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12:58 AM

spam: stackoverflow.com/questions/15810203/…

apaul34208

1:21 AM

@FinalContest I just saw that and was about to post the same

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cv-pls-lack-of-information stackoverflow.com/questions/24016442/…

apaul34208

It has to be one of the more humorous ones I've seen. The best part is that it looks like the page it points to allows comments without any spam filtering...

bjb568

@FinalContest gone

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cv-pls-duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/24012599/…

does anyone have an idea why it got two downvotes without explanation? stackoverflow.com/questions/24019969/qmainwindow-not-showing-up/…

bjb568

No.

I've been getting a bunch of unexplained downvotes lately.

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1:32 AM

:/

bjb568

I emailed the SE, and they said:

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I got 4-5 yesterday.

bjb568

> I spent some time looking into this - it's not one person voting, nor does there appear to be anything untoward (no sockpuppets, etc).

Did you insult a popular sports team or something? ;-)

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lol

one reply could be whether the algorithm they use is actually good

because last time they replied something similar to me.

I try to believe that people are not that nonsense at large, only a few of them...

@bjb568: I rectified two unexplained downvotes with one upvote for you.

bjb568

:D

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1:37 AM

is it just me that sometimes irrelevant people close a valid question, and it is close to impossible to get it reopened then?

bjb568

Impossible to reopen? Meh, reopen queue noobs.

I leave closed most things (because they are truly awful, as awful as the close queue), but if it's good quality I always reopen.

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yeah, I sometimes think privileges based on reputation is abused by some people in areas beyond their league.

or they are just simply robo-reviewers.

bjb568

The more rep you have, the more of a whore you are. Reviewing should be based on how good your reviews are.

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stackoverflow.com/questions/11034504/…

what :D

that was a joke answer prolly.

bjb568

Sure has a lot of upvotes…

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1:48 AM

"buy a lock and place a key inside it if it opens it you get your answer"

-1

A: left outer join with sub-query

What a misleading title! I came here for the "left outer join with sub-query". Can somebody please clean that up?

Tom Pace

2:03 AM

Good mornternoening.

I've just had a funny experience on Meta.SE. A question of mine from early april was marked as a duplicate of a newer question. I hate how some of the verbiage of the SE system is outdated, and when such outdated system text shows up, in various places, it makes me feel like it's condescending.

"This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please edit this question to explain how it is different or ask a new question." Please forgive me. I am truly, deeply sorry for not time traveling into the future to find a more popular question that answers my question. :)

I will remember to timetravel next time I need to ask a question. :D

In fact, now that I'm on the SE system checking funny Q & A, I had this thought: I'd like to be the first person in SE to have a question marked as a duplicate of itself. YES!! There must be a special gold badge for that.

jadarnel27

2:22 AM

@TomPace What were you thinking?! If you keep posting questions without first looking for duplicates in other timelines / alternate realities, you will be automatically banned from asking questions.

Tom Pace

I know, I am so ashamed. My reputation should be -10000

Okay, I posted a question that when answered, could be logically marked as a duplicate of itself.

jadarnel27

I really think both of those questions (yours, and the newer one yours was closed as a duplicate of) should be closed as duplicates of this: What is a protected question?

But seriously, @TomPace. I'm sure that could be frustrating, hope it didn't put you off too much, having your question closed like that =)

Tom Pace

ah, no, not offended much, it's typical of my experience on Meta.SE

jadarnel27

My very first MSE question was closed.

Tom Pace

For what reason?

jadarnel27

2:34 AM

Duplicate!

Braiam

@jadarnel27 SEARCH HARDER!

jadarnel27

Although mine was a more legitimate closure.

@Braiam I totally should have!

Tom Pace

hah.

Well, feel free to chime in your thoughtful answers to my duplicate-of-itself candidate: english.stackexchange.com/questions/174897

I just hope it doesn't get closed as "not a real question"

jadarnel27

I went to a jukebox musical consisting of only Queen songs the other day. It was...awesome.

I haven't been able to stop listening to Queen since then.

Braiam

@TomPace there isn't narq close reason anymore

Tom Pace

2:44 AM

but... but... what if someone posts to MSE or ... any site, without a question mark at the end??? I guess it makes sense to edit the question to add the question mark. Yep.

