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hichris123

12:56 AM

nuke-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/18439683/…

nuke-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/3595634/…

Undo

@hichris123 ... that was from Darin himself! D:

hichris123

1:16 AM

Eeek! @Undo's back!

Braiam

EEeeeekkk! @hichris123 is back!

hichris123

:(

Undo

Oy!

Me is only kinda back, no need to fear yet

hichris123

phew

TCPMAN.EXE

pl0x

Louis

1:28 AM

cv-pls-cannot-reproduce stackoverflow.com/questions/22925725/…

See the OP's own answer:

0

A: PHP GET request fails, but works through the browser

The firewall at the web hosting company had blocked port 8080. But it was strange that sometimes it would work.

michaelb958

5:43 AM

It's quiet. Too quiet.

Laszlo Papp

6:04 AM

"EDIT: Hey, you, clever guys who put my question on hold. I WILL DO NOTHING WITH IT. I'VE SAID EVERYTHING AS I THOUGHT IT'D BE CORRECT. SO OR TAKE IT OFF THE HOLD OR JUST REMOVE IT. AT THE SECOND CASE YOU CAN REMOVE AND MY ACCOUNT."

from stackoverflow.com/questions/23874152/…

flag for account deletion?

What to do about this one? stackoverflow.com/questions/11422114/vba-form-disappearing/… Is it NAA or leave it as OK?

Jan Dvorak

6:24 AM

@P82 you will care about downvotes more once you realise that they prevent you from asking any more questions. — Jan Dvorak 17 secs ago

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SQL SERVER TOP 101 on dba.stackexchange.com

Shadow Wizard

6:57 AM

@LaszloPapp no, that's not our choice to make. I voted to delete the question.

@michaelb958 still early

Jan Dvorak

@ShadowWizard they've already made that choice

Stijn

ola!

Jan Dvorak

shallom!

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak no, can't see "Please delete me" here.

Until then, it's just ranting

@JanDvorak שלום :D

Lose weight spam meta.stackexchange.com/questions/232235/…

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LED DIMMER CIRCUIT on electronics.stackexchange.com

Shadow Wizard

7:10 AM

> Database Administrators Stack Exchange requires cookies for authentication -- are your browser cookies enabled for this domain?

:(

@Stijn any beer today?

Mat

Oops @ShadowWizard, I just stomped on your suggested edit - was already editing the post on DBAs

Jan Dvorak

~~SPAM~~ WAT sports.stackexchange.com/questions/4783/…

Mat

That looks like a legit Cricket scoring rules question.

Jan Dvorak

not from the title, though

it also smells of poor grammar to me.

Stijn

@ShadowWizard nope, just coffee :)

Mat

7:21 AM

Yep, pretty terrible title, including random spacing. Attempted an edit.

Laszlo Papp

@ShadowWizard: I am not sure what you mean.

@ShadowWizard: I rolled your edit back now not to confuse the moderators who already got the flag.

Shadow Wizard

@Mat no big deal, but a performance tag better be added to IMO

Mat

spam drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/115368/…

Good point, added, thanks @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

@LaszloPapp no. Moderator can easily see the revisions.

We should not leave noise around.

Laszlo Papp

@ShadowWizard: except that it requires extra work for them. The whole point of community moderation is to ease their job, not make it harder.

and removing a minor chunk of it, when you vote for overall deletion is odd to me anyhow.

Shadow Wizard

7:30 AM

@LaszloPapp and a moderator will also have to edit the noise/trash out. More time than just viewing revisions to confirm bad behavior.

Laszlo Papp

Not really, it might even require zero work if it gets deleted.

Shadow Wizard

@LaszloPapp I removed useless rant. My vote isn't binding, the question might exist for years to come.

Laszlo Papp

yada-yada, you were the second voter and it requires three. It is pretty clear that delete vote trigger people will jump on it, and someone gives a third pretty quickly.

I would not have deleted it just yet to be honest. The person may chill out and edit the question. He would have deserved two days.

Shadow Wizard

@LaszloPapp so he can still edit, flag, and mod can undelete.

