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Frank

12:02 AM

Everyone's cv's should be restored by now

lifehacks.stackexchange.com/help/badges/44/electorate?userid=25

bjb568

Here's a good-enough quality check jsfiddle.net/xt85eLfn/3

Now with better repetition algo jsfiddle.net/xt85eLfn/4

Braiam

you are using JS for a quality filter?

I don't believe the language is up the task

bjb568

12:23 AM

@Braiam not filter, score

@Braiam U SAY WOT?! TEH JAVASKRIPTZ IS TEH BEST! U NO INSULT!

hichris123

@bjb568 Your credibility goes down a ton when you type like that.

bjb568

Sounds awful.

Frank

@bjb568 wrong. If js was best, Skeet would use it :P

meh

hem

12:31 AM

delete that please.

why?

too late now

hichris123

cause Chrome is choking on it.

bjb568

srsly?

hichris123

ugh now I can't be in here.

user259867

12:34 AM

Thank you for teaching us how big our world is by sharing so many of your own.

hichris123

and it's hughe.

user259867

tall xkcd to the rescue?

hichris123

@bjb568 yup

bjb568

Fix chrome?

user259867

If the celestial sphere were mapped to the Earth's surface, astronomy would get a LOT easier; you'd just need a magnifying glass.

hichris123

12:36 AM

how about we push it off the page?

sounds

good

right?

let's post

stuff

please

user259867

If you fire a Portal gun through the door of the wardrobe, space and time knot together, which leads to a frustrated Aslan trying to impart Christian morality to the Space sphere.

user259867

Is this enough?

user259867

Maybe not...

user259867

Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'.

Frank

@bjb568 Wow, I can hardly load the page - it took like 5 mins after you posted that ...

user259867

12:40 AM

@bjb What are you going to major in, btwbtw?

bjb568

@Woodface What, you think I know?

Braiam

I didn't know this one blog.xkcd.com/2013/09/30/asteroid-4942-munroe

user259867

Are we back to normal now?

Braiam

probably, I had to change tabs after bjb posted that too

user259867

Hm, not quite on my side, despite tab reopening.

user259867

12:45 AM

So I made this chart of top downvoters on math...

user259867

Hint: the leftmost column is not the Community bot (I excluded it)

Braiam

@Woodface looks awfully close to the amount of questions in the close queue by tag

bjb568

And e^(-x ln x)

user259867

To make the Stack Overflow experience more friendly and helpful to newbies, we added a Help and Improvement Queue http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287466/help-improve-the-help-improvement-queue

Tweeted by spolsky on March 14, 2015 at 10:48 PM

bjb568

12:54 AM

y = (e^(-x))^2 seems to fit better

of course I'm just eyeballing it

user259867

Simplifies to exp(-2x)

bjb568

yea

Doorknob

@bjb568 why would you even post that in the first place -_-

SmokeDetector

1:11 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: I GOT MY UK PASSPORT,ID CARD AND DRIVERS LICENSE FROM Mr Ray Email him at ray.powells30@gmail.com by ray powells on magento.stackexchange.com

Frank

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Frank

SPAM^

@SmokeDetector gone

less than 3 mins

user259867

Because it didn't look very much like a question about Magento...

user259867

Idea: all-caps regex could be promoted to lots-of-caps, say 15 or more.

user259867

1:15 AM

That would catch this post, where the title isn't all caps.

Frank

good idea

Doorknob

"HTML5+CSS+JS+PHP Triggers The Bot"

Frank

does smokey catch email addresses?

idr for whatever reason

user259867

OTOH, we get a lot of "good faith" posts with ugly titles already...

Doorknob

you would also catch stuff like

0

Q: Check if DAY_OF_WEEK is between Monday and Friday

I'm trying to create a method which is checking if "today" is between Monday and Friday. For this I get with this line 'int day = Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK;' the actual day. After that I fill a ArrayList with the days (Monday, Tuesday, Wendsday, Thursday and Friday). Now when I check if the actual d...

Frank

1:17 AM

@Doorknob no, that's only 12 caps

Doorknob

Fine, then this:

2

Q: Equivalent of DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH in Joda Time

What is the equivalent of Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH in Joda Time

java calendar jodatime

4

Q: What is the difference between Calendar.WEEK_OF_MONTH and Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH in Java's Calendar class?

Java's Calendar class provides for two fields: WEEK_OF_MONTH and DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH. Can someone explain the difference to me? It seems that they both return the same value when tested using the code below: Calendar date = Calendar.getInstance(); date.set(2011,5,29); int weekNo1 = date.get(Ca...

java calendar

user259867

Alright, so it's not that simple.

