Tavern on the Meta

12:00 AM

Personally, I never see any of these candidates around. The only person I've seen is Martijn Peters - Him being the only person I've voted for in the election, because he's the only person I've ever seen being helpful (or really, the only person out of the candidates that I have ever seen at all!). — Joehot200 3 hours ago

Second Rikudo

@pizza I think the idea there is to categorize this set of questions which should be closed.

AstroCB

@ZachSaucier This is the problem with StackOverflow though! I come here to ask a question about ArrayLists hanging my program, and an hour later I am still browsing through meta posts and elections without having asked my question yet! — Joehot200 2 hours ago

^ That could end up being a problem.

Most people don't seem to care, though.

Second Rikudo

So "spam" is questions that should be nuked because they contain just ads. "duplicate" for questions should be closed because another question answers them fully.

Alexis King

@AstroCB I saw that comment, but that seems like a good problem to have, honestly.

Whether or not it's good for that user specifically, it's certainly not a large portion of the community, so whatever.

Second Rikudo

How do you call a question that needs to be closed? He named it "inappropriate" which could be or could be not the best term.

Alexis King

12:01 AM

@SecondRikudo Off-topic?

Second Rikudo

@AlexisKing "How do I program facebook?"

user259867

In a comment, I suggested "cannot be properly answered" instead of "inappropriate".

Second Rikudo

That question is not off-topic to Stack Overflow.

It's clear, and it's about programming

Alexis King

@SecondRikudo Custom close vote reason -> off-topic because this question sucks and I will now hate you forever. ;3

I'm really qualified to be a mod! :D

Second Rikudo

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/289738/…

Haha he deleted it

I hate it when that happens :D

(You try to hit ' but hit enter instead and finish early)

Whatever you do, don'

Alexis King

12:05 AM

I used to do that all the time, but then I found this great way to make it never happen. It's really easy, so just listen closely and I'

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Alexis King

@pizza It's still a terrible question.

user259867

Yes, but that's something for the site's users to deal with.

user259867

ignore would be better I guess.

hichris123

12:26 AM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/29760689/issue-with-address-book

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: What AC component would likely be the problem with my consistent power loss while driving? by Frozen1337 on mechanics.stackexchange.com

bjb568

Wat, powerskewl said I got 33/50 on a fungi quiz. That's not possible. I've never gotten a C before. Either the key is borked or I am horrible at bubbling.

James

morning all

Shog9

12:47 AM

Good, someone fixed the bot

@pizza yeah, I'm guessing that's the best we can do.

user259867

It's confusing that you posted as an answer to a question about Triage, but the proposal (as I understood it) is for question-flagging in general.

Alexis King

I think that you may be misunderstanding what this site is for or how it works. We don't fix homework, but we do answer specific questions, so if you have any specific questions about something Java that confuses you, please ask. One suggestion though -- ContactList should not extend Contact as this fails the "is-a" relationship. A collection of something is not a specific type of something. For example, a library is not a book. — Hovercraft Full Of Eels 34 mins ago

Shog9

@pizza I never realized it was a problem until Triage made me use that damn dialog

Alexis King

^^ This is one of the best responses to an off-topic question I've seen.

Shog9

now I hate it

TOO MUCH SUPERFLUOUS BOLD TEXT

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Alexis King

12:53 AM

@Shog9 I didn't realize you were behind the great de-boldening of 2013.

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