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12:00 AM
Sorry to hear that @Jeroen!
@Undo oh, I wish!
|commander1=Ehud Olmert Amir Peretz Dan Halutz Moshe Kaplinsky Udi Adam Eliezer Shkedi David Ben Ba'ashat |strength1=At least 10,000 soldiers (+ IAF&ISC); 30,000 soldiers in the last few days |casualties1=Israel Defense Forces: Killed: 119 killed Wounded: 1,244 Captured: 2 (later confirmed dead) ---- Israeli civilians: 44 dead 33 seriously wounded 68 moderately wounded 1,388 lightly wounded ---- Foreign civilians: 2 dead |combatant2= Hezbollah |commander2=Hassan Nasrallah Imad Mughniyeh Nabih Berri Ali Qanso Khaled Hadadi Ahmed Jibril |strength2= Several hundreds (south of the Lit...
oh onebox messed it up
 
@ShadowWizard Oh wow ;(
 
No worry, I'm here to tell right? ;)
 
;)
 
Talking about sleep, I'm going to claim my own now. C'ya!
 
Cya!
 
 
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1:06 AM
Recently we've noticed a substantial number of suggested edits coming from your account that inappropriately use the inline code formatting. This formatting is explicitly reserved for **code** that can be placed inline in a sentence or phrase. It should **not** be used to emphasize or highlight keywords. As well, excessive use of inline code (even for things which *are* code) can hinder the readability of a post and turn it into an eye-sore. Please use the formatting option conservatively, and remember, **only if it is actually code**.
^ Pretend the formatting works.
 
1:32 AM
@Shog9 I think that would be a great start. Alternatively, you can make protected questions have all answers enter the queue for users with lower reps, so that they can be reviewed/commented/improved by the community before being unleashed on the question.
 
@jmac approval queues for posts is not a can I wish to let the worms out of; there is a place for such a strategy (the suggested edit queue is a good example), but also a lot of overhead. SE is most satisfying when answers arrive quickly.
Not totally sold on auto-Protect yet, but it's something I'm going to look into further.
 
@Shog9 The main issue with the questions that get protected is that they get a lot of new answers that don't really contribute anything, but the flood of new users means they only get upvotes which encourages poor answers and muddies the waters.
 
@jmac oh, I know
 
It is embarrassing how few downvotes we make on TWP, but it's also a conundrum. We want to not scare away new users by being critical before they have a chance to improve, but it means that we also don't have enough downvotes for mediocre answers that contribute nothing on those hot questions.
 
@animuson You want another person's edits to look at? stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3874246#./…
 
1:37 AM
(and as you know, hot questions quickly gain momentum from # of answers, and more upvotes on those marginal answers)
 
@jmac don't get hung up about "scaring away new users". If folks want a place they can post any old thing without repercussions, those exist and are easy to find - best they find them. If they're interested in something better, you want to be that place.
 
I'm willing to try out anything that will improve that, be it auto-protect, fiddling with the hot list formula, or just giving trusted users a special tag that will remove the question from the hot list (or severely impact its score to the point that it can be left off until it is edited and made pretty and ready to be released in to the wild)
@Shog9 That works great on places with rather clear guidelines and subject matters. The Workplace is really hard to grok for new users, and in my experience a friendly comment plus a downvote doesn't work as well as just the comment (and a downvote later if needed)
I'd love to have timed downvotes or the like to help out, but I understand the SE concept (I'd like to think) and get that you want to encourage 'firm but fair' behavior to create quality rather than just attract quantity.
 
@jmac Right. For all the shrill whining, SE isn't bad for folks who are actually trying to get stuff done, folks who know stuff, and folks who need to know stuff. If we have to drive away people who just want to chat in order to achieve that, it's a fair trade.
 
@Shog9 And for a site like The Workplace, the issue is that there are perfectly reasonable people with a lot of know-how who just can't grok the subtle differences between quality and crap.
 
