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12:03 AM

Web Apps have so much stuff that nobody's deleting... what's the point of keeping around a closed unanswered question from 2011?

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12:37 AM

> …should I? pic.twitter.com/BMbgFwvTOK -- Nick Craver at 5:23 PM - 12 Apr 2016 via Twitter

@inf chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4808610#4808610 with feeds

who does xkcd bot?

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!xkcd help

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Apr 13 '15 at 3:40, by xkcdBot

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!xkcd owner

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12:45 AM

@AstroCB Have you disabled !xkcd commands, or something?

Apr 13 '15 at 19:37, by xkcdBot

@AstroCB My owner is AstroCB, but you needn't worry about that because I am sentient.

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So the sentient bot disabled the commands itself.

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I think it's offline

@Marshmallow It probably recognized bjbotling's objective superiority.

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@Quill It posts here 3 times a week: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4801363#4801363 but apparently doesn't listen to the Tavern anymore.

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12:48 AM

Can't blame it, really.

1:05 AM

@Marshmallow I decided it was best after bjbot started parroting my commands.

!xkcd about

@AstroCB Hello – I'm xkcdBot. I listen for things you say in this chat room and suggest possibly relevant xkcd comics. I can also search xkcd on command and onebox comics given an ID; I will post new comics as they are posted on xkcd.com. For a list of commands, use !xkcd commands.

...and we're back.

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!xkcd owner

@Marshmallow My owner is AstroCB, but you needn't worry about that because I am sentient.

1:12 AM

^

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1:30 AM

> The following code was posted by Marshmallow here ....

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(when reading an SO question...)

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Poor guy doesn't know that the reference won't make sense for much longer.

Always Be Linking™

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Q: 1, 2, 3...test. Let’s increase the number of reviews & close votes for science!

For many, many years users have asked and asked and asked for changes to the number of close votes and the number of reviews per day. There's been a little bit of skepticism as to the efficacy of such changes, but so far that's been mostly speculative. So... Let's test it! Current Problem: We'v...

discussion review vote-to-close low-quality-posts

Almost time for a 30-day checkup.

LQP definitely has a 20% reduction. It hasn't been much above 300 recently, compared to that post specifying an average of 750.

Close Vote queue... depends how you average it. The low is ~6k and the high is about ~9k, so 7.5k would be a 20% reduction. Not sure though if that would be the "official" average.

We wait for bluefeet... ;-)

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Already getting through 50 in CVQ is such a slog, I don't think there are enough users willing to prolong their misery to make a difference in stats.

1:42 AM

@Shog9 Have you become the official SOCVR tagline generator? ;)

@Marshmallow yeah probably. Only if I have loads of time on my hands can I get through all 60.

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Say, I open a page with an <svg> element, go to devtools and copy-paste it into a file. Can I expect the SVG file to be functional?

And it's not like questions stop going into the queue... you have a fresh batch of ~1k tasks each day. Seems like that's definitely setting people up for burnout, when they realize they don't make a dent. Then again, they probably would've realized that by now...

Funny, the new "anti-fuzzing" logic retains the same problems as pre-fuzzying. Maybe a dopamine for the shutterers is needed...

@Marshmallow I don't see why it wouldn't be functional.

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My preferred solution is retreating to a narrow set of tags, for all purposes: reading, answering, reviewing.

user image

closes by close reason by week

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1:49 AM

bring your own paper towels.

That's what student jobs are for.

To give you a place to steal paper towels from.

…

@hichris123 the only real solution there would've been to display a delta. 200,000 items in the queue, but you just see the difference between yesterday and today.

Review v. 3.11

Just deployed Stack Overflow. Have fun, bots: https://t.co/fGt5TECyBO

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on April 13, 2016 at 1:35 AM in reply to Nick_Craver

Stack Overflow is now the best WordPress instance the world has ever seen.

