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12:41 AM

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I have been testing the alpha iOS Stack Exchange app for about a week now, and I love it! You guys did an amazing job, which is not surprising considering the massive amounts of knowledgeable people who use this site. Nice work fellas.

Is this... a question?

Anna Lear

Doesn't need to be on meta, but there's something majorly weird going on with revisions there.

Alex

@Doorknob no

Alex

1:09 AM

@Doorknob no

Braiam

1:50 AM

@Doorknob no

user202362

3:27 AM

Does server fault have chats?

Bart

6:17 AM

Spam: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230942/…

They seem to be working in pairs

Jan Dvorak

@Bart the question is cr@p as well.

Bart

Yeah, that's my point. It's a pair. On SF as well it seems. Posting a semi legit question (if off topic) and then a spam answer

-5

Q: Just how to understand website design in wikiversity?completely confusion.please aid me.?

Because website just how can we discover? They're offering like article.i need topic(website design)

cluster

At least it's suspicious ... not entirely sure if that second one is spam

Jan Dvorak

They link to the same site, so... yes

Bart

Ah, overlooked that. YAY FLAGS

Laszlo Papp

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/18270450/incorrect-pointer-values

"
Suspicious request

Sorry, your request could not be completed because it looked suspicious. If you meant to perform an action on Server Fault, please return to the previous page and try again.
"

Jan Dvorak

6:27 AM

@Bart should we be flagging answers as spam and questions as VLQ?

Bart

Given the pairing I went with spam flags on the questions as well. NOt sure if that is going to work.

Laszlo Papp

Other reason: "I am Bart, appove it".

Bart

That's the description for most of my "other" flags.

Crap ... just got deleted. No spam deletion.

Laszlo Papp

I think we need a pure crap flag reason

wow, what a ... ping-pong for protected-unprotected...

Bart

?

Laszlo Papp

6:41 AM

stackoverflow.com/questions/23223292/what-is-ytowont9, @Bart.

Bart

Ah, that one. Still don't know what all the fuzz is about there.

Even with the now deleted answer.

Laszlo Papp

@rene: wants to give the third delete vote? stackoverflow.com/questions/14932732/…

Jan Dvorak

6:57 AM

@LaszloPapp gone

Laszlo Papp

thanks.

hehe, two unexplained downvotes within a minute for long posts again... one is aware of the limit (three serial downvotes) that the system can detect.

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Q: How to send ifconfig from linux application

Welcome, I am writing a program on linux. I would like to read ifconfig and screen on the tabwidged. I have no idea how can i do that. Anyone Help. I found this example http://www.codeprogress.com/cpp/libraries/qt/QTabWidgetSetTabButton.php#.U2SQY_l_u31 I would like to upgrade this.

c++ linux qt

heh, I gave a critic, and got a -1 instantly without explanation.

one rep drop, and one downvote increase, plus one vote from the user today. :D

is this flag worthy?

Bart

Nope

But can that user even downvote?

Ah, sorry, OP of the other answer

But still, nope.

Laszlo Papp

yeah, he is just plain nonsense.

the kind of people that break experienced contributors.

he is a new contributor, only 4 months old... that is probably another factor why he is like that.

Bart

7:13 AM

One of those "I welcome all constructive criticism, as long as it's positive about me" kind of deals.

Laszlo Papp

yeah, so I understand why downvote reason would be bad if not anonymous.

some people would not like to get demotivated by all this.

Bart

cv-pls-external-resources stackoverflow.com/questions/23441400/…

Jan Dvorak

@Bart the answerer only has 25 rep. I'm not sure he was expected to know already

Bart

That such questions were off-topic? Kinda should have known, given what they are made to read.

He has asked 3 questions after all

But if not, then he knows now.

Laszlo Papp

search in Google — www.sblog.in 6 mins ago

:D

Jan Dvorak

7:21 AM

@LaszloPapp that guy should really change his username

rene

That answerer was lucky, he missed a downvote from me (he deleted 6 seconds earlier)

Bart

Vote to undelete?

