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michaelb958

00:36

status-the-status-limit-is-50-chars--tested-it-in-sandbox

hichris123

status-why-length-limits

michaelb958

status-i-dont-know-but-they-must-have-had-a-reason

hichris123

status-more-work-to-put-length-limit

michaelb958

status-yeah-but-do-you-really-want-screenfuls-of-red-tags

hichris123

status-is-that-better

status-yes

hichris123

02:05

SPAM: askubuntu.com/questions/421906/price-of-ubuntu-right-now

michaelb958

Someone give that guy a link to Stallman.

Doorknob

03:16

data.SE is down

Tim Stone

status-norepro

Doorknob

aaaand it just came back up

that was brief

ManishBot

04:30

[ SmokeDetector ] DDoS spam: Regards to DDoS attack + website Recovery on meta.stackoverflow.com

Williams

05:12

Vochmelka, Czech Republic

1

Profile is quite offensive

Do guys something

Williams

05:27

My question

2

Q: Do Moderators not take action against the guy for offensive profile picture

I am new on the Meta Stack Overflow. I am seeing now a days offensive profile avatar of the guys who are on the Stack Overflow. IMO, This simply is not good to have these offensive profile avator on this professional website because this is not either facebook etc. See here http://meta.stackover...

discussion stackoverflow profile-page offensive

Jan Dvorak

06:18

@Williams and yet you posted it here in full glory and didn't remove it while you could

(by the way, "vochmelka" roughly means "boozehound" in czech)

Williams

OK

Dennis Meng

07:02

Interesting. I think I just ended up being the last guy to flag a comment before it got auto-soft-deleted

michaelb958

Wow. Two more answers and I get the discussion bronze badge.

Remind me when I sold my soul to Meta?

Dennis Meng

shrug

dunno if it was before or after i turned into a mini-mod

(minimod here meaning someone who does reviews and stuff 90% of time on SO and answers very little)

Laszlo Papp

07:35

any moderator around?

Jan Dvorak

@LaszloPapp do I count?

Laszlo Papp

you are not a diamond moderator, are you? :)

Jan Dvorak

nope :-/

Laszlo Papp

Just realized this profile, and I am not sure if it is friendly or acceptable: stackoverflow.com/users/502068/iask

wanted to ask a moderator. (someone showed it to me)

ThiefMaster

I'd just ignore it

Laszlo Papp

07:49

well, IMHO, the personal profile is not for offending others, but about to write a short description about yourself.

It is not the place for being childish after some downvotes for rubbish posts. :-)

but yeah, I will ignore it then.

Williams

> Sorry, this question has answers and cannot be deleted; flag it for moderator attention instead

Laszlo Papp

(IMO, the site would go uncivil if people did this)

Williams

Can I delete this question ?

Flyk

morning

Shadow Wizard

@Williams what question?

Laszlo Papp

07:56

-14

Q: Where to look for the documentation of function `t` of R?

ggimage (t(img[,2:1]), fullpage = TRUE, scale_axes = FALSE) Now I couldn't find any documentation for t in Google, I can't understand what happens by [,2:1]. The ggmaps documentation doesn't have an explanation for t. Where should I find the documentation for one letter functions like t whic...

r

maybe worth the deletion?

Shadow Wizard

Happy to have silver bug badge!

@LaszloPapp dunno, it does have highly upvoted answer

Williams

@ShadowWizard Any question which is saying Sorry, this question has answers and cannot be deleted; flag it for moderator attention instead

Shadow Wizard

and I know 0 about "r" so better leave it to them

@Williams well, no.

otherwise there wasn't such a message

Laszlo Papp

@ShadowWizard: so?

highly upvoted answers do not mean they are worthy for the current operation of the site. :)

Shadow Wizard

@LaszloPapp each and his own, my personal agenda is don't touch something totally alien to me

Laszlo Papp

07:58

besides, reputation is preserved.

Shadow Wizard

you can do whatever you want, I just share my opinion

Laszlo Papp

sure, I already cast.

