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hichris123

10:00 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 86.1556: insufficient memory even though i have free space on android.stackexchange.com

Infinite Recursion

@SPArchaeologist Only glasses were included in the list, glasses with eyes were excluded (Andrew.T and Shog9). It's a glasses-only club.

Bart

@InfiniteRecursion Those glasses can't help it that they're being photobombed

Infinite Recursion

@Bart Don't underestimate those glasses!

2K+ user on MSE edit-pls Mkay is wrong in meta.stackexchange.com/q/242087/245167

Bart

Is it just me, or has MSE slowed down to a crawl?

Infinite Recursion

@Bart It's just you

Bart

10:14 AM

@InfiniteRecursion Mkay

Braiam

4secs here, but my internet has 50ms ping to anywhere, so it's normal

Infinite Recursion

39 mins ago, by rene

Nerds ^^^^

Bart

Given your continued presence here, I'm afraid you're one of us @InfiniteRecursion. There's no escaping.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: Good way For Skin Care Performance on drupal.stackexchange.com

Infinite Recursion

@Bart I am here for the skin care tips! ^^^

Bart

10:17 AM

Surely you need down-care ...

Infinite Recursion

@SmokeDetector SPAM

Braiam

@InfiniteRecursion mine are cool and neerd-y, So it's fine

Infinite Recursion

@Braiam You look like a Sam-bot, and you name fits the pattern too - Sam, Pham, Gham, Braiam...

5

Unihedron

Mind = Blown

Braiam

...

Sam

10:22 AM

I wonder...

@Braiam delete

Bart

@Braiam dance

Infinite Recursion

@Sam check again, you might have lost a sock and never noticed it's gone

Sam

lol :D

Infinite Recursion

@Sam ...a grayscale sock before you upgraded to colored socks

Sam

... with its own personality module.

Infinite Recursion

10:26 AM

...it's ubuntu after all

Braiam

Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)
Release: testing
Codename: jessie

tsk, tsk, tsk!

Sam

All my true bots are Microsoft powered. I guess you're not one of my bots afterall.

Infinite Recursion

Magical badges: meta.stackexchange.com/q/242086/245167

Yay! I have more starred messages than Bart on the star wall -------->>>>

Unihedron

Negative, I have the most :D

Infinite Recursion

@Unihedron At this moment, I mean. It's a momentary happiness

Unihedron

10:35 AM

Congratulations!

Consider yourself a hero.

Patrick Hofman

[cv-pls] Unclear, stackoverflow.com/questions/26380185/…

Braiam

@InfiniteRecursion fleeting happiness is the best happiness, huh

Infinite Recursion

Upvote the question and read updated question again. — AnjumSKhan 3 mins ago

Patrick Hofman

@InfiniteRecursion Lol, the order is telling a lot.

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 99.9582: Best and Top Packers and Movers Delhi @ toppackersmovershydelhi.in on askubuntu.com

Braiam

10:39 AM

here we go

Infinite Recursion

@PatrickHofman Order status: completed

AstroCB

@Uni It's one of @bjb's. I'm not sure whether it works entirely, but it's supposed to flag as VLQ, downvote, and post in chat.

user273376

hi

Bart

o/

user273376

what's that?

Infinite Recursion

10:47 AM

\o

user273376

?

Infinite Recursion

Bart

\o/

user273376

aaah!

Bart

:D

user273376

10:50 AM

now, can I ask a monumentally idiotic question?

Bart

Sure. We're experts in those.

user273376

i requested deletion of 3 of my accounts... but 1 I would like to keep...

Bart

Okay

user273376

do I just not write 'delete me' on the account i wish to keep?

