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I have a net gain of 3 rep! ... ... Oh, three of the downvoted answers got removed.

Bwahaha

:/

Users should have to successfully take a quiz to gain rep-based privileges. e.g., pass 80% of 20 audits. Especially 2k no-approval edits.

12:15 PM

There are a lot of things I wish users did.

I don't think people realise just how overflowing SE - and particularly SO - would be if we allowed anything and everything. There are almost more questions on SO than there are inhabitants in my country, and that's after pruning. Of questions. Not people.

Maybe it's people that need to be pruned...

Am I being too harsh again? I don't know. It's hard to tell with how the community ebbs and flows in this kind of question.

!!/alive?

Argh, the network issues borked Smokey.

Fortunately it auto-restarts every hour.

SPArchaeologist

still not working?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange

@ProgramFOX meh.

SPArchaeologist

12:19 PM

onebox still broken

any remaining flags....

Time to go have a meeting about continuous deployment, and why we can't have nice things when people mention "TFS" and "branch strategy" in the same sentence.

LOL

Hello

hola

12:28 PM

What would be the most effective and painless way to get banned for x hours from the chat room?

Ask a mod

@Jefffrey ... why?

@Jefffrey It depends on what x is

Painless for whom?

@Doorknob I'm being a jerk today and I don't know why. Until I figure it out it's better for me to live in isolation.

Let's say 24 hours.

From chat.so.

12:30 PM

ummm

@Jefffrey Wouldn't it be easier to just close your chat tab and not reopen it for the rest of the day?

No, actually

parental filter?

@Jefffrey Just hit ctrl+w in any chatroom and you're banned...

lol

12:31 PM

lol2

laugh out loud zebras

So, where can I find mods for this?

when added zebras ?

here only. @Jefffrey

I thought I would find them here.

SO mods typically don't chat in here too often.

12:32 PM

@Jefffrey Try poking some of the devs, like @balpha

may be busy with other works wait for the reply

@SilentKiller I haven't asked it.

I am not responsible for what happens when you do that though, and it may result in you being struck in thunder

Just out of curiosity, how long are the bans that room owners can give you?

lol ^ n

12:33 PM

1 minute, 30 and then...?

First time 1 min, then 30 min, then 24 hour + permanent invite and creation ban

@Jefffrey Room owners can't suspend (unless something changed recently).

then 1 year

balpha

@Doorknob they can kickban though

Ah, right.

12:34 PM

@Doorknob kickban for three times leads to permanent bans that can only be lifted by mods and temp suspensions.

oh wow

or you can post an offensive pic and attract lots of flags and therefore automatically get suspended, but that's only 30 mins

too many ways to get ban

@Unihedro they would stack though, no?

if I were to post multiple messages

@Unihedro u want flags. ? xD

balpha

12:37 PM

so what do you want @Jefffrey, just be blocked from chatting for 24 hours on chat.so?

@balpha Yeah, that would be awesome. Thanks.

Thank you very much.

Good bye folks.

O_o

1:35 PM

> Stack Exchange is currently offline, we'll be back shortly!

YOU BROKE THE HOUR OF SILENCE.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

@Mooseman Actually, no, you did, because you started shouting :P

We are taking our sites briefly offline to fix the issues we have been troubleshooting this morning.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 17, 2015 at 1:35 PM

> if we get here, that means even the offline pages on sstatic are offline

At least chat never dies

1:39 PM

Well, now we'll certainly go down. Thanks @Mooseman

@Bart We're in OR

Of course, right as soon as I try to edit my answer :\

All I know is that we're not in Kansas anymore.

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/28562910/1234256

1:57 PM

I have scissors.

Feeds

We are looking into network issues now, stand by.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 17, 2015 at 11:31 AM

We have recovered from read-only mode, but are still tracking down an internal network issue causing errors for some users.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 17, 2015 at 11:52 AM

We will be entering a brief maintenance mode to kick all services back online shortly - ETA 5-15 minutes, downtime will be about a minute.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 17, 2015 at 1:14 PM

We are taking our sites briefly offline to fix the issues we have been troubleshooting this morning.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 17, 2015 at 1:35 PM

too late

> Server Error in '/' Application.

