Tavern on the Meta

00:00

I don't have 10k yet.. and I can only cast like 20 in the lat answers queue, but not all 20 would deserve it, and I have like 100 flags that I want to put to use.

hichris123

@JeroenVannevel We're not 10k'ers... :(

Jeroen Vannevel

pfffrt

common people

hichris123

:P

animuson

@JeroenVannevel You were looking for the VIP section of the Tavern. Right this way, sir.

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Braiam

00:39

this is OT right? stackoverflow.com/q/14379164/792066

LowerClassOverflowian

Why aren't people understanding my intelligence today. So disappointing.

0

Q: Victim of revenge downvoting of questions

I have recently been the victim of revenge downvoting. I think the evidence is pretty clear: Except for the Roslyn one, these are all ancient questions. I don't often get downvotes on questions, but it happens from time to time. The fact that: They came so close together Yet were cunningl...

LowerClassOverflowian

01:07

I figured it out. It's monday.

And the lost hour of sleep.

jadarnel27

01:24

"Garbage disposal, what a way to go! Garbage disPOSal...meet So-and-so."

That close vote queue has sure been dropping at a slower rate.

Of course, it takes more reviews to get them out of the queue at this point.

But it also seems like there are less reviews per day.

I think we maybe had 6k reviews yesterday. It spiked up to 13k when the "burn the queue" campaign was created.

michaelb958

Quick question: "a HTTPS foo" or "an HTTPS foo"? I'm leaning towards the latter, but would appreciate input.

Adel

01:49

Hi all. May I please be un-blocked from Meta? I served my time

animuson

We can't manually lift a question block.

jadarnel27

@michaelb958 I'd say "an." But I don't know which is more grammatical.

When you say the word "h," it's pronounced as though it starts with a vowel.

michaelb958

@jadarnel27 Yeah, that was my logic. I don't know which is more grammatical either, but in the absence of anything else, I'll go with "an".

animuson

It's a good question for English.SE but who knows how the hell you search for "a" and "an" without having the words thrown out as too general.

Braiam

@jadarnel27 ELL says that either way is fine as long as sounds good

Adel

02:33

How do I get unbanned f/ meta ? I promise to behave

hichris123

@Adel Question banned? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86997/…

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jadarnel27

@Adel I have heard that posting answers (that get upvoted) is a way to get out of that predicament.

jadarnel27

02:56

Or you can make a pointless edit to an upvoted question. But I think posting answers will be more effective.

devnull

Please don't suggest making pointless edits. If I were the reviewer, chances are that those would be rejected. Too many edit suggestions being rejected isn't good, nah?

animuson

Opinions anyone:? pastebin.com/RNmDMw9p

devnull

@animuson Are you serious? Have you encountered a flag saying: "Stupid question belongs on superuser.com"?

animuson

You'd be surprised...

Those are all made-up examples, but they're based on things we've actually seen... sadly.

michaelb958

@animuson I like it.

hichris123

03:06

@animuson That's going to be a question with the headings as separate answers, right? Love it!

devnull

Too long. Not yet done with it. But seems good.

On a second thought, who reads the FAQs anyways!

2

jadarnel27

@devnull I was being sarcastic, about the edit. Adel asked about getting out of the question ban, then made a pointless edit to his highest-voted question.

devnull

@jadarnel27 I didn't refer to the question. Commented simply on the basis of the (lone) note that I saw.

michaelb958

Oh, wow, the off-topicness is amazing.

> I've been in an argument on Youtube with this guy for a week or so now, and he's been racist and been preaching hate the entire time through. Can I report him somewhere to get him fined or something?

jadarnel27

@devnull It sounds like you are saying your statement was in response to my chat message, after first taking my chat message out of context.

devnull

03:12

@animuson Isn't it possible to implement a variable limit for flags? To elaborate: i. folks have a certain number of daily flag limit, ii. the limit is increased/decreased based on the ratio of valid flags to the total flags.

animuson

Well, currently you get more flags based on how many helpful - declined flags you've had in the past.

devnull

@animuson Oh, it's already done? I didn't know that.

animuson

25

A: On the recent changes to flagging and limits

You start with 10 flags per day. Based on your reputation and flagging history, you can end up with as many as 100 per day. Currently, that means you get an extra flag per day for every 2000 reputation points or 10 net helpful flags (helpful-unhelpful). Since you have an insane number of help...

