@ShadowWizard I poked Anna about the bug, by the way.

@hichris123 where? you got a secret room? /me starts to envy ;)

@ShadowWizard More like that one blue room with initials T... L... :P

@hichris123 hmm... Turbo Loaders?

@ShadowWizard You got it!

@ShadowWizard - I disagree.

@ShadowWizard - Your intent on harassing a user solely because they fail to understand the layout of the exchange is not really helping anyone.

@TravisJ your right, but I'm doing anything in my power to close the question and delete your answer.

I can see that, but it is a misguided effort.

@TravisJ I'm not harassing anyone. The question is off topic. Period.

Things are not always that straightfoward.

Helping this user is not feeding a troll.

They are legitimately confused about the format of the site and cannot seem to grasp how to properly use it.

@TravisJ That's for a comment, not an answer.

@hichris123 - Too long for a comment.

Without an understanding they will more than likely continue the same pattern until they hit a ban and then presumably go away. Sure, taking the outlook of sending every user who cannot figure out the system at first glance may be some sort of hurdle to impose, but at the same time tossing out every user who does not immediately understand the system is not desirable.

@hichris123 - Moreover, it started as a comment.

> Meta Stack Exchange is not the site you're looking for (we discuss the Stack Exchange network here), please clarify your question and post it on Stack Overflow.

@TravisJ yes it is.

That's... too long for a comment?

@ShadowWizard felt like it should be discussed at that point and so the discussion led to an answer.

Now he will just keep posting on MSE, knowing he will get answers.

@ShadowWizard - He kept posting regardless.

@hichris123 - Did you look at the post?

Finally it's closed! Voted to delete.

@TravisJ Skimmed it

@hichris123 - Then you should realize the situation with regards to comments.

You can close it. But once closed, it may be reformatted and reopened.

You will not get a second vote to close

@TravisJ so you say programming questions on MSE are valid??

@ShadowWizard - Nope.

So why reopening it exactly?

@ShadowWizard - Depends on its relevance. Not doing it at the moment.

In its current form it is probably not useful due to poor title choice and wording.

Back I am, folks!

hope whatever you're back from was fun, @Frank! :)

@ShadowWizard Picked up and spread 12 cubic yards of topsoil, for a seeding job. Then I tamped over 1000 sq. ft. of it with a ten pound, 8" sq. tamper. I'm a little tired. Tomorrow, back to seed, sod, and mat.

Poor wheelbarrow doesn't like carrying the full 6 cubic foot capacity of topsoil. I used it a little hard.

@Shadow I guess you did something different than me today. You work with computers?

Oh wow that indeed sounds like much fun!! :-)

@ShadowWizard Fun is relative, but yes, I had fun.

@Frank Not today... holiday here, so spent the time with family.

@ShadowWizard Good for you.

Didn't realize it was a holiday - which one?

@Frank Jewish holiday, called Sukkot

Shouldn't that option be removed for CW? stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/5953117

@ShadowWizard Nice! I only get to celebrate standard holidays (well, I guess I can celebrate whatever I want, just don't ... for some reason). :P

CV stackoverflow.com/q/23808533/2371861

What can I do to debug an authentication failed error in my postfix mail server?

@bjb568 you need 100 rep to freely edit CW posts, so below that suggested edits still kick in

Hiya @Uni

Hiya @Frank!

@AnnaLear … I mean the reject reason "This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer."

Hiya @bjb568

@bjb568 You nut.

@bjb568 Ah, hmm. It's awkwardly worded in that case, yeah... but I think it could still be useful. Just cause the post is CW doesn't mean someone isn't trying to edit it to ask a question :)

kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill

@AnnaLear "It should have been written as a comment or an answer." Both of which can be blobbed into a CW answer. A question doesn't fit that reject reason.

Maybe it could be changed to "asks for clarification" or something.

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: Is saying 'holy cow' or 'holy crap' a sin? on christianity.stackexchange.com

@SmokeDetector yeah

@SmokeDetector Hahahaha! LOL

@SmokeDetector ahaha

@bjb568 "But how do you fix X?" could be a comment. :P Anyway, I'm not trying to define the one and only scenario where that rejection reason applies, but just saying that aside from the "address the author" part it's still valid for CW posts.

