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12:02 PM

@SmokeDetector ...that's from 2009. Looks like the question might be off-topic nowadays, though.

user202362

@berserk I wasn't involved, had more important thing to do ... but you know, I peep the lounge chat every now and then as a habit ...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Why does a subpanel need separate ground and neutral? by kent on diy.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: socket.io/1/?t=1437482662157 404 Not found by Darshika on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Dynamically create checkbox with JQuery from text input by manoj on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: sub pannel in garage is not right by kent on diy.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body: inequality upper bound by Kevin on math.stackexchange.com

Ilmari Karonen

12:18 PM

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@IlmariKaronen Body - Position 194-199: nutra

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

spelling error

natural spelt wrongly

Ilmari Karonen

I think they meant to write "neutral", but whatever. Looks like Smokey also works as a bad spelling detector now. :)

S.L. Barth

An anonymous user insists on vandalizing this question. See this edit and this edit. Should it be placed under protection?

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Protection doesn't prevent edits

S.L. Barth

12:24 PM

So far the reviewers seem to be doing their job right for once, so maybe it's a bit early for protected status.

Doorknob

You can't protect an answer anyway

S.L. Barth

It's the question they're trying to edit.

Doorknob

Oh. Still, protection does not affect edits.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

lock it?

S.L. Barth

Locking may be a bit harsh.

PeterJ

12:26 PM

I think it's only a full lock that stops edits. I've seen rejected edit counts on anonymous users so I guess eventually they might get an edit ban regardless (but not sure)

S.L. Barth

Well, there's no reason to panic yet, because so far the edits are rejected.

So locking is too powerful a tool for now.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

IP ban?

S.L. Barth

That, only SE can do.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Bring teh shog powarz to ban teh userz

S.L. Barth

It's an anonymous editor, else I'd have commented or flagged.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

12:29 PM

Anyway I'm gonna work on CSP getarounds for websockets

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: Suggested training/Learning to move from manual testing to Automated testing by indy on sqa.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

Ilmari Karonen

@S.L.Barth I left a comment anyway, maybe they'll see it.

S.L. Barth

@IlmariKaronen Good idea! Voted the comment up.

berserk

@chmod666telkitty I got the habit of peeping into work sometimes, while I am doing important chat at SE/SO chat rooms.

user202362

I wonder getting a chat user to be a mod would be a good idea because ... the habit of chatting too much?

S.L. Barth

12:36 PM

Moderators are supposed to visit chat every now and then. They also moderate chatrooms.

Doorknob

> Moderators are supposed to visit chat every now and then

no

There are plenty of moderators who don't even have a chat account.

S.L. Barth

IIRC it is one of the questions of the moderator elections.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Hmm

I'll try something regarding mods and chat later

S.L. Barth

It's not a moderator's highest priority, but I believe moderating chat is within their duties.

Doorknob

@S.L.Barth It's not.

There are no questions. Huhwhat?

(Or are you talking about the "unofficial" ones on Stack Overflow)

S.L. Barth

12:41 PM

No, I meant our elected diamond mods. Not 2K / 3K / 10K+ users.

Doorknob

Yes. You don't have to answer questions to participate in an election...?

(except on Stack Overflow, which is done via meta and not "officially" baked-in to the election process)

Anyway, chat moderation is most definitely not an obligation for diamonds.

(gotta go eat food now)

user202362

Also +12 reps ... looks awfully like a manual unban with mud on top to cover the track

Arthur Fischer

@Doorknob There's very little that is an obligation for diamonds. Show up once in a while, don't reveal secret private stuff, and don't screw things up more than they already are. I can't think of any others.

user259867

SO expects a bit more in terms of flag handling (for the sake of completeness).

S.L. Barth

From the Security.SE election this year:
> As a moderator on Information Security you will also become a moderator on all of chat.stackexchange.com - which has rooms for most sites (all except Stack Overflow and Meta.StackExchange).

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Q: 2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we o...

SmokeDetector

12:48 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ZERO VOLATILE STOCKS IN INTRADAY TRADING IN INDIA by UNIVERSAL on money.stackexchange.com

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@S.L.Barth Markdown doesn't work in multiline messages.

S.L. Barth

I've noticed.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Chat markdown

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE The site doesn't have multiline messages.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Normal markdown works with multiline

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

12:50 PM

PSA: At least 60 instances of "markdown no work in multiline" in the Tavern.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

status-waiting-for-nodejs-to-support-regex-unicode

Boo

rekire

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE how did you make the text red?

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

status-red-rag

S.L. Barth

I believe it does that automatically if the tag starts with status-something.

user259867

status-completed

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

12:54 PM

BOOOO

[status-no-work]

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE Boo

Ilmari Karonen

!!/amiprivileged

SmokeDetector

@IlmariKaronen Yes, you are a privileged user.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@rekire The syntax is [status-something].

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

[tag:this-sucks]

Ilmari Karonen

12:54 PM

@NormalHuman Cool!

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

It will only work if it's the only thing the message contains @Rek.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

[status-nope] see?

S.L. Barth

status-testing-if @Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. is right.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

I'm stupid

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Not the tag syntax.

S.L. Barth

12:55 PM

does-it-happen-without-the-word-status

Ilmari Karonen

status-testing

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

I meant the red tape.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Instead of doing some array magic I do a replace each char with a separate replace call

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

:4269211 See?

