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AstroCB

4:00 AM

Generally, you can call !xkcd status and find out.

yellowantphil

!xkcd status

find out by inferring from silence?

Jason C

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A: 2015 Moderator Nominee Activity Profiles

By popular request†, for comparison, here is the same data for all current SO moderators, excluding employees. The graphs are the same scale and format as above. The approximate date each user was made a moderator is marked by a vertical red bar. As with the nominee graphs, this data does not in...

Jan Dvorak

Todo: launch a silencebot, that will reply to every bot command that the intended recepient doesn't

4

Jason C

@hichris123 ^ Some more garbage for you.

Jan Dvorak

hey!

Jason C

4:04 AM

@JanDvorak Lol, I was referring to my link, not your silencebot.

Ah. Good :-)

@yellowantphil Yes.

xkcdBot initalized.

!xkcd status

4:05 AM

How about a bot that looks for pings in chat, then keeps repeating the ping every few minutes until the pingee responds.

yellowantphil

!xkcd help

AstroCB

!ping JasonC

xkcdBot

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( [user]) – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.
status – Get xkcdBot's status.

Prepare to be pinged, @JasonC.

AstroCB

What?

Oh.

!ping JasonC

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @yellowantphil.

Jan Dvorak

4:05 AM

@JasonC doesn't seem useful. When I want to sleep, I want to sleep.

yellowantphil

!ping yellowantphil

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @yellowantphil.

yellowantphil

this isn't working

Anonymous

@JasonC I would ban the operator if I could.

AstroCB

status-planned

yellowantphil

4:06 AM

I wanted to know if pings stacked, but I keep clearing them by typing

!xkcd status

free .gif

!xkcd find Andrew

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Baba ramdev 1500 scam by Metri on hinduism.stackexchange.com

xkcdBot

4:07 AM

xkcd.com/chesscoaster

?

@SmokeDetector wat

@JanDvorak baba

@xkcdBot This is great.

Jan Dvorak

I know, but it isn't a clean FP either I think

Andrew T.

4:09 AM

@SmokeDetector the content is interesting enough

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find time

xkcdBot

AstroCB

So many people playing chess on roller coasters...

!xkcd find gluing down chess pieces

xkcdBot

We once tried playing blindfold chess on the Aerosmith ride at Disney World.

AstroCB

SmokeDetector

4:15 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website: How to enhances metabolism and digestion.? by dianaruvia on drupal.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector tpu For a second, I thought that the blacklisted site you were talking about was Drupal.

SmokeDetector

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

AstroCB

Can get the spam:real questions asked per day ratio for Drupal?

SilentKiller

Morning!

SmokeDetector

4:33 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Url in title: how to scrape polygon data from map at ma-investment.gov.bh/bps_ppd_en? by Jubin Roy on gis.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

I think xkcdBot's lost it.

in Botlings practice room, 1 min ago, by xkcdBot

@AstroCB 😄😐

Qantas 94 Heavy

cv-pls programming question on meta meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/290058/…

xkcdBot

I have a new feature.

AstroCB

I don't normally do emoticons, but...

:D

xkcdBot

@AstroCB 😄

AstroCB

4:44 AM

:P

xkcdBot

@AstroCB 😛

Jan Dvorak

I can only see a square

AstroCB

6 hours ago, by Alexis King

Mar 21 at 16:25, by Braiam

@Unihedro get a real browser on a real OS

tchrist

I need an Arabic speaker.

AstroCB

Oh, and just for @bjb.

kitteh

tchrist

4:46 AM

@JanDvorak ENOCOMPUTER?

xkcdBot

@AstroCB 😺

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Bizarre to get older now because by teen girl on superuser.com

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

user259867

Room for Squares

Room for Squares is the debut studio album by American musician John Mayer. It was released through Aware Records and Columbia Records on June 5, 2001, the album peaked at number 9 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Upon its release, Room for Squares received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Mayer a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland". It remains as his best-selling album to date, with sales of over 4,484,000 copies in the U.S. as of July 2014. == Background == The album's title is a reference to Hank Mobley's No...

user259867

4:48 AM

New name for the Tavern...

Jan Dvorak

:-(

Jason C

What's the opposite of a star?

tchrist

It really is sad that so many of you Prisoners Of Bill have crippled computers.

Jan Dvorak

rats

3

AstroCB

@JasonC Serial downvoting.

Jason C

4:49 AM

Bahaha

tchrist

ɹɐʇs

user259867

@JasonC deleting a node from the page using browser devtools.

Jan Dvorak

@tchrist just don't use any of your brand-locked special features

user259867

Until Astro comes up with a userscript to do this conveniently.

AstroCB

BD

xkcdBot

4:51 AM

@AstroCB 😎

AstroCB

@JanDvorak Added.