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Q: Blacklist the [microsoft] and [apple] tags

Tobias KienzlerAs another question already sufficiently elaborated upon, there is absolutely no sensible reason for the tags microsoft and apple (together ~7k questions) to exist. Naming the concrete product involved is the appropriate tagging here, therefore I propose eliminating these tags for good.

@Shog9 ^ Any thoughts on that?
 
1:43 AM
@jmac Sure. And nothing against TWP - I'm generally impressed with the job y'all have done - but this is why the topic got kicked off two previous sites; it's bloody difficult to moderate.
 
There is the great good subjective bad subjective blog post, but the more I try to reference it, the more I realize it doesn't actually reflect what a good question is.
Totally agreed that it's hard. Thankfully we have a group of core users who are willing to put in the effort to do it. The only issue is when something comes along that breaks our site but isn't as much of an issue for other sites.
 
@hichris123 first thought is, "find out if someone's in the middle of a really big, complicated retagging campaign before I yank the rug out from under them".
 
@Shog9 I assume you're refering to what happened with ?
 
@hichris123 Yeah, I was a bit miffed about the hullabaloo . Probably didn't handle it as gracefully as I should have.
 
But pulling rugs is so much fun.
 
1:47 AM
@jmac I didn't make the connection between and you. :P Now I see it.
@animuson Why?
 
@hichris123 if you pull them really really fast you can remove them without breaking the delicate china placed atop
 
@hichris123 I have a tendency to be an idiot. I was hiding in my little corner of the SO universe () when I saw someone retagging things so we got all these new questions. Looking at the edits I saw the google tag, and once I dove down that rabbit hole, there was no coming back.
 
@Shog9 So that's what you do in your free time! That makes so much sense now.
 
free time? HA! ha ha ha ha
 
It's called multi-tasking. He can manage communities AND practice his parlor tricks at the same time.
 
1:50 AM
@jmac I would have helped, but 1) I was lazy and 2) wasn't at 2K until after burn/blacklist.
@Shog9 You do have magical talents after all.
 
Note: Stack Exchange's Fine China budget has more than tripled under Shog's reign of terror. But he hasn't torn a tablecloth in a year!
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2:02 AM
so I just got a random +6 rep appear... but i have to idea why it occurred.
 
@AlienArrays Which site?
 
It's in the top bar, so I think it could be any site right?
just said +6 and then doesn't have a link to anything new...
 
@AlienArrays Errr, did you click it? That should give you a little display of how much you earned on what site, and should explain the breakdown.
 
All it shows for today is that I got one new badge. It doesn't show any up or down reps. I just been doing reviews .
 
What about yesterday?
(UTC just switched over to a new day, so it could have been yesterday that it happened)
 
2:06 AM
@AlienArrays You just deleted several posts which each had a downvote, gaining you the 6 reputation back that you had previously lost. Since they're deleted posts, they won't show up in the dropdown.
 
@animuson oh, dang, that's right, I deleted three bad answers
thank you animuson
 
Tim Post is incredibly diplomatic. Looking through Alien's post history I came across this answer which just comes across very very well.
 
2:34 AM
@jmac True. It's very well put.
(Though I can't help feeling that prizes for good edits might be fun. On SO, I edit mainly for grammar and clarity, but on some other sites I've completely rewritten questions, which rescued some of them from impending deletion. I enjoy editing.)
 
I think editing needs to be promoted too.
I am a huge fan of the type of edit you're talking about. On The Workplace we call them Aggressive Edits, and some refer to them as Heroic Edits. Which has a nice ring to it too, but I feel like I'm tooting my own horn when I use it.
@TRiGisTimothyRichardGreen And if you like edits, you should like this feature request.
"All pings to @Tim should correctly address all Tims simultaneously since nobody can remember which is which."
 
@jmac Upvoted. Does look interesting, yes.
 
SQL syntax is not cool.
I think to myself, "All I want to do get the number of questions with a certain amount of answers" and think, "I have an AnswerCount field, I have a Posts Table, this should be easy!" And then I try it and I can't figure out how the dickens I'm supposed to do it.
 
