Tavern on the Meta

12:12 AM

I think that's just Hynes. :)

@MonicaCellio I've pushed a change tonight. The required-tags are now slightly darker than the normal post-tags. I had them the same at first, but they were too hard to distinguish easily. They are still lighter than before though. Is that better? — Hynes ♦ Apr 7 at 1:48

Boo, I haven't seen a single programming question on meta in the past few hours.

user315433

Nobody's business hours right now. Almost nobody's.

hichris123

That's disappointing.

user315433

You could do something instead... Still contributing to chromium, or is that in the past?

user202362

12:30 AM

Sometimes I think internet is as safe as living in a run down house in a huge slum full of thieves, robbers and other outlaws. The chance of you being violated (privacy been infringed on) is 99%.

user315433

What will be the next site to hold elections?

bjb568

Read that as electrons. Certified E&M student.

user315433

Or, next site to "graduate", if this is more interesting to guess.

hichris123

@Meta Currently studying for AP exams... :/

bjb568

@hichris123 Haha, studying. You takin APUSH?

user315433

12:42 AM

Which ones?

hichris123

But I'll probably still contribute to Chromium occasionally.

@bjb568 No, Euro + Phys 1. @Meta

bjb568

Physics 1? o_0

hichris123

I haven't taken Calc yet...

bjb568

1) That's not Physics C, 2) At my school it's a semester course.

@hichris123 Get on that. It's your intro to analysis! Very useful!

hichris123

That's next year. :)

bjb568

12:43 AM

BC?

hichris123

yeah

bjb568

Good.

user315433

Okay, my unscientific guess is that the next site to graduate is Arduino. And the next to hold elections while in beta is Quantitative Finance.

hichris123

@bjb568 Phys 2 hasn't been offered yet at my school - most people just go Phys 1 -> C or just do C.

bjb568

Meh.

Over here, you have Physics AA for the idiots, Physics 1 & 2 for the peasants, and Physics C for the enlightened.

And by enlightened, I mean half the kids sleep thru it every day. But whatever, same thing.

hichris123

12:46 AM

pretty much the same here.

most take C their Senior year though

bjb568

Same here.

Anyway, what I did was I took sophomore (useless) chem for a semester, then I switched into C, just in time for the interesting stuff.

hichris123

oh non-AP Chem?

bjb568

Yeah. It's awful.

hichris123

"honors" or regular? Our honors chem is still super easy...

bjb568

"honors"

It's a study hall basically here.

hichris123

12:51 AM

For me, yeah. :P

user315433

1:19 AM

> The following item was added to your Stack Exchange global inbox since you last checked it on 2012-10-07: ... Updated Terms of Service

JamesENL

This should be on lifehacks --> http://mechanics.stackexchange.com/a/28516/12127
Also @bjb568 are they relatives of yours?

bjb568

@JamesENL Yup, second cousins.

user315433

I bet 50 internet points that Language Learning does not make it out of private beta.

JamesENL

@bjb568 One more question, why are cats so terrified of unexpected cucumbers?

bjb568

Why are people so afraid of planes?

People these days… they don't even catch their own mice!

user315433

1:38 AM

Gotta love real-world applications of math. Flux of the amount of buffalo entering a square kilometer per minute

user315433

> A buffalo stampede is described by a velocity vector field F = <xy-y^3, x^2+y> ...

bjb568

Oh yeah, you'd obviously describe the flow of students thru the hallway using all teh curlz and divergences and fluxes and densities… all is applicable to daily life.

user202362

Only 2 dimensional. I am disappointed, next time they should try a school of fish.

user202362

you totally need z-axis for the minimum complexity ...

user202362

also ... no undulation on the landscape?

JamesENL

1:52 AM

Can we award this question title a "Most random question title" award --> math.stackexchange.com/q/1752050/238549

I'm doubly shocked that it's not on Arquade

user315433

2:11 AM

Fairly large color update on @StackOverflow today. First meta post made within 15 minutes. 41 upvotes. 1 downvote. https://t.co/S6mH590K3I

Tweeted by hellohynes on April 21, 2016 at 2:11 AM

user315433

Speaking of design, their Area 51 proposal Digital Product Design isn't doing great.

hichris123

@Meta Although upvotes don't necessarily mean "I like this" - a lot of them were probably "Yeah, I noticed this too".

