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Frank

12:04 AM

Okay @Dgrin91. Sticker on your forehead while you make vroom vroom noises. Final offer. — Bart Apr 2 at 9:29

Haha!

cVplZ

How can you tell the difference between a tree and a dog?

Frank

@cVplZ trees have real bark, dogs just make noise.

cVplZ

close enough ^

How would Shog know that he met himself from another dimension?

Frank

@cVplZ Ok then. cv-pls-dup: Undo >> Frank

@cVplZ What?

cVplZ

@Frank B.c if they lined up face to face, they'd be in a kissing position.

Frank

12:10 AM

@cVplZ Lol man, that's great!

Bill Woodger

Would anyone like to look at what is now the 41st most important COBOL question (by votes) out of 630? stackoverflow.com/q/26672662/1927206 It's completely atypical for that tag, but is this the sort of rubbish question everyone complains about elsewhere?

Frank

@Shog chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2592759#2592759

cVplZ

@Frank there's no need to ever ping Shog, he sees all

2

Frank

@cVplZ I did anyway.

Shog9

12:29 AM

@BillWoodger eh, someone downvoted all but one answer and upvoted that one. Not terribly uncommon.

Bill Woodger

It's uncommon for us. There is no technical reason for the downvotes. I know nothing can be done, but it really sticks out as odd for this tag.

user202362

@Frank why would I want to impersonate you?

Bill Woodger

Even one genuine question upvote is quite rare. Five for "how does GO TO work"? We don't really get answer downvotes, unless someone is wrong.

cVplZ

12:48 AM

naa? stackoverflow.com/a/2879598/3041194

user202362

@Shog9 would SE get sued for trying to pass bleached donkeys as unicorns?

Sam

@chmod711telkitty In the UK that would breach the Product Descriptions Act.

Braiam

heh pcgamer.com/…

cVplZ

@chmod711telkitty or passing off a forum as a q&a site?

Frank

1:28 AM

@chmod711telkitty Because I'm awesome

AstroCB

2:10 AM

Seriously?

Can someone explain to me how the audit system works?

hichris123

@AstroCB It... doesn't.

Also: digging through tons of revisions in a codebase is not fun. Not fun.

AstroCB

Because I've passed at least 20 audits in the past 2 or 3 weeks, but when I fail one, I'm banned.

How does this have 25 upvotes?

stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/6129144

hichris123

@AstroCB What's so bad about it?

AstroCB

@hichris123 It's quite simplistic: I just don't see how it ended up with 25 upvotes.

hichris123

@AstroCB It's a real problem though + fixes stuff.

AstroCB

2:16 AM

@hichris123 What I'm saying is that it's a bad audit.

hichris123

@AstroCB I don't see how it's a bad audit -- it just needed an edit. It was an answer to the question though. And it solved the problem.

AstroCB

And I shouldn't have failed for trying to edit out a "This works for me."

Also, it's less about that post, but rather the fact that I can pass ~20 audits over the course of 3 weeks and be banned for failing one.

Infinite Recursion

2:38 AM

@justabrickinthewall Yeah, lesson learnt, I should stop helping users. They start trolling and put the blame on me :P

user259867

That's how it works. BTW I can't go back to previous usernames: they are already taken (Care Bear, Weapon of Choice). Someone is watching my activity and recycling usernames as soon as I change them. This has been going on for a few months... </paranoia>

Infinite Recursion

Or, I should also start changing my name very frequently, so that they will get confused too and wouldn't know whom to blame :D

Yeah, silly users. Thankfully, you aren't paranoid ;)

user259867

Exactly. Now that I know I'm being watched, I can relax: I'm not being paranoid.

Infinite Recursion

Good. Is babaji taken as well?

