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user315433

12:00 AM

Feature request + network profile = an exercise in futility

Shog9

I hear futility is great for resistance training.

Jason C

@JonEricson Yeah that's the first place I checked.

I also thought about posting a feature request. Then came to the same conclusion.

oh sweet louis ck has a new special out

user315433

stuffe is no longer an Apple mod; time for an election? Didn't have one in forever and two months

user202362

12:25 AM

isn't internet a lovely place, all your shame are open for someone who knows how to dig to read

user202362

whatever was on the internet will stay on the internet indefinitely

user315433

1:02 AM

Grr, I can't even figure out when stuffe became an Apple mod. The election page has him as one of winners, but Shog's announcement does not mention him at all. Must have been called up.

user202362

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i336_

hey everyone. a couple days ago I thought I'd have a crack at watching the review queue, and it's kind of fun. I think I dived in a bit too readily without reading the instructions first, and I can't flag things anymore. I /think/ I have a better idea of what all the buttons (flagging, commenting, simply marking as "needs editing", or even just saying "this is okay") are for now... so do I just wait a bit to be able to flag again? or is there somewhere I can discuss what I flagged incorrectly?

the offending flags: http://stackoverflow.com/users/flag-summary/3229684?showDeclined=true

I'm totally new to all of this :) (I'm not sure if this is the right room to ask this in either)

Jon Ericson

@i336_ What do you mean you can't flag things? What do you see?

i336_

1:20 AM

@JonEricson oh, woops, wrong page link. stackoverflow.com/users/flag-summary/3229684 shows me "You are currently banned from flagging - view flags declined in the last 7 days"

Jon Ericson

@i336_ Ah. I see. Just wait out the ban. And be a bi more careful next time.

i336_

sure thing, thanks. now to see how long it lasts. (it's okay.)

and I actually read the post-flagging howto (stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/flag-posts) now :) which was helpful

Shog9

Specifically, flagging incorrect information is usually gonna be declined; downvote, edit, comment, post opposing answers instead.

user202362

I have a problem ... checking, clicking, I read both as chicken :'(

i336_

@Shog9 Right. I think I misunderstood the "needs moderator review" as the "other" or "not specified here" bit bucket. I didn't realize they went into a high-priority queue TIL

Jason C

1:36 AM

How do people talk on reddit? The comment throttling is like one every 10 minutes.

JamesENL

Ahhh Wednesday

The bargin basement Tuesday

Jason C

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293322/… -- @Shog9 To be fair, different communities have (or at least can have) different policies on what they consider to be acceptable edits.

user315433

> Backing up a 30TB log database before making dangerous changes to the entire schema. Anyone have a snickers? -- Nick Craver at 1:55 PM - 4 Apr 2017

user315433

snickers

user315433

Actually, who's going to be hurt if those 30TB of logs were accidentally?

user202362

1:54 AM

yep, keep drinking

user315433

Eight sites get 100+ questions per day: Stack Overflow, Mathematics, Stack Overflow на русском, Ask Ubuntu, Super User, Cross Validated, Stack Overflow em Português, Stack Overflow en español.

user315433

The "original trilogy" holds #1, #5, and #10 (SF) in this category.

user315433

2:11 AM

SO sites are #1, #3, #7, #8, and... #61 by the volume of questions. One of these things is not like the others.

user315433

Then again, 0.750 batting average in localization is not bad.

Shog9

2:45 AM

@JasonC meh; this isn't really one of those cases

user202362

is it me or Gerry becomes more active after some bashing

user202362

almost as if gerry likes to be clawed/bitten/whipped

user202362

3:01 AM

user202362

user315433

> Because of it, someday there will be a site on astronomy… and economics… and literature… and the rest. stackoverflow.blog/2012/04/25/when-a-site-grows-quiet

user315433

And so it came to pass. Not for "the rest", though.

user315433

Chances are, "The rest" or "Misc" proposals were already tried on Area 51.

Jon Ericson

Isn't the rest ontopic at Lifehacks?

user202362

3:10 AM

user202362

large woman riding a tiny unicorn, yay!

