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3:47 AM
does SO usually slow down in the summer time?
well, I guess the homework questions probably do at least
 
@user0000000 enjoy while it lasts
 
4:29 AM
This is weird. I was the first to close as duplicate, but in the comments some user that isn't listed in the close message has 4 upvotes for his possible duplicate comment? stackoverflow.com/questions/24197628/…
I guess he maybe flagged it as duplicate since he doesn't have cv privliges.. but that's still weird how we'd pick the same exact duplicate
 
 
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5:46 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW TO INTEGRATE HIGHCHARTS WITH R LANGUAGE? on stackoverflow.com
 
Hello from mobile.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: NLP AND NLTK USING PYTHON on stackoverflow.com
 
6:06 AM
is this an answer?
 
@DroidDev doesn't look like.
also, cv'd
 
ok, I also cv'd
 
6:28 AM
11 minutes and still there...
 
@JanDvorak flagged and dv...
 
@rene no need to downvote spam
 
OK
 
finally gone, phew!
 
My downvote did it ;-)
 
6:41 AM
you are the one!
 
I flagged it for off-site resource, I think that was good
 
7:19 AM
...and then satan said, "Let google make all the APIs for Android"
 
7:32 AM
isn't this answer, just a copy of answer above it?
if you see the code in it, you'll notice every space and comment, everything total xerox
 
@DroidDev flag it as "other"
 
@JanDvorak tnx for the comment on that meta answer
 
@JanDvorak done :)
 
@rene which answer?
 
.... no @Bart around. Did my evil plan for making him disappear work (and take his place in the Tavern secret illuminati shadow government)? He had a too-much-sugar induced heart strike after viewing that video :P?
 
7:42 AM
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A: Suggested edit which got wrong approval

reneTo answer your question(s): If I am correct, what action could be taken, since its already approved? You could: leave a comment @[name of editor] and explaining your doubts about the edit leave a comment for the OP to check the edit rollback if you are sure the edit is wrong check with...

 
@SPArchaeologist good morning pony! :P
 
@DroidDev Good morning to you. (You know, Alula hasn't logged on the Tavern in a while, so I must keep the ponies flowing while he is away).
 
@SPArchaeologist and I am gathering my chakra to code a work-around for a bug.
 
@SPArchaeologist you'd wish.
 
@SPArchaeologist I think it didn't work that well
can I flag a link only answer as NAA or should I go for VLQ?
 
7:52 AM
Depends on the answer. Might simply require a downvote.
 
this one
 
I think VLQ is preferred
since in the VLQ review queue there's an option to post a "this is a link only answer blah blah..." comment
 
lol, ok done :D
 
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A: How to make instance variables private in Ruby?

TempusI think you shouldn't be trying to code C++ in Ruby. Since Ruby's a very dynamic & powerful language, there will always be a way to get to the private data.

By a 22k user...
 
Though admittedly only 6.5k at that time ... perhaps he learned? :D
 
7:58 AM
Ah yeah, I didn't notice the date at first
 
697 questions ... how do people do that?
 
by being utterly shameless and lazy
 
For the rep?
And the badges!
 
for easy solutions also
 
But really, do they simply not research? And just vomit out whatever question comes to mind?
 
8:02 AM
Yep
Just vomit and everything will be fine afterwards
 
I know a guy, he once told me that on SO you just have to put the question there. Just copy paste some code from here and there and they'll think you have researched and you'll get the right answer.
He code in php
 
Why doesn't surprise me that....
 
Then again, this guy is by far not the worst (if he would be bad at all). There's one user I know with >600 questions, <4k rep, who seems to be doing a PhD ...
 
but.... isn't PhD all about research and more research...??
I think his references will be links to answers on SO, when he write his research paper
 
If it is about asking questions he has enough material...
 
8:10 AM
Ugh
failed an audit
some guy gave an answer (1 line but a full answer) and also linked to his blog
apparently that's "spam"
 
Ehm ...
 
maybe he did that multiple times with duplicate answers?
 
Myeah, that might well have been the case.
 
did you get the spam warning?
 
8:13 AM
Is the link legit? I can't even see the answer any more because I don't have enough rep.
@JanDvorak I did, but it looked fine to me so I said "looks OK"
 
again and answer copied from here and pasted there
look for totally identical code in both answers
 
@rene can you include a screenshot of the audit here please?
 
@Stijn it looks like a clear-cut link-only answer to me
 
@JanDvorak IIRC it said something along the lines of "delete the other VMs and the problem is solved, see this blog post for more information".
 
8:18 AM
@Stijn yep, on it...
 
at the very least, the answer is very hard to understand due to grammar issues
 
Arrrgggghhhhh
again, same guy posting same answer here and there rather then flagging for duplicate
 
8:55 AM
my new avatar is in perfect symmetry with blue bottom edittext placeholder background and I am lovin' it
 
9:26 AM
@DroidDev ... Wondering... Did you ever considered changing that avatar to a Servbot from Megaman Legend?
 
