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12:07 AM
And if anyone has any good regexes, feel free to pull request it.
 
Whaat! This is a site for grown-ups?! I've been lied to :( — Amal Murali May 17 at 12:19
 
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Q: Really get to know your characters

user221239The Lisa Shearin Group Bestselling Author – For me, hitting a snag in a book usually happens like this: I’m writing, everything’s going great, I’m in the zone and the words are flowing. Then I move on to the next scene or chapter and I hit a wall. The writing slows to a trickle or stops dead in...

 
It's gone
@hichris123 I might just make a case-insensitive one :)
 
K. And also, @Jan do you have any good regexes?
 
+1 'reason': "Phone number detected"
 
12:20 AM
I wanna make SmokeDetector better.
 
I have some good ideas. I'll do a pull tonight or tomorrow
 
Sounds good.
 
I'll need to brush up on my Python though
 
Today I learned that there's a Stack Overflow moderator named false.
false ♦, British Columbia, Canada
83.2k 14 126 177
 
Where's true?
@hichris123 any particular reason SmokeDetector logs in every time?
 
12:24 AM
Logs in to post to chat? I dunno. Ask Manish.
@michael pretty sure that's minitech.
Yeah, minitech.
 
Threw me a bit when the API (/users/moderators/elected) spat it out. It's like, "do I have to go API bug-reporting again?".
 
Yeah, we were... talking about it.
 
1:08 AM
How do I figure out what the heck MySQL is doing right now?
 
1:56 AM
My answer has a lot of downvotes (unexplained). Is it wrong somehow?
 
@bjb568 your explanation really sucks
 
I was trying to be simplistic...
 
yet "it's gone, doesn't matter, go away" isn't a great answer by any means.
 
It shows how meta is fundamentally broken. It's a discussion, so is voting for quality or accuracy? Both. Somehow.
And in discussion, there isn't disagreeing, there's commenting with a reason why.
 
2:04 AM
which you don't provide
 
And discussion != Q&A
A reason why it was closed wrongly? I'm not a mind reader.
 
Why SO first posts review queue is always empty?
 
Only one person is needed to complete a review.
 
@bjb568 perhaps Ben is? You should leave it to him, then.
 
2:20 AM
@JeroenVannevel Okay, edited that in. I added attribution to you (do you want anything else)?
 
2:48 AM
hi, I accidentally clicked on the mobile view somewhere, and it seems it made the whole session mobile view on my desktop, and not just that link. How can I restore this without clearing the browser cache?
ah, there was a full site link at the bottom!
 
3:07 AM
@hichris123 Looks good, cheers
 
Thanks.
hates mobile chat
 
I got a new car today! :D
 
3:23 AM
:D
 
4:00 AM
is this VLQ, or ELQ (editable low quality)?
 
ELQ.
 
@JanDvorak Oh my that whole thread looks like an Amazon review board.
 
@animuson got the same thoughts, but I don't know DIY.se enough to tell if that's their usual way of going.
the top answer seems fine
 
All those answers from new users are just as crappy as they claim this product is.
 
Seems like a good protect candidate.
 
4:16 AM
Meta spam! And now I miss my binding spam flag.
 
restarting my realtime feed
 
4:28 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GET DATABASE DATA WITHOUT RELOADING PAGE on stackoverflow.com
 
 
1 hour later…
1k edit reviews! Yipee!
(on SO)
 
6:41 AM
@animuson congrats! Is this I30?
 
@Mat but I want to be healthy and clean!
 
Mat
@Shadow Wizard: try these today.com/food/…
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PHP MY ADMIN IS NOT WORKING on stackoverflow.com
 
7:13 AM
@Mat gone...
 
The weekend is over for spammers?
 
@Mat thanks, but I'm loyal to my burger
(that's a repost)
@rene spammers have no weekend. I think. :(
 
Isn't there a UN treaty that everyone is allowed weekend?
Isn't there a Spammers Rights Watch?
 
the keyword here is "allowed"
 
7:19 AM
:)
 
no treaty can forbid them from taking regular paid overtime
 
yep...it was edited...
 
@JanDvorak notice the spammer is connecting via Facebook
 
that user is live
@ShadowWizard huh?
 
@rene see the spammer avatar, it's the Facebook default profile picture
When logging in through Facebook to Stack Exchange sites, it's using their FB picture
 
7:25 AM
Ah, didn't connect those dots...
That account must have had more accounts across the network
 
@rene why you think so?
And as for dots, you really should do something like this
 
@ShadowWizard users/30434/user27746
user27746 is an account from were you associated from
@ShadowWizard OK....I'll try but I'm not sure if my colleagues like it much if I connect the dots on their leg...
 
