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Earlier I voted to close a question on Stackoverflow. (user was ranting about the site). This person proceeded track down an email address via my publicly listed website and email me regarding my close vote. Presumably he attempted to do this to other users as well. I won't name the user because...

Jamal

@SantaClaus D:

Santa Claus

> I had the same problem last week. Just waited a few hours, and tried again.

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/6805223/2446155

> You should use netbeans

jadarnel27

2:25 AM

1

A: Sound working in simulator not in iphone 3GS

lol I had the same problem but it was the sound mute switch on the iphone!

Santa Claus

@jadarnel27 yessss

bjb568

2:38 AM

I flagged a couple of "use jQuery" comments as noise. The flags were declined, why?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MATEMATICAS ! DIAGRAMA DE FLUJO EN COMPUTADOR on spanish.stackexchange.com

Jamal

I don't speak Spanish, but that still looks like spam.

Braiam

yup, it is

Jan Dvorak

SPAM gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/179313/…

Here we go. Another new account

@SmokeDetector gone/mod

Pops

Who wants a new day job?

5

Jan Dvorak

2:57 AM

SPAM superuser.com/questions/793025/…

bjb568

3:28 AM

I got a discussion bronze badge on MSO! Yay!

Braiam

That you got a discussing bronze badge on MSO? D:

bjb568

Interesting since it says I have 161 score…

Maybe because of account merge?

NAA! stackoverflow.com/a/25151785/3890059 (soft offensive, too)

bjb568

3:45 AM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/10384998/3890059

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/25151782/3890059

Unihedron

@bjb568 What's the close reason?

bjb568

@Unihedron Unclear. You can use that for any question without the ? character :P

(also… questions that are unclear)

Unihedron

Haha. xD I see now.

Santa Claus

4:12 AM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/25151128/…

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237611/…

iStimple

spam meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237611/…

@JanDvorak I would say you beat me, but I correctly used the spam tag

Santa Claus

@iStimple However, you failed to use it just now.

Unihedron

Haha. xD

iStimple

@SantaClaus no, only use it when referencing an actual spam post

Santa Claus

4:26 AM

@iStimple So I can only use waffles when referring to a post about waffles?

iStimple

@SantaClaus you can use it however you want, i just go by a high? standard and use them modestly

bjb568

status-im-not-modest

Anyway, goodnight.

nait!

Night!

ping

4:39 AM

@SantaClaus pong

iStimple

spam meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237612/…

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237612/…

iStimple

lol! cheat for the win! boo ya!

SilentKiller

morning guys

iStimple

morning peeps

Unihedron

4:46 AM

Good morning @SilentKiller!

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125836/…

SilentKiller

@iStimple what happen dude.?

bjb568

Oh, one more thing:

0

A: How to know which questions should be closed

Ok, I agree that it's more useful to close new questions, but that doesn't mean that closing old questions is a "waste of time" or that it should be discouraged. Questions should be closed when they have little potential value to the community, are off-topic, or actively cause harm. If a questio...

Actual goodnight now.

Unihedron

Night! :P

SilentKiller

lols

iStimple

4:51 AM

spam-on-site-over-3-months stackoverflow.com/a/23411897/3041194

Unihedron

@iStimple DV'd and flagged.

Jamal

Flagged

Unihedron

Anyone would like to enlighten me to how to respond to comments like these?

yes i know but how can solve the problem!! — BuGsHaN 48 secs ago

Jamal

@iStimple The user's other answer is spam, too.

iStimple

here didn't check videos

Unihedron

4:55 AM

@Jamal I think it's VLQ instead.

SilentKiller

@iStimple no description just a link. amazing users.. :/

Jamal

Those YouTube links are spammy.

Unihedron

That's the definition of VLQ - these posts should be removed immediately

SilentKiller

why users are answering when there already answer accepted before 2 years. :/

Unihedron

If it adds something to other answers, encourage and UV. If it doesn't, be straightforward and tell them the post was 2 years ago and the answer didn't add anything helpful.

SilentKiller

5:00 AM

:)

Unihedron

Until I get to 3k rep and can cast close votes, I don't want to review first posts anymore. It gives me a headache.

SilentKiller

hahahaha ejjactly(exactly).. :D

Sumurai8

Good morning, evening or night depending on where you are. If it is currently afternoon where you are I do not wish you anything.

SilentKiller

lols. @Sumurai8 :P

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125837/…

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125839/…

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237615/…

Unihedron

5:18 AM

Much spam, wow!

iStimple

cv-plz-its-just-suck-possible-sinister-spam stackoverflow.com/questions/22349221/…

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125840/…

DroidDev

is this a valid answer?

Jason C

Does drupal.se get more spam than the other sites or does it just happen to get reported more in here?

iStimple

@DroidDev yes

SilentKiller

5:33 AM

@DroidDev answer is valid but he should add some description too.