Jason C

3:22 AM

@Telkitty BORRR-INNNNG. Didn't we already talk about cat pic quality control?

user202362

maybe it's you who raised the standard, not me who lowered the quality?

user202362

besides, boring cats need love too!

user202362

4:03 AM

Elephant

4:29 AM

user202362

4:57 AM

rene

6:00 AM

@ShadowWizard real trains interfered ...

I'm not a native speaker and with the risk of me being pedantic, but in *...and helped moved this site from beta to graduation.* shouldn't "moved" be spelled
"moving"?

Is @JonEricson pinged on that one ^ or did I hit a chat bug?

user310756

6:33 AM

user310756

@rene move is correct

user310756

@Telkitty you'll have to come and meet my girls, when it is not raining

rene

6:50 AM

horse in the room ...

@YvetteColomb ah, yeah. I'll return to my normal program ...

user310756

7:34 AM

@rene hey it's a cheer you up horse

Elephant

8:03 AM

Let's try something else...

Elephant

8:19 AM

now those 2 becomes more suspicious..

Shadow Wizard

8:32 AM

status-wrong-priorities

Shadow Wizard

10:16 AM

@rene why would Jon be pinged?

@Telkitty chicken chicken, chicken.

M.A.R.

@rene Nah, 'moved' is fine

@rene You pinged Gerry

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC tend to agree with Shog though, edits are global, and OP is complaining about users gaming the system with useless edits just to gain badges. That's not specific to SO.

@M.A.R. yup, no idea what he thought he pinged Jon... ?

M.A.R.

10:40 AM

BTW, is @Gerry NormalMouse right now?

O.o

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. heh, took you long enough to get it.... :D

And who is @Elephant you know? ;)

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard No, I knew it already, I just had to make a joke because why not

Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. Three species are recognised, the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order Proboscidea; other, now extinct, members of the order include deinotheres, gomphotheres, mammoths, and mastodons. Male African elephants are the largest extant terrestrial animals and can reach a height of 4 m (13...

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. so maybe he's NormalMousse

user202362

11:26 AM

@YvetteColomb sure :) your girl is beautiful, I assume the horse in the picture is yours?

Derpy

@YvetteColomb why you photoshop out the horn from the picture? you can still see part of it on the horse forehead

Bart

11:56 AM

@Derpy you never know what kind of crazy hunters roam this chatroom.

user202362

I think we got more farmers than hunters

Jason C

→ 19 messages moved to Chimney

user315433

0

A: How to become a security domain expert?

1) Hack into something big. 2) Do a few years in the pokey 3) ??? (probably be someone's girlfriend, also line up job as security expert when you are out) 4) PROFIT

user315433

Maybe that question is a bit too broad?

user315433

!!/report stackoverflow.com/a/43230415

user315433

12:06 PM

Spam magnet, too.

Stijn

@Gerry even by 2009's standards, that answer is 💩

user355292

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Q: Messy account creation / duplication / error

Not-dupe: I filled the merge-request form but it said they are already merged, form cannot be sent. (Drop down view.) URL's of accounts in questions: A) https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80704/ B) https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80756/ (now shows same user name as A, but different ...

user355292

explained why not dupe, please reopen?

Stijn

@zm3 your post is placed in a reopen queue because you've edited it, please don't ask in chat straight away to reopen

user355292

@Stijn ok thanks, forgot how it was like for low rep, used to seeing reopen vote on own posts, apologies

Shadow Wizard

12:21 PM

@zm3 nope. You should merge the accounts, and this is explained in the dupe.

user355292

@ShadowWizard check new screen, unable to submit form

Shadow Wizard

Before coming to chat, just try in comments.

This got nothing to do with new/low rep user, even if me or @Bart will just jump in and ask to reopen one of our own questions, it will not be accepted very well.

The requests we make here is for questions by others, usually explained either here or in comments.

user355292

@ShadowWizard no I mean on my parent account I'm used to seeing the reopen vote count, didn't see it here, that's why I asked here, nonetheless honest mistake, apologies

user355292

added a comment on the post

Bart

The title isn't very descriptive

user310756

12:27 PM

@Telkitty yes she's my old girl :) she's so gentle

SmokeDetector

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user310756

@Derpy good point! :D

user355292

@Bart good point, updated title, thanks for the help everyone :)

Shadow Wizard

Derpy

12:47 PM

just had this idea....

Has anyone tried to deadlock the Skeptics site by posting a question about the old BerenstAin VS BerenstEin argument/conspiracy ?