Shadow Wizard

It's not about reputation, it's about keeping useful information around

Laszlo Papp

read the thread again and see how useful it is then. :)

ManishBot

08:31

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: WHICH IS THE CHEAPEST TAXI FROM SOUTHAMPTON TO GATWICK AIRPORT? on stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

EEEEK ^

rene

flagged

Jan Dvorak

as... ?

rene

and good morning ...

spam

Jan Dvorak

ah, right. I only read the title

the title alone makes it a offsite-rec

and way offtopic

rene

08:35

Don't go down the mellow road :-)

Shadow Wizard

No link but classic spam, yeah

> FThe cheapest we found was Arc Cars. Couldn't get a cheaper one anywhere. Look in Yellow Pages for the number, as I don't think I should give it online. OR 2 ADULTS AND 2 CHILDREN WITH 1 BIG SUITCASE

Jan Dvorak

yeah... sorry

rec-tool? stackoverflow.com/questions/21824460/…

rene

08:53

close voted

SPArchaeologist

09:05

morning

@ShadowWizard So, did you beat Viola then...

Williams

@ShadowWizard I want to delete my own question then any way to delete?

rene

09:25

@Williams you can't do that on your own if the question has answers, as was already explained to you in this room earlier but ws also asked before and has an answer here meta.stackoverflow.com/a/96672/158100

Williams

Okay thanks :)

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist Viola? Remind me?

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] DDoS spam: How are the people who execute a DDoS attack on Stack Exchange dealt with? on meta.stackoverflow.com

Laszlo Papp

09:41

0

A: Groovy with Grape and AntBuilder classloader problem

works for me...........................

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard Bug type gym leader in Pokémon X/Y

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: RESEARCH TOPIC MTECH CSE on stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

cv-pls ^

Bart

pff, too slow @JanDvorak

Jan Dvorak

needs two more

Bart

09:53

Does this deserve a close vote? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/221507/…

Jan Dvorak

why would it?

Bart

What good does community input do there?

Jan Dvorak

I'm rather interested in the crew input for the public

Bart

Myeah, I guess I'm too far ahead, assuming it will be something along the lines of "We'll decide what to do internally. We won't inform you".

I'll just leave it

rene

Can someone be my proofreader? meta.stackoverflow.com/a/221512/158100

tnx @Bart

Bart

10:04

yw

Can't say I'm not surprised about the community's response here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/221479/…

Amaterasu

hi

Shadow Wizard

hi

@SPArchaeologist no Pokémon for me :(

Amaterasu

so, when is the public flogging-with-rubber-chicken of the hackers goign to take place?

Shadow Wizard

@Amaterasu think it took place 15 hours ago, the infamous DDoS attack

Amaterasu

@ShadowWizard yes, when is their public flogging?

Shadow Wizard

10:21

oh, it's a secrat

Tim Post will sneak up on the hacker at night

Amaterasu

can you at least film it

Shadow Wizard

I'm sure he will :D

Amaterasu

I reckon an atomic wedgie is needed

michaelb958

@Amaterasu Imagine that in the TOS. "You agree that if You spam the network, a Community Manager will enter Your house at night and give You an Atomic Wedgie."

4

Amaterasu

it MUST be added

Shadow Wizard

10:24

I agree

+1

Tim Post is a great ninja, we can count on him!

Amaterasu

in the TOS: If you attempt to hack our servers, a legion of community managers will come to your house at night, tar and feather you and fully encase you in your own smelly pantaloons"

@ShadowWizard that sound good?

Bart

"In the case that your account has been used for illegal activities on the network, Stack Exchange reserves the right to Tim Post your posterior without prior notice"

4

Shadow Wizard

@Amaterasu sorry but @Bart just beat you..... can't beat Bart!

Amaterasu

but Bart can beat the pantaloon sniffing, rabbit rooting useless vermin hackers

lol

Bart

Ah how cute. You still think I'm actually able to achieve anything of value.

spamityspam: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/221517/…

SPArchaeologist

10:41

so, I am guessing that I missed the scary "we hax U" attack that was announced some time ago.

I am a little depressed.

michaelb958

@SPArchaeologist Yeah, their posteriors have been Tim Posted. Thousands of programmer-hours were wasted watching the video.

@Bart What I'm wondering is who wasted a close vote on that.

