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4:07 AM

Errr. Anyone happen to know what would cause my motherboard to fail at initializing Memory Channel B? -.- Dealing with this computer is getting really old.

user234239

6:44 AM

@animuson maybe Jon Skeet is absorbing the power from it...

Harry

10:01 AM

Hi

Oded

Hello

Bart

Hola

Harry

I had a flag marked as disputed yesterday and reading some meta posts I found out the reason for it

But I still feel that the answer that I flagged is more of a "thank you" comment kind rather than an answer.

Would it be right on my part to flag it again?

Question link is stackoverflow.com/questions/15753683/…. Refer to the answer posted by user Gianni

Bart

Myeah, that's a comment all right.

Oded

@Bart - it is a very low quality answer, but the OP actually explains what solved the issue in his case

Bart

10:07 AM

Nah, just read the accepted answer @Oded. It's a "great, that's what I did" type of deal.

Oded

Flagging as NAA would be rejected again. I would flag as VLQ

Harry

@Oded: If you refer to the accepted answer, it actually has the same words

Thanks @Oded

@Bart Thanks to you too. Will flag it as VLQ :)

Oded

@Bart - Yeah, I see it is a me too, but that wouldn't be obvious to a moderator. Looks too much like an answer.

Bart

True.

Harry

10:54 AM

@Oded: As it turns out, my VLQ flag also got disputed :P I guess I must now stop flagging it :)

Oded

@Harry Shame that. But that was by the community - for some reason, others didn't think of it as low quality (!?).

Harry

Yep, different people different opinions. Never mind, thanks again for your help and bye :)

Bart

11:29 AM

Hehe, my NAA flag has been regarded as Helpful.... ah well.

Oded

o_O - yay for consistency

S Nash

12:12 PM

@Bart happy downvoting

Bart

Hi @SNash. I'm doing fine. Glad you asked. Hope you're equally well?

S Nash

I fine. Wonder how many questions you and your "Group" downvoted today?

Bart

Anything in particular you're referring to here?

S Nash

did you hit your 100 hit point yet?

well day is still young ....

Bart

Listen, it is absolutely none of your business how I vote. But just to humour you, would you like to know how I voted on all your posts?

Oded

12:15 PM

your "Group"? What are you talking about?

S Nash

Well I cant care less how anyone votes on my posts.

Bart

And yet you keep whining about it.

Oded

@SNash Is the sole reason for you coming into this chat is to antagonize people?

Bart

FYI, I have just checked, and I downvoted a grand total of 2 of your posts. One answer and one question.

S Nash

no but my buddy Bart is one of the kind

And I know his whole team!

Bart

12:17 PM

We're rapidly moving into tinfoil hat territory here

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S Nash

Enough waste of time for me. Need to go. don;t make SO worst than what it is. Encourrage new users. do not mass downvote them. got it ?

Bart

zzzzzz

Oded

@SNash - be good user, don't ask bad questions and don't answer with bad answers. And stop trolling on Chat.

S Nash

Haha

Oded

Also - don't tell people how to vote.

S Nash

12:19 PM

bad quesions?

Give me a break

Im on the the top players in EE

Why i care about little SO

michaelb958

@SNash Which EE?

S Nash

you tihnk your big because you have more points in SO?

Oded

???

S Nash

This is waste of my time.

Bart

That reminds me of a Frankie Boyle joke about being the most handsome guy in the burns unit ....

perhaps Pekka

12:21 PM

lol I don't even know what's going on in here

S Nash

WHy i discuss with a Team of brotherhood. You are all a team.

perhaps Pekka

We are.

Crickets

chirps

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Bart

secret handshake @perhapsPekka

perhaps Pekka

We are an elite country club conspiring to keep out the poor people

S Nash

12:21 PM

Come to EE Community chAnell kid , free chat

perhaps Pekka

As in, low-reputation members of the site.

S Nash

If you dare

then I will show you my team ;)

Bart

Keep them out @perhapsPekka .... and here I have been killing them.

