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@JeffAtwood Email sent. Thanks!

@bapha, sorry, very old - Boobah dance. I've got plenty more kids games, if you like that :)

@Pollyanna the little google / microsoft joke in your video was awesome

Mehrdad

@Pollyanna This issue is inherited from WebKit. Safari has the same behavior.

I tried. Can't fit too much funny stuff in 50 seconds. Plus pushing people's buttons gets a slightly faster response than simply playing the straight man.

6:03 AM

@YiJiang, same thing, but scatter... (order by rep, then plot votes)

the above graph is kinda why I look forward to an election where people have to choose between all fairly high rep users.. making the reflexive, simplistic "I'll just click the biggest number" urge a bit harder for them to satisfy

Yeah, the trend there is fairly obvious

thinking is hard, m'kay

are we trying to prove that rep has nothing to do with votes overall?

@drachenstern We're trying to prove or disprove that people are voting based on the reps of the nominee

6:05 AM

> approximately half of the voting behavior is likely based on the user's reputation

that feels right to me

really it looks like you guys trying to do voodoo stats

@YiJiang, note that the horizontal axis there is just the nominees in order, it has no numeric value as such

@drachenstern, that's the only type of stats I know ;) -> as further proof, I'm doing them using copy/paste and Excel :)

I suspect that the visibility of the votes in the primary may skew the results. You'll probably have a much cleaner correlation in the final election when only the reputation is visible.

Safari has an awesome first-launch experience.

@Benjol Oh, maybe we should plot it according to their reps then, this isn't very clear right now

There certainly is a correlation between reps and votes, but that could also be that these particular high rep users are better candidates

6:06 AM

reminds me of the THX intro.

@YiJiang now that I'll buy

@MichaelPetrotta Yeah, except that I suspect that they load up the several megabyte sized video into their installer

That thing is huge

Oh dear, the tabs got changed to spaces, that's unusable...

@YiJiang: Possibly, but I'd like to take this opportunity to give thanks for the fact that I just downloaded a 35MB installer in 16 seconds. The future is AWESOME.

And yes, Safari exhibits the same behavior.

@MichaelPetrotta I want your bandwidth ;_;

6:09 AM

The future is depressing. Bandwidth will keep increasing but... latency can never become so low you can't notice it :(

Stupid speed of light...

@DanGrossman Hehe, true

name,votes,reps
david t,-35,12.3
tim p,165,12.8
matt ball,-30,14.4
rook,-92,15
lennart,4,15
peter,-33,15.8
michael,202,16.1
bmar,27,16.5
gortok,94,16.7
deadmg,-74,20
casper,19,22.6
kev,126,22.7
mitchel,-10,25
justin,204,29
brad l,100,29.3
jacob,39,34.7
dave d,75,38
chris jet,16,38.1
paul,79,42.8
martin york,15,46.5
gordon,13,47.3
karim,50,51.5
robert h,214,52.2
codadddic,21,53.2
lasse,170,55
slaks,222,111

Copy who will, entered by hand, so no guarantees

@Benjol Gosh, you entered by hand? Didn't you see that script I made up there?

one last look at se.awio.com/election.html, and I'm off to do my civic duty.

@YiJiang, I was already 3/4 of the way through by the time you posted your script ;)

6:11 AM

BTW, +1 for reticulating splines.

@Pollyanna indeed

http://se.awio.com
Date	Unique Visits	New Visitors	Return Visits	Page Views
01/26/2011	7	4	3	9
01/25/2011	206	151	55	269
01/24/2011	822	778	44	1,083

I want to know when Jeff is gonna try and hire YiJiang ;)

2

After Goldman Sachs invests $250 million in the company at a $30 billion valuation... we're in a bubble right?