Bart

Me @michaelb958. All me! Which I retracted once I saw the link at the end.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart you're fast, it was alive only for two meager minutes

SPArchaeologist

@michaelb958 any post or funny screen saved or all the people involved have been flashed?

Bart

Hey, it's my day off @ShadowWizard. I can procrastinate at lightning speed ... which begs the question why I'm actually at the office .... hmm

Shadow Wizard

10:45

@Bart the sad part is the user appears to be totally legit meaning he really had no clue he's in the wrong place

Bart

@ShadowWizard Yeah, the comment suggested that. Then again, there's no right place for the post either.

Ha, I finally see someone on the site who I actually know.

That never happened before

Shadow Wizard

wow

creepy, @Bart!

michaelb958

@SPArchaeologist See meta.stackoverflow.com/a/221442/223030, meta.stackoverflow.com/q/221418/223030, meta.stackoverflow.com/q/221507/223030, and others.

Shadow Wizard

for those who wonder about the latest spammish post:

Bart

He was actually an intern in my previous lab for a while @ShadowWizard. Brilliant guy.

michaelb958

10:48

@ShadowWizard What is that scrollbar?

Bart

Chrome

Shadow Wizard

Chrome

I also noticed they radically changed it at some point :/

Bart

Wasn't that a whole "should not have been released to anything but the Chrome OS" mess-up at some point?

Shadow Wizard

@Bart well, in such case hope he won't get a cold shower on SO!

Bart

he seems to be doing great @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

10:51

Glad to hear that! I know one other user in real life, he was actually a user long before me and I didn't know for a long time

luk32

11:10

Hello, I got my question put on hold, and I edited it to improve it. Is it okey for myself to vote for reopen it or how should I ask to reevaluate it ? I hope this is a good place to ask.

Manishearth

@luk32 if you can vote to reopen, it's fine

Bart

@luk32 Have a link?

luk32

I wasn't sure if the option is there because I am the OP, or I have actual right's for such vote, then it would be stupid to vote on my case.

Sure, I am shameless stackoverflow.com/questions/21807288/…

Bart

Btw, you have enough reputation for that vote, so you can use it.

SPArchaeologist

@michaelb958 thanks (sorry for the delay)

Bart

11:14

@luk32 Just remove the first paragraph. I doesn't belong in the question.

luk32

Umm, yea but it looks like judging my own case, not a fan of that, lol.

michaelb958

@SPArchaeologist Not a problem.

luk32

@Bart No problem, but I would like to leave some statement, that does not leave comments and current answers left in void.

@Bart is that bad ?

SPArchaeologist

ummmmm

any names of the attacker?

faces, anything?

Bart

You're free to edit your question, as long as you don't invalidate existing answers. I don't think you've done that @luk32. So you're good to go there. The first paragraph is just meta-commentary. It distracts.

If you don't mind I can give it an edit

luk32

11:17

@Bart Ofc go ahead. I don't mind peer-reviewing or mod-editing. Acutally I am thankful for working on my case.

SPArchaeologist

Ye know, the word "Kira" on my desktop isn't there just to say hello. ^_^

Manishearth

lol

Bart

Done @luk32. Give it a look, and if you think I went too far, just roll back or correct it. And it has been reopened now.

luk32

@Bart Thank you very much, especially for grammar and syntax =)

Bart

You're welcome.

Shadow Wizard

11:39

@SPArchaeologist they're probably minors so it won't be legal to publish their names

Bart

Can we call their moms though?

Shadow Wizard

@Bart sure! not that they will care but who knows... :D

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard a link to the school photobook page? that would also resolve the "must know face" requirement.

Flyk

12:00

@TimPost what would be the correct method of getting a CM to add a bunch of synonyms on SR?

Jeroen Vannevel

I just came across this deleted post in my favorites

stackoverflow.com/questions/18413617/…

Tim Post

@Flyk meta, did you post the request?

Jeroen Vannevel

As far as I know we rollback vandalized posts and don't delete them unless very specific circumstances. Why was this allowed to be removed?

