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Mooseman

2:00 PM

^^ YES!!! A circular definition is a good answer!

bjb568

Morning.

Throat is inflamed.

If that doesn't stop soon, I'll miss skewl tomorrow too.

Unihedro

Get strong soon!

Bart

Oh noez. Teh horror.

2

bjb568

@Unihedro lifts those huge zipbombs

@Pham +1 for teh lolz

retracts

BTW, the New feed items popup is extremely annoying! Use feeds posts instead! @inf

Mooseman

2:17 PM

approve-pls stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/6795104

Unihedro

@Mooseman That oxford comma...

Mooseman

Irony from first reviewer:

> This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible.

^^ NEEDS. SERIAL. COMMA.

Unihedro

audit stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/6795113

Let's watch if a robo-reviewer gets caught!

bjb568

reddit.com/r/ShortSadStories/top/?sort=top&t=all this is so great

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28047520/…

Mooseman

2:21 PM

@Unihedro Why u reject? :(

bjb568

@Unihedro For who?

Unihedro

@Mooseman ... Because it does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more acessible.

It's an oxford comma. You didn't even make "animation" plural. :(

Bart

@bjb568 read first three .... my therapist thanks you

Mooseman

@Unihedro done.

Unihedro

Ok, I'll change my vote. ... Wait, I can't.

Patrick Hofman

2:24 PM

Thanks guys for closing. Can someone downvote so we can delete it?

@PatrickHofman done

@Mooseman Thanks.

Hiya Mr. Post

'utc all

tzt

2:26 PM

A wild @TimPost appears! Good day Sir.

Unihedro

burninate-request stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jquery

Tim Post

@Bart Good day to you sir.

Mooseman

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/28047646/1234256

@Moosebot naa

user280395

user259867

We're deploying an updated version of the Data Explorer with updates from @tmslft, http://data.stackexchange.com will be back in a moment.

Tweeted by StackStatus on January 20, 2015 at 2:07 PM

2

user259867

2:31 PM

Yay, no more May 2014 version of SEDE!

user259867

Also... I thought @InfiniteRecursion added the StackStatus feed (linked by @hichris123) to this room?

bjb568

yes. the wrong way

25 mins ago, by bjb568

BTW, the New feed items popup is extremely annoying! Use feeds posts instead! @inf

Pham

Low Quality A (21.6%): cool being bro cool being bro cool being bro cool being bro cool being b..., by cool beings bro, on history.stackexchange.com.

bjb568

*kewl

Jan Dvorak

^offensive

user259867

2:40 PM

Eh, flagged NAA. Maybe it's his way of saying "cool post".

Jan Dvorak

then explain the username

Sam

Maybe he's trying to say it's cool to be a brother?

Bart

+1. cool being bro

Oh how I love working on stuff that I don't want to be working on, and which subsequently doesn't want to work.

2

user259867

@JanDvorak Created the account just to say "cool", and since that was the only purpose of the account, used in the display name too.

Dawnkeeper

TL;DR - You can't power a dragon with fartjets. from :worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/8969

SmokeDetector

2:49 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Is pornography allowed in Islam? by alhaj ahmad on islam.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore the site

SmokeDetector

@Fundamental Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Farhan

Hello Room.

I asked a question (and answered it too) and it has some votes. However, some people thought it too broad and voted to close it (4 close votes), but some said don't (2 leave open votes). I can only see 5 votes on here, but not the very first one. How can I see who initiated the first close vote?

Question in discussion is on top

bluefeet

@Bart why oh why did you mention that???

user259867

@Farhan Those without much rep on Aviation can't follow your link. Please link directly to the review item.

Bart

2:51 PM

... /me sees transcript ... yeah, sorry @bluefeet

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Pi plus Pi equal to two times Pi by novice on philosophy.stackexchange.com

bluefeet

it's ok, I was tempted but he is very difficult to deal with

Bart

Myeah, I realized that

Farhan

@Fundamental Sorry about that. This is the question:

2

Q: What the preparations and procedures to consider for circumnavigation?

If one wants to circumnavigate the planet in a general aviation airplane, how can one do it and what are the important issues to consider?