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user315433

And... a new business day is beginning, and with it programming questions on Meta.

user202362

A new business day is beginning at any hours of the day across the globe ... unless you are talking about spammers from a particular country

hichris123

2:27 AM

Yay, I got in a CV on that one.

@Meta Huh, no posts on SO.

user202362

spammers are like zombies - no brain

user315433

@AndrewT. Does the Android post look reasonable? The site was involved in spam posts but this one is not like those.

Andrew T.

@Meta yeah, currently it looks reasonable. I might watch the user for future behavior though.

hichris123

2:44 AM

0

A: New shade of green for answers/accepted answers?

I was puzzled why the white on green text boxes were very distracting, drawing my focus from other text elements on the page, while the other (white on blue or orange) text boxes weren't contributing to any such distraction. After some quick searching, I found out that the human eyeball is most ...

Only on Stack Exchange...

I do wonder if it's more harm than good to point people from Meta back to SO. None of the programming questions would ever be considered decent questions on SO.

Shog9

41

A: Can we please stop pointing off topic Meta posters to another SE site?

Once in a blue moon, someone actually posts a decent programming question here. This one, for instance, is actually a mildly interesting question, one that I could see being well-answered and useful to others in the future - and I'm glad the asker found his way back to the main site and re-asked ...

hichris123

Apparently I read that and though it sounded good... though I have no recollection.

I still think it sounds good. At least I'm consistent.

bjb568

I made a tree of math to help understand things better.

@Meta Did I do everything wrong?

hichris123

Forget the branding, @phils. Focus on the less CSS. Faster green is better green. — Shog9 ♦ 5 mins ago

How do you get a slow green?

Shog9

tchrist

2:55 AM

@hichris123 Verde que te quiero verde. / Verde viento. Verdes ramas. / El barco sobre la mar / y el caballo en la montaña.

user202362

@bjb568 you spelt fourier wrong

bjb568

bah

tchrist

@Shog9 And you too.

hichris123

@Shog9 I actually saw a turtle the other day. In the middle of a trail. And nowhere close to water...

tchrist

@hichris123 Terrapin? Tortoise?

Shog9

2:56 AM

waffles

hichris123

Someone claimed it was a... snapping something turtle?

tchrist

s/something/fucking/

hichris123

Although I don't claim to be an expert on turtles.

tchrist

Snapping turtles are terrapins, "technically": freshwater chelonians.

JamesENL

@AlexisKing Factorio question you might know the answer too: gaming.stackexchange.com/q/263198/80115

hichris123

2:58 AM

@tchrist In English please? :P

tchrist

@hichris123 Why, did Google translate stop working again? :)

hichris123

Someday, I just need to grab a dictionary and start reading. Though that would be a boring day.

tchrist

Pretty sure that isn't how one optimally acquires new vocabulary.

user202362

My friend said she's traveling overseas and looked forward to see some turtles, so I sent her some pictures similar to this:

user202362

hichris123

3:01 AM

@tchrist So what exactly is that? I saw it's a Spanish poem, but what about?

tchrist

Snapper.

hichris123

@tchrist Well yeah, but when I asked you last time you didn't give me any better suggestions. :P

tchrist

@hichris123 Green, green, I want you green.

hichris123

A poem can't be that boring...

tchrist

Lorca. Terribly famous little ditty.

Oh, it's about more than that, because "green" has connotations of lush freshness in Spanish.

user202362

3:03 AM

Alligator snapping turtle

The alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) is one of the heaviest freshwater turtles in the world, having been recently proven outweighed by the Hoan Kiem Turtle, a giant softshell turtle. It is often associated with, but not closely related to, the common snapping turtle, which is in the genus Chelydra. The specific epithet temminckii is in honor of Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Although it was once believed to be only one species, a recent study suggests that it is actually three separate species; Macrochelys temminckii, Macrochelys suwanniensis, and Macrochelys apalachicolae...

user202362

like 👍

hichris123

Oh, huh. See, we just learn the grammar of Spanish -- we hardly ever read any literature. (we read a page from Don Quixote but that's about it)

tchrist

Analysis of the poem is definitely something for more than one lecture if you're not yet versed in Lorquiana.

