12:30 AM
I believe the same issue happens for long strings in the "current translation" field as well. — V2Blast ♦ 39 secs ago
1:18 AM
I should be allowed to turn this off in settings. I honestly don't like the buttons at all. — Blue Robin 40 secs ago
1:51 AM
This is a bug, as the backend rendering isn't compliant with CommonMark. For verification, see the first revision of this answer. You can work around the bug by just not having an extra space on your blank lines. You can see a version which works around the issue in this revision of that answer. The bug results in the rendered HTML not putting the text for the affected paragraphs in
<p></p>
tags. Given that this is showing up around a manually entered HTML <img>
tag, it's likely that it's some interaction with SE's stripping of disallowed HTML. — Makyen 51 secs ago2:02 AM
I've flagged this as "Blatantly off-topic" because it has nothing to do with the software that powers the Stack Exchange network. — JRN 51 secs ago
2:47 AM
@ShadowTheSpringWizard, I've had many questions closed, reopened, reclosed, etc over the years. My most recent experience (disclaimer: the question was reopened) made me feel for the first time the unhappiness many people report when starting use use the site. I understand your confusion though, being a relative newcomer here, so no worries. — Mark Harrison 21 secs ago
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4:10 AM
A note for future readers. Please don't be smart asses and post a ChatGPT generated answer — Journeyman Geek ♦ 11 secs ago
4:32 AM
Check out the "tag too long" duplicates (such as: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/375540/…) and add your browser version to your question, as shown in that link. — Rob 56 secs ago
5:29 AM
As I stated, assuming good intent is the basis of correcting misbehaviour. To make that clear, one could phrase amend mistakes based on assuming good intent. — Philippos 15 secs ago
5:50 AM
When a tag is ignored (with the popup), it goes grey and gets a crossed-eye icon. When unignoring the tag, the colours come back instantly, but the icon remains until the page is refreshed. Not a major problem, but a bug nevertheless. — Elements in Space just now
6:46 AM
Close, but still not a full cigar: i.stack.imgur.com/l05x1.png. Thanks! — Shadow The Spring Wizard just now
If somebody considers the circles an improvement, wouldn't more circles make them even more better? — tripleee 11 secs ago
Trivia question: Were the colors of the buttons chosen on purpose? (Blue and yellow. ;)) — Shadow The Spring Wizard 49 secs ago
@Andreasdetestscensorship If you downvote bad content, you should successively earn back some of the lost reputation as that bad content is deleted through additional curation and/or roomba. Fortunately, the relative effect of -1 reputation changes becomes negligible as you earn more reputation for your other contributions, though I imagine it's still pesky when you are struggling below 2k rep. Thanks for participating in the thankless task of curation at your rep level! — tripleee 17 secs ago
Won't it be overriden in the next update, or cause other bugs as the actual site name has "&"? — Shadow The Spring Wizard 17 secs ago
7:16 AM
That I think is irrelevant to the post, there is no specification here if the users did make as you said perhaps as well. However, I think that more votes normally equate to a better quality experience on the site. There are much much more people who don't vote at all than people who vote incorrectly, so the prior is a bigger problem to fix at the moment. I really like Mad Scientest's answer in this case: meta.stackexchange.com/a/389367/790695 — Syed M. Sannan 45 secs ago
7:44 AM
The buttons don't look well and also don't integrate into the current design. If you really want borders around the buttons, I'd rather put them into squares. — beerwin 37 secs ago
Wrong question. More reasonable question would be "What if, hypothetically, ChatGPT would be able to create an account when being asked so by a human?" plus let ChatGPT fill all the details by itself, and choose what questions to answer. (And write those answers by itself, when asked e.g. "Find questions to answer and write the answers" — Shadow The Spring Wizard 36 secs ago
Policy is just empty words. Reality, in all sites, is that there are thousands of auto created spam accounts, and they stay alive for long long years. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 48 secs ago
"The suspension would be for posting ChatGPT answers" - not accurate. It's not banned network wide, and some sites allow it, or at least don't ban it. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 38 secs ago