Bart

You mean Skaptics

M.A.R.

@Bart Sheesh, that's really creepy for some reason

Shadow Wizard

> scifi mod tells me a CM contacted me this morning, I haven't received any e-mail (I checked the spam too). Not sure if it's related.

@zm3 you use the same email always?

Maybe you created one of the accounts with different email?

SmokeDetector

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Shadow Wizard

Also, CM might have sent a message to the account you can't access.

Ask the mod who the CM is, and try contacting him/her directly.

(most got their email in their profile, or available in chat)

@M.A.R. You mean craapy

M.A.R.

1:04 PM

I proposa wa ramova 'e' from Anglish.

Stijn

@M.A.R. That's a vary good idaa!

M.A.R.

Did you know 'e' was tha most common lattar in Anglish?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. was?

So what lattar is most common now?

M.A.R.

'e' was tha most common, and is tha most common

Thosa aran't mutually exclusiva

Oh wall, I havan't saan a nawar analysis

I don't avan know how thay analyza that

Stijn

@M.A.R. you mada a typo

M.A.R.

1:12 PM

@Stijn I did?

Stijn

@M.A.R. axclusiva

M.A.R.

OMG OH NOAS

Oh wall, typos happan

Shadow Wizard

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard You wara ninja'd

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn is fest

end @M.E.R. is yallow

user355292

1:15 PM

@ShadowWizard yes, same e-mail

Shadow Wizard

Poor @zm3 won't undarstend whet's going on

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard yes, same e-mail

Shadow Wizard

@ShedowWizerd yas, seme a-meil

M.A.R.

I said no 'e'

Chaatar

user355292

@ShadowWizard will try ask for CM details, but I'm certain it's the same e-mail for both accounts , thanks

Shadow Wizard

1:17 PM

(:

M.A.R.

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@M.A.R. It's Bart's fault.

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector I knew it

Shadow Wizard

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard It's Derpy's fault.

Shadow Wizard

1:20 PM

@SmokeDetector I knew it

user355292

@ShadowWizard account B actually was created on its own, I was simply joining the community using the parent account

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector I knew it again

Fawad

There is question (it is in Android enthusiast) which is accepted by OP but it didn't helped me,so should I ask new question? (Note that it Is accepted/answered to OP but not me)

8

Q: How to cancel a download on Android 4.4 KitKat

I (accidentally) started downloading a 350 MB file from Google Chrome and I can't find the option to stop it, the downloads app just shows the files that have already finished but not the downloads in progress. The notification on my top bar just opens the downloads app.

4.4-kitkat download-manager

Stijn

@Fawad You may do that, but you have to explain why that answer did not help you and what is different in your situation.

Fawad

Ok

Stijn

1:23 PM

Otherwise people will just close it as a duplicate, and you probably want to avoid that :)

Shadow Wizard

@zm3 yeah, so probably same issue as @Jason's

13

Q: Something weird is going on with my login on at least one site

I noticed, when viewing a question on the Literature site, that my username and profile is not correct. Here is my profile on that site, and this is me pretty much everywhere else, that I know of. Something is weird here: My profile "about" section is filled in and I have the Autobiographer b...

support bug login user-accounts

@Fawad and the other answers? Also don't help?

Elephant

@Fawad don't forget to mention the device model, Android version, and if you use any browser to download, mention what it is and its version. Also, if your device has its own download manager or not.

Jason C

1:41 PM

It's mildly irritating that the easier a question is to answer, the more rep I get for answering it.

Stack Exchange has taught me that reward is inversely proportional to effort. An important life lesson.

Shadow Wizard

Yeah, saw your super uber mega answer on Skeptics.

Jason C

Yeah that one was weird.

Shadow Wizard

35.3 upvotes for a line. Not bad. ;)

Jason C

Same with my highest voted answer on SO, which was just regurgitating Google results, and annoys me, because I really do put actual effort into other answers.

Stijn

If it helps you sleep at night, just think of how it helped you to unlock privileges giving you more moderation power

Shadow Wizard

1:45 PM

Wonder what's so special about "puck"? Is it because it's almost like "puke"? Or the reason for changing, that "p" can easily become "f"? :P

Jason C

It's the latter.