Bart

I'd say so. And even if deletion is initiated, I think you have a 24 hour grace period to stop that from happening. But a mod/employee would have to confirm that.

user273376

10:54 AM

sounds reasonable

Infinite Recursion

@Gone ...also, the text is "Please delete me" meta.stackexchange.com/a/153487/245167

user273376

okay...

user273376

anyways, thank you @Bart

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MAP ROUTING API on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: I NEED HELP IN ONE QUERY on dba.stackexchange.com

Braiam

11:22 AM

> I'm left with two options--I can either begin wallowing in sadness and cursing the name of whichever CM is listed in the revision history

Patrick Hofman

Speachless: stackoverflow.com/questions/26381255/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: KDE POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COULD NOT BE INITIALISED on askubuntu.com

Infinite Recursion

@PatrickHofman C#- That's Skeet's tag <insert nothing is impossible for Skeet joke here>

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 94.4123: http://www.topmovers.in/top-packers-and-movers-in-mumbai/ @Experienced Movers and Packers in Mumbai on math.stackexchange.com

Braiam

@hichris123 -9 and still not deleted?

Infinite Recursion

11:48 AM

I've come to the same conclusion myself, having had both dogs and cats most of my life. What a dog will do to say 'Hey let's play!' is what a cat interprets as 'I'm gonna cut you!'. Basic miscommunication, I'm sure, is a contributing factor. — morganpdx Mar 25 at 0:24

> a dog on his back is being submissive (or friendly) while a cat on its back is in a fighting posture) and speculates that this may be part of the historic problem between dogs and cats

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 76.8411: http://3th.co.in/packers-and-movers-faridabad/ @ All Your Shifting Requirements in Faridabad on math.stackexchange.com

Unihedron

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 46 secs ago, by Pham

Spam A (100%): free acuont clash of clans [email protected]..., by coccoc, on gaming.stackexchange.com.

Patrick Hofman

12:05 PM

cv-pls took broad: stackoverflow.com/questions/26382063/…

Jan Dvorak

@hichris123 TP

ProgramFOX

@JanDvorak Oh, cool, that works now?

Jan Dvorak

IDK

ProgramFOX

I added it once, but it is removed because it didn't actually train the filter, it only updated the files that were used for initial training.

Unihedron

Hiya @ProgramFOX!

ProgramFOX

12:12 PM

Hiya!

Sam

Hiya!

DroidDev

Hiya!

Jan Dvorak

Hiya!

Unihedron

0

A: How to find out if an installed Eclipse is 32 or 64 bit version?

D: All of the above. [filler text to reach stackoverflow minimum characters. This is really killing my joke]

Your joke is bad and you should feel bad, user.

DroidDev

@Unihedron flagged

hichris123

12:29 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 95.2758: Pune's Top Most Packers @ 5th.co.in/packers-and-movers-pune on drupal.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

SPAM ^

Jan Dvorak

non-muscle spam on Drupal? Now that's new.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: Is normal to have sum shit on dik? on philosophy.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

offensive^

Bart

From the same brilliant user: philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/17579/4392

Pham

12:50 PM

Spam Q (100%): Is there any Best Solution To Gain Slim Body?, by user38152, on drupal.stackexchange.com.

Braiam

there @JanDvorak ^

Martijn Pieters

1:06 PM

@Oded: pokie. Or @MarcGravell. Can I have a reputation recalc please? I've been +1 over my actual reputation for a few days now.

Marc Gravell

which site?

Martijn Pieters

That +1 is keeping me awake at night. I'm afraid people will find me out for the fraud I am, pretending to have 1 more point than I actually have.

Stack Overflow.

There was a downvote and cap-hitting and undownvoting dance a day or two ago.

Marc Gravell

Recalculated rep for User.Id = 100297 -> old rep = 294867, new rep = 294867

I guess you get to keep it

Unihedron

Congrats on bonus rep!

Martijn Pieters

Must've dropped off in the past hour when I downvoted a post then.

@MarcGravell: thanks for looking anyway!

Bart

1:08 PM

You're downvoting posts?!? FOR SHAME!!

Martijn Pieters

It was definitely at 29859 earlier :-)

@Bart Don't make me go through your posts and find something to DV, Bart!

I mean it!

