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12:54 AM
Morning!
... Well, it's not morning for me but...
 
1:28 AM
@ShadowWizard given my asthma and allergies there's a chance. Apparently the army really doesn't like food allergies, and I'm allergic to... pretty much every fruit I think, although I don't react to all of them
 
Fruit? Wow.
:(
 
Indeed. Rather annoying, as I actually like fruit :(
 
Are there any you can have? Or anything you can do to them to make them edible?
I ask because I have a friend with an onion allergy but it's OK if they're cooked.
 
Well, I broke out in hives from a loquat a couple years ago. Ever since then, apples, oranges, kiwis, tomatoes, etc make my mouth all tingly and sometimes trigger an asthma attack.
I don't usually eat cooked fruit, although I don't remember reacting to the baked apples
Current theory is that I'm allergic to pectin, but I really actually need to see an allergist. Hopefully in the next few weeks.
(the other theory is oral allergy syndrome)
 
Ah, so maybe stuff with low-pectin amounts...
 
1:36 AM
o0
 
It's funny, loquats aren't really seen in the US much (in my experience) but in my dad's neighborhood, the trees are everywhere, so I grew up eating them.
 
We happen to have a tree in our backyard... but I'm not allowed to touch them.
 
:( They're really good. Sorry you can't have them any more.
 
They're fairly common here.
Yeah... me too :P
 
@Mithrandir eh, out here, they'd probably just stick a band on you and throw you into a desk/stay out job ;p
 
1:40 AM
They're not exactly running out of candidates for those here, I think ;)
Anyway... insomnia is not fun, so I'll try to head back to sleep.
 
Rest!
 
@Mithrandir apparently every body matters
and we don't have excemptions unless you're dangerously insane
 
1:53 AM
Even then sometimes ;p
 
Eeesh.
 
hm
I didn't know smokey picked up on those
 
Yeah. They don't usually last long enough to get here.
 
 
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4:57 AM
@Catija My mom likes to pick fruit from random trees
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog that sounds dangerous
seems pretty pointless as spam
 
@JourneymanGeek They posted the same spam answer on this question
 
errrrr
without the number...
someone trying to code my first spambot live?
 
 
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6:48 AM
54 messages moved to Chimney
 
last year, SO announced they are going to start a bug bounty program in Hackerone. Still they are running it as a private program in hackerone?
 
@rene on that post, David said that they haven't launched it yet. But as of now, I believe it exist. This is for another purpose. Can you confirm they're running it?
 
> We are in the process of hiring a Director of Information Security who will be responsible for moving the entire program forward, including launching the security bug bounty program.
I haven't heard anything about that yet
I mean, my official sources are mostly the same as you guys. (and I've not heard anything off the bits of the security community I am in touch with)
 
7:03 AM
Me too. But this is to provide as a PoC to H1.
If any official/ participant confirms it, I can proceed.
 
@OptimusPrime it exists for sure, based on David's response I concluded they are not running it.
 
@Mithrandir ya, a good chunk of the top rated answers is folks I hang out with online
and this is certainly the sort of gossip I'd hope to be plugged into ;)
 
8:01 AM
The job listing stackoverflow.com/jobs/168625/… is closed. Think they got one.
 
hmm.. I wonder, how many of you here got email from Sam?
 
who is sam?
 
haha, turns out just pure spam or even scam. Will report to Google.
 
@ShadowWizard I don't have friends ...
 
Last week, I started blogging about security and really happy how it's going. It's going too high than my expectation
 
8:06 AM
Sam is friend of everyone.
 
stats in 1 week
@ShadowWizard not mine. not yet
 
@OptimusPrime good!
 
@Sha wait. How did he got your email?
 
He got hacked ...
 
@ShadowWizard thanks
 
8:08 AM
Or he emailed Sam first ...
 