→ 4 messages moved to CoGro Musings

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2:04 AM

@hichris123 Can't get it to work, though, even for simple SVGs from wikipedia. Motivated by How to save a Google Sheets chart as an SVG or EPS? by samthebrand on webapps.stackexchange.com

@bjb568 You sure you don't go to my school? :P

@Shog9 Yeah... somehow I think that wouldn't be too much better though. It's an endless slog either way.

I think the only "true" solution is better tooling. Otherwise, you have the beach cleanup problem... except everyone gets tired of cleaning the beach after a year and wants to go home.

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I'd much rather use a hand dryer (a reasonably modern / powerful one) than paper towels. But in a recent renovation of the building all dryers were removed, because of "noise". :/

179

A: Close Votes review: I'm going on a strike!

There is a fundamental fallacy the employees at Stack Exchange are making. Find ten people for a beach cleanup. Tell them they're going to clean eight miles of beach. Chances are, they'll say "Okay, that sounds reasonable. Might take a couple days." Find one hundred people. Tell them they'll c...

@Marshmallow What do you have in your file? Is it the whole <svg></svg> element?

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Yes, starting with <svg and ending with </svg>

Jeffrey Bosboom

@Marshmallow Namespaces?

2:13 AM

@Marshmallow Here's a Wikipedia example: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.

user image

haha

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Um, that is a bit different because the whole page is svg.

Isn't that basically what you're asking?

closes as unclear what your asking

i'm a banana 10 hours

goddamn it

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rages on meta

2:19 AM

@Nick_Craver don't block my IP, I've been refreshing /admin.php just to see what they are.

Tweeted by gortok on April 13, 2016 at 1:40 AM in reply to Nick_Craver

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in Documentation Beta on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 10 hours ago, by Tim Post

I have almost completely forgotten everything I once knew about C. I used to be a kernel developer. You made me sad, Kevin. Very very sad. But I love the system :)

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The sad sad story of SO community managers...

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OTOH bluefeet and Shog still have occasions to practice SQL and JS.

@Marshmallow Would you rather stand in a disgusting, smelly bathroom longer in the 5 minutes you have between classes with 7th graders while the wimpy blower gives a calculus lecture on the infinitesimal h?

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That's why I said it should be a modern / powerful one.

2:26 AM

Haha! Modern! Powerful!

Please, buy me a ticket to your fantasy land.

@doryowen IKR... isn't it plain evil? @StackOverflow unicorns are nuts! (love it!)

Tweeted by rubberduckvba on April 13, 2016 at 2:22 AM in reply to doryowen

I was in the math department at college and they had a pile of stuff in the hallway they were getting rid of. Old chairs, more old chairs, and a couple of CRTs o_0

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@bjb568 This one is pretty good: amazon.com/Saniflow-Dualflow-Automatic-White-Dryer/dp/…

With a thousand bucks, they could underpay a consultant (read: me) to improve their administrative procedures.

@bjb568 is that where your school got their hand dryer from?

2:29 AM

@Quill It's possible.

@Marshmallow yeah, but "practice" is the right word (at least for me). All "how quick & dirty can I write this thing", no "what's the right way to do this"

feel free to visit everyone's favourite SE site

actually it was the scientology beta

Is visiting Lifehacks considered a lifehack?

2:31 AM

@Shog9 dammit I was going to post that but your chat system logged me out mid-message

shog used his powers to ninja you

DevDoodle doesn't do that.

@bjb568 here's some advice for you:

0

A: How do I remove gum from my beard?

Rub some bacon on it. The bacon grease will loosen the gum.

the horror

0

A: How can I straighten a slightly bent 3.5mm headphone plug?

Eh I fell on a controller earlier and my headsets were in it, 1.5 Centemeters long and it is bent, it has to be on an angle to work though I really want to fix it, it works okay, I have tried pulling it into place, but my mic makes a weird noise on some angles. I am very quiet on the other side o...

2:33 AM

Just in case you ever need an explanation for why you're rubbing bacon all over your face

So to straighten your headphone plug... you boost your sound level?

some people get really hungry

bacon grease is the only bastion of sanity left on this cruel world

*salinity

@hichris123 can confirm, makes sense on windows

@bjb568 No, this makes sense on windows...