Oded

@SNash - 1. Grow up. 2. You are the one who came in here and started with accusations, not us.

perhaps Pekka

@Bart whatever works, man.

S Nash

12:23 PM

@ Oded did not accuse anyone

@oded Bart Addmited to downvoting

@ oded i think you need to grow up you little cihld

perhaps Pekka

We're also lobbying Stack Exchange to give voting rights only to users with reputation. Just like in the olden days when you had to own property to vote

Oded

Oh no! Not downvotes!!!

perhaps Pekka

Guys, this dude is like, fourteen or something.

Oded

Actually, this whole attitude of yours is childish.

S Nash

You guys wil get your punishment

Oded

12:24 PM

@perhapsPekka That much?

S Nash

keep losin more new users to EE

EE loves it

perhaps Pekka

@SNash lol

S Nash

Mass downvote new users more

perhaps Pekka

We will!

michaelb958

This is weird. User -24 over there has been (according to hir General tab) been in 0 rooms and posted 1 message, but (according to hir Recent tab) has posted 17 messages here.

Oded

12:24 PM

We are happy to give users to the hyphenated ones

Bart

@SNash Or, you know, don't contribute crappy content.

Oded

Make good sacrifices.

balpha

@michaelb958 vee have seekrits

S Nash

EE now gets twice the number of new users thanks to you

good job

perhaps Pekka

That's great. It's nice to know there's a good place for my codez doezn work dont know why plz halppp!!! users

Bart

12:25 PM

So you're here to thank us?

S Nash

Bart you are a EE hero

Bart

I demand a shrine!

S Nash

keep pissing off more new users

perhaps Pekka

We will.

S Nash

go for it

Yi Jiang

12:26 PM

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Oded

All hail the hypnobart

2

Bart

Ah, good lunch time fun. :) Good, back to work.

ThiefMaster

Oh nice, the expert-sex-change troll is (was) in chat, too... I wonder why he even bothers using SO when EE is apparently so much better.

Oded

@ThiefMaster - Answer envy. SO answers are bigger than his.

perhaps Pekka

then I will show you my team ;) Actually, that threat cowed me. I am too afraid to enter there now.

Bart

12:31 PM

"Stack Overflow. Viagra for answers"? @Oded

Oded

Not sure. You get answers in seconds... would that be like premature <elided>?

Bart

I'm considering several responses to that with regards to what that would make EE. But I can really type none of those without a suspension.....

Oded

snort

Am I a bad person for thinking EE stood for our Electrical Engineering SE, even though the troll has that logo as an avatar?

michaelb958

@Oded Well, I wasn't sure whether he meant Electrical Engineering or that place which shall not be named, so I foolishly asked for clarification. What does that make me? (Trolled?)

Oded

Nope, just means both of us have expunged the site that will not be named from our collective memories.

Yi Jiang

12:55 PM

@Oded Is that what the logo is? I thought it was for an old version of Microsoft's Exchange server

Oded

@YiJiang Yeah. Looks like one of the MS office logos.

user234239

1:08 PM

@Oded @Bart... I'm baaaaack

Oded

@UV-D Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

user234239

Yes, yes I am

Oded

Oh. It's UV-D, not the EE troll. Yay!!!

user234239

ha ha ha ha

user234239

LOL

Oded

1:09 PM

;)

user234239

what is an EE troll?

Bart

Just scroll up a bit @UV-D :)

Oded

Just read the transcript above - anything by and around "S Nash"

user234239

oooh entertainment! and I have caramelised popcorn here too

ThiefMaster

his meta posts are also somewhat amusing

not sure if they aren't already deleted though

Bart

1:12 PM

Don't gloat too much though. We were in the presence of self-professed EE royalty. A bit of respect please.

ThiefMaster

-43

Q: Suggestion a way to buy reputation

I suggest a way to buy reputation on SO. And yes I have seen the following link which is irrelavent: Is there a way to buy SO reputation? But my purpose is completely different from the above. My only purpose for buying reputation is not for looking more important/famous but to be able to p...

