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1:09 AM

9,998,737, we're going in the wrong direction here

It's almost like the SE devs are playing with us and lowering the question count

whistles nonchalantly

You can play, too: go enhance the Roomba Minor.

Ooh, I got another one.

See, this is the problem: people are right now running the VLQRQ or some such, but there is no proper delete queue. So they’re usually just delete-voting answers not questions.

Good riddance to bad rubbish: as always, the answer is to delete more.

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: When did they cure the common cold in Star Trek? by patricia on scifi.stackexchange.com

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@SmokeDetector tpu-

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1:25 AM

@tchrist 10K tools have a list of posts with most delete votes.

@NormalHuman Trust me, I’ve been there all afternoon. It’s like a video game right now.

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The number keeps going down.

Yeppers.

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New game: predict the date when the number of questions on SO reaches 0.

That’s how I know that the non-binding delete votes are almost all on answers not questions, darn them. I already picked off all the easy ones, plus got my 30 back over the GMT break.

1:27 AM

Assuming that new questions are still rolling in, that means at an average of (around) 5+ questions are being removed every minute

Oh, more than that.

About 12 down per minute.

And yes, new questions are rolling in at about 5 or 6 a minute.

Undo

@NormalHuman Hope they're doing that for all the sites.

@SmokeDetector delete rolled back edit

Undo

Either graduating them or telling them why not.

So, this sounds like the perfect time for me to throw flags/delete votes at questions I don't like

1:31 AM

Well, delete votes yes.

Flags might have to wait for somebody to get to them. :)

Did you pick off all the Roomba-but-for-ones yet?

Still haven't used my downvotes yet

@tchrist Uh, I got half of that

It's basically honors, yes

@bjb568 ¿OTRA VEZ PERO EN MAYÚSCULAS ENTONCES? :)

ANOTHER SHIFT BUT THEN AGAIN? says google

> One more time but this time in caps, eh?

Google lies.

And lies and lies and lies and lies.

1:36 AM

It says MAYÚSCULAS is caps...

Indeed they are.

Majuscules in English.

See, Spanish is very easy. Just use the biggest English words you know. :)

Although it may be some time before you decode chavalín.

google says "buck"

> “Sexting” means sending a sexually explicit photograph over a cell phone or e-mail.

This definition is so horrible, I found it while looking for a complaint form on my school district's wabsite

5 mins ago, by tchrist

Google lies.

I guess in the right context it might be dude, or kiddo. It’s somewhat regional.

Like, as in a hard copy folded in a paper airplane that happened to occupy a point in space in which a ray in the direction toward gravitational attraction would intersect a mobile computation device ^^

@tchrist Yeah, I think it translated it as kiddo once in context

Thing is: stuff doesn't really have translations.

It just means what it means.

1:43 AM

Myeah

Skewl district goes on to say:

> Nothing is truly anonymous in the cyberspace world.

All translations are paraphrases, and most are lying.

@bjb568 I hate "It is what it is" too. That wasn't what I said.

The cultural context never translates.

> “My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody’s concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammelled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses — the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions — which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.”

Would that more native speakers of English could approach his second-rate brand.

wanders down to herd the kittens in ere the crepuscule take them

2:08 AM

The picture is one I snapped of SO right now.

Ok, that was weird.

The author replaced it with just crudola and then put it back.

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Self-rolled-back self-vandalism is rare.

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@SmokeDetector del

@NormalHuman But that’s certainly what it was in this case.

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Yes, I saw it too. A rare event indeed.

9,998,540 and dropping still

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2:14 AM

It's natural to wonder what external forces (chatrooms?) are involved...

@tchrist your cultural context never translates

My lack thereof translates well

@NormalHuman Nothing so magical.

Well, not exactly.

And thanks @Andy for the DV.

I just sit at the edges waiting until I find something that takes only one DV to off.

Meanwhile, the Augean Stables are being cleansed. The stuff that’s going is unspeakably horrible.

Go back to bed, India.

At the time of this writing, we have 2,495,428 deleted questions. Please hold while I make that into a nice round number. — Michael Myers ♦ Jul 17 at 17:28

the first deaths are already coming in. — ericosg Jul 28 at 7:57

See, the real race is to 2,500,000 deleted questions.

