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8:34 AM

@Telkitty You forgot Starlight Glimmer's equality standards. Which, if you prefer to stay MLP free, you can find nicely summarized in the short novel "Harrison Bergeron"

Martin

9:46 AM

I believe this post on MathOverflow was spam, but it seems that it was not caught by SD (at least I do not see MO among last messages - unless it was in the deleted message above): What is the procedure to Make Your Articles creative, catchy and Visible On Top Search Engines?. It was posted by this user.

I hope this is not entirely wrong room to report things like this. (Perhaps I should have posted this in Charcoal?)

^ @hichris123 ?

10:38 AM

anyone knows if question about licensing in the software world are OT on Law?

Q: Where can I ask about Software Licenses/Licensing?

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Is it appropriate to ask questions about software licenses/licensing on StackOverflow? Or is the appropriate place Programmers Stack Exchange? Or is there no appropriate site currently and we should suggest such a site on Area51?

discussion questions site-recommendation licensing software

@Bart thank, maybe I could try "Programmers".

I just wanna know if there are legal implication in using ILMerge to merge a third party assembly in your application DLL

Depends on the license of the third party assembly I'd say

10:58 AM

@Bart Well, that is a fixed point. But I am not sure if "merging" could be considered a modification of the original work in the first place.

Take ILMerge for example: you can only merge signed libraries into you main one.

This makes me think that internally ILMerge really "embeds" the library into the container one and just creates a local "address map" of the contained object without actually modifying the original dll content.

In that way, the external library would be granted to be the same, just "invisible" from the outside (IE: you don't have a separate file).

As you can tell, I really don't know, and I can't seem to find any reference to this online

all sites just talk about dll merging and embedding without ever taking the license aspects in account.

I have now tried and asked the guys in the Whiteboard chat room if such question would be OT for their site, let's see if anyone replies.

11:21 AM

Okay. Depending on the license I'd say that there should be no issue.

@Bart Depending on the fact that the license does not create any issue, I'd say that there shouldn't be any ^_^'

Aaron Hall

12:10 PM

morning.

12:32 PM

@Magisch the discussion switched from "elections" to "earth care" and "Plan B if earth gets really bad"

in Election 2016! on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 1 min ago, by Paul White

Building a wormhole to a suitable orbit around a compatible star would be a high-risk high-reward plan for the Earth.

user202362

12:59 PM

user202362

have you tried to kiss your pet lately??

user315433

1:11 PM

SO election will have a primary round... although the 11th candidate, with 15 downvotes and 140 reviews, shouldn't have bothered...

user315433

1:27 PM

in Ask Ubuntu on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Nov 3 at 23:50, by Mark Yisri

@zaq @Ravi_SS @ZaHeeR the room should be removed

user315433

I agree, but...

user315433

in Ask Ubuntu on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Jan 28 '15 at 20:30, by Fundamental

This room, even if deleted, will rise from the dead!

@Telkitty Did this one think she's gonna bite its head off, like lions do zebras?

user315433

2:21 PM

Now it's an amateur hour in the election. Usually this stage happens first.

There are some utter crap nominations this year

From relatively high rep users no less

user315433

But first-time nominees.

user315433

FR: a review queue First time nominations.

Heh

I'd support that FR.

user315433

3:46 PM

user315433

Is this a known bug? The answer by @hichris123 isn't accepted, but it has green background - apparently, because it got a bounty?

Q: Bounties incorrectly highlighted in reputation summary on profile overview page

@zaq I never paid attention to rep tab bugs.

user315433

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Bounty awards are highlighted differently in different places; for example, in relation to this answer, for which I have today been awarded a bounty of +100 and (as at the time of writing) three upvotes of +10 each: in blue on the reputation tab of a user's profile: in green on the overview p...

bug reputation user-interface bounty profile-page

user315433

January 2013

Q: We're Soon to be A/B Testing Some Changes to the Top Nav

And they're like flies around a cake.

user315433

3:50 PM

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As what Stack Overflow has to offer folks has grown considerably in the last year, we're going to be testing some changes to the top navigation that we hope will help new users find all of the things that the site has to offer. tl;dr; The top navigation part of the site has always been extremel...

discussion top-bar a-b-testing

@zaq A bug report from a time that's not likely to be seen anymore and its only function is to prevent from posting a new proposal. Why is that scene familiar?

user315433

So, no black top bar anymore? Its functions appear to move to the top nav, except... user profile link? site switcher?

@zaq Those links you should summon using your mind.