@SPArchaeologist lol, this minion is his(servbot's) graphically enhanced version
 
9:42 AM
@DroidDev You mean that minions are a plagiarism of Tron's servbots right?:P
 
 
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11:23 AM
@SPArchaeologist actually they are more evolved servbots from parlel universe :P
 
11:36 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: magic specialist molvi ji +91-9680051772 on english.stackexchange.com
 
so now they are also posting images. Hmmmm........
 
12:19 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: all problem solution molvi ji +91-9680051772 on english.stackexchange.com
 
@Oded No, of course not. Spammers never do.
 
1:09 PM
why in the world is this question a CB? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/260449/…
 
CB?
 
community bulletin
right side
 
tnx Stijn... I'm new here...
 
I had to think for a second too :)
 
thnks from my side also, I was also wondering same
 
1:13 PM
It is a secret but I guess the relative high number of upvotes on both the question and the answer as well as no comments has something to do with it...
 
1:27 PM
Can someone give some thoughts on what to do with this:
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Q: MSSQL XML Index size

SergiuCan someone tell me if there is any sys table where I can find information about the size of XML indexes (both primary and secondary) in SQL Server? So far I've been using this script to check for the size of an index: SELECT t.name AS TableName , i.name as IndexName , SUM(a.total_pages) * 8...

Migrate? Close: no longer repro? Ask the OP to post an answer?
 
it's so weird how CB's open in a new window, while hot questions open on same page
 
@rene Ask OP to post an answer, and if he doesn't after x time, post it yourself (and get someone to upvote it, so Community doesn't bump the question in a few weeks).
 
Can he as a low rep?
 
@rene Ah yeah, I think low rep means you need to wait 2 days before posting an answer to your own question. Can someone confirm?
 
> Users < 100 rep can't answer their own question for 8 hours
 
1:33 PM
just post answer for him as community wiki
 
I'll give him 8 hours...
I upvoted that question...
 
I downvote an answer posting full code on a zero-effort question.
Answerer converts his answer to CW.
 
this query provides interesting users to research data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/167122/…
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@user0000000 35k rep user with a boatload of priviliges just from asking questions, that's just wrong...
 
as long as they're mostly good questions I don't care. It's pretty hard to write good non-duplicate questions that are valuable to a large audience.
but yea, with that many questions, most of them are likely very narrow and not applicable to a wide audience
 
1:45 PM
It depends if you see this as a Q and A site or a q and A site...
 
the answer cannot exist without the question
 
@Alex that is very deep
 
@user0000000 Ha, my "favourite" user is in there as well
 
I thought I was your favorite user : (
 
@Alex which doesn't mean they can be both known at the same time and in the same universe. :P
 
1:53 PM
@user0000000 without the quote marks, sure
 
I remember this user stackoverflow.com/users/996431/nate-pet , 580 questions / 39 upvotes = 1 upvote every 14-15 questions
 
2:14 PM
are we down?
 
yes it seems
stackoverflow is down
 
Finally, I can get some work done...
 
Not here?
 
its technically working for me, but about 40s load time
 
2:16 PM
EEEEEEK SE IS DOWN
... oh, I'm a bit late
 
yeah
 
EVERYONE PANIC!
 
runs in circles screaming
 
it appears to be running good for me again
 
cue meta post
 
2:18 PM
it is up now
 
it is slooow
 
the most downvoted post of all time is this stackoverflow.com/election/1#post-4729670 , -166
 
@user0000000 and, ignoring elections?
 
@user0000000 He should be renamed to Reek.
 
2:27 PM
@ThiefMaster as in past tense?
 
but I can't see vote count on posts there :(
 
@Braiam "general computing hardware and software" ?
 
@Stijn is more Linux software, but fits
 
4:15 PM
is it ok to put a FAQ into the tagwiki with canonical question links?
about the common questions of the tag.
although if they cannot use google, there is not much point in the tagwiki stuff...
@Braiam: done
 
it's nice to the closers
 
5:24 PM
Can people here continue to reject user3738529 edits. They are far too minor and borderline vandalism. I'm almost out of suggest edit reviews and I am worried they will slip between the cracks due to robo review
 
@secretformula Each of his suggestions has been approved, so far
 
@Andy :( many of them should not be
 
i think this one should have been
 
for example
I get shortening the link but then putting it in code tags is wrong
 
spelling mistake corrected
links neatened up
...improved formatting
the kind of edits i would have made when i was younger
 
5:31 PM
So should I have just improved it and removed the code tags around the link?
I guess his edits are party good but his use of code tags is very wrong in a lot of cases which is what i'm targetting
 
i dont know, i'm not really the best to ask about editing, i have my own beliefs about it and i could be wrong
 
Fair enough
 
but i'm sure there are those in this room who can give advice about it
 
backticks are evil...
the user was nucked from orbit
 
Haha nice thanks
 
5:43 PM
"Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:
Display name may only be changed once every 30 days; you may change again on Jun 30 at 9:06"
hehe, fun.
 