2:50 AM
@jmac Just tell me what to do, and I'll do it for you. :P
 
I did it. But now I am confused by how there are questions with no AnswerCount. And I wish I had my @Tim superping.
 
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Posts WHERE AnswerCount = 4
(Warning: not tested, is probably wrong.)
 
SELECT
    Count(*) AS PostCount,
    AnswerCount
FROM
    Posts
WHERE
    PostTypeId = 1
GROUP BY
    AnswerCount
ORDER BY
    AnswerCount DESC
That actually worked for me. I think.
 
@jmac That looks good to me.
 
2:52 AM
I am so smart, S-Q-L-T. Mmmmm... BLTs...
 
@jmac SQL is completely unlike anything else I've ever heard of. But I am also completely unable to imagine any replacement.
 
@jmac Um, AnswerCount can apparently be null. data.stackexchange.com/workplace/revision/162192/206728/…
Maybe deleted posts?
 
Deleted posts are not included.
 
No...
 
I did write most of a PHP library which would allow you to abstract out most SQL, but I'm not sure it's a good idea. It was years ago. I dug it up recently, and am about half way through moving it from mysql to mysqli.
 
2:54 AM
Which is the curious part. I'm guessing that it's probably actually migrated posts.
 
Wild theory: Questions that have never been answered are NULL, questions that were answered but had all answers deleted are 0.
 
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A: Why are there so few posts with zero comments?

Jon EricsonMost posts have NULL in the CommentCount field The CommentCount < 30 clause explicitly filters out rows where CommentCount is NULL. (This is because NULL represents the absence of data so logical operators involving NULL always return false.) Thankfully, SQL flavors offer ways to treat NULL as...

 
@TRiGisTimothyRichardGreen Thankfully I don't know any language properly, so the whole 'it is different' factor is not that big of a problem for my comprehension compared to the fact that I am not a very practiced programmer.
 
AnswerCount is Null, score is wrong, all sorts of stuff.
perhaps?
 
@jmac Well, nor do I. I have a degree in chemistry, but somehow drifted into web development. I have a reasonable working knowledge of PHP and javascript, and that's about it.
 
2:59 AM
@hichris123 I can't.
You need to ping one of the Tims (the proper one) who can explain it.
Or Jon Ericsson, since he seems smart about this sort of thing.
 
@hichris123 The answer I linked above seems to suggest this is by-design.
 
@hichris123 The score is correct.
And it never had any answers, so the AnswerCount being null is bydesign per the post @animuson linked.
You may have been confused because you were automatically redirected to the duplicate.
 
Oh, wrong post.
Gimme a sec.
Yeah, I was auto-redirected to the dupe.
@TimStone Why?
 
Anonymous users are automatically redirected on duplicates.
 
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Q: Automatically redirect anonymous user from unanswered duplicate question to corresponding answered version

Mad ScientistDuplicate questions that use different words to describe the same problem are important for people to find the content via search engines. But the user experience when an anonymous user arrives at a duplicate is less than ideal. They have to notice the duplicate link and understand that the answ...

Oh, I found another post for [status-completed]ing
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Q: Detailed Moderator Election statistics site not updating

CalebThe (brilliantly useful) site that pulls up extended statistics for candidates running in elections across the SE network does not seem to be updating for current elections. In particular Christianity site isn't showing up up at all and elections are already in primaries.

 
3:14 AM
Huh. Never knew that.
 
Not knowing what the UX is for folks browsing anonymously or at low rep... would that be the Curse of the Ancients? ;)
 
3:53 AM
And I'm even at 2K on SO and I didn't know that.
 
@hichris123 Ditto, and I have zillions of fake internet unicorn points. That is an awesome feature. "The more you know!"
 
4:12 AM
stackoverflow.com/users/2677179/sport This user can't use backticks properly. Please help!
 
Ugh makes me want to ban some of these users who are approving them.
 