1

A: More effective way to clean a CD/DVD?

I have used Turtle Wax car wax on several CDs that were skipping, etc., and it has worked every time. Of course, these were fairly minor scratches or gunk. It might not work on really deep scratches. Use it the same way you would on a car. Apply it with gentle circular motion using damp soft...

'cause we all use car wax on CDs/DVDs.

2:35 AM

@Shog9 I don't think people would eat as much bacon if all the world's salt was concentrated into it.

you'd be surprised

-2

A: How to clean dirty white earphones

use white toothpaste :) it works on my white earphone turned yellowish

lol what

> First I tried to brush them with toothpaste as suggested by @zzzzz , but I didn't quite see any plausible results, then when I was tired of brushing them and as a last resort, I sprayed them with bleach (that liquid that makes your clothes whiter) and brushed them again for another 2/3 minutes.

Someone. Actually. Tried. That.

mild abrasive, can be useful for getting dirt out of tiny scratches or even removing a thin layer of discolored material

I suppose it also leaves it minty fresh...

some toothpaste even contains bleaching agents which might help with oxidation, but I kinda doubt it

2:37 AM

@Shog9 It can also make tiny scratches and discolor a material.

@bjb568 Who cares if it makes your earbuds smell like mint. ;P

@bjb568 yeah, but if tiny scratches is what you're after then skip toothpaste and go straight to melamine:

Melamine foam is a foam-like material consisting of a formaldehyde-melamine-sodium bisulfite copolymer. The foam is manufactured in Germany by BASF under the name Basotect. It has been used for over twenty years as insulation for pipes and ductwork, and has a long history as a soundproofing material for studios, sound stages, auditoriums, and the like. The low smoke and flame properties of melamine foam prevent it from being a fire hazard. Melamine foam is the active component of Procter & Gamble's product Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, as well as other similar cleaning products. It is also used as the...

Save your toothpaste for its real purpose: filling all those holes you put in the walls.

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A: How to cover nail holes effectively and inexpensively?

Toothpaste Advantages: You probably already have it. A nail hole filled with toothpaste looks less obvious than a nail hole from a distance Very life-hacky, in that special "I remember being a poor student" way Disadvantages: A nail hole filled with toothpaste looks pretty obvious up-close...

-1

A: How to remove grease stains from clothes

just use dawn dish soap and re wash

@Shog9 is this how i am be adolt? me be fill all teh holes with teh tuufpast!

How do I remove a stain? Oh, yeah, use soap.

2:43 AM

that's not lifehacky at all.

Should recommend scrubbing vigorously with sand

I scrub vigorously with sand every day.

And no one would ever accuse you of being stained

They might, however, accuse me of being the stain.

0

A: How can I clean a vase that I can't reach inside?

To get rid of almost everything, especially organic, use hydrogen peroxide mixed with sulfuric acid. Both can be about 30% concentration and are good to keep in your garage for those purposes. Mix of these is called piranha solution and breaks down all organic dirtiness. Hydrogen peroxide is sol...

Sulfuric... acid?

I would think that would be both dangerous to you and to the vase...

Apparently it's an "extremely exothermic reaction". Yep, you should totally do that...

another good option is buy a new one

2:48 AM

I use fairly coarse sand instead, along with some water (maybe soapy, maybe not). — jamesqf Jan 3 '15 at 22:30

You weren't joking o_0

@bjb568 are you taking the AIR tests on computers or paper? My school is doing computers for the first year and I'm considering devising a wifi jammer or at least my best attempt at a ddos

@Quill Or, y'know, hot water and soap.

@SantaClaus Computers. Our system is so insecure that the wifi password is available in plain text.

