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Jason C

12:01 AM

That big HELLLLLLLP post before; did you guys flag it as VLQ or as offensive? Or just a close vote?

Doorknob

hahaha

bjb568

2

Q: I need to calculate limit

I need to calculate limit: $$ \lim\limits_{n \to \infty} \left ( \frac{1}{\sqrt{2n}}- \frac{1}{\sqrt{2n+1}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{2n+2}}-\dotsb-\frac{1}{\sqrt{4n}}\right ) $$ Any hints how to do that would be appreciated. Thanks a lot!

very good title A*

Jason C

@tinatulip, but according to the first few terms, all the terms with even value inside square root have positive sign and the ones with odd value inside square root have negative sign. $4n$ is even, so that term should have negative sign to follow the general term $a_n=(-1)^n \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{n}}$. The given sum inside limit is the sum of the elements of this sequence: $\{a_i\}_{i=2n}^{i=4n}$ — Prasun Biswas 5 hours ago

What does that notation at the very end mean?

user259867

@JasonC I flagged abusive. It's a person going out of their way to be pointlessly obnoxious. Different from being obnoxious while trying to make a point.

Jason C

The one with the sequence {a_i} then i=4n above i=2n.

user259867

12:15 AM

It's the sequence where i runs from 2n to 4n. a_{2n}, a_{2n+1}, ... a_{4n}

user259867

Limits of for i = ... loop, so to speak.

Jason C

Ah, word, thank you.

Is it always inclusive when the notation is like that?

user259867

@bjb568 Better than many. At least it says it's about a limit. Unlike "Can anyone answer my question?"

user259867

@JasonC Always inclusive.

Alexis King

@JasonC All you people on this website are just so mean. :(

Can't you see OP was in dire need of help?

user259867

12:19 AM

@bjb568 Edited. Introducing MathJax, both to make it specific and to drop from HNQ list in case it was there.

Roombatron5000

12:36 AM

@JasonC simple typo, probably edit

2

Jason C

Lol

Stuck F1 key.

James

Morning boys

and girls

Roombatron5000

and men

and women

Doorknob

and inanimate objects

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: OPEN ANOTHER ACTIVITY WITH A BUTTON NOT WORKING by Devin Tripp on stackoverflow.com

user259867

12:48 AM

Look at this user...

Doorknob

-_-

user259867

The answer is simple... "it won't help".

Braiam

> awarded Informed

...

Infinite Recursion

cv-pls ^ stackoverflow.com/q/29269143/2982225

Braiam

in Unix and Linux on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 8 mins ago, by Gilles

Focus-follows-mouse and click-to-focus both suck. Give me focus-follows-eyes!

so true

Jason C

12:56 AM

15 Creepiest Toys Ever

►

Braiam

@JasonC I WON'T CLICK THAT, EVER

AstroCB

@Woodface At least he's humble...

Infinite Recursion

^^

Jason C

Lol; it actually doesn't live up to the thumbnail.

Roombatron5000

wonder who would downvote this @wood

bjb568

12:59 AM

@Woodface Isn't it singular sum?

user259867

@bjb568 Could be singular. But one can also think that there's a sum for each value of n, "sums" also sort of fits. I didn't spend much time contemplating that title.

bjb568

Meh, whatever, it's just 0 + 0 + 0…

How did you get this picture? It says right on it DO NOT OPEN! — corsiKa 9 hours ago

hehe

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector Fixed.

Auto all-caps detection and fixing added to SEETK.

Jason C

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/29269143/… opinion, one more

bjb568

1:16 AM

blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/03/…

ooh this is here, I didn't notice

user259867

> Just don’t show that a question is closed if users aren’t logged in. Users coming from Google who find an answer shouldn’t care if a question is closed or not anyway. The answer is still there. -- Bill the Lizard

James

Please spam this more to get rid of that hideous image

like lots more

its still there

kinda gone now

user259867

Interesting idea. Not sure what the UI should do if some of those users want to post an answer.

user259867

[Halfway to the Sun ...] Heyyyy ... what if this BALLOON is full of acorns?!

user259867

xkcd always works for moving stuff out of view.

user259867

1:25 AM

I... don't get this one, I'm afraid.

Jason C

@Woodface Thus giving even more impressions that certain closed questions are the type of question allowed on the site.

user259867

Right... that does damage the proposal.