Flyk

@TimPost it's now more like a bunch of requests

see meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/423/…

Everything marked as "done", requesting a synonym, where the synonym hasn't been challenged

yeah I know I'm good at creating you guys work, I'm sorry :p

I'd only do stuff with +5 or more votes for now though, to keep it simple

well, maybe +4, since we have a bunch of good ones at +4 that do need doing

but, at your discretion

Tim Post

We may be appointing mods before the site opens to the public, let me get with Robert. Either way, those need to happen before, ideally.

Flyk

12:05

actually, mind if I invite you somewhere for a quick private chat?

Shadow Wizard

@JeroenVannevel not very familiar with Java but looks like the base assumption in the question was wrong

Tim Post

@Flyk invite away!

Jeroen Vannevel

@ShadowWizard Perhaps, but I thought it was a very interesting showcase of how this can be used as a security flaw. Does it really matter whether his original assumptions were correct or not?

Shadow Wizard

@JeroenVannevel dunno... if you think it does have value to others then rollback and flag, asking to undelete. :)

rene

@JeroenVannevel this comment If you can't click the window, you can't make it focusable, you can't receive key input looks like the argument why the question is removed.

Laszlo Papp

12:24

-3

A: Have Amazon Appstore webapp exit on suspend?

Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test test Test test test te...

luk32

@LaszloPapp Someone testing new SOApi 2.0 ?

Jan Dvorak

@luk32 they should use the sandbox

luk32

@JanDvorak Yea, I'm just asking if this looks like the case.

Jan Dvorak

unlikely.

Bart

12:38

Noooooo a declined flag. The horror!

Flyk

declined flags are serious business

Bart

Meh, still at 99.9% helpful though

And I don't agree with the decline. :D

Tim Post

13:02

Good ole' Will. Miss that guy sometimes.

Bart

Yeah, it's just not the same without him

Though he does on occasion leave one of those good old comments.

user202362

I see you have been missing some other trolls behind my back, are my elite trolls not enough for you?

Shadow Wizard

@sudo if you control Baba tell him he's very missed

Tim Post

how is baba formed?

user202362

Who is baba?

Bart

13:13

Baba is a far better troll than you @sudorm-rfTelkitty.

user202362

Impossible

Bart

Compared to Baba you might as well be a moderator

user202362

I have a heavily upvoted entry in urbandictionary

user202362

I can not tell you which nickname though

Shadow Wizard

@Bart maybe Baba is the troll King and kitty is the troll Queen?

Bart

13:14

She's at most the jester @ShadowWizard

Tim Post

baa baa baba have you any wool?

Bart

.... Tim Post went off the deep end it seems.

user202362

Tim Post

No, it was pretty shallow actually. About the depth of 11 cups of coffee.

@sudorm-rfTelkitty Fine. Tell us how you got those scars.

SPArchaeologist

didn't we established that "baba" is only a title and the name should be "Ji"?

user202362

13:17

what scars, those are my lipsticks after some kisses

Tim Post

what the hell have you been kissing?

Nevermind

SPArchaeologist

if you think that face is bad, you should see mine now.

user202362

pale skin, red lipsticks, dark eye shadows, golden locks ... why should I take off those purple coat too?

SPArchaeologist

One of my colleague just told me that I remember him of Ryuk

Shadow Wizard

It's the card, @sudo - discard the card

@SPArchaeologist you mean "remind", I guess? ;)

SPArchaeologist

13:20

@ShadowWizard yep

Shadow Wizard

lol

Bart

Say @TimPost, perhaps you can provide some input here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/221507/… Especially with regards to the later comments?

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist so this this you? :P

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard does "English is not my mother language" enforce as a excuse? or you prefer the more honest "I am currently sleeping, don't mind the grammar - already strange I can still write"

Shadow Wizard

@SPArchaeologist we're in chat, any excuse is fine :)

Undo

13:23

This cannot work. eMails are plaintext, without any formatting. — mirabilos 35 mins ago

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard yep, but my look now is more on the angry side ^_^

Undo

I... Um... WHAT?!?

grrr you snuck something between me and my onebox

Shadow Wizard

LOL

Bart

Tell the commenter to stop using DOS @Undo

Shadow Wizard

I see only blank screen when clicking the comment link

Undo

13:24

It's still in private beta

Shadow Wizard

but I can see the question page just fine

user202362

@ShadowWizard like this?

