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Disclaimer: I'm not a regular user of this site. I visited from Meta Stack Exchange to flag spam. The links are pushed out of the header because the title of the site is too long: This issue is also present on meta: Screenshots taken in Chrome 40 on Windows 8. I was unable to reproduce the...

J. Steen

@Sam Ooh, too soon.

Frank

@J.Steen He's getting back at me... I decided to work on getting Electorate badge on his site, then noticed he has answered most of the questions there... :P

So he got some repos

J. Steen

12:41 PM

@Frank You horrible, horrible tree.

3

Frank

lol

Unihedro

> I visited from Meta Stack Exchange to flag spam.

Welcome aboard! ;)

3

Mooseman

Thousands of helpful flags in sites on which I have never asked or answered a single question. :D

Jan Dvorak

Also, welcome abroad! :-)

Frank

I am a nice tree. I notice when people start voting on my stuff like I vote everyone elses.

Sam

12:43 PM

Also, also, welcome abroad!

Mooseman

:)

Braiam

@Mooseman fixed by not using Chrome :P

Frank

Suddenly [+40]

Mooseman

@Braiam GASP /me flops like a fish out of water after uninstalling Chrome

Frank

from LH

Braiam

12:44 PM

shows just fine in FF SRE

Sam

@Braiam But, but, Chrome has all the latest ~~bugs~~ features!

Frank

GL +189 | LH +40 | Bio +15 | O +5

so balanced

Braiam

@Sam cc @hichris123

Unihedro

@Frank carebearstare

PeterJ

@Frank, I've never posted on gardening but I've got herbs growing that I'm not 100% sure what they are. With a good photo are ID questions on-topic, looks from the help page like they are?

user259867

12:47 PM

> As our Conversion Optimization Manager, you will be our transformer and our nurturer. You’ll transform visits into leads and nurture leads into opportunities. You’ll be our top smarketer. -- Really, Stack Exchange? Really?

Frank

lol

J. Steen

pob? stackoverflow.com/questions/28321779/…

Frank

@PeterJ yup. Completely.

Mooseman

@J.Steen maybe

PeterJ

@Frank, cool thanks will have to post soon.

Frank

12:48 PM

I'm off - cya!

cya!

cyan!

cya!

yay

@Braiam I would hope that relates to the, ahaha, related tags section as well.

Unihedro

12:58 PM

54

A: Am I still supposed to explain my downvotes or not?

This comment: This post would be better if you explained X, Y, Z. comes across as "someone has an idea for a possible enhancement to my post, but it's not needed". This comment: -1: This post would be better if you explained X, Y, Z. comes across as "oh okay I had better make those c...

J. Steen

Dear sir; I sincerely hope that this missive finds you in good keeping. How are the tomatoes this year? I am writing to inform you that, with regret, I felt it necessary to submit a 'down rate' on your posting. The reasons are in fact three-fold but suffice it to say I feel that X, Y, Z would render your posting useful in a sense that, currently, it is not. All the best to you and Sarah, Lightness.

Awesome.

Bart

@rene bastards, all of them.

rene

I must agree...

Unihedro

@J.Steen Lightness may be critical at times, but their dry humor is awesome.

user259867

So, how much attention one pays to possibly critical flaws in their approach depends on whether one lost some internet points for it...

user259867

1:06 PM

SPAM webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/73531/…

Braiam

@FamousBlueRaincoat why isn't "black magic" blacklisted, @SmokeDetector?

user259867

> ((America))+91-########## is not convincing

user259867

@Braiam I guess Smokey went out for a minute to grab coffee (i.e., rebooting)

user259867

what's his status syntax anyway

Unihedro

@Braiam it is

user259867

1:09 PM

The post appeared at 13:05:13

user259867

whatever

J. Steen

@FamousBlueRaincoat Of course. If you've got nothing to gain, why do anything at all?

Braiam

!!/status

!!reboot

Sam

!!/coffee

user259867

I think he's dead. No reports for two hours, which is unusual. I dropped a note at HQ

J. Steen

1:12 PM

Mm. Coffee.

Sam

>>status

Pham

@Sam <- is awesome as usual.

SPArchaeologist

mumble..........

New baba plan: crash the bot and then spam

Sam

:O

J. Steen

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28297993/add-textbox-to-a-datarow < One last one... one tiny little cv... wafer thin...

Unihedro

1:17 PM

@SPArchaeologist NOOOOOOOOOO

Sam

@J.Steen There. And with a scoop of ice cream.

