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Martijn Pieters

2:00 PM

:-P

Hey, I didn't say it'd be easy to find that extra keyword ;-P

GnomeSlice

Today's Listening | Science

Bart

Andy

Bart

It's all you can saaaayhaaay

Andy

Yes it is.

GnomeSlice

2:16 PM

@Bart that's actually today's listening though

It's pretty neat.

Louis

cv-pls-typo stackoverflow.com/questions/23610948/why-wont-my-unit-tests-run

TGMCians

2:31 PM

hey everyone !

Stijn

hey hey

Amal Murali

Hola, @TGMCians

TGMCians

@Louis yup, it is, done

still need 3 more

Louis

@TGMCians Thanks

TGMCians

no problem :)

Amal Murali

2:41 PM

Damn.. It is so so hard to find a answerable, non-duplicate question on php now.

Martijn Pieters

@Oded: Eh? Why am I being rate limited for posting an answer when my last answer was 27 minutes ago?

I managed to post now, but that was surprising.

Shadow Wizard

@MartijnPieters what did the message say?

Martijn Pieters

That I could do the action again in 60 seconds.

I normally only see it if I post a new answer within a minute of a previous answer.

TGMCians

weird

Shadow Wizard

Maybe other user sharing your IP

Martijn Pieters

2:49 PM

Unlikely.

Amal Murali

I've only received it once. That was when I accidentally posted an answer to a different question.

Martijn Pieters

I have a fixed IP address for my home-office network connection.

Amal Murali

Luckily, nobody downvoted me for that. Phew :-P

Shadow Wizard

@MartijnPieters hmm.. you should have taken a screenshot :)

Martijn Pieters

I perhaps should have.

I'll post a second answer within 60 seconds of my next answer perhaps, just for you..

Shadow Wizard

2:51 PM

Yup, but if it goes by I won't clean your mess :D

Amal Murali

/me closely watches @MartijnPieters's answer feed

Shadow Wizard

@MartijnPieters what's really weird is that you should have seen a Captcha

Martijn Pieters

No, I don't get captchas unless my IP address changes.

Shadow Wizard

@MartijnPieters Think you should, anyway no repro on MSE

Don't want to test on SO, so counting on you to try and reproduce :)

Martijn Pieters

I get it when I post to different questions.

Shadow Wizard

2:59 PM

@MartijnPieters any chance you have background stuff that keeps polling Stack Overflow, e.g. review user scripts? Long shot, but who knows...

Martijn Pieters

Nope.

Shadow Wizard

So we really need a dev here. @Oded will hopefully have a better answer! :)

Martijn Pieters

aw, forgot to post another answer in time.

3ventic

3:20 PM

> Users < 100 rep can't answer their own question for 8 hours
Users < 125 rep, 3 minutes
Users > 125 < 10k rep trip Captcha if more than once per 60 seconds
Users > 10k rep trip Captcha if more than once per 30 seconds

Oded

3:30 PM

@MartijnPieters wait wat?

Martijn Pieters

I was rate limited on my initial attempt to post this answer.

Red box, try again in 60 seconds, blah blah.

Bart

To resolve that we require a bit more information @MartijnPieters. Browser? Middle name? OS?

Martijn Pieters

@Bart Nice try!

Bart

Dangit

Martijn Pieters

@Oded: my previous activity was 20 minutes prior, when I had edited this question.

Being hit by a rate limit was surprising.

Oded

3:35 PM

Yeah. Not sure - reading code.

Martijn Pieters

I've only posted 6 answers so far today, it's a slow month so far.

3ventic

6 answers in a day = slow?

Martijn Pieters

Yes.

jadarnel27

I haven't posted 6 answers this month.

Martijn Pieters

anything under 10-12 is slow.

jadarnel27

3:41 PM

Then again, every time I look through the web forms questions, they are all awful, and I get discouraged.

Oded

@Martijn - could be that an old cache expired (possibly from the last time you got a captcha).

Not really seeing anything else this would be.

Martijn Pieters

@Oded It's been ages and ages since I last got a captcha.

Months, easily.

Weird.

Oded

That may be it. Possibly some caches got recycled. Will need to look at the seeekrit dev room.

Martijn Pieters

e.g. Martijn, change your IP more often so you get captcha'd once in a while, you are being too steady.