@OptimusPrime my profile, I have it there as image
So it's likely not a bot, just human spammer.
 
hmm. I added my email in blog as username[at]gmail[dot]com like many others. Old bots can't find it
A website like Hackerone is launched last month (Antihack Me). I joined 1 week ago. Their own page says the minimum bounty is $100. I found severe issues like Stored XSS, IDOR, Unrestricted file access, etc. Lots of normal bugs are there too.
3 days before, they closed their own program and mailed me saying everyone who reported critical issues will get a swag.
I've 9 reports (5 of them are critical including account takeover). And all I am getting is a swag?
They claim that they're the First bug bounty platform in Singapore. Is it true? @JourneymanGeek
 
IDK ;p
 
Their devs promised no-one would find anything severe. When they got 10,000 reports with a wide-range of issues they had no other option then to fire the dev and kill the bounty program or they would go bankrupt
 
8:17 AM
hmm. it's easy to claim though. If you said so, no one's going to ask you about it
 
@rene ...kill the dev and fire the bounty program
On an unrelated note, I found the staff blame wheel.
 
@OptimusPrime contact her. :)
 
@rene The fun part is that, the team behind it claims that most of them are hall of famers in facebook, google, etc.
 
once you switch to the other side, things start to look different
 
@ShadowWizard ooh, Its within walking distance of where I live
Bit of an odd place for a hipster tech company
 
8:23 AM
@OptimusPrime these people?
 
@ShadowWizard Found about the program in a facebook group. 2 or 3 from the team are members of the group. So I can contact them on the group. but they are not responding to question asks about bounty. neither via fb nor via mail
 
oh,
> Our Hackers are in the hall of fame of the following companies:
Uber/Facebook/Google/Dell/Paypal/Dropbox/Apple and many more...
but probably not the devs
 
@SomewhatMemorableName yeah. but they should have tested it before launching publicly
@SomewhatMemorableName in the list, Dexter is one of the member in the fb group. Another one is Benjamin and I can't find him in the list
@ShadowWizard her photo in the site looks like a doll
 
It's... kind of interesting that 3 of them worked on SG Mining before
 
@SomewhatMemorableName SG mining is a client of them now
 
8:32 AM
hm
also seems more admin peeps than hackers?
 
since they have lots of issues, don't have to worry about sponsor
 
hmm
There's a guy who built a massive mining setup for a friend....
I wonder if that guy is the friend
 
 
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9:53 AM
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Q: Why is the rep threshold for commenting set specifically to 50?

Sonic the Inclusive HedgehogPlease note: this is NOT a request to change the reputation required to comment everywhere. Rather, this is a neutral support question asking about the existing limit. I'm wondering why the minimum reputation required to make comments was set specifically to 50 reputation, and not some other num...

 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog "Jeff thought it was a good idea" ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Please read until the final sentence.
 
"No one has any better ideas"
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I don't want to closehammer this
but...
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Q: Lower commenting threshold to 1 rep

juanI know it's like it is for some reason, but on Gaming we get a lot of new users that post comments as answers because they have 1 rep. Is it possible to lower the rep requirement for commenting to 1 rep? What is the official reason for it being 50?

What's changed from Jeff's answer here?
 
@JourneymanGeek Like the FAQ, that answer only explains the presence of a hurdle, not why it's specifically set to 50. You could equally make the two bulleted assertions about 25-rep users.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog well 25 is too easy? and 100 too hard?
 
10:03 AM
@JourneymanGeek On MSE we allow 5-rep users to comment. Additionally, on all sites, most of the system trusts you to not spam at 10 rep (the FAQ cites spam as a reason for a hurdle), upvoting and flagging privileges are given at 15 rep, and chatting at 20 rep.
 
MSE is odd though
on MSE we're using the SE engine for shudder discussion
MSE is not really a good example of... anything
 
@Shadow I want a concrete answer, not opinionated discussion.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog you're going to have trouble getting the logic of SE until you realise a lot of it is totally arbitrary
then tweaked
not everything was data scienced the crap out of. Some of it was simply scienced, bathtub gin style
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog you don't ask how to use a feature, so it can't be a support question as far as I can tell.
 
@ShadowWizard oh it isn't a support question any more?
 
10:07 AM
@ShadowWizard Read the tag wiki of .
@JourneymanGeek It definitely still is.
 
aww
I'd throw it a non hammer dupe closevote if it was
but I don't want to get into a tag edit war
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog eh, you wrote it. You could put whatever you like there, it does not make it official.
 