Jason C

Here's a rather unsatisfying "explanation": explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1503:_Squirrel_Plan

Might boil down to:

> Maybe Randall is going through a tough time this week.

Braiam

@Woodface explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1503:_Squirrel_Plan

user259867

status-duplicate-and-not-a-satisfactory-explanation

Jason C

1:33 AM

@Braiam That was so 6 minutes ago.

user259867

Maybe a question for Space Exploration...

Braiam

status-just-sum-1-plus-1

Jason C

Or Skeptics. I'm pretty curious about the acorn theory.

Braiam

so... why was this deleted again? stackoverflow.com/questions/29030187

Jason C

There's also nothing in the TOSes that says you can't let a dog play baseball in the server room!

hichris123

2:26 AM

@Braiam pokes @Doorknob

Doorknob

What am I supposed to do? O_o

Or am I just the designated poke-ee?

hichris123

@Doorknob Figure out why it's deleted?

Doorknob

:3209293 O_o

Jason C

Haha, I'm going to get flagged for that one. I better delete it.

Doorknob

@hichris123 because reasons

hichris123

2:29 AM

@JasonC uh... why?

@Doorknob -1

lol no socks, I promise.

Doorknob

@hichris123 Uhh... porque razones?

Andrew T.

looking from the title and related question, it seems about installing package... on Unix?

hichris123

Er... "because to reason"?

Doorknob

I'm probably wrong, but isn't "razon" "reason?"

hichris123

Maybe...?

I dunno, this translator is weird.

Andrew T.

2:31 AM

!translate auto es... oh yeah, it's off

Doorknob

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 8 secs ago, by Doorknob

(from Spanish) because reasons

Jason C

@Doorknob spanishdict.com/translate/razones

Doorknob

Ah, that's a conjugation of a different verb

Kinda like "cocina" is both "kitchen" and "he/she cooks"

so you can say "ella cocina en la cocina"

Jason C

Um... all I remember from high school Spanish is "el aeropuerto es grande".

4

Doorknob

That's also wrong, I think

it should be razonas

because it's an -ar verb

Jason C

2:36 AM

And a few other things, all involving el aeropuerto for some reason.

It's only 10:40 PM here, it feels like it's 4 AM.

bjb568

2:58 AM

Is that airport?

Braiam

@Doorknob in that case the most appropriated phrase is "porque si"

bjb568

I thot si was if.

Doorknob

"because if"?

@bjb568 it is I think

AstroCB

Must be idiomatic (?)

bjb568

Big word; sound legit

Braiam

3:07 AM

> Idioms usually do not translate well; in some cases, when an idiom is translated directly word-for-word into another language, either its meaning is changed or it is meaningless.

Santa Claus

@bjb568 If only the Feeds translator bot was still around...

Braiam

this is one of those cases, both "because reasons"/"just because" and "porque si" are idiomatics phrases

James

stackoverflow.com/a/29262777/2357233 flag as NAA, because there is no explanation or just downvote it?

I'm not sure which

bjb568

@Braiam maybe if like in "as if".

Night!

James

OK, I'm starting to suspect this user is just vomiting up code copy-pasted from some external source

user259867

3:13 AM

Is the Help Center article on site moderators new?

Doorknob

Probably. Haven't seen it before.

Jason C

Additionally, why have you posted 3 separate answers, all different and none with any explanation, to a 4 year old question with an already accepted answer? — Bryan 2 hours ago

James

Actually I stand corrected, this user is (for some odd reason) spamming a 4 year old question with code blocks. 3 answers all with different code

yeah

Just noticed that

What do we reckon? Nuke them?

Jason C

Yeah. I just downvoted though. Can't think of anything to flag with. Maybe a custom flag. Too lazy.

user259867

The Help Center article /help/flagging is still woefully incomplete. :(

user259867

3:17 AM

> You can mark questions or answers as spam; offensive, abusive, or hate speech; or a custom reason.

user259867

> Questions have the additional option of being marked as off-topic or as a duplicate.

user259867

Ignores NAA and VLQ.

Jason C

Yup.

AstroCB

@Woodface I'm pretty sure I've seen that before.

user259867

One of two Help Center pages on flagging is incomplete and mostly redundant -- from June 2014. :(

user259867

3:20 AM

@AstroCB The text sounds familiar, but I haven't seen the article there.

user259867

@AstroCB You're right; the page exists since 2013.

user259867

Maybe it wasn't pinned to the top.

