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user202362

12:45 AM

Alexis King

12:58 AM

@JasonC FUCK YOU IT’S JANUARY!!

user315433

1:17 AM

How many former mods have been deleted on the site they used to mod?

user315433

I think Bill on Mathematics doesn't count, since the account was restored. Then Keen on Science Fiction & Fantasy is the only example I know.

Jason C

3:53 AM

@AlexisKing lol. awesome.

Shog9

@zaq soooo close to a third there.

hichris123

4:11 AM

→ 23 messages moved to Chimney

SmokeDetector

4:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: elevategffacts.com/zyntix/ by user83938 on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, pattern-matching website in body: toptryloburn.com/skin-opulent/ by suzannecoen on apple.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

5:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: The system is however not suited f by Danielrody on apple.stackexchange.com

user315433

5:40 AM

0

Q: Proposal for Leveraging the Main Site for "Blog Posts" and Other Extended Content

Instead of creating an external blog to replace the Stack Exchange blog, why don't we just leverage the normal Q&A to do this? Here's how it would work: Write your blog post in any ordinary editor. Split your post into a question & answer pair or title/abstract/body combination (Abstract goes ...

user315433

Um, I think explaining to everyone that these QA are not like regular ones might be complicated. But there is a precedent: wiki lock, which does a reasonable job repurposing a post.

user315433

I am not sure if wiki lock prevents the question from being closed, but it probably should.

user315433

I recall bitter disputes on math site when someone tried using it more or less like a blog, in a draft mode on top of that.

user315433

Repeatedly seeing one of these things on the front page gets annoying.

SmokeDetector

6:00 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: Where do I get my restored contacts from google? by Joachim Pitbang on android.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

6:10 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Easy change of Fifa 17 Coins by Evangeline on aviation.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeated URL at end of long post: Not for the age below 30’s Used by user219586 on apple.stackexchange.com

user315433

6:27 AM

@SmokeDetector Nice recovery there, all other URL heuristics were thwarted by .ca TLD. Not used to seeing Canadian spam her.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post, blacklisted user: KERANIQUE HYBRID hair shine increase by Lowat char4 on apple.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

10:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Why Did the Machines Even Bother With a Matrix? by user76868 on scifi.stackexchange.com

bjb568

11:14 AM

@zaq There's nothing wrong with closing a question like that since it only needs one answer anyway.

Shadow Wizard

11:29 AM

@JasonC I see. That kind of sucks in a way... "gigs"... so you're using Fiverr?

rene

11:39 AM

@Stijn I just overheard it. This is not an official endorsement. Nothing may happen at all. 6 to 8 weeks is a meme, not an actual ETA. There may be no "team" at all and it's all run by monkeys. — deceze ♦ 14 mins ago

M.A.R.

11:56 AM

@rene The likelihood of it being all run by monkeys is bigger than them being able to solve a perceived ''flag'' problem

rene

I hate to admit but you might be correct, this time...

user202362

12:09 PM

@M.A.R. for some reasons I read the first part of that sentence as 'The likelihood of it being all run by monkeys bigger than me'

user202362

a team of bigger monkeys have been dispatched :p

M.A.R.

@Telkitty Thank you

user202362

12:25 PM

what if ... alien sent lives here coz they know that we are too dumb to escape?

user202362

humans are multiplying like mad in an enclosed system, kind of reminds me of a really well formed ant habit in an enclosed tank

user202362

when I say enclosed, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's physically enclosed, just that the creature you are trying to contain can not escape ... like a fish tank

SmokeDetector

12:41 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Kies/ Smart Switch data transfer by marky chui on android.stackexchange.com

Stijn

1:14 PM

So I just had a CAPTCHA when posting an answer on MSO. :\

Bart

1:28 PM

They're on to you

Stijn

beep boop abort mission

Jason C

@ShadowWizard I dunno what fiver is. It's a word for freelance jobs.

A lot of my friends are dancers and performers though maybe it rubbed off I guess.

M.A.R.

@JasonC It's Australian for ''fever''

Jason C

Lol. Oh, world.