@rene oh no, I mean your leg ;)
 
@ShadowWizard Oops...
 
@rene you are right!
Idle spammer, just waiting for the right time to attack.
 
7:35 AM
:)
 
@rene nah, need much more practice to get Bart-ish
 
Oh.. . :(
 
:(
ERROR 593: not enough users for a train
 
We can have spam train?
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: FRD IN MICROSOFT DYNAMICS CRM 2011 on stackoverflow.com
 
7:41 AM
Monday morning!
Failed the edit...someone improved after me :(
 
@rene we can have any train in theory. what did you try to edit?
 
I removed the thanks...
But then I stopped...
 
@rene but the thanks removal was successful
 
yeah, I know, but you and Mat edited as well and my philosophy on editing is that after your edit nobody else needs to touch that post again...
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CAN X-RAY SCANNERS DAMAGE MOBILE SIM CARD on skeptics.stackexchange.com
 
7:50 AM
@rene nope, I didn't edit. And many times with bad initial post, many edits are needed until it's all clean. :)
 
I don't edit on skeptics.se. They might think a bigger force exist.
@ShadowWizard Thanks for trying to make me not feel bad :-)
 
@rene someone suggested an edit... so it wasn't you?
 
Maybe he is the force?
 
Mat
Yep. I'm a bit skeptical that that question meets Skeptics's standards though.
Euh, no, I'm not the force :-)
 
Now I'm skeptic...
 
7:59 AM
Oh my, they're slow in there. 7 whole minutes and still not reviewed. It's eternity for Stack Overflow!
@Mat really? With such questions, I wonder
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Q: Can frog pee cause warts?

Wayne WernerThe title says it all. Here in the United States, especially the south, I've heard growing up never to hold a frog because it will pee on you and the pee causes warts.

 
 
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9:09 AM
I think the apocalypse is approaching. Bart got no starred message in the wall and front page of MSE does not have any downvoted question. What's going on??! :D
 
As soon as Laszlo starts to complain about unexplained upvotes there might be a problem @ShadowWizard. Until then I wouldn't panic just yet.
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Mat
Apocalypse averted, Bart is stared
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Is Laszlo back yet? Or is he still "quitting"? :)
 
@Mat s/stared/starred/
 
Mat
:-/ Now people can stare at that starred that typo
 
9:19 AM
@Bart Enjoying being stared at?
 
It's all part of my daily life @michaelb958.
 
@Mat Also, would now be a good time to point out that you included that twice?
 
Give the guy a break. It's Monday.
 
Mat
@michaelb958: I think it's time for me to go look at my activity, and rollback any edit I made this morning... I don't seam kapable ov spelin.
Aur tipyng.
 
9:35 AM
@Stijn back in full force, even on MSO.
 
Now they target our children. How rude!
 
@LaszloPapp done, but with "This question was caused by a problem that can no longer be reproduced"
 
OK, thanks, I have never been able to reproduce.
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A: Node.js Visual Studio 2013 - path too long error

zeeshan maniarLong path tool will be helpful for this

I flagged for moderator attention since he posted it a couple of times within a few minutes.
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A: Nexus 7 (2013) and Win 7 64 - cannot install USB driver despite checking many forums and online resources

einsteinFor a tool that should be 'easy peasy' this sure fails a lot of times. The Nexus 7 is an annoying tablet to root. Google/Asus made a rubbish device in this concern.

flagged as hate speech.
 
Hate speech?
 
@Bart AKA offensive
 
yes.
 
10:10 AM
... we must have wildly different definitions of that then. :)
 
let us clean that thread up; two answers above: stackoverflow.com/a/21976976/2682142
I protected the question now.
 
I heard you the first time @LaszloPapp. :)
 
NAA is probably a better flag
 
Yeah
 
10:27 AM
eh? NAA is for things that do not answer the question, but may be useful as comment.
offensive hate speech is not in any way constructive and/or useful as comment.
 
being useful as a comment is not a requirement for NAA
 
I really would love to see such comments avoided; otherwise I will flag it there as offensive.
no one has ever said that.
Let us ask on meta whether that answer should be migrated to comment...
 
Offensive hate speech ... what an exaggeration.
 
Bring up the flag reason on meta that you think it sucks and people who created were nonsense.
 
10:41 AM
my flag got disputed.
 
@LaszloPapp what flag? The second half is an answer
 
Have you even read it carefully?
 
> pls refer to [dupe] or you can [another solution]
(cv'd)
 
another solution coming from [link]
either way, it is a dupe.
 