Somewhat. You can also gain them for reputation, but more or less.

devnull

@animuson You might want to elaborate/clarify "Not an answer" -- I've myself been utterly confused about this in the past, and it's common to see folks who don't understand it and end up using it incorrectly.

That's bad! No wonder I've never had more than 100 flags a day.

animuson

This post is mainly focused on the user of "other" flags. I only mentioned the spam/offensive flags as an afterthought. I might remove that section.

The problem we, as moderators, are having is that the "other" section of the flags queue is a mountain (currently 1500) of all kinds of random flags that shouldn't have been cast in the first place.

To put that into perspective, that's 1500 out of the 1800 existing flags.

Braiam

03:23

anyone knows chef here?

devnull

It's not surprising. There is a general misunderstanding that one needs to flag everything (for moderator attention) when the community can handle most of it.

animuson

And I really don't want to start another war convo on NAA/VLQ when that's not what I'm trying to focus on.

devnull

Fair enough. I wasn't very clear on what the objective was to begin with. Moreover, putting everything into a single document might be way too much to digest for us earthlings.

Shog9

@devnull Here, let me make it simple. Forget about answers. Think about apples instead. Now, in the image below there are 5 fruits - tell me which one is Not an Apple:

It works the same way for Not an Answer flags.

devnull

@Shog9 The second one?

Shog9

03:26

Bingo.

animuson

The fourth one doesn't really look like an apple either. Looks like a nectarine with the seed removed from the middle.

devnull

@Shog9 Aha! You must be a great teacher. You gave a perfect analogy that even a 2-year old would understand.

hichris123

Shog will now try to get 2 year olds allowed on Stack Exchange. Watch your babies carefully!

Braiam

@animuson nitpicky

Shog9

@animuson It's an apple. Trust me, I've cored a lot of apples.

devnull

03:31

And then Shog would launch another SE site similar to parenting but instead meant for toddlers and kids. Maybe kidding.SE?

Shog9

ha

devnull

Morning @LowerClassOverflowian -- I've resisted too long to say this, but I must admit that your name smells of racism.

LowerClassOverflowian

? are you trying to make a joke

morning though

devnull

nay

LowerClassOverflowian

You must watch too much MSNBC or something, everything is racist in some people's eyes

devnull

03:36

maybe

LowerClassOverflowian

I actually just change my name like once a month or so. Try to find creative names.

I think the reason I picked this name was because of all the downvotes I was receiving on Meta for suggesting ways to help the site

I'll be changing my name probably within the next week , any suggestions?

devnull

Voting rarely had any logic.

(Earthlings rarely have any logic.)

Braiam

@devnull what did you expect? The universe was hacked with perl....

devnull

@Braiam I don't quire understand what you mean. But humans are irrational. That is a fact I was trying to state. It manifests in different forms, though.

LowerClassOverflowian

Lol @devnull . Stop the human bashing!

I like how micro economics is built under the assumption that people are rational

devnull

03:44

@LowerClassOverflowian hmm.. "Marginal utility" -- does that explain ____ are rational?

Marginal utility

In economics, the marginal utility of a good or service is the gain from an increase or loss from a decrease in the consumption of that good or service. Economists sometimes speak of a law of diminishing marginal utility, meaning that the first unit of consumption of a good or service yields more utility than the second and subsequent units, with a continuing reduction for greater amounts. The marginal decision rule states that a good or service should be consumed at a quantity at which the marginal utility is equal to the marginal cost. Marginality The term marginal refers to a small ch...

Maybe, rational but stupid?

LowerClassOverflowian

I enjoy every reputation point just like it were my first

devnull

ok, don't think of points. Think of pizzas instead. What if you were given a dozen pizzas in one go? (Assume that you can't trade those for anything else.)

LowerClassOverflowian

I'd probably throw up half way through the second pizza

Braiam

the problem is that you presume that "rational" in economy means "not stupid", when it means "involves a decision making process" and just that

the result is not relevant as long as there's a process to reach it

Vishwas Sharma

05:53

Isn't this revision too minor?

devnull

06:42

@VishwasSharma It is.

Vishwas Sharma

can we do something about it, or is it just gonna left as it is?

I also saw a feature-request on meta, about flagging reviews

Shadow Wizard

07:27

@VishwasSharma you stumbled on a known problem we have known as robo-reviewers. They approve any crap edit and there's nothing we can do. I rolled back that particular horrible edit and made a proper edit, but I fear that in the general case we can't stop this from happening.

