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12:05 AM
@TinyGiant We have an SRE team who know, but I'd be hesitant to ask without a clear idea of what you are trying to do. If your userscripts are hitting rate limits, it's likely they'd probably tell you to slow down. I hit our rate limits once in awhile and that's what they tell me.
 
@JonEricson Well that's kind of what I want to know, how much to slow it down
This script didn't cause an issue from feb 25 until a week or so ago
 
There's also a limit for page requests per IP address per time period which I think must have recently been tightened (saw it twice yesterday) but I don't know what the exact limit is. — Martin Smith Mar 9 '14 at 17:44
I guess it changed again.
 
Any chance of finding out what it is now?
 
12:28 AM
That script makes 60 requests simultaneously each time the new answers to old questions page loads
 
@TinyGiant Simultaneously? I'm surprised you didn't get IP-blocked earlier for that. Try 3/4 per second.
 
3/4 per second? what do you mean by that?
 
That was supposed to be 3 to 4 per second... :P
 
ahhh
that's too slow
its three requests per post
 
12:36 AM
Well, anything higher than that and you're at risk of being IP-blocked.
Not to mention 60 requests at once isn't very respectful...
 
It's not like it's 60 requests per second
Ok, so less than 30 per second
 
Okay, I'm confused then. You said 60 simultaneously.
 
Yeah, simultaneously once per page load
so it isn't every second
it's every few minutes
if that quick
 
But it is 60 in that particular second...?
 
12:39 AM
it takes most people a long time to read the page and vote on stuff
possibly, haven't measured
will do that
 
Again, surprised that actually works. I'm blocked if I do anything more than 4-5 per second.
I'd suggest following what @rene put in this script.
 
60 requests in 1.25 seconds
 
Yeah, that's probably way too quick.
 
Maybe cut it back to 20 per second
 
Or 5... if people are going to take a few minutes to read the page, why load everything in 3 seconds?
 
12:46 AM
This is my calc teacher now. youtube.com/…
 
Because I wait to perform all of the dom modifications all at once
 
Then... don't?
I'm fairly sure the SE devs/SREs would consider 20 requests/sec to be a bit too much.
 
Oh wow. Funeral march. youtube.com/watch?v=GXs4lbNRUJ8
 
user315433
1:39 AM
9
Q: Make moderator messages anonymous

meagarCurrently, when a moderator message a user, the user sees which moderator is messaging them. This includes when a moderator issues a timed suspension. Generally, I have no problem with this. Sometimes a user needs to be gently reminded to be nicer in comments, or to disclose when they're adverti...

 
user315433
I like the idea. The messages from community team are already anonymous.
 
user315433
I received a couple mod messages, and didn't benefit from knowing the author in any way.
 
user315433
> Regards, Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair moderator - Move More Comments Link To Top
 
2:00 AM
If you flag a comment before a post is deleted, and then the post is deleted, your flag is marked helpful. But is the comment deleted too?
 
@hichris123 I don't believe so.
Easily tested. :)
Well, more easily with a willing collaborator.
@zaq That depends.
 
@tchrist ... do you have a comment I can flag? :)
 
For science, all things are possible.
 
But a person has to be willing and able to help. Possible, yes; happening... ?
 
2:18 AM
Sorry, I'm being distracted.
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: what is a soundscape? by jimbocheesestick on sound.stackexchange.com
 
@hichris123 I'm pretty sure this has been proven before. We could ask elsewhere.
 
Anyone have any updates on the new navigation beta? I know there was a New Navigation Release Candidate, but I never heard/saw anything else about it since. The page hasn't been active for 7 months. You see, it's not that I'm not patient, but I'm not patient. :-)
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: what is a soundscape? by jimbocheesestick on sound.stackexchange.com
 
2:40 AM
@iRove not really any updates, the devs have been pretty busy and priorities get realigned, hopefully soon someone comes to work on it
@zaq some people end up getting pretty specifically violent to the moderator afterward, remember that rant a few weeks ago about the academia mod
 
@Quill Documentation is the culprit, then... :-)
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Vista Startup - Cannot Find the File Specified by Nolan Grason on superuser.com
 
user202362
2:56 AM
Other moderators have had disgruntled users repeatedly phone their place of work trying to get them fired.
 
user202362
I know life can be boring, but so boring for those 'disgruntled users'?
 
