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12:49 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Exporting SVG Icons With a Bounding Box by agiopnl on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

user315433

@SmokeDetector notspam

user315433

2016: Year in answering: top 5 sites by A/Q ratio are Worldbuilding, Buddhism, Martial Arts, Lifehacks, and Parenting. (Excluding PPCG and Puzzling for being too far from Q&A model)

user315433

I'd guess three of these, but Buddhism and Martial Arts?

user315433

At the other extreme, 35 Q&A sites had A/Q ratio under 1, including Super User and Ask Ubuntu

user315433

Six have it under 0.8: Drupal, Health, MathOverflow, HardwareRecs, CSTheory, Stats, and Patents.

user315433

1:03 AM

Come to think of it, I shouldn't have included deleted posts... Drupal A/Q ratio obviously suffers because of deleted spam.

user315433

After excluding deleted posts, only 17 sites are "under water" for 2016, generating fewer answers than questions. Most notable: Ask Ubuntu at 0.86, Cross Validated at 0.71, and Android Enthusiasts at 0.88

user202362

but ... which site has the most views per question?

bjb568

1:19 AM

DevDoodle

user315433

1:43 AM

I noticed that jsled is no longer a mod on Homebrewing and went to investigate... The latest meta post is from 2016. So is the latest meta comment. Neither have anything to do with mods. The chat room does have a message from 2017...

user315433

in Homebrew on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Jan 1 at 2:33, by Ken Graham

Happy New Year (2017) to all!

user315433

But the one before it is from August 2016. Okay...

user202362

user202362

trying to rescue an old game removed by app store

user202362

how cruel, to remove a game featuring such a wonder(ful) lady

user315433

2:56 AM

> I want to use calcium carbonate, arginine bicarbonate, sodium monofluorophosphate, xylitol, and glycyrrhizin (as a dispersing agent), plus something to bind it together to make a paste and a bit of peppermint oil to be minty fresh.
> I'm not a chemist, so... How feasible is this at home? How sensitive of a scale would I need to get the right amount of fluoride? What ratios should I be looking at? Would I need to make anything into a solution first? What should I use to bind everything together?

user315433

From Can I make my own fluoride toothpaste?...

user315433

Obviously, The Force will do the last part.

user202362

3:58 AM

Look at that curve, don't you have irresistible urge and unspeakable evil thoughts?

user202362

but currently it's not available, lemme fix it, so maybe it will be playable again next month on iphones/ipads

Jason C

Lol... The product pictures at chewy.com/kh-pet-products-extra-wide-outdoor/dp/128065

Especially the second one. Where it's "outside" and the cat is "in" it.

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user315433

seems legit. And the reviews are good, too

user315433

Cat models are difficult to hire and probably expensive.

Jason C

4:13 AM

A- for marketing effort though, lol.

user315433

Famous cat models won't get out of their heated kitty house for less than $10,000

Jason C

Apparently snowy days are hard to hire, too.

I mean if you're gonna Photoshop the cat into the house anyways, just take a picture of your outdoor product actually outside, lol.

user315433

4:26 AM

I'm not sure it's even a picture of the house. Looks like CGI.

user315433

Maybe they took a concept image from back when the product was designed / pitched to management.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: EV of Poisson random variable by Memes on math.stackexchange.com

Jason C

Lol

And also:

How do people in informacials even survive?

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Shadow Wizard

7:12 AM

Final del vote needed here @rene @Bart

Shadow Wizard

9:11 AM

heh, @nicael for the rescue!

rene

Yeah!

rene

9:31 AM

is this a kind of trick question?

It says both stroke and blender but in combination with rehabilitation even Google isn't decisive

Well, I read your title several times, and a humourous comment seemed the most inoffensive possible reply.... — Martin James 10 hours ago

SmokeDetector

11:05 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Can a screen-locked Android phone be rooted? by Emma Jean Carole on android.stackexchange.com

Shadow Wizard

11:28 AM

@SmokeDetector why?

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Post manually reported by user Glorfindel from metasmoke.

Shadow Wizard

@Glorfindel this "answer" is crap, no doubt, but is this also spam?

(i.e. afaik we don't report NAA/VLQ via Smokey)

(as there are thousands of these every day)

Glorfindel

11:46 AM

@ShadowWizard sorry, it was part of a string of bad posts. I retracted my flag later and NAA'd instead.

Shadow Wizard

@Glorfindel oh. What you mean "string of bad posts" though? You got some script?

Glorfindel

12:05 PM

@ShadowWizard No, another user who found them manually and reported them in Charcoal HQ.

user315433

2:41 PM

!!/report cooking.stackexchange.com/a/77468

hichris123

4:35 PM

→ 14 messages moved to Chimney

user315433

6:26 PM

> We are working towards that. -- apparently, toward not showing NAA/VLQ to diamonds.

user315433

> Very Low Quality and Not An Answer flags do not enter the moderator queue for 15 minutes after they're raised. This applies network-wide, except on Stack Overflow, Mathematics, TeX, Salesforce and Stack Overflow em Português (where the delay is a full hour) and meta sites (where they enter the queue immediately). -- meta.stackexchange.com/a/247658

user315433

This looks like something worth revisiting occasionally, based on how the queues are performing. I think SO could well have 3-hour delay; if it's not red-flaggable, it's not that urgent.

user315433

6:58 PM

user315433

A missed opportunity for a HNQ question on Parenting

user315433

Not on topic on Academia although I don't really understand why having undergraduate-level questions would be such a problem for the site...

M.A.R.

Undergraduates don't even lift

user315433

@M.A.R. Have you noticed that Chemistry is in top 10 by the futility of asking questions? 53.8% of questions asked in 2016 are either closed or unanswered.

user315433

(Top 10 after excluding Stack Apps, which is not really a Q&A site. An announcement of some app doesn't need an answer.)

