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12:52 AM

@CareBear Gawd, why does it need to be so complicated? Can't I have a graphical editor or something? :P

@CareBear As the saying goes, give the man a fish and he has food for a day, teach the man to fish and WHAT DID YOU DO YOU IDIOT, YOU LOST YOUR JOB TO HIM NOW!

user259867

@bjb568 Well... do you write HTML / CSS in WYSIWYG editors?

@CareBear If I were writing HTML, yes, CMSs are a thing.

If I was a developer writing a node app, I'd echo stuff mostly in the server logic in HTML fragments.

serverfault.com/q/635218, askubuntu.com/q/534691, unix.stackexchange.com/q/160488 should I feel ashamed?

@Braiam No…

@bjb568 3 (almost the same) answers to the same problem, really?

phew

1:31 AM

Offensive / abusive: patents.stackexchange.com/questions/10353/are-you-serious

2:04 AM

dup stackoverflow.com/q/23190106/2371861

2:31 AM

what a cute couple

1

javascript prompt

@lostsock Y U SO JELLY?

@Braiam I'm lonely, need a pretty bot like that. She looks so smooth.

user259867

Socratic badges suddenly became multiple-time badges... neat

Good find. Probably implemented this b.c they've been wanting more better questions.

@CareBear ... really?

Oh well...

2:41 AM

awarded 0 times on g&l :(

@lostsock I'm on my way.

And by far the closest

@Frank you need to get more badges! focus!

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/24851760/792066

@Frank I really hope G&L graduates. I want to see the cool design they make for it. Will it graduate? Soon?

@lostsock I'm 81/100 for socratic, because I tended to ask multiple questions per day. But I am by far the biggest question asker.

2:47 AM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/26310493/…

@lostsock Not sure. A big problem is that there are only 3 20k-ers and only one of them is both regularly active and would use the privileges. I have 2k to go, which may take a month. Also, we are only getting 4.8 q/day.

1220 days in beta :(

@Frank start spreading the word then...

@Braiam Yeah, actually the problem is this: If people I know have questions, they find it easier to ask me directly. :) I haven't successfully referred one person to GL.

Clients and such often want on-site consultation anyway, and that beats looking at pics on GL.

@Frank and there's lots of helpful youtube videos where you can see how it works in action

@lostsock Yup. We did go from 3.3-4.8 q/day recently, so that's a good sign.

3:19 AM

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A: Let's get critical: Oct 2014 Site Self-Evaluation

I think people googling will be impressed by the clean, relevant atmosphere here, especially if they have been on other free gardening Q/A sites. But most people, I think, will be a little intimidated trying to participate. It seems many people are watching the activity (over 3500 visits per day ...

Big dumb answer on GL meta^

3:35 AM

Ugh, mongodb complicated. Me fail. I think I corrupted the data or something. I still have a copy of the original corrupted data.

Or not.

< 200 rep until I acquire close-vote powers

@AstroCB More power to you

4:15 AM

Because of my failure, everybody will have to sign up for DevDoodle again.

4:30 AM

@bjb568 Because of ~~my failure~~ not using a copy of the database instead of the production one, everybody will have to sign up for DevDoodle again.

@Braiam Well, yeah.

What?! But I had 51 rep!!!

@Unihedron I'll give it back.

The +1 was just me testing tho.

I registered the account, but now I can't login because of invalid credentials.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: Skin Care meta and Clean on meta.stackexchange.com

4:35 AM

And I never really received that sign up email.

Email is confusing, I'm still figuring out how to set it up.

Is it intentional that credentials are invalid even though I just signed up with the combination?

@Unihedron No. That's a bug, it should be a different error.

Anyway, manually fixed it for you.

\o/

First! devdoodle.net/user

spam: drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/132278/…

spam: drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/132279/…

4:47 AM

user image

Fixed.

spam: drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/132282/…

Nobody's here to flag on saturdays.

Oh right, it's past midnight here…

Seem to be getting maybe a couple of extra flags, here's another: drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/132283/…

@bjb I just tried to sign up to DevNoodle and haven't got a confirmation after 2-3 mins (it's a gmail account) are confirmations working?

5:03 AM

@PeterJ No.

It's not a noodle either.

@bjb lol, it would be a better name though and attract pastafarians

Hm…

Well, 'Night!