@ShadowTheSpringWizard I believe it is an unfortunate side-effect of there being no way to flag a user until they post something? I know mods, at least on Stack Overflow, where I am active the most, that went after such profiles specifically. I agree that it is hard to impose, although I believe that it is important to highlight that such actions are considered a violation of the acceptable use policy. — Oleg Valter is with Ukraine 42 secs ago
But there's also green, there's other country with only blue and yellow, so maybe it's a hidden sign of supporting them. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 43 secs ago
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9:19 AM
ChatGPT already has several SE accounts. GPS uses humans who, like errand boys, voluntarily propagate their message — Augusto Vasques just now
ChatGPT already has several SE, LinkedIn, Tweeter, Instagram, Rumble, Youtube accounts. GPT uses humans who, like errand boys, voluntarily spread their message. — Augusto Vasques 46 secs ago
10:00 AM
Downloading the weekly dump and extracting any new questions and answers of yours might be an alternative if your use case is to preserve your contributions off-site. — tripleee 5 secs ago
10:11 AM
Oops, for some reason thought he's from Brazil. Well, so this might indeed explain. :) — Shadow The Spring Wizard 14 secs ago
-3 if I could, as I strongly disagree with all three "problems". — Shadow The Spring Wizard 52 secs ago
10:31 AM
10:42 AM
I notice the the lines that aren't working don't have spaces between the closing double bolding asterisks and the cell separators. I don't want to mess around with your post but I would try changing instances of
...**|...
to ...** |...
— Elements in Space 13 secs ago11:27 AM
And I will continue to use custom CSS to restore the arrows. Old style scores in the list, arial instead of system defaults, classic arrow colors, getting rid of watched tag styles, hiding posts with ignored tags... I don't think there's any other site I have so many custom stylesheets for just to restore good UX/UI ruined by site changes. — MMM 52 secs ago
12:13 PM
I'm not sure "99% of people won't know to do that" is true. In almost all of the documentation that I have seen about markdown tables (at various places online, not just for SE) the default is to add leading and trailing pipes, including the inline markdown reference in the SE editor (under the
?
button) as well as the advanced help at meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help. Before reading this question I didn't even know that those pipes were optional in CommonMark. So: the table doesn't render, somebody checks the syntax, notices trailing pipes, adds them, problem solved. — Marijn 59 secs agoOf course the server-side renderer should still be fixed to be consistent with the preview, both in general and for this specific issue, but I doubt that this particular problem will be very common. — Marijn 23 secs ago
12:45 PM
Why do you feel the urge to make the upward and downward sign to be encircled? People are not blind, they can see the signs already!! — Spectra 24 secs ago
Is there any way to do this on mobile? I don’t exactly have a mouse pointer to hover with. — Bbrk24 58 secs ago
Hi Joel, welcome to the Stack Exchange Network Meta site! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an expert's answer for the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — rene 1 min ago
When having wrong syntax, things won't work. The bug is only preview being too "forgiving", and that's pretty minor. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 10 secs ago
1:11 PM
@ShadowTheSpringWizard it is not actually wrong syntax, pipes and spaces are optional according to both the CommonMark specification and SE's markdown help and the Github-flavored markdown documentation that is linked from SE's markdown help. So there is a bug in the server-side renderer. However I think the bug will not be triggered often and/or will be easy to work around because of the prominence of the 'full' syntax in most sources of documentation. — Marijn 43 secs ago
@tripleee Not everything gets deleted, though. But thanks for the appreciation. :) — Andreas detests censorship 57 secs ago
1:58 PM
Hmm ... I don't have a sock with enough reputation to test (you can only suspend users with access to the review queues). Thanks for fixing it, I trust it works now and otherwise I'll report back. — Glorfindel ♦ 46 secs ago
2:25 PM
