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2:01 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Semantic logging (SLAB) for MVC Azure Webapp by Ashley Alex on stackoverflow.com
 
@jadarnel27 what a... silly boy ;DD
 
brown
 
long time no brown!
 
brown 2, the comeback
 
2:14 PM
^^ Was just about to post that, how did it end up with a new answer that still exists from a user that looks deleted?
 
@PeterJ Because they deleted themselves?
 
@nicael, ahh yes probably, just never seen it before
 
@Oded meta.stackexchange.com/users/296952/fernando-tores BEEP spam user wants to be nuked.
Lol, he's just in time :D
Network-wide spammer.
How many seconds until the full nukation?
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Modifing gmail contact php Oauth by Victor Manuel Pascual López on stackoverflow.com
 
@nicael start counting up. Then you're never wrong.
 
2:19 PM
Fully nuked.
Though the network profile is cached
 
@nicael thanks god not fully naked :P
(half is more than enough)
 
lol
 
@SmokeDetector ignore-
 
@SmokeDetector fp
 
@cybermonkey Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
2:25 PM
0
A: We've added a "bookshelf" to Careers 2.0 profiles -- feedback wanted

JonnyGreat feature! It would be useful for me to add leanpub books as well. At the pace at which technology is currently evolving, I tend to ready books from there if available. They are the only publisher I know of offering this kind of service. Integratin via import.io?

lolwot?
spam or...?
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: VBA Run-Time Error 1004 by Thomas Shera on stackoverflow.com
 
@nicael I caution on the side of "just trying to be helpful"
 
2:47 PM
Morning
 
Afternoon
 
Morning
 
Afternoon
 
1434984670
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: wheel of sun and moon and tutors by Diaa on boardgames.stackexchange.com
 
OK, the user has logged out. I only know that the username that we need to change is "user100380", and before changing that I need to retrieve a recovered password. How should I proceed? — John Higginstyne 35 secs ago
? So serious problem... I remember them asking a separate question, purposing to change their roommate's name...
 
that's your flag @nicael?
 
:D
 
Or whoever flagged it, don't do that please.
 
3:15 PM
wait, I thought you're joking. What flag are you talking about?
 
Rene's comment was flagged
 
@Bart you mean, message?..
the last one? But I can't see flags, needs 10k.
 
message, comment, utterance, blabber, nonsense, the stuff he spouts, ... whatever you want to call it.
 
Ugh, I completely confused. How can @rene post utterance, nonsense, etc?...
 
Hmm, can't flag my own messages....
 
is the user asking too much??
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A: Get Offline Installation ID (Windows 8 or similar)

cybermonkeyThis 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...

 
@ShadowWizard It is an error log, a part of it... and it seems there is some problem for me to fix :P
 
they commented on my answer and they clearly don't know how to set up a project file, nor how to properly program.
 
A wild @Haney appears
 
What up
 
3:19 PM
Mobile platforms suck. That's what. :)
 
Aha. You want to ensure the same email used everywhere or not? — nicael 12 secs ago
 
they want me to explain it in more detail (when IMHO I've provided it in great depth), and they also want the project file used in the example
might ask on Meta; when is a request 'too much'?
 
@cybermonkey when you feel you're wasting your time. Walk away.
 
@Bart I don't feel I'm wasting my time, I feel the user needs to consult some books on C# and basic programming technique before asking another question.
 
@cybermonkey hence you are currently wasting your time if you would continue the discussion. End it right there.
 
3:23 PM
@cybermonkey same user, different question, same behavior stackoverflow.com/a/30675721/4639281
They ask a question, get a good answer, then realize they don't know what code is.
 
yeah, but I mean, a simple program that takes from WMI and outputs into a textbox on a form isn't hard
up until this question I didn't really do C#
 
Member for 2 years with 44 rep
 
if I could answer their question when not knowing the programming language (admittedly, I do know VB.NET), so can they
 
@cybermonkey with the assumption that they know how to program to begin with. You'd be surprised how far you can get these days without knowing what you're doing.
 