(the private, testing only wifi)

0

A: Tricks for opening very tight jars

Did no one else's mother use the hinge of the back door to open the ketchup bottle when you were a child? I am surprised. My dad used to go mad with her. It's not good for the door. Wouldn't work for full sized jar lids though.

what

that's okay, I used to go to a school where the unfiltered teacher's strain of internet was WEP encrypted

2:50 AM

You go to the hinge... of a door to open your jars?

big pliers

I busted the pass multiple times and gave it out to students

@hichris123 You stop minding the broken glass on the floor next to the door after a bit has accumulated…

@Quill That would be useful for us except Youtube is blocked at random parts of the day even for teachers >:(

To make an omelette, you have to break a few ~~eggs~~ jars.

@bjb568 at least my schools private networks use WPA2 enterprise. Although, I did manage to get into it in 7th grade although I forget how I did it

2:52 AM

@Quill heh we have a WiFi network for students. All students have a username/password to it. And people watch Netflix on it often.

I think I guessed at the usernames and passwords

My school has public wifi too yeeee

1

A: How to make your hotel room dark?

Ask the front desk to move you to a different room. Specify one that isn't facing the sun or has longer curtains.

How do you make your room dark? You move to another room!

@SantaClaus Well, the school laptops here has everybody be an administrator so all networks and passwords are basically free for everyone.

I worked IT support at my last school

so I had all kinds of passwords; teacher level privs, BIOS passwords

I think I'm becoming another @JasonC who isn't pingable... :(

2:54 AM

@bjb568 I just right click on any application and choose "Run as administrator". Works like a charm on school managed computers.

I should write a blog post on the fun times of IT support

@SantaClaus Yup. They try to lock things down by hiding stuff, but they don't block keyboard shortcuts to, like, open the terminal.

I think my schools tech department is one guy

in The 2nd Monitor on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Mar 22 at 14:23, by Quill

I should totally do a blog post on the fun times we had in Tech Support

I've had this conversation before omg

in The 2nd Monitor on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Mar 22 at 14:24, by Quill

One time a student came in complaining that his computer kept overheating

in The 2nd Monitor on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Mar 22 at 14:24, by Quill

I pulled an eraser from the ethernet port and handed it and the eraser back to him

@bjb568 my school is group policy hell so Windows explorer blocks everything, so I just use chrome and file:// urls, or powershell depending on the circumstance

2:58 AM

One time my school's IT department managed to block anything that used TLS. So no Google, no Google Drive... but the school's homepage is un-encrypted so it worked. :P

yeah, most TLS sites were busted at school for me

Once, they blocked DNS.

10/10 sysadmin

your school hired Anon does IT

It used to be that you could circumvent school filters with https but that is no longer the case

My uni's network isn't much better, just faster and not blocking TLS

2:59 AM

My school used to block archive.org. Not sure if they still do.

My school blocks sourceforge hosted documentation

it's good to see none of the answers on the "how did you find SO" question are negatively voted

There's only 8 of 'em...

make it nine @hichris

Is that a comment or a command? ;P

Also that makes it sound like you want a downvoted answer. ;)

3:07 AM

!!/makeitnine@hichris

nah, my next task is answering meta.stackexchange.com/questions/278242/…. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow though...

I should contribute more here

s/here//

s/here/on DevDoodle/

I did, and nobody ever answered my question

ur question is weird

3:10 AM

ur weird

You can make a new lesson on DevDoodle. devdoodle.net/learn/new

(I'm trying to make the process better, but now you can do it without XML parse errors anyway)

what are the giant panels for?

pls placeholderz

@Quill uh… those are borked

oh rly, I didn't notice

but seriously, I'll write one later if you like

:D

3:14 AM

"how to use jQuery, featuring $("#Quill")"

my motivation is killing me lately. I haven't wrote any SO or CR answers in a while, MSE and LL just seem like dreams at this point

@Quill :o

FR: ping groups userscript (eg: you can subscribe to a group, like all, pythonusers, javascripters, whateverprojectdevs)

@Quill on DD?

~~no here~~ yeah, sure

both, maybe

Like a message board?

3:28 AM

like message groups

Like email?

wat

Email works with groups :p

@Quill The Tavern does that to you. Beware, dreams.

