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Undo

8:00 PM

"I want a million gazillion dollars. I have seventeen defaulted loans, but you said you don't care. Plzsendtehmoney"

Santa Claus

@Undo I know a guy with that name, actually

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[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Routing problem finding shortest route to line by dk_nls on gis.stackexchange.com

user259867

cv-pls lowercase scraping wave: What is the difference between web scrapping, screen scrapping, and data mining?, From where do I get fast and reliable private proxies that could be used for web scraping?, Can I say that a machine learning based approach for a solution that I am going to build using both text mining and web scraping is a good idea?...

user259867

... What inventory management software do small to medium retailers use? --- How can I integrate my inventory into an eCommerce website? --- What are some good free web scrapers / scraping techniques? --- How advanced can web scraping or data mining be?

user259867

I think I went overboard with formatting there...

Braiam

8:05 PM

only put | or something to separate... the comma is too subtle

Santa Claus

^

Braiam

line break is another option

Doorknob

@Braiam doesn't that bork markdown (and hence the links) though?

user259867

It does, this is why I didn't use it. Edited the second one; too late for the first.

Undo

@SantaClaus Highly doubt it's his real name

Braiam

8:07 PM

http://stackoverflow.com/q/31221609
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31221717
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31221830

@Doorknob no, links are not affected

Doorknob

oh huh

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[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in body: Помогите с кодировкой by titov_andrei on ru.stackoverflow.com

Santa Claus

@Undo obviously

user259867

Yeah, but formatted links []() aren't parsed. And I wanted to include the titles because they tell the story...

Undo

so tempted

Braiam

8:10 PM

why not using: link --- title \r? @1999

Santa Claus

2

bjb568

:D

user259867

@Braiam Maybe, then it's even longer. Or maybe I shouldn't post these here at all, after all there isn't yet spam to flag. Many of these simply get closed in ordinary way.

Undo

@SantaClaus ooooooh

Santa Claus

!!/coffee

SmokeDetector

8:12 PM

@SantaClaus brews coffee for @SantaClaus

Braiam

@1999 I doubt so, those are low traffic tags, and unless you specifically search for them, they get below everyone radar

Undo

@Doorknob mailwithspammers.erwaysoftware.com

Doorknob

YES :D

Undo

gotta set it up to serve images from not-EC2, though

well maybe it'd work fine

hichris123

@SmokeDetector Services rendered: loans, loans, loan, loans, loans

SmokeDetector

8:26 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PROBABILITY OF INTEGER BEING DIVISIBLE BY 8 by Ujjwal Agrawal on math.stackexchange.com

Doorknob

hahaha

@hichris123 you missed a "loans" :P

AstroCB

@Undo I do like the premise.

Undo

This is gonna be so ironic when I start getting comment spam there

hichris123

Is... this filerepairforum spam? stackoverflow.com/questions/31101890/…

Yeah, I think so.

Undo

Looks like a setup

hichris123

8:40 PM

SO down for anyone else?

user259867

@hichris123 Yes it is. Searching for instructions shows they are copied around with similar links.

user259867

Not for me.

Doorknob

no

hichris123

> ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

SU loads fine though.

Undo

Good here

bjb568

8:41 PM

Taking advantage of how the child has limited technical knowledge as a result of shielding her from the Internet and deliberately misleading her to think of the internet as a purely scary place populated by malicious people is overly manipulative and a breach of trust. All children deserve better than being "scared straight" with biased and misleading information. — bjb568 52 secs ago

Doorknob

holy runon sentence Batman

bjb568

I get a bit excited…

hichris123

That comment has no relation to the answer.

And SO finally loads...

Undo

The relation is there, but it's iffy

@SmokeDetector fp-

hichris123

Is msoutlooktools a spam site? superuser.com/questions/932922/…

bjb568

8:45 PM

@hichris123 read the middle

hichris123

@bjb568 read the end.

Doorknob

read the beginning

(I haven't read any of it but you should probably just read it all)

Undo

@hichris123 That user has a legit looking answer stackoverflow.com/questions/31065573/… on SO

bjb568

> I think you should pull out some Scared Straight. Even tho you've apparently already had the big reveal, you can still do this to drive home the point that you, as the parent, occasionally know what you're talking about. [horrifying links]

user259867

@Undo But the accepted answer on that SO question is spam.

hichris123

8:47 PM

lol

Undo

@1999 why do you say that?

hichris123

yep

Undo

oh lol

this is so confusing :P

hichris123

@1999 And the accepted answer on the SU question is spam: superuser.com/questions/932922/…

Undo

It's like a tunnel of badness

Ooooh are there any emails there?

user259867

8:49 PM

No, just repair toolbox selling site.

user259867

To sum up: this user with two posts is a spammer

user259867

And Peter Baris answered exactly the same two questions, so I'm flagging him for good measure.