@Telkitty never underestimate the wrath of nerds who think they've been wronged
 
@iRove if I recall correctly the team on documentation weren't the team for the new nav, in any case, there's a lot of projects going on, documentation is simply the most controversial of them all
 
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Q: Comment flags are automatically deemed helpful if the parent post (Q or A) is deleted

nicaelI've flagged a comment to one of my answers and then deleted the answer. Then I went to my flagging summary and was surprised to see that my flag has been marked as helpful. Went back to the post and seen that the comment was still here. Ok. To check my assumptions, I've flagged the comment agai...

So looks like you were correct.
 
Leave it to Nicky.
But I had thought I recalled something about that having been posted already somewhere.
 
3:07 AM
Could be, but that was the first result from my meta search. :)
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: How did Goten and Trunks become Super Saiyan so easily? by Ruồi Chim on anime.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Why does Vegeta tolerate Android 18? by Ruồi Chim on anime.stackexchange.com
 
3:22 AM
@Quill I guess so. Since it's in beta, I just thought there would be more recent information on it that I was overlooking...like the team responding to people's requests during the beta. That was why I was asking, but I guess they have more pressing problems to be working on at the moment. The latest activity I found was 7 months ago, so I got curious.
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: What happened with Ghost Pokémon? by Box on scifi.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Vista Startup - Cannot Find the File Specified by Nolan Grason on superuser.com
 
3:50 AM
@zaq no...
 
user315433
Perhaps not all of them, but those I get.
 
user315433
> Hi,

Per your request, the chat profile was deleted. If there's anything else we can do for you, please let us know.

Best,
The Stack Overflow Team.
 
Oh, those.
Replies to /contact are anonymous by default (that is, we have to manually add a signature if need-be.
We could actually attribute those now, but since it's fairly common for multiple people to handle the same tickets, that's probably more trouble than it's worth.
For a long time, we were using a shared GMail account to handle these, which would've been a real pain to try & attribute.
ZenDesk is better, mostly
However, passing off an email to your personal account isn't really feasible, so in cases where a personal response is needed we mostly just sign our names and leave the sender at the default.
 
user315433
Perhaps team members are not a good benchmark for mod message anonymity, though. If someone calls Joel to tell him that Shog9 spends too much time at SO, and <insert a bunch of insinuations here>, that's still not the same as if a mod's employer gets the call.
 
In any case "mod messages" sent by CMs are attributed same as for mods. The only effective difference is that we can implement suspensions without sending a message... Which might actually be a practical tool for mods to have.
@zaq this is... Yeah. The bigger problem. An awful lot of what mods do is public, or at least visible to some portion of the site's membership. If someone gets upset, finding out who did it and making a scene isn't hard.
Anon mod messages don't help folks upset that their question was closed, or their answer deleted.
 
user202362
4:10 AM
@zaq You spend too much time on SO and are afraid that your boss would find out? That honesty ...
 
user202362
if you are ashamed of doing something, you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
 
@Telkitty, It doesn't have to be true to get HR involved. If my HR department received a complaint about me - with exact name and even an inkling of "sounding true" - I'd have a shitty day at work.
I'm not ashamed of anything I do on SE. I use the site frequently while in the office. That doesn't mean I want something I did as a volunteer here to become something I have to convince HR doesn't actually affect the company.
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user202362
yeah sure, you are not wrong at all, both 'disgruntled users' and your HR must be wrong, you must be right.
 
user202362
I am always suspicious when someone has something to hide
 
@Telkitty I can't help but notice that you are using the name "Telkitty".
What are you hiding?
 
user202362
4:20 AM
my website is www.telkitty.com, my blog is www.telkitty.com.au
 
user202362
I have very thick skin, I have nothing I need to hide
 
Would that thick skin remain if you were called into the boss's office because they received a phone call about you?
About something you did here
 
user202362
I run my own company
 
user202362
just me though
 
user202362
it's not very big
 
4:24 AM
@Andy If that happened to me, I'd hope that my boss would tell them to take their call and place it somewhere dark that would make it hard to walk.
 
@JamesENL, A valid hope. I am sure my immediate boss would do the same. HR I'm not sure about, especially when the company is in "downsizing" mode.
 
