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2:22 AM
2 hours ago, by hichris123
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1298184/xbox-programming
Can anyone explain why questions that have "12 year old" in the body seem to get up-voted?
 
@SantaClaus People like 12 year olds?
 
@bjb568 Nobody liked me when I was 12 :(
 
@SantaClaus People liked me…
(removed)
 
The kid would be 17 now...
 
2:38 AM
Yes… time flies.
 
@bjb568 you came back! Please don't run away again.
 
I… went to buy shirts.
 
user202362
 
user202362
My dream <3 ... is fattening ...
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My dream <3 … is flattening …
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My dream <3 ... is battening ...
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@chmod711telkitty @bjb568 We're so awesome high five
 
3:21 AM
high five
 
user202362
user image
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@chmod711telkitty Whaaaaaaat!
 
potato?
carrot?
 
parrot?
 
tarrot?
 
3:23 AM
patrtt?
coraoo?
 
Carrots® Potatoat blorts since 1937
 
Goattatoes® Uh… vegetarians should leave right about now…
 
...
 
logo features goat blood splattered everywhere
What's the fastest way to search for a phrase with SEDE? WHERE Body='%phrase%' takes forever.
 
@bjb568 it's best to determine what exactly you're looking for and then to narrow down the posts it has to search through by discarding posts on a different criteria than searching for a text
 
3:31 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: Infrared 23 11s unfaithful on ux.stackexchange.com
 
what are you looking for , and what is the purpose when you find it?
 
SELECT TOP 10 Id AS [Post Link] FROM Posts WHERE Body LIKE '%I am 12%'
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: Infrared 23 11s worldwide on mathematica.stackexchange.com
 
SELECT TOP 10 Id AS [Post Link] FROM Posts WHERE Body LIKE '%I am 12%'
 
This Sunny D Grape juice is pretty awesome.
 
3:33 AM
@bjb568 there you could do a join of users table, and then discard the results where the user has age of greater than 23 and less than 62... b.c likely a 12 year old wont put and age in that category .. when they lie, they usually would do somewhere between 13-21 or 80+ .. the extremes
 
@iStimple I am n00b. Right codez for meeee.
 
I would, but I really doubt that phrase exists at all in the context of a user saying how old they are...
 
1 minutes of crunching generated this one result: stackoverflow.com/q/24925368/2371861
(I asked a mod to delete it since it's also crap)
^ Gah. You can search
 
wow, that surprises me.. it should've been edited then user deleted already. Also, I don't want to search for people under 13.. i don't care to get their account deleted
 
@bjb568 I haven't found a good way short of downloading the data dump and running the search locally. If you can narrow down the post list with other constraints as much as possible sometimes its reasonable. Otherwise the web interface search is unfortunately the only feasible way to do it, at least on SO.
 
3:36 AM
@iStimple I don't either. I'm just searching out of curiosity.
 
@bjb568 BTW it's case-sensitive unless you specify a case-insensitive collation.
 
Arugh.
Too complicated.
Mongodb is better.
 
E.g. ... WHERE Body LIKE '%i am 12%' COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AI
Still it'll probably time out.
 
Anyway, going to bed. G'neight!
 
@bjb568 stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22i+am+12%22 has 12 results, lol.
 
3:40 AM
@bjb568 I had to flag that now. B.c you posted on META where mods and employees lurk, so it was the right thing to do so it gets taken care of. Also, he had barely any activity, so not a huge deal.
 
(^ and took about a half a second)
 
@JasonC a lot of those are from over a year ago, so they're not.. maybe you should edit them to 13 now?
 
Haha, good point.
 
They should actually be edited out entirely, age shouldn't be mentioned in posts.
 
3:46 AM
@JasonC please don't post those here. If you want them deleted , flag them.
And I'm not sure it matters to delete posts by people who were 12 when they asked it, if they aren't now?
 
user163250
@chmod711telkitty whatever that is, it looks really good.
 