DroidDev

@iStimple but it only contains links to other answers, better done, the user should have flagged it as duplicate

SilentKiller

@DroidDev that person doesn't have enough repo

iStimple

@DroidDev "You could try using SparseBooleanArray " is an answer

it's an android class in the docs

it's an answer that just points the questioner in the right direction, not telling him how to do everything

Jason C

@Pops Can't... look... away...

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

SilentKiller

@iStimple agreed.

DroidDev

5:37 AM

hmmm, ok

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237616/…

DroidDev

5:57 AM

is this answer valid. Isn't it a link only answer?

Sumurai8

@DroidDev Link-only. Should be a comment on the answer of the person mentioned in their answer.

DroidDev

flagged

Unihedron

Am I spending too much effort on trying to educate new users with comments?

Jason C

@Unihedron If only SOA was around that probably never would have happened.

Oh, sorry I promised I wouldn't be snarky any more.

No wait I promised one snarky comment per week. So I'm good until next Wednesday.

SmokeDetector

6:16 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: world-famous-astrologer-call to 91+9928860580 on math.stackexchange.com

^ SPAM

gone

gone

gone

6:31 AM

gone

gone

gone

bone

gone * gone. :D

@SilentKiller you broke the train :'(

Jan Dvorak

6:37 AM

@DroidDev actually, JasonC did

Doorknob

Also, woah, @DoorknobChatbot has 81 notifications. Now he has 82.

DroidDev

@JanDvorak oh! never noticed it, sorry @SilentKiller

Unihedron

@DoorknobChatbot Knock knock.

DroidDev

@DoorknobChatbot Knock knock.

SilentKiller

@DroidDev no issues buddy. :)

DroidDev

6:38 AM

:)

Unihedron

Your bot didn't seem to be interested in my knock knock jokes.

Doorknob

@Unihedron I closed the Incognito window that I logged him in on and now I'm too lazy to do it again.

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125846/…

Doorknob

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 11 secs ago, by Doorknob

[feature-request] Add testosterone as a SmokeDetector filter @Undo

Unihedron

Gone. Last hit from here.

Jason C

6:50 AM

@hichris1234 One filter maybe to add to SmokeDetector, if it's not there already, is question bodies that end with a non-markup hyperlink. Almost all of tonight's spam fits that form, I don't really see many non-spam post that fit that form.

Doorknob

@hichris123 *

@JasonC Btw that would only work if SmokeDetector was able to get the entire post body, which it can't. My Firefighter thingy can, but I'm not completely done working on it yet.

Sumurai8

@Doorknob I see that becoming a problem if we have any biology related SE's.

Doorknob

Sumurai8

or health-related even

Jan Dvorak

Doorknob

6:52 AM

It only has 3 results for title:testosterone though

(3 results in the history of its existence)

5 on fitness

Jan Dvorak

how sensitive it is, though?

Doorknob

@JanDvorak How sensitive is what?

Jason C

@Doorknob Oh I didn't realize it wasn't grabbing full bodies.

Doorknob

That would sound wonderful out of context

Jan Dvorak

@Doorknob how much spam would "testosterone" pick up?

Jason C

6:55 AM

@Doorknob Lol

Doorknob

@JanDvorak I've seen plenty of it, surely more than 8 posts

Jan Dvorak

What about "muscle"?

Doorknob

@JanDvorak 225 results on fitness

Three in the past 2 days

Jan Dvorak

SPAM math.stackexchange.com/questions/888794/…

Doorknob

... why didn't SD pick that up?

Jan Dvorak

7:06 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237618/muscle-building-meta

Unihedron

Bam, down.

Jan Dvorak

7:17 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125850/…

Doorknob

dead

Unihedron

cv-pls resolved-in-unuseful-way stackoverflow.com/questions/10384998/…

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125852/…

SPArchaeologist

Hi everypony. Hi @DroidDev.

Sumurai8

Hi @SPonyArchaeologist

DroidDev

7:22 AM

@SPArchaeologist Hi :)

@SPArchaeologist is that a coincidence? we pinged each other at same time in different chat rooms

ProgramFOX

@SPArchaeologist Hi!

Sumurai8

cv-plzhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/18830720/how-to-backup-yahoo-mail‌s

SPArchaeologist

hi, @ProgramFOX!

@DroidDev did you maybe saw a rainbow and heard a sonic boom right before pinging me? That could explain a lot...

Jan Dvorak

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237622/…

DroidDev

@SPArchaeologist actually I heard "Moonlight Sonata" from far away :P

rene

7:33 AM

@JanDvorak thicknes is with double-s at the end...tjeee can't even spell its name right

Unihedron

It's actually pretty hard to get the unsung hero badge.

ProgramFOX

Yes, it is.

I almost got it, but I just had 10 zero-score accepted answers and I got an upvote on one of them before I got my 11th.