Laszlo Papp

except that undeletion will be more difficult. Anyway, I will give up the ping-pong game. Congratulation to causing more work for the mods, and potential flag dispute.

michaelb958

7:35 AM

Congratulations for making a mountain out of a molehill.

Bart

Congratulations for giving me a great start of my morning all. Now for some coffee. :D

Laszlo Papp

@michaelb958: oh yeah, of course, I will repeat that when causing more work for mods needlessly. Thanks for the quote.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart that was my purpose from the very beginning. Now for my payment! ;)

Bart

Given how much you seem to be enjoying yourself @ShadowWizard, the logical choice is to pay you in even more of these fruitful discussions with Laszlo.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart nooooooooooooo

Laszlo Papp

7:39 AM

Bart: I am ignoring you now, sorry. I had enough of this with you. Pretty much every disagreement ends up in "Laszlo is evil blablabla" because wtf he has a different opinion than ours?!

Bart

Boooo

michaelb958

What a terrible loss.

Laszlo Papp

not even a small loss to get Bart muted here.

michaelb958

</sarcasm>

Bart

Haha, you take life way too seriously @LaszloPapp. I have never, nor would I ever say you're evil. It's a shame you don't take as well as you give. But of course you're free to ignore me.

Laszlo Papp

7:42 AM

I do not think there is any need for sarcasm when people have different opinion.

Mat

spam drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/115371/… , there's another one on the front page

Laszlo Papp

@P82: perhaps you could reformulate your question asking specifically about dynamic roles? I think that would allow you to get it reopened without too much effort, potentially resulting a useful question. — Laszlo Papp 59 secs ago

michaelb958

Poor Drupal Answers.

Bart

BLAMMO @Mat

Jan Dvorak

I really need to start fetching entire question bodies. The API limit is really harsh here, though.

rene

7:54 AM

Morning!

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn oh my, at least it's a good coffee?

Oops

Morning!

Morning!

Trainwreck

Thank you @rene.

You're welcome

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Q: What is the best place for red wedding dresses?

I love colored dresses for wedding and finding artful dresses so what will be best place to find? Red will be better. New fashionable dresses will be better? I also find-Strapless Ball Gown Floor-length Maternity Bowknot Embroidered Organza Red Wedding Dress, Strapless Ball Gown Floor length Sequ...

downvote the answer here as well stackoverflow.com/a/23883786/578411

Stijn

7:58 AM

@ShadowWizard of course, everything tastes good with scotch

Laszlo Papp

@rene: already flagged both.

Jan Dvorak

@LaszloPapp don't close spam question please

Laszlo Papp

Please do not tell me what to do with spam questions.

Jan Dvorak

@LaszloPapp why not?

Laszlo Papp

Delete is way easier when closed, and in order to be civil, tell it to rene to, not just me. I am not your daily enemy, you know?

Jan Dvorak

8:00 AM

@LaszloPapp Rene didn't vote to close

Laszlo Papp

you may reconsider it when you carefully read this thread, too.

It is not the first time you do not read posts carefully in my observation, yet starting needless rants.

Bart

And the next one to be blocked is ....

Laszlo Papp

but yeah, there is no point in telling not to close it to anyone since spam should not be kept open in any way possible.

my spam flags got also accepted, so I am not sure I understand what the problem is.

Shadow Wizard

8:15 AM

Ideal fate of spam post is getting 6 spam flags. It will be auto deleted and the anti spam filters will have more data to learn from and block future spam with same pattern. By closing and deleting with votes, the anti spam system won't learn.

2

@LaszloPapp ^

Jan Dvorak

^

Laszlo Papp

@ShadowWizard: that is nonsense. Any mod can teach the system for spams, and the whole point of flagging, which I already said I did, is to bring attention to the moderators. Also, I highly encourage you to get the system improved if it is sucky. No spam should stay around indicating that they are welcome. They simply are not. They have to go. Please do not argue for the sake of arguing.

Shadow Wizard

@LaszloPapp I argue for the sake of making a point.