Braiam

isn't msoutlooktools a bad domain?

hichris123

maybe. I can't remember.

user259867

No, msoutlooktools needs to be blacklisted.

user259867

8:53 PM

@hichris123 Oh hai... superuser.com/questions/367852/…

Braiam

datarecovery.TDL is also, no?

hichris123

oh wow.

user259867

Dated from 2013, viewed 1777 times. To make this clear:

user259867

SPAM superuser.com/questions/367852/…

hichris123

@1999 the question too?

oh since it's accepted.

Eh.

user259867

8:55 PM

But the user activity... Have to look.

user259867

I guess the question is legit? Odd.

nicael

9:10 PM

Close this as off-topic because now SO blog redirects to SE blog?

user259867

Don't you think that this user looks too young to be on big forums like this?

Doorknob

a LOT too young

ugh he has signatures in all his posts

hichris123

The solution to a random sound? Disable all sounds.

Doorknob

"My web browser keep closing tabs randomly, how do I make it stop doing that"
"Throw the computer off a cliff"

user259867

He knows a lot of things like that.

user259867

9:20 PM

Let's hope he will not find Lifehacks...

user259867

Somewhat notable, although the title could be less pretentious: A deep hole in Stack Exchange moderation philosophy: dealing with the human element by Emrakul on meta.stackexchange.com

bjb568

9:39 PM

@1999 0 people reached

nicael

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Q: Bug with code blockquotes on beta sites

Currently, when you try to format blocks of code inside a blockquote, you get extra spacing at the bottom of the blockquote. Here's a couple of examples: While this isn't a huge deal, it still looks odd, and it'd be nice if it could be fixed.

Wasn't it reported?

Can't find though

Santa Claus

@Undo if you need some spam emails I have some you can have

bjb568

9:55 PM

Yes I have found this! And my iPad would take over a day to charge on a small charger (I know that's not really safe and it could blow up but hey ho) — MrPhooky Feb 14 at 10:08

Wat

user259867

10:17 PM

What was this Twitter bot supposed to do? (I googled the name because I'm using it for a project)

user259867

A fine Twitter handle sits unused...

hichris123

18 hours ago, by 1999

todo Check Quantcast tomorrow to see the spike in CB traffic.

Ethan Bierlein

Woah! Magic! A chat room with some activity!

Maybe.

user259867

status-completed

bjb568

:D

user259867

10:27 PM

Next, on reddit: "What should we do to reduce the risk of our traffic dropping to the level of Community Building?"

Ethan Bierlein

How on Earth is community building still in beta anyways? I would've thought that it would have been closed by now...

bjb568

Sites are not closed for low activity.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Thermal contact burn by Bill Bornstein on physics.stackexchange.com

Ethan Bierlein

@SmokeDetector Lol. Flagged as unclear.

MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS AND BACKLOG! General friendly chit-...

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Interesting...

function sendMessage(messageString) { document.getElementById("input").value = messageString; document.getElementById("sayit-button").click(); }

function Location() { [native code] }

[object CacheStorage]

undefined

Very interesting...

The current time is: 2015-07-04T22:45:09.950Z

Lol. Messing with the JS console on websites is fun.

nicael

10:51 PM

github.com/StackExchange/blog/pull/92

YAY

Ethan Bierlein

Aww. I wish my PR would be merged.

nicael

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A: There's something wrong with the blog logo

I mean...I don't even...okay. It's fixed.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

Undo

11:23 PM

@Doorknob

nicael

:D what's the next step?

hichris123

I love open source. github.com/StackExchange/blog/pull/98

nicael

I've fixed the bug with the logo myself, it was approved!

user259867

@Undo The form isn't readable on the screenshot.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: Improving bound on $\\sqrt{2 \\sqrt{3 \\sqrt{4 \\ldots}}}$ by Jamal Farokhi on math.stackexchange.com

nicael

11:31 PM

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Q: "Accept this answer" - Functionality

An user is asking a question in stackoverflow to get an answer/idea/help after a long research. And he gets the first answer in a form of very minimum explained. As the questioner made much research on the question he grasped the minimum explained answer well/soon and "accepted that as answer". M...