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user315433

12:10 AM

> The group must attend one cultural or academic event (on or off campus) or experience a shared dining experience.

user315433

(From the description of Freshman Forum at Marshmallow University)

user315433

I'd think their shared boozing up experience should be enough...

user315433

I'd absolutely hate this thing if I was a student here.

hichris123

I've never even heard something like this prior to your mentioning it, @Marshmallow.

user315433

This may well be in your near future. :/

hichris123

12:15 AM

Why, you think I'm going to attend Marshmallow University? :P

user315433

It's not just our invention. Look around. Sometimes called "1st year forum".

hichris123

I didn't think Marshmallow's alma mater had it...

Quill

haha, I'm glad my University doesn't have those silly getting-to-know-people events

because like who wants to make friends, right

user315433

@hichris123 They have First Year Reading program; everyone gets (the same) book to read, with some group discussions and eventually a visit by the author of said book to campus.

user315433

Overall, much less time wasted. 👍

hichris123

12:22 AM

@Marshmallow huh I don't remember hearing about that. I remember hearing about the 1st year writing course, but no reading course.

user315433

It's not a course; just a "thing".

hichris123

Oh, that makes sense.

I'm still surprised no one talked about that.

user315433

It's hardly a major selling point of the MarshMater University.

hichris123

lol

user315433

They have better things to boast of. If you went there, would it be in Engineering school?

hichris123

12:24 AM

Maybe? I dunno.

I remember them talking about the beauty of the campus a lot. And the quad. But it is pretty.

user315433

Not to mention expensive.

hichris123

no kidding.

user315433

@Quill This isn't really making friends, though. It's about gaining appreciation for liberal arts education.

Quill

wow Facebook has a "who's this friend" game to unlock your account

hichris123

> [GitHub] A new public key was added to your account‏

So uh... GitHub desktop decided to use SSH again?

shrug

Quill

12:31 AM

TIL 90% of Toy Story 2 was deleted by rm -rf * and only saved because an employee had been working from home. http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/05/21/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-deleted-twice-once-by-technology-and-again-for-its-own-good/

Tweeted by bcrypt on April 16, 2016 at 12:04 AM

hichris123

Has anyone brought up the rm -rf question in here yet?

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Q: What to do with the "rm -rf" hoax question

It turns out the the recent question regarding the misuse of rm -rf in Ansible was actually just a hoax in some kind of viral marketing effort. It become quite famous on various media and gathered a large number of views. Since I don't think we should allow ServerFault to be abused in such way...

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user315433

10

A: What to do with the "rm -rf" hoax question

Consider Nuking the OP's account too. Anything less will just encourage other marketing stunts like this.

user315433

> A: Let's do this viral marketing stunt.
B: No way, they'll delete my account with 101 imaginary points!

Quill

Whether it's a hoax or not doesn't really encourage deletion or special action

it's still a valid scenario and question

hichris123

The meta post has gotten 400 views in the past ~1 hour.

Quill

12:41 AM

And dupes don't really get deleted

hichris123

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A: What to do with the "rm -rf" hoax question

It was closed as a dupe. Delete the hoax and keep the dupe. Consider merging the answers from the hoax into it. Remember SF is for practical problems you are trying to solve. A hoax by definition isn't this.

Quill

obviously it's a practical problem, or the original question this was closed as a dupe would would be deleted

hichris123

Well yeah. But the "facts" are different, no --no-preserve-root, etc.

Woot! #htop works on newer builds of #BashOnWindows :) https://t.co/x087RMgXxO

Tweeted by richturn_ms on April 13, 2016 at 10:29 PM

Quill

@hichris123 it has the same effect for the most part

hichris123

I'm not so sure you need to keep the question around though. It's already blown up... nearly 200k views.

Quill

1:30 AM

ServerFault is a forum according to the Independent

@JoeIngeno @Independent Good to see the independent publishes hoaxes.