@FinalContest where?
 
5:58 PM
it didn't last long
i was looking at it when it had -1 votes and in a few seconds it went to -5
i thought to myself "a free spam flag!" and tried to flag it, only to find it had been deleted
 
 
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7:44 PM
GOAL!
 
7:57 PM
@rene oh my god that header
 
@AnnaLear Really? I didn't see it...I'm only entertained by the neighbors cheering loudly...
 
@rene Oh yeah. It was awesome.
 
GOAL!
 
GOOOOOOOOOAL.
 
Was this one any good?
 
8:11 PM
pretty legit yes :)
 
Robben got good ball control :)
 
@AmalMurali what are you talking about?
 
@Alex World Cup. Netherlands.
 
oh
who are the netherlands playing with?
 
@AnnaLear Oh, they play on their own? No wonder it goes so well :-)
 
8:21 PM
i just googled "netherlands football today" and it came up with spain
 
Hahaha they're playing Spain
About halfway through 2nd half right now
 
Until today I didn't notice much of it, only a few orange houses here and there and on the station some people in orange shirts heading for a bar...
 
O.M.G
Another one. Unbelievable
 
what is even happening
 
Oh, the neighbors are getting used to it or they are too drunk already to cheer...
 
8:31 PM
This is gonna be a fun World Cup. between this and yesterday's own goal by Brazil...
either that, or we're gonna get all the excitement out of the way now and the rest will be boring ;)
 
Have any of you gotten your meta split mugs?
 
Jun 5 at 11:57, by Tim Post
@IonicăBizău I'm going to be processing stuff at the warehouse tomorrow (FYI for all others awaiting swag). I'm going to have them actually hand-write the label out, because I can't for the life of me figure out what else could be causing it to go missing once it hits your neck of the woods.
 
> Jun 5
 
@rene Thanks!
So any day, then, I assume?
 
8:37 PM
GOAL!
@AnnonomusPenguin 6-8 weeks
 
@rene World cup?
@rene Sigh :(
 
@rene Flagged as spam!
:P
 
GOOOAAAAL
 
I think so
 
@Doorknob jealous much?
 
8:38 PM
@Doorknob looking for a link
 
We need a World Cup bot here
 
@ShadowWizard But then hichris will bork it!
 
room topic changed to Tavern on the World Cup: Where people announce GOOAAAALLLLLLS! [soccer]
 
@ShadowWizard If I connect a mic to this room and let it post GOAL once it reached a certain sound level I guess you have your WC bot
 
@rene Feedback from speakers AHHHHHH RUN THE WORLD IS ENDING (BUT NOT THE WORLD CUP... YET)
 
8:40 PM
I am watching the Canadian CBC live stream and the commentators just said this: "Nobody expected this Spanish inquisition".
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rofl
 
lol
 
@Doorknob go to TL... I don't want to make a link public again.
 
Spain's all like "step right up to the penalty area, take a shot, anyone can try" :-P
 
:)
 
9:33 PM
G'night everyone!
 
good night!
 
@rene WC bot can be misinterpreted by some as a toilet bot, but other than that sounds just right! ;-)
@AnnonomusPenguin why? Is he a serial bot borker?
 
After the world cup it can double as such...
 
@rene so it'll remind us when it's time to go to WC?
 
Yeah, much like time for coffee and time for a smoke...
 
9:46 PM
@rene Million dollar question is, how will it know when it's time for each of those? Fixed time of day?
 
No, after a random interval after the last sip...
 
@rene good, much closer to reality then. :D
 
Can anyone see if this user has deleted posts: stackoverflow.com/users/3739020/user3739020
Is it only sometimes not responding for me or for anyone else?
 
10:02 PM
@ShadowWizard Pretty much. Ask @Doorknob about his bot :P
 
Sure, but not for me at the moment :-)
@Braiam Yeah, but I triggered on the comment. I hoped to be able to CV as a dupe but couldn't find any other question...
 
10:25 PM
@rene only diamond holders can see deleted posts in user profile :(
 
10:38 PM
plusdepseudo, Cannes, France
1 1 1 1
 
10:48 PM
Daily be nicer to new users thread
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Q: What can we do about the community?

Aaron ArnoldThere are many sites claiming that Stack Exchange is becoming less that supportive. Is there something we can do as a community to make asking a question from the most helpful site on the place. How about, combining duplicate questions instead of outright blocking them? Or anything else that c...

 
oh yeah, I was gonna reply to that...
 
I am thankful to all the people that were jerks to me when I was new. It helped mold me into the user I am today.
 
Not a fan of jerks. Am a fan of coldness, when it's honest. False praise is misleading, and often misleads right into a pit you can't easily dig your way out of.
 
@jadarnel27 that's quite amazing that he has the fanatic badge with such low activity on the site
 
@Shog9 you can be a cold jerk, you know?
 
11:24 PM
@Braiam sounds like we need one of those fancy euler diagrams
 
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