James

nuke-plz stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/7472089 NAA

It just seems like a random collection of vaguely programming related words

2

Andrew T.

3:36 AM

Re: stackoverflow.com/a/29262777/2357233, the answerer was clueless to post a standalone answer; those 3 posts should be related (JavaScript, CSS, and JSP page).

downvoted

AstroCB

Hope that makes you happy :) — God Of War 8 mins ago

I was expecting a random downvote to accompany that comment, but then I realized that he doesn't have enough rep to do that, so I'm left puzzled as to what its meaning is.

user259867

@AstroCB The post was edited. The author hopes you're happy now.

user259867

With their edit, that is.

AstroCB

Ah.

user259867

I wonder if Podcast #63 will set the record for the least interesting SE podcast, as measured by the number of comments...

user259867

3:47 AM

It was one of the most substance-less podcasts in recent memory, imo.

Jason C

@James Yeah, that answer plunges into a stupor.

> it is completely how this answers the question – Martin Serrano Apr 23 '14 at 11:57

Haha

Braiam

just what is going on here? stackoverflow.com/q/29270569/792066

user259867

@Braiam OP's answer indicates what they were after. If you want to state it as a question...

user259867

They just wanted to have a string representing an HTML element in JSON.

Jason C

Is the FAQ actually linked to anywhere?

user259867

4:04 AM

blacklist candidate http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepdftojpgconverter/

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu spam

SmokeDetector

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

Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector gone

@Woodface gone

ɥʇǝS

@Woodface github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/pull/48

user259867

Thanks. Let's see how this pull request fares; Jason C has a bit of trouble with this yesterday...

user259867

4:17 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/152878/…

ɥʇǝS

@Woodface mine built successfully so everything should be ok ;)

Unihedro

@Woodface Accidentally flagged VLQ instead :[

ɥʇǝS

Hi Jon!

SilentKiller

Morning!

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/152879/…

user259867

4:23 AM

!!/addblu drupal.stackexchange.com/users/45639/alendra

SmokeDetector

@Woodface User blacklisted (45639 on drupal.stackexchange.com).

Andrew T.

cv-able? stackoverflow.com/questions/11858781/…

user259867

Yes. Off-topic, general software

Jason C

@Woodface It shouldn't be a problem, just take care to make sure there's no trailing whitespace on lines and no trailing blank line on the file and I think it will go smoother than mine did.

user259867

That was Seth; I'm still gitless as of now.

user259867

4:31 AM

Almost done grading, though. :)

user259867

Oh, you mean the community driven/written FAQ that throws up the harsh truth in your face, instead of the committee written one from corporate that tries to be your bedtime sweet time snuggle pillow fearful of making anyone take a shower with anything other than no-more-tears shampoo — random 8 mins ago

user259867

!!/wut

SmokeDetector

@Woodface Whaddya mean, 'wut'? Humans...

Jason C

Yeah I couldn't figure that one out, lol.

Wish he'd roll me one of whatever he's been smoking.

user259867

When I open MSE in incognito mode, the links to FAQ items and FAQ tag are in the sidebar.

Jason C

4:35 AM

> The main page of the site. On MSE there is a link under "Frequently Asked" on the right. On SO/SU, at least, the word "faq" does not appear on the main page.

Correct.

Now open SO (or wherever) in incognito mode.

user259867

I see. I think Programmers had a FR of this kind...

user259867

By the way, you tagged your question help-center which is that no-more-tears shampoo that random is talking about.

user259867

Your question isn't about the Help Center, is it?

user259867

Perhaps in a way it is. Grr, too broad.

Jason C

IMO it was, because I feel that the FAQ should be accessible via the help center. I associate the two strongly. Do you think I should remove that tag?

Yeah, probably should.

Lol if "Where is the link to the FAQ" is too broad, we are in a sad state.

user259867

4:41 AM

19

Q: FAQ sidebar for per site metas

Meta.StackExchange has a nice side bar over when you are on the main page (the one you hit when you go to the 'meta' link, not the 'questions' tab). Its great. You can see there is a 'faq' section, its right there when you go to meta, and you can then go and dig into more faqs if you need...

feature-request status-deferred per-site-meta sidebar faqs

user259867

7

Q: FAQ Sidebar on Programmers Meta

Per the MSE question: faq-sidebar-for-per-site-metas this is to request a FAQ sidebar instead of the chat sidebar on Programmers Meta. So instead of: We would have a listing of the questions from faq instead. And it would look kind of like this*: *Note that this example is from MS...

feature-request status-completed sidebar

Jason C

@Woodface Amusingly, the programmers sidebar doesn't have a link to the FAQ index, and the first result in the FAQ tag link there is missing the FAQ index link.

user259867

It's on meta

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: “FIND” AS TRANSITIVE VERB by Kari on english.stackexchange.com

Werner

5:29 AM

Is this at all possible? Receiving an email about a bounty expiration before it expires?

