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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected, offensive title detected: Proving you're always an 'asshole' by David Mulder on math.stackexchange.com

4:25 PM

@Bart I still miss happy hour. No drinks for me, of course.

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: The sum of digits of $3(3x+3)$ is always $9$ for any $x$ between $1$ and $9$ by David Mulder on math.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore- I edited the title, the rest will be dealt with differently.

ProgramFOX

@Idisagree OP rolled back

OP is simply proving he's always an a**hole

user259867

I put the tag back. It's my conscious choice to keep the titles on the site clean and descriptive. If you like the original title, take it to Reddit. — I disagree 1 min ago

user259867

4:31 PM

But no worries, it will be HNQ and double-triple digits upvote anyway.

user259867

cuz lol, funny post

> Since we can sweep out these 6 triangles with these congruent arcs, we can split up the curvy triangles into any number of congruent pieces with these arcs.

I like my triangles curvy and acute.

Q: mixing javascript variables within html src attribute

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I know this must sound very basic and I'm prepared to take a hit in downvotes. Here is some javascript: var now = new Date().getTime(); var aid = 123456; var sid = 78910; var user = "abcd"; I would like to create an image tag in html like so: <img src="www.example.com?param1=aid&param2=sid&...

> I know this must sound very basic and I'm prepared to take a hit in downvotes.

@AstroCB inb4 meta complaint about unfair downvoting

Don't be shy @astro stackoverflow.com/posts/30966772/revisions

4:39 PM

@bjb568 You have to stop doing that; you changed the meaning of the question.

No, I figured out what it meant than clarified it.

You literally substituted the OP's question with the answer to it.

"something something varaibles image tag!" → coherent question

Rev 1: problem statement: "I would like to create an image tag"

bjb uttering the word "coherent" ... I have seen it all

I moved that into the title and made the question centered around that, removing the irrelevant noobisms.

and slapped the noobisms with a dv

4:42 PM

Apr 5 at 22:01, by Doorknob

You can't use the fact that the question doesn't have a tag as rationale if YOU'RE the one who edited out the tag...

Like I said, revision 1 had a clear problem statement. I didn't make up my own problem, it was already clear. I just made it clearer.

In any case it's better to lose the original meaning than to just leave crap on the site. But for this question, I was fortunate enough to not have to do either.

Ugh, 9k is so ugly rep. I'll get 10k as soon as possible, it's beautiful.

Blatant clickbait titles with no descriptive content are destructive to the community. If a post author is engaging in an edit war to revert edits that improve the post, the post should be locked as content dispute. However, in this case, the edit war has stopped so a lock is not necessary. — bjb568 29 secs ago

user259867

4:58 PM

There are 0 questions with "asshole" in title on SO. stackoverflow.com/search?q=title%3Aasshole

user259867

Thankfully, the same holds for Math at present; the post is locked.

Do I fail to see the difference between this and your previous question?.. — nicael 16 secs ago

...

5:17 PM

@Idisagree so it escalated to that?

user259867

With that user, it doesn't take long. There's history.

Ah, figures

meh, I don't think it really needed one, but whatever

I guess being a CM is one of the few jobs where "babysitting experience" is valuable to put on your resume.

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I'm so bored I'm tempted to participate in that Meta kerfuffle. But I shall spend my time on more productive things. (lies. he's going to play Minecraft).

minecraft? srsly?

5:23 PM

Yep

ProgramFOX

5:45 PM

@SmokeDetector fp-

@Bart just enough to have us all banned, as @rene predicted ;)

@ShadowWizard glad I wasn't there then. Or will I get banned as part of the group?

Noon

Q: Don't collapse comments on much answered questions in review

6:01 PM

cv-pls: stackoverflow.com/questions/16727941/… (too broad and no problem statement)

^also, it's basically a 'can't be arsed to code so do it for me' question.

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Comments are usually collapsed when a question has many answers. When the question or one of the answers comes up in review, the (zero-vote) comments are still collapsed. This doesn't make sense. Example: Clarification: I still want comments to collapse when there are too many of them. The 5...

feature-request bug review comments

6:29 PM

@Bart yep, joining this chatroom -> instant suspension

Probably for the better

That is also true

6:51 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Can I use Mass Effect 3 DLC while offline? by RikaDivani on gaming.stackexchange.com

On MSE, is it viable to get 834 reps in the next two days + the rest of today?

probably

900 possible, plus any accepts.

