Tavern on the Meta

12:05 PM

SPAM scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63301/…

@chmod711telkitty Could suggest some game if I had some clue about your preferred genres. JRpg? Simulation? Platform? Mainstream or something that suggest the devs made use of some exotic plant leaf/flower?

Vote to Close

12:22 PM

wow stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/5303200

Tim Post

@VotetoClose headdesk

Jan Dvorak

@VotetoClose someone needs to take a rest

Vote to Close

@JanDvorak Community too :)

the guy re-edited it , and it's a lot better this time, but he still misspelled appreciated, just in a different way this time , sigh

bjb568

Somebody needs a review ban too.

Shadow Wizard

@VotetoClose actually it's an edit conflict. See the revisions, there was other edit, each fixed different parts of the post so it caused a huge mess. Anyway the reviewer approving this should be banned, that's for sure.

Jan Dvorak

12:32 PM

@ShadowWizard unless he was approving a different edit

Tim Stone

Yeah, edit collisions in suggested edits cause all sorts of headaches. Usually it's good to assume no one's at fault in those cases since the blame is often with the system.

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak no, what we see now is what he saw when approving, I'm pretty sure about it.

Vote to Close

@ShadowWizard probably, i was trying to reject the edit but it said it was already approved

Jan Dvorak

CV-PLS stackoverflow.com/questions/3581520/…

Stijn

does anyone know if the "tool recommendations" off-topic reason existed back in 2010?

Jan Dvorak

12:41 PM

dv-pls stackoverflow.com/a/24758080/499214

@Stijn I think not, but it does exist now.

Vote to Close

@Stijn I would say just by the fact of all the upvotes on those questions, all the answers and comments left, etc, that they were not off-topic then

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn pretty sure it's new, added somewhere this year

Stijn

OK thanks, needed to know if I could downvote those old answers, I won't then

Jan Dvorak

You still can

Stijn

~~could~~ should :)

ugh, what's the strikethrough format on chat?

Jan Dvorak

12:44 PM

s/~/-/g

Stijn

thanks!

Jan Dvorak

I still do

Shadow Wizard

1

Q: Why does striking through not work as in chat?

In (StackOverflow) chat, when I type ---something--- It gets struck through. When I do the same on any SE site, it is not. What I need to do is the terrible <s>something</s> and then it is struck through. Why does the triple dash not work everywhere? It's much more "Markdown"-y than the ...

~~woot~~

bjb568

@JanDvorak gone

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 Nice

Stijn

12:55 PM

@JanDvorak I just tested, when attempting to load jQuery 2.x in IE 8, you get '$' is undefined for $. functions and Object expected for $(...) functions, so not the error OP was getting.

Jan Dvorak

@Stijn how did you load it?

huh...

Stijn

What I meant to say was that it was indeed a bad answer, it guessed wrong

Jan Dvorak

do you mean that answers that guess correctly are good answers?

Cerbrus

Can be

Stijn

Usually not no, I downvote them too, but I think I'd make an exception when it is 100% certain that the answer is correct and perhaps edit the question a bit.

If it's a random lucky guess I still downvote.

Jan Dvorak

1:00 PM

CV-PLS stackoverflow.com/questions/24758845/…

Cerbrus

I don't see how a lucky guess good answer warrants a downvote. If it's a good answer, what does it matter that it was a guess?

Stijn

@Cerbrus well, you're supposed to ask the OP to clarify instead of taking a lucky guess and hoping to score some points.

Cerbrus

Like: Q: "I've got error XYZ, how come?" A: "It could be that ABC is broken, take steps D / E to fix it.|

Jan Dvorak

@Cerbrus s/It could.*\,//

Vote to Close

@Stijn It depends... An educated guess answer is better than no answer..

Cerbrus

1:02 PM

Even answers that don't answer the exact problem the OP has may help future visitors that have a similar problem.

Stijn

there's always time to answer after you've asked the OP to clarify :)

Jan Dvorak

@VotetoClose An educated quess is still worse than a close vote

Bart

All my answers are basically uneducated guesses. I keep getting them right though.

9

Jan Dvorak

@Cerbrus or not, if the googler could have found a better question instead

Stijn

4

Q: Did all sites just graduate?