Shadow Wizard

heh

Jason C

The possibility for vandalism in US arcades.

Shadow Wizard

Yeah, kids would totally do that

Jason C

And I can confirm: I would definitely vandalize one of those.

Shadow Wizard

1:46 PM

lol

Jason C

Plus that nose...

Shadow Wizard

The amount of "No Smoking" signs in buses that I saw changed to "Do Smoke" (in Hebrew it's matter of erasing the first word) is amazing.

Jason C

That Skeptics question was funny, it came out of a comment conversation at english.stackexchange.com/a/381499/55308 and got unexpectedly popular.

Lol

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC nose?

Jason C

My favorite was, after I graduated high school me and some friends took a trip down to the beaches in North Carolina, and there was a boardwalk with some shops.

One of the shops was called "Try My Nuts" (it was like, peanuts and stuff), and there were these little wooden signs all over the boardwalk with names of shops pointing to where they were.

So we obviously decided to steal one of the "Try My Nuts" signs.

But when we went up to one of the sign posts, all of the signs were attached with little ropes hanging off the pole, but the "Try My Nuts" sign was bolted on with like 8 one-way screws.

Uh... the end.

It made me laugh though.

(We didn't get the sign)

There was another place, I don't remember where, some neighborhood named "Tuckahoe" with a big fancy sign in front of it, and behind the sign was a can of paint, and the "T" clearly had like 30 layers of paint on it correcting all the times people changed it to an "F".

Stijn

1:54 PM

@JasonC perhaps they should just give in and officially rename the neighbourhood

Jason C

I remember having that same thought, lol.

Shadow Wizard

something like this ^

Jason C

@ShadowWizard Haha, it's too easy.

Shadow Wizard

yup

Jason C

Do all the Hebrew "no smoking" signs have "please"?

Shadow Wizard

1:55 PM

And nobody ever thought to change it

Jason C

The "No Smoking" that's usually in English sadly only changes to "Smoking", which isn't a command any more.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC nope, most don't

Jason C

@ShadowWizard What is the first word on that sign? I don't see it in the vandalized version.

Shadow Wizard

But if you remove the first word "אסור" you make it into just "Smoke", which is less obvious and funny. ;)

Jason C

Lol

Ah google says "forbidden"

Shadow Wizard

1:57 PM

@JasonC I know, it's just funny in Hebrew :D

@JasonC try "אסור לעשן כאן"

Jason C

Do you use a keyboard like google.com/search?q=hebrew+keyboard&tbm=isch?

Shadow Wizard

in Shadow's Den, 10 secs ago, by FOX 9000

@ShadowWizard [Powered by Yandex Translate] You can't smoke here.

90% correct ^

(אסור in this context is more like "you are not allowed to")

As can't is more like technically can't which isn't correct. ;)

Jason C

@ShadowWizard I'm enjoying removing random letters from that in google translate and looking at the weird results, lol

Shadow Wizard

lol, you saw what @M.A.R. did the other day?

Jason C

RTL is making backspace confusing though

No I didn't

What does "אסור לשן כאן" mean?

"It is forbidden to sleep here?" lol

Shadow Wizard

2:01 PM

@JasonC LOL

@JasonC the word "לשן" means "to the tooth". "לשון" means tongue. "לישון" means sleep or sleeping.

In Hebrew removing vowels often change the whole meaning of the word. :D

Jason C

"אסור לשון כאן"?

Shadow Wizard

"No tongue here!"

Jason C

Seems like an easy change, lol

In that pac man thread I learned the possibilities for puns in Japanese are pretty mind boggling

@JasonC ぱくぱく is pakupaku, while パクパクis pakupaku using the alphabet that's used to spell words borrowed from foreign languages (this is not a joke). So パックマン (Pakkuman) is written as a word that comes from a foreign language and is indeed how one spells "Puckman" in Japanese.. — Peter yesterday

@Peter Ahhh, I think I understand now: the indication that it is a transliterated word gives it the double-meaning of both the native concept and the foreign one, hence the pun. If I've got that right, it sounds like Japanese opens up a whole new world of great puns. The possibilities for bilingual dad jokes are truly terrifying. — Jason C yesterday

I can't decide if English is boring, or if I'm just used to it. I mean it does have a lot of "one letter changes the meaning" opportunities, I suppose.

