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cv-pls no-question-such-unclear stackoverflow.com/questions/25156861/…

cv-pls no-question-such-unclear stackoverflow.com/questions/25159556/…

cv-pls not-enough-code stackoverflow.com/questions/25159007/…

@JanDvorak That particular thread is just such a perfect example of everything we're trying not to be.

First post on page 2:

> how do i fix.i tryed many times please help me

A little further down:

> Omg i got the same problem and i cant update anymore im sooo confuzed

@TRiGisTimothyRichardGreen 25 pages of me-too's

12:33 PM

GAAAHHHHH!

page 25: people suggesting alternate solutions

@JanDvorak Skype on Linux is a usability nightmare. I'd like to wean our company off it.

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: FINDING THE CONSTANT TERM IN BINOMIAL EXPANSION on math.stackexchange.com

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/25160565/…

@TRiGisTimothyRichardGreen People should really not use any application that doesn't close when you click on the close button....

12:47 PM

Hm, chrome seems to be caching the site very aggressively now. Question / Answer / Comment votes I apply get reset when I F5 the page, comments disappear, that kind of thing. Unless I Ctrl-F5, then the page loads properly...

Q: Browser caching has become a bit too aggressive

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Until a couple of hours ago, my usual experience on SE sites has been that the homepage, individual question pages, etc., would be revalidated and reloaded whenever I navigated around with Back and Forward buttons. As I understand it, this was accomplished with maxage=0 or something very similar,...

Does anyone else have the same issue?

Apparently, someone does :D

@Cerbrus haven't noticed such thing

Browser?

Chrome

12:49 PM

It should be fixed now, but I guess for pages that are already cached, you need to do a hard refresh to fix it.

let's see

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125893/…

boom

status-works-for-me

Hm, maybe the page I just experienced it on was still cached

Seems to be okay now

I'm still amazed how much votes an answer on the meta can get o.O

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12:59 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ERRO NO CODIGO CLASSE FUNCTION CONEXAO on pt.stackoverflow.com

I nearly flagged that for non-english xD

@Cerbrus as não é claro o que você está perguntando?

Eh, si?

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: I WANNA KNOW MORE AND TECHNQUES OF MAKING A PROGRAM on programmers.stackexchange.com

1:14 PM

^crap, I guess

I want to know why his caps-lock key is already stuck...

@rene they don't have the caps lock key stuck, is their fingers in shift

hehehe

so, please don't teach them the existence of caps lock @rene

1:32 PM

A long time ago I had a typewriter that would take A3 paper in landscape mode. The shift key lifted the whole inmense carriage. You had to use brute-force if you needed a capital letter....that should teach them...

That must've wrecked your fingers

@rene mechanical one? I learned to type on one of those, my poor 10-year-old pinky finger when I needed a capital letter :(

@Stijn yep...

cv-plshttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/25161767/unable-to-maintain-aspec‌tratio-whats-wrong-in-my-code

@Cerbrus I was gonna take the JSFiddle code and edit it into the question, but it looks like JSFiddle is down...

1:38 PM

You 're too generous, @Stijn :)

demongolem

I just received the strangest ban this morning. I got "Your review of: http://stackoverflow.com/review/late-answers/4701800 left spam on the site for more than 2 months!
Come back in 5 days to continue reviewing." How can 1 review from 3 months ago get me a ban and what was wrong with the answer in that particular case?

That answer was a walloftext weightloss spam message

@demongolem probably a moderator came across it and noticed that you had reviewed the answer.

demongolem

Ok thanks if it was bad, I accept it. I am just a bit miffed that it happened 3 months later.

It was very blatant spam

1:45 PM

@demongolem he probably banned everyone that reviewed that

@Braiam there was only one

New Posts and Late Answers reviews are done by one single user.

@SmokeDetector Do you detect ![enter image description here][1]?

@TRiGisTimothyRichardGreen it only parse titles, not post body so not relevant

> O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!!

@ShadowWizard Ah, fairy nuff.

What are those SE Devs thinking? That I'm stupid or what? ;-)

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hichris123

1:59 PM

@rene lol

Q: Why would you give me the same review audit twice?

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I just passed another review audit (yay) but it was quite easy because I noticed it was the same one I had already passed yesterday... http://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/1516065 http://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/1524337 Should I be receiving the same audit multi...

bug review review-audits

but yeah, agree it should be changed

That ^^^^^^ got an upvote...

(removed)

2:13 PM

AMIRITE?

2:24 PM

@Braiam what?

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/25162640/…

@Braiam Maybe see if Tim Post's answer gives a better direction....

I got a question which probably already is answered on some meta, but where I can't find the answer to. can I ask it here?

@NateKerkhofs you can try to

If I ask a question, and it gets a close vote for off-topic and a comment on why it is off-topic, am I allowed to delete the question myself and avoid receiving any negative results from the question or the potential closure of the question?

so basically self-moderation to keep the quality of the SE website up to standards

2:31 PM

@NateKerkhofs self deletion has heavier weight towards question ban

I've tried to search for the answer to this in the SO meta and the relevant SE meta, but I cannot find a real answer

but you can't fool the q-ban algorithm

You can self-delete if you don't have any upvoted answer yet

So that's actually counterproductive to defending your account? I didn't know that

it's better if you fix the question

What if I cannot fix the question?

2:34 PM

@NateKerkhofs as long as the question has no downvotes and is not yet closed then it's "safe" to delete it and it won't be used against you in the ban algorithm

because it's basically a legal question that I didn't realise yet

@NateKerkhofs then delete

@ShadowWizard are you sure?

@JanDvorak he's not Shog sock-puppet, so nope

And if it has received a close vote and a comment?

@JanDvorak 99% sure, yes. Can't see any reason why deleting non-negative scored, non-closed questions would contribute to a ban

but of course, I might be wrong so better ask @Shog9 if he's around (though it might be a secret)

2:36 PM

Because, wouldn't it be better to delete a question yourself when you are told it's off-topic, than to wait for it to be closed?

@NateKerkhofs it would

@NateKerkhofs the system expects you to fix the question, make it better, then it would get upvotes and be useful for others. You're "punished" for choosing the easy path, that's all.

So in summary: I created a question Workplace.SE, it turns out that it's a legal matter and thus off-topic for the SE. I got a close vote and a comment explaining why it's off-topic. I deleted it myself after I read the comment and realized it's indeed off-topic

was that the right thing to do?

Or should I just have waited for it to close by community order?

@NateKerkhofs it was

okay, one last question: does a close vote also apply an automatic downvote?

And if so, does that mean I ended up deleting a question with a downvote?

2:41 PM

@NateKerkhofs No, it does not