S.L. Barth

status-confused-about-tag-markdown

Yes, don't put the "tag" in front.

user259867

12:56 PM

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE for each Unicode character separately?

Ilmari Karonen

status-more-testing

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

No

S.L. Barth

[more-testing-here-too]

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Tag is something else. It works as you wish it to work. But there shouldn't be spaces, and possibly no unicode chars.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

It's a regex escape function

S.L. Barth

12:57 PM

[testing-again]

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

ϻλʀ

Oh. Nice.

Ilmari Karonen

So, apparently the red status-* tags on chat use completely different syntax from all other tags.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@S.L.Barth [tag:testing-again]

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Hi

This is tavern

Not sandbox :P

user259867

Correct; they are not really tag, just use similar HTML markup.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

12:58 PM

@IlmariKaronen Yes.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Hm

Ilmari Karonen

(As opposed to posts on the site, where [meta-tag:status-*] does the trick IIRC.)

user259867

A sort of extra feature added to facilitate [status- messages, probably in the internal company chat.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

@IlmariKaronen maybe a soup fix? Red tag changes to <a href="whatever-link-to-tag">[status-completed]</a>

@NormalHuman Easter egg

user259867

> I want to make my toddler a CV, skills so far: - Excels at random relocation of goods. - Can open every TV debug menu in under 4 seconds. -- Nick Craver at 4:41 AM - 2 Dec 2015 via Twitter

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

1:02 PM

Lol

user259867

Back in my days, TVs did not have debug menus... they had round knobs instead.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

function regexEscape(input) {
    var escapes = ['.', '*', '+', '^', '$', '[', '(', '\\', '/', '-', '{'];
    var escaped = '(\\' + escapes.join('|\\') + ')+';
    return input.replace(new RegExp(escaped, 'g'), '\\$1');
}

Did I miss anything to escape?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: How to know if a page loaded via iframe is within sandbox? by user5630422 on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: Exactly how does Biocore Trim works? by Peter Wells on superuser.com

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

sd tpu-

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: WHERE I CAN FIND HISTORICAL INTRADAY RECORD by UNIVERSAL on money.stackexchange.com

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

1:06 PM

Eeeek

Ilmari Karonen

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE JS regexps are PCRE, right? If so, it should be safe to just do return input.replace(/([^0-9A-Za-z])/g, '\\$1').

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Escape everything?

Ilmari Karonen

Yeah, except ASCII alphanumerics. Or you could go with what Mozilla recommends and use string.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, "\\$&").

Found via SO, obviously. ;)

61

Q: How to escape regular expression in javascript?

I have code like: pattern = 'arrayname[1]'; // fetch from dom, make literal here just for example reg = new RegExp(RegExp.quote(pattern), 'g'); mystring.replace(reg, 'arrayname[2]'); but it fails with an error message saying: "RegExp.quote is not a function". Am I missing something simple?

javascript regex

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@SmokeDetector fp-

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: Suggested training/Learning to move from manual testing to Automated testing by indy on sqa.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

Ilmari Karonen

1:22 PM

I notice a certain degree of irony here... :)

WHY ARE YOU STILL SHOUTING?????? — UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE 14 mins ago

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Lol

tchrist

Smokey notified ELU chat of a posting at 4 past the hour that I don't see here. How does that happen?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@tchrist Maybe the filters are different?

> 16465

tchrist

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. dint useta be

Derpy

@balpha @JonEricson I officially protest. The countdown should have running ponies, not Equestria Girls equivalents.

SmokeDetector

1:39 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Non-latin link in answer: How can I create borders in an open world-game? by web tarahan on gamedev.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

user259867

@Derpy Jon is not bashing this winter, rumor has it that animuson is doing it now.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Yeah. It must be Animuson.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

4 hours ago, by UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Does Jin smoke?

Still no answer...

Derpy

@NormalHuman Why not Bolt? he would have been an easier target.

BoltClock ♦, Singapore

329k 75 820 960

css html css-selectors css3 php jquery javascript

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: What is the chance of rolling a die and getting the number six three times at exactly 10 roles? by Orpheus on math.stackexchange.com

bjb568

1:56 PM

Oh god, another hour of code thing is coming up.

Sterling Archer

2:17 PM

stackoverflow.com/a/34044727/774078 flag pls

berserk

LOL, flagging

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Argh

I killed a tab by putting the wrong indentation.

Now some non-async ajax will never complete

user259867

@Derpy Bolt is not an employee...

user259867

Breaking news from Ask Ubuntu:

user259867

0

Q: Spam becoming frequent?

Today, seeing AskUbuntu, it seems that spam is getting frequent, 30 minutes a spam thread is being posted. The most recent one was about "making people to look younger". The first one i saw today was about a game..

discussion

SmokeDetector

2:25 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Difference between system bus, address bus and data bus? by mohammed on cs.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

> [SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /^('\.usersResult > *').*/: Unmatched ')']

Wow I broke something

Derpy

@NormalHuman I call this Pony Discrimination.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: 2 people working on 1 HTML file simultaneously by penis on stackoverflow.com

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

FREE COMMENT FLAGS!

Sterling Archer

lol penis

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