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 50.7866: how can i give permission of particular child pages of books in drupal 7 on stackoverflow.com

Unihedron

@Bart is a keyboard warrior @Mar, they post comments instead of downvoting because there's no keyboard shortcut for downvoting! :D

Bart

@MartijnPieters No need to go through it. Just get rid of it all.

Martijn Pieters

@Unihedron V -> D.

Sure there is!

steps out again. Using a keyboard shortcut.

Unihedron

1:20 PM

cv? area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/79005/qlikview/79006#79006

omg this user had some fun spamming chat.stackoverflow.com/users/2641576/matt?tab=recent

Nate Kerkhofs

what's the status on exchange-wide HTTPS?

Because while I can change my protocol in SO to HTTPS, it doesn't automatically apply to other networks I visit from there

Unihedron

@CareBear Kewl it's me! :D

Pham

Low Quality A (100%): This solution has work for me..Thanks., by aatif kungle, on serverfault.com.

Ben Collins

^ is this a new bot?

Unihedron

Low Quality Posts HQ

Home of bots for catching low quality posts (and sometimes spa...

Braiam

1:34 PM

@BenCollins it only post true positives, to get more users to act on

Ben Collins

@Braiam how does it know what a TP is?

ProgramFOX

@BenCollins People reply tpa to a bot message to indicate that.

It posts everything in the LQP room, and it only posts TPs here.

Ben Collins

gotcha

Braiam

so, every post that the bot post in this room pass through an human

Andy

@Braiam In this room, yes

rene

1:36 PM

@Unihedron I moved his message from the SO Close voters room to the Trash

Unihedron

@rene I moved his message from RegEx to Trash

@Ben @Brai And through the feedback hopefully Pham will be calibrated perfectly such that there doesn't need to be supervision, it can post in the tavern directly in the future.

Ben Collins

@Unihedron I'm very interested in that part. we're currently working on something that would work similarly

yep, was just reading that

Unihedron

It doesn't give me the actual image url. o_O

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls Repeating offender: stackoverflow.com/questions/26383754/…

Unihedron

Water/ice has a lot of weird phases. Maybe asking 'where do birds go when it rains' is like asking 'where does Clark Kent go whenever Superman shows up?'

Lynn Crumbling

1:49 PM

@PatrickHofman hah.. his newest comment is priceless

Patrick Hofman

@LynnCrumbling Just keep trying. It is urgent!!!

Unihedron

@PatrickHofman Dear diary... Three accounts suspended, and no user wants to answer my question. How am I going to get this done on time?!

Patrick Hofman

@Unihedron Don't make me feel sorry for him ;)

Stijn

Is an MSE request for user statistics a feature-request or a support post?

Andy

@Stijn I think it depends on exactly what you need and if you'd need it over and over. If it's one off, I'd say support. If it's something you want access to any time, a feature

Stijn

1:53 PM

@Andy one-time thing. Thanks :)

Unihedron

Anyone here has experience of MScript, or is it true that it's so obscure?

Lynn Crumbling

@PatrickHofman is it really so difficult to just plz send them teh codez?

MScript... Is that a play off MS? :) Shouldn't it be MS-Script? :) j/k, of course

Patrick Hofman

@LynnCrumbling Actually yes, I never heard of that PSP.

Lynn Crumbling

@PatrickHofman very tempted to inquire as to who he works for, to be sure that I never run an online transaction through them.

Unihedron

@LynnCrumbling m-script.org

Lynn Crumbling

1:58 PM

@Unihedron interesting

Unihedron

Their documentation makes me rage my hair out.

rene

@Unihedron shouldn't you totally drop that and use PowerShell instead?

Lynn Crumbling

@Unihedron If I'm in the right place, these docs seem sparse.

@Unihedron Here? m-script.org/projects/m-script/wiki

Unihedron

There's more, scattered across the domain. It's like a scavenger hunt of doom, as there are five pages demonstrating a method, but those five pages requires decent hunting to find.

Lynn Crumbling

@Unihedron That's a bummer.. looks like it's been three years since there was any dev activity, too.

@PatrickHofman Fantastic. Now the OP is asking for the reason for dv's.

