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@TelautonomousKitty is it on your "sent" folder? Otherwise, email spoofing?

user202362

it's in my sent fold, both email addresses belong to me, I use them to send pictures or files from phone to PC/Macbook

Then, uhh... change password?

user202362

but I never resent that email

user202362

2:46 AM

maybe more of a system stuff up

Q: Area 51 Discussions magic link shows wrong title

@Shog9 Thanks! How about this one:

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When magic-linking to Area 51 Discussions using [discuss.area51.se] or [area51.meta.se], the link shows up as: Area 51 That should be fixed to say "Area 51 Discussions" instead, because the actual link is to the discussions site. Proof: https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/messag...

bug area51 magic-links

user202362

Blue/Red Supermoon tomorrow night + lunar eclipse ...

@TelautonomousKitty Where?

user202362

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2018-january-31

Just a curious question: do we have examples of cases where a spammer earned a sizeable amount of rep on SE sites before posting spam?

3:01 AM

By sizeable, do you mean like 200?

3:21 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog you can play with MetaSmoke's search by filtering user rep. Best I could find is below 100: 61 rep

Also, the recorded rep is at the time SD report it

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 10 mins ago, by WELZ

@AndrewT. rep at time of SD Report

@SmokeDetector tpu-

user315433

4:40 AM

Still alive, 9 hours. expatriates.stackexchange.com/a/13069

@if.... Gone now

Why are my flags on this comment being declined? It's just keyboard gibberish.

@rene ego much? ;p

> I'm in the screenshot which is enough to receive an extra reward ...\o/

@SmokeDetector deleted

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog that would be hard without socks

and requires actual effort, and some knowledge of how the site works

Your garden variety drive by spammers wouldn't invest the time/effort in that

I mean, there was a Wikipedia user who did a lot of good edits, became an administrator, administrated for a while, and then out of the blue started damaging the site and doing really bad things. He used his administrator privileges to unblock himself whenever he got blocked. A check subsequently revealed his account was not compromised, that he did these things on his own, and that he was actually an undiscovered sockpuppet of a long-term-banned user.

There was another admin who was one of the most vocal voices of the Wikipedia community, who made cogent arguments for good policies and helped train new users. At the same time, they secretly worked to insert promotional material to an article for a business, and undermined another article for a competitor. It was later revealed that they were in fact a paid editor, and the business in question was engaging in fraud.

Catija

5:21 AM

500 and counting... eeeek!

@Catija What?

Catija

Counting down to 20K.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog that feels like a long con

Not the most interesting one I have seen!

6:05 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog it's a meme.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog if that's the case, then there are many >10k users who vandalized their posts

6:55 AM

@JourneymanGeek very, yes. Thanks.

@SmokeDetector wow... never seen kissanime spam before...

7:13 AM

I've probably created new accounts on, like, 10-15 communities just to flag spam that Smokey detected...

Welcome to the club! :p

8:02 AM

When someone opens an Intel-AMD union CPU chip metal case, he'll find half the case soldered onto the chip, and the other half filled with toothpaste.

ATI GeForce? Nvidia Radeon?

8:24 AM

Intel Core i7-8809G

That's just a joke, thank God Intel didn't use toothpaste as heat conductor inside their CPU.

@iDebug unless you delid or oc - you're not going to get that one.

@rene reopen-pls The procedure is different on meta sites, and it's better to have a separate question explaining it. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98899/…

@iDebug the heat conductor paste does clean the tooth perfectly though ....

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog done

8:40 AM

@rene Thanks! Please approve my edit to remove the old duplicate link.

This was an older dupe where Community would edit in the link

@rene I think I might write an improved version of that post, and get this one closed as a duplicate of that. I would like to improve that question further, but it would involve having to completely discard that text.

What do you think of that?

Discarding text never feels right, specially if the question isn't CW

John Dvorak

You never delete content. You can only remove it from public view. Only CMs can delete content.

@rene So is my idea of writing an improved version of the question and a self-answer, and then getting this old one closed as a dupe a good idea?

@JohnDvorak That's not relevant here.

8:57 AM

@JohnDvorak and by deleting content, its probably literally removing it from the database ;p

0_0

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I'm not comfortable with vetting on a action in a chatroom that has more impact then just a re-open. I'm not going to say it is a good idea as I don't know yet how you are going to screw up. Post on meta first so the broader community can chime in on what the best way forward is, assuming the problem needs fixing.

@rene Or, I could just post the question and self-answer, and if the community doesn't like it, they'll close my post as a dupe of the older one, instead of the other way around.

