 PM

Uh-oh....

Hello @InfiniteRecursion!

Infinite Recursion

@S.L.Barth Hiya :-)

Hullo

Remember when I suggested to make our Tour page into a comic?

I've been thinking about it, and got a bit of a scenario.

Yeah?

Infinite Recursion

@bjb568 It isn't dying...old users leave and new users come. Evolution :-)

5:41 PM

Old users leave and smokey is the only one left.

2

It's a bit long to post here, but the basic idea is that the main character has a task and Bubbles helps him to post.

First the main character goes to a public place - a crowd. This represents a forum.

And then asks "What tool should I use to foo() my bar?"

The main character gets overwhelmed by responses and has to be rescued by Bubbles.

Infinite Recursion

@bjb568 Smokey is the new Bart.

@bjb568 Define "old".

@IͶΔ ur mom

Not funny.

5:43 PM

No, she's not.

Use it when it is.

Old (adj). Describes anyone who thinks Bubbles is a Powerpuff girl and not the Stack Exchange Logo.

@S.L.Barth I am a century old.

Wait, since when are bubbles a girl?

I just thought they're the result of the poor social interaction of a surfactant and air.

@IͶΔ Since Cartoon Network.

The Powerpuff Girls

The Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. The show centers on Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, three girls with superpowers, as well as their father, the brainy scientist Professor Utonium, who all live in the fictional city of Townsville, USA. The girls are frequently called upon by the town's childlike and naive mayor to help fight nearby criminals using their powers. McCracken originally developed the show in 1992 as a cartoon short entitled Whoopass Stew! while in his second year at CalArts. Following a name change...

Eww

And there are even color trails. I am not clicking on that link.

5:46 PM

Bubbles is the leftmost one, with the yellow hair.

Of course the real question is... what is @bjb568's definition of old? :-)

"Your mum" has already been ruled out as a response.

Meh, past half logarithmic media age of death.

With the start of life root at 4 years.

That's the past 24 hours.

Internet scales applied.

Meanwhile, it seems that my proposed "Stack Exchange Comic" should not be drawn in Powerpuff Girls style.

Without those scales, and assuming median life span of 80 years, e^(ln(80/4)/2)*4, or about 18 years or more is old.

@bjb568 For cats 18 years is old....

5:53 PM

These are human years, you use a different scaling factor for cats.

@bjb568 Median life span for cats would already be different.

And you'd probably have to take the median for cats that die from old age / natural causes.

Yes.

Sadly, I think enough cats die in traffic to make a statistically significant difference.

Ugh. Another "I found this code on the net question".

Luckily it was already in the CV queue (that's where I encountered it).

6:13 PM

I'm trying to find the rules for automatic migration on SO.

More specifically, the conditions under which a question that is put On Hold as belonging on another site (from the standard migrations), is actually migrated.

6:42 PM

status-out-of-close-votes

^ Satisfied, managed to do 40 reviews in the CV queue on SO.

7:04 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Maxatin can be overwhelming to some by Jartatoz on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Athletic Greens health supplement is usually by Expre1939 on money.stackexchange.com

We are prepping the Stack Overflow maintenance window now - we'll notify when ready to take the brief outage.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on February 14, 2016 at 7:04 PM

And we're off...

We are failong over services now, Stack Overflow and the rest of the network will be offline for about a minute.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on February 14, 2016 at 7:11 PM

@hichris123 failong?

A long failure? :P

Failing? Fail long?

7:16 PM

We are failong over services now, Stack Overflow and the rest of the network will be offline for about a minute.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on February 14, 2016 at 7:11 PM

That feeling when I don't get to see the content of a now-removed message . . . .__.

*That failong

(So, it turns out that "failong" means "feeling", and is probably @bjb568-ese).

@S.L.Barth I don't do Aussie. :P

Hey, someone should go and see how much chat traffic rises when the sites are offline.

@IͶΔ it was just a repeat of my last message... chat was having issues.

@hichris123 I hate it when that happens.

7:23 PM

Shog has left. We can misbehave again :-)

Yay! Let's talk about something uncouth or forbidden.

Like, how many hamsters power SE, really?

How many hamster powers are needed to run one server for 24 hours?

@S.L.Barth 150. The other 1000 are provided by Nick.

@IͶΔ Does he help power all the servers? Does that scale?

Next question: Is @rene secretly superflower?

7:30 PM

There goes my cover...

That has to be the worst superhero idea ever.....

"Villains are destroying the town!" "Hm, I'd help, but I'm rooted to this spot."

@S.L.Barth But he's no ordinary flower. His powers are unlimited in the SQL universe.