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore, blacklisting that user was a bad idea

SmokeDetector

2:52 PM

@Fundamental Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Bart

@bluefeet feel free to send upset users to me for a hug ;)

bluefeet

@Bart oh I will

Bart

:D

user259867

@Farhan I meant review task like this one, not the post itself. Anyway, the answer is: nobody can see who cast close votes outside of review, until the question is closed.

user259867

Tune in to the live Stack Exchange podcast today at 4pm ET (21:00 UTC) at http://www.livestream.com/stackexchange

Tweeted by spolsky on January 20, 2015 at 2:50 PM

Farhan

2:56 PM

@Fundamental Here it is.

Thanks for the clarification.

user259867

@Farhan You can bring it up on meta.Aviation (or their chatroom) asking for advice on making the question more focused, so it can stay open (or get reopened if it closes).

bjb568

@Farhan Looks fine

Farhan

Thanks @Fundamental @bjb568

SmokeDetector

3:24 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, Phone number detected: Call 1800-420-5735 Norton Norton support, Norton 360 support, Norton support number, Norton phone support by Sid Dave on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Fundamental Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Jan Dvorak

gone

bjb568

°u°

Andre Silva

Could someone from the SE staff take a look a this question? Tks. meta.stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2358/…

bjb568

3:29 PM

pokes @shog coz likes poking

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28049111/…

Jan Dvorak

Can we please kick pokey?

Bart

^ toy equivalent of @bjb568

No matter how often you kick, he keeps coming back. :p

bjb568

What is that?

Bart

Seconds of disappointment @bjb568.

SmokeDetector

3:43 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: INFERENTIAL STATISTICAL TESTS AND DESCRIPTIVE TESTS by OLUWATOYIN on stats.stackexchange.com

Patrick Hofman

4:01 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28049679/incorrect-syntax-near many typos

ɥʇǝS

4:11 PM

cv-pls: stackoverflow.com/questions/28045675/…

Infinite Recursion

4:23 PM

@bjb568 Your botling is extremely annoying, abort it. Anyways, the Stackstatus feed was @hichris123's idea, so blame him/her ;)

bjb568

But you can change it.

SO CHANGE IT!

Infinite Recursion

NO

@Bart please hug @bjb

Bart

hugs

Infinite Recursion

:D

bjb568

:D

Ugh, powerschool is borked.

ProgramFOX

4:43 PM

@hichris123 Nice find! I totally forgot about that when touching that code part.

user259867

5:00 PM

SPAM gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/202464/…

user259867

(almost dead)

ProgramFOX

@Fundamental headshot

Jan Dvorak

so... I think we've completed the set today

user259867

Would "full HD" be a good spam keyword?

ProgramFOX

@Fundamental Might be - I'll run a search to look for the amount of false positives.

Jan Dvorak

5:02 PM

not on webapps talking about Youtube

ProgramFOX

okay, lots

Jan Dvorak

not on android if phones this fast appear

user259867

@ProgramFOX in title?

user259867

0 matches on webapps in titles.

ProgramFOX

@Fundamental yes

But we check bodies too now, so...

user259867

5:05 PM

I see, a lot of appearances indeed.

ProgramFOX

There are valid "full HD" questions on Gaming, Video, Photo, Android, Apple, Software Recommendations, Signal Processing, ...

Jan Dvorak

SR doesn't count

user259867

Heh, Google search engine says "36 million results", which isn't even plausible. Once you get to page 5, they turn out to be 42. That's all-time, across network.

user259867

But yes, perhaps still too many.

Jan Dvorak

42 across all ages isn't much

less than one per month

bjb568

5:10 PM

@Fundamental 579mil for me.

I think it generates that number pseudorandomly.

user259867

@bjb568 That's without quotation marks.

bjb568

oh

36.2mil then.

user259867

Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

bjb568

36200000 = 42

Jan Dvorak

Your data type seems to be too small

Andy

5:21 PM

Other than +/- 1 comments, is there any other string(s) that are blocked in comments?

Jan Dvorak

Several cursewords warrant one-flag deletion

Andy

Those aren't prevented though.

Bart

lmgtfy is blocked I think (perhaps only as a url) and "what have you tried"?

41

Q: Comments can't contain that content - "What have you tried?"

"What have you tried?" - I've seen that comment a million times on question that ask for help (usually on really basic stuff) without showing any effort to solve it themselves. I've just wanted to post the same comment, but got a warning Comments can't contain that content instead. This comment ...

support comments

user259867

@Andy "whore" is currently blocked on SO, and I suppose a few other such words.

bjb568

Test: lmgtfy.com/?q=test — bjb568 7 secs ago

Oh, no block on meta?