@JourneymanGeek Making a tag edit would deprive you from using your Chaos Emerald.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog That's what I want lol
 
@ShadowWizard It was given a stamp of approval by two other users
 
10:09 AM
then I can CV it without closehammering it
unless editing the tag back in, which I'm sure you would do, closehammers it.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog only if SE staff will approve that "Why is something working this way?" can be a support question I'll agree, sorry. Nothing personal.
 
@JourneymanGeek It's not a dupe because none of the answers explain the specific threshold of 50. The same arguments could equally be employed to support a limit of 75 or 100.
 
For me, support is "How to use", and "Why is it like that" is discussion.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I think its a dupe.
I don't want to use my closehammer on it
 
What is dupe? @Sonic question? Of what?
 
10:11 AM
on the gripping hand, editing it, close voting then editing back is abusive
 
@ShadowWizard If there's a definite, non-opinionated reason for something, that only SE staff can answer, it's not a .
 
definate non opinionated reasons? maybe. SE Staff answered? Emeritus and current.
 
@Shadow It's not a dupe of that, because...
2 mins ago, by Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
@JourneymanGeek It's not a dupe because none of the answers explain the specific threshold of 50. The same arguments could equally be employed to support a limit of 75 or 100.
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog why not? They can also discuss things. Tag isn't based on possible answers, but rather only question contents.
You can add a new tag . @Sonic
 
@Shadow I'm not looking for people's opinions on why the TSA decided they wanted to screen snacks from people's carry-on baggage. I want to know why the TSA decided to do it.
@ShadowWizard Meta tags are not permitted.
 
10:14 AM
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog in that vein, you'd say a question asking why the limit isn't 21.5 would be unique too
 
Anyway, this was something Jeff decided back in the early days of SO as far as I can tell. I doubt anyone in the current SE team can give you full and real answer. @Sonic
 
20 mins ago, by Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
@JourneymanGeek Please read until the final sentence.
 
They can guess and assume, same as any user.
It's not in the codebase.
 
There's obviously a documented reason why they decided to do nothing to it.
 
//mwahahah BECAUSE I CAN!!!!
 
10:16 AM
Many years later
 
It has been like that since 2010 (Jeff's blog), but I couldn't find the discussion about arbitrary number
 
@JourneymanGeek nice, yeah. Probably best answers Ano will get, but meh... let's leave it like this. :)
@SomewhatMemorableName to be honest this smells badly of scam. Can't find anything in quick search and honestly don't care enough, but won't be surprised if that whole "hackers" company isn't real at all, just some scam to mine crypto money or even hack those who "take part". /cc @Optimus
Would be awesome irony.
Any company calling itself "#1 in [this or that]" is suspicious.
Who are they to decide they are #1?
And easy to find more suspicious things, but hard to prove anything of course.
@Mithrandir well, my brother has life threatening allergy to Mango. Still, army gave him 72 profile (?) and he served as officer.
 
@ShadowWizard Our company is ranked #42 in yellow submarines, it is a race to the bottom, we hope to end lower next year
 
10:34 AM
Oh well, it seems the answer to "why 50 (or any arbitrary number) rep" is to ask Jeff directly...
(did I just WP:BEANS?)
 
@SomewhatMemorableName Just take a giant S as present with you and knock on his door
 
I don't understand why some users dislike the number 50. It's a nice, round number. It's half of of 100, and twice 25. What's to dislike?
 
If else, all the discussion on SO UserVoice has been deleted, so no logs related to older site discussion
 
@SomewhatMemorableName Still there, will give you a little time to find it
 
@MartinJames Change all reputation needed to be multiples of 13, or consists of number 4 only.
 
10:38 AM
@SomewhatMemorableName I don't think they used uservoice for very long tho
 
@SomewhatMemorableName Maybe. I would have gone with powers of 2: 32 or 64 for the comment limit.
 
@SomewhatMemorableName go to "declined"
 
@Mithrandir thanks, I didn't notice that >_<
 
@Mithrandir I did not know about this
also some of these are hilariously precient
 
10:43 AM
I especially don't understand requests to lower the limt.. Months of mostly-uproductive posts about hostile comments, and then some want the limit lowered so as to allow more comments, presumably assuming that the new comments would all be welcoming, happy and snowflake-friendly?
 