Oh were miscommunicating. I meant the word "gigs". Those two sentences were unrelated. Need coffee. @M.A.R.

user202362

I tried to feed a piece of meat to a magpie, then my chicken got jealous and threw herself on to the baby pie. I think the pie is scarred for life and might not come back ...

M.A.R.

1:41 PM

@JasonC What time is it there?

Jason C

I didn't know chickens had such personality. That's kinda cute.

830 am

M.A.R.

Figures

Jason C

Lol what does that mean

M.A.R.

That's even worse than 4 a.m.

Jason C

Ha, yeah it is.

Because yay, 9am conference call.

M.A.R.

1:45 PM

If you've slept well, you're all fired up from 7 to 8 a.m. but you get tired of being fired up and feel sleepy from 8 to 9.

If you haven't slept well, . . . Well, that goes without saying

Jason C

The first 30 seconds of a conference call are always the same, and always stupid. Then about one tolerable minute follows. Then the rest sucks. Every time.

I'm usually fired up from about 10 to 11 am. Then it's all downhill fast from there until tomorrow.

Haha. I love the concept of "tired of being fired up". It's way more hilariously depressing than just being "tired".

M.A.R.

@JasonC Oh, then you usually wake up at 9?

Jason C

Welp. Bbl. Have a nice day.

Yeah about 9-930.

M.A.R.

Cya

Aaron Hall

There's a lot of Academia on the HNQ... FYI.

Shadow Wizard

1:58 PM

Fiverr

Fiverr is a global online marketplace offering tasks and services, beginning at a cost of $5 per job performed, from which it gets its name. The site is primarily used by freelancers who use Fiverr to offer services to customers worldwide. Currently, Fiverr lists more than three million services on the site that range between $5 and $500. == History == Fiverr was founded by Shai Wininger and Micha Kaufman in 2009, and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Wininger came up with the concept of a marketplace that would provide a two sided platform for people to buy and sell a variety of digi...

For some reason thought the terms "gigs" was their invention, but now made some research and probably it's not... lol

rene

2:11 PM

I'm trying to figure out what the OP wants here but their response is as confusing as the question itself. Is it my lack of coffee or am I missing something else?

Bart

I think Cai is right in his comment

Shadow Wizard

Are you suggesting that currently non-existing languages (e.g. lang-md) should default to lang-none instead on default (which I assume is what currently happens)? — Cai 3 mins ago

Yup ^

Stijn

@rene OP doesn't want to use lang-none, but want to use lang-md and have it behave the same way as lang-none, until specific markdown highlighting is added.

Bart

The OP is saying that non-implemented prettify languages should default to none, so you can use a lang-md to "correctly" tag it for the future

Stijn

So to answer your question: drink more coffee :)

rene

2:15 PM

That sounds like a bad idea

Shadow Wizard

drink more tea

rene

that also @Stijn

Bart

Is "lang-md" a proposed thing, or is that just the OP assuming it will be available with that name somewhere in the future?

Stijn

the latter, probably

rene

that is like taking an dependency on a public interface that does not yet exist

It would still need an implementation on the side of Google prettify.

Stijn

2:23 PM

@rene I've attempted to make a patch for the prettify lib a few years ago, the code is... non-ideal

not sure if it's still maintained tbh

rene

yeah, I digged into it before here

Shadow Wizard

3:23 PM

hmm... this question on SO smells bad. Is this spam?

Voted to close as "unclear" because it is, but wonder if it's also meant as spam.

The link is highly suspicious.

Bart

Hmm, not sure. It's fishy, but I'm not certain

rene

3:37 PM

@ShadowWizard the link ends for me in a dns parking page

Shadow Wizard

@rene well, isn't it fishy?

Not obvious spam, yeah, but...

rene

@ShadowWizard hmm, not sure. Maybe the tried to hide their real site name and chose an unlucky one.