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Q: Reprogramming mouse receiver

Can I reprogram Logitech M235 wireless mouse receiver to receive Silvercrest MTS2118-FI signal ? Mouse is dead and keyboards receiver went for a swim... Any ideas?

wireless receiver

:)

Laszlo Papp

I wish I had more close votes...

Bart

ROFL

Honestly, who has time to spend formatting their questions to fit the ridiculous standards of this site. I'm slaving away trying to finish this damn app so I can release it into the wild and make a few bucks and if the laser beams are supposed to shoot from my robots eyes and they are coming out of his feet then nobody is going to want to play it! Why can't you feel my pain? — LooMeenin 3 hours ago

Why can't you feel my pain? .... brilliant.

rene

lol

Laszlo Papp

7:27 AM

@Bart, yeah, you are cruel.

poor guy and you do not give a ...

Bart

True. No argument there

rene

You don't want to have that crap end-up in some App Store and read in the about page: Thanks to Stack Overflow for making this work

Bart

Actually, I would kinda like that. "If it wasn't for SO I would not have been able to complete this, because I have no clue what I'm doing"

Which seems to be the case for a lot of Unity 3D stuff

Laszlo Papp

you are united?

rene

I don't know why somebody make my question to -1 vote , if u don't have answer then skip this. — DEBAL 2 mins ago

I didn't skip...

Bart

7:37 AM

And he's cross posting somehow

The first line indicates as much

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Q: MVC4 .NET Project Architecture Guidance

Now a days am going develop one E-Commerce Site, using .net mvc4 technology. My project is developing under MVC architecture. Now We want to make this Project that we have developed in 3 tier Architecture . First is Client , Second is Infrastructure , Third is Services . The Client is made wi...

asp.net-mvc-4 wcf-data-services wcf-security enterprise-architect

Jan Dvorak

@rene actually, the formatting makes my spam detectors go crazy.

rene

@JanDvorak That is good?

Bart

Hey @JanDvorak, I DEMAND MY CREDIT

rene

Who are you?

Thanks @JanDvorak much appreciated!

Jan Dvorak

@Bart nice dupe find. Now I can downvote two poor questions instead of one :-)

Bart

7:41 AM

Yay!

Alex

@telkitty.exe yes. chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/127/the-comms-room

user202362

thanks

Bart

Don't troll them too much @telkitty.exe. Ease into it

rene

7:57 AM

6-8 weeks then?

This question is far too broad for the site. Also, in 10 days? Forget about it. — Bart 21 mins ago

Bart

That sounds far more accurate

And I'm speaking from experience

:)

Amal Murali

8:10 AM

Hey everyone!

Bart

Hiya

Amal Murali

Can someone suggest a good title for a canonical question?

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Q: What should we do with "MySQL reserved keywords" questions?

On Stack Overflow, there are a lot of questions where use reserved keywords as identifiers such as table and column names. A quick Google search query "mysql" "is a reserved keyword" site:stackoverflow.com turns up 23,000 results. Even if we consider 50% of them as false positives, there are stil...

discussion

Bart

"Why can't I use certain variable names in MySQL?" @AmalMurali ?

Amal Murali

That looks good. But they're not really variables. They're identifiers, no?

Bart

Pff, what am I? A programmer? ... wait ...

Amal Murali

8:18 AM

hehe

From the MySQL documentation:

> Certain words such as SELECT, DELETE, or BIGINT are reserved and require special treatment for use as identifiers such as table and column names. This may also be true for the names of built-in functions.

Bart

yeah, so s/variable/identifier

But in any case something nice and broad like that which is also easy to remember if you have to look for it.

Amal Murali

I'm not sure most people would find it that way.

Yeah, so how about something like "Reference: Why can't I use certain table/column names in MySQL?"

Bart

I wouldn't preface it with the "reference:" bit. But other than that I'd say it sounds appropriate

Amal Murali

8:35 AM

It don't work. I've got php error. I think It comes from my string. I edited my question. — lolo 4 mins ago

Can I shoot people who say "it doesn't work"? :-(

Bart

Some time ago I tried to clarify such a statement with a "What exactly doesn't work?". The response ... "my code".