@PatrickHofman I almost feel like we're being trolled.

@PatrickHofman I've never heard of them either, and I've worked with quite a few.

Patrick Hofman

2:12 PM

@LynnCrumbling I flagged that post. The should at least warn the person from the original account.

Pham

Low Quality A (100%): ghudha sala kutta bhad mein chale jaa, by aryan, on physics.stackexchange.com.

Jan Dvorak

offensive?

Unihedron

Whatever it is, it's terrible.

ProgramFOX

NAA/VLQ at least.

Sam

VLQ (IMO)

Jan Dvorak

2:16 PM

Google Translate says: ghudha prayer bhad TTA mein full incision

Unihedron

(See? I knew Jan was a bot!)

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 61.8561: Exchange 2013 OWA White Screen Out of the Blue on serverfault.com

Jan Dvorak

@hichris123 ?

ProgramFOX

@JanDvorak It posts here if the post has a score >50.

Jan Dvorak

Why is the score so high here?

Louis

2:22 PM

cv-pls-off-site-resource stackoverflow.com/questions/18539491/…

(Or one could argue it's not even a question.)

Bart

Overemphasis on capitals @JanDvorak?

ProgramFOX

@JanDvorak The bot has got a huge file of low quality posts as initial training, so probably there is a pattern in some of those posts that also can be seen here.

Jan Dvorak

@ProgramFOX I thought it was a spam hutner?

Unihedron

@JanDvorak No, it's a beta machine learning thing.

ProgramFOX

@JanDvorak Well, it also hunts for low quality posts now, but not sure what the reason was.

Jan Dvorak

2:26 PM

k then

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected, Phone number detected: +91-9950211818 kala jadu ~@2014~specialist baba ji on english.stackexchange.com

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 99.9776: +91-9950211818 kala jadu ~@2014~specialist baba ji on english.stackexchange.com

Lynn Crumbling

^ free flags

Jan Dvorak

SPAM english.stackexchange.com/questions/202581/… (just saying)

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector Hm, it should also have posted in the EL&U room because it is on EL&U. /cc @Undo

Lynn Crumbling

2:27 PM

gone.

me->coffee()

Undo

in English Language & Usage on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 1 min ago, by SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected, Phone number detected: +91-9950211818 kala jadu ~@2014~specialist baba ji on english.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

@Undo Ugh, caching.

2

Undo

;)

Unihedron

@ProgramFOX :D

ProgramFOX

It didn't show up for me, but now I refresh it does.

By the way @Undo, do you remember the reason for letting SmokeDetector detecting low quality posts?

Undo

2:29 PM

Whatcha mean? That it does or that it doesn't?

ProgramFOX

@Undo It does, and @Jan was wondering why.

Undo

The only real low-quality filter we have is the all-caps thing,

ProgramFOX

6 mins ago, by Jan Dvorak

@ProgramFOX I thought it was a spam hutner?

@Undo I mean for the Bayesian filter.

Undo

Oh, that was mostly an experiment I was running. Needed stuff to feed it, downvoted questions seemed to work.

ProgramFOX

ah, okay

Undo

2:31 PM

And hichris took it and ran with it, made it betterer :D

Patrick Hofman

Somebody knows what to do with wrong undelete votes? stackoverflow.com/questions/26375919/…. That answer is another question, but has one undelete vote.

Unihedron

@PatrickHofman laugh at whoever that voted for undelete and move on

Jan Dvorak

@PatrickHofman one undelvote = from the asker. No need to worry about it

Patrick Hofman

@JanDvorak Okay. I thought OP could insta-undelete and that that would raise a mod flag.

@JanDvorak Guess I was wrong.

Jan Dvorak

yay doubleping

Patrick Hofman

2:38 PM

Sorry... :)

bjb568

Just took the pSAT. Is too easy.

Except the vocab, which is just crap. Not a real-life skill.

Unihedron

@bjb568 Define real life skill!

Infinite Recursion

cough cat-lingo vocab cough

Unihedron

Nothing is real life, it's all ones and zeros.