See my edit. I feel as if you need to consult some good programming books before you continue with your project. Your other questions also have the same result; you get an answer but don't realise what the code does, although it does what you asked. — cybermonkey 9 secs ago
 
3:29 PM
P.s. "standing on the tube" is a direct translation from German. The OP means that even after giving it time he still doesn't understand it.
 
How can you say nicely "Users should have a minimal understanding of the subject before asking a question"
 
@TinyGiant "You're an idiot. Go away and waste someone else's time"
 
nice enough
 
:D
But in what context? Does it really need to be said?
 
3:34 PM
maybe they're actually trolling, they managed this code fine:
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A: How to create a message box with "Yes", "No" choices and a DialogResult in C#?

user2422690You can also use this variant with text strings, here's the complete changed code (Code from Mikael), tested in C# 2012: // Variable string MessageBoxTitle = "Some Title"; string MessageBoxContent = "Sure"; DialogResult dialogResult = MessageBox.Show(MessageBoxContent, MessageBoxTitle, MessageB...

 
I didn't look at their answers. Interesting.
 
now the user was asking if they could activate Windows, I just told them to ask a new question, then they deleted their comment..
 
troll
 
German
^ cc @bummi
:p
 
3:49 PM
hm:
OK, Currently I can't create a new question on stackoverflow, message: "You have reached your question limit". I would be happy if I can ask you again :-) Thanks again — user2422690 1 min ago
 
rate limited?
 
Yup
 
@TinyGiant both their questions are downvoted, the first at -3 and the other at 0 (1 downvote)
 
"You have been rate limited because your questions have not been well recieved by the community. Your should try to improve your existing questions if you would like to loosen the rate limit"
 
@TinyGiant aka question-banned because of their dv'd questions
 
3:57 PM
Well that's not a question ban. Just a rate limit. It hasn't told them "We aren't accepting questions from this account"
AFAIK
 
Correct, the quality-related rate limit is different from a question ban.
Although hitting that rate limit repeatedly will probably eventually lead to a full-blown question ban.
 
Today's xkcd comic (Voice):
 
!!/alive?
eh, it works in Charcoal HQ and no new errors appeared
 
@cybermonkey why?
 
4:03 PM
I'm rebooting.
 
@hichris123 it's asking for code, and the OP actually admits that in the question itself
it's also too broad as there's no clear problems statement. What game?, for starters
 
!!/alive?
 
@cybermonkey O..kay but Smokey's for spam...
 
@hichris123 and general low-quality questions
 
not... really...
 
4:05 PM
why'd you think it bothers reporting low-quality posts?
most of the posts it reports that are VLQ aren't spam
 
@cybermonkey It doesn't really, actually. The all-caps things and repeated char regexes are meant to catch spam/abusive posts, not low-quality posts in general.
!!/alive?
 
@ProgramFOX You doubt me?
 
Ah, it's back.
 
anyways, could flag that question as a dupe, they've already asked it: stackoverflow.com/questions/29808347/…
so:
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Url in title: http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" Category Proxy Server by Brian Whitehouse on wordpress.stackexchange.com
 
4:23 PM
@ProgramFOX lol, error with error log... ;)
 
@ShadowWizard No, not an error with the log, an error elsewhere.
 
bug found
see the problem?
missing <processModel>
 
It gets treated as HTML, just encode it.
 
put it in backticks
 
yeah or that^
 
4:29 PM
@TinyGiant went with the backticks
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A: VB.NET adding a user to distribution list. An operations error occurred

cybermonkeyThis is a common issue with the Process Model application pool configuration, from the official documentation: By using the <processModel> element, you can configure many of the security, performance, health, and reliability features of application pools on IIS 7 and later. This issue exist...

 
should post a question "Can I ask you to code a website for me" just so we can dupe give me teh codez questions
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FANTASTIC! You're my hero! lol — Peter Amirato 7 mins ago
Is it bad that I dislike comments like this
@cybermonkey my nerd score is 93
 