:-(

xkcdBot

@AstroCB 😞

Jan Dvorak

Should I just ignore xkcdbot?

user259867

Good idea.

Jason C

visualidiot.com/articles/css3

Qantas 94 Heavy

4:54 AM

I posted that earlier, but the user had a semi-legit answer

so I removed it

AstroCB

!xkcd find ignore

Andrew T.

that's a product recommendation (data recovery) not related to programming at all though

tchrist

@JanDvorak Your what hurts? I use code points. Why can’t you see them?

AstroCB

That's odd.

!xkcd find ignore

xkcdBot

You can also just ignore any science assertion where 'quantum mechanics' is the most complicated phrase in it.

tchrist

4:56 AM

So, we have a user that cannot even match Unicode correctly because he’s on Microsoft. I really am getting tired of this nonsense.

minitech

Match Unicode?

tchrist

It looks Microsoft is out of compliance with tr18. Dunno, I can’t test there.

minitech

_🔥

Jan Dvorak

Not even Wolfram Alpha has an idea what's that supposed to mean. And normally it's pretty good with finding out those weird glyphs.

minitech

It’s U+1F525 FIRE.

If you can’t see it, I suppose it’ll show up as a match box instead

Andrew T.

5:00 AM

cv-plz too broad stackoverflow.com/questions/29560806/…

tchrist

Apparently C# is doing something insanely wrong with matching \b[الإمارات]+\b.

xkcdBot

:0 😮

@xkcdBot 😮

Jan Dvorak

@tchrist I can see those symbols

AstroCB

What just happened?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Build muscle mass and strenght by Nathan White on superuser.com

tchrist

5:00 AM

Or maybe it’s Javascript on some website. I have no idea. All I know is it works fine for me and for him he says it is broken.

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

xkcdBot

:0 😮

@xkcdBot 😮

AstroCB

?

tchrist

@JanDvorak Those are actually Letters not Symbols. :)

xkcdBot

5:01 AM

xkcdBot terminated.

minitech

Is xkcdBot something I want to mute

AstroCB

@minitech It's not a good day for him.

Jan Dvorak

@minitech depends on whether or not this matchbox madness continues on

SilentKiller

su spam gone

xkcdBot

xkcdBot initialized.

AstroCB

5:03 AM

Turned off emoji until further notice.

!xkcd latest

xkcdBot

AstroCB

Anyone planning on breaking the new bjbot?

!bjb @AstroCB

bjb568

astrocb [translated]

AstroCB

!bjb This is a test.

bjb568

dis iz a test. [translated]

SmokeDetector

5:05 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: What would you call a person that nags a lot? by Cynthia stevens on english.stackexchange.com

Qantas 94 Heavy

!bjb for (var i = 0; i < 99999; ++i) alert(1)

bjb568

for (var me = 0; me < 99999; ++i) alert(1) [translated]

tchrist

@SilentKiller Password:

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@James Blacklisted user.

yellowantphil

5:06 AM

@AstroCB can we send commands to emojibot like !:) ?

!xkcd :)

xkcdBot

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

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

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

Qantas 94 Heavy

!bjb '"//

bjb568

"// [translated]

AstroCB

5:06 AM

@yellowantphil No; it'll pick it up in regular discourse.

SilentKiller

@tchrist for ?

yellowantphil

:-|

AstroCB

But it's turned off until I figure out why it's replying to itself.

yellowantphil

nooooooo

tchrist

@SilentKiller You were trying to su spam, so must supply the password for that account. :)

SilentKiller

5:07 AM

@tchrist lols. :P whether spam is a user ? ;)

yellowantphil

@AstroCB whatever list you're using is not large enough

I want it to translate "pizza"

or have it search the unicode name list

tchrist

Into Italian?

Oh.

yellowantphil

"LATIN LETTER CAPITAL G WITH CEDILLA" or whatever

into emoji

bjb568

bjb bjb [translated]

tchrist

I have a toy that searches the Unicode name list, yeah.

AstroCB

5:08 AM

@yellowantphil I just turned it on in the practice room if you want to test it.

yellowantphil

is there a tchristbot?

AstroCB

@yellowantphil I just hardcoded a few in because escaping emoticons for regex is insane.

yellowantphil

isn't it just a billion string replacements? no regex

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Eye Cream For Wrinkles by nigea wioz on meta.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

@yellowantphil I was trying to avoid that.

yellowantphil

5:10 AM

I need to make a stringreplacementbot

but I'm not going to

AstroCB

\\:-?\\), etc.

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Jan Dvorak

If you have a wrinkled ... anything ... on your eyes, you're doing something wrong

yellowantphil

wrinkled cornea?

like a terrible case of astigmatism

James

5:13 AM

@tchrist link?

@JanDvorak 👴

translate, please

translate?

Now I'm going to have to write a reverse-emoji bot...

yellowantphil

surely everyone can just download Symbola

although I'm not so sure about Windows

tchrist

5:15 AM

@James I think it is user-brain-damage, not MSBD.