Just noticed this comment created by one of the nominee in the TSC elections page

> @Tsuyoshi: You are right. But the rest of proof uses the sequential repetition and Chernoff bound

Chernoff bound

In probability theory, the Chernoff bound, named after Herman Chernoff, gives exponentially decreasing bounds on tail distributions of sums of independent random variables. It is better than the first or second moment based tail bounds such as Markov's inequality or Chebyshev inequality, which only yield power-law bounds on tail decay. It is related to the (historically earliest) Bernstein inequalities, and to Hoeffding's inequality. Let X1, ..., Xn be independent Bernoulli random variables, each having probability p > 1/2. Then the probability of simultaneous occurrence of more than n/...

No relation that @RebeccaChernoff, apparently

6:14 AM

> Forget Quora, New York's Stack Overflow Is Killing It observer.com/2011/tech/…

@drachenstern When he finishes school? :)

@Benjol bah

@Dan, I resent the New York's there. StackOverflow is the internet's :)

And Spolsky's responses to that article: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140517

observer.com/2010/media/slideshow/… Hehe

I've seen the list before, but heh, the pictures really did it for me

6:19 AM

I feel like I'm peering into the world's mind, reading that list. Creepy.

And yes, one of them is my parent's wifi config password.

@MichaelPetrotta letmein

"trustno1" really...

For your amusement: Avatar/votes

Avatar	Vote
Face/Logo	227
icon (asian character)	218
face	209
icon (chess)	208
face	171
Monkey	169
face & cat	129
face	102
Face	96
face	82
face	82
Simpsons	52
face	42
art (too small)	29
Unicorn	24
facepalm	20
nature	17
art (eye)	16
icon (letter)	16
face	5
art (abstract)	-5
Face	-9
face	-13
face	-15
face	-26
8bit	-31
grav_default	-33
Barcode	-35
Dog	-75
chess & bird	-92

#1 - 123456 - was my first Linux root password - resulting in my hard drive being wiped by someone who got my IP from an IRC channel under an hour from installing the OS :)

hunter2

oh, wait, crap, did I type that?

6:23 AM

Now I just need your IP so I can SSH in...

just think, with this publicity, tonight we have fixed Chrome's text selection for everyone.

dear internet: you're welcome

have we now?

I already fixed Google for you ingrates

@JeffAtwood Right, now please get them to fix that damn text shadow bug on Windows

Did someone write a patch?

6:25 AM

We've certainty added to the number of complaints on the Internet. It might be running out of space for them...

please, constructive criticism

@JeffAtwood for your next trick can you teach people how to ask a *(@#$(@$#(@$@# question?

We're working on it! well, actually Quora already solved that, right? Or so I have read..

@Pollyanna, and how about Generalist/votes? :P

lol, I know right?

6:27 AM

I've gotta spend this week playing with Amazon SES. Amazon's sure launching new services fast recently.

$0.10 per 1000 emails is crazy, that's an order of magnitude less than what I'm paying SendGrid without a monthly fee.

We should lobby to make site.SE/questions/how-to-ask and tinyurl.com/so-hints required education in every public school in the world. (well, tweaked into a general algo sorta thing)

[announcement] For the record, I'm voting up Paul Dixon because he's from the UK :)

ooo there's an amazon mailing service?

sending mails is so painful

Yep, just launched

@Jeff: I sense sarcasm

6:29 AM

no, it actually is

well, if you want them to arrive, it is

@JeffAtwood :agrees:

@JeffAtwood howso? I use mailto: and <alt><s>

codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/…

@JeffAtwood ahhh, that's totally different. I think we all thought you meant as a user

Guess I've been spoiled. Send to IT-provided SMTP server. DONE

6:30 AM

have you ever worked with anything ... high tech?

that's right up there with validating email addresses in the first place ;)

boss wanted me to implement a regex for that just recently. I looked at him like he was dumb and said "really?"

Then a coworker wanted to scrape some HTML for something ... I was all /facepalm

Speaking of validating email addresses, did you know that Google News doesn't let you subscribe with a +address?