What flag have you used?
 
10:45 AM
I think VLQ or NAA, but it is invisible for the low-quality queue anyway.
 
Then the reviewers didn't see the "different" answer was actually the same.
 
let us give it another go.
 
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A: Add pagination in wordpress admin in my own customized plugin

NeerajFor pagination i have found a simplest way please check this link

 
10:50 AM
@LaszloPapp spam
except it's useful and relevant..
 
oh noooooes!
 
@3ventic why so?
 
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A: Long paths bug in Windows?

Zeeshan maniarhey there try using long path tool for this

 
@JanDvorak it's his own blog
 
the guy is back with a different account
we deleted several of his same answers....
@3ventic: yep, that is called spam, although I used the other flag for moderator attention.
 
@3ventic linking to own blog is allowed if relevant
 
he is a clear spam
two account revealed now.
 
1 min ago, by 3ventic
except it's useful and relevant..
 
yay, picture!
 
11:40 AM
@Stijn 10 seconds ahead of you! ;)
 
@ShadowWizard 5 :) That's from finding the link to how to ask :P
 
@Stijn you should have a keyboard shortcut for the link! :)
 
12:00 PM
Amazing. 3 years, 9 months in Stack Overflow yet no clue what SE stands for, thinking it's about search engine: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/232208/…
 
ahhhh, beaten again, this time by @Bart
 
YAY!
 
11 seconds :(
 
@Stijn oh wow, you're getting rusty!
 
Like taking candy from a baby @ShadowWizard
 
12:07 PM
@Bart yeah, show off your ubber skills! ;)
 
@Bart how can you sleep at night?!
 
On a fluffy mattress filled with crushed baby dreams @Stijn
 
@Bart and you count stars when you have trouble falling asleep?
 
12:30 PM
the thing is a cannot give you code I myself don't have access to it :P what i know, player is working on other machines. Could you just tell me where i should look for solution for this error when displaying video? — vo0do0 1 min ago
yeah, right...
 
another write me the code from scratch? stackoverflow.com/questions/23870188/…
what close reason is the more appropriate for those? Lack of information as we expect code and it is unshown?
 
i chose too broad
 
I am sure some rep hunter will answer. :D
if it does not get closed quickly.
 
@Stilly.stack Not necessarily opinion-based, like OP says, factual reasons can exist.
 
What on earth...?! — Lightness Races in Orbit 3 mins ago
what is the point of that comment?
 
12:51 PM
@LaszloPapp to point out unspecified grave surprise, most likely.
 
@LaszloPapp disbelieves, surprise, etc.
 
of what ?
 
of the question propose, perhaps
 
12:52 PM
Unconstructive comment. I'd flag it, but I want to avoid another meta.stackexchange.com/questions/226720/…
 
that does not make sense to me... it falls under the unexplained downvote category: not constructive.
flagging so, I guess...
@Stijn: I already flagged it. ;)
this lightness guy seems to write lots of such comments.
@RobertHarvey: I am not a downvoter (yet?), but this action is not acceptable in my values. Non-constructive comments have to go, otherwise the whole atmosphere is ill-formed. It will open up the can of worms that it is welcome rather than focusing on the topic which is the original purpose of Stack Overflow in my opinion. I just came across like this for an IMHO valid question from an about 240K+ rep user: What on earth...?! – Foo 10 mins agoLaszlo Papp 3 mins ago
@Stijn ^
 
1:12 PM
@TimPost Hi Tim! I sent you a message message via contact form from SO. Can you reply me please? Thank you! :-)
 
@IonicăBizău I was out quite a bit last week, so I'm catching up, should have a reply to you in a day or so, it's a holiday today.
 
Holiday? Good to know!
 
@TimPost OK! :-) Thanks
 
1:51 PM
@ShadowWizard: is it possible to get the popularity of a tag based on the number of questions over time? I would like to see if a certain tag gets more popular or fading away, e.g. on yearly basis for starter.
@ShadowWizard: yes, we have spring holiday in the uk... but Tim does not seem to be from the UK anyhow.
 
Today's Listening | electronic/experimental
@Bart
 
Yay
 
@Shadow I30? Am I missing a joke?
 
@LaszloPapp weird, so what holiday does Tim have?
@animuson you posted picture of a Hyundai, so it looked like i30: hyundai.co.uk/new-cars/i30
(wife bought such car three years ago, good stuff :))
 
no idea, I just based that on the profile location, which might be outdated.
 