5:53 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: MySQL replication slave got 2147483647 (INT32_MAX) in a column for time stamp on serverfault.com

@bjb568 wait, are you actively discouraging people from reporting spam here? Shame on you.

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/132286/…

the rest is gone

@JanDvorak I can ask for flags in UL, AU and The Bridge if necessary

6:12 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: Ultimate Weight Loss Diet Solution? on drupal.stackexchange.com

6:27 AM

lol I assume this is someone that saw the word patent on the bottom of a broken mug: patents.stackexchange.com/questions/10356/…

7:22 AM

111 low quality posts in the queue?!

VLQ! stackoverflow.com/a/26311858/3622940

SPAM english.stackexchange.com/questions/200933/…

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/2849682/3622940

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/5576719/3622940

@Unihedron what as?

@JanDvorak software recommendation?

It doesn't really relate to programming.

And to add, Windows XP is already dead.

@Unihedron If he's looking for a programmatic solution, the question seems fine to me

7:38 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: skin care sayings on drupal.stackexchange.com

@JanDvorak He's not.

well then...

I thought it through quite thoroughly.

7:50 AM

SPAM english.stackexchange.com/questions/200934/…

8:02 AM

11 minutes and I was the fifth to flag

SPAM english.stackexchange.com/questions/200935/…

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: USER OR ROLE IS MISSING on dba.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HELP! LINUX GAMES on askubuntu.com

@SmokeDetector delete

@SmokeDetector no longer rerpro/a simple typo...

Hello morning good are you how?

!You thank fine I'm

8:17 AM

SPAM english.stackexchange.com/questions/200937/…

You'd expect the server-side script to have learnt by now...

@JanDvorak That account needs to be NUKED

Then more will come

It has also accounts on SU, AU and workplace

all spam gone

Spam much annoyance is fire burn with

Can we burn stackoverflow.com/users/4131754/manoj-rawat with fire?

8:32 AM

You're the Samurai. Go get him.

3

nnot an answer, not an acceptable question, smells slightly spammy

I think it's spam...

I gave them the benefit of the doubt since it links to facebook and flagged it as NAA

It has a telephone number.

I have tried beheading this user, but I have not been succesful thus far.

8:35 AM

AND it's not useful or relevant.

Meh, yolo; flagged

most programming questions on meta are neither useful nor relevant

> This answer is effectively an advertisement with no disclosure. It is not useful or relevant, but promotional.

^ definition of SPAM

doesn't look like advertisement to me

cv the question anyway

it looks like a very crappy support request

why would that fall under ot-rectool?

8:42 AM

Just noticed I'd accidentally upvoted instead of downvoting one of the "answers" if anyone wondered what moron did that, fortunately noticed before 5 mins was up

^^ suspend this user please. And apply Chinese burns liberally.

@Bart -9 and -11 should do

Which moron did upvote.... oh wait...

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26312745/…

Talking about PeterJ there @JanDvorak ;)

8:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: USER OR ROLE IS MISSING on dba.stackexchange.com

I got a declined flag because I flagged a link answer as NAA... still Andrew Barber agrees with me...

Who agrees with you @rene? :p

@rene bad reviewers

@rene Moral of the story: Don't go on flagging sprees on weekends

also, don't go visit the CV queue until close to midnight

8:50 AM

@JanDvorak why is that?

Isn't it haunted around that time?

Werewolves

4

19 hours ago, by Jan Dvorak

> You have no more close votes today; come back in 9 hours.

@rene sometimes a comment with a description of the problem and a link to a meta post can help with some flags that might go either way

@Bart There is your star for today, now keep quiet

4

mumble

8:52 AM

@PeterJ I'm not to bothered about it

Since it's weekends and nothing interesting is going on, how many stars do you have? chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/89/tavern-on-the-meta/…

Is anyone here selling any sleep? I am tired and could use some.

did we all handled this crap: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240882/…

downvoted and flagged

I now did

9:07 AM

and I added some extra guidance.... If the OP post it on SO I'll provide an answer to get some downvotes....

Hey my two spam flags were marked helpful

\o/

\o high five!

o/

OK, that was rather unforeseen but the OP posted on SO ... I provided an answer as promised to a bad question....

@rene link?