You do now!

.*@.*

@MichaelPetrotta @@@@@@@@@@@@@@!

I use dan@dangrossman.info for most personal mails, and it gets rejected by e-mail validation code all the time. Apparently 4 letter TLDs can't have e-mail?

6:32 AM

@RebeccaChernoff ??? seriously?

@Dan: ...why?

@Benjol LOL.

ok people, the mutts want out so that indicates it's pillowtime

until the morrow. Some of you should really try sleep, I hear it's a wonderful thing!

It reminded me of an old ITT Technical Institute commercial. This is a trade school for computer-type stuff. They had a comercial where a guy walks into an interview and the potential employer asks...

> Have you ever worked with anything
> (...small pause for dramatic emphasis...)
> high-tech?

The interviewee looks all bewildered. Apparently he hadn't worked with anything "high-tech" (whatever that's supposed to mean) and needs to go to ITT Tech so he can do better in job interviews.

@MichaelPetrotta Stupidly written regex that chokes on .info I assume

6:33 AM

use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=7732&no_d2=1&cid=11805

laters

@drachenstern Seriously. I tried setting one for rebecca+alerts@so

You know, I'm changing my answer. .*

Everyone's happy.

@RebeccaChernoff that's pretty dumb ..I agree

Back before I wised up, I argued with a cashier at Borders about the validity of email addresses with embedded '+'.

6:35 AM

Ha. Captioning that on youtube was a snap. I'm impressed.

I was quite dumb.

Michael Mrozek

@MichaelPetrotta I did that exact thing maybe a month ago. Same store, same character

Apparently their system doesn't even let them type a '+' in the field

What do you call that little blurb that appears on the bottom of each posts identifying the poster? [user-signature]? [user-profile]?

Some things just aren't worth the effort.

Michael Mrozek

@YiJiang It's called the post signature in the source

6:40 AM

@MichaelMrozek I know, but I can't find the correct tag

Michael Mrozek

Oh. There might not be one; I'm not sure

I'm creating the [user-signature] tag then

Q: Badge information text directions reversed after Hebrew RTL name in user signature

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Is the order of rep and badges in the following image a feature or a bug? I think it followed the user's right to left preference, but still

balpha

sort primary results by votes:

$("#mainbar > table > tbody").append($("#mainbar > table > tbody > tr").get().sort(function(a, b) {return $(".vote-count-post", b).text() - $(".vote-count-post", a).text();}));

6:41 AM

I wonder if my edit is okay

@YiJiang we call it the "user card"

we don't support RTL so that will just get declined

Oooh, ooh, I know, let's call it a vCard!

[status-declined] should be renamed I think.

status-when-pigs-fly

discussion specific-question off-topic closed-questions

magic657

79 4

status-give-it-to-that-newbie-Rebecca

6:44 AM

status-when-rebecca-chernoff-uses-forward-facing-smiles

That does equally convey "fat chance", I approve.

status-dogs-walked

status-buh-bye-now

status-almost-but-not-entirely-unlike-status-approved

status-gtfo

^^ too direct?

Yes

Q: Show most recent answers first in old questions

6:46 AM

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Waffles describes fighting information rot as one of the great challenges for 2011. The biggest problem with old and much-voted-on questions is that it's very hard for new answers to change the "status quo", i.e. gain recognition for new, more up to date, meaningful contributions. Even though th...

feature-request questions

@JeffAtwood Should be reserved for spammers

interesting idea from Pekka

@balpha, looks like Rook's campaign promise of evil is not helping his ranking :)

He who left?

I would argue that in the typical case most questions have 4 answers at most.. so adding another answer, is not so buried. This is only an issue on the ten+ answer type "questions" which.. well..

balpha

6:47 AM

@Benjol yeah, luckily not

users will not vote up evil, this has been proven time and time again

@balpha, and TBH, I'm quite happy with the top 10 as it stands. Never come across SLaks before, right tags, weird

but then there is the pity UPvoting, which does happen, and is kind of a bummer as well

My experience is that when I add new content to old questions, it always floats up except in rare cases.