@iStimple Why not? If you have delete privileges and support the delete, vote on it.
I'm not proposing delete because of the age. I'm proposing delete because they should be deleted.
 
user163250
@JasonC I don't know, people get really touchy when you start deleting stuff like that.
 
@Cupcake What are you talking about?
All of those are completely delete worthy; some even had a few votes already.
Maybe not the first due to high view count.
The second is a 2 year old duplicate with 300 views. .
If you don't think it should be deleted then don't vote. Then it won't be deleted. That's why we have the system that we have.
 
@Cupcake that's true. Mod's won't usually delete comments even that have many upvotes
 
3:51 AM
I'm certainly not going to circumvent the community vote system and raise flags, that makes zero sense.
 
@JasonC yea you're right, i thought you were talking about bc of the age thing
 
@Cupcake And actually the high view count one is completely obsolete anyways.
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A: set precision isnt working properly

Nate ChandlerFirst of all, welcome to StackOverflow! I'm sure you'll find it an invaluable resource as you're learning to program. That said, to get the most from the site, it'll be important to observe the site's guidelines. In general, keep in mind that SO's not a forum but rather a Q&A site, and you'll ...

That is... a long answer.
I wish I could strip code blocks and HTML.
Can I create functions in SEDE queries?
 
4:09 AM
must give credit though, that's the best formatted spam I've ever seen on here
 
I know, right?
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Q: Anti-spam: Blocking questions whose bodies end with a raw hyperlink

Jason CI see a fairly high amount of spam that takes the following form (pardon the italics, my DejaVu Sans is broken and drupal.se ends up italicized): That is, a body of text that ends with a raw (no markdown) hyperlink (and no punctuation after it - the very last thing in the body). Sometimes (alt...

 
@JasonC I don't see why @JanDvorak doesn't leave an answer to that question. I would definitely upvote. Does he try to have low rep on meta for some reason? Use the answer box more often Jan!
 
@JanDvorak ^
 
Very Good Morning to all...!!! Have a blasting day and week ahead...!!! ;)
 
@SilentKiller Good morning! May you have a blessed week as well Mr. Killer
 
4:17 AM
thank you brother...!! :)
 
@hichris123 Wow; it's like they saw my anti-spam post already and changed it up.
Although that "11s" or whatever series that's been going around lately seems to take a different form than the others.
 
But I thought 1-rep users couldn't embed images.
 
user163250
5:08 AM
@Jamal only on sites with super high traffic.
 
user163250
It's disabled on SO, and probably SF and SU.
 
Ah
 
user163250
All other sites allow it because there aren't as many users, or something like that.
 
user163250
@Andy are they real?
 
user163250
Seem too big to be real.
 
could not wish you all the very best for that as well that's Chris and Simon Alpha Fuel XT and we wish them all the very best weapon
they are upto something
 
6:31 AM
You've just dropped a kernel of popcorn on the kitchen floor. Do you: A) Leave it there; B) Kick it under the counter and pretend it never happened; C) Pick it up and eat it immediately (3 second rule!); D) Pick it up and throw it away.
 
C or D, depending on floor quality
 
I'd like to do B or A, but D is what I'll end up doing.
 
user163250
@animuson it says I can't delete this question, can you delete it for me please? stackoverflow.com/questions/8523365/…
 
user163250
Or would that be a big no-no that leads me to a question ban?
 
6:47 AM
It's highly unlikely that you'd ever hit a question block. You'd have to go all Gold on us.
 
user163250
@animuson thanks!
 
Bad spammer! I think we should punish him by stealing all his toilet paper.
user image
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:D
 
7:15 AM
lol
 
8:59 AM
@TimPost look like SE got a very stubborn spammer lately, even more than baba... can something be done to eliminate him? (apart of the above, which will surely work)
 
9:45 AM
Hi @all
 
Hi @Mr_Green good to see something other than spam, finally! :)
 
10:05 AM
@Cupcake Any idea why this profile has our names on it? stackoverflow.com/users/3875428/mansamusa
What did we do to him/her? o_O
it's creepy
 
He created a new account. it is like you guys killed him and get rebirth to take revenge :P
 
lols.. hahahaha
 
@InfiniteRecursion probably closed/deleted crappy questions he posted?
 