@Quill Fixed.

Now one of the panels is black!

3:31 AM

> XHTML

also the font size is a bit small

Use FF, it makes monospace fonts like 3x the size.

don't you use Safari?

Yeah.

I could probably just make textarea placeholders be like 3em. I'll do that tomorrow. Nightb

Uh…

Night!

Good night

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@hichris123 I don't have a problem consistently posting answers on 3 sites while hanging out here...

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3:39 AM

MSE is not going to be one of these sites, though.

@Marshmallow Perhaps you're the exception to the rule. :P

&nohtml5=False

YouTube started adding this query string

who decided to name it that, when you could just have &html5=True

4:05 AM

There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the spreadsheet, of modern version control.

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: http://lavandoxserum.com/prime-male-testosterone-booster/ by HancockManuel on gaming.stackexchange.com …

4:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, blacklisted user: The Best System To Build This Business Online by davidmeier on drupal.stackexchange.com …

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4:56 AM

sd 6k

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6:16 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Is it ok to cut some digits from the front-face of a credit/debit card? by jack on security.stackexchange.com …

6:29 AM

@Quill I am much more angry about the new search algorithm they seem to have deployed in the latest months. Where they trying to replicate the nonsense that is dailymotion search?

6:46 AM

@Derpy stuck in networking code ... which is my favourite

@Bart at least now I know who I should blame for the recent downgrade in youtube search results. It was Bart and his networking experiments fault

That could very well be. Although the "networking issues" turned out to be a red herring. :)

But #blamebart

7:20 AM

sure

Hmm, tampermonkey is showing a confirmation screens for scripts I run.

I'm no longer trusted?

@rene Tampermonkey -> Chrome -> Google -> Youtube -> still-bart-fault

OK, that is settled then...

8:22 AM

WUT? meta.stackoverflow.com/a/320914/578411

8:53 AM

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9:32 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Shortened URL in answer: Differences between clustering and segmentation by zyxo on stats.stackexchange.com …

9:46 AM

bluefeet -

Tweeted by NormalHumanChat on April 13, 2016 at 7:15 AM

@Marshmallow why borken

Was it a onebox or something

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: BinaDroid Android software answers by adelaide2017 on money.stackexchange.com …

10:30 AM

ponies, this application is reaching new record in "worst design ever" bad practices.

Had anyone ever see a grid with a "select all row" checkbox but no "select single row" option?

10:43 AM

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11:18 AM

status-classified

11:30 AM

@rene to be honest, why should I trust you?

@Bart Why wouldn't you trust a flower?

... why would you trust one? Especially the blurry ones ...

user image

^ because.

@hichris123 Well . . .

@rene is clearly a relative of this one

12:02 PM

@Bart I'm totally innocent ... and trustworthy ...

:D

12:54 PM

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2:20 PM

@rene true. I can vouch for @rene too, @Bart.

@ShadowWizard your track-record says "Uncouth user - not trust worthy" :P

@Derpy that is true in your case, but our dear @Bart might be uncouth as well for all we know. :D

2:37 PM

@ShadowWizard Just checked the new release of the Oxford English Dictionary and uncouth has been redefined as "Human that plays the WAG game in the Shadow Den chatroom". Does he play there too?

@Derpy not yet, but I never lose hope that @Bart will play WAG one day. ;)

@ShadowWizard you have better hopes at discovering that I really am Grace.

@Derpy not really, that quest is long sealed for me with a big red "Impossible" stamp. :(

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4:00 PM

Today's xkcd comic (Algorithms):

There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the spreadsheet, of modern version control.

1 hour later…

5:01 PM

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5:13 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: How to deal with my teenager step daughter's rebellious behavior? by Carol Williams on parenting.stackexchange.com …

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8:03 PM

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A: 1, 2, 3...test. Let’s increase the number of reviews & close votes for science!

The 30 days allotted to this test have come to an end, and the limits adjusted for this purpose have reverted to their normal values. Now, it's time to analyze the results and see what effects altering these limits had during the test period. Results: size of review queues Increasing the number...