Oded

Classy

Bart

I guess his focus on me started here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/193338/… :) Good times....

ThiefMaster

-45

Q: Is there a way to buy SO reputation?

Is there a feature by which we can buy reputation on SO (e.g 100 rep for $1)?, or a bot by which we can hack and increase our reputation?

support stackoverflow reputation gaming-the-system

user234239

Holy odd socks, that dude is....odd

user234239

1:17 PM

not even an integer

Bart

And then you just see the stuff that's still there ....

user234239

so, not even an irrational number?

Bart

A weird number at most ...

user234239

sounds like he could be related to another one who is interesting... ahem Skippy ahem... (aka thinksalot)

Bart

Ah, I miss Skippy.

user234239

1:20 PM

lol

user234239

she initiated a bit of drama at another site

user234239

lol

Oded

user234239

good times

user234239

lol

Oded

1:21 PM

@Bart There you go ^^^

user234239

don't eat it all at once

Bart

Tastes like dust and plastic....

user234239

mmmmm yummy

user234239

hey will SNash be back here after his 15 minutes?

Bart

Who knows. He might be

user234239

1:25 PM

its that I still have some caramelised popcorn

user234239

In the meantime, have a bit of good news - 4th paper accepted for publication

Bart

Nice. Congrats :)

user234239

involving android apps

Bart

Having papers accepted is always a great feeling.

user234239

and death rays, black holes, duct tape and plumbing supplies

Bart

1:29 PM

The McGyver app?

user234239

lol, McGyver...pffft... no, the S.Nash app...lol

user234239

nah, it is for atmospheric physics based applications

user234239

and unfortunately does not include a death ray

Bart

You should be glad I wasn't one of the reviewers. I'd have rejected it. Significant lack of death.

user234239

LOL on of the reviewers came close, had quite the conniption about his misreading of the text...lol

Bart

1:35 PM

Reviewers are ... well ... arghhh. And not just for my own papers. I've managed a journal for 4 years, trying to get in good reviews... That is, well, let's say a challenge.

user234239

I'd imagine it would be... this one was well out of his comfort zone

Bart

Oh yeah, we had b*st*rds like that. And then after a review long after the deadline they came up with the conclusion "I personally doubt if I'd accept the paper, but I'll gladly follow the advice of the other reviewers" ... At which point I would hunt them down and kill them.

user234239

lol yes, one of th comments this reviewer gave was about half a page, I looked at what he was on about and found it was an obvious misprint on my part... my response "misprint on page ## corrected to blah"

Bart

:D

user234239

But this paper was about the automation of a previous paper - and it ws clear that this reviewer did not read said previous paper...lol

user234239

1:42 PM

he did not do his homework... tsk tsk... detention!

user234239

just watched a hilarious film - Cockneys vs Zombies

user234239

it was Shaun of the Dead meets Lock Stock and 2 Smoking BArrels

Bart

2:09 PM

Haha, another video with my voice as the voice-over has been released for the foundation where I work. So .... freaking ..... awkward.

Dutch accents in English are horrendous

Oded

Dutch accents in Hebrew... less so.

Bart

Hmm, perhaps we should do that next time. I guess not speaking any Hebrew should not be an objection ....

Oded

lol

I have lots of Dutch Hebrew speakers in my family

Bart

It's already weird to hear yourself back. But to hear it in another language as well ... Ah well, still better than the thick French accents of my colleagues.

Oded

2:35 PM

lol

animuson

5:00 PM

I like how eBay teaches users how to do basic math...

balpha

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mootinator

6:37 PM

...MAD WITH POWER. Muhahahhahahahaha.

Ben Voigt

So, mods... there's a user fighting repeated deletion of his answer by reposting it. I don't understand why it's being deleted in the first place. is this a sockpuppet for a banned user?

0

A: Where can I find IRQF_NODELAY flag in Linux kernel?