Seems like all beta sites just lost the "Beta" status and have increased privilege requirements. I assume this is a bug, what happened here? A unicorn ate the wires again? Even though we at Code Review would love to be graduating, I bet a site like Puzzling are going to have a hard time, as the...

bug

Jan Dvorak

1:04 PM

@Bart ew.

Stijn

someone pushed the wrong button

Vote to Close

Stijn

@VotetoClose that's nightmare material right there

Bart

How many flags does it usually take to remove a comment? 6 I think=

?

Jan Dvorak

I can still tell audits even before they load. The loading time is a giveaway.

Bart

1:07 PM

Any Meta post to back that up with?

Jan Dvorak

BABA english.stackexchange.com/questions/185203/…

Stijn

0

Q: Flag threshold to remove comment?

Possible Duplicate: How do comment voting and flagging work? How do comments work? How does the spam flag work? How many flags are required to automatically remove a comment to a post? I can't recall a comment I flagged that did not get removed permanently. Example: I flagged a "r...

support comments flags

Jan Dvorak

(spam)

Stijn

> Comments that are flagged by multiple users are deleted automatically. The number of flags needed is based on the comment's score. It currently takes "3 + (Score / 3)" flags to delete a comment.

Jan Dvorak

This also means that comments get autodeleted when they get 9 downvotes

bjb568

1:09 PM

Comment downvotes?

Bart

^ that

Jan Dvorak

I wish there were

should I reject edits if they suggest removal of a sub-question?

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/5303697

Vote to Close

please no comment downvotes ... last thing I need to worry about is people serial downvoting my comments

Cerbrus

downvotes chat message ^

Jan Dvorak

@Cerbrus there are star vetoes

bjb568

1:16 PM

@JanDvorak Why would you need that?

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 the best use is when a star troll arrives

bjb568

But they use it on trains :(

Cerbrus

Ah :P

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak where those added after our little "let's star all the morning train" joke? -_-

Jan Dvorak

BTW...

Morning

Stijn

1:24 PM

how do you veto a star then?

Tilwin Joy

hi i was redirected from meta

i just got like 10 down votes instantly

Stijn

hello @TilwinJoy

Jan Dvorak

@Stijn you need to be a RO

Tilwin Joy

is there anyone who can check whether its a serial down voting or something

Jan Dvorak

@TilwinJoy There's a bot that does that every day

Stijn

1:25 PM

@TilwinJoy nobody can check that for you, but an automated process will find out soonish

bjb568

@TilwinJoy You can ask the SE team with the "contact us" link in footer. (wait 24 hours first)

3ventic

1) wait for 24 hours to see if the bot catches it

Tilwin Joy

"There's a bot that does that every day" meaning there is a bot that dowmvotes everyday? :O

Vote to Close

@TilwinJoy meta.stackoverflow.com/a/255989/3041194 read that , most of those, if not all should be auto-reversed within 24 hours

3ventic

@TilwinJoy There's a bot that looks for serial voting patterns and reverses them

Tilwin Joy

1:29 PM

ah, thanks :)

Shadow Wizard

@3ventic not really a bot, more like a SQL Server Job scheduled to run daily. ;)

3ventic

same thing

Shadow Wizard

yup

Jan Dvorak

@ShadowWizard define "bot"

Cerbrus

Terminator

3ventic

1:29 PM

> The larva of a bot fly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
> To bugger

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak dunno but for me "bot" has different usage

3ventic

> Shortened from robot.

Jan Dvorak

that is...

3ventic

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bot

Shadow Wizard

Can I boot a bot who placed a bet?

3ventic

1:32 PM

I wonder how easy it would be to port an IRC bot to SE chat

Tim Post

My apologies in advance for the epic wall of text I'm about to post on MSE :)

Vote to Close

@TimPost let the edit war begin!

Jan Dvorak

@TimPost I'm pretty sure my spam filter will notice your post ;-)

CV-PLS stackoverflow.com/questions/24759665/…

Bart

@TimPost I'm getting ready to flag

Stijn

> This question is now closed - please refresh the page for updated status.

dammit :(

that was fast

Jan Dvorak

1:35 PM

That was quicker than I thought :-/

Thanks for the help

Shadow Wizard

@TimPost I want a hat for reading it then!