@animuson That's why you're there. Now check their review history, good mod.
 
I didn't even know what backticks were when I started posting here.
 
My first question was a dupe. :P
 
My first Meta question was a dupe.
It was randomly downvoted the other day.
 
4:27 AM
What was it?
 
The one at the bottom of my question list, when you sort by "newest" =)
 
I'm on a tablet. Gimme a break. :P
I found it.
 
4:45 AM
Well done.
I'm on a cell phone =)
 
@hichris123 No KitKats for you!
 
KitKats are brown. I love chocolate.
 
Oh I was at Spaghetti Works today, and one of the things they have on their menu is a peanut butter and jelly pizza...
 
CHOCOLATE, PEOPLE.
I have never heard of this "Spaghetti Works", but now I kind of want to go to there.
 
It's a local thing.
It's a really popular restaurant in the Old Market area of Omaha, then they opened up a second location down in the Ralston area.
As far as I know there's only the two locations.
Apparently there's one in Des Moines, IA too.
 
4:53 AM
Mmmm, spaghetti.
Now I'm hungry.
 
I had pizza there.
 
I had a microwaved burrito and a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch for dinner.
 
I also enjoyed a two bowls of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
 
I can't eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
 
I may just have second bowl now, @Tim.
 
4:55 AM
An excellent decision
 
You gotta pour heavy cream over it after the milk. It's just not rich enough otherwise.
 
Note that I will blame you when Megan doesn't have milk in the morning.
And she will not be happy.
 
I ate mine without milk so I will push that blame onto @Shog9
 
@jadarnel27 I think you may be on to something -- Cinnamon Toast Crunch Breakfast Burritos.
 
Nonono, the blame cannot be passed along like a hot potato.
 
4:56 AM
(Those will definitely sell best in Washington State and Colorado if I've done my market research properly)
 
I could go for a baked potato right now.
 
Mmm... Cinnamon Toast Crunch -topped baked potatoes
 
Some random person just added me on Facebook. o.o
 
I have a rather unique name, but there are several of me in the world. I often get information about some housing complex in the Southwest, such as changing of garbage days and the like.
I have sent the woman who sends these mails several kind reminders that Japan is not, in fact, in Southwest US. She apologies wholeheartedly and I get another e-mail the next day.
 
Sorry for you wheat intolerance condition, @animuson - I was not trying to rub it in =)
Celiac disease?
 
4:59 AM
Since I have my.name@gmail, I occasionally get e-mails from people who think I am another person with my name. And I try to tell them kindly, but they refuse to believe me.
 
@jadarnel27 Yeap. I eat Fruity Pebbles almost exclusively as my cereal.
 
mmm... toasty rice
 
There was a point, and it was this: @animuson, maybe it isn't a random person, maybe they know someone with the same name as you and wanted to add them on facebook but didn't know which you it was.
 
They're from India. And I cannot say India without the humorous accent from The Amazing Johnathan: Wrong on Every Level.
See the damage that TV does? Altering my pronunciation of words.
 
I am sure there are people in India with your name too. It is possible. There are 1.x billion people there.
(where x is greater than the population of most countries)
 
5:03 AM
Fruity pebbles are great. As are the cocoa ones.
 
India has 1,237 million people. If you did their population modulus 1 billion, it would still be in the top 5 most populous countries in the world.
 
@jadarnel27 Agreed.
 
China: 1.36 billion, India: 1.24 billion, US: 0.32 billion.
 
Considering that his occupation says "Software Development Engineer" I just assumed it was someone from Stack Overflow randomly looking people up.
 
What is that trite expression everyone says? "If you're one in a million, there are 1360 of you in China."
@animuson I get those on LinkedIn quite a bit. But never Facebook. I wonder if it was someone from SO. Is your name posted publicly?
 
5:06 AM
It is on my website.
And then my Facebook vanity URL is also the same as my username. xD
 
Okay, that would kind of give it away.
 
I think you can only access it by URL. I changed the privacy setting to not show up in name searches. Unless I'm just imagining that setting exists.
 