3

Q: Time machine with bounties -- mail

In the question on which I gave a bounty I see: This question has an open bounty worth +50 reputation from yo' ending in 34 minutes. However, I've already received a mail saying: Reminder: Your Bounty Ended! Your bounty on ... ended and will be auto-closed after the 24-hour grace period expires. ...

bug bounty notifications

user259867

@Werner The bounty related notifications are issued some variable time before the actual event.

Werner

Perhaps if there's some rounding in terms of the time?

user259867

6

Q: Bug in time of expiring bounty

Noticed this many times but was too lazy to post. So I see a message in my inbox that bounty is completed and now in grace period, however its title says that "bounty expiring soon" Wonderful (not wonderful of course). I click it, and... guess what? Ok. So 49 mins left. But the main proble...

bug status-bydesign bounty notifications

Werner

@Woodface Ahhh...

@Woodface ...thanks for the resource.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keywords in title: Useful Information to Obtain a Helpful Gurgaon Movers and Packers Company by aman mathur on askubuntu.com

user259867

5:36 AM

@SmokeDetector I can't even type...

James

I don't even

Jason C

@SmokeDetector Upvotes, tags faq-proposed.

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Jason C

I made that FAQ cw for a reason, @jason... — Shog9 ♦ 49 mins ago

@Shog9 I didn't ask you to update it because I was lazy. I asked you because I'm not sure that many other people know how it works. I certainly don't. I made the grace period changes, but you should probably confirm the whole entry. It hasn't been updated in a few years, and I certainly don't know what's changed in that time, if anything.

James

An answer a day, keeps the vampires away

or something

Jason C

5:47 AM

An answer a day keeps the apples away

Shog9

6:00 AM

@JasonC have faith in yourself. I wrote the first few revisions of that FAQ after using the site for less than two months; I'm sure you're more qualified than Sept. 2008 Shog.

Jason C

I'm not sure how me hunting around on meta looking for every question and comment related to editing changes makes more sense than you or one of the developers updating it with what you know to be true. Push updates are generally more efficient than polling.

user259867

In fairness, SE SO was far less complex in 2008.

Shog9

You'd be surprised how few people actually know how this stuff works in total, and how small a fraction of that group is composed of employees.

Or, maybe you wouldn't.

Jason C

Yeah. I wouldn't.

Shog9

Either way, you're still as qualified as many, and more than most.

If you see something missing, add it. If you don't, don't assume there's something you don't know.

Jason C

6:04 AM

That's a sad state of affairs then. Maybe you guys need to sit down at an office meeting some day and figure out the bigger picture causes of why nobody really knows how the site works.

user259867

Jan 16 at 16:22, by Shog9

@Fundamental community team office:

Shog9

The FAQ was created and persists as a way for folks like yourselves to keep track of this stuff. I update it when I need it as a reference for something, but I've been doing that for six+ years and no special privileges were required or granted for it; you should not feel that you lack the authority to do likewise.

James

It's like any sufficiently large software system. You'd need infinite time to become familiar with the whole system because of the huge level of minutiae that the system has to deal with

Jason C

I don't feel like I lack authority. This isn't a confidence or "anxiety" thing. Objectively, the developers should know more than the users. If that's not the case, that's kind of SE's problem to solve. Besides, fwiw, I am (mostly) willing to put in the unreasonably large amount of effort required to figure this thing out, but I don't feel like others should have to do the same. I can do a little to help out but I'm just being realistic.

The SE team (presuming the common attitude is like yours) really ought to also step in and help out with documentation.

(I'm not just talking about the edit FAQ, btw.)

Shog9

The underlying philosophy is that if it needs to be documented, we're doing it wrong. Not that documentation is a bad thing, but if someone needs to read a help center article or meta post to figure out how to edit, we've really dropped the ball somewhere.

Jason C

6:11 AM

Then you've really dropped the ball somewhere.

