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1:18 AM

@hichris123 Cupcake's IRL photo looks weird. I know Cupcake as a cupcake...

@bjb568 That's... not Cupcake...

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^ This

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1:39 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: NEW TO THIS TOPIC PLEASE HELP ME on askubuntu.com

WHAT TOPIC

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/25079935/…

@Jamal THIS TOPIC!

OH, THAT TOPIC

PLZ HALP?

1:46 AM

LOL NOPE

I WOULD IF I KNEW ABOUT THAT TOPIC. I'LL EAT SOME CUPCAKES INSTEAD.

YOU'RE LUCKY THAT CUPCAKE HAS LEFT THE ROOM.

I THINK I AM.

I CAN EAT HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN PIECE WITHOUT SHRIEKS OF HORROR.

Why do you want to install Ubuntu if you don't even know what it is? I wouldn't recommend that, because you will be tinkering with essential parts of your computer. Unless you know what you are doing and what to expect, this really isn't recommended. Perhaps you could edit your question to be more specific about your question? If you have a Windows problem, you can ask about it on Super User, but make sure you read their help center first. Thanks! — Seth ♦ 2 mins ago

^ I THINK THIS IS CODE FOR "YOU ARE AN IDIOT".

AGREED

2:17 AM

SOA: How do I ask a question that makes me look like an idiot?

2:30 AM

SOA may refer to:
Accounting and business
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States
State of the art, the highest level of development
Statement of Advice, a document that outlines the recommendation(s) of a financial planner about a particular entity's financial needs
Statement of Account
Engineering
Safe operating area, the voltage and current conditions for a semiconductor to work reliably

@JasonC Which one?

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@JasonC Stack Overflow Alcoholics?

We're all alcoholics, aren't we?

@bjb568 I never pictured cupcake having a boston accent

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2:52 AM

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del-pls stackoverflow.com/q/25057918/3890059

Q: Can we discuss a content dispute over a question about force pushing with Git?

Probably not until that answer gets unaccepted, unless a mod deletes the whole thing.

user163250

Any moderators want to weigh in on this?

user163250

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Intro I'm having a dispute over the content of an answer with the owner of the question, a question which I've discussed previously in another Meta question, and I'm not sure what the best way to resolve it in this case is. The owner of the question disagrees with the fact that I left an editor...

3:12 AM

@Jamal That's the point. The system is broken, the mods are overworked.

^ Ooh yay, finally.

@Cupcake I don't think anyone will want to weigh in on that on a friday night

Still missing other badges. Like all my gold ones.

@bjb "Mods overworked" - not ATM. Flag queue should be pretty close to 0.

I wonder how the close review queue is doing these days.

@hichris123 Mods are always overworked.

3:18 AM

It's sitting at around 10k @JasonC.

@bjb meh. A majority of things the community can deal with themselves.

@hichris123 That's the true, unfuzzied value?

@hichris123 Not the damned green arrow.

@JasonC yep. They stopped fuzzying the value and started just dropping items from the queue.

@hichris123 Well I'll be damned. Nice. A successful mission.

@bjb The community can delete accepted answers. But it's easier to just delete the question...

3:21 AM

@hichris123 No, the fancy pants high-rep(cough repwhore)s can. But they don't.

A: Around how many questions get deleted in Stack Exchange and by who?

... you'd be surprised.

40

I'm glad you asked this... There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding how much stuff gets deleted, and who is responsible - so I'm going to provide a bit more information than what you asked for, in hopes of clearing this up. Questions deleted during the past 365 days on Stack Overflow 659...

Questions that need to be deleted: 90%. Questions deleted: less than 90%.

@bjb568 Your face is an invalid edit.

OOOOOOOH!

... How is my face an edit in the first place?

DON'T ASK QUESTIONS.

3:30 AM

@JasonC why not?

@JasonC /r/nocontext

I don't do context.

user163250

@iStimple that's a good point.

1 hour ago, by Jason C

SOA: How do I ask a question that makes me look like an idiot?

user163250

I'm definitely Stack Exchanged out, time to call it a day, have a good night/weekend y'all!

3:40 AM

22 mins ago, by Jason C

I wonder how the close review queue is doing these days.

@iStimple STOP THIS MADNESS!

@JasonC sorry, just wanted to show that you ask questions all the time!

Speaking of which, I have a noob web design question, and you've created the perfect topic transition.

Is it how to do a sticky footer?

@iStimple Isn't that when you walk around in the bar at 4AM?

3:44 AM

Oh, it's a friday night! I should do some more developing! And sleep. Ok, goodnight.

So I have a page that has a bunch of items on it, and a little plus sign next to each item that expands details via Javascript (not a page reload). I want to make it so you can permalink to the page with a given single item expanded. I can use either query parameters or anchors in the URL. I see people use anchors a lot. Why do I see people use anchors for this instead of query parameters? What's the magic there?

@JasonC Wait... a question? I'll answer.

@JasonC Query parameters look ugly and old. People like #s. Query parameters are sent to the server - the server doesn't need them (not like 6 bytes makes a difference).

@JasonC Do you have a chat-puppet for stars?

So it's more about coolness and appearing clean to the user rather than a technical reason (extra data to server aside)?

@JasonC It takes slightly more code to parse querystrings, but it isn't hard.

3:47 AM

@iStimple No I'm just... amazeballs.

8 hours ago, by bjb568

I feel like I'm the only one starring things...

@bjb568 I see. Sweet, thanks.

@JasonC well, for search engines it matters. Different query parameters in the url treat it like a different page. While different anchors does not. However, you can tell google to ignore whichever parameters you want.

@iStimple Ohh; interesting. That's a good point.

Oh yeah, that.

Different query = different page. Decide if it's one page, multiple parts or multiple pages.

Now, actual goodnight.