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user163250

12:04 AM

I totally borked my answer to this question:

user163250

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Q: Revoke answer acceptance to ask unrelated or loosely-related follow-up question

I've been noticing a trend recently, that plays out as follows: User A asks a simple, straightforward question relating to a larger, more complicated project they are working on. User B gives a complete, correct, and helpful answer to the question. User A accepts User B's answer. Later, User A ...

user163250

I totally misread the question. It's still up for grabs if anyone wants to write a better answer.

animuson

@Cupcake That was fun. New challenge please.

user163250

I'm not sure if this is something that I should be proud of :/ meta.stackoverflow.com/help/badges/55/fanatic?userid=456814

animuson

Of course it is!

Oh cool, when did I get a Reversal badge on MSO?

Oh, that.

animuson

12:31 AM

@Cupcake Counting things over and over until they make sense is something I had to do a lot at the Election Commission when auditing early voting requests. But there it's mostly because people don't log what they do correctly.

hichris123

12:48 AM

We will be starting the #stackexchange chat maintenance in about 15 minutes, downtime should be brief. http://stackstatus.net/post/92572393494/chat-maintenance-july-24-2014-at-9-pm-est-1-am-utc

Tweeted by StackStatus on July 25, 2014 at 12:45 AM

Undo

NO

:(

hichris123

1:04 AM

Chat's still up.

Braiam

@hichris123 not anymore D:

Tim Stone

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Doorknob

Eeeeeeeeek

hichris123

1:20 AM

And... we're back!

Doorknob

:D

bjb568

:D

Braiam

1:45 AM

:D

bjb568

3:17 AM

Interesting playlist: youtube.com/…

user163250

3:42 AM

So that I read that Trello became it's own company, or something like that blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/07/24/…

user163250

Highly voted on HN news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079110

user163250

Does Joel still own Trello? Stack Exchange is separate from Fog Creek, and Joel stil owns Stack Exchange, right?

user163250

4:08 AM

Fail:

user163250

user163250

It's super annoying when they don't learn how this all works the first time around, and they persist in smacking right into the wall.

Jan Dvorak

4:37 AM

SPAM webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/65731/gente-sony-aqua-11s, ux.stackexchange.com/questions/61889/…

bjb568

Because of my account merge (with my friends somehow, which I contacted SE about) and the borking of SE's login, I cannot create an account on web apps that is linked to my original account (bjb568).

user163250

According to this guy stackoverflow.com/questions/24947263/how-to-pronounce-intptr:

user163250

Looks like there are some "How do you pronounce this?" questions that need to be closed and deleted...

SmokeDetector

4:57 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: KENDO UI FOR ASP.NET MVC - TREE GRID on stackoverflow.com

animuson

5:14 AM

@bjb568 Oh that's why your name isn't linked in the close notices anymore. I noticed that earlier today.

bjb568

FIXITFIXITFIXIT!

Is it even possible to unmerge accounts?

Sumurai8

Hello beings made of organic tissue

animuson

Can only be done manually, and I don't think it would fix all the unlinked usernames across the site.

bjb568

@animuson Well, do it manually.

animuson

Well only an employee can do that. Involves manually editing post data and such.

SilentKiller

5:19 AM

Good Morning...!!!

bjb568

@animuson :O Seems like the whole system is borked. Well, the first account is useless, and can be deleted(I fiddled with it before, and my friend who owns it doesn't use it anymore).

First = lower id.

animuson

Will if you don't actually need the other account, they probably won't try to unmerge them. Or possibly just disassociate any posts that were on the older one, if needed.

user163250

cv-plz duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/24948195/…

user163250

Burn with fire.

user163250

It's the exact same question from the same user.

bjb568

5:28 AM

@animuson Oh good. But the biggest problem is the borking of the login system which probably got the accounts merged in the first place. >:(

@Cupcake DV'd both.

user163250

@SilentKiller morning?

user163250

You're not here to kill anyone, are you?

bjb568

Or even worse, loudly?

user163250

If you do, can you make it as LOUD as possible plz?

bjb568

Nooooo! Silently!

SilentKiller

5:30 AM

@Cupcake lols no i am toooooooooooo innocent.. i am just killing silence.. ;)

ya its morning here. :)

bjb568

It's night here.

Avinash Raj

could you people able to login into openid.stackauth.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/Account/LogOn ?

SilentKiller

ohh then Good Night.. :)

bjb568

But that doesn't work unless I'm going to sleep! English! (sucks)

SilentKiller

why don't you.?

bjb568

5:32 AM

Going to then. Bai!