Doorknob

For a more recent example: 9 hours ago

Another one: posted yesterday

Exhibit C: 9 hours ago

Those were the only few I could find out of the front pages of the 13 sites I sampled, so not too many false positives.

A percentage might make it more bearable.

user259867

The tag predictor on SO is considering me a high activity user. I'm flattered. stackoverflow.com/users/tag-future/current

Doorknob

me too :D

user259867

1:29 AM

Yeah, its gradation is not particularly fine.

user259867

On Gardening I get only "No predictions could be made". Soo unpredictable.

Frank

> No predictions could be made

user259867

I get "low activity" on the sites where I posted 1 answer.

Doorknob

Wow, those are pretty spot on.

user259867

Woodface prefers, when compared to a typical user, to avoid questions tagged:
c# java android php jquery
ios sql .net mysql ruby-on-rails

Frank

1:34 AM

@Woodface does he like python?

user259867

Some similarities. Maybe everyone avoids those tags.

Braiam

14

Q: Why isn't the predictor predicting?

Since "Jan 8 at (more or less) 19:57" the predictor or Tag Future Report hasn't been updated. This could screw more than one Recommended/Interesting tabs of Stack Overflow users. How often does this script run? Will not run anymore? Why it isn't running? When will it start predicting again?

support bug status-bydesign tags predictor

Frank

@Woodface but, c# is awesome

@Doorknob do you use js then?

might as well go look at your top tags...

user259867

Doorknob, Texas

26.5k 12 46 80

java javascript html jquery ruby regex css

Frank

lol

bjb568

1:38 AM

damn chopin nocturne stuck in my head

Frank

chopin is cool

unlike u

Doorknob

@Frank Yes.

bjb568

@Doorknob coz it kewl

Doorknob

sigh

Kevin Brown

1:49 AM

This question was clearly self-vandalized, but I can't find a revision that looks good (having never used Swift before) to roll back to: stackoverflow.com/questions/26794282/… Anyone here who knows Swift who might be able to help?

Doorknob

woah

That guy is really dedicated to vandalizing his question.

hichris123

still haven't pushed it off the page

Doorknob

lol

well

why

don't

we

try

to

ARGH RATELIMITER

user259867

@hichris123 It's gone for me now... I hope

user259867

So, apparently the scope of the page is measured by the number of messages, not by the on-screen height?

user259867

1:54 AM

I hoped my random xkcd posts would push it off quickly.

Doorknob

I guess

hichris123

It's gone!

That was ~15% CPU usage.

And this is a fairly nice CPU!

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

Doorknob

refreshes

yay!

hichris123

And that was why we can't have nice things. cc @bjb568

Andrew T.

2:02 AM

that 78MB gif...

user273376

ummm is it just me, or is this user stackoverflow.com/users/4640431/pierre-vriens spamming?

user273376

The same answer appears in stackoverflow.com/questions/4780962/… stackoverflow.com/questions/27568911/… stackoverflow.com/questions/5918849/…

user273376

and stackoverflow.com/questions/5763083/…

hichris123

@AndrewT. That's why it was so annoying!

btw @SabreTooth what's with the grey?

Doorknob

Should obviously be brown instead

user259867

2:04 AM

@SabreTooth Custom-flag for mods: posting identical answers?

user273376

neutral grey rocks

hichris123

@Woodface yeah probably. Does seem like spam though -- all advertising a product of some sort.

Frank

@SabreTooth but brown

user273376

why brown?

Doorknob

Ask jadarnel

Andrew T.

2:05 AM

because... brown.

Frank

@jadarnel27 ^^

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A: The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Brown Originator: jadarnel27, in chat (more) Cultural Height: TBD Background: Brown. It's the answer to everything. Because brown. Usage: Brown.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp black magic

SmokeDetector

@Woodface Registered answer as false positive.

user273376

so how should I report it? custom flag for flag them individually as spam?

Andrew T.

Thanks for this extra update, and the little trick you mentioned to get in touch with somebody. Must be part of the SE business model that a Contact Form for private mags is NOT allowed. A pitty I think, but NOT a reason for me to not use all the great features and valuable info on SE, right? Anyway, anybody wanting to contact me via PM: use the contact form mentioned on my profile (requires a userid on drupal.org though). Or more straight forward: via the contact link on my website ... I will delete this reply here somewhere today or tomorrow. Again: Thanks for the help! — Pierre.Vriens 4 hours ago

Frank

2:07 AM

@SabreTooth custom

user259867

@SabreTooth Mod attention: user posted several answers with the same content, which appears promotional.