@Braiam merciful zeus

@Braiam oh thank god, I thought there were 8 different posts ;)

@Braiam Why did you post the link 8 times? I thought they were gonna be different.

@AnnaLear :P

@Frank cc ^

trolololo

lolololololol

classic

@bjb568 It's a palindrome! You are so good at thinking these up. It shows a high IQ.

:D

::D

@bjb568 You have four eyes?

@Frank Yes.

Or so they say they say.

@bjb568 Weird cat...

> Unfortunately, we weren't able to approve your educational discount request. You're welcome to re-apply, or follow up with any questions by replying to this email.

From github.

Are there any like rules or anything for it?

Cats self-educate.

> If you're a student aged 13+ and enrolled in a degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you. All you need is a school-issued email address, valid student identification card, or other official proof of enrollment.

I meet like… most of that.

Most? what are you missing?

Uh… a part.

I don't think it's a "pick and choose your criteria" kind of thing :)

One of the parts.

@AnnaLear Well, they shouldn't be able to find out what I'm missing.

@AnnaLear operative word: "or"

@bjb568 Why were you rejected?

@Braiam Yeahhhh... but none of it is "or if you don't meet a part, we'll let you in anyway" ;)

All you need is: *school-issued email address" || "valid student identification card || other official proof of enrollment.

@hichris123 It didn't say. Since when did rejection mail say anything?

@Braiam "enrolled in a degree or diploma granting course of study"

@Braiam Yes, I gave them email. And they didn't get confused since the rejection email was sent there.

Hey, Careers 2.0 got renamed to Stack Overflow Careers?

@Unihedron yep yep

Or... you can get a job, and support yourself!

@AnnaLear That can mean most anything, though... I mean high school, college all provide degrees or diplomas.

@hichris123 Yeah. No idea what Github is looking for.

@bjb568 ... like an @xxx.k12.in.us email?

@hichris123 myschooldistrictnameps.org (ps = public school)

$10 says there's a regex on approved school domains or something.

@bjb568 Yeah, that's not considered an education email. Probably needs to be a .edu or .k12.in.us.

@hichris123 But it is a school-issued email address.

Sounds like you'll need to reply to that email and point folks to your school's site.

@bjb568 eh, I could make my own .org email address so it's not an "educational" email address (i.e. it can't be proven).

Also, seriously? All HS students get their own email addresses now?

@AnnaLear My school disabled Gmail on our Google Apps accounts. :P

@AnnaLear Um… my elementary school gave out personal email addresses.

Weird.

^^^^^

> We are sorry, but you do not have access to Email. Please contact your domain administrator for access.

I... don't have access to Email?

Poor @hichris

@bjb568 was it an elementary school for css child prodigies?

@Unihedron A random Uni appears!

@lostsock Well, it was in silicon valley, so yes.

I might still be there had it not been for the idiots in power.

cv-plz dupe stackoverflow.com/questions/26267141/…

Not closed yet...^

@bjb568 oh you got zuckerburged

@lostsock Is that a word?

@bjb568 urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zuckerburged

@bjb568 can kittens question things?

@bjb568 Zuckerburg went across the ocean alone, no?

@ShadowWizard Nothing says "widely adopted term" quite like 17 votes on Urban Dictionary

@lostsock Yes.

@lostsock Obviously you've never had one...

@AnnaLear +16/-1 almost statistically significant

@Frank I'm a dog person :)

@lostsock Dogs are more cool than cats. (hides from bjb568)

Oh no! cats can climb trees!

@Frank but dogs pee on trees

off topic for chat, but which post has the most links in it on stack overflow?

if SE is still doing that expert thing in NYC on video, they should really do a jeopardy game thingy too, where the experts and team members play eachother about random facts of SO and other stuff, I'd watch that

@lostsock I don't really think anything is off-topic for the Tavern...

cv-plz ot stackoverflow.com/questions/26257229/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/26268109/remove-all-facebook

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/13063154/…

@lostsock Let's write a query and find out!

@lostsock Unless you teach them not to.

@Frank I guess I just never thought about how the tree would feel when they do that. Something I'll definitely need to consider moving forward.

@lostsock Yeah, nitrogen burn is the worst.