Braiam

@InfiniteRecursion yup

Infinite Recursion

2:46 AM

Ohh, keep names like @cVplZ, he changes names frequently but no one on SO takes his older names

hichris123

@justabrickinthewall huh? Names don't get taken -- we have unique ids for that. There's a ton of Chris's, John's...

user259867

Yes, I know two users can share display name. But I don't want to share. (Actually, I don't see any baba ji on Math, this was a short-lived name after all.)

hichris123

@justabrickinthewall Quite selfish of you. ;)

Braiam

since his name is unique (in a sense) he doesn't care

user259867

cVplZ <- Vote to Close <- LowerClassOverflowian, was there anything else?

Infinite Recursion

2:51 AM

It's fun to share display names, there is another inf in SO, and infinite number of Shogs, ask us, we know

^@cVplZ that brick in the wall insulted your creativity

hichris123

@justabrickinthewall lostsock

Infinite Recursion

iStimple, codehorse, user00000

user259867

That's a lot. I randomly recall something...

user259867

Aug 4 at 17:11, by Shog9

@JasonC simple: I want more folks like me on SO. Or, perhaps not so much like me as like you. Maybe like @hichris123. Whatever; the point is, folks with many, many negative qualities who are none the less able to find answers to their questions without actually asking them most of the time and able to ask reasonable questions on those rare occasions when they can't find the answer.

user259867

How does Shog9 know about your many, many negative qualities, @hichris123 ?

3

Infinite Recursion

2:55 AM

:D

hichris123

lol

Somehow I don't think that was what he was saying, but...

Infinite Recursion

I had to star it :)

Infinite Recursion

3:18 AM

Obviously the way to earn the secret Hacker badge is to hack into the site and implement it yourself. — AirThomas yesterday

bjb568

DevDoodle will have permanent unique names

hichris123

@Inf I have the hacker badge. Somehow. ;p

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/1779478#1779478

Ugh. They borked private room oneboxing. Thought that might have been their intent.

Braiam

3:53 AM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/14412833/792066

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/18257220/792066

user259867

4:25 AM

@bjb568 permanent until the next mongodb corruption.

bjb568

@justabrickinthewall Come on…

Braiam

wonders if it's possible that mongodb and backups can't go in the same sentence

Infinite Recursion

envies hichris's hacker badge

Braiam

looks for the recipe for "purple chicken"

user259867

congratulates @AndrewT. on becoming the 13th Informed Meta user

Infinite Recursion

4:33 AM

leaves the tavern before Braiam finds the recipe

bjb568

wonders why chicken is purple when chicken is chicken

user259867

4:50 AM

observes strong positive correlation between having "Dr." in username and posting low-quality math answers

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: EXECUTING A STORED PROCEDURE THROUGH SQLPLUS by Snehil Kandpal on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: WIFI PROBLEMS IN 14.04 by Muralita on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Weight loss new for meta by pasion on meta.stackexchange.com

cVplZ

5:10 AM

^SPAM

@SmokeDetector true

SmokeDetector

@cVplZ Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Braiam

5:21 AM

►

cVplZ

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/242903/…

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/q/135558

Unihedron

First gold badge on MSO!

user259867

Kind of a cheap badge, isn't it... even I have it there. </wet blanket>

Braiam

5:38 AM

have 4

cVplZ

^

user259867

User's network profile shows top posts (Q and A) from all main site around the network. Is there a way to see one's top posts on meta sites?

user259867

Apparently, not (without cross-site SEDE query or something). Sad... has a 250+ Q and 50+ A on child meta; main site stats are not nearly as good.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: RESPONSE PRCENT AND ANOVA by sangeeta on stats.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

6:02 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Try Out Food Supplement For Muscle Building by Shoun Warne on drupal.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector true

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

SilentKiller

+1 you beat me in speed !! — nu11p01n73R 9 mins ago

Jan Dvorak

:2593190 meh. It shows an attempt and it's generic enough. What are you missing?

Unihedron

@JanDvorak Meh, you're right, I should learn to read better.

Jan Dvorak

6:13 AM

+1 for explaining the root cause of OP's problem — Jan Dvorak 8 secs ago

I'm tempted to downvote the question just because of how fast it's been getting answers

user259867

The OP has a knack for writing answerable and (later) google-able questions. 6 Famous Question badges.