Quill

afternoon

hichris123

Obviously I'm not. :P

@Quill evening.

tchrist

3:04 AM

> Ella sigue en su baranda,
verde carne, pelo verde,
soñando en la mar amarga.

user315433

@bjb568 Looks good. I would erase "Taylor poly", it's not a math area. "Markov" is a subset of "stochastic processes", doesn't need own entry. "complex exp" could also go away, its arrows inherited by complex analysis. Fourier has u in it.

tchrist

She doesn't actually have green flesh and green hair, Sam I am.

user315433

The most notable omission I see is measure theory. Should be somewhere next to Real Analysis, and before Functional analysis.

user315433

3

Q: What does "this comment kills the grace period" mean?

So I encountered this comment during an audit: This is spam and this comment kills the grace period. The question was obvious spam, and the word "spam" was in the link in plain sight. What does the rest of it mean? Is this a "canned comment"? I may have seen similar, if not identical, comm...

Quill

ooh, another name change....

nice

hichris123

3:09 AM

@tchrist I'm actually surprised how much of that I understand. Though that doesn't mean I can interpret it. :P

user202362

The polynomial formed by taking some initial terms of the Taylor series is called a Taylor polynomial.

tchrist

@hichris123 I took two semesters of study under Carlos Bousoño once upon a yesterday.

user315433

If spam/abusive flags stopped the grace period, those comments wouldn't be posted.

user315433

But not worth the effort required for implementation...

tchrist

> Durante muchos años fue votado como el mejor profesor de la Universidad Complutense.

He really was.

His passion for poetry was increíble.

hichris123

3:14 AM

@tchrist Where was this?

tchrist

At the Complutense.

Madrid.

user315433

> Netflix & Chill Open Air Festival

tchrist

@hichris123 I studied there in 83 and 84. If you can read it, this is worthwhile.

Quill

It's good to see that it's 2016 but Google Translate still can't translate Wikipedia properly

tchrist

It never will be able to.

Translation is an art, not a science.

So you just mean tolerably, not properly.

bjb568

3:20 AM

@Meta Bah, semantics.

For complex exp I think it warrants its own text box. A rigorous definition for exp is hard.

tchrist

@bjb568 Meaning is the only thing that means anything.

bjb568

You could also group all of calc under real analysis.

user202362

calc vs discrete maths

user202362

God made integers, all else is the work of man

tchrist

Oh hello there, Erich.

I use that as an epigram in one of my books.

hichris123

3:25 AM

@tchrist On a side note: you went to Madison undergrad, correct?

tchrist

Mostly.

Madison modulo Madrid.

hichris123

Ah

I've been told it's a beautiful campus.

tchrist

It has Nice Things.

The lake(s).

The carillon tower.

Ice cream.

hichris123

I'd like to visit sometime. I'll be close (Minnesota) so we might stop.

tchrist

Carpe campum.

user315433

3:35 AM

At Minnesota, also college-shopping?

JamesENL

@tchrist Seize the campness?

That's my speciality

hichris123

@Meta no, visiting family :)

tchrist

@JamesENL Er, pluck the field, or seize the campus if you must. And I somewhat doubt your camp pretensions, rake.

user315433

Good. I don't think there is anything special in MN for undergrads. Graduate school, yes.

hichris123

@Meta For private universities... there are some decent schools. And UMN is a research school if I remember correctly - as you say though, that would only be good for grad students.

JamesENL

3:37 AM

daintily faints at the suggestion that I'm not camp

tchrist

Can't fool us: we know you're a man's man.

user202362

that's better than, say chicken's man?

JamesENL

@tchrist This man's man, and that man's man

user202362

fowls' body temperatures are higher than humans, I am amazed that it's unheard of to use them as heaters in winter ...

user202362

is man's man different to dude's man?

hichris123

3:45 AM

Good, more programming questions

Nice break from the traditional meta spam

user202362

Quill

@Telkitty cats make great feet warmers

3

tchrist

@JamesENL Not even Robinson Crusoe could go without having a Man Friday.

JamesENL

Ha!

