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3:00 PM

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@ShadowWizard I see. I looked at it and felt a bit sorry for the asker, who has only 1 point, and wrote a not-so-short question which looks like they're genuinely trying to help, so I upvoted to give them 5 points. But then I looked at their profile and see they have absolutely no questions/answers anywhere else, so it looks a bit suspicious. Is this what they do to start a new account and get enough reputation to participate? Had to un-upvote this one

@ShadowWizard I looked closer. This user joined today and has 0 profile views. How could they know enough to go to Meta and ask this question? Turned out they are ADVERTISING their own version of Stack Overflow !!!! Did you click on their link ?? It's an exact copy of SO and they are just pretending to ask a question in order to advertise it !!

Journeyman Geek

naw

A lot of people passively use SO

they probably felt it was helpful

user1271772

@JourneymanGeek : Okay, well they made the account today just for this. A lot of people passively use SO, but it's unlikely they know about Meta. Anyway maybe I'm being too cynical.

Journeyman Geek

I think you are

user1271772

@ShadowWizard : Is it really a duplicate? The answer to the dupe talked about it being a "scrapper" which copies content from SO, and the answer says "In principle, there's actually nothing wrong with doing this. Our content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 and is freely redistribituble". But this one is not just copying the content, it's copied the entire source

Journeyman Geek

3:10 PM

Assume good intent ;)

@user1271772 that's covered

user1271772

@JourneymanGeek Where?

Journeyman Geek

> The site is a proxy. Whatever the purpose of the site actually is, malicious or not, proxies represent a serious security threat to our site. Sometimes they even start showing up in Google results and users click on them not realizing that they aren't actually on Stack Overflow. Users get confused, or try to log in and accidentally send sensitive information to a third-party service.

user1271772

I understand all of that

I just thought the answer to the question that was linked, was not actually the best answer to give for this particular question, because it says "In principle, there's actually nothing wrong with doing this. Our content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 and is freely redistribituble"

Journeyman Geek

well content is fine (within the licence)

but copying the whole site isn't

user1271772

Which is wrong isn't it? The "contact us" option is what should be used here

Exactly

Is it possible to un-close the question so I can answer it a bit better?

Journeyman Geek

3:15 PM

@user1271772 in theory though, since it was a CM who closed it...

even if she's on vacation ...

I think people would know

so no need

user1271772

I thought she was on leave last week

Journeyman Geek

She's still on leave. She's not working. She's socialising ;p

user1271772

I see

Shadow Wizard

3:36 PM

@user1271772 yes it is duplicate.

And the faq it's closed as dupe of covers all options, including "bad" scrapers.

Derpy

... and as I expected, browsing the vsdl2 available promotions in my country only confirmed this place is muddy swamp of bloat.

Catija

I made a small human... I'm allowed more than a week.

5

Shadow Wizard

@user1271772 you somehow missed this:

CoFa1

1 1

Member for 17 days. Probably he/she stalked SO/MSE for long time before actually joining, like many do.

And there is always a chance someone can write a good question as their very first question, as unlikely as it might seem. :)

@Catija sleep mode is good. ;)

Catija

He's keeping me warm :P

Shadow Wizard

Oh, he sleeps on you? Looks like he's on some chair or couch in the picture.

Well, my baby daughter spent like 90% of her first three months on her mother.

5% on me, and 5% in her bed.

Luckily she made no problems going to day care and loved being there. :)

Catija

3:46 PM

@ShadowWizard I;m in a chair, he's in my arms.

His head is on my elbow.

Shadow Wizard

@Catija ohhh... I see now. Your skin color is too much like the chair color. ;)

Catija

har har.

and myself

I can't put my words on mod questionnaire...... >_<

it feels very hard for me to answer those questions...

Andras Deak

@Derpy ah

@Catija awww

he's adorable

Catija

Thanks. :)

SmokeDetector

3:56 PM

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Derpy

@AndrasDeak consider that in the animated show she basically "dies", getting turned into a statue after "sacrificing" herself to save the Titans and the city. The episode ends with the Titans promising to bring her back. The statue is never mentioned again.

Then suddenly, in the last episode.

> Later, after returning home from defeating the Brotherhood of Evil, Beast Boy is shocked to find a girl that looks like Terra at a local school, apparently unharmed. While she claims to have no recollection of her previous life, it is revealed that the statue Terra turned into had vanished. After failing to convince the girl to return, she ultimately tells Beast Boy to let go of the past

she is somehow back, without any memory and the statue is just gone. The show is cancelled soon after.

Andras Deak

aren't major retcons just everyday life in the comic world?

Journeyman Geek

yup

Derpy

oh, yep, but the fact that the retcon changed a character that was somehow morally gray in the original in a Nami-like victim of her life... that I think may have triggered someone to push the "you won't do this with our character" button

Andras Deak

The Doctor realized that her statue was actually a weeping angel and stopped her from having become one. There.

Derpy

4:01 PM

Ever played Epic Mikey?

there is a big difference from the finale game that was sold and the original one warren planed before Disney meddled that plan.