OMG...I hardly have any rep or privilege to kill anyone
*to kill
 
You can edit chat messages, you know ^
 
10:10 AM
@ShadowWizard Thanks, didn't know that. Rarely ever used chat on SE
 
@InfiniteRecursion cheers, now you know :)
 
smiles and then remembers that creepy user profile...smile vanishes
 
lols. @InfiniteRecursion then give treat to all of us.. :D
 
@SilentKiller for what? for receiving a threat without any close/delete powers...I have achieved quite a feat :D
Am I the first newbie to achieve that milestone?
 
@InfiniteRecursion lols. :P
 
10:18 AM
@InfiniteRecursion it's just a Yoruba Mask, no need to panic. veryicon.com/icons/art/tribal-masks/yoruba-mask.html :)
 
@ShadowWizard Not the mask, the code is creepy
 
hahahahah
 
lolz
it is like he is looping you guys which will execute an error :/
 
All of you are lucky, you are not on the List :/
 
which list.? and what kind of list.?
 
10:21 AM
istx = (Jason C, animuson, Cupcake, Matthew Lundberg, Unihedron, Codecaster, Jeroen Vannevel, Bill the Lizard, Infinite Recursion, Deduplicator, Anonymous, πάντα ῥεῖ)
The list on that user's profile
 
which user.?
 
where am I?
 
sherlock : why only variable name is "istx"?
 
18 mins ago, by Infinite Recursion
@Cupcake Any idea why this profile has our names on it? http://stackoverflow.com/users/3875428/mansamusa
 
10:25 AM
@JanDvorak Want to swap places with me?
 
@InfiniteRecursion why? how?
 
lols
 
I think @Jan took an overdose of spam
 
I have no idea @JanDvorak. Am pretty confused myself.
Deleted my answer due to mask guy/gal meta.stackoverflow.com/a/268353/2982225
 
can we run a sql where these all user name are present on a single post?
we can track him/her down I think
BTW, why did you check that user's profile? I mean how you end up there?
 
10:33 AM
From a link in the chat above...I was reading it. A comment by Cupcake. That's the reason I asked him why my name is there...
yesterday, by Cupcake
@Unihedron Right. Just stay off my comments. Like Tim Peters says, "Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced." There was an error in the demeanor of this site. I've said my portion to correct it. May the Gods be with you. — MansaMusa 8 hours ago
 
hehe
 
@Mr_Green I think it's @Cupcake's friend :D
 
yeah I hope so :)
 
10:50 AM
@Mr_Green no need. He just took all users who took part in this now deleted MSO question: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/268238/…
Anyone who commented, answered, edited, closed, or deleted
 
Meta is blocked here.. :(
 
ok
 
@SilentKiller ???
how?
 
@ShadowWizard My Company(prison)'s firewall.. :(
 
blocks a SE site? what is it like FB now?
 
10:52 AM
I don't even have FB blocked in my company :D
 
OK, here it is then in its full glory
 
@ShadowWizard lols what a question.. :D
@DroidDev :P dont let me feel jealous.. :P
 
@SilentKiller not even torrent sites :P
 
@DroidDev @ShadowWizard using VPN to be here.. :P
 
Thanks. So I secured my place in the honor list by editing Bill's post ! cool :D
 
10:56 AM
@SilentKiller that's the spirit :D
 
@ShadowWizard how did you access that page?
are you mod?
 
He's a shadow wizard - magician :D
 
@Mr_Green more then 10k repo user can see deleted question.
 
I see..
 
I C U. :D
 
10:58 AM
I C U 2
 
lol
 
lolz
 
Page Not Found..
 