I wish I could get it that regularly

bjb568

@Telkitty You can make ℤ from nothing, so simplify to God made nothing, all else is the work of man.

@hichris123 Become a grad student, d00d.

hichris123

4:00 AM

@bjb568 Some things must come first. :P

user315433

@hichris123 There is quite a bit of oversimplification there, of course. Strong engineering schools at research universities are excellent launchpads, if this is the track you choose.

user315433

But it's true that for liberal arts disciplines at UG level, the reputation of many large research universities isn't stellar.

hichris123

@Meta I don't think I'd be on an Engineering track - at most schools I've looked at, the curriculum is very prescribed & you can't take many non-science/math courses.

user315433

Meta home country is only now waking up to the concept of electives in higher education...

bjb568

@Meta Bah, liberal arts. Useless!

hichris123

4:05 AM

what

bjb568

@Meta wat? They do it the middle school way with required classes?

user315433

Obligatory xkcd.com/1052

user315433

@bjb568 Yes, it's 100% pre-determined schedule, from first to last year.

bjb568

o_o

Do you do calculus over Banach spaces on the first year? That's what my Romanian prof said she did.

user315433

The curriculum does differ between universities. Moscow State is one thing, Meta University was a few steps down the ladder from there. (No.)

bjb568

4:11 AM

Aww. Banach space is best space!

user202362

Meta University School of Trolls

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4:31 AM

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pydsigner

MFW when I see a reviewer with 50-50 edits declined/approved and 600 total reviews

I almost feel as though it should be possible to flag reviews

Don't really know what to think though; it's not as if it's a guy robo-approving

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5:01 AM

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5:24 AM

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5:51 AM

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user315433

6:09 AM

Oops, wrong chat window.

user315433

Didn't mean to interrupt the monologue.

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6:50 AM

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Bart

@Meta for shame!

gnat

7:09 AM

15

Q: How many questions do we get from users recently blocked at SO, how many of these are closed / deleted?

Recent efforts in SO close vote queue make me think that quite a lot of users started hitting the question ban there. There is long known "tradition" of attempts to circumvent such bans by posting at inappropriate sites: The core issue here seems to be the abusive "I can't ask any more, so I...

support closed-questions stackoverflow post-ban user-accounts

^^^ time to ask for similar stats for MSE?

rene

Who has not yet delete voted on the programming question on MSE?

Shog9 is on watch ...

afk

Bart

7:27 AM

link?

Derpy

Burination required

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Derpy

Are we in the middle of a Programming Questions on MSE Day celebration?

Bart

7:44 AM

"celebration"

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user202362

If Stackoverflow only accepts registered users over 13 years of age. How do kids under 13 learn programming? :p

Quill

Forums, obviously

Bart

They don't. They are working on the fields, doing hard manual labour. As they should be

user202362

kids.stackoverflow.com

Quill

7:50 AM

Or w3schools... shudders

@Telkitty Closed as a duplicate of parenting.stackexchange.com

user202362

kids != parenting

user202362

it's like stackoverflow for primary school kids

Quill

So only scratch is on-topic?

user202362

remember, kids today are the registered abusers of tomorrow

Bart

Got to love your positive outlook on life

Quill

7:57 AM

What's up with the crosssite posting? — Quill 30 mins ago

lol

Bart

And answering

Though it's not really an issue

user202362

@Bart it's hard to not have a positive outlook of life if you have to work on the field, doing hard manual labour when you are still in primary school ... just saying ...

Bart

Cross site only has relevance within the network

Quill

yeah

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8:32 AM

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Shadow Wizard

Wow OP deleted the question all on his own!! meta.stackexchange.com/questions/278666/…

@SmokeDetector why please

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Title - Position 5-13: we offer

Shadow Wizard

...

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Registered answer as false positive and whitelisted user.

Shadow Wizard

@Pro there are thousands of valid "we offer", don't you think it'll cause way too many false positives? (BTW what is @Norm/@Sally/@404 new name?)

user202362

8:44 AM

just saying you and smokey kind of look similar from afar :p

Shadow Wizard

oh lol

user202362

smokey got 13 letters username though ... yours too, if you include the blank space in between :p

Shadow Wizard

@Tel got a point

Quill

They're both spammy robots? ;)

Shadow Wizard

I spam, Smoky detects.

user202362

8:45 AM

robot socks :p

Quill

I'm just kidding ;p

<3 u smokey

Bart

Done

Shadow Wizard

Thanks!