Rare cases including a very highly voted answer, or a lot of answers.

for the people who REALLY care about that question they DO read all the answers. Trust me.

6:49 AM

That is true.

yes, once you get beyond 10+ long-ish answers that is no longer true, but then we're talking about a tiny subset of questions anyway

Mostly "what's your favorites" or code golfs

Generally that only occurs on highly subjective questions.

Yeah. Me-too type questions.

Exactly that adam

techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/real-blogs-dont-have-interstitial-ads

6:51 AM

Rather than turning questions into CW after 25 answers, let's just delete them. The instant the 25th answer is added, poof, gone.

@DanGrossman hehehe

harsh.. I LIKE IT

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Um no. But after 25 they should fall off normal results lists and goto FAQs or the like

Oooh, let's auto-migrate them to programmers.se! I just know that's the best solution all around!

@Pollyanna we could HIGHLIGHT new answers in some visual way without changing the sort order, perhaps

the idea is not entirely without merit

With artificial FHCs?

6:54 AM

@JeffAtwood Morning :)

we could, for example, put up a small little mini-banner above the first answer that says "2 new answers provided in the last 7 days" that zaps you to the anchor

amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q2ULMY?ie=UTF8&tag=reddit2-20

@JeffAtwood It's worth considering, although it would give spammers new reason to post on old answers.

I sorta like that @Jeff

but really the weakness of this request is that it is only about 10+ answer questions which we don't like that much anyway, and which represent a tiny tiny fraction of overall questions

eg it is kind of a micro-optimization and in an area... that I don't like

6:56 AM

No, I think any sort of necroanswer deserves this

I'd like to see some evidence of questions with new answers where the new answers are arguably better than existing, and aren't being voted up.

Do necroanswers get special "lookit this" status as is?

that's what I said in a comment to Pekka

this is much more a Reddit problem than a Stack Overflow problem

@Polly so should we flag em? Start an MSO and add them to that?

(or even Hacker News really)

6:57 AM

@Jeff don't be short sighted tho :/

I agree with your sentiment today

necroanswers bump the question, and there is a click target to see the latest thing on a bumped Q

Which is fine exept the front page cycles five times a day on SO

Unless it gets seen right away :/ could go unvoted on

CLICK RED ARROW

6:59 AM

That's a clickable link?

sigh

I was not aware

this is also true on any mini-question view.. click the date of modification

@Jeff I have to admit I only realised that was a link a year after using Super User.

it's @Diago 's change as I recall

7:00 AM

Yeah I knew that one

Most likely

SO has a bad habit of having multiple pieces of text, in the same font, in the same size, in the same color, where some of that text is a link and some is just text.

2

Ok, @Adam you'll be catching the rest of us up in 8ish hours right? ;)

Q: Add link to most recent activity of a question.

ooh sorry @diago it was Oscar Reyes

26

Currently in the front page, if a question is modified, answered, commented etc. the last user to affect the question appears: Which is great. The problem is when I want to know what that user did. For instance, for very popular questions I know it will be the last answer in page ... 16 et...

feature-request status-completed recent-activity hyperlinks

@JeffAtwood I posted a question on Stack Apps I would really like your input on, do you need the link or will you have a look when you go past the site again?

@JeffAtwood Yeah, my claim to fame is the Tag Blacklist that became tag synonyms.

Q: Drafting users for testing in Alpha/Beta stage?

7:03 AM

0

I finally stopped stagnating long enough to start working on an application for Stack Apps using the API. Development is going well and within the next 6 to 8 weeks there will be enough functionality for the application to be usable. I am hoping to be able release the application using a release...

discussion apps release listing

A: Show most recent answers first in old questions

I weighed in:

0

My experience has been that new answers I put on old questions get voted up, especially if I note that something about the language/framework/etc has changed that makes the original best answer less useful. I'll usually add comments to the accepted and top answers indicating that newer informati...