No need to get defensive, you both read to much in my question. Asking about the Disney link is more fun than asking about the Fort Bend County Libraries... — rene 28 secs ago
sd fpu-
 
4:49 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: can someone create my code in php code? by Martina Balogová on stackoverflow.com
 
Hey that last sd question would be perfect for that dupe lol
 
@SmokeDetector ignore- fixed somewhat by OP
 
it's gone now
 
deleted by 3 20K-ers
 
4:54 PM
They really didn't like that question
 
Morning!
oh wait it's 13:03 already…
 
@bjb568 evening!
 
@cybermonkey That looks nice and clean.
 
What's with the gear?
 
5:09 PM
new uploader.
The most strange thing in it is that I can't find any bugs in this uploader. Is that a bug?
 
@bjb568 8.1's sidebar
 
No new uploader for chat though. :(
 
yeah
 
@cybermonkey There's a sidebar? That overlaps? …
@nicael Seems to be faster in uploading, maybe just placebo.
 
@bjb568 What do you think about this updated question and answer
 
5:21 PM
You should specify that its width will match its parent's.
 
In the question or the answer?
Because I would assume that a div with no other styling would do that by default
updated
 
does anyone else find their chat to move up randomly with a huge blank space?
 
norepro
 
norepro
 
I've seen that happen before.
 
5:28 PM
@bjb568 much faster, I did notice too.
 
@TinyGiant quesiton
 
using Chrome on win 8.1
 
@cybermonkey like this bug?
 
@rene a bit, except the gap is far bigger, like maybe 200px
 
@bjb568 I updated the question with your suggestion. What do you think?
 
5:31 PM
good
 
good enough to upvote / not close?
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website, nested quote blocks in body: What is Actually Geniux? by niejyhoney on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
sd tpu-
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Clash of clans bluestacks to original? by TrivisionZero on gaming.stackexchange.com
 
sd ignore- example email
 
5:44 PM
I need a duplicate for putting javascript code after the dom elements
damn, found a better dupe after voting to close stackoverflow.com/questions/196702/…
 
6:00 PM
!!/alive?
 
@bummi ... did I miss something?
 
user259867
Must be waiting in the API queue
 
!!/queuestatus
 
no link
 
6:02 PM
> superuser.com: 1
 
user259867
@Won't the asynchronous nature of chat doesn't lend as well to this as it once did, mostly due to 'snowshoe' spammers really picking up their game. Most of what you see get through these days comes from thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of infected ancient computers as more and more grandparents cling to the toolbars they love that they got 'somewhere' as improving UX becomes the best attack surface anyone could ever want. — Tim Post ♦ 25 mins ago
 
@bummi thanks for the second dupe
 
@TinyGiant dupe? where, if so, sorry
 
no you put the second dupe on that question for me
like I asked
 
@TinyGiant ahhh, you found it, you get it
 
6:08 PM
:)
so what happens if a question gets 5 different duplicate close votes?
just the last one is used correct?
 
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Q: Is there a benefit to closing a question as a duplicate of more than one question?

Josh CrozierTake this question into consideration. It was closed as a duplicate of two questions: In the comments of that question, there are links to three duplicate questions. This seems to be the goal of closing questions as duplicates - other, relevant, duplicate questions should be linked in order to...

 
Interesting, so that one will get both questions in the banner?
 
@TinyGiant bookmark it, and let's see :)
 
user259867
Ilmari nominated for Crypto mod; nominations close in 1 hour. Five candidates for 3 slots.
 
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Q: Why does changing the border width of one div doesn't change it, but changes the border width of the next div?

nicaelI've run into this strange "bug" when experimenting with different decimal border widths. They are actually pretty funny, but why changing the border of the first div (by 0.09px in my case), changes the border of the second div? I've created two pairs of divs to show it: [id^=border]{ wi...

Lol, now finding bugs in CSS :D
That's actually pretty strange.
 