I guess @rene now has to rest after all the efforts he put yesterday fighting those. :)

Bart

What do you expect. He's an old man.

Shadow Wizard

@Quill I always forget, who maintain Smoky, except ProgramFOX and (the now missing) Sally/Norm/404?

Quill

8:49 AM

@Hichris does, he's the man with the plan so to speak

Shadow Wizard

oh. @hichris123 can the "we offer" be removed from bad keywords list? (see this)

@Quill and that's it? Undo only hosts, right?

@Bart younger than you... right? ;)

Bart

I actually don't think so. But then again, anyone is younger than me these days.

user202362

@ShadowWizard thought meta was marshmallow was 404 was sally was norm

Quill

He did a name change thing on StackApps, you can see all of his old names

Shadow Wizard

@Bart well, it got its upsides... you don't have to wash dishes... :D

Bart

8:53 AM

If only that were true

Shadow Wizard

@Quill huh, how it works? API doesn't expose them afaik...

Quill

He scans comments IIRC

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty Meta it might be! checking

Quill

@ShadowWizard stackoverflow.com/teams/52/charcoal

Shadow Wizard

yeah, Meta it is... chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/315433/404 /cc @Tel

Amazing.

That said, wonder what happened to CRABOLO... he used to have new name regularly too and vanished. :(

@Quill huh, nice!

Quill

8:57 AM

@Meta's Old Usernames Script

Use that, and then just paste his math profile in

user202362

omg, my memory wasn't as bad as I thought it to be ...

rene

9:34 AM

@ShadowWizard I'm back ...

yay!

delv-pls 1 2 3

k k k

Only number 1 left

user202362

If you are true computer scientist, you should know that a sequence starts with 0 :p

rene

9:42 AM

busted ... :(

Quill

@Telkitty I'm sure 1 based indexing has some benefits

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty suppose it's true, so what is number 0 in toilets?

(hmm... maybe just enter, do nothing, and leave?)

user202362

see, starts with 0

Derpy

... I still have that one ready, you know...

user202362

9:53 AM

...

user202362

I bet you got one at home too

user202362

or maybe a few if you have multiple bathrooms

user202362

and it's not because you are uncouth

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Quill

Yay! New blog post!

Read JavaScript's type system on http://418stat.us at http://418stat.us/2016/04/javascripts-type-system/

Tweeted by CodeQuicksand on April 21, 2016 at 9:48 AM

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9:57 AM

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Bart

I don't know who wrote that @Quill , but they are absol....ah ... great article ... great. Just great.

:p

user202362

what's going on with you, a watermelon hit your head or something, suddenly so ~~sweet~~ flattering towards everyone (except for the kids under 13, they are not supposed to be here anyways)

Quill

/takes off zorro mask it was I

user202362

and strange things are happening to my macbook again ...

Bart

@Telkitty if it makes you feel better I can throw in an insult or two

user202362

10:00 AM

because on the internet, no one is truly safe ...

Bart

The last time I did something with Javascript it was to script the 3D content inside PDF files ... let's just say Javascript may not have been the cause of me disliking it

Quill

10:20 AM

in The 2nd Monitor on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 11 secs ago, by Quill

My cat is snoring beside me. TIL cats snore

user202362

...

user202362

even my chicken snores when you get close enough

Quill

10:38 AM

Yes you are! And you're sitting there! Hi, kitty!

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy haha. looong time no see.... missed that!

@Telkitty not sure, afaik plush pony don't need those things.

Derpy

#notphotoshop

user202362

10:54 AM

shush, guinea piglet

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy really? So make a gif/video of clicking it... ;)

Derpy

@ShadowWizard as now, it only adds the link to the message input area. I will have to add a selection panel that will allow me to chose an user.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy go ahead, and publish in StackApps :)

Derpy

@ShadowWizard The animated avatar one would be more fitting.