(Finding question on Stack Apps ain't hard btw. There is rarely any) Sad actually, the impression is that no one cares about using the API since the initial big hype.

@JeffAtwood That's the one :)

well the API is in a stable state, why would there need to be tons of questions about it?

APIs do not evolve fast, would you really want them to?

God no. See:Twitter.

@JeffAtwood Fair enough. If you look at it that way

Although I have a lot of questions now that I have started using it. I must actually post them when I get some time and I am not busy writing code.

@JeffAtwood BTW. I have to give kudus to the guys that did the election software, it is awesome to see the primary system actually work, and I was concerned some people will not get a fair chance before the actual election starts on Super User

7:09 AM

yes I am very happy with the elections.. the SF town hall chat was fantastic too

Anyways. Work started 45 minutes ago and I haven't done a thing yet. Laters

A: Drafting users for testing in Alpha/Beta stage?

0

It is acceptable, so long as it is usable in some form. What we object to is people listing an app that exists only in their imagination and not reality. That's not helping people looking for, y'know, actual apps that run on our API...

►

@JeffAtwood, did you happen to notice how many users were in the town hall room?

You found it! Someone from twitter, or did you search yourself?

@RebeccaChernoff I did not, but it wasn't a huge number

@codinghorror http://youtu.be/l31I9RvluEA

Tweeted by Encosia on January 26, 2011 at 6:46 AM in reply to codinghorror

7:14 AM

I guessed 20-25.

See, I just need to get to 40k followers, then I can have my own instant question answering machine.

I was going to say 20-ish

Yes, how to be successful as a digital music artist, step one: BECOME RADIOHEAD

ugh @DanGrossman I had to delete that

It was making you hungry, wasn't it

only if your definition of "hungry" includes "nauseous"

Kragen

Oh god, it's actually a real thing :-(

Q: 2011 Moderator Elections - Town Hall Chat: 3pm UTC on the 31st

7:17 AM

SU Town Hall Chat is scheduled:

8

In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. I am working with the can...

discussion election

Geoff Dalgas

I have fixed the bug you found @YiJiang and reversed your vote - thanks for the report, our build won't go out until tomorrow

7:30 AM

If you can't remember whether you've actually ever interacted with a nominee (or anyone else for that matter): data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/499/…

@Benjol - Very nice!

@Pollyanna thanks

7:48 AM

"This disc is intended for rental purpose and only includes the feature film." Netflix :(

> Oops. First 3 mails in my gmail spam folder:

8:33 AM

BREAKING NEWS! Apple.com's been redesigned. Brushed metal has been replaced with "web 2.0" shiny glass styles.

I've added Primary votes to the stats page

Will add sort order and widthdrawn candidate soon

sweet

8:58 AM

vyou.com has exploded sort of

Its like a question answer site similar to formspring

except that the answers to question are video responses

Problem: Only beautiful people will want to use it.

Nice to see that people are mostly voting 'right' for the moment :)

democracy is working - by my definition of working :)

@YiJiang can we have up/down ratio in a tool tip please? :)

@Benjol Where?

Oh, okay

@DanGrossman yeah its the same old thing .. pervs asking beauts creepalicious question

@YiJiang, don't know if it's a useful statistic, mind you

9:04 AM

Meh, it's trivial to implement - I <3 jQuery templates :P

The MYYN is the most surprising - almost no votes

but its kinda entertaining ... you know .. its always fun to make jokes about celebs

@Benjol He withdrew very quickly after the Primary started, and withdrawn candidates cannot be voted upon

ok, that explains it

@MichaelMrozek is doing very well, compared to his rep

Why cant we have epic mod battles like wikipedia ? Its kinda gay to democratically choose miss unicorn =[ . ( im just kidding )

9:09 AM

Hang on, that reminds me - are there any female candidate at all?