OK, it may be a simple case of changing the link to a different form. — This_is_NOT_a_forum just now
You're not suspened. You're question banned, which is a different thing. As the linked post states "Moderators cannot lift the ban.", so no it can not be reduced to 2 weeks. — Tinkeringbell ♦ 56 secs ago
"Can the suspension be reduced to 2 weeks to make things easier? However my account should also be closed as I normally don't have any useful things to contribute." Either you want to participate and get the suspension reduced, or you don't and have no more need for the account. I don't understand why you're asking for both. — Mast 35 secs ago
3:08 PM
Note: CommonMark doesn't include tables as part of its Markdown syntax. Tables are an extension to CommonMark. — Makyen 37 secs ago
3:24 PM
Hi Tomsta, welcome to the Stack Exchange Network Meta site! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an expert's answer for the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz 42 secs ago
The name exposed to SEDE is independent of the name of the site itself (that’s where it originally comes from, but it is not kept in sync). This is how other sites such as Unix & Linux, SFF, ELL, etc. already appear in SEDE, as noted in the question. — V2Blast ♦ 50 secs ago
3:45 PM
That might be hard to achieve given that form sits in an iframe and isn't hosted by SE. — rene 15 secs ago
At its core, I agree with your sentiments, and banning certain statements and opinions, is a very dangerous area to step into. But, at the same time, you chose an absolutely horrible example to support your views, and you instead managed to spend this answer at spreading misinformation, and it really is embarrassing. Rarely do I see something so wrong presented so nicely, with such terrible sources. I'd like to give you an upvote for opposing the CoC, but I can't, in this case. Your answer deserves a big downvote. Or perhaps your answer was an attempt at defending the CoC,? Well, good job. — Andreas detests censorship 28 secs ago
3:57 PM
Shouldn't One Trust now be listed as a subprocessor or isn't that needed because we enter our PII directly into their form and submit to their systems? — rene 19 secs ago
Ah, I see the fix is that it now properly expands into a list of review tasks immediately after selecting the template. I thought it would do that on submitting, just like the
{optionalSuspensionAutoMessage}
in moderator messages. — Glorfindel ♦ 8 secs ago4:19 PM
@ShadowTheSpringWizard Ah, good catch! I'll have a fix for that going out today or tomorrow — Dan Cormier 17 secs ago
@ElementsinSpace I noticed that as well in my testing. It's pretty low priority so it might be a while before we have capacity to address it. Nevertheless, I appreciate the report! — Dan Cormier 58 secs ago
4:36 PM
@Andreasdetestscensorship If you enter an elevator and everyone is facing the back wall, do you do the same? I have looked at climate change policies and they are Luddite. When the science itself cannot be discussed I am disgusted. Water vapor is the main greenhouse gas, that is why the Webb is in space, and not here under the blank of clouds and vapor that absorbs IR, mind you, not CO2, but H2O. CO2 has recently increased percentage wise, and that is a nothing-burger. Fine don't learn from me. — Carl 1 min ago
You’re not making any arguments, or shedding any light on anything in that statement. You are however showing your lack of knowledge and competence in the most basics of chemistry. — Andreas detests censorship 31 secs ago
Now, you’re right to criticise certain parts of science. Not all science is good. Sure, science can be discussed. That‘s all fine. But do make sure you possess the knowledge necessary for your claims. You keep saying that a small change in CO2 levels makes no difference, and as you’re so happy to provide analogies, let me provide one too: there’s a wire which can hold 10_000 kg. It’s currently holding 9997 kg. Now you add 6 kg. That wire will break. But 6 kg was such a small change. (Yes, I know physics need to account for more details and uncertainty than this, but it’s simplified. — Andreas detests censorship 7 secs ago
Also, I’m not gonna have any long discussion with you over this topic. I am simply not in the mood for it. That means you won’t change my mind, and I won’t change your mind. Sadly though, your opinion will make you ignore the issues we’re facing, and likely make you push for others to ignore them too. That’s harmful. So I wish you’d change your mind. But I don’t have the energy, nor will, nor interest, in trying to change your opinion at this moment. In addition, it has nothing to do with the CoC, another thing I haven’t cared to comment on by my own, yet. I’m not in the mood. — Andreas detests censorship 27 secs ago
