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10:31 PM

is there a way to stop formatting for quote blocks?

got an error message as a quote in an answer, but it's making part of it italic

Mooseman

@cybermonkey Make it a code block inside the quote block. I'd just use a backtick there.

user259867

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/30903575/… e-commerce

10:56 PM

!!/report stackoverflow.com/questions/30903575/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: What is the best inventory management software to use with Magento for managing a supply chain? by hermonwsr on stackoverflow.com

Can a user be reported if they vote to delete another user's answer on a question where there is only one other answer other than their own, if that answer is correct?

I answered, and another user answered, and they're bashing my answer (stating incorrect 'facts', downvoting my answer, voting to delete, etc, wouldn't be surprised if they flagged as NAA).

user259867

!!/report stackoverflow.com/questions/30903732/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: How can I convert Ecommerce website into csv? by charmane on stackoverflow.com

the C++ camp is even worse than Server Fault...

11:12 PM

stackoverflow.com/questions/30855901/… spam flag declined

user259867

Well, these are not technically spam. I flag answers when they are blatant promotion. The questions are more like VLQ.

I thot seeds could be flagged as spam.

user259867

@bjb568 They can, but at the flagger's own risk.

user259867

I don't mind an occasional declined flag: it still means a mod saw the post and [often] deleted it.

Nazi mods oppressing the flagfolk!

A: Why are Rust executables so huge?

11:15 PM

The OP never initially stated their compiler, thus I was working with VC++. Stack Overflow is a 'reference book', unless it is specific to a certain platform/compiler/etc (which this question is not), answers not specific to the OP's platform (but work) are allowed. Although I was stating fact from the compiler itself and the official documentation, a few 'hardcore' C++ users in the tag decided to (successfully, I deleted it myself) attempt to get my answer removed (yes, I did see the two delete votes). — cybermonkey 2 mins ago

rant over

the C++ hardcore users in the tag really get on my nerves..

extract from my answer:

from a user: 'No, you can't change this to &a either, because there's no a in scope in A::bar(). And the compiler knows perfectly well what foo is'; I basically took the code from a working part of OP's code (and that user was essentially saying that the OP was wrong, when that user themselves stated it was correct in the question's comments), and I took the error message from the compiler, and the compiler itself stated it didn't know what foo was.

extended rant over

now that user's basically stolen parts of the answer I deleted and used them in their own answer. sigh

my highest-voted answer:

This answer relates to a pre-1.0 version of Rust, please feel free to update this answer once Rust 1.0 has been released. Rust uses static linking to compile its programs, meaning that all libraries required by even the simplest Hello world! program will be compiled into your executable. This al...

I've never used Rust in my life, that says how badly the OP researched that question. Still, rep is rep.

user259867

11:36 PM

!!/report stackoverflow.com/questions/30903224/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Is there an online service that lets you extract data and export in CSV? by maryrosetkh on stackoverflow.com

user259867

!!/report stackoverflow.com/questions/30903089/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: What's the easiest way to scrape residential phone numbers and names into .csv format? by lionelloh on stackoverflow.com

user259867

The titles are self-explanatory (and the usernames in all-lowercase, as usual)

user259867

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/30802631/… OT/rec [not a part of this wave]

user259867

11:45 PM

!!/report stackoverflow.com/questions/30903149/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: What are good tool for web scraping and data mining for Twitter for c#? by nilsonuau on stackoverflow.com

user259867

!!/report stackoverflow.com/questions/30901547/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: What is the best web scraping software for building contact information databases from online directories? by barabarabw on stackoverflow.com

user259867

!!/report stackoverflow.com/questions/30900341/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: How can one web-scrape a list of all Windows programs for further processing? by maxfield on stackoverflow.com

hichris123

11:50 PM

Okay, I really don't like the manual reports.

user259867

Okay, I'll stop... CV-pls Should I really learn to web scrape and web crawl before doing visual data analysis?

wat

That's not even the right reason…

!!/apiquota

@bjb568 9966

That is pretty close.

user259867

No, this means it already rolled over. It reports the amount left.

Doorknob

11:56 PM

@SmokeDetector wut

user259867

Apparently, the rollover does not happen exactly at 0:00

cv-pls: stackoverflow.com/questions/30904243/…

user259867

to-do a bookmarklet to format posts just like Smokey does, with username/link and site.

@HomegrownTomato could be in GMT/BST, it's 00:57 here

o_o

11:59 PM

can someone decrypt this question for me?

user259867

Replacing the candidate score with something better interesting topic