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/242904/i-believe-the-research

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/242905/…

SilentKiller

both nuked. ^

SmokeDetector

6:31 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW TO MAKE A LOGIN FORM USING LOCAL DATABASE IN VISUAL STUDIO EXPRESS 2010 IN A VB CODE by Sajid Khattana on stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

"(Strained, I know)" -- Strained poetry is a great kind of poetry. It's a wild stream where the language is the riverbed and the boulders. — Jan Dvorak 11 secs ago

@SmokeDetector eh, don't worry about it. VS is screaming at their users, they have the right to scream at us

also, CV-pls

SilentKiller

status-closed

Jan Dvorak

yay

too rough?

@alphabravo more examples? All I can see is "use this: [code] [demo link]". Any external resource can go away eventually and an answer should be self-sufficient even if they break. — Jan Dvorak 4 mins ago

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/242906/…

SilentKiller

nuked ^

Jan Dvorak

6:52 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/135562/…

SmokeDetector

7:20 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: http://packersandmoverspune.top7quotes.in/ @ packers and movers in pune by Kapil Mishra on askubuntu.com

Jan Dvorak

Pune?

SilentKiller

Spam ^

TGMCians

@JanDvorak SPAM ^

Jan Dvorak

@TGMCians I know

TGMCians

pune is a city in india

> Pune is the seventh largest metropolis in India and the second largest in the state of Maharashtra. It was known as Punyanagari in old time. It is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the right bank of the Mutha river

Gone

Jan Dvorak

7:27 AM

There are exactly three legit questions about Pune across Stack Exchange across the entire history of time.

So, "pune" is a swear word in my eyes

TGMCians

ok may be

Pune, meaning; small amount of something/anything. Guys might have used in this sense.

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26686973/…

Jan Dvorak

closed

TGMCians

thanks :)

Jan Dvorak

8:26 AM

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26687445/…

SilentKiller

1 cv remain ^

now closed. ^

Jan Dvorak

8:48 AM

I think the current trend is to prefer pure-javascript solutions. If you use DHTML rather than Canvas, it will even work with old crappy browsers like IE8. — Jan Dvorak 40 secs ago

is this question appropriate for SO? stackoverflow.com/questions/26687570/best-programming-practice

SilentKiller

think its suits codeReview.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CANT FIND MYSQL WORKBENCH 6.1 32 BIT SETUP FOR UBUNTU by Ankit on askubuntu.com

Jan Dvorak

@SilentKiller not with this little code

rene

Shouldn't smokey catch this title: stackoverflow.com/revisions/26687443/1

SmokeDetector

9:22 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: I want I want to be bigger even Weight Loss by Grace Peters on drupal.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector true

SilentKiller

spam ^

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle Building Meta by hesion on meta.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector true

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

rene

9:41 AM

spam both gone

@SmokeDetector delete

too late

TGMCians

i'm back

rene

I have never been away... oh no, that is not true...

TGMCians

:D

cVplZ

10:03 AM

English is the first language you should learn, then head on over to stackoverflow.com/help/dont-ask :-) — paxdiablo 1 min ago

@RajaprabhuAravindasamy Then I would know that a colleague was the kind of person who would find out my private phone number without asking me if I wanted him to have it. It would not be less creepy. If you want to have any kind of relationship with her, you talk to her, in person - you don't start by stalking her. This is wrong on so many levels and it scares me that you don't understand that. — Jenny D 14 mins ago

Martijn Pieters

@Shog9: did the new deletion criteria get implemented?

67

Q: What should the system be deleting automatically that it already isn't?

So this question got me thinking... We have several automatic processes in place for cleaning up cruft, deleting questions that are very unlikely to help anyone else. They're fairly conservative though; an awful lot of lousy questions hang around much longer, occasionally cropping up to annoy fo...