How much data sharing will this cause between Se and One Trust and how much of that is PII? — Mast 54 secs ago
5:38 PM
However, per this 2018 comment on the former, that message changed at some point... — V2Blast ♦ 34 secs ago
Per the answers to More descriptive "User was removed" explanation and Add "what's this?" links to "user was removed" and "serial upvoting" in reputation history, this message was originally changed back in 2014 to say "User was removed (learn more)". — V2Blast ♦ 39 secs ago
I believe this is the default behavior of inbox items that affect reputation. If there's no associated post, it would link to the reputation tab where you can see all changes. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 51 secs ago
But it's only for Stack Overflow. No way to submit request for other sites. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 8 secs ago
@Rob no, this is not a duplicate at all. Totally different bug. (Sadly many users follow the first vote, so I'll check on this to reopen if closed.) — Shadow The Spring Wizard 21 secs ago
6:12 PM
@V2Blast The link in your first comment is related to the copy in the reputation history page. The achievement dropdown uses a different copy, which doesn't contain the link. In a similar vein, the history page says "Voting corrected (learn more)" while the dropdown says "Serial voting was reversed". — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog just now
6:49 PM
I saw the space and wanted to test ridding of it at last minute, but lazied out. I think something similar happens with Sphinx docs in Python - what's with all these sophisticated programs botching up
'\n'.join(l.strip() for l in txt.split('\n') if l.strip() == '')
?? (rhetorical q) — OverLordGoldDragon 9 secs ago7:09 PM
No, it expands it in the draft, giving you a chance to change it before submitting — Yaakov Ellis ♦ 11 secs ago
7:24 PM
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8:30 PM
Hi reza_tx, welcome to Meta! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an answer from users that have the expertise about the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — Sam Onela 24 secs ago
9:03 PM
"One never refers to someone's gender in the presence of that person" You've never told a story involving a person in front of them and used "he"/"him" or "she"/"her" in that story? You've never used "he" or "she" when the context is obvious from a gesture or similar (e.g., "isn't that what he just said?")? This just does not reflect my use of language. It is also unclear to me how, even if that were true, that would make the CoC in any way sexist. — Ryan M 39 secs ago
9:16 PM
Thanks. Btw. not only the number of new questions, but also new answers is trending downwards this year. So maybe with people asking ChatGPT (the statistical language model without expertise) instead of asking here, other people do not need to answer these questions and everyone ends up with more free time. Maybe that's what the CEO meant in his latest "Community is the future of AI" post. — Trilarion 27 secs ago
@ShadowTheSpringWizard It looks as if now there is beginning to be enough time to have meaningful data. Have you looked at the data in starball's answer. It looks as if the impact of ChatGPT is quite big. That or people have given up on mass Q&A or programming in 2023. — Trilarion 12 secs ago
9:31 PM
so, effectively, this particular bit is for obscure edge cases that will be decided upon a case by case basis by staff/mods with no real public guidance on what is and isn't considered misinformation that falls under this guideline? — Kevin B 43 secs ago
9:55 PM
10:12 PM
Hi Dani Setien, welcome to Meta! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an answer from users that have the expertise about the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — Sam Onela 26 secs ago
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11:59 PM
@sha, sadly you don't read the whole comment and put up an argument when I post; let's no do this going forward. I think users read carefully, for the most part, and do their best to review correctly. --- You misunderstood, I didn't write that that particular question is a duplicate of this, I wrote that there are many "tag too long" bugs and that the user should check themselves to see if there's a duplicate; or your time would be better spent doing that for us. — Rob 7 secs ago
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