Should be reopened now IMO: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/223225/…

user13500

Was thinking of adding a Q on meta regarding link to question when on edit page. Found this Q/A: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88816/…;, but it is solved by Ctrl+Click and a lot of reference to an inline-edit post that no longer exists. Is this still a needed feature perhaps?

Point being that if someone else saves an update I'd prefer to have a look at what actually was changed so that I do not submit an unneeded edit to the queue.

Ctrl+Back is OK, but not sure how many browsers support that feature.

devnull

Could this be closed, please? stackoverflow.com/questions/22319053/…

The OP is in a hurry to get the solution.

Vishwas Sharma

07:45

@ShadowWizard well I was thinking of another chat room, where we can post links to this kind of revisions and the robo-reviewers approving such edits can be caught and banned from reviewing more posts.

do you think this feature-request should be posted to meta?

michaelb958

I've seen comments as answers, but we just got a comment on an SO post, posted as a Meta question.

On second thought, maybe it isn't a comment, but it's still a crap question.

devnull

08:20

Answers to lazy questions promote those even further, boosting the OPs confidence.

@devnull see someone has helped me buddy B-) — Marco Dinatsoli 2 mins ago

Jeroen Vannevel

1999 helpful flags

so close

Shadow Wizard

09:03

@user13500 not sure what you mean. Inline editing still exists.

@michaelb958 one of many frustrated user. Not the first, surely not the last.

rene

09:20

Morning?

Shadow Wizard

Morning!

devnull

Morning!

3ventic

Morning|

user13500

09:37

@ShadowWizard: I referred to the 404's ("[…] reference to an inline-edit post that no longer exists. […]") meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/97824/… – there is a link to this page meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/53916/… that is not a 404, but that one links to another 404.

michaelb958

Thanks user13500; you did my work for me.

Suhosin Pony

09:55

I still think we need a new close reason.

'Question is off topic for Stack Overflow because if OP is in such a hurry, (s)he should hire a developer.'

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SPArchaeologist

11:00

Mae Govannen

michaelb958

Evening.

(Preemptive strike.)

Vishwas Sharma

Evening

SPArchaeologist

Evening

Bart

time_of_day

michaelb958

What have I begun?!

Shadow Wizard

11:13

evening train but it's not evening yet

status-too-early

Vishwas Sharma

UTC+5:30

it is evening here

michaelb958

Definitely evening over here in UTC+11:00.

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard Nope, Shadow. He understood me, so he must be a Tolkien Troll. And we all know that LotR/Hobbit trolls would turn to stone if exposed to sunlight. Since he is still all right and speaking, it must be night/evening where he live.

michaelb958

@SPArchaeologist Understood what? I merely saw the similarities to many other languages' "good morning" salutation, and guessed.

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard This also explain his intolerance of the morning train. How would you fell if you were just enjoying the night an somebody keeps shouting "It is morning" :P

@michaelb958 No excuse. You work for ~~Tim~~ Sauron and we know it. ^_^

michaelb958

11:21

@SPArchaeologist Well, I'm off to spend my night ~~plotting the downfall of~~ wondering about the world. Tinfoil-hat all you like.

SPArchaeologist

@michaelb958 Tinfoil? Nope, that wouldn't go with the silent swordsman archetype. I prefer feathered hats.

3ventic

Early afternoon here

Vishwas Sharma

Meanwhile on SO, wrong hearing

Bart

11:37

Funny, but not constructive

Vishwas Sharma

yeah, downvoted

Bart

I was referring to the comment. Which I flagged.

Vishwas Sharma

oh, my bad.

devnull

11:54

0

Q: Software legislation

Does anyone know a software suitable to "track" legislation changes? Usually the legislations updates say something like this: "the article from law nº 10, that was changed by law nº 9, is now replaced by the following: " So, I would like to have a kind of software where I could see, and click,...

text track

Ah! post anything.

0

Q: Is there a generic way to printf a variable?

If I have a macro like #define MYMACRO(x) printf ("%any\n", x); is there any %any formatter which can print anything, context-dependently? Non-standard or GNU C specific are OK.

c

Weirdest question can get upvoted!

SPArchaeologist

12:18

@SuhosinPony Is it normal that since this morning I have that tune "colorful rainbows cross my mind" buzzing in my head?