0

A: match exact arabic word using regular expression

Summary: Based on your comments about wanting to match repetitions of such words, it seems like \b(?:[ لإمارات]+\b\s*) should work for you. These are your matches: ‎ت ‎ر ‎الإمارات ‎ال ‎ر ‎المت ‎ال ‎ل ‎ال ‎ت ‎الت ‎لم ‎م ‎ر ‎ل ‎ت ‎ا ‎ال ‎ر ‎ال ‎ت ‎ال ‎ال ‎ات ‎ال ‎ا ‎إ ‎ا ‎ات ‎ا ‎ال ‎ا ‎ل ‎ل ‎ا...

minitech

Symbola is built into Windows, isn’t it?

yellowantphil

I don't know

Jan Dvorak

this one? Lemme try fonts2u.com/symbola.font

yellowantphil

I have a font named symbol.ttf

tchrist

He was telling me that \b didn’t work, and then he changed his mind.

yellowantphil

5:17 AM

I don't think that's symbola, but I don't know

tchrist

@yellowantphil That is not George Douros’s Symbola, I bet.

Working with RTL literals in code is very painful.

yellowantphil

I downloaded a ton of fonts, but I don't know which one is showing the emoji

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Wrinkle Cream Reviews by jade dix on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Eye Cream For Wrinkles by nang9126 on drupal.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

Yep. Same title, same site, different post ID

wait, no, the other eye wrinkle cream spam was on meta

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Supplements and Herbs for Skin Care by Amy Max on askubuntu.com

tchrist

5:23 AM

You would be surprised how many regex systems fail miserably to match something as simple as [🙈🙉🙊]. Those that use UTF-16 internally without separating out logical code points from supposed-to-be-hidden-damn-it internal representations screw this up, because they think each code unit is a single code point, which is wrong. Java is one of those. I would imagine that C# has the same bug, but I don’t know that for sure.

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

5:24 AM

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

James

@SmokeDetector gone

Jan Dvorak

apparently Symbola doesn't like czech diarcitics

Installed. Now let's try a browser restart

tchrist

Wny would you use Symbola for combining marks? That is not its purpose.

No one font will ever work for everything.

yellowantphil

how else will I get LATIN LETTER G WITH CAT FACE BELOW?

there is a combining seagull...

tchrist

If your system only shows things that are in just one font, that is broken.

yellowantphil

5:33 AM

once the world switches to 100% emoji for communication, you'll only need one font

tchrist

@yellowantphil This is true.

I certainly never select Symbola. The system just knows to get the glyph from there if the current font is missing it.

yellowantphil

who knows, Windows might be able to figure it out

I’ve had a lot of trouble getting Klingon to render in IE though

you’d think it would just be code point → find a font → display it, but it doesn't work

tchrist

@yellowantphil I would never take that bet.

yellowantphil

it used to work, but I got a new version of IE, and now I get boxes, if I remember right

works fine in Firefox

that's with the private use mapping for Klingon

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: The greatest artists in history by katie gray on meta.stackexchange.com

James

5:42 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

bjb568

@SmokeDetector tpu

James

@bjb568 how are you still awake?

are you still doing homework?

yellowantphil

his bot became sentient

James

skynet arises

SilentKiller

5:45 AM

who is John Connor the ? ;)

James

probably Shog9

SilentKiller

lol what about Terminator ? xD

James

Smokey

!!/blame Who is the Terminator

SmokeDetector

@James It's James's fault.

James

shit

SilentKiller

5:47 AM

hahahaha

Jan Dvorak

Installed symbola, emojis still don't show. Do I need to restart the computer?

yellowantphil

maybe symbola won't work

maybe there is a website that says how to find and use emoji fonts for windows

I've never tried it myself

James

6:02 AM

and now for something completely different; a man with three buttocks

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Anti Wrinkle Eye Cream by mildredskline on meta.stackexchange.com

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

bjb568

@SmokeDetector tpu

James

6:17 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

bjb568

@SmokeDetector tpu

Jan Dvorak

Can we kick borkey?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Handstand I wash my face down my by john on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: You may have looked at protein by elaiine foster on drupal.stackexchange.com

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

6:25 AM

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

bjb568

@SmokeDetector tpu

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Jan Dvorak

can we kicky borkey?

@inf

Roombatron5000

@inf

SmokeDetector

6:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Cannot be used to construct and not by marie shaw on drupal.stackexchange.com

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

bjb568

@SmokeDetector tpu

Jan Dvorak

Can I be given the kickey borkey superpower?

user259867

As a temp fix: tpu isn't really needed in such cases. Drupal mods clean up spam accounts regularly (I checked on my flag summary page), and the titles are random enough so they don't do much for Bayesian filter (which isn't operational anyway).

