Our dear friend Sankar has decreased by ~1,000 reputation in the past week. :P
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Anonymous
2:35 AM
Hmm. I was half-way through writing a bug report about publicity badges being awarded for intra-network sharing, but it has occurred to me that Referer-hiding browsers may explain it.
Anonymous
2:49 AM
# Publicity badges are being awarded for links within the network
The referral links for the Announcer, Booster and Publicist badges [aren't supposed to credit you for links shared on Stack Exchange itself](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/114608/134300), only for visits that come from outside the network. However, I've recently been awarded two unexpected [Announcer badges on meta](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/74/announcer?userid=134300) and I suspect they came from intra-network sharing.
Anonymous
So I guess the next step is to deliberately spam referral links on MSO to cash in on gradual accumulation of Referrer-free clicks.
They could tweak the entire system to automatically remove user ID numbers from SE network URLs so that it's not possible to link to your referrer URL inside the network.
Then it's just people intentionally masking their URLs with services such as Bitly. Those who just don't think about removing their user ID from the URL when posting it within the network would be covered.
@JeremyBanks Yeah, I received Announcer the other day on StackApps for one of the userscripts, and I don't recall ever posting the link outside of the network (except perhaps on Skype, but not to 25 people)
@Lix the URL in the user's other remaining question (why am I always downvoted?) on meta includes the fragment what-should-i-do-when-i-get-this-message
@awoodland Looks like the OP made a suggested edit to include the solution that worked for him, the answerer added a missing semicolon, and then the OP came back after realising that they only needed IndexLoader once, despite their comment that the original code worked.
The answerer is now confused whether the original code worked, or if the second IndexLoader is redundant.
They may have just autocompleted originally and not realised that the suggested fragment had two IndexLoaders in it.
But I don't know which code is correct to begin with, so I'm not positive.
@jadarnel27 Yeah...I was trying to ignore all of those things by playing. I'm not sure that was the best idea. As it is, I'm rather late for work, although for unrelated reasons.
@Moshe that's one of those things I feel I ought to remember without looking it up but in reality if I ever need that I'm going straight for a reference book
> There is a problem with the page you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. When the Web server (while acting as a gateway or proxy) contacted the upstream content server, it received an invalid response from the content server.
What an awful error message. You, Microsoft, are doing it wrong.
It's just the default error from whatever public facing proxy they've got everything behind though isn't it? So the assumption is that the message isn't for public consumption.
@awoodland Right, not for public consumption. I shouldn't be seeing it then =) I guess there might not be much they can do if I'm not making it past the proxy, though.
@PopularDemand Edit in hate speech. Get flagged. Have sockpuppet roll back edit to clear offensive flags. Have sockpuppet invisibly destroy the rollback revision to unbump post.
@mootinator And the way I survive, by the way, is eating out all the time. And showing up unannounced at my brother's house when I think his girlfriend might be cooking ^_^
Actually we could do better than this ... using AB testing we could pick to display half of the -1 voted question on the site as 0 and half as -1 ... and see if either of the groups is more likely to be upvoted! Ingenious. — Sam SaffronJun 2 '11 at 7:41
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If the form hasn't been submitted yet, $_POST['save'] will be undefined and return a Notice error. Also, you not caring because others don't care only contributes to the overall problem of people not caring. It's still an error. It shouldn't matter what kind of error it is. — animuson1 min ago
Hey, dont be a sour loser. If you would take a moment to check my topics on error reporting, then you would know that I stand very very clear on anti-strict error reporting. Strict error reporting makes programming longer, code more difficult and at the end what does it make better? Its called NOTICE for a purpose. — Kalle H. Väravas7 mins ago
It's tempting to respond, but there's just no way to do it professionally. I'm not even sure how to flag that exchange, but it shouldn't be there.
I think your initial comment stands fine on its own. It doesn't invalidate the answer, just adds some useful information to it. Every comment after it adds noise.
I was originally going to downvote his answer but I thought I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. Now I feel he deserves one but that he'd probably overreact...
@David In fairness to him, he didn't claim to be competely mistake-free. He just said that all the mistakes he makes are the kind he can "spot with [his] eyes." Whatever that means.
@PopularDemand In my case, not making mistakes I cannot spot with my eyes means that when I made a mistake, after some debugging, I'm always able to spot my stupid mistake in the code with my eyes. I guess it means the same for him, except he doesn't consider his debugging debugging.
Help me dammit! What are those pop up notifications you see when you mouse over a tag? There's an official name for them but for the life of me I can't remember their names and sdlfsd wWERIASCKJAL;FJSFHDJHASDSKLDSD
Differently from the other language, in JavaScript this always refers to the “owner” of the function we're executing, or rather, to the object that a function is a method of.
What is the advantage/purpose of this behaviour compered with other languages?
@animuson It's been long enough after the fact, I doubt he'll associate it with you. Even if he does, so what? Let him maliciously down-vote you in retaliation and see where that gets him.
Hahaha omg my friend's responses are always so grand :D
"someone with low experience needs debugging" - what a line... its like saying "great chefs dont need an apron" or "great race car drivers dont need helmets" or "great porn stars dont need to wear condoms"
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Differently from the other language, in JavaScript this always refers to the “owner” of the function we're executing, or rather, to the object that a function is a method of.
What is the advantage/purpose of this behaviour compered with other languages?