OGHaza

Yo can anyone verify whether or not SQLFiddle shows an error when you change this to SQL Server and run it

Andy

@OGHaza: "Schema Creation Failed: MODIFY FILE encountered operating system error 112(There is not enough space on the disk.)"

OGHaza

Thanks, at least it's not just me :S

devnull

Doesn't look like a terribly useful question: stackoverflow.com/questions/1116349/… Close?

Suhosin Pony

@SPArchaeologist Want to listen to some brony music? I'll throw up a brony only stream :P

SPArchaeologist

12:35

no headphone here ^_^

Bart

13:02

Ehm ... we're migrating to beta sites now?

Shadow Wizard

@Bart why not? If the question fits in there of course.

Bart

I thought that always got a definite "no" @ShadowWizard. Don't have anything against it really.

Don't think I've ever seen it happen

3ventic

Migrating to beta sites should be cautious though

SPArchaeologist

new SharePoint "security" setting. The farm admin account cannot be used to deploy apps. Yep, because you know... if someone has your farm account pass him deploying apps is your greater problem... yeah.

Shadow Wizard

5

Q: Are there precedents to migrate a post to a beta site?

Before I ask this question, I've read Flagging questions for migration to a beta site Make it easier to use Code Review as a chocolate bar burial facility but think they are not clear to me. Because of the quality of answers, I flagged an closed question on SO and suggested to migrate to C...

discussion questions migration

@SPArchaeologist so who can deploy apps?

SPArchaeologist

13:13

@ShadowWizard yep. My bad. I said Farm Admin while I was referencing the System Account.

you must be a farm admin, a local admin and have the required permission on the appropriate dbs.

(and you would believe that SharePoint handles that last point... but no, it doesn't. Just returning from a sql management studio to set the permission on every db)

Shadow Wizard

13:25

@SPArchaeologist that makes sense. Security above all! ;)

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard Because remember: they got your system account, but at least they won't be able to add an app.

LowerClassOverflowian

11

Q: What are my options when I see a suggested edit like this approved?

Obviously, this suggested edit should never have been approved. Because it's very, very minor. Is it acceptable for me to "rollback" this edit? Does the suggested editor lose the +2 rep when I roll it back? Should I comment on one of his questions, explaining not to make too minor edits like t...

discussion support

@devnull Morning!

Shadow Wizard

@LowerClassOverflowian what about it?

LowerClassOverflowian

@ShadowWizard Someone asked a question in chat about their options, so I replied to them with this.

Shadow Wizard

Oh, missed that small reply arrow. My bad!

LowerClassOverflowian

13:38

I really don't understand why I get like 100 flag votes to use per day, but only 50 close votes. For one, there are like 100 times as many questions that need a close vote than answers that need a flag vote.

Stijn

life is full of misteries

Shadow Wizard

@LowerClassOverflowian Close vote is much more "powerful" than a flag, that's why I guess

Braiam

13:51

@LowerClassOverflowian you only get 50 close votes? poor you, the commoners gets only 24 close votes in the rest of SE

Shadow Wizard

14:05

If I ping Community user with @-reply in comments, who will get the notification?

3

E.g.

We detected an invalid domain linked in your post. This is likely caused due to sample code not being in a code block. (this message will be automatically removed when the link is fixed) — Community May 14 '12 at 5:24

TGMCians

8

Q: Admob cant find transfer funds link in google admob panel

I cant`t find transfer funds link in google admob, my balance more than 50 $ and my payment information fully filled, but i can not transfer funds. Help please. Where can I find it?

android admob

IMO, it is off-topic

Stijn

@TGMCians Which reason would you use to close it?

Braiam

@TGMCians IMO is not about programing not about how to use programing tools

TGMCians

yes

It is about to google admob payment policy

Braiam

and... apart the fact that some people may use it, how that makes it on topic?

TGMCians

14:18

not possible to make it on topic

Braiam

there, you got your reason ;)

TGMCians

so should I vote for CV ?

LowerClassOverflowian

@TGMCians YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

TGMCians

cool

Stijn

I hadn't heard of admob before, but doesn't it fall under "software tools commonly used by programmers"? AdMob is a leading global mobile advertising network that helps app developers monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps with ads.

Shadow Wizard

14:20

@LowerClassOverflowian <error: not enough "S">

TGMCians

I worked on it many times in my android apps

LowerClassOverflowian

Are people trollin?