Vote to Close

@JanDvorak No, thank you for alerting us.

@Bart it must still be uploading...

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn 44 seconds. not really fast.

Stijn

@ShadowWizard then I'm slow :D

Jan Dvorak

@ShadowWizard could have been worse

Vote to Close

1:39 PM

0

Q: Breaking down question blocks - let's talk about rate limits

I've been quite vocal about the fact that we're overhauling post blocks, and dropped some hints as to how we're contemplating improving them. The last few weeks of my professional existence has gone into analyzing what we don't like about them, re-visiting what we hoped to accomplish using them, ...

discussion asking-questions question-quality

I was the first view!

someone upvoted without reading it

Jan Dvorak

wait, are we supposed to read it?

Shadow Wizard

@VotetoClose ban him! ban him with fire!

Jan Dvorak

Are we supposed to read that?

Tim Post

</GiantWallOfTextSorryNotSorryICouldn'tHelpItThereWasALotToSay>

Jan Dvorak

I may actually read it eventually

Wait, no, I'll dump it to a speech synthesizer.

Bart

1:44 PM

@TimPost block == ban?

3ventic

@Bart in the case of post block, yes

Bart

Myeah, the terminology is somewhat confusing to me. Then again, I'm particularly dense.

Tim Post

They're not technically bans, because you can automatically get out of them, or at least you could before the average crap question got -19

Jan Dvorak

Are we voting too much?

Bart

Well, I've always categorized them into bans and suspensions @TimPost. Never really "blocks". So that confused me for a while.

Vote to Close

1:49 PM

@bart

what are question blocks in a single sentance please? — juergen d 2 mins ago

Cerbrus

Blocks that prevent you from posting a question.

Also, sentence*

Vote to Close

I like how @juergen seems frustrated after actually reading all that , that he specifically asks for only one single sentence answer to his question.

Cerbrus

Answer a question - OP responds: doesn't work...

Why? he didn't use the answer

Tim Post

209

Q: What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"?

Do not repost the question you were about to ask until you have READ EVERYTHING WE ARE ABOUT TO TELL YOU. While trying to ask a question, one could get: We are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the Help Center to learn more. Likewise, for answers: We are no longe...

support faq asking-questions post-ban

That's a block. A human didn't do that to you (well, except you).

Bart

@TimPost "How do I avoid getting a question ban?"

Tim Post

1:54 PM

I suppose the words are mostly interchangeable :) But, most of our guidance on it says 'block'.

Bart

I'm old, I'm settled, I'm not changing my ways. Now get off my lawn! :p

3

Andy

SPArchaeologist

@Andy Based on what my co-workers say, you just posted a photo of me entering the office in the morning.

Bart

@SPArchaeologist Feathers and all?

SPArchaeologist

2:11 PM

@Bart Yep, you won't believe how convenient is to have your own feather reserve.

(there was also a deviant art strip about this - Twilight Sparkle discovering that she can use her new alicorn feathers to write mail and other messages)

user202362

@Stijn I don't personally use it, but I know some friends who do

user202362

@SPArchaeologist I like real time strategy games, AoE & Civilazation being two of them ... tower defense to some extend ... although strictly speaking civilazation series aren't exactly a real time strategy games

Shadow Wizard

@chmod711telkitty what about Sim City? Still remember playing it (the original version, DOS) as a kid... :)

user202362

it's okay ... AoE II is my favourite so far

user202362

More specifically I like farming and gathering gold in the game :p

SPArchaeologist

2:21 PM

@chmod711telkitty Try Rune Factory :P

Bart

Also, @Bart - we're going to be looking at how many low-quality questions recently came from your network as we route new questions differently in a review triage - so making new accounts isn't really going to help if you get no visibility on your questions until someone else either blesses or edits them. It's going to be increasingly difficult to work around. It's frankly easier to just put more thought into your posts than try and get around the things forcing you to do so. — Tim Post ♦ 1 min ago

^^ Specifically my network @TimPost? Are you on to me? Dammit!

Tim Post

@Bart We know that you've asked every single Android question on the site, and moonlight in PHP when you're not doing that. We've been on to you for a while now, c'mon, it was obvious.