2:07 PM
@LaszloPapp over time isn't possible with the tool I built to collect the tag top scores, so I fear it's possible only via Data Explorer. @rene is the master! :)
 
Oh, I don't know. I thought they said it was an Accent GS. But trying to search for the Accent online brings up the i30.
Are they the same car or something? o.o
 
@animuson as far as I know, Accent became i30, yep
So, no joke! ;)
 
Weird.
 
@animuson you should know what you buy :D
 
2:11 PM
Yeah, I paid more attention to the features than the name of the car.
 
@LaszloPapp there is this holiday where Tim lives, but it's only tomorrow. Think he jumped one day into the future? I won't be surprised! :)
@animuson makes sense. Typical male behavior! :)
 
no idea, but I enjoyed the link from Tim's most upvoted answer...
 
I need to go out and link my phone with it sometime. :/
 
@animuson you mean with the car?
 
Yeah.
It has those fancy call buttons on the steering wheel that I will probably never use in my lifetime.
 
2:18 PM
@animuson download app that let you drive by tapping the mobile device screen.
 
Flappy car
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Haha
 
Bart always knows how to say the right thing in the right time. Amazing!
 
Of course he does. Is't that how you earn your glasses?
 
@LaszloPapp only link I found is this. So you enjoy hammers?
 
@Mat nuked
 
I'm going to get a gold badge for a silly CSS scrollbar answer...
 
@animuson CSS can't be silly
 
Nonsense. One of those 's's has to stand for silly...
Cascading Silly Sheets
3
 
What if they're Counter-Silly Sheets
 
2:35 PM
Say @animuson, I think I see a user who has at least 3 accounts. No signs of voting between accounts or anything like that. At most circumventing a ban perhaps. Worth flagging?
 
Are they bad questions?
 
Myeah, consistently so
That's why I suspect the ban
 
Then yes, we'll look into it.
 
Okay.
 
2:42 PM
@3ventic I feel your pain!
 
It's been sitting like that for the past 10 minutes
 
@ShadowWizard: hmm?
 
@3ventic and the text is really there?
 
The red is mine
I wish installers would detect they're slow and show that lol
 
@LaszloPapp you said you enjoy a link in Tim's most upvoted answer so I found the link. I think.
 
2:43 PM
hmm... That gave me an idea for the file uploader I'm making..
 
@ShadowWizard: no, the Linux/Tannenbaum debate.
 
@LaszloPapp oh, on what site? Thought you mean MSE
 
Yep, saw it now.
@3ventic gmail is doing something like this i.e. "loading" --> "Still loading" --> "It takes longer than usual" etc
As for installs, well, it really depends on the machine hardware :)
 
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Q: Hurr Durr Flags

GnomeSliceWhenever there's a chat flag in one of a given network site's chatrooms, every 10k+ user across the network can see and action it. This is not always ideal, particularly if the offending chat has active mods or 10k users of its own who are present, and who can see context; local users should hav...

 
2:46 PM
It's the mod manager that's slow
 
Shog9 you mean?
 
Oh man, the tags in the titles here make me want to throw up...
 
Wow, that's .... wow
 
@animuson need a script to edit all those titles, yeah
and to top it all, he used sock puppets. great!
 
I'm getting upvoted on MSE, what happened to the world
 
2:51 PM
@GnomeSlice MSE changed.
 
I noticed this earlier, not a single downvoted question in the whole front page. In the good (?) old days, half the questions had negative score. ;)
 
Let's go do something about that
 
plsno
 
2:52 PM
Or maybe Laszlo can just ask something I can downvote without a reason?
 
@ShadowWizard Well, also the homepage is more personalized to you.
But check my SO voting stats.
> 386 up
762 down
 
@hichris123 not on MSE, it's showing top 50 questions sorted by activity
 
@ShadowWizard: 30-40% of the Qt questions are completely rubbish.
 
@LaszloPapp better than 99% of the javascript questions
@GnomeSlice I fear that while your idea is good, it was already proposed and got over 100 upvotes
 
So it would seem
 
2:55 PM
LOL
 
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Q: Add escalation system to chat flags

Mad ScientistThe offensive/spam flags in chat are shown to every moderator from a parent site (on chat.stackexchange.com that is every SE 2.0 moderator, more than 200 right now) and 10k chat users as well. This is potentially far more users than a flag on an SE site itself is shown to. I don't think it is n...

wow
 
@GnomeSlice Y'know, I think it was Shog who was talking about doing something like that.
 
1750 reputation points were wasted on bounties for that request
 
Good music btw @GnomeSlice. Thanks
 
@Bart yeeee
 
... and you guys don't even see the weird mod chatflags we get.
 
@hichris123 weird? /me curious :)
 
Join the next election @ShadowWizard
 
Yup. :P
 
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