Andrew T.

seems someone has notified him, or else

and while we're on that, consider to flag/close the questions too

user273376

@AndrewT. done

user273376

2:49 AM

lol, soon after flagging, my answer got downvoted - meh, no biggie

user259867

My top-voted (old) answers on math tend to gets random downvotes after I post on meta... I got used to it

user273376

it's more amusing than anything

user259867

3:18 AM

@Roombatron5000 is now #4 in downvotes on SO, having overtaken Peter Mortensen.

user259867

@nicael By now I prefer not-inline editor because it changes the tab name to "edit". With inline edits I tend to lose the post I'm editing among the tabs.

bjb568

@hichris123 … but the browser?

Roombatron5000

3:33 AM

@Woodface see your over 1k now, nice! does that mean you can review low qual posts now?

user259867

No, 1K privilege is "established user", which basically means seeing up/down split. LQRQ requires 2K, full edit privileges.

user259867

But I'm in top 2% for the month, which feels good already.

hichris123

@bjb568 Partially that, but IIRC someone landed a patch yesterday to cache GIF rendering (though that was a 5 MB cache, so it probably wouldn't help a ton on your ~80 MB GIF).

bjb568

Make it a gig!

hichris123

RAM bloat much?

user259867

3:41 AM

My Firefox struggled with that too.

user259867

At the end of the day, 78 MB is 78 MB.

user259867

So... it has come to this.

Doorknob

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SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ABOUT A VERY SPECIAL BOOK by Satyajay Mandal on tex.stackexchange.com

user259867

Running out of cat food must be dramatic for bjb.

bjb568

3:45 AM

:O

D:

:eek:

Saber's looking a bit grey….

user273376

neutral grey rocks!

Roombatron5000

@SabreTooth profile pic bug..

user273376

@Roombatron5000 nah, that's what I look like

bjb568

sigh

0

Q: Is there a Stack Exchange site for "Punctuation" ..or Grammar?

I've intentionally misused "quotes" for emphasis in the title of this question.

support site-recommendation

user273376

hey, I answered that one...lol

user273376

3:53 AM

@bjb568 i keep on forgetting what I answer

bjb568

heh

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: iMessage User "is not registered with iMessage" by Jill on apple.stackexchange.com

Roombatron5000

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Roombatron5000 Blacklisted user.

Jan Dvorak

4:08 AM

Now edited to remove profanity

user273376

4:23 AM

@JanDvorak LMAO

bjb568

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Q: How to Scale or Curve the Grades for an Examination?

I am the teaching assistant for a course in economics, and one of my responsibilities is marking examinations. I had just finished marking the midterm, and the grades were very poor. The details are (approximately): Mean: 23% Standard Deviation: 5% Min: 4% Max: 68% Number of Students: 84 Upon ...

grading exams

umm… huh… 23% averaged on exam… totally reasonable

user273376

i've seen worse

bjb568

:O

user259867

Higher ed in Australia is mostly state funded, so there should not be as much incentive to coddle underperforming students (as in some other countries I could mention).

bjb568

5:02 AM

Stand by as the crocoduck redirects you.

whispers… um…

bjb568

5:16 AM

How's this grey background?

user259867

Looks good. But I would swap Edit and Mod action, and make Edit yellow (like Dispute).

user259867

The idea being that red is for nuclear options, while yellow is less destructive.

bjb568

5:32 AM

Okay.

Alexis King

sighs

bjb568

5:50 AM

Night!

user259867

7:15 AM

Hm, the tour example for meta.SE is an off-topic question (and also confusing: hats? honestly?)

Jan Dvorak

!!/hats

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak WINTERBASH IS OVER! :(

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, Bad keyword in body: Modernity and black magic can coexist? by Sunset_Limited on buddhism.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: I NEED HELP WRITING I LISTEN TO J-POP,PLEASE HELP ME, THAT'S ALL I NEED. THANKS by WENDY on japanese.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

7:52 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Wigner Threshold law in Photodetachment and Photoionization by user75432 on physics.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

Why are people doing that?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: How can I view a Skype conversation that is older than 3 months? by Da Rajib on superuser.com

Alexis King

Oh. My. God. I was browsing job offers and found a listing asking for skills in Cobol.