Laszlo Papp

ok, you did not; move on.

Shadow Wizard

OK, we might be both right

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Q: Vote to close or flag as spam (or both?)

If I've voted for a spam question to be closed, should it still be flagged for a moderator as spam? I figured that, regardless of the closed or open status of a question, the site/mods should be made aware of problematic account, but if it is redundant to do so, I'll let you save that spot in th...

support vote-to-close flags spam

Assuming you also flagged as spam in addition to closing, it's all good.

Laszlo Papp

8:22 AM

no, it is not good because it was done by Laszlo Papp !!!

Jan Dvorak

@LaszloPapp now you're just arguing for the sake of arguing

Laszlo Papp

@ShadowWizard: even with "your logic", you are contradictory anyway, where you claim that it is just one vote, it may remain open for ages. I do not think you would like to see spams potentially remaining open for ages.

Mat

@LaszloPapp: SPAM flag = high priority signal to diamonds that can act on it instantly. Close vote => review queue. On smaller sites when mods aren't around, can be a good idea. But on SO, it's just a waste of a close vote.

Laszlo Papp

@Mat: I think you (partially) missed the conversation...

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CIRCULANT MATRIX WITH INTEGER ENTRIES AND DETERMINANT 1 OR -1 on mathoverflow.net

Mat

8:31 AM

@LaszloPapp: I'll completely miss your end of whatever follows.

Laszlo Papp

thanks.

Jan Dvorak

SPAM ux.stackexchange.com/questions/58002/…

Shadow Wizard

@Mat actually no, moderators do not see spam flags.

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A: Spammer's not been "canned"

Because the community was particularly efficient at removing this spam. Which is to say, each of this user's posts were auto-deleted when a sufficient number of high rep users flagged them as spam. The mods never saw them, because the flags were handled (post deleted) before they hit our queue. ...

Mat

8:48 AM

@ShadowWizard: If there were enough to nuke the post the spam flags get nuked. But I'd be surprised if they don't get active spam flags in some queue/notification or other, like the other moderator attention flags. (I'm not a mod anywhere though.)

Laszlo Papp

9:02 AM

@rene: stackoverflow.com/questions/4186874/…

off-topic as ...

rene

Or opinion based ...

Scrumalliance is the best BTW ;-)

Morning

Morning

@rene: blue or pink?

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LOTUS NOTES | COMMAND LINE | WINDOWS on superuser.com

rene

9:07 AM

@LaszloPapp I'm not sure how to respond to that...

Stilly.stack

@rene The correct response is purple obviously

Laszlo Papp

I was always wondering if this SM paper means anything which can be obtained in less than two day without much effort.

days*

Stilly.stack

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/23885351/…

rene

@LaszloPapp for HR it does...

Laszlo Papp

lol

Bart

9:21 AM

-4

Q: BFS, DFS Helpppppppppppppppppppppppp ASAP Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

This Project is to implement some procedures doing the following: Represent any graph using these input parameters: • A parameter to represent the graph by Adjacency Matrix, or Adjacency List. • A parameter to indicate whether the graph is directed, or undirected. Traverse the graph nodes and ...

c algorithm

So we have established that he needs helpppppppp

3ventic

facedesk @ question title

Mat

EMERGENCY!!!! I'M OUT OF COFFEEEEEEE. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. cya

Bart

cya

Tim Post

@Bart He tried that same question on Academia first, yesterday. My advice to him was to get an earlier start on his assignments.

Bart

So harsh @TimPost. He said Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Tim Post

9:36 AM

Every time someone says "Plzzz", I imagine a bee with a lisp.

6

Bart

Haha. Close call. Almost had to wipe coffee of my monitor there.

Shadow Wizard

9:52 AM

@TimPost I wonder what cooking advice he needed?

Louis

10:32 AM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/23879370/django-user-account-usage

rene

10:43 AM

Yes, it is possible to do all that. If it will work...who knows...Your question is too broad, please visit How to Ask and the help center to learn more... — rene 1 min ago

DroidDev

does this or the one above it, qualifies as an answer, or can I flag it for NAA?