> stackoverflow.com/q/26385320/3622940

Infinite Recursion

Life haz no zeroz and onez @Uni

Jan Dvorak

2:43 PM

I luv the comment there

Infinite Recursion

*love

Unihedron

O_o

Sam

*there.

Jan Dvorak

@InfiniteRecursion not3d

@Sam gotcha.

rene

@InfiniteRecursion U luved to say that, didnt U?

Infinite Recursion

2:47 PM

^Imposter alert! That's not @JanDvorak!

Jan Dvorak

@InfiniteRecursion Lies.

Infinite Recursion

Absolutely @rene <3

Ducks never lie...ever!

Lynn Crumbling

cv-pls offsite stackoverflow.com/q/26385560/656243

Undo

hiya @meagar

Lynn Crumbling

cv-pls ot-networking stackoverflow.com/q/26385519/656243

lostsock

2:59 PM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/17860054/sql-server-web-client

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/1372641/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/6332794/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/5944354/…

Lynn Crumbling

@lostsock Really? Someone put up a bounty for that q?

lostsock

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/25671720/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/6121145/…

rene

@LynnCrumbling yes, and the answer is NAA if you ask me...

lostsock

@LynnCrumbling the question asker though..

Lynn Crumbling

wow, 5 of the 6 of those are effectively the same question: web-based mssql admin

lostsock

3:03 PM

@LynnCrumbling a user posted a question on Meta.SO about a user that answered 7 of 9 questions promoting his app.. then shortly thereafter deleted the question. I already flagged for mod attention on that answerer.

Unihedron

Any suggestions on improving this query @rene ? data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackoverflow/query/234846/…

Lynn Crumbling

@lostsock this guy. stackoverflow.com/users/4002525/michael-tanner

lostsock

yep

rene

@Unihedron improve for what?

Unihedron

@rene I don't know... It looks pretty bad

Sam

3:06 PM

There's not enough jQuery.

Unihedron

Yeah, and SQL is deprecated.

Lynn Crumbling

@lostsock None of his posts even provide a disclosure that he is affiliated with the product.

@lostsock I'd call that spam.

lostsock

@Unihedron is that suppose to be the same person? they look different

and the table is brown on the left, but black on the right? who done this pic?

bjb568

@Unihedron real life skill

Infinite Recursion

thinks Uni will rise from his brown table and throw a black table towards lostsock now

/me grabs popcorn

lostsock

3:12 PM

@LynnCrumbling yea.. but i dunno, the questions are all basically asking for spam. I'll leave it to mod to decide what punishment if any to give.

Lynn Crumbling

@lostsock I've dv'd two of his answers; don't want to hit any more lest I invoke serial dv'ing.

@lostsock Should I also flag any of them? all of them? If so - what are you flagging them... spam?

bjb568

@LynnCrumbling Flagged all but 2 as SPAM.

ProgramFOX

@lostsock ChristopherW made it: meta.stackexchange.com/a/213857/229438

lostsock

@LynnCrumbling I did an other flag explaining what the user is up to. Mod will be able to handle from there.

Infinite Recursion

Flag one and mention the story, if you flag individual posts, different mods might handle those flags and may miss the pattern of the user @Lynn. We should provide all details in one flag

lostsock

3:17 PM

undo the snowman ?

4

ProgramFOX

@lostsock That was @Undo's name when it was winter.

Infinite Recursion

The real question is: what was lostsock's name when it was winter?

ProgramFOX

@InfiniteRecursion goes to web.archive.org

@InfiniteRecursion codehorse

http://web.archive.org/web/*/stackoverflow.com/users/3041194/codehorse

Unihedron

@ProgramFOX pics or its not true

ProgramFOX

Ugh, web.archive.org links don't work well in chat.

Infinite Recursion

3:22 PM

Horse in winter and sock in summer...ha!

ProgramFOX

@Unihedron I fixed the link, check it now ;)

Unihedron

:D

Infinite Recursion

Thanks @ProgramFox :D

ProgramFOX

You're welcome!