Tweeted by CodeQuicksand on April 16, 2016 at 1:29 AM in reply to JoeIngeno

I should spend all day calling out news outlets

bjb568

@Quill this is very borked

Quill

> Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts called Server Fault that he was now stuck after having accidentally run destructive code on his own computers. But far from advising them how to fix it, most experts informed him that he had just accidentally deleted the data of his company and its clients, and in so doing had probably destroyed his entire company with just one line of code.

The massively upvoted answer does exactly that what even

hichris123

3:04 AM

I wonder why spammers don't get up early. I mean, if they are forced to work Saturdays, why don't their bosses force them to start early too?

user202362

3:18 AM

most of the spammers are self employed maybe

hichris123

I don't think so. Who would work on Saturday if they were self-employed?

user202362

getting paid by the amount of spams per day?

hichris123

Why not work longer then? Why restrict yourself to a 9-5 work day?

user202362

maybe the spammers have some self discipline

user202362

p.s. you need to ask the spammers themselves

user202362

3:26 AM

I have no idea how spammers work

user315433

3:37 AM

@hichris123 Waiting for U.S. users / mods to go to bed.

hichris123

Maybe.

Although why not work late then? :P

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user315433

3:52 AM

The number of URL-only titles is on the rise. Of course blocking them would be useless; but this is something that could be hellbanned without losing anything of value. (Non-spam questions where the entire title is a URL are not desirable, either)

tchrist

4:05 AM

agree

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6:38 AM

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rene

8:36 AM

Let me type something here to break Smokey's sequence ...

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Andrew T.

10:47 AM

~~child meta still needs 5 rep?~~ yes.

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ProgramFOX

11:26 AM

@ShadowWizard Hmm... I don't know about Pham's recent progress. pokes @Sam

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Sam

12:28 PM

@ProgramFOX Eh, progress kinda took a hit after I realised wasn't a C# version of a critical lib needed for classification, so I started making my own version...

ProgramFOX

... and then, @Sam never returned from his journey ...

Sam

Yep

Andrew T.

12:58 PM

Frodo...

rene

1:23 PM

I really think everything in this answer to an FAQ post is also present in the first CW answrer. Is that flagable for a mod to be deleted? Or do I flag it as low quality?

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tchrist

@Telkitty I have had much the same experience, although mine I have had perhaps twice that long. It does not bear every year, is quite sensitive to cold, and its fruits are attractive to pests. Probably that is because they are so delicious.

user202362

4:34 PM

rene

4:55 PM

Hotdog with eggs ...

I might be hungry that I make that association

PhMgBr

@RobertLongson: I disagree, because IMO "it" is a problem/issue on any SE site, it is not Drupal specific ... Try a similar scenario (with such MOD interventions) on any site, and you'll have the very same issue that the OPer cannot accept his/her own answer ... Also, whoever voted-to-close this question, IMO made a mistake in the reason for such vote ... — Pierre.Vriens 6 hours ago

Now who quotes it?

rene

Pierre does

hichris123

5:25 PM

What benefit is there in keeping the question around? Particularly so if you're already seemingly annoyed with the question and the OP, if I go off of some of your comments. — Bart 48 mins ago

@Bart seems to be coherent today.

PhMgBr

@hichris123 Oh, so this is the day when something's gonna hit Earth, right?

Shadow Wizard

6:03 PM

@rene yup, such answers are usually deleted. Feel free to flag, and brace yourself for 6-8 weeks/months of waiting. :)

PhMgBr

@rene But do comment why you flag.

Shadow Wizard

(still got a 3 months old flag)

PhMgBr

It ain't obvious in trillionth glance ya know.

@ShadowWizard Hmm, lemme check whether that flag of mine got processed.

Shadow Wizard

@PhMgBr hmm? What flag?

PhMgBr

Oh. It's processed.

Shadow Wizard

6:07 PM

?

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?

PhMgBr

?!?!?!?!

bjb568

6:50 PM

dw.com/en/…

Bart

@hichris123 you take that back right now, or I'll report you

rene

@ShadowWizard done, thx

hichris123

@Bart :(

PhMgBr

@bjb568 Uh

hichris123

Whatever happened to smiting sticks instead of reporting?

bjb568

6:58 PM

@PhMgBr Finally some social progress!