6:21 PM
subpixel rendering is not very consistent
 
tried to get it closed on serverfault yesterday, now we have it on SU superuser.com/questions/930604/… (looks seedy with placed indirect target answer)
 
@nicael John Resig found that bug bfore you
 
@hichris123 that's what I thought
 
@bummi no one seems very interested in closing it
 
@bjb568 Listening to skrillex - first of the year while watching that is hilarious
 
At least someone loves me....
 
@rene shall I add an comment to the answer too? :)
 
@bummi Nah, to much love will kill me...
 
7:11 PM
:3
 
7:23 PM
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: How can I add a rowversion column to a large table with minimal downtime by Syvania on dba.stackexchange.com
 
7:58 PM
I answered one google-apps-* question and now every time I view the home page theres three new ones that I don't care about.
 
8:12 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Some Metro apps won't open by Joe Hefley on superuser.com
 
That guy's not angry at all...
 
omg I am agreeing with @nicael - what kind of witchcraft is this?
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@SmokeDetector gone
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: What do Aurors do? by lost on scifi.stackexchange.com
 
I've got it having earned today 186 reps....
Bug... but not really worth reporting, seems I'm going to have 200 soon...
 
8:22 PM
You could even get a Reversal
 
@san Difficult, not sure.
 
@nicael your answer is very good, and already is at 6 upvotes...
 
omg
Let's see anyway.
 
I know, it's scary that I am agreeing with you
8 mins ago, by santiago
omg I am agreeing with @nicael - what kind of witchcraft is this?
 
oh I thot you were hichris again
Who is starring a link to a message in this room that is already starred? o_0
 
8:25 PM
Not me :D
 
lol
not me (obviously)
 
@tiny?
 
not me
 
@meag?
@cyber?
 
?
 
8:26 PM
i starred the original
 
How many people do I have to ping? :p
 
@everyone?
 
@meagar Did you star 3605167?
 
Newp
 
meh, does not matter
 
8:29 PM
@smoke?
:p
 
how long does it take for avatars to update in chat?
 
3h or so, maybe less
 
ahhh
 
sheesh, agreeing with @nicael again!
 
New pic looks more like rat than rabbit.
 
8:30 PM
that's what I was going for
 
@santiago where, I wonder? :D
 
@bjb568 That's Banksy's love rat
 
Ah, that's not really strange... Same answer :)
 
but agreeing twice in one day? Isn't that one of the 7 seals of the apocalypse?
12 upvotes to go until Reversal @nicael
 
8:37 PM
@nicael "bad-written" !== "written badly"
 
but in all seriousness, @nicael, your answer draws on your own experience and provides hope that the member could turn his rep-cascade around - makes it a a good answer
 
@santiago missed the chance for repscapade
 
@TinyGiant repscapade... I like it!
 
An act involving excitement that has to do with rep
 
hey, wait a sec... look at the image in meta.stackexchange.com/questions/259072/… - is it just me being slow, or is that -25 fake - it is off centre, it looks like a 5 was added on the end of the -2....
OH heaven help me, I am seeing misalignment .... I blame you @nicael
 
8:41 PM
:D
When faking vote counts, you forgot to fake the views :) — nicael yesterday
 
aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
 
But they edited since and cropped the screenshot.
 
lol, that's hilarious
7 views and -25 votes
 
he is trying to be a martyr for rep?
 
@bjb568 not me but i've done it before
 
8:45 PM
o_0
 
@TinyGiant i'm not sure, is there a max of 2? i'm guessing you can do 5 and 5 will show, i'd prefer that. someone ask a question that is 5 faq dupes in 1
except hard to test with all the gold hammers around
 
I've seen three before and I seem to remember seeing a four, but I always thought it was a mod thing
 
@rene could probably do a query to find those, ha
 
am so tempted to answer that question with a spiel about tking responsiility
 
tking responsibility ftw
 
8:50 PM
indeed!
 
who's tking btw?
 
if people in higher positions don't take responsibility it all falls apart, i think
 
tking is very powerful, more so than taking
 
@Dronehinge It would be cool to see
 
answer done!
 