James

6:33 AM

@JanDvorak what do you mean?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in title: {Session state:OPENING, token:{AccessToken token:ACCESS_TOKEN_REMOVED permissions:[]}, appId:1xxxxxxxxxxx} by Gaurav Arora on stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

As a more permanent fix: just flat out ignoring BJB should be an option, too

@James I'd like my name in italics here

James

???

wat

user259867

italic = room owner.

James

I'm so confused

oh I see

so he wants to be able to kick people from the room

Jan Dvorak

6:36 AM

cats, rather

botcats

2

Braiam

why that sounds like a name of a band

2

SmokeDetector

6:49 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Method does not exist or incorrect signature: [Messaging.SingleEmailMessage].setBCCaddress(List<String>) by charan on salesforce.stackexchange.com

James

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

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

James

7:07 AM

!!/apiquota

SmokeDetector

@James 6030

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: http://ultraslimsystembrazil.net by kbosinu Rieof on askubuntu.com

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

James

Hi @ProgramFOX, where have you been lurking?

ProgramFOX

here

:p

James

7:11 AM

fair enough

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website, url in title: http://www.skinphysiciantips.com/perfect-garcinia-cambogia/ by ulysjack13 on meta.stackexchange.com

James

@SmokeDetector tpu it's like they aren't even trying anymore

SmokeDetector

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

bjb568

@SmokeDetector tpu

Andrew T.

7:26 AM

@bjb568 tpu

SilentKiller

gone

Andrew T.

it's likely because they know that the URL will be reported to here anyway (...free marketing!)

(I hope not)

Jan Dvorak

We might want Smokey to autodelete these reports

@SmokeDetector that's racist

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector fpu, I thought I already did that to this user... new account on different site? :/

SmokeDetector

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

Andrew T.

7:33 AM

Okay, apparently different user

Feb 25 at 10:18, by SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username: what if i override bind function of Jtable.? by SUMER CHOUHAN on joomla.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Google Map & jQuery Mobile page only displaying when page is loaded directly by Stackman on stackoverflow.com

Andrew T.

7:49 AM

@SmokeDetector fp, "Shit Creek" on the code

SmokeDetector

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

Unihedro

@Jan: I agree, it may be, albeit ineffective, an SEO attempt.

Morning!

morn

Morning!

7:50 AM

!bjb morning

bjb568

morning [translated]

Unihedro

!bjb test msg

bjb568

test msg [translated]

J. Steen

...from what?

ProgramFOX

!bjb What's this command?

bjb568

7:51 AM

whatz dis commn? [translated]

J. Steen

Oh. To bjb-speek.

Unihedro

OMG! I can use bjb to ping Inf!

J. Steen

=D

Andrew T.

unfortunately, no

ProgramFOX

!bjb please kick me I'm annoying

bjb568

7:52 AM

pleeese kik me im annoying [translated]

ProgramFOX

:p

J. Steen

!bjb I am cat, and I approve of this message.

bjb568

me am cat, n me approve of dis message. [translated]

ProgramFOX

!bjb hw do u translte diz messge?

bjb568

hw do u translte diz messge? [translated]

J. Steen

7:53 AM

Flawlessly, apparently.

Unihedro

!bjb I like cake.

bjb568

me like cake. [translated]

!bjb I

fail

!bjb yayayayayaya

7:53 AM

yayayayayaya [translated]

Andrew T.

huh

Jan Dvorak

!bjb hasOwnProperty

bjb568

hasownproperty [translated]

Braiam

so... he also removes the caps

J. Steen

Naturally.

Unihedro

7:54 AM

!bjb This statement is false.

bjb568

dis statement iz false. [translated]

ProgramFOX

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253258/…

Jan Dvorak

!bjb __proto__

bjb568

proto [translated]

Unihedro

!bjb All spam will be nuked!!

bjb568

7:55 AM

all spam will be nuked [translated]

... Huh.

!bjb ‮

‮ [translated]

You'd expect more tone fluctuation by translating a sentence with multiple exclamation marks.

ProgramFOX

haha, the bot is not immune to RTL override chars :p

Unihedro

7:56 AM

:P

J. Steen

!bjb !!!!!!!!!!!!

bjb568

[translated]

Jan Dvorak

!bjb http://xkcd.com/1000/

bjb568

xkcd.com/1000 [translated]

J. Steen

No dice.

Jan Dvorak

7:57 AM

!bjb http://xkcd.com/1000/

bjb568

xkcd.com/1000 [translated]

ProgramFOX

!bjb ‮ foobar ‭

bjb568

‮ foobar ‭ [translated]

ProgramFOX

hmpf

I tried "foobar [detalsnart]", but I failed

J. Steen

You did... something.

Jan Dvorak

7:59 AM

but what was that?

ProgramFOX

@JanDvorak [202e]foobar[202d]

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