That is also an option

9:53 AM

@JourneymanGeek Even if I'm going to OC, I'll stay away from that one.

hah

Celeron D 350 is the best chip for achieving extreme frequencies (ever!0

the TIM matters for extreme overclocking

for most people... meh

Definitely.

For most people, they're getting i7-8700K because they aren't extreme players.

lol

I'm running a 3770 ;p

9:55 AM

I would prefer 2700K/3770K for a good performance with a low price,

(and it works fine for now!)

Yeah, it's been a long time since we have a reason to upgrade a desktop i7 at 2th-gen or later.

my only real reasons are "Dead PC" and "Cause I feel like it and have the money"

;p

dead PC -> replace dead parts, no need for a thoroughly new one ;)

@iDebug well if my motherboard fails, I'd have a limited amount of reusability

I'd probably keep the case, GPU, monitors...

10:11 AM

@JourneymanGeek And get a new Z77 ;)

The problem is, it's extremely hard to find another Z77 MB now.

Q: How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta?

@rene

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I posted a question here on Meta Stack Exchange, or on a per-site meta, regarding a bug I found in the system. I got no comments, or a few comments stating that this is a legitimate bug (and not by design). However, it's been quite a long time, and no official response was ever posted there. Or,...

support meta bump

I can find a few B75 and ~~H61~~ (useless) boards in 2017.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog dunno if this is related or not meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263662/…

that is related for sure

@SensibleAlexander Merely related, yes.

10:36 AM

......

.........

pleasebefakepleasebefakepleasebefakepleasebefakepleasebefakepleasebefake......

What's this?

fake?

fail?

@iDebug yup. probably will get something modern

According to Google... ACPocket = Animal Crossing - Pocket

so, let's put this here

10:48 AM

@JohnDvorak a preview that came straight from hell, that's what

an image of a future nightmare

a plea to another devilish event.

they're probably late by 3 months

@iDebug probably would go for another mainstream core i7, but I'm probably budgeting for a threadripper when its the time, and try to reuse my GPU and some other components

@SensibleAlexander that's Nintendo. Sadly, they are always on schedule.

and I just found out those items are in the datamine for the last update, so it is true.

ARGH

11:37 AM

@Derpy Whats the hellish part of it?

Not having the console and the game, I only know Aika Village...

11:58 AM

@Magisch And? How did it work out?

@rene 93% / A overall

Happy with that?

ish

You aimed for 100%? Might be unrealistic ...

I had an aunt who got 110% in an exam ._.

12:01 PM

I would have had 98% but got docked because of a technicality

(do 10 of 11 questions, she got bored...)

@Magisch ugh, zat is the worst

not to sound ungrateful because I still got 20+% more then any of my classmates but still

That is the right spirit @Magisch I'm proud of you

also, yay its over?

@Magisch see the % in the image?

a flower takes about 4 real world hour to grow.
The fusion rose can spawn a diamond Gothic bat 25% of the times. Each bat has a 48% catch rate.

Basically, you will probably catch a single bat for each 8 flowers you plant. Your garden can hold up to 20 flowers.

12:08 PM

is this some freemium mobile game

based on the last event numbers, I expect that the last reward will require about 40 bats.

Do your math. Then multiply the pain for 4 different bat types.

again, is this some freemium mobile game

@Magisch yes it is. Pretty easy going on every event so far except the butterfly one. You can live without paying and do everything pretty easily.

Basically, the only reason to pay is to get "commodity" items like increased storage and such

NONE of the paid items will help in the butterfly/bat catching.

the only -paid- option you have to help is a way to raise the catch rate of a single bat to 100%. That won't do any difference (excluding whale consumer that will cash out on each single bat)

Basically, even with a money grab aptitude in mind, the even is flawed. And mind you, this is Nintendo, not Gameloft/King... so they are not exactly the money-hungry type.

Hello everyone, I have a question about how long can someone survive in sky cells from ASOIAF/GoT. wich stackexchange is better suited ?

@Kepotx assuming the question can actually be answered and is not just a speculation seed...

12:24 PM

that was my first though, but the question is more science-oriented (can you sirvive hipothermia and how long befre going mad)

ugh. I've seen stuff like that in worldbuilding

tho sometimes people kinda make the questions wee bit too disturbing

with reality-check tag ?

yup. Don't make it a planeteos question explicitly tho

so i just make it as an example, but the question is more broad, about surviving in such conditions ?

That's a possibility!