2:31 PM

It's quiet in here today

Q: Can we agree that product recommendations are NAA's?

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In the first Likehacks meta question we agreed that product recommendations, especially those without usage guidance, are off-topic. However, my Not An Answer flags have returned disputed on all of the following answers: http://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/a/2186/15 (Link to Amazon.) http://lif...

discussion off-topic users

^^ Something for the lifehacks users to quabble over.

coughkillthesitecough

@Bart The photoshopping of that is somewhat disturbing.

2:40 PM

Very much so

"Somewhat" doesn't begin to cover it.

SPArchaeologist

3 hours ago, by Frank

SPAM still there http://gardening.stackexchange.com/a/8233

gone

I am viciously and like a guerilla warrior installing GitLab to show people life outside TFS.

Or gorilla warrior, depending on how you look at it.

2:57 PM

@SmokeDetector fpu

@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

TGMCians

o/

\o

\o/

/o\

\o/

/o\

<o>

user259867

3:08 PM

@SmokeDetector fp different baba

@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered answer as false positive.

I'm guessing "baba".

=D

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CONVERT VECTORS TO CYLINDRICAL REPRISENTATION. OF COORDINATES by user73368 on physics.stackexchange.com

3:35 PM

installs new recaptcha on own website

plays with green checkmark all day

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp online store development

@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

Feeds

3:51 PM

We tracked down the internal UDP port exhaustion issue and all services are back up at this time.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 17, 2015 at 3:50 PM

@SmokeDetector fp

@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

Morning!

Morning!

@Feeds poor UDP port.

4:02 PM

need vacations

4:27 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, Phone number detected: Unitad|State +91-7508616155 Black-MaGic Love Vashikaran specialist molvi ji by jimolvi71 on webapps.stackexchange.com

@SmokeDetector tpu

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

user259867

4:41 PM

@SmokeDetector gone - who voted to migrate baba to webapps? :)

was that migrated???

I guess someone from Unitad State

user259867

@JanDvorak Joking. All recent baba's posts I saw are on webapps.

user259867

> Furthermore, it is my opinion that Lifehacks must be tarballed.

user259867

Google translate cannot do much to express this in Latin. ^

4:49 PM

2 hours ago, by Bart

coughkillthesitecough

:p

user259867

@Bart Get better soon.

@FamousBlueRaincoat too late

user259867

I mean your cough, it worries me.

user259867

Or is too late for you, too? :(

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Linux Server Virtual Ethernet interface stops responding to arp requests by James Sinton on serverfault.com

user259867

4:52 PM

> GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

:D

For that matter, you may as well flag every question asked since yesterday morning. You'll be right about 98% of the time. — HopelessN00b ♦ Feb 10 at 20:17

O_O

The answer isn't very helpful either.

5:07 PM

:3059177 edited

@SmokeDetector delete

user259867

Robot rebellion?

user259867

Current status: .wife { position: right; margin: 0 }

Tweeted by jzy on February 17, 2015 at 4:13 PM

The question is still cv-worthy though.

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28566965/…

user259867

I am concerned that wife is a class and not an id for Jin.

3

Tim Stone

He addressed that in a reply, don't worry

@counternotions @gortok because my wife is classy.

Tweeted by jzy on February 17, 2015 at 4:17 PM in reply to counternotions

5:10 PM

Nice save

@SmokeDetector fp

@Mooseman Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

user259867

11s can safely be retired now.

user259867

Feb 14 at 1:32, by Famous Blue Raincoat

@hichris123 The last one was Sep 1. A flood of posts up to that day, nothing since but fps.

11s? The line of N**e shoes?

user259867

5:18 PM

I don't even know what it was about, since the posts are deleted. I wasn't here then.

Q: Is there any reason to include the remote ip when using reCaptcha?