Amal Murali

LOL

It output nothing. I checked my $date string and it's not empty... — lolo 2 mins ago

Are people blind? Can't they even just CLICK a link? At this point, I'll just delete my answer :-P

rene

9:38 AM

@AmalMurali Probaly an IE user that is instructed not to click on links anymore...

Bart

10:00 AM

Hey you Charcoal HQ people, stop being so abusive @Doorknob @hichris

Jan Dvorak

@Bart to whom? What did they do?

Bart

-12

Q: Moderator problems

Earlier today on chat, a certain mod kept banning me from Charcoal HQ, seemingly for fun. This is yet another example of a mod misusing their powers, and what can be done about it? Some quotes from chat: @TheDoctor try to rejoin Charcoal HQ. :P @TheDoctor Try now. :P And an explanatio...

discussion chat moderators abuse ban

Such abuse, very anger, much inappropriate, wow.

rene

10:31 AM

Should this go into close mode? If yes, which reason?

Jan Dvorak

@rene I love "unclear" for code dumps

rene

It is not even the code that has the problem. I fixed something for the OP that isn't broken... :(

I voted similar...

Louis

Ah, let's go with "unclear".

rene

It gets worse... I got a inbox message (the comment is removed I think) that the output should go in an Android label...does that have a label.Multiline= true;?

Louis

10:49 AM

Some questions turn from "how do I do X" to "how do I write software at all".

rene

Yeah...I'm done with that question...

If this is still open can you cv?

Louis

11:06 AM

@rene I see two close reasons used on that question: too broad and "no longer reproducible/typo". How do you see it?

rene

Typo

He renamed the files...

Louis

Closed.

rene

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230950/…

Jan Dvorak

11:22 AM

@rene gone

Bart

sure, go spam the one site where all the spam nuking bastards are ... smart move

rene

Can someone help explaining what this OP must do?

It is working but not prforming as I wanted =) — Aisha Ahmed Ahmed 1 min ago

Jan Dvorak

@rene I can supply unclear votes if you want ... done

rene

Lets do that. That question is useles in its current state

tnx

Louis

11:38 AM

Oops.... wrong link.

You should perform some unit testing to isolate at which layer of your application your problem is located. You may completely solve your problem while doing this. However, if at the end of the testing process you still have a problem, then it is much more likely to be a fit for Stack Overflow than this long, multi-layered question you have here. — Louis 1 min ago

And a close vote.

rene

Nice comment!

Jan Dvorak

VLQ? math.stackexchange.com/questions/779434/…

Louis

@JanDvorak It's been defaced.

Defaced by OP actually.

Jan Dvorak

no need to rescue, I guess?

Louis

I guess not.

It there were upvoted answers that would be different.

I dont' get why the OP did not just delete it.

Bart

11:45 AM

@Bart If you don't know then what u doing in this site , go and sleep in ur home, u put questions on hold as a result it is not reach to many experts mail box .Shame — DEBAL 16 mins ago

:D

Seems we're all having great results today

Louis

cv-pls-i-think-this-one-hits-quite-a-few-close-reasons stackoverflow.com/questions/23443877/…

Bart

The second comment is far too snarky but oh so funny

Louis

When I see questions like this one, I have to fight the urge to comment "Lemme grab my ol' crystal ball."

GnomeSlice

12:01 PM

Today's Listening: Glitch Hop

Alex

12:36 PM

@GnomeSlice i like it

rene

1:32 PM

@Louis My comment on that meta question was not meant for you, sorry about that

Louis

@rene Yeah, saw your comment. I've removed my comment anyway because I managed to fumble it. You might want to do the same.

rene

I did

Louis

I managed to fumble my actions on that question multiple times. :-(

rene

I will be more careful next time... I hope...sorry

Louis

Btw, I initially voted-to-close the same as you guys did but then I retracted my vote.

I think that question is not a duplicate of the one currently pointed to.

The OP here is asking how to overcome the limit.

The other question is asking why the limit.

rene

1:35 PM

I read that he tries to answer a question by leaving a comment...

????

Louis

Well, the OP is stating " But when I found outer people's question topics I knew the answer but I couldn't comment on it" and asking "How do I get more rep if I don't have any more questions to ask?"