SPArchaeologist

@TimPost is really gaining points in my personal top-five in these days. Giving away free swags, question-banning @Bart.... :P

Bart

@SPArchaeologist if I now ragequit, can I get some of those points?

SPArchaeologist

@Bart I don't know... I don't have any "Ragequit Point Request" module left! Laszlo used all of them :P

Bart

2:34 PM

:D

SPArchaeologist

(sigh - I cannot find that comic strip)

(google, why you failed me?)

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist Laszlo rage quit?! When?! :P

Jan Dvorak

2:50 PM

@ShadowWizard He was chat-banned, IIHC

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak really?

Bart

Yep @ShadowWizard. Chat-banned for a year

Stijn

:o

Shadow Wizard

oh

> This user has been temporarily suspended by a moderator and cannot chat for 360 days.

Well, can't say I feel bad or sorry about it.

but... what led to this? Anything particular he said?

Bart

Don't know if he violated this @ShadowWizard

Jul 10 at 18:31, by Shog9

But for the record - because he's stating this stuff publicly - I and several other members of the community team have invested a considerable amount of time and effort into investigating these reports of voting fraud, taken action where it was warranted, and responded honestly when there was no evidence. We're quite frankly sick of him crying wolf and refusing to believe any words that are not coming from inside his own head.

hichris123

2:53 PM

20 hours ago, by hichris123

Straw that broke the camel's back. ;)

Bart

Jul 10 at 18:31, by Shog9

If I see him wasting one more employee's time here chasing ghosts, he's gonna be asked to take a break.

SPArchaeologist

@Bart I missed that info, I was just referencing the whole drama and name change.

Jan Dvorak

@Bart nice

Bart

Meh, "nice" does not really describe it for me @JanDvorak. Unfortunate.

Shadow Wizard

oh well, no surprise there. Wonder if he will try to evade it by new account...

Jan Dvorak

2:55 PM

@Bart I mean, it's nice that mods have taken Final's cries ~~seriously~~ under scrutiny

Bart

They always do. A user might not like the outcome however.

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist why don't you change your avatar to this? i.stack.imgur.com/Af6T2.png

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard A VIEWTIFUL IDEA!

Jan Dvorak

@ShadowWizard if he does, I'll probably report

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard Done, awaiting propagation.

Bart

3:02 PM

@ShadowWizard That's not something I expect to happen.

SPArchaeologist

Cache and such. I am torn between hoping that propagation takes "10. Seconds. Flat." or "6-8 months"

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist cheers! :D

@JanDvorak well, he did! ;)

Jan Dvorak

@ShadowWizard did he?

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist chat cache is stubborn, and one must also exit and re-enter the room to see the change anyway

@JanDvorak yep, see his profile (not chat)

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard already done to no avail.

3ventic

3:05 PM

in The Bridge on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 4 mins ago, by 3ventic

Awwwww I wasn't here yesterday so I lost my streak of 359 days consecutive days on Arqade

Shadow Wizard

@Bart better keep an eye on new users coming here and saying things like "Why I got downvotes without a reason"

@3ventic terrible, plain terrible ;(

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard I knew it !!! That talking fork was just too suspect!!!!!!!

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist wait for the cache first, I'd say at least one hour

@SPArchaeologist he's not new though... and Laszlo was never really hostile :P

SPArchaeologist

We should create the chat 6 group. Lazlo will be Rarity ("This. Is. The.Worst. thing. Ever"), Amateratsu will do for Fluttershy ("iamjustamodestteacher"), I will go for Pinkie (need explanation? same brain - never working right). Now we need the missing three.

Have to go for now - see ya later.

Jan Dvorak

3:25 PM

Where would I be?

Martijn Pieters

@ShadowWizard: so FC had a different name before? Oded mentioned L.P. and that correlates with the homepage URL registered on the account.

I probably had run-ins before, just cannot recall what the name would have been.

hichris123

@MartijnPieters Laszlo Papp.

Martijn Pieters

That rings a bell

GnomeSlice

Today's Listening | Electronic / Trap

Bart

@MartijnPieters so you had a recent run-in?