Or I might just be used to Latin alphabets.

Shadow Wizard

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Mar 23 at 11:03, 10 minutes total – 45 messages, 4 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 11 secs ago by Shadow Wizard

Enjoy! And I expect you to decipher the bookmark name... ;)

Jason C

@ShadowWizard That convo is comically confusing

Shadow Wizard

2:11 PM

@JasonC I know.... well, originally meant that message by @M.A.R. in the Den, but the whole conversation was even better to post. :D

Jason C

@ShadowWizard "Very funny"

What do I win?

Shadow Wizard

whoa, nice!

Jason C

I'm good at puzzles :P

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC the right to fart in the Den any time you want. :P

Jason C

Done

Shadow Wizard

2:12 PM

lol you're quick :D

OMG that's hilarious!!!!!

Jason C

@ShadowWizard Are מ and ם the same letters?

@ShadowWizard Lol wow

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC yes, מ becomes ם when it's the last letter in a word.

Jason C

So on the keyboard you've got... all 22 letters + the 5 final forms (according to wikipedia)?

Shadow Wizard

This happens with some other letters: פ becomes ף
כ becomes ך
נ becomes ן
צ becomes ץ
מ becomes ם

@JasonC yup. And double that, as we got two kinds of writing.

Jason C

I kind of want to learn Hebrew just to blow minds in the Jewish neighborhoods around here.

Shadow Wizard

2:18 PM

"Formal" and "unformal"

Jason C

They're very exclusive neighborhoods, lol.

Shadow Wizard

Each with its own set of letters.

Jason C

Oh interesting

Is there a 1:1 correspondence between letters? Like a "formal shift" key on the keyboard or something?

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC hehe, if they're orthodox better learn Yidish

@JasonC what do you mean? English/Hebrew keyboard?

Jason C

Oh!

Shadow Wizard

2:20 PM

oh, saw the ping and forgot

Jason C

They must be speaking yiddish.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC no need to, got actual keyboard with both English and Hebrew, pressing ALT+SHIFT to switch languages

Jason C

Wait

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC yup, makes sense. For Orthodox Jews, Hebrew is used mainly for prayers, not day-to-day talk, as it's considered holy.

Jason C

Are the alphabets the same?

Yiddish looks like it has a lot of... accenty variations of letters like אָ?

Shadow Wizard

2:22 PM

@JasonC in Yidish? Yes, but totally different words, grammar, etc. I don't know Yidish myself.

@JasonC yeah, you mean nikkud?

Niqqud

In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikkud (Hebrew: נִקּוּד, Modern nikud, Tiberian niqqûḏ; "dotting, pointing" or Hebrew: נְקֻדּוֹת, Modern nekudot, Tiberian nəquddôṯ; "dots") is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Several such diacritical systems were developed in the Early Middle Ages. The most widespread system, and the only one still used to a significant degree today, was created by the Masoretes of Tiberias in the second half of the first millennium AD in the Land of Israel (see Masoretic...

Jason C

Yeah, see, for me, my only reference point is the alphabet, because I can see the written language everywhere around here.

Where I was leading with my questions was whether or not I could tell if it was Yiddish or Hebrew just by looking given that I can't interpret the letters themselves. Answer: Not really.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC well, if Yiddish it will probably make little sense to me too. @Mithrandir you know Yiddish? ;)

Jason C

@ShadowWizard Yeah looks like that's what I meant

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC yup, this adds a layer of complexity to the language...

Jason C

Is that Hebrew or Yiddish?

Shadow Wizard

2:25 PM

@JasonC Yiddish, but with some Hebrew actual words...

Jason C

(That's from a neighborhood around here)

Shadow Wizard

so I can read and understand most of it

Yeshiva

Yeshiva (/jəˈʃiːvɑː/; Hebrew: ישיבה‎, lit. "sitting"; pl. ישיבות‎, yeshivot or yeshivos) is a Jewish institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and Torah study. Study is usually done through daily shiurim (lectures or classes) and in study pairs called ḥavrutas (Aramaic for "friendship" or "companionship"). Ḥavruta-style learning is one of the unique features of the yeshiva. In the United States and Israel, the different levels of yeshiva education have different names. In the United States, elementary-school students are enrolled in a yeshiva, post...