All the females on this website are automatically mods no ?

like rebecca

@Reno Ah yes, how did I forget that

That's how she got her diamond

@YiJiang On SO, no (AFAICT). On programmers there's Anna Lear

@Benjol Ah, so there's one after all! Still, kind of depressing given, hmm... she's the only one out of all the elections

Gaming will have Grace, of course

@YiJiang I'm not saying she's the only one, just the only one I've noticed

9:14 AM

Well, I'm pretty sure that she's the only one

Unfortunately, StackExchange is still largely seeded from SO, which is still overwhelmingly male. As I said yesterday, there are at least 5 ladies in the top 5 users on Moms4Mom, and the ethos there is a lot more gentle. Kind of the antithesis of math...

Moms4Mom?

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

@tom, it's a SE1.0 site moms4mom.com

9:18 AM

yeah just google'd and saw the colour scheme...

20 hours ago, by Yi Jiang

@Benjol Ack! Green and purple! My eyes!

:)

still gets 1-3 questions a day

and they're real questions too

I liked the color scheme . :o ... i must be smoking too much of the good stuff

a far cry from SO but still well used

Did you know that complementing colors are powerful

Powerful or overwhelming?

9:24 AM

Most of the biggies use red - blue as their logos .. like pepsi , flickr and what not

@tombull89 light blue / light orange are catchy too that is why if you have a tan a light blue tee looks good ... i took some photography classes

oh yeah teh USA

and brit / aussie flags

@Reno where is your account here then?!!! photo.stackexchange.com

@Benjol im not rich :( and i broke my camera ... nor can i afford photoshop

I'd buy CS5 if I could get the Student & Teacher pricing... their retail prices are ridiculous :(

@Reno It's called Photography now, not Photography & Photographic Editing

9:30 AM

@Benjol To be fair im like obssessed with analog lenses ... i hang out at my friends photostudio fiddling with the equipment

Regex help: is there any better way than ((\s*|,\s*)\d+)* to match a list of integers which can be separated by space, comma, or space-comma?

I should join that SE , maybe later , i stalk it occasionally

(Ignoring the leading number issue)

thinks: I could search on SO :)

@YiJiang, have you looked at those up/down ratios? Very interesting...

Almost linear with votes, except for SLaks and Kev

-2

Q: Moving ball in HTML5

Small ball moving by screen. Need a code.

html5

@DanGrossman plz-give-me...nah.

9:45 AM

he did not even say please >:[

need-a-code

well, flagged. let's see how long it lasts.

aaand it is ^_^

why does he even need code to move a ball "by" the screen

A: what are the good ways to document an operating information system ?

0

Thank you for No Answer!!!

all he needs to do is use a spherical thingy like a chocolate

he'll go far...

9:52 AM

@Benjol what?...just what?!

10:12 AM

He answered his own question in frustration, because nobody else answered it after 6 days.

I wasn't that bad a question, though a bit hard to tell what he wanted.

10:28 AM

@Benjol There was no need to nuke the question too

@badp, yeah, I was just polishing off a nice polite comment about how he could get an answer, and poof! the question disappeared from under my nose. Harsh

@Benjol Jeff deleted it, hmmmm...

Doesn't he sleep?

"This disc is intended for rental purposes and only includes the feature film." But still includes the full menu, just every button on the menu goes nowhere except "Play Movie". :(

@YiJiang User's been suspended as well

10:41 AM

@ChrisF, Wow, that's violent

@ChrisF That's... odd, hmmm. There must be something I'm not seeing here

I guess it wasn't first time though

A: Error converting client characters into server's character set ??

@Benjol Yup:

-2

Thank you for No Answer !!