My cousin can eat you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_rotundifolia

@Drosera hi

@rene So that is your nemesis?

7:33 PM

Yes

@IͶΔ Superpowers include: dropping tables, injecting SQL....

@S.L.Barth Don't forget close voting en masse.

@Rene'll close his cousin as "No MCVE".

I just pictured a flower throwing close votes as if they're knifes....

....but without moderator powers, even Superflower needs 4 sidekicks to close something.

Or 1 sidekick who has mod powers.... but what's the point of a sidekick when they're more powerful than you....

@S.L.Barth What's the point of a smoke detector when a fire fighter is gonna extinguish the fire?

!!/whatisthepoint

Not sure if the analogy is correct. Usually superheroes are called in when somebody else has already detected the crime.

In fact, when the superhero is the first person to note the crime, it's usually a trap set by the villain.

7:38 PM

Rene detects it again because why not.

Fair enough. Superflower's powers now officially include "detecting questions that need closing."

@rene can also chat with CMs.

Not sure how many flowers can do that.

It's like Neo talking to the Architect.

....well we can all chat with the Mighty Shog....

We can't.

Surviving it might be another matter, of course :-)

7:44 PM

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Ignore the first two lines though.

SO is in read only mode

First time I don't find an image of a meme.

@rene Right now?

everybody panic?

for me, yes

Nah, I don't doz codez.

The failong over was 35 minutes ago, right?

Is it failong back?

7:48 PM

Failong's not back for me.

In chem.SE

Meh, SO in read-only mode only means one thing. That thousands of students can't copy-paste their homework.

Oh wait, it is.

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I'm in an imagy mood right now.

Uh, can we talk so that horrendous thingy scrolls off?

!!/blame

@IͶΔ It's hichris123's fault.

You regret posting it now?

I dunno.

Should I?

Do I?

Did I?

Regret I?

I do.

:(

7:53 PM

Isn't "I do" usually said at weddings?

You may kiss the bride

That too.

Kisses the pride

Hopes it isn't a pride of lions.

I am honored right now. Back to normal mode when I can click on that review item.

7:54 PM

Review item?

Oh, chem is back.

Nice that chat kept working all the time.

Tanks in advantage Nick

Or tahnks, for that matter.

Tanks did not give this proposal an advantage:

34

Military Combat

Proposed Q&A site for questions about the modern-day application of military technology used in combat, military strategy, tactics and protocol, battles and general warfare types, and data such as technical specifications on military hardware.

Closed before being launched.

we're back to normal

7:58 PM

Good. Impressed as usual with SE's quick response to incidents.

NOW I CN POAST HOMEWERK AGAN

@IͶΔ You're in luck: I'm out of close votes.

YASS

But the question is: is Superflower out of close votes?

(Asks that question in an overly drammatic narrator's voice)

@S.L.Barth Superflower has an army of SOCVR'ers behind him.

8:01 PM

@IͶΔ You weren't supposed to tell that until the next episode....

They just can't run out of ammunition.

@S.L.Barth I'm such a fun blower.

@IͶΔ Yeah, now who's going to watch the next episode... there goes our viewing rate.

I was always bad at HNQ.

Oh well... I'm not very fond of the Hot Network Questions anyway.

I guess their purpose is really to make people spend more time on SE....

But the titles that are most enticing, are usually also the worst questions.

0

Q: Can the properties in a tomato help make hair curl?

Is it possible for the active properties of a tomato to turn your hair from straight to curly? And what are the active ones that do this and why?

organic-chemistry

Pretty sure this is our next HNQ if it gets answered soon.

8:10 PM

Maybe not DV-CV-kill-it-before-it-gets-answers worse, but still.

Though chem people are moderation-y. I think we all prefer downvotes.

That question is exactly the kind of title that gets in HNQ yes...

Um, is making a sock to follow an Area51 proposal acceptable?

area51.stackexchange.com/users/144677/d-s

I think usual rules apply - don't vote for yourself and stuff like that.

266 1 1

Why didn't the first one one-box? O_O

8:15 PM

Hm, main account also posted questions on the Military Combat proposal.

@S.L.Barth Jes, that's how I noticed it.

But since the (presumed) sock has the exact same name and profile text, I don't think it's intended for vote fraud.

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10:05 PM

Valentine's Day. pre04.deviantart.net/e07f/th/pre/f/2009/260/c/d/…

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11:33 PM

wonders what a Debian tart is like

user202362

Inb4, there is no android version called tart #disappointed

user202362

there is cupcake, there is donut, there is even kitkat and gingerbread, but no tart, NO TART!!

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