Not to figure out how to edit, but, e.g., the grace period (to use this recent example).

Shog9

Sure, you're not going to figure out things like the exact criteria for grace periods that way, but... You don't actually need to know that in order to be an effective editor.

The whole point of the grace period is that the system should just do the right thing - if someone's doing some fast-and-furious editing, we don't need to track every little change.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Basically obtain the program on by sssharonfoleiy on drupal.stackexchange.com

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector no u

SmokeDetector

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

Jason C

Right, but you can divide this into a couple of different perspectives. From the perspective of being an effective editor, sure, you're absolutely right. But from the perspective of, say, wanting to participate in discussions that affect the rules over the entire network, you want to understand how the system works. Also, if it's easy to find out how it works, even the casual editor (still using editing example) may be able to use it more effectively.

James

6:14 AM

Right spammers, you drove me to it. I now have a drupal account and I will spam flag you to death

Shog9

Relatively few people actually need to know the sort of minutia that's documented in the meta FAQs. It's incredibly valuable to have those few people who do around, but... For your average person using the site, the information is neither desirable nor useful.

Jason C

In any case, re: documentation: It's also an efficiency thing. To me it is unreasonable for a user to put some huge amount of time into finding out how the system works for documentation updates when a developer should be able to do the same in a fraction of the time. Granted you guys are busy, I get that. But something's off if it solely relies on users to document.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

James

what the hell is that question?

Jason C

6:15 AM

I'll concede that details about editing rules may be inconsequential. But what about, say, how the queues work? Or what flags do? Don't get me wrong, I totally understand what you're saying about users not requiring those details to be effective on a higher level, but those details are important to keep around for other reasons.

Shog9

@JasonC I'd make a simulation and simulacra reference here, but I'm tired and might accidentally volunteer to make a map of SE as large as the SE codebase, so... Best pick that up in the morning.

Jason C

I mean, imagine if some day all the remaining users who actually have a handle on how the system works move on to other things. New generations of users keep coming in. If there's only a small handful of people left who know how the system works, you start losing one of the greatest strengths of being able to discuss system changes with the community in a meaningful way.

I need to find a way to get you to keep talking so you accidentally volunteer to do that.

Anyways I also need to get some sleep.

\o

Andrew T.

We're already often get surprised with unexpected, undocumented changes on SE, so...

user273376

cv-plshttp://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252061/ios-integrate-placeil‌ive-to-replace-google-maps-sdk

user259867

@James Reverse engineering. Found a line in code, wondering why someone would write such a thing.

James

6:26 AM

yeah, but there is no context, problem statement or even code provided. Without that, the question is so broad it's meaningless.

Andrew T.

(too late to open that question, was qurious)

James

@AndrewT. something about in an else why would someone set ID = 999999999999999 + 1

@Woodface, answers from 'too keep the demons inside their head happy' to because we deliberately want to overflow the stack at this point to prevent the user records from being corrupted' are entirely valid

user259867

0

Q: Why would someone set a variable to a 9999999999 + 1

I've an if statement with an else that sets an ID to: 9999999999 + 1 What's the reason for it?

windows

Andrew T.

thanks... wow, that question is super unclear without any context.

user259867

Yeah, but that's for locals to deal with.

James

6:29 AM

On reverseengineering.stackexchange.com there be dragons

SmokeDetector

6:50 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Does it have side-effects? by bildinjuriya on drupal.stackexchange.com

bummi

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

James

Has anyone actually figured out why drupal is such a popular vector for spam attempts

bummi

spam meta.stackexchange.com/q/252065/201151

James

10 egg whites?

jesus

that's enough to make anyone throw up

Unihedro

6:54 AM

Hey! I'm on a school computer, and tags on the front page seems to be going out of alignment.

Alexis King

> DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A WEREWOLF?

James

@bummi GONE

Unihedro

Bam

Alexis King

@Unihedro Hmm, definitely status-no-repro on my end, but obviously there.

James

The one that someone posted yesterday about the flag dialog rendering behind elements for muted questions is definitely a bug

Unihedro

7:02 AM

Btw, even after resetting to default scaling, the alignment inconsistency is still there.

Maybe it's because this thing runs on Windows. :p

James

Chrome bug maybe? Is it reproducible in firefox?

Unihedro

No, it works fine on this Firefox, but the tags becomes rectangular.