So, yeah telling the op not to put an answer in a comment is warranted.

rene

OK, so I confused a statement with a question. Or I'm just bad in reading...

Do we need to leave a new comment to get some clarification, give some guidance?

Louis

I guess a comment that singles out that part of the question "You say you'd like to put a comment when you know the answer. You know you..." might be helpful.

And if the OP is not happy with the closure as duplicate, he can say something in a comment.

rene

Ok, I edited the question to get the question and statement clear

@Louis sound fine to me

Are you leaving that comment or should I try to fix the relationship with that OP @Louis

Louis

@rene Oh, I thought you'd leave that comment. I did not want to usurp your contribution. :)

rene

1:46 PM

:-)

I'm on it then

Louis

It just occurred to me the OP might have been talking about "answers" like "You've got a typo here." which is not really an "answer".

Or not the kind of answer we like to promote.

rene

I point him to the answer part in the help center

done

How can you see if a question is close voted for migration? stackoverflow.com/questions/23441847/…

Martijn Pieters

2:50 PM

needs a drink.

better than to engage in a grammar discussion.

Bart

throws drink at screen .... regrets that immediately

Martijn Pieters

I need that stab-people-in-the-face-over-the-internet thing to be invented. Now.

Flagging a comment as offensive doesn't quite have the same.. force behind it.

Mat

@MartijnPieters: roll-back to the original post, vote to close as unclear. I'm really really twitching to do that.

Martijn Pieters

@Mat: roll back to my original edit you mean? Because the OP already rolled my edit back once.

Mat

Nah, rollback to OP's first revision

Martijn Pieters

2:53 PM

then VtC because as a bug report it is unclear.

I think it wiser to just avoid the OP altogether.

Mat

Yep. Totally not constructive. But might relieve the stress :-)

It's a pitty though, the feature request has merit.

Martijn Pieters

The malt whiskey is doing the job just fine. :-P

Bart

Ooh ... yep, staying out of that one. I was just about to edit ...

Time for coffee then

Martijn Pieters

Hehe, I hadn't really noticed that he ever rolled back the retag.

Then reapplied the retag.

Bart

"this is really a feature request" ... no shit

Martijn Pieters

2:58 PM

But what else to expect from someone who deliberately lowercases i because he objects to the linguistic self-indulgence of the Anglo-Saxons.

Bart

.... /facepalm

Martijn Pieters

and totally misses the irony of that statement.

Louis

Feature-request: do away with the linguistic self-indulgence of the Anglo-Saxons.

Bart

Where is Will when you need him. That could use one of his to the point comments.

Martijn Pieters

3:14 PM

@Won't: yeah, how come we never see you here no more?

(he won't get that, he's not been in the Tavern for about a year now).

Bart

.... yet @jadarnel27 arrives immediately .... suspicious

jadarnel27

I've been Will all along.

Bart

dundundun.net

TGMCians

3:30 PM

\o

Laszlo Papp

3:41 PM

Go back to school. — Lightness Races in Orbit 6 mins ago

how productive comment ...

Mat

Your replying comment isn't productive either. Flag and move on.

Laszlo Papp

he will not learn the lesson and I am full of his comments like that the 100000th time.

Mat

Do you really think you're helping though? If you're sure that person won't change, don't bother.

Laszlo Papp

@LaszloPapp: The point is to inform the OP that he has missed fundamentals at school and should resume his education, because we are not here to provide a general computing education. A bit of research or Googling wouldn't hurt, either. Now, smart-arse, your turn: what is the point of your comment? — Lightness Races in Orbit 2 mins ago

"smart-arse" -> what a tone ...

Bart

@Mat On the other hand, not commenting on it might give the mistaken impression that such comments are all fine and dandy. "That user left a rude comment and nobody did a thing about it". Visibly that is.

Laszlo Papp

3:46 PM

@Mat: I really hope he will change, yes, if community members tell it to him. Without trying, there is no expected result. It is also an indication to the community that you should not leave such comments because they will be questioned.

I do not think the question deserves 8 downvotes either

he clearly tried a lot of things, but he did not get the idea of floating point.