Digital magic is the new 2016 trending

user315433

The SE icon is probably the site switcher. And anonymous visitors don't need user profile link. Is the redesign specifically for them?

Why you asking me? :)

user315433

4:24 PM

@Pekka웃 We're not sure about the SE bar, right now you can reach the list of communities and stuff by clicking on the SE icon to the right. Also not pictured is the 10k / mod icons and stuff. Right now we're just confirming some assumptions regarding how it will better distribute the anon traffic across the various parts of the site. If we get that right, then everything else can fall into place. If the test fails, then there's little sense in working on this concept much more. — Tim Post ♦ 54 mins ago

user315433

Okay, at least this test model is specifically for them.

4:34 PM

Random Derpy quote of the day:

> The time required for a task is like a gas: you cannot compress it. And if you try, expect things to get hotter and then explode in your face. - Derpy, November 2016

That's only true for tasks that you should be doing

user315433

Gas is the most compressible thing we have around us.

user315433

Partly Cyrillic NullPointer is gone from the list of candidates, we're back to 11.

user315433

5:08 PM

user315433

Good idea, I hate carrying a bunch of spiders in a pocket when there isn't any real use for them.

ProgramFOX

8:11 PM

hey @bjb568, you around?

Please check your DevDoodle support email. I found a security vulnerability. A really bad one.

rene

Let me guess: DevDoodle stores passwords in plain text?

ProgramFOX

No because it uses Github for authentication.

However, it's at the same level of badness.

rene

8:27 PM

:D

hichris123

8:46 PM

Good thing I don't have a DevDoodle... oh wait...

user315433

> Do you plan on answering the questionnaire at all? Most candidates have done it shortly after nominating. You still haven't with over 8 hours passing. According to your badges, you've also only ever voted in one election, in 2012. This really looks like you just added your name to a list and don't really understand what's going on. – animuson

user315433

What's the opposite of endorsement? Not ready for ELU/ELL question...

hichris123

→ 56 messages moved to Chimney

@zaq Not my fault. ;)

Always hilarious to see the amount of people who come out of the woodwork and start reviewing furiously once they nominate themselves for mod...

user315433

9:01 PM

For my chart, I record stats at the time of nomination and do not update after that.

9:13 PM

I've noticed that moderators are often very insulting.

This issue seems to be covered here: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/91193/335945 [ Should moderators leave sarcastic answers or comments? ]

user315433

When people complain about "Stack Overflow moderators", do they actually mean these 19 people or whoever talked to them with an air of authority?

bluefeet

@zaq most of the time it is not diamond mods

(HizHa, here -- I'm talking about SE sites.) --- In some SE sites, the moderators are encouraging or even leading harassment, bullying, hazing, etc.

Could someone give me a link or two that's more closely related to this problem than the following link? Thank you.

http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/28867/335945 [What recourse do I have if I believe a moderator has abused his/her privileges?]

user315433

@HizHa The usual way of formatting links is [text](http...)

@zaq On most sites of the internet, any form of moderation action is only undertaken by moderators. Thus people assume "Anyone that closes my question or edits it" = Moderator.

Very rarely do they mean diamond mods.

user315433

9:23 PM

Generally, if you see a moderator encouraging such nasty things, begin by taking a screenshot and posting it on meta, seeing an explanation. There is also an option to complain directly to the team, via contact us link at the bottom of every page.

@HizHa I would doubt that they are. But if you want to take this higher you should contact the team directly with your inquiry/complaint

Meta also works but be prepared to provide some pretty solid evidence before making accusations

user315433

But the first step should be getting the terms right - who is a moderator and who's not; what is harassment and what's not.

^ Yeah

before opening a meta post you should probably re-examine what you see as harassment

( I have strong opinions and preferences about formatting, indentation, etc. -- It seems pretty stupid that chat GUI truncates the full URL as [meta.stackexchange.com/q/… ] making it impossible to simply Copy & Paste. )

Thank you for any help about my questions. I'll check back later today.

user315433

E.g. if downvoting a question and leaving a comment pointing out its flaws counts for you as bullying, we're not on the same page.

9:32 PM

By (online) "harassment, bullying, hazing, etc." -- I'm using these terms as they are usually used in newspaper articles, etc.

Online harassment, bullying, hazing, etc. have led to teenagers committing suicide.

But I think SE is better in the sense that most of us are pretty anonymous. -- So teenagers won't take the harassment, bullying, hazing, etc. as seriously.