I eat pretty healthy foods most of the time. But every cereal that I really like is made of chocolate, coated with some kind of sugar, and / or loaded with small, chalky "marshmallows."
 
If you can only access it by URL, then it definitely is more likely to be an SO user or the like. Unless you're famous from other places too.
 
@animuson Did you delete that non-answer I linked earlier? This one?
I don't have 10k, so I can't actually see who deleted it.
Damned hard-to-get SO rep.
 
5:13 AM
Robert deleted it.
 
Oh, cool. My flag got disputed. Presumably because of the length of the post making it look like a real answer.
 
Though the person was clearly asking a question. And someone even "answered" it in the comments.
 
Ugh, that finally annoyed me enough that I figured out how to disable it.
That there are enough people who were willingly doing that that they added it as an opt-out improvement boggles my mind.
 
What is it doing?
 
5:18 AM
.site-list {
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  list-style-type: none;
}

.site-list li {
  clear: both;
}
It would indent the second block
Because the selector is a child of the first block
 
Oh. Gross. People do that?!
 
Apparently, to provide organization to their CSS files...
Feel like there's better solutions, but that's just me.
 
I might get beaten up for saying this, but I don't like how it looks to have the first curly brace on the same line as the selector.
 
It's my preferred style, admittedly, but I was surprised that Visual Studio does it that way given C# formatting.
 
Yeah, me too!
 
5:23 AM
Did anyone ever develop a powerful yet easy-to-use web development GUI?
 
I thought surely visual Studio would do it my way.
Also, in the case of a CSS rule that just has one (maybe two) item (what's the word for that?), I put it all on one line.
So, .site-list li { clear: both; }
 
I always put all my CSS rules on one line.
 
@jmac I guess that depends on what you mean by powerful (and easy to use, really) =)
@animuson I used to. But I find it to be so much easier to make changes if each...attribute (seriously, not remembering the word for this is killing me) is on a different line.
 
Property.
 
You're a life saver.
 
5:29 AM
But I also alphabetize my properties on the line, so they're easier to find.
 
Ah. That could help.
Especially when you're using the "shorthand" attributes (like "border" or "background"), where there can be a lot of junk, it's nice to have it on a separate line.
 
@jadarnel27 I mean something that even I can use to easily diddle with CSS properties, and work with the DOM in general.
Recently I have been frustrated that I can use the 'Inspect Element' feature to browse the DOM in my browser, but if I want to actually snag all elements of a similar type and dump them in a CSV, I have to come up with the logic and the jquery myself. I would think that someone who have created a tool where you can mouse over some dom element, and it will show you ones related by ID, class, parent, or level in a hierarchy.
 
Oh, gotcha @jmac. Adobe Dreamweaver was...not completely useless. Have you used that?
Oh. You're talking about inspecting existing pages, not creating websites.
 
I used it in the late 90's. Does that count?
 
Haha, no. No it does not.
 
5:33 AM
I'm talking about two things at once. Multi-tasking
 
You lost me at "two things at once."
 
I look at a web page and I can see the source and I can tell that elements are related and I just want to dump those related elements in to a CSV so I can Excelify them. But no. I have to go through the mental gymnastics to figure out how to write something showing that relation in jquery, when I'm sure it would be an equivalent amount of work to write a script that will do the thinking for me.
And I figure that if I look at how web development GUI handle these sorts of issues, I'd have a much better idea of what's out there, how it works (and doesn't), and what would make a good tool.
 
Someone should totally make something like that.
I say we put it on @TimStone's to do list.
 
Like let's say you're browsing through search results on youtube. You've got a div, and in that div are all the various movie info (title, playtime, preview)
 
Also...what does it mean to "excelify" HTML elements? What are you doing with something like that in a spreadsheet?
 