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev both are poor answers to a poor question, no point flagging IMO

They give what the OP asked, to some extent

DroidDev

anyway, I already flagged the question

your new DP is nice @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev DP?

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard Display Picture(on SO)

Shadow Wizard

10:59 AM

Oh, that's a new term. One never stop learning! Anyway thanks, decided to give my daughter a chance after having only my son for long time. ;)

I put it in all accounts except MSE

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard so, that's your son here, with a bitcoin. You click photos from great angles. Are they accidental or planned :P

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev sometimes I think to myself "this is a good position for a picture" and bring the phone out to take a picture. So, I'd say planned more than accidental. :)

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard thats great, what I normally do is, if something interesting is going on, I keep clicking photos so that there is a chance of having one good photo among them. There are usually 5 to 8 photos on one scene if I am on camera.

Shadow Wizard

@DroidDev so why not video? Then you can take a single shot out of it.

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard It takes more effort(kind of), you have to slow down whole video, watch it over multiple times, take some good looking shots and then choose one of them. I am kind of energy saving(lazy) guy

Shadow Wizard

11:10 AM

@DroidDev admit it, you're a couch potato ;-P

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard lol, if laptop can fit in this quote, then I am afraid, I'd have to admit

michaelb958

@DroidDev s/bit/uni/

Shadow Wizard

DroidDev

@ShadowWizard that's not me on the couch, it is some kind of green vegetable which is definitely not potato. (I REFUSE TO ADMIT) :P

and I was also not able to understand what does s/bit/uni mean

Braiam

11:32 AM

I feel like doing evil when both Tim are in the room >:)

Shadow Wizard

@Braiam like "what's up @Tim"? :D

@DroidDev but it got eyes and even a mouth!

DroidDev

this is better, its got a beer

Mat

11:50 AM

Sweet Potato Beer. For the couch ninjas.

DroidDev

ninja, that's more like me

michaelb958

12:10 PM

@DroidDev It meant the thing in @ShadowWizard's avatar is actually a unicoin, not a bitcoin.

user202362

Here is a hard question, am I a geek: yes/no?

DroidDev

@michaelb958 oh, now I got it. I suspected it, but wasn't sure of it. Thanks for explaining

Shadow Wizard

@michaelb958 oh my, so was it a regex?

@chmod711telkitty maybe :)

Bart

You want us to answer that @chmod711telkitty?

user202362

It is like relativity - you need external references to be accurate :x

michaelb958

12:15 PM

@ShadowWizard Haven't you ever met s/regex/replace/ search-and-replace before?

Bart

Maybe if we put you in a box, you are both a geek and not a geek at the same time @chmod711telkitty?

3

Shadow Wizard

@michaelb958 I always dodge regexes, they frighten me.

user202362

2

Bart

:)

Mat

SPAM or just misguided? stackoverflow.com/questions/23889287/…

Bart

12:23 PM

Misguided I'd say

Shadow Wizard

Spam.

Bart

At the very least about how posting links on SO won't help him at all. :p

Shadow Wizard

Flagged.

Bart

This @ShadowWizard is so harsh

Louis

I've flagged as spam too and voted to close for good measure.

Shadow Wizard

12:24 PM

@Bart yet the spam is so delicious

Louis

And manually downvoted besides Community's downvote.

Bart

What's next? Commenting upon his mom's apparent size?

SPArchaeologist

we are currently evaluating replacement of ours project management dep. with this.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e9cb/

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist genius. Beats even Google's pigeons.

@Bart size of what, exactly? :O

Bart

I'll mind what I say next @ShadowWizard. Wouldn't want more users to start ignoring me here. ;)

Shadow Wizard

12:30 PM

@Bart yeah, you might lose stars! ;)

Louis

Spam flag marked helpful. Victory!

Shadow Wizard

@Louis weird. It got auto deleted two seconds after being closed.

Maybe George cast a binding spam flag?

Bart

Pff, you guys don't know your spam from your disgusting mouldy ham.