@ShadowWizard I fixed that for you

Bart

Sigh ... 2 seconds faster @rene

I was doing the exact same thing

rene

\o/

Shadow Wizard

3:53 PM

lol

flower vs. glasses, round I

wth

rene

4:20 PM

@ShadowWizard solved, kind of

Feeds

The 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is Now Live

Kevin Troy on January 12, 2017

We’re back for another edition of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, the largest and most comprehensive survey of software developers on earth. Every year, we include questions about your favorite technologies, coding habits, and work preferences, as well as how you learn, share, and level up as a developer.

user315433

4:43 PM

@bjb568 Except for being subject to deletion if some 10K users don't like the post. Since the creation of wiki-lock is a mod decision, it would make sense if the deletion of such a thing was also up to them.

rene

The survey jumped back to the start on three occasions now. Is that expected?

Bart

0

Q: Is the developer survey broken?

I've been trying to complete the new developer survey but it keeps jumping back to the very beginning and I have to click through all the questions I've already completed to get back to where I was. It's getting too tedious to have to keep doing this so I have regretfully been forced to abandon i...

support bug

rene

ah, OK

I was already carefully clicking on buttons assuming it was me ...

Bart

Should be fixed now @rene

rene

yeah, I have not been send back to the start for a while

Ok, I'm done

user315433

5:15 PM

!!/report windowsphone.stackexchange.com/a/14578

bwDraco

6:59 PM

Developer Survey: I can't go back to correct a mistake. What should I do?

...never mind. Deleted my SurveyMonkey cookies.

user315433

8:00 PM

user315433

Google Translate is generally pretty good, but "5" translates as "Referring to Fig"? From Por quê (me parece que) o stackoverflow em português não dará certo?

Shog9

mmm... figs

user315433

Why is there a sense of doom in the air? Yesterday, it was Proposal: Merge SuperUser, Unix&Linux, ServerFault, AskUbuntu, AskDifferent because "some of those sites don't get a lot of traffic"

user315433

Kind of a ridiculous claim if one looks at Quantcast or the list of SE sites.

user315433

But as a question asker, one may be interested in "answerer traffic", which is hard to measure. That indeed may be low in places/tags.

user315433

8:06 PM

Considering that pretty much everyone visits AU to read existing answers (or to post "OMG WiFi not working").

Bart

Because there is not enough of a sense of doom in the world @zaq. 2017 is probably going to pass without any problems or disasters, so let's at least just merge some random sites

user315433

Well, I have it on good authority that people continue to die in 2017. Was updating a column to "deceased" (and editing the person's bio) yesterday.

user315433

Luckily not much work now, have templates for everything.

Bart

Wait, that's not what we agreed on. We did that in 2016. This year there were no more deaths

M.A.R.

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because ask it affects several sites it should be asked on meta.se — DavidPostill 23 hours ago

Aww, it didn't get here

It would've been fun seeing a -30-something question after so much time

user315433

8:13 PM

Grace raised a good point though: it does affect specific sites, so it makes sense for users of those sites to debate, as opposed to SO or Math or Chem.

M.A.R.

ಠ_ಠ

I should be able to decide an irrelevant site's fate

Not that anything would've changed if we unanimously agreed on the merge

user315433

The success rate of SE site merges so far is 0/1, unless I am forgetting some.

rene

9:58 PM

Is there a known issue with the site search also returning deleted posts?

The answer is yes:

23

Q: Custom search incorrectly returns deleted questions

Using a custom search query results in deleted posts being incorrectly returned. I used the following: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[kali-linux]+closed:1 which is looking for closed questions having the kali-linux tag, and it returned a couple of questions deleted more than 6 months ago....

bug search deleted-questions

Is that still within the 6 to 8 timeframe?

user315433

10:52 PM

3

A: Make comment flags less stupid

I've been thinking about flags for a long time, and recently I turned my attention to comment flags. Out of sheer curiosity, I ran some numbers for the past year of comments flags across the network - to see how many helpful/declined flags we get in each flag type. In 2016, we had 354,440 commen...

user315433

Hm. What category does "Please add that as an answer so I can accept it" fit, after the answer (based on a comment) was added and accepted?

user315433

If the top sentence ended with "because it is..." instead of "as..." then the second item could be "no longer needed".

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