20% deleted is pretty low.

The Indians are (very slowly) winning. We need more Cowboys.

Or Herculeseseses.

Isn’t this spam?

2:39 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: How can I embed subtitles into a movie file? by jolinzhu622520 on askubuntu.com

@SmokeDetector tpu-

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ELU post gone.

Got down to –11.

anyone knows the amount of post roomba-elegible right now?

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We'll find out soon by how much it drops... go DV something if you haven't yet...

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2:49 AM

I like durron's query, with tag filters.

I honestly can't wait to see this drop

I was kinda hoping we would hit 10m before it though

inb4 people manipulating roomba so their predictions of when the 10m mark becomes correct

That's going to take a lot of effort

Though they've already delayed it by a few hours

> Fuck it! What’s going to happen will happen!
Grandfather had said that a man must face his challenges!
Running away isn’t going to solve anything.
That’s right! Liu Yi! You can do it!
Believe in yourself!
You…. will certainly be able to run away!

O_O

Out of downvotes, at least for a few minutes. About 12 unrequited delete votes left.

2:58 AM

~9,998,566 questions before the roomba runs

I --'d it just now.

Got another.

You know, most of the incoming are just as bad as the extirpation run.

> it doesn't mean that information will automatically be useful to others in the future. Content does not always indicate knowledge; quite often, it's just noise. – Ken White

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By API count (which includes historical locks, unlike the /questions page), I see the drop from 9998962 to 9998505, which looks pretty small. Perhaps the count refreshed midway through script run.

Homework, posted by English teacher on blackboard: "log onto blackboard.".

I also have to write an essay about my name. Which will be a speech. In class on the second day. This is stupid.

?

3:10 AM

Question count went from 9,998,576 to 9,998,033 (so far)

9,998,483

I'm not sure if bjb is not making sense or... whatever nonsense his teacher told him, he's making it worse...

@bjb568 sounds pretty easy compared to tchrist assignments

But it's stupid

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@bjb568 About "bjb568"? There's some material on Wikipedia:

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3:12 AM

> 568 = 2^3 × 71, sum of the first nineteen primes (a term of the sequence OEIS A007504), refactorable number, smallest number whose seventh power is the sum of 7 seventh powers, the room number booked by Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 film The Graduate, the name of the Student Union bar at Imperial College London

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Expanding on each of these points would easily take the whole class period.

Ooh, I'll talk about that.

um, ok...

I don't think they actually have any idea what OEIS or primes or nineteen are tho…

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smallest number whose seventh power is the sum of 7 seventh powers... so that's where the "missing" 7 is.

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3:13 AM

!comp 568^7

19073849430410002432

did you know that stuff when you selected your handle name?

@tchrist Question count just bounced back up to that for me

Incognito still shows the lower number though

9,998,039

Why would the question count be different if you didn't show yourself?

anonymous users are more cached @kevin

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3:15 AM

I don't know what are the seven seventh powers that add up to 568^7. Brute force search would find them...

deja vu meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263937/… , meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263806/… , same user?

3:32 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Career Approach in FIFA 16 by memorygame on gaming.stackexchange.com

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@SmokeDetector tpu- 2016 already?

user259867

Some regexes will need an update.

games doesn't follow the years accurately

They follow the same years as car manufacturers

@NormalHuman only appear to have one "15" specific regex, just didn't have that url in the list

user259867

Added it now, and extended to fifa\d*online

user259867

3:40 AM

Generally, URLs with "4" in the domain name tend to be spammy. But there are too many other ones...

@Braiam no

Q: What are the differences between “genes” and “men” and “boys”?

4:03 AM

-7

What are the differences between genes and men and boys? Also, what is the difference between men and man?

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I'd understand if it was about the difference between genes and jeans, which can be elusive.

Genes is so weird there.

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A misspelling of "gents"?

Oh!

Good idea.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Puzzle Game To Enhance Brain Power by robitmyte on askubuntu.com

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4:06 AM

@bjb568 Found on Wolfram site, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DiophantineEquation7thPowers.html
568^7 = 525^7 + 439^7 + 430^7 + 413^7 + 266^7 + 258^7 + 127^7

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@SmokeDetector tpu-

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Discovered in 1999. No such thing is known with the sum of 3, 4, 5, or 6 seventh powers.

so no one can go to bed until 10m happens, right?