Louis

@ShadowWizard Maybe some were hesitant with the spam flag. Making a closure determination is easier. Spam has more consequences.

Shadow Wizard

@Louis hmm... might be :)

@Bart oh great, you caused me to search for "mouldy ham". I had to keep the lunch inside.

Bart

12:34 PM

You're welcome

Shadow Wizard

grr

Bart

Hahaha, one of the first results

3

Q: Is it safe to eat a lump of Jamon that grew some mold?

A lump of Jamon in my fridge grew some white mold. Is it safe to eat if I scrape all the mold away? Edit: this is white mold, of the sort that grows on Camambert cheese, or so it appears. Not green or black mold.

food-safety mold ham

Braiam

-4

Q: Is Minecraft educational?

Does Minecraft teach computer programming? Does Minecraft teach logical thinking? Does Minecraft teach architecture/building/design? Does Minecraft teach decision-making? Does Minecraft teach teamwork? Anything else that makes Minecraft educational? Is Minecraft an educational videogame?

minecraft

the question everyone wanted to know!

Shadow Wizard

@Bart oh no, I mean images. As a punishment I dare you to look what "florp" is. :D

Bart

I'd like to hold on to my job @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

12:37 PM

@Bart but Joel himself used that word in a recent podcast ;)

user202362

Bart

Hah, true @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

You think he knew the urban meaning when using it?

Bart

It wouldn't surprise me if he did

2

Shadow Wizard

Cat fight! kitty next

Braiam

12:41 PM

did chat.SE went down?

yup

cdn-chat.sstatic.net/chat/Js/master-chat.js [HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error 240ms]

3ventic

no?

oh, you just can't join/refresh

Shadow Wizard

@3ventic "just"

the biggest understatement of the day!

3ventic

It's something I do once a day, so it's "just"

and I didn't even do it today because my computer was on last night

Shadow Wizard

@Braiam if it lasts for more than 10 minutes or so, think we better submit bug report on MSE

JavaScript file giving back internal server error is quite weird though

Braiam

there meta.stackexchange.com/q/232248/213575

nope, the entire http://cdn-chat.sstatic.net/chat/ is bad...

3ventic

12:46 PM

it's something in the configuration gone wrong

like an invalid .htaccess (or equivalent)

Mat

@Braiam: s/loding/loading/ in your title

SPArchaeologist

Must be baba doing.

Bart

EEEEK!!

Braiam

@Mat yeah, titles ain't my forte

Shadow Wizard

@Bart don't let balpha see this!

he hates eeek for some reason ;(

Bart

12:48 PM

As if @balpha will ever know.

wait .... dammit

Shadow Wizard

lol

3ventic

Yay for cached js

Mat

It's not 500'ing for me anymore

Shadow Wizard

@3ventic it's like a car running on the fuel foam only

Bart

Fine here as well

Braiam

12:49 PM

yup we are back...

3ventic

Fixed itself

Shadow Wizard

@3ventic hard to believe, more like the dev who crashed it in the first place silently fixed it :)

Braiam

we want the ~~blood~~ cables of the culprit ~~dev~~ server!

3ventic

The dev fixed h(im|er)self

Braiam

Shadow Wizard

12:52 PM

Chocolate in my Den!

3ventic

D:

SPArchaeologist

1:20 PM

@ShadowWizard you have a reply there.

Jan Dvorak

SPAM seed? superuser.com/questions/759292/what-is-the-best-online-store

Bart

Myeah, given the second sentence, that's spam

Jan Dvorak

true

Louis

What's a spam seed? A post that's planted and designed to look innocuous and then later grown (edited) into spam?

Jan Dvorak

or to attract spam answers

Louis

1:23 PM

I see.

Are spam seeds flaggable as spam?

Jan Dvorak

if benefit of doubt doesn't apply, then I presume so

Shadow Wizard

@Louis I think that yes

@SPArchaeologist you have a reply to your reply there :)

Louis

Well, my spam flag was marked helpful and the post has been nuked.

Braiam

WELP, now the entire cdn is 404'ed

Shadow Wizard

@Braiam nope, working fine for me.

rene

1:32 PM

@Braiam For once I can say IE11 works fine...