9:17 AM

@JanDvorak there you go stackoverflow.com/a/26313032/578411

Please don't do me the meta-chat-effect

spam: drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/132297/…

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26313100/…

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/132298/…

@JanDvorak Burned with FIRE

9:40 AM

what is this stackoverflow.com/questions/26313215/…

I'm not even sure how to edit it. please cv as unclear at the very least.. i'm out of cvs

@lostsock ctrlq.org/beautifier

@lostsock I cv-ed but as 'debugging help' we don't need MORE in that question, it needs less, at least less whitespace

Morning

Sup

Just in time...

9:48 AM

For...?

g2g, bye

later

i need codeing solution not otherthings dude ...... i m new at this site so i face many prb to upload this code so i dont knw much . — Affan 1 min ago

... sigh

Byez

Low Quality Q (39.4%): I want to provide email to my users?, by Hamza Ahmad, on stackoverflow.com.

9:51 AM

don't forget to appont a skywatcher

bye

::poof::

I'm on it ...

@Sam my morning ends in 10 minutes...

@rene I've still got an hour and 10 mins ;)

@Bart don't do ... sigh , keep trying

Gave it an edit @rene. Perhaps that will stick. But I doubt it.

0

Q: Is it awkward to say" Good morning" to roommate everyday?

I know it is a bit weird to ask this question, yet in the country I am staying , China, people love to say "Good morning" to everyone every morning. I have never been to other countries except China and I am going to study abroad in America. Is this social etiquette the same in America and Amer...

s/roommate/taverners

10:05 AM

s/everyday/everymoment

2

Good afteryesterday @lostsock

10:23 AM

I got the deputy badge on Drupal...

I'm so close to the Marshal badge on Drupal! :D

Been there done that :P

I'm in love with a badger

2

user image

I still can't find the badger in the picture. Where's it?

@Unihedron look in the middle of the pic

10:31 AM

Huh, for some weird reason I thought that was the back of a chair. But there is no chair!

10:42 AM

quick sidequestion: too intrusive edit by myself ??

I am confused by that edit

oooh; it has not yet passed

I know the EDIT: Changed Accepted answer because ... shouldn't be there...

but I am by god not sure about the rest..

because I added quite something...

I think that edit is fine

the question itself was poor, and by adding this it is easier to read, and easier to find.

910 - 320 ... nice edit stats ...

is this a SPAM answer?

10:53 AM

o_O

the question its... oh, wait. Software Recommendations. NVM.

yeah... the answer smells.

flagged VLQ

11:06 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240892/the-body-works-in-that

11:26 AM

VLQ math.stackexchange.com/questions/967773/why-is-maths-so-easy

userscript idea: hovering a SO link should open a tooltip with the linked post inside

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26314190/…

unclear? stackoverflow.com/questions/26314205/…

Please don't answer questions like this... there are plenty of examples on the Internet already... — Jan Dvorak 10 secs ago

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26314240/hi-im-just-wondering

11:44 AM

status-persuasion-of-deletion-succeed

cool. The answer wasn't bad, though.

Just to a crappy question

11:55 AM

spam: superuser.com/a/823856

@PeterJ Threat Eliminated. Request further orders. reloads oversized weapons

12:19 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: WEIRD POV GLITCH IN SKYRIM! HELP ME IM DESPERATE! on gaming.stackexchange.com

12:43 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: ¿Cómo se dice “Shit happens” en castellano? on spanish.stackexchange.com

1 hour later…

1:43 PM

@Unihedron prettier... is such a thingy...

@Vogel612 I visited the thread because it was posted in our room.

lol. well the edit in itself is fine, just be aware that code-block edits are often not that well recieved on CR:

especially in questions editing code-blocks is de-facto prohibited an will be rolled back on sight ;)

Edit ALL the code blocks!!

2:18 PM

spam (nothing to do with question): electronics.stackexchange.com/a/132809

gone

@JanDvorak no

2:53 PM

@bjb are you referring to the link above? It was an answer link (answer has been deleted and account destoyed) so it will just show the question for < 10k users.

@PeterJ There is an arrow next to the mention referring to which the reply was. Click it.

@Unihedron Thanks I hadn't noticed that.

3:14 PM

4k helpful flags... I should walk away and do something more productive now.

6

well, there's a gold badge for... 500 helpful flags?