Lynn Crumbling

@lostsock 6 7 of his 9 answers were deleted.

ProgramFOX

3:25 PM

@lostsock ... which is only available for you.

lostsock

oh, duh

Infinite Recursion

What will be lostsock's name this winter? :)

lostsock

@InfiniteRecursion I've already kept this name longer than usual. I don't know if/when I'll change it. You'll just have to stay tuned.

Infinite Recursion

sounds like you like this name...good...will stay tuned for sure

Unihedron

How long will it take before @lostsock changes their username once more? Place your bets!!

Oh, no guesses?... I'll go to sleep then. Night!

ProgramFOX

3:35 PM

Night!

Infinite Recursion

Night! Sleep well :)

Sam

Night!

lostsock

Night! Sleep well :)

Pham

Night

SmokeDetector

3:56 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MVC TABLE BOOTSTRAP on pt.stackoverflow.com

ProgramFOX

I have found something on pt.SO that's not translated to Portuguese. Can I open an English question on their Meta?

rene

@Unihedron if you leave out the complexity with the avg score this might work

ProgramFOX

Well, I've seen more English posts on pt.SO, so here it is:

0

Q: Message after suggested edit is not translated

After you suggest an edit, you get this message, which is in English: Can it please be translated to Portuguese?

Frank

Afternoon!

ProgramFOX

Afternoon!

Andy

4:06 PM

Still morning!

Jan Dvorak

Night!

Sam

Evening!

Frank

12:08 PM!

Sam

17:09 PM!

Unihedron

00:09 ._.

Jan Dvorak

4:10 PM

@Sam UK is the hipster

the rest of Europe counts 18:09

ProgramFOX

Lol:

meagar

@Undo Sup

Pham

Low Quality A (100%): Yes it is correct because it sound so., by Anom, on ell.stackexchange.com.

Sam

4:27 PM

@Pham del

Jan Dvorak

@Pham tp

gone

Pham

@JanDvorak TP acknowledged.

Spam A (100%): me trading for teflon tape for pipe threding..., by bhushan kumar, on diy.stackexchange.com.

Jan Dvorak

@Pham tp

Pham

@JanDvorak TP acknowledged.

Unihedron

double tp?

Sam

4:31 PM

Yep...

Undo

@Pham gone

Frank

Me like to see +210

Sam

Full command access is available in here, so tp/fp'ing stuff actually does register.

Undo

@ProgramFOX Wondered how long it would take someone to notice that.

Frank

Makes me feel like I got many upvotes.

ProgramFOX

4:34 PM

@Undo When did you add that to your profile?

Undo

about a month ago, IIRC.

Me is too lazy to go use the Wayback Machine and figure it out

ProgramFOX

> Wayback Machine doesn't have that page archived.

And the Wayback Machine is too lazy to archive it. Laziness attracts laziness.

:P

Undo

hah

Frank

Why do I answer duplicates?

4

Q: Is it unhealthy to move houseplants?

A couple of my succulents have bent as they've grown over the past year or so. I suspect they're "reaching" for sunlight (they're next to a window, bending southward, and I live in the northern hemisphere -- though it's possible this is just a coincidence). I'm wondering if it's ok to resituate...

houseplants sunlight

Dupe^

But none of you have close privileges on GL. :(

Jon Ericson

@Frank I do. ;-)

Frank

4:45 PM

@JonEricson Oh yes. You do. Thanks. :P

Jon Ericson

@Frank You might want to delete the answer to the new question.

Frank

@JonEricson Why?

Jon Ericson

'Cause that's why we close dup questions; to avoid duplicate answers.

Frank

@JonEricson Ah. OK, will do

Jon Ericson

Great work on Gardening, by the way. Since the site is heading into a traditionally slow season, what would you think of running a topic challenge?