I feel like the world of policy-making on the internet is a giant ever-changing topsy-turvy Escher environment.

One can never really know what's "correct", but people try as they may, to hit the moving target.

bjb568

3:10 AM

@Braiam There's other.

bjb568

4:11 AM

This puts a smile on my face :) stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/4975233

2 link-onlys deleted and question gets attention for close.

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 don't old answers to questions asking for resources get exempt from the no-link-only policy?

bjb568

…but they are link-only.

Old questions don't get special treatment, why should answers?

jadarnel27

That whole thing just looks so pointless. Closing a 3 year old post, deleting 3 year old link-only answers, when there's constant crap flowing in. And some silly person posts a comment in response to a 3 year old comment.

bjb568

Pointless? If old posts are pointless, why don't we just delete them?

jadarnel27

That straw person saying that old posts are pointless would probably be very interested in the answer to that question.

I, however, never said old posts are pointless.

bjb568

4:19 AM

So we can keep them but we should lock them?

jadarnel27

Are you having a conversation with someone else?

bjb568

No.

jadarnel27

Oh.

bjb568

Reviewing.

Why does the system want people to reopen dup questions when edited? If it's a dup, it's a dup!

(or the rare invalid edit)

animuson

Heh the one thing that pops up for me in Reopen Votes is an audit...

DroidDev

4:32 AM

@FinalContest If they continue even after changing name and avatar, then I think they are not intentional or the attacker really know about SO. But in either case, you'll just have to move on.

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5:12 AM

@DroidDev: well, daily 4-5 unexplained downvotes are far from normal.

@DroidDev: I wonder if you really moved on, or just quit SO.

it is easy to say move on when you are not in that position. Probably, I would have said the same, if I hear someone repeating the same annoying stuff from others. Anyway, the profile change has not happened due to the downvotes to avoid misunderstanding.

DroidDev

@FinalContest I agree with you saying that it is easy to say move on when you are not in that position. For me, I sometimes get frustrated when I see lot of bad quality question in Android tag. In the starting I try to help those users by teaching them. After some hours of same questions, I turn into sarcastic user, who only downvote or flag bad content.

But mostly at that time, I stop using SO for some recreational activity.

I come to chat room, like here or den. Talk with some friends or start facebook for some time.

Then I again turn back to SO. This is how I keep up with it.

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yes, that is also what I usually do.

DroidDev

Doing same thing for all day long, and for multiple days usually change your attitude towards that thing.

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I hate facebook or any social stuff for that matter, but yeah, I do off-topic stuff like playing music more. :)

DroidDev

@FinalContest You really hate social stuff!! Try to like some music pages on facebook or follow some music guys on twitter (I am saying that because you play music == you like music). Those might be the guys you'd like to get social with.

Ionică Bizău

5:29 AM

Hey @TimPost, I replied to your email. I wait the response. Thanks!

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yay another OP changing the question... with fixing it by the answer... stackoverflow.com/questions/24005415/…

cv-pls-lacks-information stackoverflow.com/questions/24027056/…

bjb568

5:45 AM

@FinalContest Be suspicious when edits are "added 2529 characters in body"

DroidDev

6:06 AM

Isn't this primarily opinion based contestant? Can I flag it for same?

bjb568

"what is the best" yup.

DroidDev

and then there are crappy answers, one just copying what OP have already told another consisting of links and links.

bjb568

Yeah. Can't do much about those unless they are bad enough for a VLQ flag.

DroidDev

AND now Jon Skeet started answering questions in android, I think I'll have to retire early

bjb568

[Astronomer peers into telescope] [Jaws theme begins playing]

Just came out.

DroidDev

6:12 AM

sometimes, it take me while to understand these, but they are best

cv-pls-lacks-info stackoverflow.com/questions/24029848/…

DroidDev

6:30 AM

can I flag this for something. As the question stands, it is clearly the lack of understanding from OP's side

bjb568

Can you help? Isn't a real question, so unclear what you're asking.

DroidDev

Ok, I asked here, because I started thinking, may be I am flagging too much, because these kind of questions are making me crazy, but, some of them don't really need flagging.

I was really confused whether that question is flagable or not

Do we have a canonical question like this for Network on Main Thread exception in Android?

bjb568

@DroidDev "I am flagging too much" BLASPHEMY!

@DroidDev I dunno. Make one!