9:02 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Numbers-only title, title has only one unique char: 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 by Brian on stackoverflow.com
 
What's hilarious, my wife told me that she checked all of her previous boyfriends internet history over their relationships and found the usual inappropriate content. She doesn't even understand my internet history. Free-and-clear!
3
 
LMAO
 
Pull up a random javascript question from my history and try to see what's happening with no coding knowledge
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Numbers-only title, title has only one unique char: 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 by Brian on stackoverflow.com
 
@SmokeDetector flagged for mod
 
9:06 PM
@TinyGiant yup, you're in the clear with the wife
 
She said, "normally you can learn some interesting things about a person by looking at their internet history, yours..."
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector tpu-spam
 
Press the delete link under your post. It will allow you to do that now since the answer is at a score of 0. — bjb568 6 secs ago
I don't think it's worth saving the content.
 
user259867
@bjb568 No, the existence of an upvote prevents deletions. It's not about the total score.
 
9:09 PM
Really?
That's stupid.
 
yes
 
How am I supposed to game the system now?
 
@TinyGiant what did she find in your texts?
 
@Dronehinge gobbledygook
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector I guess my conjecture was correct:
 
user259867
9:11 PM
2 days ago, by 3дравый Смысл
Current conjecture: their tactic is to post many rec-type questions, hope that some will get an answer from a legitimate (but clueless) user, then post a promotional answer along it.
 
Language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of abstruse technical terms; nonsense.
 
user259867
I was watching [web-scraping] tag for these lowercase guys, but it turned out there is also [webpagescraping]...
 
@TinyGiant @Idisagree
 
Yeah, I just saw that
 
9:12 PM
So lol @bjb's comment look here :D
 
@nicael Why not delete?
 
lol, only rolled back the edit 3 times myself
 
@bjb568 just saying its already locked.
 
Why didn't brad delete?
 
9:13 PM
He did.
The comment :D
Wrong link, obviously :p
 
@rene Cool @bjb568 it does work for up to 5 duplicates
 
user259867
The tag wiki of webpagescraping tag says, in its entirety: "Redundant with the web-scraping tag". So... should be a synonym, then? Is this even worth posting on meta?
 
Only two questions so far with 5 dupes
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DIRETORIO DE USUARIO HOSPEDAGEM by Matrix_GamerX on pt.stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CAN YOU HELP ME TO RE-FINANCE MY CAR by Lonnie Futrel on money.stackexchange.com
 
9:27 PM
no
 
> CAN I GET THE PAYMENTS DOWN, OR CAN YOU PAY IT OFF AND HELP ME GET SOMETHING MUCH CHEAPER. CAN YOU HELP ME LONNIE FUTREL
I... don't think you understand what SE is.
 
I... don't think he understands what credit is.
how did this question get 3 upvotes?
 
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Q: security for php script on isset function and operator [? :]

ssuthe guru say : there is a trouble of security on that code. the guru say : the attacker can conceal the fact that a variable name of $search is manipulated. <?php $search = (isset($_GET['search']) ? $_GET['search'] : ''); ?> my question: what's the way of the attacker attack this code on that ...

 
and this question is a duplicate of three other questions but no banner? (and three upvotes?)
 
@TinyGiant Banners didn't always exist (there's a Meta SE post about this somewhere)
 
9:36 PM
Ahh, that's why there is an answer by a 223k user with the duplicate links
 
First there were no banners, then Community User auto-injected the banners right into the body, and currently it is a separate notice.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Privacy violation with sms and facetime by SuperCreepy on apple.stackexchange.com
 
9:59 PM
meta.stackexchange.com/a/257153/288751 this would save so many precious keystrokes. I can actually type [How to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example](//stackoverflow.com/help/mcve) using muscle memory alone. (with my eyes closed)
 

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