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I'm heading off soon, don't really care.

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The rush of deletion was fun.

4:09 AM

i want my free month of comcast damnit

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But it doesn't change a thing. Slow and steady wins it.

The CMs have to sleep eventually.

@NormalHuman noice

They kinda ran the annual Roomba by hand, as though stuff were already expired many months early. Picked up a lot of other trash, too.

there's an annual roomba? feature-reqeust

4:11 AM

There is.

It's on MSE; you can look it up.

@tchrist nice thing about finally having a decent-sized team... The sun never completely sets.

It was heroic.

Q: Prove the theorem on analytic geometry in the picture.

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I discovered this elegant theorem in my facebook feed. Does anyone have any idea how to prove? Formulations of this theorem can be found in the answers and the comments. You are welcome to join in the discussion. Edit: Current progress: The theorem is proven. There is a bound to curvature to...

geometry differential-geometry analytic-geometry

noice

It's intuitive, easily thinkable in terms of calc, and ~~interesting~~ just not a crap dump question

@tchrist lies :P or is it >10k only

Somebody with 2k on unix should move question-answer into a separate answer unix.stackexchange.com/q/224156/77768 @Braiam

4:18 AM

@CRABOLO I think it was originally Jeff's.

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@CRABOLO I think tchrist refers to 365 script.

Yes.

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I question the use of "annual" to describe it, since it's not something that happens once a year...

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Spreads quickly for immediate results? by rusyrovily on drupal.stackexchange.com

oh.... sorry , thought we were talking about something that happens once a year

4:20 AM

@NormalHuman It's a one-year anniversary event.

it's good idea though, spring cleaning needs to be done

Not a once-per-year event.

yes we need once a year event too , feature reuqets it

doubt the server could handle it though

To do what?

delete hats

4:22 AM

People don't delete enough. They leave crap hanging around forever. I bet I've cast more delete votes on ELU than all other non-mods combined.

Oh that's true. The hats get annual deletion.

You can delete me hats, but you shall never take me kewl glasses!

Night!

Geordie, now, are we?

@tchrist you're slightly wrong

but technically correct

Heh.

How does that work?

Depends on whether you consider Community a non-mod or not

4:30 AM

I see. Dead people.

yeah

I don't mind being technically correct.

But I would rather I weren't the main deleter. Need more.

Also you have to not consider self-deletions votes. Again, the system does, but they don't act like votes.

so, you could be wrong both ways or right both ways

True. Don't worry, I'm not a big self-deleter. :)

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: a follicure of intelligent size. In its place by user486023 on superuser.com

4:33 AM

anyway, you're the top delete-vote owner free and clear

Yeh. Is there a hat for that?

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@SmokeDetector tpu-

it got deleted

Figgers.

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It's boring being an active deleter without 2 others doing the same.

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4:34 AM

Especially because 10K tools keep showing the questions one already voted on.

TELL ME ABOUT IT

AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN

Sometimes I go at it other ways. Still am always running into myself.

I do it once in a 30 days period

that way I don't hit questions that I voted already...

I sometime go from the lowest scoring up.

The VLQ RQ is like the only way to get people to delete vote, and that's really only applicable to answers.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: hair loss to some degree by the age of 50? by samuelilson on superuser.com

SU spam is my cue for bed.

4:48 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Hack the sport simply Now! by Grivencooks on magento.stackexchange.com

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sd 2tpu-

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Speaking of Magento: they now have 12 mod candidates.

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Best Formula by Adam contains powerful tips for creating by JosephWhiteheads on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: What are these partitions exactly? by benbarnes on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: There is a constant execute alternating reps for most different exercises by user441477 on askubuntu.com

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!!/report superuser.com/q/959976

5:03 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Exactly what are Probiotics? by benbarnes on superuser.com

I think that anything *fitness*.TDL should be reported...

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@SmokeDetector del

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It does match an existing pattern, I just didn't wait long enough for an API call to fetch the body.

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Here's a 20K views question, scoring +8, and full of blatant spam (at the end): stackoverflow.com/q/20620917

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It happens.