Shadow Wizard

That's one way, kitty, yes

Undo

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard btw, this is my current background

Bart

13:26

is that not a depiction of someone handing you their card @sudorm-rfTelkitty?

Shadow Wizard

private beta got weird restrictions, dunno if worth reporting new bug

user202362

@Bart the only one handling me over the cards are the banks, but they change 18% P.A. interest on the credit :/

Shadow Wizard

Not my cup of anime, @SPArchaeologist but fair enough! I had my share of FF8 characters as backgrounds back in the time :)

Undo

@mirabilos Emails are plaintext in the same way HTML is "plain text". Sure, it's sent as text over the network, but most emails are HTML and are rendered as such — Undo 36 secs ago

Bart

@sudorm-rfTelkitty Yet after saving money like crazy, my interest total over last year was a whopping 37 Swiss Franc ... banks are bastards

@Undo In what kind of a weirdly advanced technological world do you live? Email ... with HTML ....???

SPArchaeologist

13:30

@ShadowWizard I save the "Aerith in the flower field" one for days when I am calm. The above one is for working on sharepoint

Undo

No, most eMails do not contain an HTML (or RTF) part, and most that do are not rendered as such – even popular GUI cross-platform mailers default to preferring the plaintext part, these days. — mirabilos 1 min ago

I need reinforcements.

Bart

You need to shrug

Undo

Yeah

but... They apparently have never received a promotional email :P

Bart

Ooh, is @Manishearth's bot down? stackoverflow.com/questions/21830438/…

ChrisForrence

So...I'm a little confused. According to this, I have enough posts and score to qualify for the bronze Java badge. However, the summary says that I only have 18 posts.

Is that calculation done every few days? As far as I know, none of the answers are CW

Undo

13:34

@TimPost So I know you're The Lord of the Swag - who's The Lord of the Sponsorships?

Bart

Should be done once a day I think @ChrisForrence

ChrisForrence

@Bart - Hmm...because the 20th answer was on February 15, 21:00ish UTC

user202362

There isn't a list of known trolls whom I can compare my awesome talented skills/abilities to?

Jan Dvorak

*whom

Bart

There was another user having a similar issue some time ago @ChrisForrence ... give it another day perhaps?

ChrisForrence

13:37

@Bart - Ok, I will. I'll do my best to not pull a Veruca Salt!

Bart

Ha

Though that only applies to Gold badges of course

ChrisForrence

"But honey, you already have five." "I don't care, daddy! I want more!"

Shadow Wizard

@Bart maybe the quote in the title was enough to rule it out as "all caps"

ChrisForrence

I think I should re-read "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" tonight.

Tim Post

@Undo That'd also be me

@Bart Thanks, done

Shadow Wizard

13:41

@Tim wouldn't that be stevvve?

stevvve ♦, Brooklyn, NY

1.4k 6 11

advertising bug status-completed support sponsored-tags tags stackoverflow

Bart

Thanks @TimPost

Tim Post

@Undo What sort of sponsorship are you considering? They're generally done with swag, which puts them in my department.

user202362

I need sponsorship for my elite trolls - in the form of upvotes

Bart

Will you accept negative upvotes @sudorm-rfTelkitty? Or I can give you "I can't believe they're not upvotes".

Manishearth

@Bart Huh, can't find that post in the logs at all

user202362

13:47

Would you consider robbing a bank giving to charity too? I mean it is only a negative amount & banks are almost charities?

Bart

Did the quote mark cause that @Manishearth? Or should it always appear in the log?

Manishearth

@Bart it should appear in the log

Shadow Wizard

Maybe it didn't appear in the SE active feed?

After all I doubt it shows ALL questions in realtime

Manishearth

@Bart can't find it. Maybe it wasn't emitted by the realtime feed?

Or my script missed it somehow

bot restarted anyway

Undo

@TimPost Well... I go to Boise Code Camp every year because it's free and fun and whatnot, and I figured it would be a good opportunity. There's ~400-500 people each year.

Tim Post

13:57

@Undo s.tk/swagrequest

Undo

Aha!

Manishearth

@Undo I missed out on GNUnify :(

stupid exams

Undo

@Manishearth ;(

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