TGMCians

here need help pls-cv-off-topic-lack-information stackoverflow.com/questions/23446360/…

Laszlo Papp

so he did have some effort, much more than the average user.

rene

@TGMCians Or other this is something only your university can fix?

Laszlo Papp

Many people will take it as offense to get that as the second comment for a honest question after some effort shown to understand the issue, like "go back to school" which is literally what you wrote. This is not productive, nor helping anymore, nor friendly... it is simple worse than an unexplained downvote. I have seen this several times. Please refrain from this in the future if I may ask you. — Laszlo Papp 1 min ago

Bart

Don't make me refer to you as "children" and suggest that you take it to Meta @LaszloPapp ;)

Laszlo Papp

3:52 PM

@Bart: I can take it to meta... but that would not be good reputation for him.

TGMCians

@rene "I want load this site too my App for sign in user into site but no load into mobile and show some massage" When he is trying to do in app but didn't share the exact message what he is getting, yes only university can fix it as he said "Golestan system does not work properly on your browser. Please use Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 or upper"

Bart

Let's just take it anywhere except in those comments @LaszloPapp. It's not going anywhere and there will be a bunch of crap to nuke.

Laszlo Papp

@Bart: I do not think it would go anywhere on meta either.

it is kind of funny that this user accussed H2CO3 with being snarky.

Bart

True, but there you would be duking it out for all of us where we watch with popcorn and think "that's a mighty spectacle". In the comments you're duking it out in front of a new user who by now will think "holy crap, what did I stumble into?"

Laszlo Papp

based on the comment upvotes, people even support his tone more than my warning.

so perhaps, that is an "OK" style on SO, sigh...

Bart

3:57 PM

Nah, bullcrap

Amal Murali

@Bart: Created a reference question for that MySQL thingy... :)

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Q: Why can't I use certain words as table/column names in MySQL?

Note: This is a reference question. If you come across any questions matching this pattern, please close them as a duplicate of this one. I'm trying to perform a simple MySQL query as below: $query = "INSERT INTO user_details (username, location, key) VALUES ('Tim', 'Florida', 42...

php mysql reserved-words

Bart

Yay, let me close that against a duplicate. :p

Mat

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Q: New "reference questions"?

This question: Why can't I use certain words as table/column names in MySQL? states this: "Note: This is a reference question. If you come across any questions matching this pattern, please close them as a duplicate of this one." Is this an official "thing" or do we have some more defined way ...

discussion common-questions

TGMCians

lol

yah

:P

Mat

@AmalMurali: you're in the spotlight on meta ^^ :-)

Amal Murali

3:59 PM

wait wat?

@Mat There's been more questions about this? Geez

Laszlo Papp

is there a way that users like this get notified about their removed comments if marked offensive?

so that they are actually aware of the fact that others users and mods do not appreciate his tone?

Bart

Nope @LaszloPapp

Laszlo Papp

(and kind of indication to change?)

Mat

Doesn't happen. Should get noted in the user's history for mods to see. If it gets out of hand, custom-flag.

Laszlo Papp

I think we should have an additional flag for comments: "this comment is just telling read the docs or google".

Mat

4:06 PM

-2

Q: YARA RULES AND COLLECTION OF SOME BIG CHUNKS OF YARA RUKES

IS THERE ANY SPECIFIC WEBSITE FOR THE COLLECTION OF YARA RULES OR IF ANY BODY OF YOU HAS SOME BIG CHUNKS OF YARA RULES PLEASE SHARE THEM WITH ME I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THEM FROM A LONG TIME!

security

GIVE ME ALL YOUR YARA RULES OK!

NAO

Bart

"Dear OP. Please get back inside the plane. Close the door and return to your seat. You'll find that the noise there is significantly lower, allowing you to speak at a normal tone. Thank you for choosing SE Airlines"

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Amal Murali

I've got something in the works that will allow closing of duplicates much faster, which will curtail this to a degree. Yes, we want people answering questions, but we also want to encourage people to research and search first. If users with a lot of experience in a tag can quickly close duplicates, these won't stay open long enough for the usual semi-crappy 6 word answer. We've gotta overhaul how duplicates are displayed, too, but we're hoping to have some changes out next week. — Tim Post ♦ 4 mins ago

New stuff. YAY!