Undo

4:23 PM

wants in seeeekrit dev room

Someone give me the seeekrit dev room URL so that I can poke at it

Louis

cv-pls-lacks-sufficient-info stackoverflow.com/questions/23612432/…

Basically, "my question is in another castle."

(To reuse Shog's phrasing.)

TGMCians

^

done

Martijn Pieters

Spam: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/238831/…

Oded

@MartijnPieters aaaand... destroyed.

Martijn Pieters

Boom!

Nice cloud.

3ventic

4:38 PM

Missed it.. no worries, I can still google it by pressing the link it suggests! :D

Oded

@MartijnPieters - Programmers seems to get a steady amount of this specific kind of spam.

Undo

So far I've only gotten to destroy one thing on SR as spam :(

Oded

Now, the only thing the mod destroy tool is missing - a guided missile to the poster address.

Undo

makes userscript

3ventic

lol

Martijn Pieters

4:46 PM

@Oded: btw, I take it the tag-updating-script timing out more days than not is a thorny issue that is still on the devs radar with top priority, right? :-)

Oded

thorny issue. Check. still on the devs radar. Check. top priority. ummm... let me get back to you on that?

TGMCians

@Louis stackoverflow.com/questions/23612432/…

Louis

@TGMCians Yeah, saw that a few minutes ago, flagged it as rude.

TGMCians

well done

Braiam

not rude, right?

Louis

4:49 PM

?

TGMCians

Braiam, yes not rude

@Louis I also flagged and it removed

Louis

@Braiam Were you asking about your comment?

Braiam

yeah

ProgramFOX

@Louis Yes.

TGMCians

yes, he was

Louis

4:52 PM

Ok, well Braiam's comment was not rude.

Is there a chat message that somehow was not delivered to me that indicated a change of topic from the OP's rude comment to Braiam's comment?

Martijn Pieters

@Oded Well, if Shog's idea for insta-close votes ever was implemented, we do need a working tag score script.

But I understand it'll need an overhaul, the script must've hit a scale limit but the SO scale isn't going to dial down.

Oded

Yeah, Nick is looking at perf this week, so may get to it too

3ventic

5:07 PM

Do devs follow feature requests the same way as bugs?

Undo

I think the CMs follow feature requests, then poke the devs with sharp sticks if they want them implemented.

Oded

Pretty much what @Undo said.

Stilly.stack

5:20 PM

@AmalMurali Thanks for letting me know about that gif. It has made me a very wealthy man. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/231112/… Too bad there's not a way to transfer reputation, or I'd give you a couple hundo.

TGMCians

5:35 PM

@rene Hey !

rene

Hi!

Stilly.stack

Howdy @TGMCians

TGMCians

Well, thanks, what about you

Need help here cv-pls-off-topic stackoverflow.com/questions/4962495/…

rene

done

TGMCians

here also cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/23615302/…

Louis

5:38 PM

@TGMCians "Howdy" is like "Hello". Folks don't typically expect you to mention how you are actually doing.

TGMCians

oh gotcha :-)

Stilly.stack

@Louis Even in real life, when people say "how are you" , they really don't care

rene

@Louis How are you doing? (please elaborate...)

Louis

@Stilly.stack True. But sometimes when people ask "how do you do", they really want to know. I'd say it is extremely rare that someone saying "howdy" wants to know.

@rene My muscles are hurting from the home improvement I did this weekend. How about you?

Stilly.stack

@Louis @rene's fingers hurt from all the downvotes and close votes she's closed this weekend.. she almost broke a fingernail too

Bart

5:43 PM

What happened to you @rene? What did I miss?

rene

I hiked on saturday, started with a light drizzle, ending in pooring rain...so all was great.

Stilly.stack

lol, sorry @rene , how chavonistic of me

rene

@Bart sssttt :-)

Louis

chavonsitic? chauvinistic maybe?

Bart

I'll let you share it with the world when you're ready @rene ;)

rene

5:44 PM

lol

Stilly.stack

@Louis Some words are too complicated to try to spell correctly

Braiam

5:55 PM

> This client needs to press any key to continue, but they can't find the 'any' key.

TGMCians

Guys stackoverflow.com/questions/23353173/… Should I vote to close this question ?

Bart

Nah.

Perhaps poke the OP into extending it a bit into "I don't know how to approach this" territory to make it a better question.

Louis

I don't do android development but it appears useful.