Jan Dvorak

If they pay a fortune, learn Cobol

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username: Galaxy Discover stuck on recovery mode by nike on android.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

8:03 AM

@SmokeDetector Lol, that is quite the answer.

fp, though

bummi

8:27 AM

spam superuser.com/a/889780/172747

SmokeDetector

9:25 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: TURN CODES TO BITCOIN IN LESS THAN 15 MINUTES by user24704 on bitcoin.stackexchange.com

Braiam

just FYI, spam ^

bummi

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Braiam

I wonder, is this really on topic? stackoverflow.com/q/29030187/792066

bummi

there is no migration path for askubuntu.com

Braiam

9:40 AM

no repro stackoverflow.com/q/21358998/792066

@bummi is not even Ubuntu specific

not everything related to Ubuntu goes to AU

bummi

both for SU?

Braiam

or UL

I don't believe that each Ubuntu question should be in AU

there are problems that are just generic to any Debian/Linux distro

bummi

I'm not very familiar with linux systems :/ first one could be moved, second one would be lost(closed)

Braiam

approve pls stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/7349663

bummi

while I really trust in you, my knowledge as to low to approve :/

SmokeDetector

10:11 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: hypothetical criteria for non-paradox FTL by judediamond on worldbuilding.stackexchange.com

bummi

10:37 AM

spam gaming.stackexchange.com/a/209844/93824

Braiam

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/24487165/792066

Braiam

11:18 AM

informationweek.com/it-life/ntps-fate-hinges-on-father-time/d/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, Bad keyword in body: Modernity and black magic can coexist? by Sunset_Limited on buddhism.stackexchange.com

rene

11:47 AM

Is this offensive?

PeterJ

@rene, possibly but while not really directed at a particular person it wasn't constructive anyway. I flagged as such and containing that word is was a one-vote delete anyway.

rene

Ah, OK, tnx for taking action

rene

12:06 PM

cv-pls off-topic -> Migrate -> Super User stackoverflow.com/questions/29060063/…

Braiam

approve pls stackoverflow.com/suggested-edits/1761070

Frank

haha, what a pathetic chat room! chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/19199/magento-answers

rene

@Frank It could be useful if you need to explain the word vibrant

Frank

Hi all

7 days later…

hii

39 days later…

hey there

3 days later…

Hello

5 days later…

test

9 days later…

anyone?

3 days later…

Wow, not too active here, huh?

9 days later…

Hi

19 hours later…

Hi

3 hours later…

hI

14 days later…

Hi, is anybody here

bummi

spam superuser.com/a/889811/172747 again for favewallpapers only 2 until now

Frank

12:19 PM

@bummi gone

bummi

@Frank fast this time :)

Braiam

@bummi the whole question smells fishy

out 4 answers, 3 are recommending some kind of product

Frank

@Braiam I don't think it's spam

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username: Using ARIMA model to forest for data by Baba Iddi on stackoverflow.com

bummi

@Braiam agree, was searching hours ago about the main users on this post Q/A low evidence until now

Frank

12:22 PM

@Braiam The question asks, "should I just use [product] to get [result]?" Which will of course, bring answers like "you could use this [product]"

PeterJ

I'd probably just take it as someone that doesn't want to waste their cash on an adapter that might not work.

bummi

@Frank though I don't think it is falling under recommendation IMHO it's to general

Braiam

@Frank no, he's saying "should I use a [generic term that describes a product that do a task] to do this [task]"

bummi

BTW: we had today 4 promos for blog.eduguru.in on two sites, just in case somebody finds something like this

bummi

12:45 PM

spam askubuntu.com/a/597044/184892

SmokeDetector

1:35 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: BOTANY-GENETICS by Urmy on biology.stackexchange.com

user259867

1:47 PM

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

bummi

full of trustmyessay spam on different sites by different users

could be worth to add to the bots

most current superuser.com/a/889838/172747

ProgramFOX

2:09 PM

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

PeterJ

spam: electronics.stackexchange.com/a/159971/17064

ProgramFOX

flagged

cv-pls too broad stackoverflow.com/questions/29060015/…

PeterJ

trustessaywriting dot com might be a another good one to add, seems like a variant of the same site @bummi mentioned

ProgramFOX

@PeterJ I'll add it to Smokey

PeterJ

2:17 PM

@ProgramFOX thanks

ProgramFOX

!!/rev?