1

Q: Many questions deleted overnight at exactly the same time

A few questions I answered to and got upvotes for have been deleted overnight at exactly the same hour and minute. Has there been any general deletion been done that would delete a considerate amount of questions? Here are links to those questions (10k+ only): adding a form in my validate, an...

support deleted-questions

2 of those 4 have answers. One at 0 (a self-answer), the other has an answer at -1.

I can't see the timeline, but I presume the downvotes on those questions were made shortly after the questions were posted, so all 30 days ago.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle Building You Must Want by saloterry000 on drupal.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector true

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Martijn Pieters

:2593420 Since Shog stated he'd post more about the criteria over on MSE, it is a little unexpected that the rules are live.

cVplZ

10:16 AM

@MartijnPieters I had my mental timeline wrong. So I deleted my other comment. I doubt he'd implement it without informing us he did.

From what I understand this is the current roomba

rene

@cVplZ you use more than one timeline? interesting....

Martijn Pieters

The roomba only'd delete negative scoring questions 30 days old if there are no answers at all.

@cVplZ that's for closed questions.

None of these were closed.

rene

@MartijnPieters The answers were all deleted before the roomba came along

Martijn Pieters

@rene Ah!

See, that's the part I missed!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LOOKING FOR THE NAME OF AN ANMIE by James on anime.stackexchange.com

rene

10:33 AM

@ShadowWizard I had a debate with Martijn (he won) on wether that was a dupe and now you gold-hammered it... :(

cVplZ

@rene: and it lists why the user wants to delete in the question body. Always read the whole question! — Martijn Pieters 42 mins ago

Martijn Pieters

@rene I unduped it.

cVplZ

can someone flag this , out of comment flags, it appears to link to a bad site

rene

/me grabs pop-corn while Shadow Wizard and Martijn dupe-hammer and un-dupe that question

@cVplZ left an other flag on it

cVplZ

thnks ~~<^>~~

user273376

11:03 AM

hi

cVplZ

welcome

user273376

how are you doing?

Pham

Low Quality Q (65.7%): A strange dream, by neckTwi, on cstheory.stackexchange.com.

Sam

^ "how come I dream about a word which I never heard of"

Obviously off-topic (to say the least).

user273376

@Sam and a load of rubbish too

SmokeDetector

11:18 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LOOKING FOR NAME OF AN ANMIE by James on anime.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Tips for Building Muscle fhgfj by user274595 on meta.stackexchange.com

cVplZ

@SmokeDetector true

SmokeDetector

@cVplZ Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LOOKING FOR THE NAME OF AN ANIME THANKS! by James on anime.stackexchange.com

cVplZ

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/242915/…

user273376

got it!

user273376

4 more flags to 80

SilentKiller

11:23 AM

4 more flags to 80 for me

cVplZ

1 more profile view till 1111!

SilentKiller

O_O

user273376

holy odd socks!

rene

Why would people not download the latest version of wget while I provide them with a link to a page that holds the latest version?

user273376

latest version of what?

Pham

11:28 AM

Low Quality Q (33.3%): how to do automated plugin updates on a highly secured server ß, by zero, on wordpress.stackexchange.com.

user273376

so quiet

Unihedron

11:47 AM

Hi everyone!

SilentKiller

hiya #uni

Unihedron

hey #sil! ;)

SilentKiller

hows evening ?

Unihedron

Since I was coding in halloween, I'm taking a break today and playing a game.

SilentKiller

while working.:/ btw which game ?

Unihedron

11:52 AM

minecraft

But I'm getting bored, so I'm going to code again!

SilentKiller

Good..

SilentKiller

12:52 PM

Bye!

Sam

Bye!

Unihedron

Reopen pls stackoverflow.com/q/26678548/3622940

Bye Sil!

SilentKiller

2 more needed. :)

Sam

@Unihedron 1 to go...

TGMCians

wait..

now @Sam see

Unihedron

12:55 PM

And they say we leave questions closed par raid moderation...

\o/

Sam

:D

TGMCians

yo Inf

your glasses ?

Infinite Recursion

hi, reverted back to normal

Unihedron

Oh no :( Lost the pair of glasses?

