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hichris123

11:05 PM

@xkcdBot ±5%?

Jason C

Well that was surprising.

hichris123

It's like if you delete a starred post.

Jason C

Yeah good thing I checked. Blown away by the completely unexpected results.

Primary vote monitors/viewers: Undo's, Jason C's (meta), Poke's

bjb568

Is there a meta post that documents the warning for answer questions with 30 answers already?

A: Does automatic community wiki answers discourage more responses?

Does automatic community wiki answers discourage more responses? Yes, and this is by design. I'm not saying my answer is the best, but I do feel it brings a unique response that satisfies the question nicely and shows a considerable amount of research / documentation. That's fine, and ...

I found this one, but it's no longer fully applicable.

user259867

11:20 PM

Q: Real names for problematic users

After a long internal discussion, the moderators have decided that we will require a certain very small subset of users to use their real names. This is definitely not a blanket requirement, and the typical pseudonymous user will not be affected by this. We have recently had problems with users e...

Ilmari Karonen

@bjb568 lmgtfy.com/… ? ;)

user259867

"This post has been locked due to the high amount of off-topic comments generated." ... 13 seconds after creation. ;)

Undo

@NormalHuman What

But

Umm

Jason C

Lawl

bjb568

@IlmariKaronen lmddgtfy.net

user259867

11:22 PM

I immediately deleted my MO profile just in case...

bjb568

@IlmariKaronen I didn't know the exact text :)

Anonymous

@Undo Huh... I wonder what they're trying to address with that. They talk about users "evading restrictions through various means", but I'm not sure how this would mitigate something like sockpuppeting.

Jason C

Ilmari Karonen

@bjb568 Me neither, but I found a question with a lot of answers on SO and checked. :)

Undo

@JeremyBanks Maybe MO people are infinitely more professional than the ones you and me deal with, but... I kinda doubt it

user259867

11:24 PM

in Normal Chatroom on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 18 hours ago, by StackExchange

Some metas - Stack Exchange: An update on a disruptive user – meta.mathoverflow.net

posted on November 16, 2015 by Scott Morrison

Long time MathOverflow users may be aware of a user who has been permanently banned from both MathOverflow and the entire StackExchange network. Despite the ban, they have been rather persistent and ...

user259867

^ this is all I got from that post, because SM deleted it very quickly.

Jason C

But... but... @nicael is my real name!

user259867

Also, a chat bug demo: Feed randomly formatted a meta post like a blog post.

Jason C

GUYS OMG

IF WE GET A PLUMBING SITE IT SHOULD TOTALLY BE CALLED TOILET OVERFLOW

user259867

Isn't that LifeHacks?

Jason C

11:27 PM

Bahaha

feature-request

bjb568

I get it! LifeHacks is the toilet!

aww, moose isn't pingable anymore

Jason C

Actually, apparently India is the toilet, lol.

That made me laugh this morning. It's kind of adorable.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Subtraction of elements in sets by vftghfcdctghk on math.stackexchange.com

bjb568

11:49 PM

-6

A: How to deal with editor who leaves no proper summary?

improved formatting - I'll probably reject as vandalism, unless the edit is actually good. [add tag for better visibility] - No, that's not what tags are for, they are for categorization, no you cannot put c# of non-c# questions, reject as vandalism Even if it's just a minor edit, not invalid, ...