DroidDev

@bjb568 I am really scared when it comes to asking questions. First I spend at-least sometime on searching if same already exist. Then again, this is a good idea. Let me search for that and then gather some material on it to create one.

bjb568

Being scared is good, it increases the quality of questions. If you know english, the average score goes up like 2. If you know what a computer is, it goes up like 5. If you even know what "meta" means, it goes up like 10. I'll +1 you if it's good. Self answers generally are.

DroidDev

6:57 AM

SPAM: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233594/…

@bjb568 I found one very popular question that is on the same issue. I think we can use this as canonical question for Network on Main Thread Exception.

Although, I'd still -1 the question, because it is just How can I fix this issue question.

bjb568

@DroidDev Looks good.

DroidDev

@bjb568 I had an evil plan of getting lots of upvotes and badges by creating a canonical question like that. Now everything is ruined. :(

bjb568

:P All questions worth asking have been asked :( mostly.

Except those swift ones.

Which are awful.

DroidDev

I guess I started SO too late for earning lot of rep from single question.

Stijn

7:14 AM

@DroidDev my two highest scoring answers (+89 and +27) are less than a year old and they're both rather simple answers. Don't give up :)

Jan Dvorak

@DroidDev come join us at Programming Puzzles & Code Golf, then

Stijn

Same for my questions, top two (+21 and +10) are a year old.

bjb568

Nobody upvotes my answers… well at least I'm an unsung hero.

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@JanDvorak: took about 1-2 hours to reclose it... stackoverflow.com/questions/22294425/…

DroidDev

@Stijn Have you been to android tag. Most of the question that appear are, please tell me how to do this or NPE. I don't wanna code for people, I wanna help them, but it seems people just want code these days.

@JanDvorak I have an account there

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7:17 AM

people are crap, period.

it is not SO specific. ;)

DroidDev

But I only know to code in Android. That's the main reason of my less activity there.

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yeah, I hear you

DroidDev

But, there's Hinduism coming. It has completed commitment phase and might be starting in private beta in some time. I hope to see a full-fledged site for that and be active on it, as I am here.

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cv-pls-too-broad stackoverflow.com/questions/24029459/…

DroidDev

Can everybody help me a tutorial ? LOL

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7:21 AM

LOL

be careful because the guy is from Vietnam. He may call John Rambo against you.

DroidDev

@FinalContest Have you heard about Rajnikanth I am from India, and I'll call him. :P

Although personally he is a good guy, Lot of charity work is one thing that made him famous.

other then movies

Stijn

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/5012335/…

terrible question and all but one terrible answers

DroidDev

It is starred by someone.

wow

How can this get two upvotes when directly asking for solution only. The code posted is already doing one of thing and OP is asking for same in question also.

I also linked it to two answers in my comment, which makes it too-broad, because asking multiple questions in one post.

Bart

New user. Question gets into a queue. Upvoting is a valid review action. Question has code. Hence upvote ... possibly.

Stijn

You know, the more I see of android, the more similarities I see with php

DroidDev

7:35 AM

@Bart Sometimes I think my flag on these kind of question might also get rejected because of same reason. New User, Question has code.

Bart

I don't see it in the queue's history. So there goes that theory :)

DroidDev

what flag suits Which one is better? kind of question?

an example

Tim Post

@DroidDev 'other'

Bart

... with what exact message ...

DroidDev

ya, I was thinking same ^^^

Bart

7:41 AM

"Cause @TimPost said so" I guess

Tim Post

@Bart sharks vs gorillas or anything to that effect

DroidDev

@TimPost You really want me to write that in other flag?

Bart

Blog - Stack Exchange: Gorilla vs. Shark

Jeff Atwood on August 15, 2011

Who would win in a fight between a Gorilla and a Shark?

OK, maybe you’re thinking that’s a ridiculous question. Perhaps it is. But various forms of this question get asked all the time. Consider this now-ancient Stack Overflow question titled Python v. Perl:

Okay, so I’m finally making the jump into scripting languages and I have decided to focus on either Python or Perl. The problem is: I don’t know which to cut my teeth on.