Martijn Pieters

3:33 PM

@Bart Hyperbole, drama, the usual.

Bart

:/

Martijn Pieters

Interestingly enough, the comments (my responses included) are gone now.

Shadow Wizard

@MartijnPieters that's the fate of most comments involving F.C/L.P

Martijn Pieters

Indeed, Google connects the two names nicely for me.

And also shows stackoverflow.com/users/1631528/laszlo-papp

user163250

@rene status-completed

Martijn Pieters

3:37 PM

lets assume the name is not unique and that's not the same person.

Bart

P.s. @MartijnPieters, you don't know who he was referring to with Mr Heyer?

Martijn Pieters

@Bart No, didn't ring a bell and a quick google on Heyer didn't show anything obvious.

Bart

Shog

Martijn Pieters

Ah, right.

More ad hominems then. Should have figured.

Damn you spell checker, tripping me up like that.

Bart

Angry user is angry. But well, that was the case since the very first time he came to chat here.

Martijn Pieters

3:42 PM

Speaking of the devil.

Martijn Pieters

4:00 PM

How petty and hypocritical would it be for me to ask for these comments to be cleaned up now?

Bart

Oh come on. Again. He does that every time someone disagrees with him. I've had him go through my past content as well. I'd say just ask for it.

He's heading nowhere positive unfortunately. Such a shame when he is a pretty decent contributor where it concerns answers.

3ventic

@MartijnPieters facedesk

I'll never understand people who keep doing that

Bart

Just get rid of the "who keep doing that" @3ventic ;)

Martijn Pieters

A case of having-to-have-the-last-word-eritis

3ventic

The moment you have to think about a sound notification to remember where it comes from is the moment you need to participate in fewer chats

After hearing that ping my thought process was: "Teamspeak? No. Tweetdeck? No. IRC? No. Then what the -- oh right, I have chats open in Chrome"

user163250

4:10 PM

I see that I'm not the only one...

user163250

-8

Q: Can i remove the Hot Meta Posts section from my view in SO?

Most of the questions on meta seem to be answerable with some simple common sense. This really annoys me and i'd like to not see it. I have tried simply ignoring it but it draws me in like a bad troll every time. Please allow me to opt out and instead just see popular questions for SO itself....

feature-request status-declined meta site-crossover

Bart

@Cupcake I see you have a sockpuppet .... ;)

Martijn Pieters

This talk apples to Stack Overflow just as much as to Perl:

►

user163250

4:34 PM

From the perspective of Stack Overflow, there are simply many more people asking questions than there are people willing and able to hold their hands. Triage is 100x more important to SO than the welcome wagon - forget nice words to misguided people, SO needs more efficient winnowing. — Shog9 ♦ 2 hours ago

user163250

That sums up Stack Overflow in a nutshell.

user163250

A machine that just needs to process a lot of junk.

user163250

8 hours ago, by Cupcake

@HostileFork well, like I pointed out earlier, kindness didn't scale with Stack Overflow.

user163250

8 hours ago, by Cupcake

It's crushed by the weight of 7000-8000 new questions per day.

user163250

8 hours ago, by Cupcake

You don't process that efficiently by being kind.

user163250

4:51 PM

cv-pls way too broad (27 undeleted answers) stackoverflow.com/questions/2441501/…

Anna Lear

There are worse questions that need closing.

This one could use some answer moderation, though. No idea why folks are still posting new ones now.

bjb568

It's not too broad. 27 answers aren't required to answer it, only one is.

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 still a "code-for-me" request

bjb568

So? That's a downvote reason, not a close reason.

user163250

cv-pls typo stackoverflow.com/questions/24762577/…

user163250

5:06 PM

@AnnaLear a lot of old, popular questions are like that.

user163250

It can be really frustrating sometimes.

user163250

Especially since the new answers tend to be crappy repeats of existing answers.

bjb568

There should be a special queue thing for answers to questions with more than 10 answers.

user163250

I think there used to be special queue actions for duplicate answers.

user163250

But there isn't anymore.

user163250

5:08 PM

I asked a moderator to add a special notice to this question:

user163250

Moderator note: If you intend to answer this question, do note that there are already 24 answers posted. Will your new answer add any substantial value? — Robert Harvey ♦ Jun 11 at 16:10

user163250

But even then it still gets new, crappy answers: stackoverflow.com/questions/2003505/…

user163250

People just don't read what already exists.

bjb568

Maybe make the answering process especially painful for low-reps asking them to click no, this is not the same as my answer for some of the answers chosen by similarity.