Andras Deak

I suspect all of our cultural experiences are disjoint

Derpy

let's just say that the game was supposed to have a sort of morality alignment system. The finale product only has some vague remains of that

The original plan?

well....

THIS was what you would become on the "dark" path.

Shadow Wizard

Who? Me? ;)

It looks very... liquid.

Derpy

then Disney saw it.

@ShadowWizard because it was made from ink.

Shadow Wizard

oh.

Derpy

4:06 PM

and if that suddenly reminds you of the Ink Demon from Bendy.... yep, I supposed it was made on purpose

@ShadowWizard in the game, you have two tools. A brush, and a thinner. The first can create stuff, the second destroys stuff. You have multiple choices on how to go forward at some points in the game

example: delete a building or go around it

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy nice, reminds me of Okami.

Derpy

deletion is supposedly "evil" and creation is "good"

Shadow Wizard

There you draw a line on enemies in battle to hit them.

Derpy

based on how you played, Mickey would have changed appearance.

Andras Deak

@Derpy clearly the creators don't frequent SO

Shadow Wizard

4:09 PM

And you can also create stuff by drawing. Wonder who copied from whom? :)

Derpy

that image was the planned "evil Mickey"

and myself

Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color... never mind...

Derpy

in the final game, there is no such thing. There is an "evil" ending, but it pretty evident it was rewritten and toned down .

Andras Deak

Mickey stubs his toe on a chair

Derpy

another scrapped idea was this...

I think you may notice a pattern by now

Shadow Wizard

4:12 PM

eww

It's just creepy, not scary.

Andras Deak

Disney doesn't want 6-year-olds to pee their beds?

Derpy

Everything out of character was probably vetoed

@AndrasDeak bingo.

Andras Deak

perhaps someone tweeted about the designs

Derpy

eheh.

anyway, have to go for now.

Later

Andras Deak

bye

Mgetz

4:20 PM

@Derpy why do I get the feeling that Disney quashed this very very very fast

user1271772

@ShadowWizard : It seems clear that I was wrong in this case.

I also didn't know that one can be a user on SO for 17 days and on Meta for just 1 day. It says "joined earlier today" for Meta, but I didn't know that you can click on SO and find out when they joined that.

@Catija Very cute. Did you make the small human in your profile pic too?

Catija

Yes. He's 2.

user1271772

:)

If they are anything like mine, it won't be long before the younger one gets jealous that brother is on profile pic! Eventually you'll have a replica of @ShadowWizard's current pic

rene

4:52 PM

@ShadowWizard @Glorfindel a bit of a trainwreck on MSO: needs delete votes here

Andras Deak

doesn't it need close votes first?

rene

Oh, what a mess

Andras Deak

did you mean to delv-pls the dupe?

what you linked is the dupe target right now, and as such won't be delvable :|

oh well, deleted the dupe

rene

thanks

Andras Deak

(my first 20k delv \o/)

@rene delete your comment on the other post

thanks

rene

5:07 PM

yw

Andras Deak

Let's first agree that the question you linked to is indeed off-topic for SO as it is more of an installation issue then a programming issue. So now I wonder what the potential answer would be that you are going to add as it must at least convince us all that the question is incorrectly closed. — rene 2 mins ago

"us all", all three people seeing that on meta ;D

rene

just between you, me and someone random ...

and myself

between all of you and myself...

SmokeDetector

5:28 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): Other diophantine equations solved thanks to modularity theorem by They Rlost on math.SE

Shadow Wizard

7:03 PM

@user1271772 yes the join date is the date when creating the account on each site, not the date joining the first in the network.

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Optimus Prime

was searching for my blanket and later found that it got a new owner

Kevin B

o/

Tinkeringbell

Awww. I'm afraid the blanket is lost forever now though.

Optimus Prime

7:23 PM

no. I took it and give her my pillow

I can't use pillows coz of d f***ing back pain

Tinkeringbell

@OptimusPrime :(

Any chance of it getting better with time, or is this chronic?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

cv-pls duplicate: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318361/… (@rene)

@OptimusPrime Tried a body pillow?

@rene It's a rejected migration; the Roomba will get around to deleting it.

The original can be del-voted, however: stackoverflow.com/questions/53322026/…

Optimus Prime

7:57 PM

@Tinkeringbell permanent. A fracture on one of the backbone disc

Tinkeringbell

more :( then.

Mgetz

@OptimusPrime that tends to happen when small fuzzy owners are around

Optimus Prime

@Tinkeringbell O_o

Tinkeringbell

@OptimusPrime Well, it's not good if it's not going to get better, is it?

Optimus Prime

yeah

and the only thing I am worried about is my marriage life

:(

Andras Deak

9:12 PM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog how did that not get migrated? Multiple copies?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@AndrasDeak The migration was rejected.

Andras Deak

Oh, rejected

Yeah, thanks

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

This unlocked the original SO question.

SmokeDetector

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Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

9:31 PM

@Shog9 Something's wrong with the history of this question. On the question page, it says that five users voted to migrate, whereas only SE employees can migrate from this site. On the history page, it says that the same five users voted to close in 2014, and then you recently migrated the question, but I don't see a reopening and re-closing that I normally see if a mod decides to migrate a closed question. What did you do on that question?

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