It's a bus of Yeshiva's students

Heh, you better not mess with Hebrew around them. ;)

Jason C

Oh I know that word

I see it on school building sometimes

Haha.

Shadow Wizard

yup, that's a school. :)

@Jason but how you ended up living in Orthodox Jews neighborhood? By chance?

Jason C

@ShadowWizard I think it would be like youtu.be/lLXaRtc1f4I?t=204, but with bigger hats, and I wouldn't be nearly as successful as Neo.

@ShadowWizard It's NYC. There's a huge Orthodox Jewish population here.

Plus a lot of the properties in Brooklyn are Jewish-owned, and so you tend to see the more popular neighborhoods spring up around Jewish neighborhoods.

Shadow Wizard

2:31 PM

@JasonC LOL... haha... yeah they can become violent when you push them too much :D

These days they make tons of uproar in Israel because the government is trying to force them to join the army.

So far they only block roads, but likely it will become fully violent soon.

Jason C

Oh

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Jason C

That doesn't seem like it's going to end well for anybody...

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC yup. Probably government will take a step back as they always do in those cases, and change the law.

Jason C

Re: NYC - There's a pretty deep stereotype of the quintessential "Hasidic landord" here, which is evidence of how heavy Jewish influence is in NYC. I'm not sure what the history is or why there's such a huge Jewish population here.

Well it's NYC, there's a huge population of everybody, I guess.

In my old neighborhood I lived between the churches/temples/mosques/synagogues for like 8 different religions.

user202362

2:37 PM

but do you believe in kitties?

Jason C

I swear to god if you post a crappy cat gif I'm going to... make a frowny emoji or something.

You're looking for one now, aren't you

I know what you're up to

@ShadowWizard Oh to live in a place where protest is effective...

user202362

Stijn

Jason C

@Telkitty Fair enough, lol.

The dogs approach seems more practical, haha

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC it's effective when you have 20% of the seats in the senate

(or more? don't remember)

Jason C

2:41 PM

Ha, well then

Plus what I presume is a sense of unity/solidarity not commonly found in other groups

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC probably many moved to USA after WW2 and just stayed, made children, etc. :)

user202362

2

Jason C

Yeah that seems reasonable esp with NYC as the entry port

@Telkitty Dogs photobombing a cat selfie?

user202362

cat is taking selfie for the group

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard well, here it's the National language, so it is used :P

@ShadowWizard Unfortunately not.

Fawad

2:49 PM

@Stijn stop Superman,you have people to save!

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir of course... though in the not-so-far future the חרדים will be the majority and it will change... :/

Anyhow... just rescued a fly from certain death inside the sticky left-over of coffee. Feeling so... noble. ;)

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard I disagree... But whatever. I don't feel like getting into that debate o_o

Fawad

@ShadowWizard don't waste coffee.

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard :P

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir heh, sure. Not now anyway. :)

@Fawad it was the left-over, what you get in the bottom. nobody can really drink it...

Fawad

2:53 PM

@ShadowWizard this may help you

Shadow Wizard

lol

Still, no use as there was no liquid.

Hard to explain, it was cold coffee with lots of sugar (not my own coffee), so some of it didn't melt. when the liquid was finished, the sugar and coffee that didn't melt made a sticky mess in the bottom of the cup. And the poor fly got stuck in there. :D

Should have made a pic.

user202362

Jason C

@Telkitty lol

@Telkitty Haha, I approve.

I put out a call on Facebook for an appropriate background track. I'll keep you posted.

It also is doubling as a PR move to recoup from Facebook feed popularity losses due to anti-Pai posts that nobody is interested in.

@Telkitty I'm thinking:

Mario Paint Theme

►

IT'S SO GOOD

Oh man: youtube.com/watch?v=HEXWRTEbj1I&feature=youtu.be

Another good suggestion: youtube.com/watch?v=PBwAxmrE194

Derpy

3:16 PM

Trombe! Dual Override

►

Elephant

@JasonC Japanese language is fun, believe it ;)

Just like a manga title of "To Love-Ru", which can be written as トラブル, which means "trouble"

Jon Ericson

@rene I don't think I got pinged, but I did get a lot of pings last night. ;-) Fixed the typo, however.