@MartinJames I actually asked for a higher limit at one point
Comments are something that .... people get wrong a lot
experienced users or otherwise
A new user can always comment on their own posts
 
Instead of reputation, "commenting everywhere" should be awarded if the user has posted at least 5 (or any arbitrary number) good posts.
 
I actually like the idea of comments being re-framed as clarifications
 
@SomewhatMemorableName Now, that's more like it, but Imma guessing that's more work than changing some config number.
 
Yeah, it has been discussed before on MSO: Why are privileges only rep-dependent?
 
10:49 AM
Enough people misuse comments already that allowing more people to use them seems like a bad idea, as @JourneymanGeek implied.
 
@Mithrandir heh, even experienced users ;)
 
Yeah, I have to remember which sites are fun or strict with comments, so that I don't accidentally mod-flag a post requesting comment clean-up which will end up declined.
 
@SomewhatMemorableName lol: 'It's not easy to attain 50 reputation points when you don't suffer from verbal diarrhoea or megalomania.' - maybe the Tavern regulars would care to identify which category they belong to? :) Do I need to get a white, fluffy cat, or maybe some digestive medicine?
 
@MartinJames what do you mean suffer. I rather enjoy megalomania
 
@JourneymanGeek lol
 
11:45 AM
JNat u there?
 
@OptimusPrime You forgot the @
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog nope. Intentional. If he's on anything else, don't want to disturb him
 
@OptimusPrime Pingophobia..
Shoggy has it pretty bad..:(
 
 
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2:30 PM
@MartinJames not that? last year, I was the one who pinged the devs more than anyone else.
Things changed
 
 
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4:13 PM
So like, with the new Code of Conduct coming in, should I be putting trigger warnings on jokes? I propose [warning: potential joke; not meant sarcastically] before anything that could possibly be considered either
 
You better don't
 
4:54 PM
@PeterDavidCarter that is probably as worse as I don't want to offend you ... followed by the most horrific offensive stuff you can imagine. I warned you it was offensive!
 
5:16 PM
@rene well, I just got banned from two separate chats and the message got deleted for saying exactly the same thing, so I guess the totalitarianism is real and this wasn't a joke about not being allowed to joke...
 
Yes, the standards go up quickly. I hope this ripple effect will reach /questions/ask/new as well.
 
@rene is it that only certain people are allowed to joke, or is everyone banned from joking?
 
Only those proven funny ...
 
by a jury of people with enough rep to vote
 
No, it is JokeBOT, it uses AI to determine if a comment is a joke and if yes, ranks it. Anything less then LMAOROFL will get you banned ...
Maybe we do need a meta post with still acceptable jokes.
 
5:24 PM
@rene that's good, makes me feel safe
 
Great. Glad I could help.
 
@rene Well, I've been laying a seed for it maybe yesterday.
 
@πάνταῥεῖ yes, tempting to post answers with jokes on different subjects and then let voting decide ...
 
5:46 PM
@rene it's not up to you to decide what I joke is rene, unless you're a moderator and then of course it is rolls on belly
 
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog liked and starred for friendship
 
I didn't read it but I like and starred so you will like and star my posts in future
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog is there anyone you'd like me to downvote?
 
@rene Please start with PHP - it's not like that is taxing..
 
5:59 PM
@MartinJames php is my absolute fav, what posts would you like me to upvote?
 
@PeterDavidCarter Since when do we downvote users but content?
 
@πάνταῥεῖ what even is content though?
 
Those confusing glyphs (very often in black on white) you see mostly in the body parts of posts :3
 
@πάνταῥεῖ is that what jokes means?
 
6:08 PM
kinda makes sense to me, like, joke is a symbol that refers to multiple endpoints, right?
am I being stupid again?
so banning jokes is like 'this is teh final endpoint'
 
FWIW, if jokes are gonna be banned on chat, then those users whose messages got starred right now will be gone...
 
@SomewhatMemorableName don't worry, the rules will only apply when the mods say they do
 
(yes, including Shog9)
 
@SomewhatMemorableName I know not of whom you speak
 
Shog9 is a SE employee and all place moderator.
 
6:20 PM
Oh, and I'm feeling hot again.
Just checked and the bed is full of poodle...
😵💦
 
@πάνταῥεῖ if he is a moderator he is always right
 
I doubt so
 
@πάνταῥεῖ you are right moderators are wonderful and learn from feedback
who else here thinks mods do an amazing job?
 