HR wouldn't know what the hell they were talking about
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: zynev In case you are not fully aware by sarahlewis on askubuntu.com (@kos)
 
user202362
I am just not someone who is very fond of anyone who would like to use the power without taking on the responsibility - it's a very coward thing to do.
 
sd k
@Andy surely if they fired you because some random jerk phoned up and complained about your behaviour on a website, surely that's unfair dismissal
 
4:30 AM
@Telkitty No one said they weren't taking responsibility. They said they didn't want it public. That doesn't mean that a.) Other moderators on the site and b.) Employees can't see exactly what actions were taken. In fact, Ed mentions they already can see who sent messages
@JamesENL When the company escorts out 33% of the IT staff and then announces another massive layoff and plant clousures...they can find a valid reason. Another nice sucker punch...a complaints are usually a good reason to find cause, especially if the complaint mentions you are saying bad things about the company, or wasting company time
 
user202362
seriously though, why would HR believe some random stranger over an employee unless there were other issues that the employee already has?
 
Because... that's how HR works...
 
user202362
don't belittle the HR, rofl
 
A company won't know their employees' behaviour outside of work, and if there's something that may get the company into a trouble, HR has to investigate the issue...
 
@Telkitty "Hello Large Corporation HR Department. I have a complaint about your employee, Andy. He's mentioned he works for you can has recently said some fairly negative things (screenshot of something vague or out of context). Additionally, I see he's on the site all the time during work hours (link to activity chart). It seems he's wasting company time."
That's it. Now HR has to do something. If they are nice, they come talk to you, you explain SE, and life moves on. If you aren't lucky, you get to have many discussions occur without you around.
 
user202362
4:38 AM
or the sysadmin were told to blacklist the whole SE network so none of their staff could use SE
 
I imagine the sysadmins would fight that one :)
 
Yeah, good luck for those IT company having SO blocked :)
 
user202362
g2g & talk 2 some bureaucrat
 
cu l8r
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: What do you call a person who uses vulgar words too often? by Barry on english.stackexchange.com
 
4:43 AM
sd 2k
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted username, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: market. Regardless of whether you choose Turbo Chocolate or Velocity by krmanjuriya on superuser.com
 
sd k
How does a PCG question make it to HNQ with 2 upvotes?
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: The Best Muscle Building Exercises by elizaasdbh on superuser.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: vita luminance Beeswax, silk, schapenwolvet by Risslx nainnx on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
5:00 AM
sd 2k
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, link at end of body: no2surgeblog.com/jack-hammer-xl/ by breyansmith on workplace.stackexchange.com
 
@JamesENL mysterious hotness formula, I guess... as long there's at least 1 answer, and Q&A got upvotes, even +1 Q and +1 A can get into HNQ
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Borrower payment dependent notes? by Elizabeth Stephen on money.stackexchange.com
 
5:17 AM
@Shog9 I agree that its not a perfect solution but ... is there a reason to have mod messages contain the mod's name? If you appeal the suspension, you reply to it, which doesn't need a name, or you send a contact us message, which doesn't need a name either, or you raise it on meta, which doesn't need a name either. Is there any practical use case of having this versus the real chance that it could stop some people going off the rails from stalking the moderators?
 
5:29 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: how can I undo the ISBN assigned by Create Space by Dr. Bhavtosh Chandra on writers.stackexchange.com
 
user202362
5:48 AM
Probability theory says that there are weirdos on this site. Seriously, stalking someone in real life after altercation on the internet when no crime is involved says there is some psychological issue about that user ...
 
sd 3k
My professional diagnosis is a severe case of butthurt
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How do I know what proxy server I'm using? by Jorge Alba on superuser.com
 
user335633
6:07 AM
@Telkitty I have had that from a forum i used to frequent
 
Psst, for some people, internet is also real life.
 
user335633
true
 
6:24 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: quicksupplementfact.com/derma-vibrance/ by pattersonjeanne294 on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: dermaessencecreamblog.com/belladermx/ by starkeygir on askubuntu.com (@kos)
 
sd 2k
 
6:40 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, blacklisted user: It is attainable for them to charge assorted Wood Screw by containerhouse on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
user202362
 
user202362
Am I missing something, I reloaded twice
 
I don't know what you are missing...
 