> The Dietary Supplement Scam Continues
followed by a markov chain text
 
11:00 AM
@JanDvorak read that.. :D
 
Why do you share spam links here? @JanDvorak
 
@InfiniteRecursion to help their deletion
 
@JanDvorak Is this room Clean up zone?
 
I don't get why do they ask such questions, first of all?
 
ok :)
@Mr_Green So that we can use our flags :D
 
11:02 AM
and get badges :D :P
 
hahaha ejjactly.
 
Some people don't get it. Also, they think: "Ooo high traffic forum, someone will answer my post".
 
@GiantCowFilms well... yes
 
@JanDvorak Okay, can I post the scum I dig up from all over the network.
 
@GiantCowFilms how much of it?
 
11:05 AM
@JanDvorak A few posts.. :)
 
if it's 2 or 3 things to downvote, go ahead. If it's 20 or 30, I doubt we'll care :-)
 
@JanDvorak Okay :)
 
@Mr_Green I found it in Google actually, it was still cached
 
11:41 AM
ohh nice
 
12:02 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: To all assholes on Stackoverflow on stackoverflow.com
 
too bad it's locked
 
12:18 PM
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A: Moving to chat is showing with html chars

OdedI've introduced this bug as part of working on a related feature - sorry about that. I have a fix ready to go, and it will be deployed in the next build. Sorry about that!

 
@JanDvorak why? i don't think so
 
12:37 PM
Guys why nobody is bothering to tag properly on MSO? Even the most trivial tags. :(
@JanDvorak no, why remove useful resource? Not on topic anymore so closed, but I'm sure people are still using it as reference.
 
@ShadowWizard no rep to gain
 
@iStimple so sad :(
 
cya guyss.. see you tommorrow.. Take Care.. :)
 
1:35 PM
@SmokeDetector Lawl
in Shadow's Den, 1 hour ago, by DroidDev
"Boobs to men are what laser pointers are to cats"
@ShadowWizard I speak only for myself but my MSO love all moved to MSE after the split. I wonder if that's a common trend.
 
@JasonC same here, not exactly "moved to MSE", more like "sticked with MSE" as MSO is a new site
@JasonC hey you're exposing the Den's secrets! :D
 
Today's Listening | House (Mixsets day 11)
 
@ShadowWizard Haha; sorry, it was too hard to contain. Everybody please send me your fax numbers and I will get an NDA out right away.
 
This one is quite long (almost 2 hours)
 
1:46 PM
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A: The Very Low Quality flag is broken

LukaszI've always thought that the purpose of VLQ flags is to let the community handle the posts that should be deleted, without bothering the mods. Correct me if I'm wrong, but posts VLQ-flagged are landing in LQ review queue, until some mod has handled them before, with the exceptions of VLQ flags o...

^ Is this correct? I thot all VLQ flags went into the mod queue, at least for a little bit.
 
@bjb568 not anymore, it first goes only to the ordinary review queue
if in the review an answer that can't be deleted by ordinary users get enough delete "votes" (e.g. non negative scored or accepted answer) then auto flag is raised and moderator would interfere.
 
Aug 6 at 17:24, by Brad Larson
@SantaClaus The former was handled by the review queue, where it was marked helpful upon closure of the question. The latter was seen by a moderator, where it was declined.
^ How come a bunch of my flags are seen by mods?
 
@bjb568 I guess mods also take a look in the VLQ review queue, where they have binding and unlimited votes.
 
@bjb568 It funnels into the review queue but mods also have immediate access to the flags. If they pop up while we are working thru the queue, we tend to handle them
 
@ShadowWizard So they go into the review queue where all is going fine and crap is getting deleted, and start foaming at the mouth with anti-deletionism?
@bluefeet Access from the posts? Or a queue?
@ShadowWizard Hey, we were making a train over there.
 
@bjb568 we can access them from the mod queue. Also we've gotten a good handle on the flags lately which is partly why we've been processing the VLQ flags more often
 
So why do mods process them so different from the queue?
 