TGMCians

I have done

If you guys can do, please do

LowerClassOverflowian

@TGMCians I would, but I only get 50 close votes a day, so I have 0 left of course

Stijn

It strikes me as a little odd, honestly. People can ask questions on implementing admob in their app, but they can't ask questions about administering it?

SPArchaeologist

14:27

@SuhosinPony Ok - I have managed to eradicate that music from my head. Problem is... Cat Food has taken is place, so I have fallen from Scoot to Miku

TGMCians

@Stijn That question should be asked in admob support, It is well if any guy ask here program related issue in admob then of course I will help

That question was related to how to transfer my account funds to my bank account

OP did not find any button or so in dashboard

The Guy with The Hat

14:43

Anyone know why this has five votes?

5

Q: Java string replacing

I have a string like that ($ character is always surrounded with other characters): a$b c$d e$f I want my string method to put a \ in front of $ and remove newlines: a\$bc\$de\$f I tried this but it doesn't put \ character: s=s.replaceAll("\n","").replaceAll("$", "\\$");

java regex string

TGMCians

Anyone here who thinks I voted wrong for this question stackoverflow.com/questions/10495904/…, let me know

Shadow Wizard

@TheGuywithTheHat simple question, show some research effort.

Shadow Wizard

15:06

> This site is currently in read-only mode; we’ll return with full functionality soon.

:(

TGMCians

I see

I came here for the same

> This site is currently in read-only mode; we’ll return with full functionality soon.

Shadow Wizard

read only mode train?

rene

Not for me anymore

TGMCians

Not for me also now

Shadow Wizard

Yeah that was very temporary

SPArchaeologist

15:10

rene

Just switched to a different DC?

SPArchaeologist

@Bart weekly work hour?

rolfl

I have a strong interest in using the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, and I do use it a lot. Is there a general forum for SEDE-specific chat? (I just created one here but wonder whether that was a mistake)

SPArchaeologist

@rene implementation of "Bart is out for lunch so the site has switched to read only mode"?

Shadow Wizard

@rolfl just get Tim Stone in chat, nobody knows more than him about SEDE;)

rolfl

15:12

Let me just summon him ... ;-)

I'll lurk ;-)

Shadow Wizard

@TimStone thou art being summoned :-)

@rolfl now you can lurk

Tim Stone

Hmm?

Oh, yeah...there was a SEDE chat but I kind of let it get frozen...

rolfl

Hey Tim... just pondering whether there is an appropriate forum for SEDE discussions.

(and whether the chat room I just created is redundant)

Shadow Wizard

The tavern can host such discussions, can't it?

rolfl

It could, but we are playing around in a few of the beta sites with rlatively complicated, long, and involved discussions

Tim Stone

15:15

@rolfl Creating that room seems fine. It's probably better on chat.stackexchange anyway; the previous one was here on meta's chat.

rolfl

Now that beta-site data is availableon SEDE there is a lot of messing about.

Tim Stone

Plus I'm a moderator there, so I can unfreeze it myself if it gets frozen again. :P

rolfl

The beta site data is small enough that you can do analytics without timing out.

Bart

@SPArchaeologist Sorry about that one. I'm back to procrastination.

Shadow Wizard

Maybe @Shog9 IP banned the servers by mistake :D

...and down again.

Stijn

15:29

This site is currently in read-only mode; we’ll return with full functionality in 6 to 8 weeks.

Shadow Wizard

oh, longer this time.

Stijn

Perhaps they're testing the effects of an outage on the economy

SPArchaeologist

@Stijn Impossible. It's already strange to see @Bart working, but working for 6 weeks straight.... nonsense! :P

Shadow Wizard

When site is readonly trying to edit give wrong error message: stackoverflow.com/posts/22330258/edit

> There is a pending suggested edit in the queue, try again in a few minutes.

TGMCians

> Meta Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance

I just see this message

SPArchaeologist

15:45

splitting meta se and meta so?

Tim Stone

5

A: Unable to ask a question on stack overflow

We are having issue with a deploy at the moment and are working hard to fix it as soon as possible. A build fixing out this particular issue is going out in a moment.

The Guy with The Hat

I think it's back now.

TGMCians

hmm

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard Episode III: The return of the baba?