M.A.R.

7:04 PM

@zaq That is . . . perhaps concerning

user315433

OTOH Biology is right next to it with 53.7% so maybe it's just how life sciences roll.

M.A.R.

This is probably not surprising

Biology tends to get a lot of creationist troll-questions

Chem has always gotten a lot of homework junk

user315433

While Chemistry gets "how to make fluoride toothpaste at home, what scale should I get to measure fluoride on?"

M.A.R.

Hmm, can we have such a query for 2015?

I were more active here in 2015 and if I compare the stats I might be more decisive

user315433

I'll turn the date into parameters....

M.A.R.

7:07 PM

@zaq Mhm, and recently there have been a rise in chemical golf questions

I need a chemical that explodes and destroys Earth.

user315433

I stopped the Twitter bot that used to stalk CMs and post whatever they posted, because that channel now goes to Log room. Now at a loss what else to do with a Twitter account.

user315433

@M.A.R. Was only 38.4% in 2015, way down the list. data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/615901/…

M.A.R.

@zaq OK, that is serious

user315433

OTOH, maybe some questions just take longer to answer....

M.A.R.

What percent is closed, and what percent unanswered?

@zaq Only few

user315433

7:17 PM

2016: 53.6% C or NA, 34% C, 22% NA
2015: 38.4% C or NA, 28% C, 12% NA

user315433

Query now returns all of these. The percentages don't add up because there is overlap between C and NA.

M.A.R.

@zaq Thank you

I will use that data to turn meta into an answer mob

user315433

@M.A.R. So, why are you less active now? More school work, or just growing old and jaded?

M.A.R.

@zaq Hmm, so the unanswered that don't get closed is actually 22-(66-53.6) percent

That's still a lot

@zaq More school work

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: How to use Stretch/testing packages? by user3376763 on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com

user315433

7:23 PM

@SmokeDetector notspam just a stupid name "dietpi"

M.A.R.

Hmm, the unanswered tab doesn't contain closed questions, no?

user315433

@M.A.R. It doesn't. You don't really need my query to get stats: a combination of closed:0 or closed:1 , answers:0 or answers:1.. , created:2015 or created:2016 would be enough.

user315433

But generally, I don't know what meta can do about low answering %. Encourage people not to leave answers in comments? Upvote /bounty good questions to get them more visibility?

M.A.R.

@zaq At the very least

I'm gonna first drop a thread to gather ideas

Shog9

8:04 PM

...said the spider

M.A.R.

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Q: What can or should be done about the unanswered?

2016, a year in closing demonstrates that out of 10448 questions asked on the main site on 2016, 5,621 are either closed or unanswered. That is, 53.8 % of more recent questions didn't end up with an answer, let alone an upvoted one. That's more than half! $$\mathrm{\Huge{\color{red}{PANIC \bf}}...

Hope it's not moot

user315433

(The sole upvote was from me, in case you're wondering)

M.A.R.

@zaq I thought it was Loong

user315433

Sad reality: expensive software (Matlab) still benefits from new mathematical insights, while open-source Python libraries wrap Fortran code from 1980s that hardly anyone can read, let alone improve.

user315433

I do enjoy digging into it once in a while, feeling like an archaeologist uncovering small bits of a lost civilization.

SmokeDetector

8:22 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer: Maaser Deductibles by parker on judaism.stackexchange.com

bjb568

@Ortho I just learned that the French for ''welcome'' is ''bienvenue''. That is much cooler than ''welcome'' and I propose we change English — M.A.R. 1 min ago

I'm going to put it into bjblang.

"biavenü" is now welcome (interjection) "biaveno" is the base verb.

maybe

user315433

I wonder if bienvenue would really sound better in this context...

user315433

Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle

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bjb568

sounds kewl

user315433

No, it's too hard to imagine Axl singing in French...

bjb568

8:33 PM

Should I bother making phonemes match unambiguously to words?

M.A.R.

@bjb568 That's an effort gone to waste

bjb568

Ok

I had the idea of having only a few vowel sound be able to be inside a word, with most vowel sounds only being at the end to denote part of speech.

Whateves, I can just make it so you pronounce end of word vowels more strongly.

But I will be using tones from mandarin for stuffs

Kaz Wolfe

10:19 PM

Hey, would it be possible to get someone from SE to come and re-evaluate this feature request? It's existed for a while, has a userscript implementing it already, and it's been asked before by per-site metas. (not pinging people because i have no idea who should be pinged)

bjb568

11:10 PM

@KazWolfe You expect SE's frontend to suck less than it does? Ha.

user315433

FWIW I put a bounty on it. (It's not worth much)

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Could "code" in chat (markdown with backquotes) change the background like on the main site? by uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN on meta.stackexchange.com

user315433

Why is Nathan blacklisted on Meta ... well I see it's for a sandbox post but...

Rob

Not sure, since those reports were all declined as well

Ah, it was manually reported

Kaz Wolfe

11:28 PM

@bjb568 yeah, but it's pretty much just a couple lines of code, so...

uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN

Y IZ I BLACKLISTED.

Kaz Wolfe

you're not anymore.

it's been cleared

Thomas Ward

wow smokey

you need tasered

Kaz Wolfe

blame @angussidney.

Thomas Ward

!!/location

SmokeDetector

11:32 PM

@ThomasWard Undo's EC2

Kaz Wolfe

for this: metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/52608

uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN

I'm tossing around the idea of doing something similar with George but I'm not sure he could really do much better unless I did something really fancy with neural networks.

Kaz Wolfe

@zaq thanks, we'll see

bjb568

11:53 PM

@KazWolfe meh

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