2:06 PM
@bjb568 what do you mean?
 
@bjb568 oh, sorry, my bad.... forgot mods have queue of the "raw" flags. That's what @bluefeet meant.
 
The queue is more than happy to delete really poor attempts at answering
 
@bluefeet just curious, you see list of all flags (with paging and all), or one flag at a time like a review queue?
 
@ShadowWizard we can do both. We also have a filter script that allows us to drill into specific types of flags
 
@bluefeet The queue is eager to delete anything, like "I also tried this and found that a, b, and c didn't work. I'm working on trying d…" (comment) "Drop that and try jQuery" (spam, tho mods don't delete even comments I've flagged as jQuery noise) "maybe the form method post is required" (comment)
 
2:10 PM
@bluefeet nice, it's important to have easy access :)
 
Uuuuuugh! Out of votes and things don't get deleted fast enough for me to vote more…
 
@bjb568 the queue doesn't necessarily handle things correctly. We get a lot of auto flags generated because the community couldn't make a decision on what to do with those posts. You don't see that though.
 
@bluefeet Would you delete something like this?
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A: Is there any way to send HTML email using Java while the HTML content is saved in a .html file?

Ben PotterTake a look at the Velocity template engine: http://velocity.apache.org/

 
@bluefeet From my perspective, I flag crap, the queue deletes crap. From my perspective, from your perspective, the preeeecious answers don't need deleeetion, and don't VLQ questions, that's just unnecessary and flag-whoring
 
2:13 PM
I would, just a library link isn't useful
 
@AstroCB eh, guess she would
 
@AstroCB well I'd VtC the question as too broad, comment to the user to expand on the answer or post that as a comment.
 
Oh, look: the answer's gone and the question's closed.
Like magic.
 
Mornin
 
Converted to a comment: that works.
 
2:15 PM
@bluefeet Expand as in describe the external resource, or include the relevant parts of it in the answer?
And why can't us peasants recommend convert to comment?
 
-1
Q: catching get request with javascript bookmarklet?

BernardI want to make a bookmarklet that tells me the song url when the radio station changes song, now when they change the current song a get request is being made. Is it possible to catch it via simple javascript bookmarklet? it has to be stored somewhere right?

 
@bjb568 expand as in make that a better answer. Also that user has comment privs so they could have posted that as a comment.
 
How are we supposed to know what the radio station is, how you're listening to it, and how it could "catch it" if we don't know the first two things?
 
@bluefeet Ok, mod says I need to make my answer "better". Hm… I'll add another link to an external resource.
 
Do people actually read their questions?
 
2:20 PM
..he said, sarcastically.
 
Of course.
 
2:42 PM
hi there
 
Doesn't escaping also work? This is inline code with a backtick ` and more code to show it didn't break. (Made with a backslash (\ ) and a backtick (`)) — Sifu 6 mins ago
That's odd: you can escape backticks in comments but not in actual posts.
This is a ` test
The same thing applies here.
 
Hello, can somebody please take a look at closing this question when you have a minute, as the [ServiceStack] tag has little foot traffic by high rep users, and it's a "What's difference between x and y" - primarily opinion based. Thanks guys.
 
3:05 PM
^ One more vote; who wants to be the winner
 
user163250
You think maybe we should undelete this question to give this guy an opportunity to try and work himself out of a question ban?: stackoverflow.com/questions/25106755/…
 
@JasonC It's not a contest.
 
@GnomeSlice It is totally a contest.
 
user163250
@Scott I'm not familiar enough with ServiceStack to vote.
 
user163250
It's asking for differences between different versions of the same framework.
 
user163250
3:07 PM
I guess too broad maybe?
 
user163250
Seems like you could just look up some release notes and have your answer.
 
@Cupcake Too late to argue: it's closed.
 
user163250
Ah, well in that case, I'm out! :P
 
@JasonC The mods always win because their votes are binding...
 
@AstroCB I always win because everything I say is made up.
 