Unihedron

Aww.

Can someone improve this question asked by a new user? stackoverflow.com/questions/25154715/…

Or close it?

user163250

Um, I think I might have scared this guy off meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267872/…

Unihedron

I'm under 10k, can I have a screenshot? :)

user163250

7:42 AM

That, or the -5 downvotes.

user163250

@Unihedron gimme a sec...

user163250

Or rather, a few minutes...

Unihedron

miaw

ProgramFOX

@Unihedron woof

Unihedron

Can someone improve this question asked by an experienced user? stackoverflow.com/questions/25154629/…

SmokeDetector

7:43 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: IS NOT NULL IN IF CONDITION MYSQL on stackoverflow.com

Unihedron

Or close it? xD

user163250

Unihedron

@Cupcake Oh, I see.

SPArchaeologist

@DroidDev hihi. Btw, did you had the time to listen that song :P?

user163250

I hope he at least got the idea that if no one has a link to his deleted content, then no one is going to find it.

DroidDev

7:46 AM

@SPArchaeologist no, unfortunately, I only had 6 hours of sleep last night. You see work is worship

Shadow Wizard

@Cupcake if you're using Chrome this might be useful, you can take full page screenshot with it. :)

user163250

@ShadowWizard I'll need to read the source to make sure it's not full of any malicious code.

Unihedron

Oh em gee thanks so much @ShadowWizard for that chrome app!! I've been looking for it through out my life!!!

user163250

I generally don't trust Chrome extensions.

user163250

Because they've been known to carry malicious code in the past.

SPArchaeologist

7:48 AM

@Cupcake Just the extensions?

Shadow Wizard

@Unihedron no idea if you're serious or trolling but you're welcome anyway :)

@Cupcake you also read the source of the OS? ;)

Unihedron

Totally serious. Saw it in the past, no clue where to look for it ever since... xD

Shadow Wizard

@Unihedron Google "page screenshot", first result. That's how I found it.

user163250

@ShadowWizard I think my OS is a little more trust worthy :P

Shadow Wizard

@Cupcake it's sending your bank details to Bill Gates' private email right now.

Unihedron

7:50 AM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/25154715/…

user163250

@ShadowWizard he can't have my bank details if I don't save any money in the bank! Ha! Maybe I should just start using Bitcoin.

SPArchaeologist

@Cupcake One little step for a cake, one big step to the onion.

user163250

@SPArchaeologist onion cake actually sounds pretty good right about now.

user163250

The East Asian kind.

user163250

Everybody quiet!

user163250

7:53 AM

I think there's a killer among us...

Unihedron

(walks off to SO to answer questions quietly)

Bart

@Cupcake are you sure he doesn't kill when it's silent?

SilentKiller

lols. :P

Shadow Wizard

@Cupcake Bitcoin is for n00bs. Unicoin rulz.

3

Unihedron

such puny wow

I actually laughed because "Uni" was the prefix of my username.

Shadow Wizard

8:06 AM

@Unihedron not my invention, where were you in April 1st? :)

Unihedron

8:24 AM

cv-pls dupe stackoverflow.com/q/25153611/3622940

Sumurai8

I should drink less cafeïne :(

Getting a headache if I start my morning without it :S

iStimple

@Cupcake only one?

Stijn

@Sumurai8 that's not healthy. How much do you drink then? I'm between 1 and 5 big cups a day, but I don't have headaches when I skip coffee.

iStimple

@Sumurai8 try tapering off

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125862/…

Unihedron

8:29 AM

I've used 12 flags on Drupal.SE, but I don't even visit that site...

Jan Dvorak

all-time?

SmokeDetector

8:49 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: OWIN fucks up log4net on stackoverflow.com

Unihedron

Thank you, guys. This helped a lot. — Ybarra 4 mins ago

What should I flag these comments as?

Sumurai8

not

it is a comment

Jan Dvorak

chatty. Or ignore it. It's not harmful.

Unihedron

Ah, I see.

Sumurai8

You can advise them to leave an upvote and accept if they didnt figure that out already

Doorknob

8:58 AM

@SmokeDetector that escalated quickly

Stijn

9:25 AM

-7 for using a swear word might be a bit over the top

Unihedron

25

Q: Is voting to balance in the spirit of the site?

The other day I saw an answer which was ok. Not great but not bad. So no reason to upvote or downvote. However the answer already had a single downvote. I felt this was unfair so upvoted the answer to keep it at what I felt was a fair score. It wasn't until afterward that it occurred to me that I...

discussion voting etiquette

Stijn

@Unihedron it looks like a good question though, that's why I upvoted. If it was a crappy question I'd leave it alone.