Stijn

"Websockets are disabled for a bit while we make some infrastructure changes. We'll bring them back ASAP." 50m ago on @StackStatus

Shadow Wizard

15:46

@SPArchaeologist nah, this time it's a rough deploy not baba

Undo

EVERYONE PANIC!

Jan Dvorak

@Stijn ideal time to pull off a spam attack, I believe

Shadow Wizard

5

A: Unable to ask a question on stack overflow

We are having issue with a deploy at the moment and are working hard to fix it as soon as possible. A build fixing out this particular issue is going out in a moment.

@Stijn think it's just a coincidence, this isn't related to the readonly mode.

Undo

Yay fixed :D

Shadow Wizard

@Undo not sure, still suspiciously slow.

TGMCians

15:48

yes

The Guy with The Hat

@Stijn You can onebox tweets, you know.

Shadow Wizard

The Guy with The Hat

>
Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance

Routine maintenance usually takes less than an hour. If this turns into an extended outage, we will post details on the status blog.

TGMCians

same I saw on Meta few min back

Shadow Wizard

Poor Nick... let's all wish him luck! :)

Stijn

15:50

@TheGuywithTheHat twitter is blocked here, I was reading it with my phone and typing it here.

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn you work from China then?

SPArchaeologist

@ShadowWizard maybe new mlp episode currently broadcasting on tv?

The Guy with The Hat

@Stijn What do you mean by it's blocked?

Websockets are disabled for a bit while we make some infrastructure changes. We’ll bring them back ASAP.

Tweeted by StackStatus on March 11, 2014 at 2:52 PM

Shadow Wizard

Hey did the offline page auto reload itself??

Stijn

@ShadowWizard nah, Belgium. fortiguard.com is enabled for the entire company here, even developers. I frequently have to use a proxy to read programming blog posts.

@TheGuywithTheHat Company firewall.

Shadow Wizard

15:52

@Stijn so sad...

The Guy with The Hat

Oh, I thought you meant it was blocked on MSO chat.

I feel stupid

And it's back to read-only now.

Shadow Wizard

currently it's rev 2014.3.11.1436, let's hope all will be back to normal in rev 2014.3.11.1437

SPArchaeologist

SE down but SharePoint lives. This is plain wrong.

Shadow Wizard

SharePoint will outlive Microsoft, you'll see

It got a life of its own

Jan Dvorak

got to think of it, "sharepoint" is pretty close in name to "skynet"

Benjamin Gruenbaum

15:55

wow, meta is down too :D?

The Guy with The Hat

@BenjaminGruenbaum ...no...

Benjamin Gruenbaum

Ah, back

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak got to think of it, SharePoint other name was Moss... which is a synonym of mush

Shadow Wizard

@BenjaminGruenbaum who's back?

oh, Meta

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak "I have Moss growing on my servers"

Shadow Wizard

15:58

Last question on Stack Overflow asked 9 minutes ago... it's almost infinity in SO terms!

Jan Dvorak

@ShadowWizard it's just a calm before a storm

Andy

That's slightly longer than it'd take us to know that the sun just exploded. So, good news, the sun didn't explode when SO went down. We can cross that off the list of "what's the worst that can happen?" options

Jan Dvorak

@Andy we can't cross it off. We can just move it down the list.

Shadow Wizard

@Andy all programming will stop, worldwide

Michel Ayres

funny to see SO down ... I mean, people around the world must be going crazy!

SPArchaeologist

16:01

"Sorry guys, during the migration we have lost all reputation data for SO, so starting from now everybody will restart from 0 rep"

Jan Dvorak

s/0/1/

Benjamin Gruenbaum

@MichelAyres "So, how do I add two numbers in JavaScript? Hmm, let's jump off this roof"

Michel Ayres

and @JohnSkeet must be losing rep (losing in the way of not earning)

Andy

two seconds later Skeet has 200K

Michel Ayres

@BenjaminGruenbaum just to make a pun ... ROFL

Shadow Wizard

16:02

I think if Jon Skeet won't get his daily 200 rep he'll quit ;)

SPArchaeologist

@Andy nope. They will just take the opportunity to introduce the new rep unit of measure: the Skeet.

Michel Ayres

it's kind of impossible for him miss the cap ... once I tried upvote him soon after the reset, and... it was already on the cap =/

Shadow Wizard

But if SO will be readonly for whole day, @MichelAyres... :D

SPArchaeologist

One Skeet is defined as 1/1kk the rep of John, so by definition with the new measure unit Skeet will just stay at 1kk.

all the others will see their rep constantly decreasing.