6:39 PM
Me. On some sites, that is.
 
It's going to get slippery here :3
 
@SomewhatMemorableName that's great Somewhat, you are an example to the regime
 
hard to know if it's sarcasm or not, but i don't care
 
@SomewhatMemorableName it's quite easy: if I were joking or being sarcastic the all-knowing mods would have banned me, so I must be serious
 
@PeterDavidCarter Why is that?
 
6:41 PM
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Code of Conduct
 
so, do i have to wait until you get banned here? ;)
 
@SomewhatMemorableName someone like you will never get banned, because you always support the regime
 
dunno... i try hard not to be banned. else, it's super easy for me to get banned
 
@SomewhatMemorableName you feel you have been been banned unfairly before? (you can talk openly here)
 
no, i haven't been banned at all. i just said it's super easy if i want to get banned deliberately
like, pinging Shog9 without reasons
 
6:47 PM
@SomewhatMemorableName that seems very silly, banned is a side-effect of a desired action, not a desired action
 
Apparently you have interacted with Shog directly on MSE...
oh well, time to sleep
 
I do not endorse 'Shog' and he is not allowed to use my name
 
7:05 PM
...what's going on here?
 
@Mithrandir Nothing good as it sounds :P
 
the downvotes in other areas after to make a legitimate downvote make me want to burn the whole site
 
@PeterDavidCarter can you tone it down a bit please?
 
apologies for truth
I now have one rep
 
@rene CHQ
sd 2poof
 
7:18 PM
@PeterDavidCarter I've asked you to tone it down earlier. Please be responsive to such requests.
 
@rene you're the boss, lol
@rene could you be specific about the things that offend you?
 
If a room mod attends to you, that's usually not without reasons.
 
@PeterDavidCarter You are being disruptive, and appear to be doing it fully intentionally, given the "answers" you have posted on the main site. Please stop; joking is one thing, but being intentionally rude and disruptive is another. You have crossed the line.
 
@Mithrandir disruptive of what?
 
@PeterDavidCarter that you keep going on while I already warned you once.
 
7:23 PM
@PeterDavidCarter It seems you're full of emotions right now. Take a walk and calm down, just avoid SE for now.
 
At least repeatedly self-promoting now
 
And just for the record, all users' recent activities are publicly available on their network profile, so it's better to stop doing questionable things.
 
7:39 PM
sigh... wish the flag troll will get a chat ban soon.
@JourneymanGeek mods can see who flagged, right? Even after the flags are dismissed?
 
prying into secrets now, are we? ;)
 
@SomewhatMemorableName dunno but flagging a "lol" message is far worse and not funny a tiny bit.
As mod I'd give a long ban for abusing chat flags.
 
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A: Who is able to see who raised a chat flag?

MithrandirThis depends on a couple things. If a moderator on the site that a room is hosted on is in the room at the time that the message was flagged, they can see who flagged the message. If they weren't there, they can't see it anymore. They can't see it after the fact, and mods who aren't mods on the ...

 
@SomewhatMemorableName full of... this?!
o_O
 
Curly haired dogs are cute.
 
7:43 PM
@SomewhatMemorableName oh wait, so that emoticon means... sweat? :D
 
@ShadowWizard Poodles are fine too...
... huh, apparently I used a wrong word!
that means I have to sleep (3am)
 
@SomewhatMemorableName so you meant... puddle? ;)
 
fail fun fell flat
 
OK, now that's weird. I can swear Peter had over 100 rep couple of hours ago. Now only 1. How can that be? Invisible suspension? (No notice on his profile.)
 
I was wondering about that also
 
7:49 PM
(insert message about not talking about users when they can't defend themselves if not actively moderation related)
 
@Mithrandir but if not suspended he can...
 
You need 20 rep to chat.
 
And BTW, it was me who flagged the lol, it was clearly offensive in that context
 
@πάνταῥεῖ no it's not. It's pure abuse of chat flags.
One can also flag "hello" because he just feels like that. It doesn't make the flag legit.
 
7:53 PM
(okay, now I really need to sleep... 💤)
 
@SomewhatMemorableName sleep well
 
@SomewhatMemorableName Good N8
 

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