0

I am implementing Google's reCaptcha in my app. According to the documentation, my API request must include my secret key and the response, and optionally the user's remote ip. For what reasons would I include the remote ip?

ip captcha

!!/rev?

@ProgramFOX 7f0d9bc (ProgramFOX: -11s)

@FamousBlueRaincoat ^ done

Louis

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28567116/selenium-java-questions

Thanks everyone. That question deserved to die quickly.

5:37 PM

@Louis The meta effect STRIKES AGAIN!

:D

cv-pls reference stackoverflow.com/q/28567639/1234256

@Mooseman done

Louis

A must read for those of you who may be planing to open a restaurant for penguins: theweek.com/speedreads/539558/…

@Louis ...or maybe they just never tasted anything other than sour and salty.

Louis

5:53 PM

A lot of what's available to them is must be of the salty kind.

ChrisForrence

6:17 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/28568250/899126

6:47 PM

^^ one more

closed

ChrisForrence

Cool, thanks y'all

kill-pls stackoverflow.com/q/12275170/3622940 somehow survived the years

3

^^Finally got one of the "cool" captchas

Lynn Crumbling

7:12 PM

@Mooseman Hah: "Where's the beef?"

7:43 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Shortest solution to order 26 alphabet letters, no two vowels occurring consecutively by seth on math.stackexchange.com

@SmokeDetector tpu

@JanDvorak Blacklisted user.

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Kernel Panic in my macbook pro (Reports are included) by Hirad A on apple.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: How do I view emoji in Google Chrome on OS X (prior to 10.7)? by camila on apple.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user.

GnomeSlice

8:10 PM

Today's Listening | Vaporwave

Got the "cool" captcha again. And it's brown

Now I got soup

weeeee

ChrisForrence

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/28570408/899126

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: WHAT THE FACK ABOUT VINE ? WHAT A USSLES SOLUTION FOR LINUIX/DEBIAN//STEAMOS/UBUNTU by MrZHackingSinceWindows95DOS on askubuntu.com

^^ ABUSIVE

^^ So readable...

GnomeSlice

8:26 PM

It's not supposed to be readable

...so I can't login to my app anymore?

No, you have to wait till robots can...

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Why StackO q-u-e-s-t-i-o-n-s are closed by people who have no idea about the q-u-e-s-t-i-o-n? by user4577027 on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector tpu

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

8:31 PM

@SmokeDetector ABUSIVE

gone

Hobo Sapiens

SPAM: stackoverflow.com/questions/28570580/…

Helpful flag #804

gone

user259867

8:50 PM

> We will look into this. Not very different than voting rings on HN or other places. You want vote diversity. -- codinghorror

user259867

(Atwood promises to "look into" cv-pls)

> Somehow, every question involving anything than popular web frameworks is apt to be closed as "too localized". (jofer)

How long has it been since that close reason was removed?

@FamousBlueRaincoat Is there still a "we" for Jeff? And they are not really voting rings anyway.

@KevinBrown 26th of June 2013

inb4 yet another post where Jeff Atwood gets downvoted into oblivion

user259867

@codinghorror We all know you're still pulling the strings anyway, you tyrant. And by we I mean Evan.

Tweeted by tmslft on February 17, 2015 at 8:37 PM in reply to codinghorror

8:58 PM

:D

:D

:D

:D

Wasn't there a github link to what cv-pls officially means?

c-c-c-combo breaker

8:59 PM

:(

I wouldn't want this chat to get too funny

:D

:D

:(

:D

9:02 PM

);

-o

github.com/cv-pls/cv-pls

@Frank myeah, I recall something more extensive though ... gah, let me search

Here we go: github.com/cv-pls/site/blob/cv-pls.com/cv-pls_chat_docs.md

that is used by the php room

Yeah. Just meant to indicate that cv-pls isn't a clear cut "you have to close this" but rather a "consider the quality"

9:06 PM

@Frank WHERE TEH USARSKRIPT?

Anyway, we've had that discussion several times before

Are you okay @bjb568? Did you try to run through that glass door again?