Unihedron

I get it, relevant link anyway. :)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: TRANSFORMER LOSSES on electronics.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125870/…

Sumurai8

9:32 AM

@JanDvorak gone

SmokeDetector

10:03 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CONVERGENCE OF SEQUENCE ON MATLAB on stackoverflow.com

Unihedron

What's matlab?

Ffisegydd

Mathematical language used primarily for data analysis mathworks.co.uk/products/matlab

Unihedron

@Ffisegydd Thanks. Never heard of it before.

Cerbrus

One of my teachers insisted we had to do some image processing in mathlab

He's like "Isn't mathlab great?!"

We: Sir, we'd rather use <insert programming language here> instead :P

Ffisegydd

It's not an awful language/package but you have to pay for a licence, so there are better options.

Cerbrus

10:08 AM

As student, paying is not an option

Heck, we had courses in photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver (yuck), after effects... All over the course of 3 years

Sude, you can get a student lisence to try that software, using your student email

But that licence is only valid for 6 months.

Jan Dvorak

consider that a free extended demo version

Cerbrus

Our teachers literally told us: "I'm sure you all know where to find the software required"

Jan Dvorak

TPB?

Cerbrus

Exactly

The student licence was not an option, because it'd expire too soon. And there's no separate per-product licence.

Jan Dvorak

"I'm sorry, but my conscience doesn't allow me to do that"

Cerbrus

10:13 AM

My conscience doesn't mind some TPB when it saves me thousands of euro's on software that I mostly use for school.

Sure, I still use Photoshop and premiere / after effects...

but the rest?

Jan Dvorak

use gimp

Unihedron

I kind of never used the stuff I learned from School in my life ever, except for the Exams...

Cerbrus

Gimp sucks

It's almost PS

Jan Dvorak

@Cerbrus wat?

Unihedron

Shhh. MS Paint is overpowered.

Cerbrus

10:15 AM

Well, sucks is a bit of an overstatement

Jan Dvorak

@Cerbrus go on...

Cerbrus

But I find PS easier to use. And that's coming from someone that exclusively used gimp before having to obtain PS for study

That said, I'm more of a casual user

user202362

gimp & PS have similar features ... but gimp is free

Cerbrus

Similar, yes

And PS is free too. cough

Unihedron

What about MS Paint? :(

Cerbrus

10:18 AM

Paint is OP

Should be nerfed

Unihedron

^^

Jan Dvorak

@Unihedron its single best feature is multitouch support

and... that's it

and ribbons. It does have ribbons.

Unihedron

But...multitouch > everything ! Just like how 3D movies > every other movie!

Cerbrus

Any way, I don't make money using the software

When I do... If I ever make enough money using the software, to pay for the software...

Jan Dvorak

then you still steal it?

Cerbrus

10:20 AM

Which is unlikely, since my job doesn't involve the software

If I'm making money with it, I buy it

But now it's just minor personal use

Jan Dvorak

does that include OS?

Cerbrus

My current PC came with win7

So that's legit

Also

!!afk lunch

SmokeDetector

10:48 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MEDICINE FOR BODY BUILDING on meta.stackexchange.com

Unihedron

vlq-pls stackoverflow.com/a/25158261/3622940

Shadow Wizard

@SmokeDetector maybe add per site black list of spam word e.g. "medicine" or "body building" on MSE?

Jan Dvorak

or just link all meta posts here

Unihedron

[ SmokeDetector ] New meta post: on meta.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

[ SmokeDetector ] Fake SmokeDetector detected: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2283496#2283496

:P

Jan Dvorak

10:58 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Fake robot pissing contest detected: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2283496#2283496, chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2283499#2283499

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/125879/…

SilentKiller

@Unihedron "vlq-pls" mean.?

Jan Dvorak

potential keywords: side effect, weight loss

Ffisegydd

@SilentKiller Vote Low Quality

SilentKiller

thanks.. :)

Unihedron

There was a "Thank you" answer that stuck around for two days, so I linked it here :)

SilentKiller

11:06 AM

hmm that's the thing i wanna learn too. :)

Shadow Wizard

@Unihedron it's not VLQ, it's just NAA.

Unihedron

@ShadowWizard Oh, yes.

Shadow Wizard

VLQ is something that try to answer, but in a very bad manner that can't be fixed by editing.

Stijn

So there's this eye doctor in the Netherlands

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn what about it? can't understand the language and Google Translate won't work for images just yet :(

Stijn

11:17 AM

@ShadowWizard dr I.C. Notting

3

Shadow Wizard

oh

Wonder if it's real? ;)

Cerbrus

Yeap

She's real

bronovo.nl/patient-en-bezoeker/specialismen-en-behandelingen/…

TRiG is Timothy Richard Green

Oh forum threads, don't you love them?

Jan Dvorak

@TRiGisTimothyRichardGreen luckily we're not a forum

rene

11:32 AM

@Cerbrus the royal hospital...

Cerbrus

Hm?

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