200*3 for cap, +300 bounty, +accepts over cap

@bjb I have reached the rep cap for today and capped at 247.

So, difficult.

A: Do you find cyclomatic complexity a useful measure?

Oh, then you'll have to try to get a bunch of accepts.

Or maybe somebody will offer another bounty.

Try not to get suspended.

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We refactor mercilessly, and use Cyclomatic complexity as one of the metrics that gets code on our 'hit list'. 1-6 we don't flag for complexity (although it could get questioned for other reasons), 7-9 is questionable, and any method over 10 is assumed to be bad unless proven otherwise. The wor...

Wait what? 6? Like, not 2 hundred forty 6?

Is there some fetish for making a bunch of one-use functions?

For maintainability reasons yes

It's much easier to maintain code that is separated into functions then the main function should combine all of those functions, kind of like a play-book

7:04 PM

function areWeGettingStarted() { loopthru letsgetStarted(element) }
function letsgetStarted(element) { areWEREADY() }
function areWEREADY() { element.className = 'blogh'; beginHighlighting() }
function beginHighlighting() { highlight() }
function highlight() { highlight() }

But you can have very non-maintainable code which has a cyclomatic complexity less than 6. For example stackoverflow.com/a/30630483/4639281 the last code example is not very maintainable at all and it only has a cyclomatic complexity of 5

function beginHighlighting() { highlight() }
function highlight() { highlight() }

thats redundant

:p

The whole thing's redundant.

It can be and can not be at the same time. I'll write out a better example.

My node thing that powers DD has pretty much 1 function.

It does have anonymous callbacks tho.

7:10 PM

meh

I'm going character-by-character anyway.

That is maintainable separation

@Bart no escape, I'm afraid. We all go down.

Ooh, here's the code.

Everything has its place and purpose at its respective indentation level.

The village is quiet and tranquil, the loops relaxed.

red alert code detected in the Tavern! Evacuation process started...

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meta.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/16888

that's ridiculous to approve it, but anyway. That's their choice.

7:17 PM

I give you 2 rep to make me loose 10!

nicael is so noble.

So, I take it everybody agrees my highlight function is awesome and very well written?

But not very self explanatory. If someone else had to maintain that code and there was a bug. How easy would it be for them to find it? First they would have to read most of the code and understand what the intention is. Maintainable separation is like commenting your code but 10,000 times more helpful

I tried fixing up rainbow for my own use and it wasn't very easy.

Too much going back and forth between functions.

Also, those comments there are just horrible.

i would just remove all of the comments immediately, thats useless

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/258970/… - laughing at myself, I seriously didn't expect that. (just forgotten)

@TinyGiant That's what I did.

7:27 PM

That code is hilarial

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: How many different parts of speech can the f-word be used as? by David M on english.stackexchange.com

@nicael could that code be used to bypass that security restriction for low rep users?

What exactly?

The code in your answer

@TinyGiant hilarial?

7:31 PM

Yes custom werdz

@TinyGiant Gonna check, dunno. Know that it allows answering recently (deleted - possibly), locked or closed questions, but that wasn't the aim there :D

As for protected, I think no, though.

Dronehinge

are you an ex-employee of SE nicael?

What?

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@TinyGiant is it good or bad?

hilarial === hilarious * 2

7:37 PM

oh

Not horrible.

I was referencing the horrible comments

Your code looks cleanly indented and everything else, but I definitely think you could make it more human readable

...so it doesn't. I can't answer a protected question not having required rep with this script.

@TinyGiant if kitteh can read, good enough for me

The rest of bugs were already reported, not by me. The script just adds the form, nothing else.

DD won't have those bugs!

And will have more protect states, like wikipedia.

7:40 PM

@nicael Cool just making sure

@bjb568 Don't worry, it will :P

nicael will make sure of it

Anyway, I think you volunteered yourself to be our QA. Thanks for the commitment, I look forward to your bug reports!

o.O

(note that answers haven't been implemented yet tho :p)

7:43 PM

O.o

@bjb568 You should make it already....

Ok, will do that after syntax highlighting.

so what's dd?