Laszlo Papp

I think I proposed more power to the experienced users long ago.

Bart

GnomeSlice

That would give users like me power though.

Amal Murali

4:13 PM

I wonder if I should make it CW?

So what? How does that solve the problem? Google will almost always return thousands links. And - btw, that's how I've found existing good answers. Then why don't use them? If the word "backtick" wasn't mentioned there, it's not a problem - because solution with backticks is listed there — Alma Do 31 secs ago

Laszlo Papp

haha, got an unexplained downvote after the comment conversation. :P

Amal Murali

WHAAT?

@LaszloPapp Always happens with me. So I've stopped adding "-1, because...". I just comment "Hmm, looks like ..." :-D

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Laszlo Papp

@AmalMurali: it was just a reply to a comment under the question.

I will just flag it as rude-offensive next time, but after some accepted flags like that, I hope that the user will be warned.

Do you even C++ bro? Buy a beginner C++ book. This is Day 1 stuff. — uberwulu 54 secs ago

already got an upvote

meh, meh, and meh, just meh, really meh, and meh.

flagged as NC

comments are always removed by mods manually, or they get automatically removed for X flags?

3ventic

3 flags = removed

excluding custom flags of course

ProgramFOX

@3ventic Custom flags are included.

3ventic

4:22 PM

They are? That's.. wrong

ProgramFOX

I once removed a comment accidentially by casting a custom flag on it, while that was not my intension.

3ventic

bug imho

Amal Murali

You can also nuke any comment from anyone if it includes the word "accepted".

3ventic

With one flag?

Amal Murali

To test this theory, yesterday I flagged one of Tim Post's comments as "Not constructive", and boom, it was gone! lol

3ventic

4:23 PM

I highly doubt that..

Amal Murali

@3ventic yeah, in one flag.

3ventic

A few months ago I flagged lots of comments like that

Bart

@AmalMurali that might be a results of the now obsolete "accept rate" comment code

Amal Murali

@Bart Yeah, it is.

@3ventic Try it. Flag this comment as "Not constructive" and see what happens.

3ventic

suspicious look

Amal Murali

4:26 PM

Or this one.

TGMCians

wow

Amal Murali

It doesn't matter how many upvotes that comment has, it will just be nuked IMMEDIATELY.

3ventic

Is it only for not constructive though?

Amal Murali

Let me check if it works on other sites as well.

3ventic

P.S. How do you find those comments?

Amal Murali

4:27 PM

Using Google :-P

3ventic

[status-norepro] on Arqade

They broke the [status-] thing again? Meh

ProgramFOX

status-it-should-be-the-only-thing-in-your-message

3ventic

status-sucks

Amal Murali

status-repro on codereview.SE

Mat

status-pub-time-c-ya

Amal Murali

4:30 PM

Wait. How do you make it dark? Add [meta-*]?

ProgramFOX

Uhh, wait, no!

Amal Murali

Wayne -- It's typical in a startup... A company may come to you and say if you can get them a certain feature in a certain amount of time, then they'll buy your product. If the company is bootstrapped or tight on cash, then you'll generally accept the terms in order to keep cash flow positive. The employee's vested interest would be having a paycheck that cleared. — red-dirt Aug 18 '11 at 13:24

Gonna flag this.

ProgramFOX

On MSE, [meta-tag:] is the same as [tag:]

Amal Murali

Oh damn, I don't have enough reputation to flag it.

test

Wat. [meta-tag:] appears as ^

[tag:test] as test

ProgramFOX

Yes, it makes no difference on MSE.

Amal Murali

4:32 PM

Not dark

3ventic

pretty dark

Amal Murali

@ProgramFOX How did this work then?

3ventic

[status-status]

status-status

ProgramFOX

@AmalMurali Dark tags is not possible anymore on MSE.

3ventic

Dark tags?

Amal Murali

4:33 PM

This is how I see it.

Mine appears as normal tag, but rest of them dark

3ventic

@3ventic this

just exclude the tag: from the start

it only works on chat.MSE though

TGMCians

status-status

Amal Murali

status-oh-cool-this-is-awesome-dark-stuff

ProgramFOX

@AmalMurali That's not dark, that's red.

