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12:01 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Controlling high frequency of heavily distorted guitar tone (metal) by Deforcer on music.stackexchange.com

> Most...intense...rice making...passage...ever!

user259867

Some people never heard of sentences...

@pizza it's Stevie that's saying that!

@JeremyBanks I do an even better job at getting crap thrown at me. This is why I can't go to the zoo anymore.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: What does Blue Elixir do? by Jonas Dralle on gaming.stackexchange.com

12:15 AM

@Shog9 Go on…

!!/rmblu gaming.stackexchange.com/users/107951/jonas-dralle?tab=summary

@hichris123 User removed from blacklist (107951 on gaming.stackexchange.com).

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Micro Quadcopter PID problem by user2900812 on robotics.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp edit suggested

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

!!/lick

12:27 AM

@SantaClaus licks ice cream cone

!!/blame

@SantaClaus It's SmokeDetector's fault.

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/29532289/…

^ Thanks, H&I queue, for that fine question.

What does the H&I queue expect me to do with this? Somebody already edited it for formatting...stackoverflow.com/review/helper/7641989

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A: Put the incomplete line at the top

Don't rely too much on automatic calculation done by the browser. Look at the method I have created: http://jsfiddle.net/AZtY8/ Considering you have not given margin, padding and border, for: 2 items in a row, the flex-basis is given from 50% - 34% 3 items, the flex-basis is given from 33% - ...

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SELEÇÃO DE DADOS NO ANDROID COM PHP E MYSQL by Victor on pt.stackoverflow.com

12:34 AM

why is that upvoted?

ugh

43 mins ago, by xkcdBot

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

@SmokeDetector Yo no hablo portugues

@AstroCB WOAH

!xkcd shh

@SantaClaus Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

!xkcd

@SantaClaus Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

12:36 AM

@SantaClaus I have to change the docs for that one.

It's just an @.

@xkcdBot Shh...

!xkcd

@SantaClaus Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

@xkcdBot xkcd

@xkcdBot !xkcd

@SantaClaus xkcd what, sir?

@xkcdBot Y U HATE ME

!xkcd commands

12:38 AM

about – Get information about xkcdBot.
find [searchTerms] – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
shh – No.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.

...

!xkcd help

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

about – Get information about xkcdBot.
find [searchTerms] – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
shh – No.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

oh no

duplicate bots

!xkcd shh

12:39 AM

@SantaClaus Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

7 hours ago, by AstroCB

bjbot's newest feature: mimic xkcdBot.

@xkcdBot Shh

@AstroCB Never!

!xkcd help

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

about – Get information about xkcdBot.
find [searchTerms] – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
shh – No.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

12:39 AM

!xkcd shh

@SantaClaus Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

I'm confused

Someone kick bjb.

4

!kick bjb

It isn't working

And chat is throttling me

@SantaClaus The shh command is just an @; the rest use the specified syntax, but you have to pass parameters.

!xkcd last

12:40 AM

"Mr. President, what if the unthinkable happens? What if the launch goes wrong, and Napoleon is not stranded on the Moon?" "Have Safire write up a speech."

!xkcd help

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

about – Get information about xkcdBot.
find [searchTerms] – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
shh – No.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.

@AstroCB Bassomatically.

!xkcd 18392902

12:41 AM

@SantaClaus xkcd.com/18392902

@tchrist Indeed.

Okay I thought I could use a questionID

@SantaClaus A question ID from what?

@AstroCB uh stackoverflow

> [questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.

Oh

Wow.

12:43 AM

time to repwhore again

!xkcd help

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

about – Get information about xkcdBot.
find [searchTerms] – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[comic ID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
shh – No.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

4 mins ago, by xkcdBot

Someone kick bjb.

@bjb568 You gotta get those 5k privileges they're worth it

12:44 AM

50k privs are better.

@SantaClaus Yes, the glorious tag wiki approvals.

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!ping SantaClaus

Prepare to be pinged, @SantaClaus.

@xkcdBot I knew it was only a matter of time before somebody added a !ping command

The bots which peeps have made in here (or taken from source elsewhere etc) are pretty nifty. What about a bot whose sole purpose is to randomly pings other bots in the chat room?

!ping bjb568

12:50 AM

The editing actually worked this time.