Bart

5:25 PM

-21

Q: LMGTFY link can't be added

I tried to paste a link to lmgtfy.com as the comment and I got this error: Why is LMGTFY considered bad and are there any other types of content comments can't contain?

support status-bydesign comments quality-filter lmgtfy

@bjb568 that

user259867

> Comments should address specific technical shortcomings of the post being commented on. Do not engage in intimidation, name-calling or other nastiness.

user259867

After trying "what a shameless repwhore" ^

Bart

@Fundamental "what an undisguised reputation wench"

Jan Dvorak

rep-prostitute

bjb568

"what a sock of LRiO"

Hmmh, tylenol tastes better when inside jumbo marshmallow.

Jan Dvorak

5:56 PM

last time I've checked, "rep-whoring" was still available, though.

user259867

@JanDvorak Blocked now.

Jan Dvorak

6:19 PM

@SmokeDetector fp why

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered answer as false positive.

Andy

cv-pls rec stackoverflow.com/q/28047185/189134

ProgramFOX

@JanDvorak It contains "fuck it".

Jan Dvorak

Could use a little edit then

user259867

6:39 PM

0

Q: WTF Dude?!? i dont get this?

Ok well i'm trying to get a song on iTunes and it keeps saying i need to fill my billing info but I already have money on there from my iTunes gift card and it doesn't verify my money.

itunes

bluet

@Bart /makes sure to never ever get upset again now that there's real consequences

@Fundamental bro, are you going to splain y you post thatz or just leave us hangin brah?

bjb568

heh

user259867

@bluet I was interrupted after posting that... and not much to say about it, just another insight into human nature.

bluet

@bjb568 wth , 78? and is that for real? you can now see who invited you?

click the 78 noob

bjb568

It's from the computer running botling.

bluet

6:49 PM

anyone have a breakdown of what the podcast is going to be about?

Shog9

10 minute introduction
40 minutes of David's dishwasher running
10 minute closing + theme song

(Spoiler: the theme song is also a dishwasher)

bluet

sweet i can already hear my dishwasher running, it'll be an entertaining double header for me then

Bart

Top tip: hold your dishes up to the speakers during the podcast and you won't have to wash them. (Eat your heart out Lifehacks SE)

user259867

I expect the fate of Lifehacks will be decided during the live podcast: to appoint pro tem mods or to tarball the site?

user259867

Not sure which one is easier without Googling. Those tar flags :/

Jan Dvorak

7:00 PM

just zip it up

(in a body bag)

Lynn Crumbling

I think it perfectly answers the question. What more do you want? — Flow 2 mins ago

user259867

Ah yes, SE runs on Windows. OK then, right-click -> send to -> compressed (zipped) folder.

Lynn Crumbling

"We want you, as a user ever-so-shy of being a 10k'er, to close questions like this instead of answering them."

Jan Dvorak

"Some of us want to shoot you in the face"

Lynn Crumbling

@JanDvorak HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

TGMCians

7:02 PM

\o

Lynn Crumbling

o/

bluet

@Bart ^ give @jan a hug quickly

Bart

Jan doesn't need hugs. He needs a pat on the back. Good boy.

Lynn Crumbling

And that user just deleted their answer. Yay.

Jan Dvorak

Also, the question dropped to 0 score

Lynn Crumbling

7:04 PM

Perhaps it was the @JanDvorak's commitment to excellence that made all of the difference :)

Jan Dvorak

This question will self-destruct in 9...

Lynn Crumbling

@JanDvorak Signifying that it'll eventually get deleted?

TGMCians

@JanDvorak see now

Jan Dvorak

-1 now. Let's call it "insurance"

user259867

-2 now. Let's call it "voting ring"

Lynn Crumbling

7:06 PM

(you beat me to it, @Fundamental): -2 now. Let's call it double indemnity.

Really.. that thing actually made it all of the way to +4???

Jan Dvorak

I'm wondering too.

g2g, cya

bummi

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/7768997/1699210

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/1941787/1699210

TGMCians

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28051912/wifi-video-chat-android

@JanDvorak see ya!

Jan Dvorak

Where do I get that "open all links by dragging over them" thingie I once saw?

user259867

> The math cities barely even have any programmers and they speak their own weird language. They are math-Jerusalem. They makes us very proud. Even though they don’t directly serve programmers, we love them and they bring a little tear to our eyes

user259867

7:10 PM

True. A programmer with a math question that isn't homework isn't likely to be served well by Mathematics

user259867

Will be either misunderstood or not understood at all.

user259867

(Quote from the blog, Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Stack Exchange)

bluet

> Stack Exchange Raises $40m

awesome!

user259867

> To be honest, we literally can’t keep up with the features we want to build for our users.

