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3:01 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LUBUNTU 14.04 LTS - FILE CREATION by Nikos Tsatsaris on askubuntu.com

United States Of America

Blech

Horrible question

100% VLQ

Oh, how I wish there were bounty in per-site meta

2

tchrist

were

Shadow Wizard

Happy New Year!

United States Of America

'appy New Year!

Slaps face

I wrote the head but not the body

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

3:32 PM

@PeterJ This belief is more than a century old.

Back in 1890s, many parents stopped their kids from learning physics as the science community at that time believed all of the natural laws of physics have been discovered.

United States Of America

Ok

Why do I have 4 of the same tab?

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3:49 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Php parse error (impartont) by Enes Y on stackoverflow.com

United States Of America

VLQ!!!!

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Hmm, I should suggest an edit and add "URGENNT THXBAI".

hichris123

actually, nevermind, I don't feel like getting into that.

United States Of America

People gaming the system

Keep adding in more junk

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Hmm, I think I also read somewhere that Rutherford's (Or maybe it was Einstein's) parents bashed him because his love for physics 'couldn't possibly get him a good future'.

vaultah

3:55 PM

!!/report stackoverflow.com/questions/32551548/…

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[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Germany have stopped running by csdxqwsajs on stackoverflow.com

United States Of America

Post is deleted

GRRRRR

I'm doe

Who VTD?

tchrist

The Community, as always.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@SmokeDetector Um.

Germany is broken and SO needs to know about it!!!!oneoneone!!!111!!!

vaultah

3rd "question" of this kind I've seen today

And gone

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3:59 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: lenovo A6000 not booting by Ritesh Pawar on android.stackexchange.com

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

> Powered BY android

United States Of America

Nope, but other is NAA?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

I have no idea what's going on in that answer.

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4:31 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: Firebase: How to match opponents in a game? by user5331238 on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Can't Connect my University email to Geary by Nickknack on elementaryos.stackexchange.com

bjb568

4:50 PM

Hallo

Hullo!

Hollo!

Hyllo!

Hillo!

We're outta vowels.

4:57 PM

In Bjbish, yup.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Windows 10 Debacle by user496893 on superuser.com

@SmokeDetector tpu-

Hællo!

:C

Hello bjb!

5:02 PM

auto carrot…

S.L. Barth

I've never understood autocorrect. Is there anyone to whom it is more of a help than a hindrance?

It's software trying to think for you... and failing.

By contrast, my phone also has an option where it suggests words. Then it doesn't try to think for me, it tries to think with me.

And that is actually a nice option. It leaves the end user in control.

bjb568

@S.L.Barth "defiantly"

S.L. Barth

@bjb568 LOL... definitely, but that anyone is not you, obviously!

tchrist

@S.L.Barth Disable that everywhere || suffer an ~~ingenious~~ ignominious fate.

S.L. Barth

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica This. There are feature requests that I would bounty.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

5:11 PM

@Rene I think your question is better at writers.SE. I'm not fully sure of their scope though.

bjb568

5:29 PM

@S.L.Barth without auto carrot, I no can typez

S.L. Barth

@tchrist In Process Algebra, "||" is used to express concurrency.... (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…)

tchrist

@S.L.Barth make sense || die horribly;

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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: lenovo A6000 not booting by Ritesh Pawar on android.stackexchange.com

S.L. Barth

@tchrist No rule to make target 'sense'. .... oh-oh, I'm in trouble....

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@SmokeDetector Why isn't anyone commenting on that?

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5:40 PM

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Body - Position 1489-1508: riteshpawar@msn.com

Bah.

Hah.

Nah.

Brown.

Guyses WAG is this way:

Wizards Den

Place for all wizards to share spells, words, and having fun w...

3

6

S.L. Barth

5:44 PM

What does WAG stand for?

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Word Association Game.

S.L. Barth

Hey, the duck is here as well! Good to see you @InfiniteRecursion!

tchrist

5:59 PM

bjb568

Ya could have just said MN is an exception.

S.L. Barth

Now to find a chart about DuckDuckGo vs Google.... (sneaky attempt to bring the discussion on-topic again).

tchrist

Exceptional minisodans make the best micropops.

rene

6:18 PM

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M oh, I didn't realize that. I'm not a native speaker so that made me think that ELL was the best fit for just a single phrase

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@rene You should use ELL when you can't understand the meaning of something or are trying to learn something grammar-y.

You can say

> Can I say X?

But you can't say

> How to send this message to readers better?

rene

OK, makes sense

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

6:37 PM

@Rene the writer's chat is dead.

So you can only ask on meta if you can ask it there.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: health secretary Andy Burnham has refused by csdxqwsajs on stackoverflow.com

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@SmokeDetector tpu- facepalm

rene

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M well, on ELL they also like answering off-topic questions in that case: I got an answer but I'm not sure if I like it.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@rene Sigh a good portion of the users on ELL have some special apathy towards quality control.

In fact,

in Language Overflow on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 4 mins ago, by inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@DamkerngT. Haha, well, I've written meta for that, how'bout I write something for the other one too?

bjb568

What should DD's threshold be for editing?

rene

6:51 PM

@bjb568 42

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@bjb568 Is there rep system there too?

bjb568

Yes

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@bjb award it to anyone who says "!!/lick" thrice.

bjb568

Oh right, I was going to have it based on edit suggestion history.

But since I don't have edit suggestions…

I'll just make it level 3 moderator.

Level 2 is access to review queues, but you don't need to direct-edit for review. But if you're casting delete/undelete votes you should be able to edit.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: USA Today storyline by michael_timofeev on english.stackexchange.com

user259867

6:56 PM

@SmokeDetector ignore- spammers infiltrated USA Today

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@NormalHuman 800 rep OP. Should that have been reported?

user259867

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M This report was based on websockets feed, which do not provide user's reputation.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Ahh.

user259867

The words "brain power" were close enough to the beginning to be in the feed excerpt.

rene

7:12 PM

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I used both the answer and the suggestion from StoneyB to make the best out of it

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@rene So case closed?

rene

for me it is, I accepted the answer after I read some other background about the wording used

SmokeDetector

7:38 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in title, url in title: http://sexuallubricants.org/sexual-lubricants/ by kaylee333 on drupal.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- wrong timing

S.L. Barth

The Drupal.SE spammers have been pretty quiet today. I wonder if it's already Monday somewhere?

....in which case that might well be where this spam originated.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@S.L.Barth It's been Monday for 10 mins here.

So the rest of the world on the right side of my face is Monday.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: missing groff.enc by gary knott on tex.stackexchange.com

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

And if it's Monday in China and India, that's enough.

S.L. Barth

7:43 PM

timeanddate.com/worldclock This could help.

7:44 in Anadyr, Russia. That's a likely source.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@SmokeDetector Ignore- edited.

Actually, suggested an edit. Hope it makes its way through.

S.L. Barth

Auckland, NZ and Suva (Fiji) are also options. Latest: Kiritimati, Christmas Island, Kiribati

...of course it's all guesswork without access to the SE servers... and the spammers probably spoof their IP adresses and what other data might give them away.

rene

Auckland doesn't seem logical, I expect spam to originate from countries where the labor-costs are low.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

My gawd I have 73 halpful flagz on SU.

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: I DON'T KNOW THE TITLE PLASE HELP by Guadalupe Aparicio on anime.stackexchange.com

S.L. Barth

7:58 PM

Not spam, but needs editing.

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

OT I think.

S.L. Barth