Braiam

@ShadowWizard @rene ctrl + f5

 Request URL: 	cdn.sstatic.net/Js/stub.en.js?v=5203a634f078
Request Method: 	GET
Status Code: 	HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found

Shadow Wizard

> Request URL:http://cdn.sstatic.net/Js/stub.en.js?v=5203a634f078
Request Method:GET
Status Code:200 OK

Nick said something about Oregon vs. NY servers. maybe one of them is still misbehaving

Stijn

@Braiam the load balancer is probably sending you to an out-of-sync node

Shadow Wizard

0

Q: New Employees can't star things in chat

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but as a new employee I can't star things in team chat. I've created this question to highlight my problem, but to also resolve it. (hoping that by generating some rep I my problem will be solved.)

bug chat chat-stars

SE employee without diamond and almost without any rep, let's help him out!

Andy

OR...we could downvote him and see how else the problem could be worked around. Maybe he'll find a security hole somewhere.

rene

1:45 PM

@ShadowWizard Pointing him to How to ask is not very welcome I guess?

Braiam

@ShadowWizard I see 3 Dan's in the team page

3ventic

Employees should have expanded usercard on hover without 1k rep tbh

Shadow Wizard

@Braiam I doubt he's in the page, the page refresh only about once in a month

@3ventic I think diamond also give this privilege

3ventic

Possibly

Shadow Wizard

So if that's true, employees should have diamond on MSE by default

3ventic

1:48 PM

Nope, it doesn't

Shadow Wizard

@rene you are welcome to try, if you don't care risking your precious account(s) :D

@3ventic bummer!

rene

If that profile is correct and he is the Internal Support engineer then I'm lost in the process...

Shadow Wizard

So it all boils down to adding special symbol for employees, @3ventic

@rene he's not "the", he's just "a"

3ventic

Perhaps, but it's not something that needs to be advertised outside meta sites.

rene

I imagine someone from SE calls internal support, then Dan posts a question on meta and if he gets an answer reports back to the SE employee....??????

GnomeSlice

1:54 PM

Today's Listening | fakebit/electronic

Stijn

too bad there's no juicy stuff on that screenshot

Shadow Wizard

@rene nah, don't think so

Surprising, but he's in the team page

Dan O'Boyle
Internal Support Engineer
Lawrence, NJ

GnomeSlice

2:10 PM

Alternative listening:

@TimStone Hi

oh no!

Hi

@TimPost I've applied glittery stickers, but now my screen is obscured. Please assist. — Dan 19 mins ago

Tim Stone

@jadarnel27 My bad, by the way. :P

Bart

2:30 PM

@GnomeSlice yay

Braiam

> If you purchase this Album you may use it in any fashion you want (i.e Youtube videos, Twitch and Porn)

5

O_O

GnomeSlice

Pretty sure he's just making a joke.

Shadow Wizard

Hey guys need a hand. Please reopen this, it's not site specific anymore

0

Q: Can I really do anything with a question marked as duplicate?

The problem I have is users not taking the time to properly read a question and then posting another answer from somewhere else which doesn't really answer the question. This is then marked as a duplicate and then the system tells you to make an edit or open a new question but in my experience t...

discussion exact-duplicates reopen-closed vote-to-reopen

@Braiam I agree with @Gnome, it's just a joke which I personally find funny. :)

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SELECT ALL MY RECORDS OF 2 DIFFERENT TABLES on stackoverflow.com

3ventic

I never considered it site-specific to begin with

Shadow Wizard

2:46 PM

@3ventic well, the first revision mentioned specific question on SO, so I can understand why it got closed.

Jan Dvorak

what's the point of this close reason after all?

3ventic

@JanDvorak To keep site-specific issues on the site-metas

where the appropriate people see it

Jan Dvorak

@3ventic shouldn't they get migrated instead?