3ventic

red is darker than white(-ish)

Amal Murali

4:35 PM

Red is darker than whitish, no?

LOL

3ventic

hah

ProgramFOX

Yes, but I thought that you meant another kind of dark, which was possible on MSO (but not on MSE).

Using [meta-tag:

Done.

Jan Dvorak

thanks

Laszlo Papp

I cannot understand

6-7 questions out of the 10 I see get downvoted to oblivion just because they are "simple", but valid questions.

Jan Dvorak

4:51 PM

"simple" is not a downvote reason, but "endless duplicate" is.

These kinda correlate.

Laszlo Papp

no, these are not endless duplicate.

in any case, today, I would not be a newcomer on Stack Overflow with questions in mind.

Braiam

"simple" is not a downvote reason, "op being lazy, and showing no research effort" is

GnomeSlice

behance.net/mDunfield/resume

Do you think it matters

that my resumé is full of animation shit

if I'm applying to Wal-Mart

Bart

As long as it's not full of animated shit, you'll be fine.

Braiam

@GnomeSlice sometimes they will not hire you because you will expect a high wage for your skillset :(

Laszlo Papp

5:07 PM

oh, this reminds me that TomTom rejected me with 9X% test result because they think it is strong, but not enough. :)

amazon has been advertising on Stack Overflow a lot, well, I am not sure I have good opinion after reading this article about them: gawker.com/…

Louis

5:21 PM

This smells like spam to me:

-1

A: Web Application that is independent of web server software

You can hire MicroDreamIT for your product configurator. MicroDreamIT is nice Web development company, developed many renouned Online Product Configurator like tailor4less.com. They are developing my online Jacket Configurator, you can check my on going project.

Bart

It is

TGMCians

flagged

ProgramFOX

Has a moderator the ability to revoke a bounty?

TGMCians

yes

ProgramFOX

Ok, thanks @TGMCians

TGMCians

5:26 PM

No problem :)

Laszlo Papp

interesting that you guys have downvote rights on so many sites.

Amal Murali

Let me check mine.

10 sites.

Bart

@LaszloPapp downvote rights?

You mean for the spam? That just comes with an auto-downvote due to the flag. That's not related to a privilege.

Amal Murali

You'd need at least 15 reputation to flag right?

Bart

Yep

Amal Murali

5:31 PM

Excluding or including the association bonus?

Bart

Including

So with your association bonus you're good to go.

Laszlo Papp

@Bart: not only spams, no.

Amal Murali

Ah, I see. Just flagged it. -5

Laszlo Papp

anyone knows how to improve this answer? Got an unexplained downvote, the 5th or 6th today :) stackoverflow.com/questions/23447322/…

TGMCians

@Louis deleted

Amal Murali

5:34 PM

@LaszloPapp Not really sure, but I think people think it's a too-basic question that shoud've been closed instead (it has 3 CVs as of now).

(But that's just a guess, I have no knowledge of that domain and find nothing wrong with your answer.)

Laszlo Papp

the flags are obsolete I think.

"unclear" and "lacks sufficient information". In this case, the OP updated the question and it is all clear and reproducable.

there is no such a close reason as "too simple".

if it is really too simple and this question was asked before, duplicate would be OK, but I do not see any duplicate flags, either.

TGMCians

@ProgramFOX You can flag it if you have a valid reason, mod will see it, if it is helpful then they can revoke a bounty,

ProgramFOX

This seems a valid reason for me:

in The Nineteenth Byte on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 20 mins ago, by gamecoder

Hi, I started a bounty on my question without realizing that it only lasts for seven days. I had intended to announce the winner of my question (Speed Clue AI) after May 15, when I will start running the contest. Is there any way to extend the seven day period or to revoke the bounty so I can start it properly one week before announcing the results?

TGMCians

cv-pls-offtopic stackoverflow.com/questions/23447849/…

cv-pls-offtopic stackoverflow.com/questions/23111391/…

Amal Murali

5:55 PM

I wonder if I should add a link to the reference question in the Meta post. What do you think?

TGMCians

that's sound good

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