PhMgBr

@bjb568 Um

hichris123

7:12 PM

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Q: Can the program named "Community" be trusted as a moderator?

I sometimes see this mod closing posts as duplicates.Even humans argue sometimes about whether a question is a duplicate or not,so how does this program have this authority? Are all the posts that are closed by it reviewed by actual moderators? I am just curious because AI can be scary sometimes!

discussion

PhMgBr

LOL

user315433

7:32 PM

> It's not a trainwreck. It's the sum of all fears of what could go wrong when people that don't know what they're doing collide particles. -- Tim Post at 12:25 PM - 16 Apr 2016 via Twitter

user315433

Hopefully, Tim is referring to U.S. election rather than SO.

user315433

in Mos Eisley on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 17 hours ago, by Shog9

Heck, plenty of people making a good living as Software Developers who know how to write a for loop and search Stack Overflow.

user315433

Perhaps, but I don't see job ads where the list of requirements consists of these two items...

hichris123

> Enhanced privileges for gold tag badge holders has worked out extremely well. In fact, I'm planning to expand that idea next year.

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Q: Empowering tag-badge holders part II - let's look at silver?

Not long ago, we gave folks that have a gold tag badge the ability to instantly mark a question as a duplicate of another. This has worked out exceptionally well in practice. While there have been some disputed closings, the process is completely transparent and community oversight has worked jus...

discussion badges privileges

We're into the 6-8 years timeframe. :P

@Marshmallow Looking at the ads on the right sidebar for Careers, only a few are decent. Not sure if that should make me think Careers isn't living up to its expectations... or that I would be horrified to see any other job board.

user315433

There were some ideas about giving additional review tasks based on tag badges... iirc they were shot down at CoGro team meeting, and probably rightly so.

user315433

7:43 PM

@hichris123 "decent" as in "you'd be happy to take it"?

hichris123

Decent as in it's not utterly incomprehensible or full of marketing-speak or...

user315433

> Whatever happened to farmville. There was a time when people spent hours every day updating their broccoli -- Joel Spolsky at 12:40 PM - 16 Apr 2016 via Twitter

user315433

The game got old... people may be saying the same about SO in another 8 years.

hichris123

@Marshmallow It's not like I have the experience or time to take the jobs anyway. :P

Bart

@hichris123 my smiting stick has a nail in it, and apparently that's taking things "a step too far".

hichris123

7:50 PM

@Bart I'm... not sure I want to know what happened. :P

PhMgBr

A stick too far.

user315433

> @gortok So for example, the "advanced stats" mod-tool has this gnarly query to unpack them for your perusal: pic.twitter.com/GdIWAHyOin -- Joshua Heyer at 12:06 PM - 16 Apr 2016 via Twitter

user315433

I want to see these stats for my own reviews...

hichris123

@shog9 @gortok Hmmm, I’ve never seen that query. I can make it faster.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on April 16, 2016 at 7:44 PM in reply to shog9

user315433

(without running for a mod position, that is)

hichris123

7:52 PM

It's not that pretty of a UI. :P

user315433

stuff like /reputation is fine with me. I don't dig UI that much.

hichris123

In comparison to /reputation it's much better. Not as nice as normal tools, though, since they're just mod-only. :P

user315433

in Mos Eisley on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 17 hours ago, by Shog9

I read a bunch of books, read a bunch of code, and wrote a bunch of code. Then took just enough school to get a job. Not too impressive on a CV, but I still consider it a much more efficient way to learn.

user315433

Associate's degree, I suppose. Another thing not often seen in job ads on SO.

hichris123

8:09 PM

Everyone wants a "rockstar" or a "ninja".

Bart

Or the "it's not just a job" requirement ... guess what, 99% is just trying to pay the bills at the end of the month

hichris123

8:49 PM

> Internal connection fatal error. Error state: 15, Token : 0

Haven't seen that one yet.

@Bart Yeah, a lot of Careers postings are nonsensical.