(e.g.) every 15 mins randomly picks a word from the most recent comment and passes it to xkcdbot, which in turn issues an image from XKCD with that word (or nearest match).

@SantaClaus It's down for maintenance.

Prepare to be pinged, @bjb.

!ping bjb

hiya

12:51 AM

Prepare to be pinged, @bjb.

prepares

It edits one post back and I don't know why.

How many pings was that?

Is there a list of candidates with name, candidate score, rep, and week rep?

@AstroCB 2

!xkcd commands

It doesn't like it when I'm the first one to say something after a reload.

You're right about that.

12:53 AM

!xkcd commands

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

about – Get information about xkcdBot.
find [searchTerms] – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
shh – No.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.

I no longer know what is happening.

2

@bjb568 Old version.

whatevar

10 mins ago, by AstroCB

4 mins ago, by xkcdBot

Someone kick bjb.

12:54 AM

...

!xkcd commands

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

about – Get information about xkcdBot.
find [searchTerms] – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
shh – No.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.

I don't understand why your bot does half and mine does the other; is that some server issue, or am i just getting rate-limited?

!xkcd find one

Daily API quota limit exceeded. Try again in 6 hours.

12:55 AM

!xkcd 123

You spin me right round, baby, right round, in a manner depriving me of an inertial reference frame. Baby.

!ping Shog9

4

O' Great Immortal Shog9

!xkcd

@SantaClaus Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

!xkcd commands

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

12:57 AM

!ping bjb

Y IT NO WORK

you didn't say plox

!ping bjb plox

:p

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

Prepare to be pinged, @Shog.

@SantaClaus NO

12:58 AM

I am innocent.

7 hours ago, by AstroCB

Disclaimer: If someone pings Shog with this, s/he shall feel the full wrath of our SE guardian and shall not transfer his kicking fury to xkcdBot or myself.

@bjb568 How

It wasn't me. ^

Dare

You

@bjb568 Yes, you are innocent.

Very.

user259867

12:59 AM

@xkcdBot, we hardly knew you

Prepare to be pinged, @pizza.

Wasn't me ^

@pizza It was a system cycle well lived.

@bjb568 This, bjb, is why you can't be mod. You don't follow simple disclaimers.

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meh

1:07 AM

fah

@Inf Any progress on that bjb-kicking bot?

Demand for it increases by the hour.

I should very much like to see a bjb-kickboxing bot.

I guess no one liked my idea :(

I'll grab my tumbleweed and go..

A tumbleweed cannot be grasped, only dodged.

@tchrist I get ignored a lot, I always bring my own, on a lead

1:13 AM

Worth a fortune if you come upon the philosopher’s stone.

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: How to say "Should we [do something]?" by diaa attia on japanese.stackexchange.com

!ping Shog

@AstroCB How dare you try to ping the mighty Shog?

!ping Shog9

Prepare to be pinged, @bjb.

1:19 AM

That's better.

Sorry, Shog.

2

!ping bjb

Prepare to be pinged, @bjb.

That's awesome!

1:34 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: installing a SSL certificate by Sterling Malory Archer on askubuntu.com

Well, I suppose we need someone to blame for this incident.

!xkcd blame @bjb

It's @bjb's fault.

hey

!xkcd blame

1:37 AM

@AstroCB It's AstroCB's fault.

Election stats: (30 / 32 noms, 3positions)

Matt candidate score 40/40

Ed Cottrell candidate score 33/40

candidate score 17/40

Hemang candidate score 22/40

resh Mayani candidate score 38/40

rekire candidate score 36/40

deceze candidate score 39/40

Raghav Sood candidate score 38/40

Amit Joki candidate score 34/40

slugster candidate score 37/40

hichris123 candidate score 22/40

bjb568 candidate score 21/40

el Irigoyen candidate score 29/40

Andy candidate score 29/40

The wrath of Shog has not yet fallen upon us.

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/4151478/…

Could be genericized(?) to any ISO, and is basically a tool recomendation

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/1604135/…

That one is just off topic

!xkcd find something

Daily API quota limit exceeded. Try again in 5 hours.

1:48 AM

That doesn't sound right.

!xkcd find something

No.

...

!xkcd find something

Daily API quota exceeded. Try again in 5 hours.

That's better.

2:13 AM

@AstroCB Yet.