Most of my programming experience is in C, Java, and C++. There’s no specific task I would be learning Python/Perl for, other that possibly applying it to my dev work to make life easier in general. …

@DroidDev ^^

Tim Post

But, first, make sure the question isn't so narrowly scoped that it might be perfectly fine to leave. "What IDE is best?" - way too broad. "I'm working with [framework] within [constraints] on [platform], which of [these three] would be advantageous for [task]" is a whole different story.

@DroidDev You can just say something like "question lacks narrow enough scope to be answered objectively"

DroidDev

@TimPost Ok, let me try something like that.

or it can also be primarily opinion based

finally I see some downvotes on crappy posts. Hope in humanity restored.

Tim Post

7:50 AM

The keyword there being primarily. There is room for questions where someone has done a lot of research and just wants to avoid a really bad move that could mount up to a lot of debt in their project quickly, but they really have to be extraordinarily narrowly-scoped, almost to the point that maybe 12 people in the world would find them useful.

DroidDev

@TimPost but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. Only this line is what I read for flagging some questions for Opinion based category. However, I don't get the implication of what you have written, from what is written there when I flag something for Opinion based.

Stijn

i.imgur.com/Mx2YeuE.png Noah's ark in Swift

Jan Dvorak

@Stijn The IDE looks great

DroidDev

Me and my friends always laugh about how we see everything from programming angle.

Jan Dvorak

Is there a way to find out if I closevote way too much?

Bart

7:57 AM

Sure. Check the front page. If there are questions which aren't closed, you're still good.

DroidDev

1 hour ago, by bjb568

@DroidDev "I am flagging too much" BLASPHEMY!

Jan Dvorak

Thanks :-D

Stijn

Profile info now lists "bio", "visits", "stats" and "private", is this new? Or was I blind up till now?

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@Stijn: done

@DroidDev: I did not go other, just primarily opinion based

DroidDev

8:12 AM

@FinalContest I did same :)

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there is no such a thing in software which is better.

rene

@Stijn I hate CI (Continuous Improvement)

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there are always various factors, and that question was not particularly "narrowed".

@rene: why ?

rene

You can never trust it worked like it did yesterday...

Bart

Sounds like the software I write @rene. I can never trust that it still works like it did yesterday.

DroidDev

8:22 AM

this is narrowed down, but opinion based

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@rene: why?

rene

@FinalContest Why do you keep asking why?

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@rene: because I have different experience and I am interested in why...

Bart

4

rene

@FinalContest I see improvements that are only made with as reason because improvement but the real benefit stays unclear and as a consequence it pushes teams/users back because they have to adapt.

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8:46 AM

@rene: what CI software do you use ?

rene

Ahh, there we have it. I was not talking about CI software just about CI (without the software).

Final Contest

well, many people have that opinion because of bad software.

or even, bad configuration, etc.

DroidDev

I wonder what that cat really might be doing while someone was clicking photo.

bjb568

I like CI.

rene

I flag that...

Bart

8:50 AM

@DroidDev the cat was informed they were out of catnip.

DroidDev

@Bart Oh!!!

Stijn

9:06 AM

spam: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233598/…

DroidDev

It also has a feature-request tag

bjb568

gone

Goodnight.

DroidDev

@bjb568 Goodnight

rene

9:43 AM

SPAM: meta.stackexchange.com/a/233599/158100

It took a couple of seconds before I realized it was spam...maybe the fact that I ran out of coffee has something to do with that...

Bart

brb ... getting coffee.

DroidDev

really! have people forgotten about google..

Jan Dvorak

@DroidDev too broad, for starters

DroidDev

Flagged already

Stijn

Some people would benefit a lot from having an in-browser spell checker. Half of my editing work is right clicking on words and choosing the correct spelling.

DroidDev

9:53 AM

LOL! my friend use the exactally code and he can connect but i can't.

Now I have seen everything

when I see whole class posted, alongwith import statements and commented code, not even remotely pointing to error

rene

Every question that has my friend in it can be down voted and closed, If a complaint pops up in meta we might reverse those votes

Jan Dvorak

@rene not until a trivial edit is performed

DroidDev

Sometimes they start with, I am making an app....., then tell about their app, what they want, what they are getting. Then post whole project in code snippets, wait for someone to format for them and then hand over working code out of their snippets or give them new code and tell them where to insert it.

that's how it should be done.