3ventic

Maybe, but we can't do it, so we just close them

it's easier to ask them to post it on the appropriate site themselves anyway

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak it's like programming questions on old Meta were never migrated to SO

@Braiam now you caused "porn" to appear in the star board. Hope you're happy! ;)

6

3ventic

2:51 PM

Except programming questions on old meta were almost exclusively crap

Shadow Wizard

@3ventic good point!

Jan Dvorak

@ShadowWizard now there are two of them.

Shadow Wizard

LOL

Stijn

@JanDvorak two of what?

Jan Dvorak

@Stijn two of those words we don't like to see.

Stijn

2:56 PM

oh no fair you removed it @Shadow

I was a split second too late to star it :P

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn three means ice cream, and would cause overload!

Shog9

@Braiam Point #1 there states that a lack of positive feedback proved too confusing. That was the original behavior - positive feedback was added later to quell the complaints. We're not likely to change that.

Stijn

sometimes I wish I had a super downvote for really bad questions

SPArchaeologist

mumble.... I hoped that starring old <4 star messages would bump them on top.

seem it doesn't work that way.

Shadow Wizard

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A: How does the repositioning of starred messages work?

Just like the "hot questions" on the Q&A sites, it's based on the Hacker News formula. Starred messages are sorted in descending order by Stars ----------- (Age + 2)1.5 where Age is the message age in minutes. So there's indeed a time decay factor (e.g. a 20-minute old message with 5 stars ...

Age is critical factor

Jan Dvorak

3:15 PM

SPAM academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21505/…

Shadow Wizard

Anyone got the number of the diet spammer? Think I'll need his services after eating this ^

SPArchaeologist

... even starring a 22 star message from april wont suffice.

Bart

There is a devaluation over time @SPArchaeologist

SPArchaeologist

then I will have my revenge by obliterating any residue of appetite ye may have after the above image.

Shadow Wizard

Weird, why are we allowed to star old messages anyway? Think this should be disabled at certain point.

3ventic

3:18 PM

star old messages? how

SPArchaeologist

Nattō

is a traditional Japanese food made from soybeans fermented with Bacillus subtilis. It is popular especially as a breakfast food. Nattō may be an acquired taste because of its powerful smell, strong flavor, and slimy texture. In Japan nattō is most popular in the eastern regions, including Kantō, Tōhoku, and Hokkaido. History Sources differ about the earliest origin of nattō. The materials and tools needed to produce nattō commonly have been available in Japan since ancient times. There is also the story about Minamoto no Yoshiie who was on a battle campaign in northeastern Japan betw...

Shadow Wizard

@3ventic via the transcript

@SPArchaeologist ehm, what? :)

3ventic

oh

I don't really see a problem with it

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard Two dishes I wouldn't touch even with a long pole. What is that in your image? Reminds me of Royal Canin dog food.....

Shadow Wizard

I love my hammer! :D

@SPArchaeologist oh, did I forget to tell you? I'm actually a dog. :P

If anyone want to buy it, go ahead: yashir4u.co.il/…

3ventic

3:24 PM

@ShadowWizard You can only use it once per question before it shatters into pieces that fly off to future questions you will close

Louis

Looks like packing material to me. Maybe that's the idea. Pack the stomach so that there's no space for anything else.

Shadow Wizard

@Louis well, I think it's unique to Israel. In free translation it's called "mini pillows"

And sadly enough, it's not packing the stomach, usually I'm still hungry after eating it! :(

Louis

Pillow fight in your stomach.

Shadow Wizard

Nope, not "our" idea.

muldernaturalfoods.com/breakfast-cereals/tilos-retail/…

Braiam

@ShadowWizard I'm not happy, I'm in ecstasy

Shadow Wizard

3:31 PM

@Braiam yeah, that's the purpose of this thing after all.

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard Not a pony? nope - that was Alula

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist no pony here. Too hairy.

Got to go guys, was just beginning to remove faq-proposed from those closed questions if anyone want to give a hand I'll appreciate it. :)

SPArchaeologist

3:53 PM

@ShadowWizard Just be thankful that I am not Alula. I recall there was a pony that was comparable to Addams's It cousin, but I don't recall the name.

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