Undo

0

Q: Pictures in the sand to satisfy a guard

A party is being held at a local mansion. The host is very rich and his success is because of one thing - his famous recipe for spaghetti. He has pushed your tiny spaghetti startup to the side, and sabotaging him is your only hope of achieving dominance in the spaghetti marketplace. The only gu...

password

^ 50 rep mSE bounty if a Taverner figures this out

user259867

7:18 PM

@Undo That list of "related" questions... :/

Undo

yeah :P

Mooseman

0

A: Using foreach in conjunction with a multi-dimensional array(?)

I recommend jQuery/JavaScript for this.

@Moosebot naa

user280395

Sam

@Moosebot Explode

user280395

@Sam Command not recognized.

Sam

7:23 PM

Darn.

bluet

@Undo does it have anything to do with a clock?

Bart

@Undo I already hate you ... grrrr

Undo

@bluet Not gonna give any hints

sublime>vim>emacs

Mooseman

@Sam :(

Undo

@Bart >:D

mission accomplished: make Bart hate me

user259867

7:29 PM

> Stack Exchange currently employs more than 200 people in its head offices in New York, Denver, and London as well as remote workers from Israel, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Slovenia, France, and other parts of the United States.

Andy

Pham

Low Quality A (60.8%): eeny meeny miny moe............., by DF1337, on programmers.stackexchange.com.

Undo

^ abusive

Bart

The Programmers answer or you being compared to George W. Bush?

Undo

the former :P

@Pham gone

SmokeDetector

7:40 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: CHALLENGE: Complex Views SQL to Dynamic Query (95% done, help!!) by Andrés on drupal.stackexchange.com

bjb568

Langosta

1 3

reporting-services ssrs-2008 ssrs-reports sql-server ssms php

O_O

Bart

"Roscoe's bunnies and waffles not a great success"

bluet

bug? questions asked on /about says 3.1 million, yet SO has 8 million on it's own

oh, nm, that's just 2014 stats

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: SQL Alias to Dynamic Query by Andrés on drupal.stackexchange.com

Bart

Nobody should complain about too many downvotes any more. The difference is amazing.

Jon Ericson

7:46 PM

@bluet Yeah. That's just confusing.

bjb568

Awful.

Bart

What?

bjb568

It isn't intuitive to associate the title with the number below (instead of above)

user259867

@bluet "2014 statistics"

user259867

I am more concerned about Israel, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Slovenia, and France being annexed by the United States.

Bart

7:50 PM

It's funny. We have a community full of design experts, yet SE keeps hiring people who do it all wrong and are the cause of our eye strain and other optical harm.

2

bluet

@Fundamental I don't think it's technically an error though.. you can read it both ways. Good question for ell.se or elu.se

bjb568

livestream.com/stackexchange

has started

Undo

SE Podcast

youtube.com/watch?v=GBtTPyvrHNY

^ Official room

user259867

@bluet I don't see how you can read that sentence so it makes sense.

Undo

real-life wild Joel in that room ^^

bjb568

8:02 PM

ugh, brownout :(

Martijn Pieters

@TimPost: someone is being naughty with a large network again, repeatedly suggesting spam edits for this post. You said here that you manually tweak stuff in such cases. Anything you can do to reduce the suggested edit pings I keep getting there?

bluet

@Fundamental and "other parts of the United States", such as not New York or Denver. Yes, the sentence is wrong, but I can make it make sense in my head.

yay

@Frank 'grats!

yay

8:10 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in title: xxxxxxxxxxxdvgvfdfhg fdghfhgfj by Caro on serverfault.com

Pham

Low Quality Q (80%): xxxxxxxxxxxdvgvfdfhg fdghfhgfj, by Caro, on serverfault.com.

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore, already closed.

SmokeDetector

@Fundamental Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Tim Stone

@rene I'm surprised you didn't find the far more serious issue >_<

Lynn Crumbling

^ defacement on top of original post. by OP. flagged for mod attn.

Tim Stone

8:12 PM

Woah, I am totally not a defacement

Lynn Crumbling

@TimStone Hahaha. I don't know.. there's definitely an attempt to obscure your face in that avatar :)

Tim Stone

Well played.

bluet

how much flair does SE encourage its employees to have on their laptops?