Michel Ayres

@ShadowWizard only if it reach a complete reset cycle. this is the only way

But then, @Mark will not get his as well, so the leadership will not be in threat

Sorry @Darin Dimitrov is the second place :X

and ... holy cow, he rush 500K rep O.o omg

The Guy with The Hat

16:08

SO's back up!

Shadow Wizard

@TheGuywithTheHat don't jinx it! ;)

new build is out, maybe it's a good sign

Stijn

Still slow though.

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn well, lots of cache to build

so that we can later blame it :)

I can't help wondering, what can cause such a major crash?

SPArchaeologist

Is THIS normal???? O_O?

Undo

uh-oh

status-norepro

Shadow Wizard

16:17

status-long-live-meta

SPArchaeologist

not joking guys. I got that gif one second ago

Shadow Wizard

You murdered Meta, @SPArchaeologist! Shame on you! :D

SPArchaeologist

I was attempting accessing this question

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Q: Unable to ask a question on Stack Overflow

As a signed in user when I click on "Ask a Question" (which goes to the page http://stackoverflow.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/questions/ask) I get an "Oops! Something Bad Happened!" error. I've had an SO account for quite a while, sign in using a Google account, have always been able to ask questi...

support bug

TGMCians

@Tim (or Nick of course) I'm curious to know what can cause such a thing? Surely not a simple null pointer somewhere? ;) — Shadow Wizard 1 min ago

Shadow Wizard

eh

TGMCians

16:18

upvoted :)

SPArchaeologist

@TGMCians I am more interested in understanding where that image comed from.

Stijn

@SPArchaeologist meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/78577/…

SPArchaeologist

............

Shadow Wizard

This one looks better

Jeroen Vannevel

16:41

I cannot overstate my deep appreciation for automatic hotspots on the routers of my provider

I'm 150km from home and I have internet available!

Stijn

@Jeroen Telenet? :)

I especially liked it when I moved and didn't have my own internet connection for two weeks, I could simply use the hotspot of my neighbour.

Undo

@Stijn that's horrific.

goes to change password on his router

Jeroen Vannevel

@Stijn Yep. In Luik atm waiting for connection to Köln, perfect internet connection

jadarnel27

17:20

I just misspelled the word "brown" in an email :o

jadarnel27

17:34

The horror...the horror!!!

Undo

@jadarnel27 Crap, I was hoping the apocalypse would hold off for a few more days.

Michel Ayres

This is the best one!

Talking on the mouse is awesome too :D

jadarnel27

Me too, @Undo. Me too.

Michel Ayres

"It’s not you, it’s us. This is our fault."

ThiefMaster

18:03

@ShadowWizard That could be put right next to a "jesus saves you" poster.

Jan Dvorak

(SPAM) stackoverflow.com/questions/22333005/…

rene

18:28

I wanted to check @StackStatus... is Twitter down for maintenance...

TGMCians

Ah

> Twitter is currently down for maintenance.

Amal Murali

18:49

lol. All the sites are down today.

An hour before, when SO went down, I was trying to check twitter for "#StackOverflow" tag just to see if it was just me. And I couldn't access Twitter either! :P

rene

As chat still works I can copy-paste my code here and ask you to plz fnd bug quick, I'm in a hurry?

Amal Murali

Okay, another declined flag. I flagged this answer as NAA, but it was declined. But the answer was deleted by a mod.

rene

Why did you flag as NAA?

Amal Murali

Why wasn't the flag then marked as helpful? Maybe the flag reason was incorrect? Or the mod didn't want me to flag similar answers in future? Or maybe declined the flag and then thought there's not much value to it and should be deleted.

Anna Lear

it looks like a mistake to me, but I pinged the mod to drop by here when they have a moment.

Amal Murali

18:56

@rene: I didn't think it was an answer. Something that should've been a comment instead. BTW, the current version is a bit different from the original answer.

rene

Too me it looks as a corner case for a low quality answer but still an answer

Amal Murali

@AnnaLear: Ah, okay. I've got no problems, though. Just wanted some clarification :D

rene

I don't think I would have flagged it as NAA

Amal Murali

@rene: What would've been a more appropriate flag reason? "Other"?

Shog9

@AmalMurali no

rene

18:59

it is very low quality

Shog9

that would've worked

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