J. Steen

@Sam Mm. Ice cream.

Pham

Spam Q (91%): Slimxo Clitramine Fitness Infos - Weight Loss Center, by ricarestu961, on meta.stackexchange.com.

J. Steen

Ooh! A post I can flag!

SPArchaeologist

@Unihedro would be fun though.

Jan Dvorak

1:19 PM

Ooh! A flag I can post!

J. Steen

Now you're just being silly.

Sam

Ooh! A flag I can post!

wonders if the train will continue...

SPArchaeologist

wonder what happens to bots if one post a question with zalgo and Unicode chars in the title.

Mooseman

Ooh! A flag I can post!

Jan Dvorak

Now you're just being silly.

Sam

1:22 PM

@SPArchaeologist Good question, goes to investigate...

Tim Post

WHO HATH SUMMONED ME?

And do you have any sugar?

Sam

@TimPost White, brown, or unicornish?

Jan Dvorak

I can get coffee

bjb568

Am awake sorta and at orthapedics

SPArchaeologist

@Sam Does a test area exist somewhere? a board that one can use to test question titles?

Sam

1:32 PM

@SPArchaeologist Not from what I know of.

Unihedro

@SPArchaeologist But, you know, we can run debug mode and stuff in an event with data like that.

Sam

^

Which was actually my exact plan.

SPArchaeologist

@Unihedro ok, but in that case I would need to tell you what you do before the test. My idea was to see if even after the test, the technique was detectable easily.

anyway

@Sam try using ZeroWidthSpace. Breaks regular expressions, some spiders could actually trim it and question title would be still readable.

Sam

Sure, will do.

SPArchaeologist

@Sam the idea is to not crash the bot, but have words in the bad list go undetected. It is even worse if the word contains a space.

Unihedro

1:39 PM

@SPArchaeologist So we should be replacing away invisible characters before the parse?

Sam

Gotcha.

Unihedro

I wonder if...

Sam

@Unihedro Seems like a good idea.

Unihedro

Our bots can detect ˢᶰᵉᵃᵏʸ ˢᵖᵃᵐ

Sam

(But I can't test anything atm, as I'm running a backup of Pham.)

Unihedro

1:40 PM

Or even ᏧіаІect τ℮᙮ᴛ

J. Steen

Or VERY LOUD SPAM?

Jan Dvorak

Why not just treat invisible characters in title = automatically spam?

SPArchaeologist

@Unihedro that is an idea. Also would be interesting to see if one could use alternate characters to evade detections

Jan Dvorak

weird characters in title = spam

international sites would have character ranges explicitly whitelisted

Sam

@JanDvorak Sounds like a better idea.

J. Steen

1:43 PM

@JanDvorak Define weird.

Unihedro

@JanDvorak That is a good idea.

J. Steen

![A-Z0-9]?

Tim Post

@Sam rainbow please

J. Steen

(shut up, I don't do regex)

Unihedro

Anyone interested in helping out this foreign site character ranges definition project?

Sam

1:43 PM

@J.Steen [^a-zA-Z0-9]

J. Steen

@Sam Showoff.

Jan Dvorak

@Sam [^ -~]

Unihedro

@Sam Eh, commas, exclamation marks, and sequence disrepancies.

Sam

@TimPost Aww, snap. I'm fresh out.

@Unihedro Oh yeah.

Unihedro

[^\w!?.,+-]

J. Steen

1:45 PM

Uh.

0

Q: .NET Frame Work Not Working -- But Installed

Please Any One Help Me When I Uninstalled .NET Frame Work 4.0 & Installed 4.5 Its Not Working ,, But Its Installed Successful But When I Start Any Program Need A .NET Frame Work ,, And After This Problems I Got A Error In A Very Important Programs Error Number : 0xc0000022 And Iam Tried ...

c# .net entity-framework frameworks .net-framework-version

Sam

Don't forget (square) brackets, etc.

J. Steen

How do people have the tenacity to Capitalize Every Word Like This And Not Get Very Tired Of It?

Sam

@J.Steen Wth?

Unihedro

For C#: [^][\w!?.,+-]

@J.Steen typing.like.this.doesnt.emphasize.your.sentence.it.makes.it.look.like.your.keybo‌ard.has.cancer

Quick poll: YAML or no YAML?

Jan Dvorak

Don't forget pregnant keyboards! Those without periods!

J. Steen

1:47 PM

@Unihedro It's like json, but for people who do python!

Unihedro

@J.Steen Eh, my project is no python (it's java), but I personally like yaml.