Frank

@Undo thx

balpha

@bluet judging from various conferences I've been to, SE laptops tend to be modest in that regard

user259867

8:21 PM

On this picture, Bret Copeland looks just like Bret Copeland's avatar. I also recognize Geoff slightly off-focus, but nobody else.

Lynn Crumbling

@bluet Insert obligatory Office Space reference

balpha

@Fundamental the nose & mouth on the very right are mine

disappointed you couldn't tell

Mooseman

@Moosebot unicorn balpha

user280395

Undo

@Moosebot unicorn Undo

user280395

8:24 PM

Sam

@Moosebot unicorn Moosebot

user280395

Frank

What for?

Sam

Who knows?

Frank

@Moosebot unicorn Sam

user280395

8:28 PM

Mooseman

I really just called it because @balpha was here...

Frank

aw, sam gets pink!

Sam

Nooooooooooooo!

balpha

@Mooseman What's it using for the hash? That's not my real unicorn

this is:

Mooseman

Until SE provide an API to retrieve users' emails, it uses whatever you feed it. e.g.,

@Moosebot unicorn wruit5vhbyop4w 5yhn teiybuhy

user280395

8:31 PM

Mooseman

uses the hash of wruit5vhbyop4w 5yhn teiybuhy

I could grab the gravatar from here though... hang on

balpha

yeah, that was my thought

at least for people who use gravatar

Bart

Cause bots are fun and all, but they had better be correct

Santa Claus

@Moosebot unicorn 12345

user280395

Mooseman

8:34 PM

@balpha If it's not a gravatar url, it'll fallback to hashing their name

user280395

Lynn Crumbling

@Moosebot unicorn me

user280395

Lynn Crumbling

ooOOoOOooOoo

bjb568

@Moosebot unicorn bjb568

user280395

8:42 PM

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ASSINATURA DE PDF COM CERTIFICADO DIGITAL MODELO A1 by BRUNO on pt.stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

@Moosebot unicorn me

user280395

Frank

that one looks gay :/

It's the same one as Lynns

Jan Dvorak

I guess it hashes the word "me"

Bart

8:47 PM

gay as in happy, right?

Frank

@Moosebot unicorn Jan Dvorak

user280395

Jan Dvorak

bet... ter?

Frank

That one's even worse xD

lol

Jan Dvorak

@Moosebot unicorn Honnza

user280395

8:48 PM

Jan Dvorak

kinda better

Frank

@Moosebot unicorn Frank

user280395

Frank

noooooo

Jan Dvorak

not bad

Frank

8:49 PM

@Moosebot unicorn J. Musser

user280395

Frank

At least this one's not pink

Jan Dvorak

nice

@Moosebot unicorn janndvorakk

user280395

Frank

much better

Jan Dvorak

8:51 PM

@Moosebot unicorn honnza@gmail.com

user280395

Frank

@Moosebot unicorn antidisestablishmentarianism

Jan Dvorak

@Moosebot unicorn thisOneWillNotSuck

user280395

Frank

8:52 PM

@Moosebot That one's awesome

user280395

@Frank Command not recognized.

Frank

idec

Bart

MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF UNICORNS!

Mooseman

Pushing update...

@Moosebot unicornify balpha

user280395

Jan Dvorak

8:53 PM

@Moosebot unicornify moosebot

user280395

Mooseman

O_O

AstroCB

@Moosebot unicornify AstroCB

Privileges required, I see.

user280395

Mooseman

@AstroCB I was stepping through

AstroCB

8:58 PM

Ah

hichris123

@InfiniteRecursion Whichever you want it to be. :P

Frank

@hichris123 gross

ur a guy anyway

hichris123

@Frank That was more like "I don't care what you think, so..."

I was also referring to this:

in Sandbox, Jan 8 at 20:52, by rand al'thor

@bjb568 I always thought hichris123 was female - maybe because of the pink avatar :-p

Frank

lol

Bart

@hichris123 can be whatever beautiful creature they want to be. And they look stunning in those heels.

hichris123

9:06 PM

@Bart +1

Mooseman

@Moosebot unicorn balpha

user280395

Mooseman

Much better.

afk. ping any (bug|feature) reports

Frank

0

A: Do we really want questions asking for off-site resources?

I'd say go ahead and rule them off-topic. They are liable to going obsolete, if the websites recommended go down, and I think the easiest route will be placing them out of scope. These questions aren't a very large part of our traffic, so I don't think there will be any ill effects. Explaining ...