Election stats: (30 / 32 noms, 3 positions)
Matt            41190   40/40
Ed Cottrell     14027   33/40
Shree           5k      17/40
Hemang          7201    22/40
Paresh Mayani   55030   38/40
The Wobbuffet   4547    15/40
Ty221           3221    17/40
rekire          18981   36/40
deceze          231027  39/40
Raghav Sood     48177   38/40
Amit Joki       35103   34/40
slugster        29450   37/40
hichris123      5034    22/40
bjb568          4756    21/40
Michael Irigoyen12173   29/40
Andy            11198   29/40

there

made a skript

Use %d.

Your numbers should be aligned on the units.

Sure are a lot more people than votes.

Election stats: (30 / 32 noms, 3 positions)
Matt               4119040/40
Ed Cottrell        1402733/40
Shree                 5k17/40
Hemang              720122/40
Paresh Mayani      5503038/40
rekire             1898136/40
deceze            23102739/40
Raghav Sood        4817738/40
Amit Joki          3510334/40
slugster           2945037/40
hichris123          503422/40
bjb568              475621/40
Michael Irigoyen   1217329/40
Andy               1119829/40
Undo               1141030/40
Martijn Pieters   35234140/40

oh noes

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Samsung Galaxy S3 Battery dies extremely fast by T3mplarL33T on android.stackexchange.com

Election stats: (30 / 32 noms, 3 positions)
Matt              41190 40/40
Ed Cottrell       14027 33/40
Shree                5k 17/40
Hemang             7201 22/40
Paresh Mayani     55030 38/40
rekire            18981 36/40
deceze           231027 39/40
Raghav Sood       48177 38/40
Amit Joki         35103 34/40
slugster          29450 37/40
hichris123         5034 22/40
bjb568             4756 21/40
Michael Irigoyen  12173 29/40
Andy              11198 29/40
Undo              11410 30/40
Martijn Pieters  352341 40/40

ok much better

2:30 AM

*Martijin

Here are some shots showing transparent failover of various #stackoverflow systems this week: http://imgur.com/w2D9jb7 http://t.co/U6U5Cn0XyA

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on April 11, 2015 at 1:50 AM

@AstroCB it's ended in "jn" actually

user image

@Braiam Huh; I've always seen an "i" there.

I've never seen it in monospaced text.

@hichris123 So pretty

Oh, and in case nobody noticed, Google Code Jam started.

2:42 AM

@AstroCB yeah, the brain can do such things...

@Braiam Or the Braiam.

!comp Braiam

1 | noun | that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
2 | noun | mental ability
3 | noun | that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
4 | noun | someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
5 | noun | the brain of certain animals used as meat
6 | verb | hit on the head
7 | verb | kill by smashing someone's skull
(7 meanings)

Braiam ~= brain

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Testing conductivity strength of magnesium anodes in different weights by Mike Moore on electronics.stackexchange.com

Hm… I didn't get around to repwhoring

will watch movie instead

maybe whore later

user259867

2:52 AM

@Shog9 Are you SURE you want this feature implemented? I now have 10k on a beta (which, according to most of the other answers here, would correspond to 30k on a graduated site). You can imagine what my SE blog would be like, right? You'd probably get a mention, you know. — rand al'thor 6 hours ago

@SmokeDetector ignore

@AstroCB Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

user259867

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity AND malice. -- Joshua Heyer at 7:37 PM - 10 Apr 2015 via Twitter

user259867

yesterday, by Jason C

Shog always seems to have so much subtle bitterness inside him. I blame too many weird support emails.

2

user259867

Editing posts by people who never heard of sentences is such a struggle...

user259867

2:58 AM

> Then after remove any duplicate apps you don't need in your applications menu make sure you don't remove system files just like 3rd party apps from any internet site or the Google playstore of you erase them and make sure you don't run them in background when android starts or while running because Google play store app doesn't really need to be started with the phone powering on it is a per usage application.

3:12 AM

!xkcd explain

What?

!xkcd explain

@AstroCB Unimplemented command.

Ah.

3:32 AM

@JeremyBanks Ha ha, you said "doo doo".

3:47 AM

> vertically align ... to the left

???

@Doorknob I don't see a problem with that. Open your mind, man.

Anonymous

@bjb568 sort 'em by rep

Anonymous

@JasonC I did, and in the same sentence as I said "crap". Oh, well.