5:38 AM
you'd think that you could make some simple software that would allow you to:
1) Select which related items you want (so you click on 2 video sub-divs, and it realizes, "Oh, you want all these video elements")
2) Select which items from those elements you want (so you click on 'time' and 'title' and the video preview
3) And then select which properties you want (so you take the text of the time, the text of the title, and the link to the video)
@jadarnel27 I am not a programmer. I am very good at Excel. By getting things in CSV, I can do my data analysis in Excel with minimal headaches.
 
Ah. You were answering my question while I was asking it.
'Tis bed time again.
 
There are so many websites now that are designed properly enough to easily do this sort of quick-and-dirty data dumping on. I just don't understand why there aren't tools to do it easily.
 
Until tomorrow, gents (and Flyk and Rebecca).
 
Goodnight!
 
'Night, jmac.
(not that it's night where you are, I imagine)
 
5:47 AM
It is 2:47pm
 
 
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7:13 AM
Ah, nothing like watching the negative number grow when you're killing off some sock puppets. sips on some soda
 
7:29 AM
Is Data.SE @Tim around?
Ah, nevermind. I though the [Post Link] was broken as it was giving me a funky URL, but it looks like you can link to an answer with a URL like http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/1479 which is just weird.
 
8:16 AM
I have a sudden craving for some marshmallows.
 
morning
 
8:47 AM
morning
 
9:00 AM
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Q: 2D Cross-Platform Game Development Engines

Hate NamesI've worked for some time with Corona SDK and love how fast and easy I can create powerful apps using Lua. But it can only compile for iOS and Android, which feels like too little now. My main interest is for it to be able to compile to Desktop AND Mobile. At least for the following: Windows +...

Would you look at that steaming pile.
 
WTF. How is that still around?
 
For more than six months.
 
Well, there goes my first VTC for the day
 
I'm in the zone tonight. 8)
 
Do I want to know what zone that is?
 
9:03 AM
Good animuson. Have biscuit.
 
According to the stats, I've handled 251 flags so far today (since midnight UTC).
 
A biscuit? Let him eat cake!
What to do with a question like this under the new close reasons?
-3
Q: Algorithm for conversion from RED color to GREEN

user3106633I need some mathematical algorithm for converting the value from #FF0000 to #00FF00 The goal is to have levels let say from 0 to 1000 where 0 is #FF0000 and 1000 is #00FF00. All I need is some smart mapping Thanks

Or is this somehow an okay question now?
 
Yay I knocked the queue down below 1200! Momentarily, at least...
 
1200? Holy frick
 
Over 900 of them are dreadful "other" flags...
 
9:15 AM
Pfff. Almost sounds like time for a mod election.
 
I'd say so...
How many are there at present?
 
Moderators? 16
 
@Bart Unclear what you're asking. He is revising his specs, and not saying what the actual issue he is trying to solve is (he points out that the real problem is lack of knowledge, which answering the question won't help)
 
9:33 AM
Myeah I guess you're right @jmac. I really don't like the "unclear what you're asking" formulation though. That really could use some renaming.
 
9:46 AM
I can't keep my eyes open any longer.
 
Close them, as long as you keep dismissing flags though.
 
10:00 AM
314 sounds like a good number to leave on...
Now I can go to bed and probably dream about handling flags.
 
dream on!
 
 
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11:59 AM
ᛒᚱᚮᚢᚿ
 
@michaelb958 ?????
 
@ShadowWizard Norwegian runes. Roughly translates to "brown".
 
are those bananas?
oh, my font show only blank rectangles
זה נראה כמו ריבועים?
You see the above as squares, or Jiberrish language?
 
@ShadowWizard That's unintelligible squiggles to me.
 
@michaelb958 interesting, thought it's part of unicode
Anyway...
חום
This is brown in Hebrew :D
 
12:07 PM
 
quick suggestion from the community since I don't have much rep on SO.
just proposed 5 min ago an edit to a post : stackoverflow.com/questions/21306709/…
since the user wrote that he wanted to ignore all spaces in the comparison, and since in the comment section he actually corrected that, saying something different, I edited the question to clarificate the actual desired result. After that the question was edited again. As I said on SO I am stuck at 200 rep... should I repropose the edit to reintegrate my fix?
 