Odd that Jeff didn't delete though, might have let this one slip

This is odd... I'm looking through the list of recently deleted posts, and some of them looks legit - not in my field, of course, but I'm not sure if they meet deletion criteria

...a 6 months' suspension too

I don't know, I think we're missing something here

10:50 AM

@YiJiang The answer's been deleted now

stackoverflow.com/questions/4733266/…

^ Another deleted 'Thanks for no answer'

I think all the 'Thanks for no answer' was causing a lot of the questions to be bumped and flagged, so he just deleted them

I want to comment on a question "you are not the right person for this job, your boss should give this work to someone else", but that would be very rude.

Hmm... the list shows a huge number of spam deletes when the spammer is deleted

:Replies to publisher giving permission to use W3Counter market share data in a text book:

Wow... these spammers are a lot more persistent then you'd think

10:58 AM

I wonder if Stack Overflow is included in those Xrumer auto-posting programs...

Q: Minor layout problem with negative votes

0

At the risk of rubbing salt into Rook's current status in the primaries, is this a formatting/layout bug?: The negative sign is sitting on top of the overall vote count instead of to the left.

bug layout information-display

Hehehehe...

@YiJiang nice to be popular

@badp is that not a leetle excessive?

@tombull89 not my call to make!

I guess they've sent the guy an email and if the discussion moves on the suspension will be reviewed

Q: Weird code formatter preview issue

0

I've only just found this problem while writing an answer. Edit this question and you'll see the preview has the final two braces vertically aligned. Remove the semi-colon after "value" and it goes to the right place... put the semi-colon back and it reverts to the incorrect rendering. public st...

bug editing code-formatting

I can't repro this ^

11:13 AM

I expected the ingredient list for Reduced Fat Pringles to be something disgusting and chemical-ridden. It's surprisingly food-sounding. Dried potatos, vegetable oil wheat starch, maltodextrin, corn flour, rice flour, salt and dextrose. That's it.

Q: Request For Comment: JQuery Form Builder Plugin

0

Hi there, The JQuery Form Builder Plugin is the first JQuery plugin created by me. Finally, the first demo of the Form Builder went live and hosted in Google App Engine (GAE) at http://jquery-form-builder-plugin.appspot.com/. I would like to seeking your reviews, comments and advices for Desig...

jquery form wysiwyg builder formbuilder

Close this ^

voted

-- 2011-01-26 rep +254 = 6244

wasn't the rep cap 200?

@DanGrossman Accepted answer and bounties do not figure into that

ah, awesome

-- 2011-01-26 rep +279 = 6269

I think I'll just keep answering questions then.

Q: Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes

@YiJiang me neither

@YiJiang At least you don't have that layout bug :)

@Pekka is going out with a bang, coming up with good ideas and humping bounty on them

Seen this one?

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On Super User; @IvoFlipse was looking for a query to find old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes. Because those kind of questions clutter the site and keep the unanswered question ratio high, it is a good idea to keep the site clean from questions like these. It's very unlikely ...

discussion delete unanswered-questions

data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/65891/…

11:32 AM

@Benjol Yes - I saw the original on meta SU and suggested they publicise the query more widely. I actually think it would make a good mod/10K tool.

@ChrisF, includes closed for the moment. Nearly exclusively closed, as it happens

So if a question couldn't be answered you should sweep it under the rug? :)

Well the query can be tweaked can't it? or indeed split into 2 so that mods can see old closed question and delete them.

@ChrisF, yep, I'm tweaking right now. The whole question is whether closed questions need deleting or not, I guess. Or whether dupes have any (mythical) value...

@badp That's not my reading ;) If it's been this long with no activity then the OP has abandoned it - or at least that's my take on it.

11:36 AM

Ooops, got my query backwards, I think most aren't closed. Trying again...

@ChrisF, may be interesting to see if OP hasn't been back in ages too... tweaking continues

No reason to ever delete data, save for spam or other abuse of the site. You can add a noindex meta tag on the page if you don't think it's useful for Google searchers to find.