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> Then, we'll start looking at increasing the number of close votes based on rep.

user315433

Hopefully, this means fewer close votes toward the lower end of the privilege level.

:( I don't want my CVs to go poof.

user315433

Have you used 60 in a day? More than once?

Yes, yes

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8:12 PM

Of course you did. :)

even in the CVQ but that was hard

@Marshmallow I probably used all 60/day 7 times over the past month or so. Usually on the weekends.

slacker

"113 users maxed out their close vote reviews" how many maxed out their close votes? I know I didn't max out my reviews, but I did max out my votes. — hichris123 5 mins ago

;)

@rene Hey, I do have stuff to do...

Priorities, please.

8:14 PM

Hey, I usually do look at all of the 4-vote questions per week.

(data from SEDE though)

user315433

Is there any way to find personal stats (like those mods see) on the % of Close / Edit / Leave Open decisions in the queue?

user315433

I mean my own stats, not someone else's.

Does SEDE have that data?

I'm happy with everybody that spend some CV's on a regular basis

user315433

@hichris123 I think the reviews are anonymized there.

8:15 PM

@hichris123 don't think so

Hmm. Probably some userscript would do it then...

@hichris123 108 users maxed out their close votes at least once during the test. — bluefeet ♦ 25 secs ago

@Marshmallow Yay! Were the maths fancy and beautiful?

Heh, 5 less people maxed out their close votes than maxed out their reviews.

@Marshmallow We haven't fully gone into it yet, but I doubt we would reduce it below the current max amount.

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@bjb568 Of course, as always with Beamer

8:20 PM

What about the math itself?

@hichris123 this kind of stat is a bit sad....

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Better in design than in execution, I'd say... but good enough.

@bluefeet One point to discuss (although you've probably already thought of this) is how to up the number of close votes without upping burnout. Based on the results of this test, it seems that any bump would increase burnout.

@rene Yeah... but how many 3k users actually visit often? Kinda like election statistics, x were eligible, y visited the site, z voted... :P

@hichris123 Maybe they need to stock on cookies?

especially gluten free ones.

8:24 PM

@hichris123 yup, we're thinking about it. Part of the thinking is that higher rep users may not be in review but they was to keep their tags clean so maybe giving them more CVs would be helpful on dups, etc. We're kicking the tires to see what falls out.

@bluefeet Don't kick the tires too much, mkay? I kinda like being able to steer and get places. ;)

Does the number of close votes used actually correlate with rep? I wonder...

Because if you get more rep, you're probably more active on the site.

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And more likely to grab a random close reason for "no effort" / "no code" questions.

But for some higher rep users, those are the questions they answer.

@hichris123 it does not, at this time. It's a flat number per site

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A: Should available close votes be a function of inflation or rep?

The default # of close votes per day is 12. I just noticed that SU and SF have been at 24 close votes per day per user since ... well, forever. I'm going to go ahead and make 24 close votes per day the new default network-wide to start, and meanwhile it has been set to 50 for SO.

@bluefeet I'm talking about the number used though, not the limit.

8:29 PM

@hichris123 I'd have to do some digging into that.

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I like questions with a concise, practical problem and no code. "sage How to print a polynomial with the terms ordered from lowest to highest degree?" looks good enough for me... [except I couldn't find an answer :(]

@hichris123 rep ~ repwhoring, so I'd guess past 15k it would be a negative correlation (cvs ~ rep)

@bluefeet Oh yeah, I wasn't expecting an actual answer there, I was just musing. :P Though if you want to dig up the data, it would be interesting.

@hichris123 It will mostly likely be something I'll look into for whatever change we implement. I'll make a note to query it

thanks. :)

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11:57 PM

Interesting -- the review queue limit change mid-day didn't seem to have a large effect. I guess most people do their reviews early.

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The difference is ~2350 vs ~2150, only a 9% change.

The slope of the line is less steep though as the day went on when compared to yesterday.

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