J. Steen

@Unihedro I like as verbose xml as possible. Preferably in a non-English language, with plenty of unicode characters in the element names.

Like the integration I had to help build against the Danish Gambling Ministry. Or whatever it's called.

I'm not Danish.

Their XML was.

Unihedro

wtf stackoverflow.com/q/28243435/3622940

"ItemFood cannot be casted to Character" - is that error message not self explanatory enough?

J. Steen

Wut.

I don't even do Java, and I get it. =D

Unihedro

I am so tempted to leave "do you even code" comment.

J. Steen

1:51 PM

bro, do you even code...

Must find video...

►

Unihedro

stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/minecraft-forge+jruby not healthy...

J. Steen

Brosef Stalin. >.>

BroSQL.

Jan Dvorak

2:10 PM

The single most important question when designing new camouflage: Will it blend in?

J. Steen

@JanDvorak Surprising how that gets overlooked so often.

Jan Dvorak

@J.Steen I can't see how that could be possible

J. Steen

@JanDvorak Then you're not looking hard enough.

Or something.

bjb568

2:39 PM

Haz cast

Better than splint at least

J. Steen

I don't know what to make of this: stackoverflow.com/questions/28324062/…

Bart

@bjb568 what did you do?

J. Steen

@Bart Awww.

Jan Dvorak

delv-pls codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/10542/7209

ProgramFOX

I miss 250 rep to do that :/

Jan Dvorak

2:44 PM

I thought you had more rep than I had?

ProgramFOX

Not on PPCG.

J. Steen

Argh. People who use codeblocks to needlessly highlight text that doesn't even need highlighting in the first place.

Unihedro

@J.Steen Duh.

I do it on many meta posts.

ProgramFOX

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 11 mins ago, by Undo

I think my server died

^ That's why Smokey borked. Undo is repairing it.

Unihedro

ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

2

J. Steen

2:55 PM

@Unihedro stackoverflow.com/users/955076/methodman?tab=activity

Bart

@J.Steen highlighting makes things clear. Highlighting all the things makes everything clear.

J. Steen

@Bart You know there's a highlight all the things meme.

Unihedro

@J.Steen Make ALL the all puns!

J. Steen

WHY would anycode code-block "Issue(s)" (and capitalise it?) WHY?!

Anyway. Rant over.

Bart

@J.Steen a man and his methods ...

Pham

3:01 PM

Low Quality A (60.8%): 123456789 zong all system is lol, by John, on security.stackexchange.com.

J. Steen

@Bart slow clap

ProgramFOX

@FamousBlueRaincoat Added the domain.

3:15 PM

\o

o/

\o/

_o_

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28324805/…

ProgramFOX

3:23 PM

done

TGMCians

thanks :)

Bart

@TGMCians import com.Custom.Simulator;

TGMCians

@Bart :D

Bart

I could be hired as a Java dev at any moment ... and be fired even before that.

> PYTHON != SNAKE

:D

J. Steen

Hahahaha

Braiam

3:36 PM

@Bart how do you expect me to pay for your work if you just imported it!

Bart

@Braiam ... you sound eerily like some of my clients.

Unihedro

@Braiam import program

Bart

"But our designer created the UI in Flash in 30 minutes. What do you mean it will take you weeks to implement it in the software?"

J. Steen

"How hard can it be?"

Bart

Trivial

J. Steen

3:42 PM

Also particularly love when non-technical, non-associated project managers do my time estimates for me.

Argh. Out of close-votes.

Bart

"Really? That takes you that long? Can't you just .... hack it?"

Braiam

@Bart BCFH >:D

J. Steen

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28325363/…

Braiam

> "I know it’s impossible, but can you do it anyway?"

5

Bart

:D

bjb568

3:50 PM

At skewl

@Bart slippery icy stairs

Bart

@bjb568 :(

Louis

5:05 PM

cv-pls-duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/28312008/…

The OP acknowledges in a comment that his/her question is a duplicate but now is asking me to duplicate my answer. I'd rather see this properly closed.

Thanks

Hmm... let me correct what I said, the OP is asking that I post an answer that is a link to my other answer.

rene

voted

Louis

Thanks to all who voted.

Bart

5:37 PM

Bort, Philadelphia, PA

4.4k 3 3

^ I don't remember this bot ...

Jan Dvorak

Perhaps it has evolved independently and you were the first thing it saw?

Louis

5:50 PM

cv-pls-off-site-resource stackoverflow.com/questions/28321143/…

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28291970/…

This question went from asking about a problem that was not well defined to some sort of request for general advice. I believe multiple close reasons are valid for it.