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11:34 AM

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Quill

in The h Bar on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 13 mins ago, by Slereah

I hear this professor steals PHD students bones to grind them into flour for his ogre bread

I didn't know there were Meta University students on Stack Exchange

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12:27 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: Alphamanix Improve Your Size And Enjoy by lalanasawyer on arduino.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Can a professor post a grade online and then change it? by B.Judith on academia.stackexchange.com …

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12:45 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Why will the bank only loan us 80% of the value of our fully paid for home? by Jennifer Raff on money.stackexchange.com …

Quill

Talk is over - glad to have had a full house! #DevoxxFR https://t.co/1mAlRYVVcA

Tweeted by OdedCoster on April 21, 2016 at 11:51 AM

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[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Keyboard shortcut to minimize Remote Desktop by mmm on superuser.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: the benefit Lentissimo Effort and by cipyevgautx on money.stackexchange.com …

rene

Oded survived!

Shadow Wizard

@rene you mean @Oded survived! So, how was it, Oded? :)

rene

1:11 PM

@sha can you check the comment thread here and verify if you can run the query?

Shadow Wizard

> 50000 rows returned in 284 ms (cached)

Maybe it timed out when not cached?

oh wait, OP means wrong output, no timeout

rene

No, my query fixed the other one first

I assume there is something screwed in their javascript

Quill

that's probably that bug that opens a bunch of JSON if you click too fast

rene

Maybe @TimStone knows the exact condition when SEDE ends up with a http://data.stackexchange.com/query/run/1/476172/603177 instead of the query result

@Quill seriously? Is there an MSE report?

Quill

probably, the bug's always been around

Shadow Wizard

1:20 PM

@rene yup, no repro for me. Either the browser itself, or some fancy add-on/userscript installed.

BTW @rene I cleaned my comments. :)

rene

OK, done as well

Shadow Wizard

lol you're fast!

Tim Stone

@rene It's been reported before but I couldn't reproduce

rene

Hmm, OK

Quill

It's probably just during an incomplete stage of loading

it'd be pretty hard to determine that stage though

Tim Stone

1:36 PM

I can take another look though, what @Quill said is definitely possible

But people have reported it happening when everything else seemed to have been set up so I don't know what would have gone wrong in those cases

Quill

Killer Visual Studio feature request: "Copy project, help me reduce to short but complete demo for Stack Overflow post." Would rock. Hard.

Tweeted by jonskeet on April 21, 2016 at 12:50 PM

Shadow Wizard

huh

Tim Stone

That said, since the form doesn't work in a meaningful way without JavaScript I can just not have it submit

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Muscle Building For the Beginne by eusebikalis832 on money.stackexchange.com …

Shadow Wizard

Bet if anyone can do it, it's him. ;)

@Quill I see nobody "sd"-ing anymore, has this become obsolete now that Smokey post here only with a delay, or are we just being lazy? :)

Quill

1:39 PM

I don't think Smokey responds here anymore and the guys over at Charcoal catch most of it

rene

@TimStone I'm chatting with that user now, I'll see if I can get some telemetry from them

Tim Stone

Cool, thanks!

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[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Can you recover files from an overwritten RAID 1? by Brent Jackson on serverfault.com …

Shadow Wizard

Pitty indeed...

@Quill he does respond to the full commands

@SmokeDetector tpu

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@ShadowWizard Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive.

Shadow Wizard

1:45 PM

Amazing how people abuse the inline code so much. And he did it before.

Tempted to flag, asking for edit ban...

...and one more reject vote needed here... one robo reviewer already approved...

OK, flagged him on SO.

Such users are the reason I stopped reviewing edits there, so many of those, and so many of those horrible edits approved by users who think this is valid use of backticks, rendering any efforts useless.

Note - we raised the minimum rep to ask to 2 from 1 (which should be just enough friction to slow this down) for the next few days. That said, yeah, we're very interested in finding out why that became such a high pressure fire hose. My guess is, people didn't realize that they changed sites after getting the inbox (and possibly email) notification, then proceeded to do what they came to SO to do, which was ask a programming question. I think that explains the majority of cases here, not many were blocked on SO. But we're digging. — Tim Post ♦ 4 mins ago

FINALLY!!!

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