3:09 PM
@Cupcake Yeah I recommended they look up release notes. But it's been put on hold now.
 
Thanks guys :)
 
np
 
Delete?
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Q: Reset and delete sortable items

AvinashI am using jquery sortable to define work flows in my app . In my scenario I have a remove and reset button. I used, $(#sortable).html (originalstate).sortable ("refresh"); to reset and I have the this.parent.remove() for removing a particular item. The remove works fine before the reset...

 
@AstroCB I think so; it doesn't really seem clear enough to be answered by anybody else, or well-answered enough to have lasting value.
 
user163250
3:18 PM
@InfiniteRecursion I already flagged that guy so the mods are aware of him. Personally, I wouldn't delete one of my posts just because of that, but that's just me personally.
 
@hichris123 I guess that you still haven't closed your chrome tabs of those question which haven't closed yet., going through yesterday chat..today again I have 50 votes..:)
 
I modified this query a bit to allow you to define the rep threshold for answerers:
Use it wisely...
 
@TGMCians Well, I had to. :P (shutdown my computer)
 
haha
I guess probably you are using windows, keep it up for long hour on low RAM can create a problem later :)
 
user163250
I'm willing to give this guy a chance to fish himself out of his question ban.
 
^^ delete
 
@AstroCB why it's only 43 minutes old? Why not give the OP a chance to fix the question?
 
@bluefeet Oh, sorry: rogue tab.
I thought it was one that I found with the query, but it was actually from @TGMCians.
 
3:42 PM
@bluefeet OP haven't done anything for last 1 hour. so do you think he will fix it ? Even one guy suggested him how to ask question on SO
> This is what happens when you ask moderators to delete answers based on their technical validity:
funny
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A: Why was this flag declined?

WillThis is what happens when you ask moderators to delete answers based on their technical validity: Mods are janitors. They are not supposed to judge the technical validity of an answer. They are supposed to clean up the trash and mop the sick off the floors. So don't expect much more than lo...

 
@TGMCians And what's the problem with leaving it for a bit for them to improve it? It's already closed, give the OP a chance to improve it. Deleted questions are accounted for with a q-ban.
 
@bluefeet I don't know but lets wait.. no problem
 
done
 
done
 
thanks. Free downvotes still available ;-)
gone
 
@Cupcake: Thanks, I flagged and mods deleted that threat he wrote for us
from his "about me"
 
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Q: Seeking .Net / SQL code review company

arosswebmedleyMy company has developed proprietary software (web-based) using .NET and SQL. It integrates with Sharepoint (API) and Salesforce (online CRM). We're looking for a 3rd party code audit. I've searched the forums and online, but all the options I've found have either been out of budget, or strictl...

... I'm not even commenting. :P
 
4:05 PM
delete vote
 
How does this change too much of the original post?
 
@AstroCB it doesn't, though indenting the code would have been nice
 
Oh; I missed that it was two pieces.
Interesting piece of information: all answers that contain "thanks" posted by users with less than 10 reputation are self-answers thanking commenters or other answerers for their help.
 
yeah... the and really shouldn't have been monospaced
 
4:16 PM
Greetings Meta!
 
Morning
 
o/
 
\o
Timezones are horrible.
 
It's always morning on the internet
 
Except when it's not.
 
4:20 PM
@JanDvorak My internet likes lunch time better than morning. It's not a morning internet.
 
@Andy This isn't your internet, however
 
That explains the slow speeds on my internet then. I must have lost a pigeon somewhere.
 
s/internet/intranet
 
604 no carrier
and if you get it to work, there's still 704 no career
 
@hichris123 one more vote on those.
 
4:28 PM
status-closed
 
nuked
 
gone
 
It's down. Well done everyone.
 
user163250
I always that Michael was a mod on Programmers, but no, he just has really high rep there:
 
user163250
4:51 PM
Which is kind of weird, because he doesn't have high-rep over on Stack Overflow:
 
user163250
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