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX 064d2fe (ProgramFOX: +trustessaywriting. --autopull)

ProgramFOX

done

bummi

@ProgramFOX the other one too? I had about 10 post with it today.

ProgramFOX

@bummi Oh, didn't see that one yet. "trustmyessay"?

bummi

2:26 PM

@ProgramFOX yes, on about 8 sites ...

ProgramFOX

k

user259867

@bummi How did you find them across different sites?

bummi

followed one user with 8(?) accounts

ProgramFOX

!!/rev?

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX cf0a6e7 (ProgramFOX: +trustmyessay)

ProgramFOX

2:30 PM

^ added

bummi

@ProgramFOX thx

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/1038428/1699210

Undo

2:43 PM

@SmokeDetector ooooh new kind of spam?

ProgramFOX

17 mins ago, by bummi

@ProgramFOX yes, on about 8 sites ...

Undo

@PeterJ gone

hichris123

3:16 PM

Ooh, found more Unicode symbols we don't currently render on Windows.

@AlexisKing Supposedly the US government still has Cobol applications.

AstroCB

Mar 5 at 19:40, by AstroCB

> No one writes good titles. That's why we put the title edit field after the body - so you'd get to it after having read the body. Think it looks ok? You're probably wrong. Edit it to say something useful.

@Shog9 If it means anything, this has actually made me miss the title a lot; I don't see it until I'm on the preview screen and I have to click "Edit" again and fix the title.

Kevin Brown

We should just have the title box twice, to please those who know where to normally look for it and those who don't

SmokeDetector

3:34 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HELP!!!! PLAYONLINUX by Michael Jonas on askubuntu.com

user259867

4:24 PM

I suggest a version of Kevin's solution: editable title box at the bottom, preview on top.

user259867

The lack of previews for titles it's annoying on the sites where they may contain formatting (MathJax enabled sites). But also in general: the edit box for the title looks nothing like the finished product.

user259867

The edit box has the same width and same font as the body edit window. They sort of flow together naturally, and some users write their question as continuation of the title.

bjb568

4:56 PM

Afternoon!

ProgramFOX

Afternoon!

hichris123

hi

Oh sorry, did I break your train? :P

ProgramFOX

3

hichris123

eek

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: Missing Riptide Reef in Oceanhorn by Iqais on gaming.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

5:05 PM

^^ tpu

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user.

Unihedro

5:25 PM

Listening to The Phantom of the phantom of opera reminds me of Cupcake for some reason.

Night!

ProgramFOX

Night!

bjb568

Night uni!

user259867

I just flagged 14+ posts by this same account on StackOverflow. Exact same answer. — Ryan Conrad 44 mins ago

user259867

Suspended already, posts are gone. Just FYI.

user259867

SPAM android.stackexchange.com/a/102623/76613

SmokeDetector

5:42 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Opensource-supported scanner by George Shuklin on askubuntu.com

hichris123

@SmokeDetector fp, but probably still off-topic

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

user259867

The tp/fp ratio of "black magic" is unimpressive lately.

hichris123

baba took a vacation.

3

Infinite Recursion

Night @uni

bjb568

5:53 PM

Y U ping

Infinite Recursion

coz V R friends

a ping in a month is not too much damage

bjb568

{ "_id" : 261, "body" : "test", "user" : "bjb", "time" : 1424316373318, "room" : 1, "reviews" : 2, "lastFlag" : 1425946714169, "flags" : [ { "body" : "Another test flag", "time" : 1425945757526, "user" : "bjb" } ], "actions" : [ { "action" : "delete-vote", "time" : 1426442284344, "user" : "bjb" } ], "reviewers" : [ "bjb" ] }

yay

@Woodface I kinda want to discourage editing tho. It's rare that a chat message is worth saving.

hichris123

Oooh @Inf is here!

bjb568

Our favorite duck!

wat meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/37963

ProgramFOX

6:11 PM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251328/…

SmokeDetector

6:23 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: TEST SIGNIFICANCE BETWEEN THREE CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS by ODEH on stats.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

^ THIS GUY GETS IT

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

TGMCians

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29063842/…

thanks

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29064185/…

@InfiniteRecursion yeah so ping @InfiniteRecursion :p :D

bjb568

@inf

NoviceSEMetaGeek

6:38 PM

9

Q: Make search more prominent on the home page

This is the requested, uh, feature request from http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/251207/169018 tl;dr; Search should be a first-class citizen on the Stack Exchange network. Putting a bright and shiny search box front and center should help make it so. I would really (really) love a more promi...