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Moshe

00:20

@pekka - Google claims I've been logged in from Germany.

Mechanical snail

@Moshe Were you logged in from Germany?

ajax333221

00:53

@AnnaLear is my answer's flag part wrong? should I remove it?

Anna Lear

@ajax333221 it's not wrong, but I didn't want to draw additional attention to it :)

ajax333221

I wrote that part by guessing, but I think they didn't used to flag to request deletions

Anna Lear

Mods can (and do) delete users by request when folks flag a post of their own, but the official process is the email. It's not a big deal either way.

Shog9

@Moshe First, change all your passwords and set up two-factor auth. Then send @pekka a taunting email.

ajax333221

01:09

guys I think this link won't delete the closed questions . It just delete open ones . — Bahareh LV 7 mins ago

^--- this is what happens when you accept an incomplete answer that doesn't explain/work as you want

luckily, he asked a dup, otherwise he would probably not find a solution because after an accept there is much less movement

animuson

Is Jin in charge of the Chat CSS as well? Or is that balpha's zone?

Rebecca Chernoff

01:21

@animuson the monkeys handle that.

ajax333221

@animuson you ask because this?

animuson

A: Black tiny shapes in chat's input textbox

This is an issue of non-matching heights between the textarea and the CSS. On the element itself, a height of 58px is specified (which becomes 62px with the padding added in), which is exactly the height of the section being used in the sprite image. However, the CSS specifies a max-height: 60px ...

It's a simple enough fix - even a monkey could do it!

Tim Stone

@ajax333221 Nicely done. :P

@animuson Or just box-shadow: 0px 2px 5px #D0D0D0 inset; or something.

animuson

Or they could just do without the gradient. Nothing else is gradiented, I don't know why they need it there.

I didn't even know it was there until I looked for it investigating that.

Tim Stone

BECAUSE FANCY

Lance Roberts

01:34

@BoltClock, did you see my flag?

Shog9

02:09

This might actually be possible with the new engine... I would expect it to behave as "each AND search AND term AND (tag OR tag OR tag)"

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animuson

04:09

You are awesome!* - - - - - * Statement only applies on February 29th.

ajax333221

04:21

(valid on non-leap years only)

user200500

I don't get it. Is my question really a duplicate of any of these?

animuson

@Asad: Yes, kind of. The key issue behind whether or not to automatically do this is perfectly covered by that question. And the answer is - we shouldn't do this in all circumstances, so logically it makes sense not to do it automatically.

Moshe

04:37

user200500

@animuson But in Jeff's answer, the argument against doing this does not apply to automated pulling: only do it if it is of sufficient quality to deserve hand tuning. I suspect the reasoning is that you don't need to spam the front page with edits like that, and user effort is better directed elsewhere.

Moshe

@Oded - Hey from NY! I'm missing Jerusalem at the moment, hope to get back some time soon.

@Mechanicalsnail Hellz bellz! NO!

Shog9

@Asad Also avoids inadvertently scraping some dodgy site for dodgy pics and then preserving them in amber for the world to enjoy

animuson

@Asad: But the point is still there. It's not worth Stack Exchange's or Imgur's time or resources to pull images that a) aren't necessarily important to the post or b) are contained within a poor-quality post to begin with.

user200500

@animuson I see your point, but most answerers that bother to include images usually leave a high quality answer. And we don't really have a score limit on posts to be able to include images so we still have the occasional useless image going into the imgur account now.

user200500

04:49

@Shog9 Looking at costs vs benefits, I'd say "dodgy pics" don't get to stay in SO content very often, and the few that do get through are worth it to preserve the good ones. If we had more crap images on SO than good ones then I would agree with you.

Shog9

@Asad I'm not actually against doing this, FWIW - just saying that there are probably better reasons to cherry-pick images than front-page concerns.

user200500

@Shog9 Yeah of course, there will almost certainly be stronger counter arguments than the ones I can come up with myself. I just think the question isn't really the same as the one it is closed as a dupe of.

Garrett Fogerlie

I just had a quick question with regards to how common is it for a new minor bug to be discovered now that SE is so far along and seemingly perfect?

user200500

05:05

You can look at the bug tag to see recent bug reports

animuson

Seemingly perfect?

Garrett Fogerlie

@Asad thx, didn't think about that! it worked

@animuson very perfect when compared to 99+% of sites

Lance Roberts

@Shog9, thanks for the tag change

Shog9