user202362
6:57 AM
same person 2 different avatars
 
user202362
when you click on the green one, pink one shows up
 
I just realized it after seeing it for 5 whole minutes -_-
 
user202362
still happens ... try it for yourself
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword in username, pattern-matching website in answer: Is there any alternative for Windows gadgets in Ubuntu? by Essay Writing Service on askubuntu.com (@kos)
 
@Telkitty not SE fault, it's from the gravatar site itself. The identicon for <64px is green, bigger than that is pink
 
7:09 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Blackcore Edge Max - Develop, Sustain & Repair Muscles? by johnson mccurr on superuser.com
 
sd 2k
sd k
 
7:42 AM
@Telkitty other users mentioned that on Meta
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Q: Why did my avatar change?

barronMy network-wide gravatar identicon used to be a pleasant blue, now it's bright green. I didn't change my email. Did Stack Exchange change its email hashing algorithm or something?

 
user202362
8:27 AM
blue, green, similar, but green and pink?
 
user202362
and if memory serves right, this didn't use to happen
 
@Telkitty well, it's gravatar issue... bug them, not SE :p
 
9:23 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body: The memory layout of the 24FC1025-I/P by Amanda123 on superuser.com
 
9:43 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, blacklisted website in answer: How to avoid emails going through secureserver.net by Sabrina Susan on webmasters.stackexchange.com
 
10:18 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body: How to use 74ls244 ic? by Amanda123 on superuser.com
 
Another post by that user is just on hold as off-topic? Is that really a known spam website?
 
 
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11:45 AM
0
Q: How to learn cucumber testing tool

swagatikaI want to learn cucumber testing tool, is there any site so I can refer regarding that. As I browse that tool support RUBY SCRIP but I don't know that script can anyone guide me

how do learn cucumber
vegetable is hard
 
12:29 PM
@Quill this sounds nasty
@Bart well, this is the original spammer: metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/stackusers/26755
Most likely that "Amanda" is the same spammer.
 
12:43 PM
@ShadowWizard myeah, guess so
 
 
1 hour later…
user315433
1:51 PM
> Why do american credit card companies oppose chip & PIN? Do you like Amazon’s 1 click to buy? That’s why. Every friction point lowers sales. -- Nick Craver at 5:50 AM - 22 Aug 2016
 
user315433
Yeah... the comparison with a person in front of you using a checkbook is apt.
 
2:09 PM
> Hi bartozwe, bartozwe has accepted an answer by bartozwe
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Well, thank you Unity Answers ... what a wonderful Q&A you provide ...
 
2:26 PM
@Shog9 your Enterprise Page contains a client side error and some debug info a dev forgot in production
Nothing serious, but those who look in the console won't help but noticing it.
 
it's good to use build tools to remove logs and debuggers
 
I use tools to remove my code. Always compiles and nothing is my fault
 
Is it only me, or the diamond on music.se is.. more square?
 
@Bart heh, best way to prevent bugs
 
@qwer I blame the font though...
 
2:40 PM
@qwer Yup, "'Open Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif" vs. "Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"
And the color is bit different too
 
 
1 hour later…
4:00 PM
Today's xkcd comic (Meteorite Identification):
 
4:15 PM
> METEORWRONG
 
Hey, the best answers really do rise to the top!
 
5:04 PM
 
5:47 PM
Q: How to bump a bug?
A: Post it again in a per site meta.
Not really sure why the developers don't check MSE but guess all good now.
 
6:01 PM
@ShadowWizard We do, but there's a lot of bugs to go around. Just depends on who notices what when.
 
user315433
Possibly, on who had the bug duty on a particular week.
 
user315433
Also, the initial report was shortly after Docs launched, easy to drown in that noise.
 
6:37 PM
@AdamLear Stop putting bugs in your code then. Geez
 
@Bart Hey now, my code is perfect. >.>
 
If only they could all be as good as you are
 
The entirety of my programming experience in two phrases: "That didn't work as expected." "That didn't work, as expected."
 
:D
Programming is the best career if you like shouting WHAT THE SHIT ARE YOU DOING at computers many times a day, but actually it's your fault.
 
 
6:55 PM
@Bart Nobody actually says "What the shit ..." in English. It’s got to be "What the heck/blazes/hell/fuck/mf-hell ..." depending on the forcefulness and appropriateness.
 