Jan Dvorak

@DroidDev cv'd

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/8577762/…

err... I meant: SPAM stackoverflow.com/a/24034093/499214

rene

10:13 AM

yep

I was confused by the previous link because you linked the question. As I said earlier, I ran out of coffee....so please tell me EXACTLY what to do otherwise I screw up...

Jan Dvorak

I intended to; sorry

Bart

SPAM: stackoverflow.com/questions/22306090/…

Yay, so many free spam flags.

stackexchange.com/users/4564460/user3705834?tab=activity

MOAR SPAM: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233601/muscle-building-tools

Man, if this continues I won't need to go for lunch any more. So filling.

rene

10:45 AM

WUT? stackoverflow.com/questions/24035318/…

Bart

Why write an actual question when you can copy paste that email you've just spammed to others.

rene

yep

and our previous SPAM dude is active: apple.stackexchange.com/a/132902/68061

Oops:

Don't post programming question here (or anywhere else on the Stack Exchange network) to try to get round a question block on Stack Overflow. — ChrisF 1 min ago

Jan Dvorak

yay! +100 reputation

Oh, wait, Google merely needed some more permissions for my existing account

rene

Oh boy.... programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/243001/…

Bart

11:11 AM

And he's a senior ...

Tim Post

Ugh.

Managed to get himself q-blocked on two sites for asking essentially the same question repetitively

Bart

slow clap

Tim Post

That's precisely what I'm talking about when I rant about people getting into the industry for all of the wrong reasons.

All I have to do is BS my way through this interview and do lots of hand-waving to get hired. I can rely on the Internet to do my job once I have. -- That, frighteningly, is the hymn of an alarming number of 'professionals' in the generation that will replace my own, and that frankly terrifies me.

Q: Daddy, what should I be when I grow up? A: Competent.

8

Stijn

@TimPost I've had a Java teacher who managed to bullshit himself into the teacher position, luckily our class managed to convince the school board to fire him.

People who had never programmed before realised he didn't know what he was talking about.

Tim Post

@Stijn Really? I hadn't heard of that happening yet, but I'm not surprised.

Stijn

11:21 AM

It was adult education, but still

Tim Post

I wonder what people are thinking when they actually try that. I mean okay, let's say I managed to get hired as a doctor, I don't know a damn thing about medicine .. I should just expect nobody would notice and I'd be able to wing it?

Bart

@Stijn Heck, I have been training people who were supposed to be teaching classes that same day on a topic they didn't master.

DroidDev

@TimPost In that case, clever and rich people open a hospital or clinic and hire other doctors. ;)

SPAMMERS are back meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233603/…

Bart

Yay, got my flag in before Tim goes PEW

Tim Post

11:37 AM

pew pew!

DroidDev

When comments provided in code are not enough for you

Bart

That's why I never comment my code. Nobody will read it anyway.

DroidDev

How did this get an upvote? HOW??

Tim Stone

@Bart It's an exact copy of this question but v2 -> v1

...And missing the image, heh.

Bart

What the frick?

People are weird.

So he asks an exact copy question, gets a comment pointing him to an answer at the copy, and he thanks the user for it? Something smells.

Stijn

11:46 AM

Mindless upvotes here

DroidDev

@Bart this guy didn't flagged it as duplicate (I think) but gave the link in comment to his answer. Upvotes are only thing people think about.

Bart

No problem @Stijn, upvote it I shall.

Don't link me to that profile @DroidDev. Now I've seen the horror that is his title writing ...

... and question content .... sigh

Is really nobody editing any more?

Stijn

@Bart last week I got Copy Editor :) and still going strong!

Bart

Fixed the 3 most recent ones. Let's hope that gets a point across. (Yeah, as if)

Heh

@Bart Can you please stop to edit my question? What's wrong in that? Is that any problem you,if i ask question? — Dhruv Vaishnav 5 mins ago

Stijn

12:04 PM

Could see that one coming :)

Bart

Myeah

:)

DroidDev

@Bart wait there's more to come

this guy, instead of flagging duplicate questions answered the same question with same answer (initially), here and here

and just look at the reputation, he has got from those two answers

DroidDev

12:21 PM

Now who's gotta Giant S

Stijn

> /popcorn
> 7 more to go...

:(

GnomeSlice

Today's Listening | Bass/House/Dubstep

@Bart

DroidDev

Flags left for today 0

Bart

Thanks @GnomeSlice

DroidDev

Now, I can return to real world and have some coffee.