5:10 AM

where?

user259867

The blockquote at the end.

user259867

It's not unusual: someone asks a development question about a rather questionable site.

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!!/report superuser.com/q/959980

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Why hesitate? I don't want to rob you of that experience by user486034 on superuser.com

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SU is getting quite a bit of this stuff...

5:12 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Have You Used X-ripped-hd? by benbarnes on superuser.com

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@Braiam Too many false positives: there are 256 SO posts about fitnesse.org, for example.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ERROR WHILE DISPLAYING QGIS PROJECT VIA QGIS2LEAF PLUGIN by PAYAL PANDEY on gis.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: Increase Your Brain-Power Via Better Flow by user441483 on askubuntu.com

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5:34 AM

> We are 1,217 questions away from 10 million questions asked on #stackoverflow. -- Tim Post at 10:10 PM - 19 Aug 2015 via Twitter

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted user: CAP - Certified Analytics Professional by rohit joshi on superuser.com

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sd 2tpu-

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!!/report drupal.stackexchange.com/q/170451

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: A anyone have a question that that he o by user51025 on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: About we go to that continuous did again ahead by asdfasdg on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: The supplement has a natural base and is developed in GNP labs by jhonmartin on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Why is Christopher Columbus credited for "discovering" America? by tom on history.stackexchange.com

6:14 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Is it possible to have a unique theme for Vim in Ubuntu Server by Ism Help on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: How Does T-Complex Testosterone Booster Help You? by Summer Winsor on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: How to execute a shell-command in Vim, and have the result printed below? by Ism Help on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: key word remap enter carriage return vim command line by Ism Help on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Important formulas in Combinatorics by Ism Help on mathoverflow.net

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body: Get The Breast That You Constantly Wanted! by Summer Winsor on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Combinatorics of lattice walks with forbidden points by Ism Help on mathoverflow.net

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: No feedback after loading kernel on a IFC6410 single board computer by Ism Help on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Windows Phone Transfer Online Contacts by brijesh on windowsphone.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: a question on lattice invariants by Ism Help on mathoverflow.net

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: make the line bold or highlight on find command on vim by Ism Help on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: VLOOKUP IF CRITERIA MET? by AlanTee on stackoverflow.com

6:47 AM

@SmokeDetector ignore crap

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

@SmokeDetector tpu

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Blacklisted user.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: it generally is determined by the frequency by alberteelsol on askubuntu.com

PHP and brain booster pills have a correlation.

sd tpu-

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Is it possible to have a unique theme for Vim in Ubuntu Server by Ism Help on askubuntu.com

6:53 AM

@Balpha we need a network-wide nuke of that user.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title, bad keyword in title: ETL TESTING ONLINE TRAINING by ammu1234 on stackoverflow.com

sd tpu-

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: leadership in watching movies a Kelly by zabijeesh on superuser.com

@Normal that spam in Stack Overflow had a link at the end, why didn't smokey detect that?

@SmokeDetector tpu-

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: Why Norton antivirus Not updating and not Installing(1-888-959 1458) by Jelina Dis on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Very effective on through all parts of your body by benjamverly on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Synagen IQ Use Brain O Brain Memory Enhancement Supplement by morgannl47 on money.stackexchange.com

7:19 AM

sd 3tpu-

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: How Does T-Complex Testosterone Booster Help You? by Summer Winsor on serverfault.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: How long is it safe to keep meat in the freezer? by sabrina run on cooking.stackexchange.com

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Get Naturaful at the very best Price by Summer Winsor on serverfault.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Pure Muscle Gain If you want to gain muscle by loricapo on meta.stackexchange.com

7:36 AM

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[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: Exams Software For Preparation by danamoore on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Async Task and Hashmap with Fragment by ulaslaslas on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ERROR WITH JAVA THRIFT by INIGO on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector tpu-

7:55 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: behave a lot on the kinetic by dalasalay on drupal.stackexchange.com

sd tpu-

Wow a busy day for spammers.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Neuro Elite -Why should you make use of the supplement? by Michael Teller on drupal.stackexchange.com

@SmokeDetector fp-

8:12 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Error 69 86 while loading key in RFID card reader by hunterra on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector ignore; not spam but not a gem either.