Infinite Recursion

I am disappointed is all I can say. Really, the entire Tavern explained how voting works and requested you to use the site for a few days before you go on making such posts again and again and again on MSO, now MSE. — Infinite Recursion 2 mins ago

No, took them off while swimming in the pond :)

rene

12:59 PM

@InfiniteRecursion the me is right, rest of world wrong syndrome?

Infinite Recursion

Yes, third rant by OP in a day ;)

Unihedron

:)

Infinite Recursion

apart from the hour long rant in the tavern facepalm

Unihedron

sighs

rene

Oh, I missed the drama?

Unihedron

1:01 PM

Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It'd be great if they get something out of the debates, but if not, it still happens.

Infinite Recursion

You were lucky @rene

Unihedron

naa stackoverflow.com/a/26689424/3622940

Infinite Recursion

You were a better fit for this compliment @rene

yesterday, by Ahmad

@InfiniteRecursion Oh are you those who close questions?

rene

@InfiniteRecursion yep, sure, that should have been me. ;)

Infinite Recursion

yesterday, by Ahmad

It seems I have been caught by polices

Unihedron

1:06 PM

yesterday, by Jan Dvorak

@Ahmad we also flag spam, if you don't mind

Infinite Recursion

Absolutely, you are one of the top all-time close voters on SO

Unihedron

And close vote reviewers :D

Infinite Recursion

^^

TGMCians

1:27 PM

^^

Sam

^^

Braiam

is this on topic? stackoverflow.com/q/26685875/792066

TGMCians

is this down androidviews.net

Braiam

@TGMCians DNS fail

TGMCians

ah ok

this is site where i found lot of good android libraries

10x

ok brb, going to have dinner

Sam

1:43 PM

cya

rene

Well, I really know how to pick my questions:

rene... OOP IO rule... always catch when reading a file. So no! — Katy Pillman 17 mins ago

Braiam

I'm sure a bad man... I'm drinking coffee saturday, no need to work or be awake for what matters

rene

Is SO down for me only?

Braiam

yup

rene

Hmm...

Braiam

1:53 PM

down only for you, I mean

rene

OK, Let me see what is borked

Maybe this:

Data Center Maintenance Sat, Nov 1 2014 - 15:00 UTC (11AM EDT) - 19:00 UTC (3PM EDT)We will be performing... http://tmblr.co/Z7Lcqt1UKKzPv

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 29, 2014 at 6:49 PM

for some reason the websockets are OK but normal http request are not giving a response

 4    17 ms    17 ms    17 ms  0.so-0-2-0.xr1.tc2.xs4all.net [194.109.5.10]
 5    17 ms    17 ms    17 ms  xe-1-3-0.ams12.ip4.gtt.net [77.67.74.209]
 6    23 ms    23 ms    24 ms  xe-1-1-2.lon11.ip4.gtt.net [89.149.183.58]
 7     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Braiam

@rene I can't ping 4.2.2.2 from where I'm :P

why london?

rene

2:09 PM

I guess that is the shortest route across the atlantic?

I don't think AMS-IX has a direct link

TGMCians

2:33 PM

/me back

!!/alive?

SmokeDetector

@TGMCians kinda sorta

Unihedron

!!/aliveForAnotherDay?

SmokeDetector

@Unihedron watching this endless list of new questions never gets boring

hichris123

hichris123 ♦

1k 1 4 26

weather meteorology models climate earthquakes electromagnetism fracking

1k rep even! :)

TGMCians

oy i see

congrats!

hichris123

2:40 PM

Thanks! :)

Unihedron

Congratulations! You deserve it!

hichris123

I need to ask more questions.

Infinite Recursion

Congrats!

Sam

Congrats!

hichris123

Oh, @Inf I saw some ducks last weekend. :)

I'll have to upload a picture.

Frank

2:48 PM

Good job @Hichris123!

Infinite Recursion

Upload now!!!

hichris123

2

Frank

Yuck, that looks like pee!

hichris123

@Frank More like the sun reflecting on the water...

Frank

mmf

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