Like the proposed dup showing before question posting: no, this did not answer my question x5 before actually posting the question.

random

When was the last time a new deleted Programmers question was added to the list of corpses? It's just SO questions with two from Programmers tacked on to the end for a technicality.

Anna Lear

5:20 PM

@random revision history should tell you ;)

random

Some kind of bias there

A joke on us all to have a "Popular questions from SO and Programmers" and there be only two from the latter

user163250

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/21406112/…

Undo

@Cupcake I only have 3 flags left now :(

6:10 PM

@NullPoiиteя nice

@NullPoiиteя how does that translate to our data?

NullPoiиteя

looks so have much influence on google now ...

@JanDvorak no idea just saw first time today

wanted to know more on meta ... but i am quite lazy

Jan Dvorak

I'm expecting a meta post soon

NullPoiиteя

6:13 PM

i am too

user163250

It's already been posted to Meta.

user163250

A while ago.

user163250

Lemme see if I can dig it up...

user163250

9

Q: Google featuring Stack Overflow answers now? (Chrome)

I just Googled a question, and in the same way that Google will feature its own quick answers to simple stuff like dates, calculations, translations, etc, it featured a Stack Overflow answer: What's this about? Google uses Wikipedia often as a featured source of information; is Stack Overf...

discussion answers google

user163250

Boom.

user163250

6:19 PM

Weird how the user is nuked.

user163250

Oh well.

user163250

6:31 PM

Marvel just made a female Thor:

user163250

variety.com/2014/biz/news/…

user163250

Unfortunately, she has boob armor:

user163250

People really need to stop doing that.

user163250

I cannot take any character that wears boob armor seriously.

user163250

6:36 PM

Could use two more downvotes on this so that I can delete it: stackoverflow.com/questions/24761401/…

Undo

yay 7k on SO

NullPoiиteя

@Undo congress

@Undo ~18k meta rep :D

:D

Music Drop!

@Cupcake currently at -2

hichris123

7:13 PM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/14094678/…

@Undo almost to 4k!

Undo

@hichris123 :D

Vote to Close

7:24 PM

Is against the TOS to sell your account to someone else? Like lets say you make 10k rep, sell the account for $20-$100 , is that legit?

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/3875986/…

Vote to Close

19

Q: Selling Stack Overflow accounts

I was just asked if I was willing to sell my Stack Overflow account. Of course, I won't agree to do this, but I was just wondering if there is any official rule regarding this. Do you guys pretty much hand off our accounts to us for us to do with them as we please? Or is there an official guid...

discussion support user-accounts

rene

@VotetoClose depends on your hour-rate...

Vote to Close

2 cents an hour, but sometimes its like a whole nickel an hour

rene

lol

hichris123

7:32 PM

Go review!

;P

rene

yeah, I saw

I'm in the CVQ first, that has some questions left as well....

Vote to Close

@hichris123 wowsers.. i already did my 20 like 20 hours ago

i wish John Skeet would put his account up for sell on ebay, just so we could see how much it would go for

Andy

@hichris123 Thank you for reviewing 20 low quality posts today; come back in 4 hours to continue reviewing.

Jon Ericson

@VotetoClose I wonder how long the account deletion process would take in that case. ;-/

Vote to Close

@JonEricson wait, you're saying that there is no specific code already, that makes every Skeet post unchangeable by anyone?

at the very least, there should be a siren that goes off in the event that one of his posts receives a downvote

Jon Ericson

7:47 PM

@VotetoClose Everytime Mr. Skeet is downvoted, my babies cry. DON'T WAKE MY BABIES!

Bart

I know the user is trying to be helpful, but comments like this annoy me

not that your question isn't welcome here, but Unity has its own question/answer site: answers.unity3d.com — DLeh 2 hours ago

Jan Dvorak

@Bart inb4 his question isn't welcome on answers.unity3d.com

Bart

@JanDvorak :)

Does that happen a lot in other tags? In the Unity3d tag people keep telling users to go to the Unity3D site for their questions.