SilentKiller

tata. :)

Avinash Raj

tata :-)

animuson

The cupcake is a lie!

I don't know, I just had an urge to say that. Like something was controlling my thoughts.

SilentKiller

controlling my thoughts. ohhh.... !!!!!!!

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237093/…

user163250

5:58 AM

I love how we have a meta tag for this now: meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/dupehammer/info

user163250

@animuson I am not a lie. I'm a real cupcake! Don't let any cats, birds, shadows, flowers, or glasses tell you otherwise! :P

Jan Dvorak

@Cupcake What about Portal gamers? Can they tell him?

animuson

What about a cat's shadow with a bird in its mouth holding some flowers and wearing glasses?

Jan Dvorak

Perhaps, but I haven't seen you wear glasses either

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237093/…

animuson

6:49 AM

Keep getting rate limited on editing. xP

Sumurai8

You spammer :O

SilentKiller

lols

animuson

My edit history looks awesome.

SilentKiller

it must be. 79.4k :P

animuson

This one: stackoverflow.com/users/246246/animuson?tab=activity

SilentKiller

6:58 AM

even this 22.4k

Doorknob

@animuson Wait, I'm confused. Should I add logos to the tag wikis?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword detected: nike-lunar-forever-2-mens on ux.stackexchange.com

animuson

I will bring down the hammer on you!!!

Sumurai8

@Doorknob Yes, you should! That's the only right thing to do

animuson

I created a query to help me: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/210248/…

Doorknob

6:59 AM

^^^^ SPAM

Jan Dvorak

@Doorknob those shoes don't look too bad, though

SilentKiller

@animuson have you exp of JQuery or PhoneGap.?

Jan Dvorak

7:52 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237098/…

Those who code spambots should be forced to read their creations' creations out loud over a public medium.

DroidDev

flagged and agreed ^^^

SPArchaeologist

Hi

Just to know. Do different types of flag have different weight?

DroidDev

yes, it depends on how many colors are used in flag :P

SPArchaeologist

To make it clearer: does for example a spam flag put you closer to a ban than an offensive question one?

Jan Dvorak

you as...

Sumurai8

8:03 AM

Spam flags will cause reputation penalties, where offensive flags won't I think.

Jan Dvorak

I think both do

SPArchaeologist

so when a post is offensive and spam it is better to flag as spam?

Sumurai8

meta.stackexchange.com/a/7238/233566 <-- Seems like it does

Spam also gets added to a filter of some kind and is made an audit case I heard. I dunno about offensive flags, since it's, well... offensive.

DroidDev

Currently I doesn't have enough reputation to comment on questions, eg. to ask for more information in order to answer, and possibly gain reputation ... however, I'm allowed to actually edit the original question. Does in my opinion not make sense. — jon martin solaas Mar 31 at 4:51

Stijn

Your question is about to be closed because it belongs on MSO. I'm aware that your question here was asked before the split, but from what I understand the goal is to eventually migrate all these closed questions from here to MSO, although I'm not sure. You might just want to repost your question on MSO. — Stijn 1 min ago

^am I correct in that comment?

DroidDev

8:11 AM

I think yes

user163250

Quora sucks.

user163250

I can't deal with it anymore.

user163250

My quora feed is full of ancient items from 2011.

Sumurai8

@Stijn I believe so. Meta questions about SO belong on MSO. Meta questions about SE that are asked on MSO should however not be moved automatically.

user163250

And the GitHub topics (the interesting ones about GitHub as a company) are being spammed out by off-topic n00b questions about Git.

Stijn

8:13 AM

@Cupcake I only visit Quora when I don't find my answer elsewhere on the internet

Sumurai8

Quora: Isn't that that site that displays an overlay over every page if you are not registered.

user163250

@Sumurai8 you mean like this?:

user163250

That would be the one.

Sumurai8

@Cupcake Yes, that one. A friend showed it once to me "Look, someone famous posted here something!!1!". Had to remove that bloody thing from the DOM.

Jan Dvorak

8:19 AM

Wait, is their primary power having a lot of answers per question?

no matter how crappy they are?

user163250

No.

Sumurai8

And opiniated answers seem to be no problem too. At least for the questions I have seen.

user163250

I don't know.

user163250

They just really f**ked up with the recent changes they made to the feed.

user163250

I'm seeing stuff that is years old.

user163250

8:21 AM

There's no option to see just recent stuff yet.

user163250

Part of the draw if getting answers from famous people.

user163250

Or influential people.

user163250

There's that one GitHub guy who's always answering questions on it about GitHub.

user163250

I think his name is Zac or something.

user163250

Then there's Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.