/me mumbles something about spirit of the message
 
7:06 PM
@tchrist I actually say "what the shit" a lot, heh.
It rubbed off on me when I started watching Archer.
 
Ah ha! That's where I got it from
@tchrist had me doubting my ability to speak English
 
@Andy I've never heard it in my life.
 
You heard it first in the Tavern ...
 
Granted, it's not my go to exclamation of surprise, but I do utter it out of frustration.
 
Carajo.
 
user315433
7:28 PM
SE currently employes 275 people (according to the company page), which is an all-time high. There are 496 moderators (distinct users). That's 5:9 ratio.
 
user315433
Teachers' Lounge should hold a "500 mods" celebration when it gets there.
 
user315433
There are currently 4 slots available, on ELU and ELL. That would make the count neat 500, but... if tchrist gets elected on ELU, that wouldn't count toward 500 (already a mod elsewhere).
 
user315433
Of course, the number of salespeople has little to do with mod work. The more relevant ratio is Community Team : Mods which is about 1:33 (15 : 496).
 
user315433
I'd say that 33:1 student-teacher ratio is pretty high.
 
user315433
Speaking of elections... I can make 2nd and 3rd choices without 1st. Is the effect any different from choosing 1st and 2nd? Is it even a valid ballot?
 
7:58 PM
:5198448 why is this flagged?
 
@zaq I wonder...
 
user315433
I can try it in the ELU election for science, but how will I know what the outcome was?
 
user315433
Ah, there is a ballot list available for download. That'll do.
 
Hmm, maybe related:
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Q: SE Election ballots with unexpected values

rolflIn exploring the ballots available for download from Stack Exchange elections, the Code Review community came across some unexpected values in the ballot data. Background First, the specification, as far as we can tell, for the *.blt file indicates that each ballot line indicates a weight/count...

In my own parsing of the format I just assumed that 0 meant 'skipped', or the user did not use their 1st or 2nd vote option. The numbers I got from that certainly fit the OpenSTV election results. — Martijn Pieters May 14 '15 at 7:47
 
user315433
Ok, looks like it won't do anything crazy.
 
8:09 PM
turns out I'm allowed to vote in the ELL election ...
 
user315433
@rene Yay. When you see that a mod candidate has hidden their account on the site where they run for mod position, does that change your opinion of them?
 
user315433
Specifically: snailplane on ELL.
 
user315433
Maybe it doesn't matter. Could be just a way to get rid of awkward question titles in the "top" section of the profile.
 
@zaq I honestly haven't looked yet ... bit that is ....strange
Was it brought up earlier?
 
user315433
snailplane nominated last, mere 8 hours ago. No, it wasn't mentioned.
 
user315433
8:12 PM
I'd ask but the comments under nominations are locked now, and the user's not pingable in the election room.
 
user315433
Oh well. Dropped from 1st to 3rd place on my ballot
 
That is a bit strange. From my experience though, snailboat/snailplane is a wonderful moderator.
 
are there roomba scripts running at midnight? Or scripts that make posts to be deleted? I see spikes at 03:00 which expected, but what happens just after midnight: data.stackexchange.com/meta.superuser/query/527449#graph
 
user315433
@rene Saturday 0 UTC is the time when 30- and 365-day scripts run.
 
user315433
RemoveDeadQuestions and RemoveAbandonedQuestions, as they are officially known.
 
8:22 PM
Ah, that explains it. Didn't know their time slot
 
user315433
I eventually found snailplane in chat. ELL profile un-hidden.
 
user315433
Now I wonder how many mods are hiding the site they are modding. I know one so far, arjafi @ Math. None on SO/SU/SF/AU, but checking every site is a job for a script...
 
@rene wut?
 
8:40 PM
@Bart It had a flag on it, maybe someone mis-clicked on the star ...
You can't expect everyone in a Tavern to have perfect eye-hand coordination...
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Can You Brute Force Dropbox Folder URLs? by user122139 on security.stackexchange.com
 
user315433
Anime & Manga election. They already elected three last year, this is their second election, and they don't even have custom site design. Just 1 open position... not sure if that's enough, considering Madara is also modding SO.
 