Yeah, feel free to do that.
 
@ShadowWizard It is, and I can see the characters fine. I just can't work out what they mean.
 
Basically the last edit here removed all the clarification part that I added: stackoverflow.com/posts/21306709/revisions
 
Yeah I see that. I guess that editor triggered on the Thanks in advance
 
12:17 PM
Since it seems that many of the answers are actually removing all spaces, I think that it is important to make clear that the user want to ignore only the duped ones.
 
Just bring in that edit again, I'll approve (asuming you behave :-) )
 
yep, will do that. I am doublechecking with the asker what he really needs.
 
I see that...just @ ping me here once you need me @SPArchaeologist
 
yep thanks @rene
seem the user is currently away, will doublecheck later if he clarified the wanted results. In case, I will propose a new edit. Thanks again for the suggestion.
 
1:19 PM
@Shog9 when you're next around, would you mind red tagging this please? It keeps setting off my OCD.
 
1:33 PM
Is it just me, or is there some really awful caching issue going on?
 
elaborate?
 
The most recent question I see on Meta says it was posted 1 hour ago and it's closed, but when I actually view it I see it's from yesterday afternoon (and only displays 4 close votes, but I can't vote to close because it's already closed)
 
@Wooble Was it bumped by community?
 
What tab are you on @Wooble?
 
ha, as I go to confirm it's working again.
 
1:37 PM
@Wooble maybe browser/local proxy cache
 
You're on Chrome by any chance?
 
But I'm 99.9% certain I was on "newest". In any event, I reloaded the actual question page several times and it was still showing 4 close votes and "1 hour ago" as the posted date.
 
next time CTRL+F5
 
I did ctrl-F5.
 
Next time clear cache ;)
 
1:39 PM
I also edited an SO answer of mine with the change not showing up when reloading the question page.
 
suggested edit?
(already rejected)
 
@Wooble now that's weird... maybe browser extension or add-on then?
 
No, it's my own answer and it's showing in my account page under revisions.
@ShadowWizard I guess that's possible, but haven't changed any of them in months.
 
Also check your local computer time it might be wrong
 
weird; never happened to me
@ShadowWizard Why should that matter?
 
1:40 PM
Happened to me once when changing local time
The relative timestamps use the local time, it's client side
The server send time difference and the JS calculates the "X ago"
(As far as I can tell, don't take it for granted)
 
clock looks right to me. But this answer of mine does keep saying "Just now" when I reload the page and it's over half an hour old. I'll try restarting Chrome.
 
Why would it consume the latest revision, however?
while(dTime < 0 && visibleRevisions > 1) hideLatestRevision()
 
That helped immensely. good to hear it's not a server-side massive cache FUBAR.
 
@Wooble try different browser, if still same behavior it's probably something with your proxy/ISP
 
1:53 PM
Hmmm, it's still possible to post as an unregistered user? Or has that only been disabled for questions?
 
I think only for answers.
 
flagged
-2 to go (???)
 
0 up 8 down :P
 
if everyone who downvoted had flagged instead, this would have been long gone
 
Yeah... and some people might have flagged (Community auto-downvote) then downvote themselves.
 
1:56 PM
@JanDvorak no, even 1000 flags won't auto delete a post
(except spam)
 
@ShadowWizard I flagged as spam
 
isn't it?
 
Me too
spam it is
 
eh, my flag won
 
1:57 PM
Gone. :P
 
nuked
 
nice
 
-9 was its final score.
 
Yeah, I just looked.
I think unregistered users can't be burned.
 
1:58 PM
I hear a feature request coming
 
this is spam, right?
 
Because they don't have a SE account. Right?
 
@hichris123 afaik they can be nuked no problem
 
I'd have to look. But I'm leaving now. :P
Cya.
 
@JanDvorak What makes you think that?
It's just Obama Professor Jeff
 

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