(of course, look for similar questions to be sure, but I THINK it can be made to work)

Q: Is Game of Thrones realistic: food supplies during extended winters in medieval England

12:35 PM

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In Lyman Stone's fantastic blog post about George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, Stone mentions that the seasonal cycle of Westeros is very unrealistic. Here’s the truth: Medieval societies probably could not survive 6 winters in a row. Even modern societies would be hard-press...

society hard-science medieval food

it's not flagged as off-topic, so my question could also be on-topic

thank you

1:33 PM

@balpha Is this fix already out on production?

balpha

yeah

@balpha Things got a bit heated here, is that fix maybe related?

balpha

not really, but also not not really :)

I'm fixing that right now

OK, thanks.

balpha on bug duty this week?

1:38 PM

I would take bug duty all year given I don't have to touch CSS ....

@rene what if it was css bug duty?

Bug duty where you only get to fix css bugs

@Magisch I take up heavy drinking I guess ....

One of the colleagues I work with fixes CSS bugs on Friday night with a cigar and a bottle of Whiskey. He either fixes the CSS or gets really drunk, whatever happens first.

and then he hits the ballmer peak....

then somehow managed to code an entire webpage in C... and it renders on a standard web browser.

1:56 PM

@JourneymanGeek How?

Is your C generating html?

@Magisch No one knows.

The last guy who tried to figure it out ... was gibbering something about using regex to parse XHTML...

wasn't there a SCP about a webpage where inspecting the source code would compel people to off themselves?

probably

SCP about a tomato. And a joke.

Shadow the Hedgehog Wizard

2:39 PM

incoming slowness

SNAFU

We are aware using search on @StackOverflow is currently slow and we are looking into it.

Tweeted by StackStatus on January 30, 2018 at 2:38 PM

2:51 PM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog where?

SNAFU

3:57 PM

Currently running search out of our backup datacenter. Search will be a little bit slower while we figure out what happened in our primary datacenter and fix it.

Tweeted by StackStatus on January 30, 2018 at 3:54 PM in reply to StackStatus

Search got lost ...

4:12 PM

I read that as "backup laptop". I must sleep...

Tim Post

We can't find the problem with search because we're not able to search for it. Please standby as we set random things on fire to see if that helps.

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John Dvorak

Have you tried using Google? :P

4:29 PM

Being a Microsoft Shop they're required to Bing it

6:52 PM

@ShadowtheHedgehogWizard You started a bounty on a question and selected "authoritative reference needed". What reference do you want?

Q: Area 51 Discussions magic link shows wrong title

8:11 PM

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When magic-linking to Area 51 Discussions using [discuss.area51.se] or [area51.meta.se], the link shows up as: Area 51 That should be fixed to say "Area 51 Discussions" instead, because the actual link is to the discussions site. Proof: https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/messag...

bug area51 magic-links

@AdamLear Can you look into this?

Adam Lear

8:27 PM

I'll add it to my list, but probably won't get to it for a while

bluefeet

@AdamLear but it's urgent :P

@bluefeet Really?

bluefeet

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog well by pinging a dev about it, you kinda make it seem like it is. But no actually it's not urgent

@bluefeet Keep in mind that my mind works...in a special manner, so things like these seem quite critical to me, even though they're rather simple

Also, @bluefeet, @AdamLear once said that he prefers that even trivial issues be reported, because they're "super easy and trivial to fix".

Adam Lear

You reported it on meta.

8:33 PM

@AdamLear No official response. A status-review would have been nice

Adam Lear

Fun story about this specific issue - I know what's causing it but I don't know if the fix would have unexpected side-effects and I don't have time to chase it down right now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not status-tagging anything that's not actively being worked on.

@AdamLear No problem

There's at least one other user who thinks the same way as I do when filing such reports (@alexolut)

bluefeet

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog unfortunately, there is no guarantee for a response - meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263662/…

@bluefeet I'm just following my own guidelines to increase my chances

@rene chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303755/…

Bart

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog famous last words

8:40 PM

@Bart Just a quote from my answer. I knew that other question existed, so I was careful not to say guarantee or ensure there.

Given my rather...uncanny knowledge of the SE network, I would argue that this request should be implemented for me on Meta. But that same knowledge tells me that it's a bad idea in nature. — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog 24 secs ago

Shadow the Hedgehog Wizard

9:58 PM

→ 13 messages moved to Chimney

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog as far as I know, it means that official reply is expected, from SE staff. I use it on bug reports and feature requests I want to see fixed/implemented.

Wording might be off, never really looked into it. :)

Shadow the Hedgehog Wizard

@ShadowtheHedgehogWizard cool! How often did you had success?

@rene interesting question! Leaving bounties aside, I had personal success rate of one bug report or feature request I submitted of once every 19 days.

(taking into account I'm member for 2645 days)

Finding which of those had bounty that led to the completion is tricky though.