IRQ_NODELAY was replaced by IRQF_NO_THREAD. It works fine, I have used it for one project. You can pass it as third argument in the request_irq function.

ThiefMaster

At least when handling flags quickly I can see why someone would delete it as NAA

"I was googling for quite a long time the last few days and I found this: IRQF_NO_THREAD " (maybe a few more chars in the summary). That very much looks like a "me too"-style post

Ben Voigt

It's not the best style for sure, but it essentially claims that this flag replaced the other one, which definitely answers the question. I don't know if it's factually correct however.

mootinator

Very suspicious account activity though if you ask me...

Ben Voigt

are we looking at the same user? np88 doesn't seem to have enough rep to engage in any of those activites

mootinator

6:44 PM

What, no, sorry.

Ben Voigt

If that's a separate thread entirely, then yes I agree that looks mighty suspicious.

mootinator

I'm sure the script will get it.

Yes.

Ben Voigt

I feel like I missed something.

mootinator

On a literally unrelated note.

Are there people at Google Analytics who obsessively check the stats on people checking their stats? Statsception?

Tweeted by iChris on September 23, 2013 at 6:44 PM

Why isn't meta.stackoverflow called stackception?

Ben Voigt

That's on a literal note? Sticky or Post-It? Need photographic evidence!

mootinator

6:49 PM

I feel like the word meta has become antiquated.

>_>

Ben Voigt

Or was the note made from extraterrestrial paper, so it shares no DNA with other notes (literally unrelated)?

mootinator

I see what you did there.

Reminds me of talking to my uncle. While we're on the topic of relations.

Ben Voigt

I want to apologize for coming in here and annoying the mods. You guys do fantastic work. But I have to get back to real work.

mootinator

Ciao @BenVoigt

animuson

The only thing annoying me right now is these crappy motion controls. Now I know why motion-controlled games are so cheap. THEY SUCK!

It's like playing a game blindfolded...

mootinator

6:54 PM

I bought a leapmotion :(

It's one of those first-gen motion things that looks good on promo videos but really just makes you want to throw your computer against a wall.

animuson

The entire computer? That's bad.

The only thing keeping me sane right now is that one of the events is called "Skeet" and it amuses me.

mootinator

@animuson I primarily use a laptop.

Breaking the monitor off to throw it against the wall would just be extra work.

KyleMit

7:44 PM

Is there a moderator who can look into a case of serial downvoting for me?

Bart

You have been serially downvoted @KyleMit? (Not a mod btw)

KyleMit

@Bart, I suspect so. I was patiently waiting for the script to run, but it seems to have not caught anything so the votes remain. !screenshot

Bart

Hmm, it at least looks suspicious at first glance. Can't help you out there. So let's see if a mod responds. Sorry. Good luck.

animuson

@KyleMit Three of those did get reversed, as indicated by the three undownvote events at 03:00 the following day. They just didn't get grouped into a reversal event.

Bart

8:01 PM

Ah, didn't we have such weirdness some weeks ago for another user @animuson? Don't know if that was in chat or on Meta ...

KyleMit

@animuson, I did notice that three of them were reversed, but the outstanding ones seem to be equally good candidates.

@animuson, On the 15th I flagged one of the remaining posts for moderator attention with a note about all 5 and the subsequent reversals. Yesterday the flag was marked helpful, but I didn't see any type of note or action taken.

animuson

@KyleMit From what I can tell, only the three that got reversed were actually from a single user. The other two may have been from another single user, but not from the user who cast the other three. There's not really anything we can do about those two.

KyleMit

@animuson, that's perfectly understandable. It just seemed very odd to me. There were two similar events, sandwiched in between three events that eventually got reversed. That all happened within 5 minutes on completely unrelated and otherwise inactive questions. Perhaps they all came from the same IP? I really can't imagine that I did something to piss off one person. I have an even harder time imagining what i did to simultaneously annoy two. Thanks for looking into it.