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looks at @bjb DevDoodle

ahh

cause in linux it's data dump

but linux has lots of things that mean other things as well

like grep unzip mount and fsck

@nicael meows to get attention

7:47 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Lost and in need of guidance by user5335 on buddhism.stackexchange.com

I guess I will be the first user to get Epic before 10k :D

> Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times

@nicael Not too hard with bounties.

And you're generous :)

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Do protein shakes really damage the kidneys? by Doctor Smith on fitness.stackexchange.com

Dronehinge

sd tpu

@Dronehinge [:3600367] Blacklisted user.

7:51 PM

w3.org/wiki/… type "The #inner element has a specified width and height" in the finder box and laugh at the bad formatting

@SmokeDetector You can haz a bug. Who's there to fix it?

Dronehinge

> So Please be sincere and truthful we are not kid, this is about saving lives of others. Fraudulent is not accepted please.

no one on fitness to flag?

LOL :D

So slow processing :P

8:07 PM

@nicael That's not a bug.

@nicael discovered a feature

lol

and what does it mean then?

Nobody knows, but it is by design

... the message number?

What else would it mean?

Ah, the message where Smokey reported the post...

Now I get it.

But it looks like a bug because of being similar to a failed reply.

8:11 PM

It's in [brackets].

The implementation details are being discussed...

user259867

@Dronehinge I flagged... at -2 now... :(

possible duplicate of How does "Reputation" work? — nicael 40 secs ago

dupe?

@hichris123 Nobody wonders why on earth you would ever need that number...

user259867

Giving Inbox yet another chance... but seriously, if it can't give a list of messages from a specific person, what is this thing anyway?

8:14 PM

@nicael yes, voted

user259867

@rene If you're on mobile, you can use it to reply to Smokey.

@nicael no, it's totally not a dupe. — Shadow Wizard 10 secs ago

um.

@Idisagree Who is on mobile here?

Oded

@nicael - I deleted that comment of yours on my answer to meta.stackexchange.com/questions/259081/…

Please don't trivialize suicide like that.

I appreciate the sentiment behind your comment, but not the delivery ;)

lol :D

But it's a dupe, @Oded? And you're answering it, aha ;)

user259867

8:17 PM

@rene Perhaps not you, but someone might be. I think this was the main idea of sd, to give more options to mobile chat users. They can execute sd, and if there is ever a need to follow up, can also reply using message id.

Oded

@nicael probably. Wouldn't surprise me.

@Idisagree And how often is that fearture already used? Thanks for explaining how that can be useful.

Last time I was on mobile my N900 only showed the 'loading' screen.

user259867

Probably, 0 times... Another possible use is that it leaves a more readable trace of what was confirmed / blacklisted etc, if a month later we try to figure out why some user got blacklisted. (That did happen)

@Sha goes cloning her account, just in case... — nicael 1 min ago

"her"? @nic?

Maybe not discuss my gender, please :D Or would I write "their" if I clearly know who am I? Or, even better, "his"?

8:22 PM

hey @rene you can have infinite ice cream with @Idisagree you know :P

@nicael you started! ;)

@ShadowWizard maybe accidentally, lol.

but actually it's fine, to this day nobody has a clue what @SPArchaeologist is for example

!!/lick

@bjb568 licks ice cream cone

@SPArchaeologist Hey, would you be so kind to tell your gender?

:D

8:26 PM

@ShadowWizard ice cream is licked by smokey now!

@bjb568 So it is poisoned. Don't attempt licking it now.....

:o

@Mooseman lick someone

@ShadowWizard Great idea!

@Mooseman LICK

Ugh, @Moo is borken. Time to report.

!!/report @Mooseman

Report @Moo anyone!

!!/lick

8:28 PM

@nicael licks ice cream cone

!!/lick yerself

@nicael licks ice cream cone

Ugh. Dumb @Smokey.

@Smokey hey!

@Smoke hey!

@SmokeDetector hey!

!!/licker

@ShadowWizard licks ice cream cone

8:29 PM

@SmokeDetector help

hmm...

!!/unlick

grrrrmmmbbbbblll @ShadowWizard no ice cream today :(

!!/lickey

@nicael licks ice cream cone

8:31 PM

!!/lick NOT the ice cream cone.