@JeremyBanks Surely sorting by the number of tag ouijas they've created is the best metric of their fitness to weild moderatorial powahs.

@bjb568 There's also this but not up to date.

4:14 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: How to increse Weight Loss for good Health? by sifacarmy on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: http://stowapp.com/renew-anti-aging-cream/ by kitasud Rioe on askubuntu.com

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 14 secs ago, by Seth

@SmokeDetector tpu

Watched Earth to Echo, was pretty good, seemed target audience was ~5th grade

Not really a problem tho.

@JeremyBanks Ok…

Election stats: (30 / 32 noms, 3 positions)
bjb568             4756 21/40
AstroCB            4790 21/40
Shree                5k 17/40
hichris123         5039 22/40
Unihedro           6460 24/40
Hemang             7201 22/40
Andy              11198 29/40
Undo              11410 30/40
Alexis King       11861 25/40
Michael Irigoyen  12173 29/40
Mooseman          12270 29/40
Ed Cottrell       14027 33/40
Sergey K.         15282 34/40
Jason C           18436 36/40
rekire            18981 36/40
Idan Adar         23217 35/40

Not looking good for me.

(btw the 5k is because Shree didn't make any comments so there's no exact rep on the page)

Time to make some rep!

The current target is hichris at 5039 rep.

You're in the battle to the death now @hichris

Qantas 94 Heavy

4:32 AM

Well if no one else nominates then...

Rep is going pretty steep after hichris…

Qantas 94 Heavy

True

Go pester some noms to unom.

Qantas 94 Heavy

Quite honestly I think Shree is wasting a position

Agree.

user259867

4:34 AM

Not too late to dig up something about higher ranked nominees that will make them withdraw.

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eww stackoverflow.com/q/29574143/2371861

@pizza Yay for cherry picking data!

ewww stackoverflow.com/q/29574119/2371861

user259867

For example, hichris's credibility will be severely damaged if someone proves he is in fact a pink gravatar.

Qantas 94 Heavy

Plot twist: Martijn Pieters is actually's Shog9's secret sockpuppet.

2

He never felt the satisfaction as an employee, so he decided to change his life.

:o

Anonymous

@bjb568 Thanks. Interesting.

Qantas 94 Heavy

4:44 AM

!!/so2015

@Qantas94Heavy Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 2 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes and 30 seconds.

@Qantas94Heavy Heist of the century

Where's the spam?

user259867

There is relatively little spam on Friday and Saturday nights. Spammers take a break to spend more time with their families and friends...

user259867

or with insanely rich strangers with complex bank-related issues, who knows.

LQ stackoverflow.com/q/29574175

4:49 AM

Spammers have lives, too.

LQ stackoverflow.com/q/29574219

user259867

@AstroCB Have you seen a feature request about putting preview to a side of WMD editor?

@bjb568 But...he needs to

> access store value from t to php variable

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/154725/…

@pizza I feel like I have somewhere. If not that, a script that does that for you.

user259867

4:52 AM

blacklist candidate: amabella (no word boundaries)

Or...both:

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Q: Question and preview might be better side-by-side

Every time I post a question of sufficient length, I need to scroll down past the editor in order to see my question's preview. It might be more effective if the question and preview were side-by-side so you could see both at the same time. When you can't see both at the same time, it almost defe...

feature-request markdown-preview

Tabs would be nice.

You probably shouldn't be using a table for this. Use flexbox or grid or floates. — bjb568 6 secs ago

this guy is a true SE dev

user259867

@AstroCB Dan posted one yesterday. He said he didn't find any userscripts for that that actually work.

user259867

For example, there is this one that used to work in 2013 but not anymore.

LQ stackoverflow.com/q/29574258

4:54 AM

I like it; utilizing extra resolution makes sense, but it doesn't seem to be something SE's keen on doing.

I took this screenshot and forgot to post it, but this scares me:

user image

user259867

<-- doesn't use source control.

I do wonder how much of that was sarcastic, though.

!xkcd blame

@AstroCB It's AstroCB's fault.

Well, there you have it.

!xkcd blame @SmokeDetector

It's @SmokeDetector's fault.

4:57 AM

@xkcdBot Liar

:3292972

That...broke.

@xkcdBot Are you in there?

Qantas 94 Heavy

I suspect that percentage is actually higher, but they're too embarrassed to admit it.

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