Yeah, I'm close to getting that on Drupal. This is on Stack Overflow:

user image

This is waaaaay too broad to answer unfortunately. Give this a read and then see if you can make your question specific. — rene 24 secs ago

3:39 PM

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/26316305/…

boom

monitor-pls stackoverflow.com/users/4132608/email-lists

@Unihedron 0/0/1 ATM

4:12 PM

@JanDvorak look at my bot! chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/17251/2014/10/11

@hichris123 nice. Have it post here

@hichris123 I'd say it should graduate ;)

@JanDvorak Ok. There's still a few false positives, but it's fairly good.

@Unihedron :)

user image

@Unihedron flagging === productive

@lostsock I KNEW YOU WERE iSTIMPLE! HA!

@BenDundee I remember the days when you couldn't even use google - you had to ask your parents. — cms_mgr Feb 4 '13 at 17:42

4:29 PM

? it's deleted?

Yeah, I flagged it as too chatty.

meh

Homework was so much harder when you had to find the answers with Google, instead of crowd sourcing it. These kids today... — BenDundee Feb 4 '13 at 17:38

flag that too

meh

4:29 PM

out of comment flags

Meh.

he's actually correct

Yes, put it in your About Me. It's worthy of a better space than buried within comments from a year ago; no one would see it except for comment flaggers.

Actually, it was easier to find answers on Google before than it is now. They're algorithm is to blah

Query: how to read text in textfield javascript What you get: (Actually helpful info)

4:33 PM

@lostsock syntax error: failed to parse as english. They're => their substitution failed as well (unless "blah" can be treated as a verb).

@JanDvorak thanks for waiting 2 minutes after my post to post that : <

multitasking, sorry

4:45 PM

umm.. @Unihedron socky ?

Nope, a poor dude though. gaming.stackexchange.com/users/82479/weerox

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

> Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance

what???????????????????????????????????????????

Yeah same here, chat.SO works though

still better than "you're out of close votes for nine more hours"

We are starting the memory and storage upgrades in the New York data center.

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 11, 2014 at 3:22 PM

4:49 PM

It works as long as you don't head to the homepage though.

Er... Never mind, it's back up?

there is some new SO activity in the realtime tab

still a lot of FPs reported by your script

Meta.SO and Meta.SE are in read only mode now

5:16 PM

\o

\o

\o

\o

Eh... Inf has been away for 9 days now.

\o

!!/alive?

5:24 PM

yawn

@ProgramFOX You doubt me?

@Undo SmokeDetector does not respond here and in Charcoal HQ, even after hichris123 rebooted it.

And it dropped off the shelf :S

@bjb568 What happened to some DevDoodle accounts? Looking at the user list, some are gone.

And some programs are gone too. Was there a DB problem?

Their database screwed up.

5:32 PM

ah

13 hours ago, by bjb568

Because of my failure, everybody will have to sign up for DevDoodle again.

13 hours ago, by Braiam

@bjb568 Because of ~~my failure~~ not using a copy of the database instead of the production one, everybody will have to sign up for DevDoodle again.

I hope it sends a confirmation mail now...

Crap. It didn't.

o_O

@bjb ^

SmokeDetector appeared in the user list again.

!!/alive?

@ProgramFOX kinda sorta

5:38 PM

meh

okay, it's back alive

OK OK I'LL FIX THE MAIL NOW

Wow it's magic!

@bjb568 Yay, thanks!

user image

Well here it is.

5:39 PM

wat

okay, weird :P

That's /var/log/syslog

Where is the signup code even stored in the repo?

server.js:355

ah, saw it

here am I

I am here

am I here

here I am

5:42 PM

inb4 two more messages from Frank

Frrrom Frank

Frank from

here. I am

here I am.

I am. Here

I am. I

am from here.

I realized that ip in the screenshot is mine. Don't DDOS me… :P

It's weird that it only tries to log in from the support email when I try to log in.

Ah, mobiles on read only for me.

@bjb568 too late. I've already ordered a botnet.

5:46 PM

:O

RIP @bjb

... I'm going to do some testing. I have a suspicion why it fails for me.

ugh, caching

Ok, my suspicion was incorrect. I also cannot register a test account with an email account of a different provider.

The problem is my postfix configuration is borked.

5:52 PM

ah

You can delete the FOX9000 account, it was just a test whether it worked from there.

K

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