Sumurai8

8:23 AM

Hrmmm; I have to give @Cupcake an upvote somewhere. I don't like their reputation.

Wait; why is 1337 displayed under your avatar @Cupcake? Your MSE reputation doesn't match that :O

DroidDev

@Sumurai8 I see 1382 for that. Are you really seeing 1337? :O

Jan Dvorak

1315 here

1382 must be old information

DroidDev

but the reputation in MSE is 1382, and that's what I am seeing in here

Jan Dvorak

Thanks for ruining my joke, mr. correct-all

DroidDev

@JanDvorak Oh! I'm sorry, I thought there's a bug in chat, because of which we all are seeing different numbers

Sumurai8

8:42 AM

DroidDev

@Sumurai8 YOU USE IE!!!!

now I know why you are seeing wrong values :P

Sumurai8

@DroidDev At work I do.

Jan Dvorak

@Sumurai8 fail

DroidDev

@Sumurai8 That might be caching, although I'm not sure. Have you tried refereshing your page. If it still don't go away, I think you should post a question

Sumurai8

@JanDvorak I have had this discussion somewhere last week too; think on monday or tuesday.

SmokeDetector

8:46 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: Origin of “name happened” form - from “shit happens” via “magic happens”? on english.stackexchange.com

Sumurai8

Yes, the offensive 1337 disappeared upon reloading the page. Thou shall never have 1337 reputation anymore, @Cupcake

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector actually, it's an interesting theory

DroidDev

But one shall only use IE in two cases:
1. Testing
2. Downloading some other browser

Jan Dvorak

@DroidDev ad #1: there's browserstack

Sumurai8

3. To access internet at work when you cannot use or download an other browser and you are nearly dying of boredom.

DroidDev

8:51 AM

@JanDvorak then only #2 applies. eliminate #1

Jan Dvorak

then there's that ballot screen...

DroidDev

@Sumurai8 Then you should try to hack your firewall and download another browser. Your excuse is invalid

Sumurai8

@DroidDev I would prefer to keep my work. It provides me with well-needed money.

Also:

4. To annoy DroidDev

^-- this is the reason why people usually use IE.

DroidDev

@Sumurai8 That's a good priority.

I declare your excuse valid

@Sumurai8 you should be given an extra certificate alongwith your work experience. Certified regular IE user, the one and only in world

I salute your patience

Sumurai8

Certified IE9 user

DroidDev

9:00 AM

There should be regular in there somewhere

Jan Dvorak

It doesn't even have adblock

DroidDev

@JanDvorak Is there one for IE?

Jan Dvorak

My point is there isn't

Sumurai8

Even if there was, I wouldn't be able to install it. :'(

DroidDev

@Sumurai8 I suggest you should use a calculator instead. It has more allowed features than your computer :P

Sumurai8

9:10 AM

You mean it can add two numbers?! O_o

WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!

DroidDev

lol

Sumurai8

I had no clue that was possible

You opened my eyes! You freed my soul! I can add two numbers! It is all I ever wanted!

DroidDev

but, you can also buy a scientific calculator which has even more features :P

Sumurai8

*faints

Bart

Pff, science. What good has that ever brought to the world.

Sumurai8

9:13 AM

@Bart War. Destruction. Murder. Innocent deaths. More war. Power. More war. Slavery. All the good things.

Bart

@Sumurai8 Hmm, I like the sound of that

Jan Dvorak

@Sumurai8 Hmm... you only need a piece of stone and motivation to perform murder

Both of which existed since the dawn of ages

Bart

@JanDvorak everyone knows the big bang created science. And science created the heaven and earth and saw that it was good .... wait .... I might be mixing things ...

DroidDev

@Bart no, that's perfectly the way it has happened. You are 100% correct

Bart

See, thought so. Maybe I should give Physics SE a go then ....

DroidDev

9:21 AM

Brace yourselves...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: BIG SIZES PRINTS on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237103/…

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237104/…

How come they frequently come in pairs?

Stijn

9:40 AM

Observation: the star board at The SO Tavern is 40% @Bart

Bart

@Stijn Observation: That it's any different at the Tavern on the Meta is nothing but a shame.

user202362

ok ... time to drive off so I can throw myself into dark abyss - off for adventure caving this weekend! wish me to not die while micro sleep on the way driving home

Bart

Live to troll another day @chmod711telkitty!!

Stijn

have fun @chmod711telkitty

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