8:57 PM
@bluefeet Tim locked the post for some reason, seconds before I posted my comment, which is: "the only official answer so far (by Robert) has been deleted, can you please add your own to make the more clear? (And maybe explain what the team got in mind?)"
(not sure how there are "high amount of off-topic comments generated", but that's a different matter)
 
@ShadowWizard The status review was on the post before it was moved from MSO it was dropped during the migration. We're discussing this internally and hope to have an answer up later this week.
I was just adding the tag back to the post after we realized it was dropped.
 
@bluefeet thanks, but usually status tags are accompanied by answers, that's all.
 
not necessarily status-review
there are times I'll add it to show that I'm looking at it
 
hmm... fair enough.
Happy reviewing!
 
user315433
9:01 PM
19 posts with status-review and 0 answers (from anyone, not just the team): meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstatus-review%5D+answers%3A0
 
user315433
Some of them probably don't need the tag anymore.
 
user315433
We are going to move a lot of cheese in this area very soon, so this will be taken under advisement at that point. — Sklivvz ♦ May 19 '14 at 10:59
 
user315433
That was probably referring to mobile theme redesign...?
 
heh, over two years in review. Funny. Or not.
 
user315433
very soon
 
9:03 PM
Maybe make the tag auto expire after year or so.
 
user315433
Doesn't make much sense if it's to be used as a reminder for the team.
 
@zaq remind what? Ancient decisions? No point...
 
user315433
I wouldn't want my task reminders to silently expire after a period of time. If I fail at managing them, that's a problem that needs to be visible.
 
@ShadowWizard I added a comment here
 
Commenting on locked post! Black magic! :D
(or actually Blue Magic in this case... ;))
 
user315433
9:05 PM
All mods can do that, can't they?
 
lol, I know. Still, looks weird for the untrained eye.
and we can't upvote the comment...
oh by the way, @Telkitty aren't you answer banned on MSE?
 
 
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10:21 PM
> In SEDE the table postswithdeleted doesn't contain taginfo for deleted posts but maybe a CM can give some insight in how many roomba deletes there are per tag on meta sites.
from here
 
10:40 PM
Ok, lol, purely for my own curiosity, can I get an opinion on why this was so poorly received? I forgot I asked it and just noticed that apparently it is a crap question:
-3
Q: Qt (4.8) simplest way to call slot with AutoConnection behavior

Jason CI have something like this: class Thing : public QObject { ... public slots: void doSomething (); ... }; I then have an object that manages Things, like this: class ManyThings : public QObject { ... public: void makeThingDoSomething (int thingIndex); private: QVector<...

It is kinda poorly written, I guess.
 
user202362
@ShadowWizard why would I?
 
user202362
weird, used to have 45 net downvotes, now only 23
 
user202362
10:56 PM
shameless ...
 
user202362
:/
 
@JasonC random guess: "simplest" in title -> POB -> downvote
 
user202362
My answer got -23 net downvotes, someone else was saying exactly the same thing got 70+ net upvotes
 
@Telkitty Must be the law of averages.
 
@Telkitty Lol
Maybe people don't like cats.
@qwer Oh maybe. I'd buy that.
@Telkitty I'll give you a pity upvote some day after everybody forgets about this convo so we can't get pinned for tavern collusion.
 
user202362
11:04 PM
lol? I need a pity upvote? also what's with this -23 (used to be -21) net downvotes thing
 
Fine I'll give you a knife-twisting downvote instead.
Downvotes build character.
 
user202362
make it -25
 
user202362
I love number 5
 
user202362
5 x 5, perfect
 
user202362
I was hoping for -50, but I shall settle for -25
 
11:06 PM
I'll constantly change my vote so you can never have a multiple of 5, making trivial white-space edits as needed. Because down with the system!
@qwer I kinda want to edit my title now but I don't want to bump it because it's an embarrassment.
Maybe I'll wait until a less active time, lol.
 
user202362
11:24 PM
there seriously need to be a shift in mods culture - I am under the impression that new mods were used as tool and lured to do all the dirty work and got the blame
 
11:42 PM
3 messages moved to Sandbox
 
user315433
Artificial Intelligence made it to public beta.
 
I just went to an AI class.
Then I realized the room and time changed and it's in a huge lecture hall now. Weird.
Then I went to a parallel computing class instead and the time for that also changed so it doesn't work with my schedule. The schedule change isn't reflected in the scheduling system. Weird.
 

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