TGMCians

hmm

Louis

It is true that if the question were asked without the self-answer, I'd vote to close.

rene

6:10 PM

cv-pls-dup-of-own-question stackoverflow.com/questions/23612376/…

TGMCians

done

rene

tnx

TGMCians

6:30 PM

@Bart but shouldn't it CW ?

Bart

6:54 PM

Nah

GnomeSlice

in The Bridge on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 11 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

Cryptocat, Now with Encrypted Facebook Chat

Neat.

TGMCians

@Bart oh okay thanks :-)

rene

7:15 PM

Eerlier in this room:

yesterday, by Laszlo Papp

only the badge-whore badge :P

Yes!

area51.stackexchange.com/badges/201/centrist?userid=50787

Amal Murali

7:25 PM

@Stilly.stack: I demand credits!

durron597

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Q: Give low rep users a little rep for being correct about close votes

There has been a lot of talk lately about how to improve question quality. When I got 2000 rep, I was annoyed that I couldn't get rep for editing anymore. Until I thought about it for awhile, and realized that I was already committed to making SO better and I didn't really need the random 2 rep...

ɥʇǝS

Is SE down for anyone other than myself?

durron597

MSE or the whole network?

ɥʇǝS

The whole network

Undo

status-norepro

TGMCians

7:36 PM

@ɥʇǝS No

ɥʇǝS

:-/

durron597

@Undo +1

ɥʇǝS

Guess it's an issue on my end then.

Weren't there some DNS changes yesterday?

Undo

I think that was weeks ago :P

durron597

@Undo No it was more recent than that

ɥʇǝS

7:37 PM

I was thinking of

We are aware of connectivity issues to our New York data center. Internap is having a device issue upstream they’re working to fix ASAP.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 11, 2014 at 10:59 PM

Undo

ah

durron597

The Stack Exchange read-only test is starting now, DNS failover will happen over the next 5 minutes.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 6, 2014 at 8:09 PM

ɥʇǝS

Odd, it just started working again.

durron597

yeah, that

Bart

7:49 PM

@ɥʇǝS If your call your service Internap, then you're just asking for trouble

ɥʇǝS

lol. No kidding. I hadn't even noticed that.

Laszlo Papp

9:08 PM

how can I figure out why I have just lost 2 rep without any record in the late history?

ɥʇǝS

You have the "deleted posts" checkbox checked?

Martijn Pieters

Check the 'show deleted posts' checkbox in your rep tab?

ɥʇǝS

Which site is this?

Laszlo Papp

have been checked for ages.

StackOverflow.

ɥʇǝS

double check (no pun intended)

Laszlo Papp

9:15 PM

I had 17700 and it got 17698

ɥʇǝS

Screenshot of the reputation page?

Did you make sure the box was checked? It might have gotten unchecked somehow.

Laszlo Papp

well, I have been using it for a while... that was kinda the first thing to triple-check without asking. ;)

imagebin.org/310508

yeah, I have just no clue how -2 sneaked in without track record.

Martijn Pieters

Eeps, pointless tag adding suggested edits are pointless.

Someone is adding 'ambiguous-tag' to MSE retag-request posts. Those are all going to be closed anyway.

Laszlo Papp

I will try to recalculate my rep explicitly. I think I can request that once a day.

Let us see if that brings the -2 silent drop back.

Martijn Pieters

There's about 12 suggested edits to reject on MSE right now, if anyone wants to gather review kudos.

Ah, ChrisF is jumping in.

durron597

10:13 PM

Thank you to whoever marked the binding duplicate vote thing as an event

if they're in this room

Louis

@durron597 Not following what you're talking about...

durron597

@Louis stackoverflow.com/questions

If you look on the right side, there's an event

"New Binding Duplicate Close Votes" etc.

there were about 6 duplicates of the same topic (maybe more) in meta

err in MSO

Louis

Oh, that.

Louis

10:28 PM

Ok, so I was in the low quality queue and hit "Looks Good" by mistake. (slams head on desk) I went back, clicked the link for the answer that I incorrectly reviewed and flagged it as "not a answer." I wonder how this is going to be handled by the system. If anyone knows...

hichris123

@Louis What review? We can fix it for you. ;)

Louis

@hichris123 I lost track. I was just curious about how the system would handle one person saying "Looks good" and then flagging the same answer as not an answer.

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