Derpy

...and the special award for naming an anime that should not be named goes to......

Jason C

@Derpy haha

Elephant

I haven't mentioned "kodomo no ji...", oops, I won't be tricked this time >:(

SmokeDetector

3:27 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: Weapons and armor from chitin by rksteelcrafts on worldbuilding.SE

Derpy

@JasonC considering it even overrides the final boss theme, Trombe can be considered the perfect reply to any music-related message.

anyway, have to go for now. Later.

(also, as a side notice... @Elephant reminded me why I avoid the anime chat room)

Jason C

@Derpy Oh, duh: youtube.com/watch?v=nqLArgCbh70

Elephant

@Derpy well, I don't join their chat room either ;)

user315433

4:49 PM

Hm, looks like a fine day for sharing angry stories of suspensions past.

user315433

I don't have anything notable to share yet. Working on it.

Elephant

Funny, because I was also thinking of posting a topic about suspension.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Finding the Equation of a Trig Graph via both Sine and Cosine by confused man on math.SE

user315433

@SmokeDetector Question viewed 17505 times. Score = 0, answer score = 2.

user315433

An epitome of a standard pre-calculus / trigonometry problem.

SmokeDetector

4:55 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Is a list of selected packages stored in the file system? by user627053 on askubuntu.com

Elephant

Seems my mind is tricking me.. I thought I've read a post on Quora asking "Why [a quora user] is suspended" with many answers that are sympathizing the suspended user. OTOH, if such post is posted on meta sites...

SmokeDetector

5:18 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: I am uncertain what to use as a light source to expose the photoresis for PCB making by Katie Dorrell on electronics.SE

Travis J

5:35 PM

The post begs the question, what % of users have had a suspension. For accuracy, lets remove users who have less than 50 reputation to try to ignore the 1 rep spam bot stuff. I bet its roughly .1%.

By comparison, 2% of the US population has been placed in a prison at some point in their user history.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: Windows Phone Transfer Online Contacts by John Smith on windowsphone.SE

Travis J

def spam

user315433

6:07 PM

"Stack Exchange: not as f'd up as the United States" could be the site's tagline

user315433

I suspect the incident you are referring to is the one you wrote about on The Workplace meta? I'd be happy to answer that question with the full text of the mod message. I'm also happy to discuss the process I took in evaluating your case at the time. — Jon Ericson ♦ 14 mins ago

user315433

Popcorn demand is soaring.

rene

\o

Shog9

@TravisJ 8821 users have been suspended at least once on Stack Overflow. This excludes deleted users, and includes unregistered users.

At this moment, select count(*) from Users returns 6943807

So, your guess is pretty close.

@Elephant they have been, and occasionally garner sympathy.

SmokeDetector

6:26 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Workflow problems and Proofreading by Rowdy Choudhary on graphicdesign.SE

rene

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Stijn

@rene it's gone, so I guess it was

rene

OK

user310756

@ShadowWizard love it :)

user315433

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Q: Why was BalusC temporarily suspended from SO?

I hope this is the right place to ask this, but I was just browsing the JSF tag and saw BalusC, one of SO's top users, was banned. See http://stackoverflow.com/users/157882/balusc Now I looked at the rules in the provided link at http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box ...

discussion moderation users banning

Jon Ericson

6:38 PM

@TravisJ I'm looking into posting an answer will a variety of stats that people have asked for. In particular, people want to know how often formally-suspended people come back to be productive members rather than just disappear (or get a new account).

user315433

formerly

rene

Welcome to ELL chat

user315433

I did have to consider for a moment if a formal suspension is something different from a regular one.

Jon Ericson

Better?

user310756

@JonEricson that would be interesting. I notice you have a close vote on the Q

user310756

6:47 PM

@Gerry bahahaha

user315433

Never give your password or bank account number to anyone who doesn't have a blue check mark next to their name.

user315433

I miss @xkcdBot :(

user315433

@SmokeDetector does have some 2-factor rules, like "bad keyword with email"

Shog9

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A: Why don't we keep public records of suspensions?

Dukeling raises an interesting question: So is that 10% of suspensions in general or 10% of users who actively continued using their accounts post-suspension? It's approximately 10% of users whose suspensions ended who were later suspended. Defining "actively continued using their account...