Bart

12:32 PM

Stop saying the trigger word.

Martijn Pieters

Grrr, how do I best go about letting a moderator know about a terrible suggested review? I want some timeouts applied to 3 reviewers that paid no attention whatso0[lever.

Extra characters courtesy of a 9-week-old kitten that walked across.

Bart

RED ALERT: CAT IS UPSET ENOUGH TO CHIME IN. ACTION NEEDS TO BE TAKEN NOW!!

Martijn Pieters

1

A: Is this spam in the C tag wiki?

I've rolled back that edit, for two reasons: It broke the link section. No actual new link reference had been added, so each link would now load the next URL in the list listed. The blog post linked is a blatant copyright infringing copy (from this tutorial). It is indeed a spam link, aiming to...

@Bart She's bored, more. She wants me to come play instead.

Bart

Then again the whole "Best website to learn c programming" section is ... well ... iffy

Stijn

> Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. (Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop)

and then SSMS crashed and my entire query is gone...

DroidDev

12:36 PM

@MartijnPieters She might have wanted to participate in SE as well. Good kitten. Let her participate.

Bart

As long as she's over 13 in cat years @DroidDev

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4330379

Martijn Pieters

@DroidDev She doesn't meet the minimum age requirements. We have only one cat that does, and he's blind now.

DroidDev

@MartijnPieters But, she'll only be a good programmer if she starts learning early and SO is a place for new programmers to learn. Isn't it?

Bart

... well ...

DroidDev

@Bart I thought you might be posting a picture of cat typing on keyboard. :D

cv-pls-naahttp://stackoverflow.com/a/24037740/2389078

Bart

12:44 PM

Seems like an answer to me. Formulated poorly, but it's an answer.

Stijn

@DroidDev that's an answer.

DroidDev

@Stijn Shouldn't it be a comment. He said Try using

Bart

Nah.

DroidDev

cd-plshttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/24036161/drawing-a-shape-line-in-‌android-layout

cv-plshttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/24037971/how-to-read-an-android-p‌roject

Martijn Pieters

4

the kitten in question

now blocking my right arm from reaching the keyboard on account of her having snuggled in to my elbow.

DroidDev

1:01 PM

GO ON KITTEN!!! Explore the world of programming as you grow.....

Martijn Pieters

I am suffering from serious cuteness overload right now.

Bart

Plot twist: cat was a gift from Jon Skeet in an attempt to distract Martijn from gathering reputation too fast.

DroidDev

Why does your avatar look like cat in the picture? ^-)

cv-plshttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/24037958/how-do-you-programme-a-m‌otion-sensor-to-activate-led-lights

cv-plshttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/24038500/download-picture-from-wa‌mp-server-to-android

DroidDev

1:43 PM

Going home now. See you guys tomorrow.

Final Contest

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/24037201/…

I downvoted and closed/flagged everything there.

pretty creepy thread with the assistance of a high-rep user.

Martijn Pieters

21.5k is no longer that high-rep.

Stijn

1:59 PM

Should stackoverflow.com/questions/21324347/… be reopened? I just ran into the issue myself and if I had asked a question, it would also be the only information I'm able to provide.

I can clean up the title and question body a bit if that would help.

Bart

And the answer does not address it @Stijn?

Stijn

it does

Bart

Well, perhaps clean it up and I'll have a look

Stijn

@Bart done

Braiam

@Stijn the answer should contain the workaround ;) I have to click to get it

Stijn

2:02 PM

@Braiam I'll see to fix the answer too.

@Braiam done

user0000000

2:21 PM

hey all

Stijn

sup

user0000000

Is it ok to recommend yahoo answers in a close vote? stackoverflow.com/questions/24040147/want-to-start-freelancing or will I get in trouble for it?