!!/malick

@nicael licks ice cream cone

!!/help

@bjb568 I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

!!/help

8:31 PM

!help

OK, so it's just a simple beginsWith()

@rene haha, thanks! And no worry, you'll get ice cream at some point :D

user259867

Nominations in Cryptography election close in 23 hours. So far, 3 candidates for 3 spots.

in Shadow's Den, 36 secs ago, by nicael

@FOX9000 bjb

in Shadow's Den, 40 secs ago, by FOX 9000

@nicael meow

pretty straight association :D

@Idisagree Doesn't it require slots + 2?

user259867

@bjb568 +1 is enough; it was enough for Blender for example.

8:42 PM

Huh, then they're just voting for who sucks the most.

for *those

whatev

NoviceInDisguise, Northern Hemisphere, Mars

8.2k 2 13 45

cycles modeling rendering materials mesh modifiers animation

This user isn't disguised well enough.

No diamond for you!

user259867

@bjb568 Yes, and he re-entered election specifically to be the 4th.

user259867

He withdrew before that.

Huh.

user259867

8:44 PM

Actually I have no hard proof that the nomination period would indeed be extended, as these are beta-stage elections, for which there's little precedent. Personal Finance & Money was a graduated site when that happened... but still, I don't think SE would be okay with mods that win by default.

user259867

If everyone is already assured of winning, the questionnaire they are preparing is pointless.

user259867

Not that it's not pointless already, but even more so.

Doesn't SE have literal janitors?

user259867

@bjb568 "Kitchen Assistant" is the nearest job title I see on /about/team

heh

I've heard of "Janitorial Engineer"s.

user259867

8:48 PM

There's "Helpdesk Support" and "Internal Support Engineer", too.

Why don't they make their titles be "toilet scrubber"?

That would be The Bestest Title®.

9:04 PM

Who here knows about the css padding trick?

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/259087/…

What CSS padding trick?

I've found myself explaining it a lot, so I've been trying to come up with an in depth but still general explanation. This is what I have so far gist.github.com/humbleRumble/4d6ee913cd0e7a9841bb

> I have so much to do and zero desire to do it

- Anna on the Bio class's group chat, representing the skewl.

@TinyGiant Good writeup, already knew most of it.

9:19 PM

I wanted to post it as a canonical so I can just dupe new questions to that one, but this is the best question I can come up with so far gist.github.com/humbleRumble/8a56c59989b4bd8b1487 which doesn't seem like it would fit the guidelines for SO :(

[ SmokeDetector ] Title has only one unique char: ----------------------------------------- by user80179 on stats.stackexchange.com

A: Get Offline Installation ID (Windows 8 or similar)

does anyone here have XP? if so, please could you test this WMI code in my answer (at the bottom of it)?

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This is possible by querying the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)'s Win32_WindowsProductActivation (XP and below) or SoftwareLicensingProduct (Vista or higher) class: Requires these namespaces to be declared: System System.Collections.Generic System.Management System.Text Declare tho...

A: .gitignore not working in github for mac program

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Are these files already tracked, and GitHub for Mac is trying to commit the modifications? .gitignore only prevents untracked files from being added/committed by git. Once a file has become tracked, .gitignore stops being consulted. The "hack" you linked is really just asking git to delete all o...

agh, git is confusing

Not really... more like users are ignorant.

9:40 PM

approve-plz: stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/8526325

Production would be so much easier without users

@nicael confused, what did you edit? the edit history isn't picking up that you Edited & Approved for some reason.

Nothing.

hm, so why does it say edit ?

Because I made it

9:47 PM

@hichris123 those are the same thing :p

still confused..

And what's exactly confusing?

this: 'Because I made it'

And why can't I make it?

@nicael what do you mean by 'make it'? I'm the one that suggested the edit, I thought only users with gold badges can approve edits straight away (even maybe that isn't the case)?

sd fpu-

9:51 PM

@cybermonkey Gold badges? Nah, they can't. But I begged Community to silently approve the edit because I was too lazy to edit anything... finally she agreed.

@cybermonkey That's not the case.

still says my name as the editor, still confused:

so, loopholes? :P

Because, lol, you did suggest an edit :D

Um. However I reported it already.

cybermonkey: here is me edit
nicael: Yeah, Edit!
Community: Approve

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