Sam

6:11 PM

@ProgramFOX Soon (within the next few days) I'll be starting work on a class for automatically stripping out the domain from links in missed spam posts; would you be interested in it for Smokey?

ProgramFOX

@Sam Sure! That'd be awesome.

Sam

k, I'll keep you posted ;)

ProgramFOX

:D

Louis

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/12973702/…

The link to an image in this question went dead so a significant portion of the question is now missing. Ergo, unclear.

However, even if the image were present, the question would still be "opinion-based". I voted unclear given the current state.

6:24 PM

6:40 PM

6:52 PM

@SmokeDetector gone

Sam

status-test-completed

And yes, Pham does trip up on those uni chars.

bjb568

7:17 PM

Walking hard and makeyme tired. But am alive still.

user259867

7:28 PM

> falling cats often land on their feet, using an instinctive righting reflex to twist their bodies around. Nonetheless, cats can still be injured or killed by a high fall.

user259867

> According to a myth in many cultures, cats have multiple lives. In many countries, they are believed to have nine lives, but in Italy, Germany, Greece, and some Spanish-speaking regions, they are said to have seven lives, while in Turkish and Arabic traditions, the number of lives is six.

rene

Have a look at the first comment in the code here. If that helps I might consider it as well ....

user259867

Something to consider in case of international travel. Avoid Turkey and Arab countries.

3

Sam

7:48 PM

@bjb568 Worry not. You survive will.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Shadow Wizard

@Braiam I think only the last is notified

@Braiam @rene @Pro can someone try and @-ping me on this question please?

(too lazy to bring my sock)

user259867

8:06 PM

@MadScientist Really? So some SE high-hat descends from the aetherial plane to the math.SE commons he avoided before, just to make a non-moderator edit? Because he wanted to "resolve" something? Please keep in mind that it was the diamond that allowed Jaydles to bypass the suggested edit queue normally in place for "new" users. I'm not buying your story. — Lord_Farin 30 mins ago

user259867

Edit by Jaydles => meta.math explosion

Braiam

@Sam yeah Master Yoda

Sam

62

Q: The [dark] side do not join. Lied they did about their cookies

Tags I have found: dark, darken & light. Suggest I do, we clean-up these tags. Burnination even. Experts there can not exist. Usefulness they offer us not (missing are the the excerpt and wiki for all tags). Reconnaissance results (total of all tags they are), 340 posts, 2% closed, 50% have a ...

discussion retag-request burninate-request clean-up

Don't get me started ;)

Braiam

@Sam If you don't want me to delete the whole internet, don't you get me started ;)

Sam

:D

Braiam

8:10 PM

@ShadowWizard got it?

Pham

Low Quality Q (25%): HTML & CSS <select> and <option> layout (HELP APPRECIATED!), by □ Kacper, on stackoverflow.com.

rene

8:26 PM

@ShadowWizard done

@Braiam That OP must be wondering what is going on...

Shadow Wizard

@Braiam @rene no notification so I was right: only last voter can be notified i.e. the one who cast the binding vote.

(probably this was originally meant for moderators)

rene

@ShadowWizard OK, removed my comment

user259867

Blog - Stack Exchange: Podcast #62 – Delete This Whole Episode

Abby T. Miller on February 04, 2015

Welcome to Stack Exchange Podcast #62, recorded live on January 20th–with a live studio audience (kinda)!. Today’s podcast was brought to you by the American Venture Capital Association. With you today are our hosts Jay Hanlon, David Fullerton, and Joel Spolsky.

Let’s jump right in: we made a big announcement! Andreessen Horowitz has invested a pile of money in our little company so we can improve our ‘programmer forums’. Precisely none of the pile of money is going into Jay’s raise, but one of those dollars is going to SomeKittens. …

user259867

On the subject of deletion...

bjb568

status-BURNINATED

del1337

:D

hichris123

8:52 PM

@Braiam @Sam what's broken?

Braiam

4

Q: Header is shifted because title is too long

Disclaimer: I'm not a regular user of this site. I visited from Meta Stack Exchange to flag spam. The links are pushed out of the header because the title of the site is too long: This issue is also present on meta: Screenshots taken in Chrome 40 on Windows 8. I was unable to reproduce the...

bug status-completed design

hichris123

Oh. Not a Chrome bug.

Bart

@FamousBlueRaincoat It's official, I'm hired ...

Braiam

@Bart O_O

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