Bart

It's a bit "f*ck off"-ish (though admittedly entirely my interpretation)

And based on my opinion of Yahoo Answers

user0000000

yea, i didn't feel like writing a long off topic reason and yahoo answers was short and sweet, won't do it again though since i guess that could technically be considered a form of spam

Bart

Meh, wouldn't worry too much about that. If you have a genuine recommendation for the OP for questions which are explicitly off-topic here, that's not really a problem I'd say. What I hate is users telling others to ask their question somewhere else when it's perfectly on-topic for the site.

user0000000

2:37 PM

what is this? the question summary appears as this "I have searched and searched and I couldnt find an answer for this, so I decided to ask. Mysql table: table_1 id | value_1 | value_2 | value_3 1 hehe haha stack 2 over flow ... "

but the bolded part isn't in the question stackoverflow.com/questions/24040387/…

Bart

Caching?

user0000000

oh shit... never mind, It is in the question, in the code part... I thought it might be one of those things that tells you it's a direct copy and pasted old question

Bart

Ah, the data :D Completely overlooked that.

user0000000

1 more cv needed stackoverflow.com/questions/24033828/… , that user has only asked 6 questions so far today

user0000000

2:59 PM

lol, they changed "looks good" to "looks OK" in the LQRQ

user202362

I have been banned for 29 minutes for posting a real woman ... you know, the not really skinny kind ... not sure it is too inappropriate for SO because she was dressed

Jan Dvorak

@user0000000 I love that change

user0000000

3:16 PM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24017153/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24008398/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/22274176/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/23993120/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24041183/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24041189/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24041074/…

Bart

Somehow your statement of "posting a real woman" doesn't comfort me at all @chmod711telkitty. Are you trolling again? :)

@user0000000 cv-plz ALLTEHTHINGS!!

user0000000

I want to start a close vote gang.

Limited to five people.

Other gangs can be created, but we don't like each other.

And then close questions that way. So they get closed very fast.

Bart

First rule of close vote gang: Don't talk about close vote gang.

user0000000

If we get 20 different gangs of 5 people each, thats 400 questions closed right away.

Martijn Pieters

More if you have dupe-hammer-holder gangs.

Bart

3:27 PM

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Q: Can or can't questions be migrated after 60 days?

I came across this relatively old question from 2010 today, Critique my Lisp, please. I know that older questions often don't meet today's standards, and that sometimes they're locked, and preserved for historical significance. (E.g., see the discussions in Why were historically significant ques...

Maybe I should add an answer stating only employees can do that.

Martijn Pieters

Swing Mighty Mjölnir!

user0000000

To sign up for my gang you need to post a question asking for a tool, to show that you are worthy to the gang by sacrificing some rep and real rep.

@Bart just use heading bold font so people will notice

@Bart meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/258344/… , lol mods

Bart

:D

Braiam

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/21617500/792066

user0000000

@Braiam where's your close vote on it?

Braiam

3:35 PM

@user0000000 upvote all my SO post and you will see it ;)

Andy

Please don't vote negative, @Andy . I just posted to solve the problem. Not to answer the question. — Rahul Goel 33 secs ago

Avinash Raj

I want the questions from these SO tags(bash,Ubuntu,linux,awk,sed,grep) to be appear on a single firefox tab. It's so hard to open a new separate tab for all the above mentioned tags.

Braiam

4:14 PM

@AvinashRaj OR FTW

Final Contest

strange, not the accepted answer at the top? stackoverflow.com/questions/986224/…

Martijn Pieters

Self-accepts are not sorted to the top.

Final Contest

why?

Martijn Pieters

Because it's the OP self-answering; that just doesn't get the same prominent position as someone else having come up with the answer.

Final Contest

not sure that is reasonable, but thanks.

hichris123

4:30 PM

oy

Final Contest

I do not know why but link-only answers with 1-3 votes do not get removed. I am getting them all disputed.

3ventic

What does the question gain from having them removed?

Final Contest

link-only answers are never removed for "questions to gain something".

3ventic

Yeah, they're removed because they don't provide anything useful

but if the link works and the linked page provides useful and relevant information, it doesn't benefit anyone to remove it

Final Contest

nope, they are removed because links can get broken over time, and usually do.

3ventic

4:42 PM

They're removed when they get broken

Final Contest

I advise you to do more reviews then, or just read meta about it.

I can(not) understand disputing link-only crap with 50 scores, but 1-3, I just cannot...

3ventic

There are many meta questions discussing link-only answers, most of which seem to get marked as duplicates of

116

Q: Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?

I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

discussion link-only-answers not-an-answer

...which basically concludes that most link-only answers aren't link-only answers.

Final Contest

anyway, I will not give up! :)

Bart

@hichris123 yo

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