@Bart yes, let's do it again?

@Bart uh… nyes?

@bjb568 im not telling

:O

9:08 PM

I just loving casting the last delete vote and seeing the background get shaded red. :3

>:]

@rene repeating discussions? We never do that on Meta. Ever.

Or else?

2

:D

9:14 PM

:D

:D

:D

:D

cv-pls Any psychics among us? stackoverflow.com/q/28571284/1864610

@HoboSapiens What do I want to eat right now?

9:29 PM

@HoboSapiens I knew you were going to ask that.

Hobo Sapiens

lol

Random question, what happens if 5 different users close a question for five different reasons?

Or other edge cases where you need to pick a message out of multiple

@KevinBrown last one wins

Ah, good to know :)

Q: Please burninate [printing]

cv-pls too-broad stackoverflow.com/q/2403055/1234256

0

printing is vague. Its 11.4k questions span HTML/CSS, PHP, C#, C++, and more. Even its wiki says: Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printer. It can also refer to print text on the screen, e.g., the printf function in C or the p...

discussion tags burninate-request

Lynn Crumbling

9:38 PM

@Mooseman +1

@Mooseman Oops.. should have closed that as off-site-res .. he's asking about where he can get the references..

Hobo Sapiens

Bother - out of votes again :(. Does anyone have some spam I can flag?

!se spam hobo can flag

gmail - Why is my bulk email being flagged as spam? - Stack ...

@Mooseman how the tag distribution is data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/266852/…

php... is there a need to say what needs to be done?

9:56 PM

weird smily

►

does anyone get the non-mobile version? wuxiaworld.com

@Braiam Yes. (Wow that site is ugly.)

10:11 PM

yas

meh, there's a http 500 response each time I get the mobile version

10:35 PM

LOL

code-golf graphical-output

44

Q: Fifty shades of grey

Boys and girls are excited to see Fifty shades of grey on the silver screen, we just want to code without being bothered, so here's a challenge to pick our brain. You have to: Print on the screen fifty squares filled each with a different shade of grey Squares must be visible, at least 20 x 20...

^ That answer to that question made me laugh. I almost wanted to convert it to a comment instead of deleting it.

@Doorknob why didn't you?

Because if I saw it flagged as a comment, I would have deleted it. :P

but... it's funny

and pertains to the question

vlq mechanics.stackexchange.com/a/15491/7325

whoops, wrong link, fixed

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Basic Mips Instruction by user3175173 on stackoverflow.com

user259867

10:50 PM

Have we ever had an alert about a repeated numeric character that wasn't fp?

want me to make one?

user259867

Not really. That user picked a low-hanging fruit by answering a question that was comment-answered. Well, good for him/her.

user259867

I did suggest an edit to the question.

@SmokeDetector fp

@Mooseman Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

10:59 PM

downvote gestapo

@Frank and naa mechanics.stackexchange.com/a/12629/7999

Ah - just figured it out. Click the arrow - sorry to all had been posting comments saying thanks. — Greg.Forbes Aug 27 '12 at 0:14

lel

user259867

False repeated chars alerts are still useful: they point to posts that need to be formatted (=cheap suggested edit points). Bring me closer to the "downvote everywhere" privilege. 8 sites down, 131 to go.

@FamousBlueRaincoat How to earn the Downvote Anywhere privilege: be Peter Mortensen.

He has 844 rep on Ask Ubuntu purely from suggested edits O_o

user259867

Yeah, he can cast downvotes on 54 sites.
And is using them, too. As of now, exactly 19000 downvotes on SO, good for the 4th place.

Q: Can still review wiki edits during a review ban

11:09 PM

I broke the review ban:

0

I recently failed a couple audits and got review banned. As of now: However, I just reviewed this wiki edit: I wasn't able to review the related excerpt edit though:

bug review edits tag-wiki review-suspension

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user.

@SmokeDetector delete

user259867

@SmokeDetector gone

just finished of the last few Drupal comments containing 'accept rate'