Undo

4:59 PM

I'd really like to do something like that on SR, but... I'm having a hard time seeing it working :P

Unihedron

@JonEricson My favourite part: 3. Profit

Undo

no swagz? :(

Frank

@JonEricson It looks like a great idea, but... there really aren't many regular question-askers on GL. I have asked like twice what the next person has, and then there's Bamboo, who never asks any. Basically the only high rep users that are active are kevinsky, Bamboo, and me. Bstpierre, Winwaed, Mike Perry, mancuniensis, Yoda/Ipsum, etc, are not really active, or have left.

Undo

Great big storm here.

fun

I think it blew down the neighbor's tree

Probably @Frank's uncle or something

Unihedron

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 46 secs ago, by Pham

Low Quality A (100%): I have the same issue. Anyone have an answer..., by Darren Bean, on sharepoint.stackexchange.com.

@Undo That's mean. xD

Jon Ericson

5:05 PM

@Undo We've not found any evidence that prizes actually increases participation in these things. It would be convenient if it did.

Frank

I could try it, but knowing how few people get on GL meta the post would get very little attention, and what it would get wouldn't necessarily be very fulfilling. The GL users are a strange bunch.

Unihedron

@Frank The site needs a change then. Invite your friends!

Jon Ericson

@Frank The first step tends to be very informative on that point. If nobody suggests topics, the challenge just dies out there.

Frank

@Unihedron Well, I refer people all the time, and they never show up.

Part of it is, they find it easier to ask directly, as chances are I'll be the one who answers it on GL.

@JonEricson It is a good idea, and there is no harm in trying. I'll try to remember it sometime when the traffic drops.

@JonEricson did you see the site self evaluation? It was biased and most of the questions it picked were answered by me!

Undo

@JonEricson that surprises me.

Frank

5:12 PM

@JonEricson I've bookmarked so I don't forget.

Jon Ericson

@Frank I haven't looked at it yet. 10 questions is not often a great sample size. (But if you've answered a lot of questions, it's likely to pick a lot of questions you answered. ;-)

Frank

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

We all love Gardening & Landscaping Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through the eyes of s...

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Only two votes^

Lightness Races in Orbit

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

C'mon, I know you're excited by this.

Unihedron

@Frank +1 for "variety is the spice of life" - TIL

oh em gee lightness is racing in the orbit again

gasp

Jon Ericson

@Frank Good stuff. These automated votes don't usually get as many votes as posts composed manually by real people. ;-)

Frank

5:18 PM

@LightnessRacesinOrbit woot.

Lightness Races in Orbit

@Unihedron All your orbit are belong to me.

Frank

@JonEricson I know. My answer on there has 1 vote. Probably cause it sucks. It's kinda long.

Unihedron

@Frank It has two votes.

No, three!

Frank

@Unihedron One when I oneboxed.

Unihedron

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Q: "Sina Weibo" and "Weibo"

According to their tag descriptions, weibo (41 questions) and sinaweibo (21 questions) seem to be about the same thing: the service/website Sina Weibo. All 21 questions questions that used sinaweibo also used weibo. I don’t know this service, but according to Wikipedia, Weibo is the Chinese wor...

discussion synonym-request

Frank

5:23 PM

And I think none of these votes are from regular users. If I'm not mistaken, one from bjb, one from Uni, and one from Jon.

Unihedron

There are regular users?

in Low Quality Posts HQ, Oct 10 at 14:25, by Pham

Darn you bugs! Get outta me!

Frank

@Unihedron starred that some time ago. Pham is a comedian.

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Pham

Low Quality A (26.8%): the real real real answer for real is 7, by Snoop Doge, on math.stackexchange.com.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: POTTING COMPOUND.?! HOW on electronics.stackexchange.com

Frank

@JonEricson is it OK to post duplicate answers on two different sites?

Cause this answer on Pets is the same as the one linked to it, from GL.

Unihedron

5:42 PM

Is this flag worthy? stackoverflow.com/a/6356259/3622940

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CAUSTIC AIRY EQUATION AND DIVERGENT SERIES on physics.stackexchange.com

Frank

@Unihedron If it was on GL, I'd dv and comment.

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