3

Q: Broken side-by-side comparison in revision page

I came across this post and decided to check its revision (to explore the source code for the YouTube video). If we choose a view then refresh, then the views show up correctly, except for the side-by-side view: If we start with markdown view, then switch to inline view, the view is missing...

bug revisions-list

user273376

@Unihedro hey! get back to work!

James

James continues to procrastinate

Andrew T.

@James tried, but didn't success meta.drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/3159/…

James

7:15 AM

@AndrewT. Lame

James

7:31 AM

Man i really miss being able to edit your last statement in other chat clients. I feel myself reflexively reaching for the up arrow key on facebook and telegram

SmokeDetector

7:42 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle With These Muscle Building Tips! by chrisneve on drupal.stackexchange.com

bummi

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

gone

Morning!

Morning!

7:56 AM

Morning!

Hi

Hi

Hi

Hi

Hi

8:01 AM

cv-pls superuser.com/q/894135/172747 (I'd suspect spam .... but AGF)

Andrew T.

AGF, his "about me" looks honest

J. Steen

Their.

But it's still a shit question. =)

And off-topic.

Someone PLEASE reject this edit: stackoverflow.com/questions/29273361/…

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/7474609

Rather.

James

Done

J. Steen

Oi. Useless edit is useless...

Thanks.

Your first reject, too!

Congrats.

James

what? really?

J. Steen

8:08 AM

According to the stats on the reviewpage, which are notoriously out of whack.

cv-pls too broad stackoverflow.com/q/29273361/64976

James

Nah, I've rejected heaps of edits

that was my first one today though

J. Steen

Interesting.

cv-pls gimme codez stackoverflow.com/q/29273316/64976

James

ahh gimme codez questions, its so satisfying ruining someone's laziness

J. Steen

I work to write my code. I don't necessarily think everyone should slave at their keyboards but they should at least show token effort. Questions like that just show an alarming lack of ability to put three words together in a textbox on google.com

But. No time to be bitter. I'll just look forward to helping a friend set up his NAS tonight.

Jan Dvorak

As long as he shows some effort, sure ;-)

bummi

8:27 AM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/6440584/1699210

offensive electronics.stackexchange.com/a/161704/27928

James

GOD DAMN IT!

abc.net.au/news/2015-03-26/…

bummi

Translation would be spastic > rude

Bart

Myeah, flagged.

J. Steen

@JanDvorak He researched which to buy, bought it, shipped it. That's effort. ;)

James

Has anyone outside Australia seen this ISP data retention thing?

Jan Dvorak

8:35 AM

Most of the askers do go as far as write some code :-)

J. Steen

A lot, yes. And a lot don't.

Considering we have gigantic volumes of askers on SO.

bummi

spam http://superuser.com/a/894146/172747
Some references: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22tank%20quiller%22%20%22windows%20password%20key%22

James

targeted spam, but spam none the less

bummi

Hope to get the spam flags with comment soon

Jan Dvorak

is there a FR?

bummi

8:42 AM

FR?

Feature request.

yes

linky?

linky for clicky!

But not for Clippy.

Clippy must die.

How horrible would you feel if you asked a question, and a comment suddenly shows up from a user named "Clippy" that says "I see you are trying to ask a question. Would you like some help with that?"

And then just not giving any helpful advice at all.

Oh, wait, this already happens all the time.

bummi

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Q: Add optional box for spam flags letting you say why you think it's spam

This came up recently, where a user had taken the time to look at the link on a post and realized that the post wasn't just off-topic, it was actually half-decently-disguised spam. So he flagged it as spam, and an overworked mod declined it, giving the questioner the benefit of the doubt. And we ...

feature-request flags spam

Jan Dvorak

8:44 AM

Thanks!

Oh. Misread. I thought you were talking about spam flags for comments rather than comments for spam flags

J. Steen

Haha. =D

James

Viewed 104 times, upvoted 237 times

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bummi

Migrated

James

ohhh that makes more sense

bummi

Yesterday I had to a a comment to a post since the mod was hesitating (from his comment) to be sure a thing I flagged as spam would be spam (I was not able to add an OTHER)

SmokeDetector

8:54 AM

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bummi

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/435323/1699210

@SmokeDetector cv'd

status-closed

@SilentKiller fine

9:17 AM

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Jan Dvorak

9:35 AM

gone

rene

9:56 AM

High rep having a bad moment

> Deleted deleted deleted deleted. Missed the comment button. Added answer instead.

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