Jan Dvorak

@DLeh what makes you think this question isn't welcome here, and what makes you think it will receive more appreciation on answers.unity3d.com? — Jan Dvorak 14 secs ago

Bart

@JanDvorak, note that he says "not that your question isn't welcome here"

Jan Dvorak

7:53 PM

@Bart Never seen that before (or almost never)

@DLeh what makes you think it will receive more appreciation on answers.unity3d.com? — Jan Dvorak 1 min ago

Bart

Thanks. ;)

rene

If I look at his activity he might be an Unity3d hater...

Bart

@rene ? What am I missing?

rene

@Bart Not everybody can cope with c# and GameObjects at the same time...

Bart

I know I can't. :p

user163250

8:01 PM

cv-pls too broad and opinion-based stackoverflow.com/questions/24766497/…

user163250

8:16 PM

blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/07/15/10542285.aspx

rene

> it'll take 35 thousand years before we hit the limit. – Martijn Pieters 1 hour ago

user163250

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8036519

user163250

@rene where's that from?

rene

@Cupcake I always like those stories from Raymond...

Vote to Close

@Cupcake meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/265729/maximum-points-limit

rene

8:18 PM

tnx

Vote to Close

but like rich people say, their first billion was always the hardest

user163250

@rene I've heard that certain strange design decisions made with Bloomberg terminals come from the fact that Bloomberg is old-fashioned.

user163250

Like, he doesn't like to use a mouse or something.

Vote to Close

"tweeted every possible scenario ahead of time" Wow, so not only did he know the future, he knew all possible futures. This is amazing! — Oliver Salzburg 2 hours ago

Cole Johnson

8:39 PM

[cv-plz] stackoverflow.com/questions/13656302/…

rene

needs one more

bjb568

done

Cole Johnson

Whoa

stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/5307519

> Our system has identified this post as possible spam; please review carefully

When did this happen?

Also, cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/138555/how-to-convert-html-to-xhtml

rene

@ColeJohnson couple of months ago

Cole Johnson

@rene Woah, I've been gone for a long time

bjb568

8:48 PM

@ColeJohnson It says that sometimes on vandalism edit audits.

Cole Johnson

I haven't seen it on Suggested Edits

When I see answers like this, it always pains me to have to click "Looks OK".

bjb568

Looks... OK?

Cole Johnson

@bjb568 Sadly

Despite being a wrong answer, you're supposed to just downvote and click "Looks OK"

hichris123

^

Cole Johnson

I've always wanted to be a moderator, but I know that if I was to become one, I would most likely abuse my deletion power on answers like that.

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/9868004/… stackoverflow.com/questions/138555/how-to-convert-html-to-xhtml stackoverflow.com/questions/8207869/…

user163250

9:25 PM

cv-pls duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/24768330/…

user163250

9:46 PM

You probably don't understand the topic. The answer has been given below in multiple posts a long time ago. — Spyros 16 hours ago

user163250

@Spyros I assure you, I understand the topic quite well. I have 940+ points in the git tag. — Cupcake 4 mins ago

user163250

Some people SMH :P

user163250

I'm not sure whether or not I should bother voting to close as unclear.

user163250

Meh, whatever.

user163250

No, vote to close, the question sucks, not enough information...some of the answers even reflect that.

user163250

9:48 PM

cv-pls unclear stackoverflow.com/questions/5509543/…

Cole Johnson

YAY! 1000 "helpful" flags!

user163250

How many of those are for comments, and how many of those are for actual posts?

Cole Johnson

Checking, but a couple hundred (~250?) are obsolete comments.

user163250

VonC's answer comes the closet to guessing what the OP's problem was...but it's just a good guess:

user163250

4

A: How to properly force a Git Push?

I would really recommend to: push only to the main repo make sure that main repo is a bare repo, in order to never have any problem with the main repo working tree being not in sync with its .git base: see "How to push a local git repository to another computer?" If you do have to make modifica...

Cole Johnson

9:52 PM

500 exactly for posts without even trying

Transcript for