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user163250

12:03 AM

Duplicate?: stackoverflow.com/questions/25224129/…

user163250

Canonical?: stackoverflow.com/questions/11832914/…

user163250

cv-plz Super User stackoverflow.com/q/25224012/456814

user163250

Duplicate?: stackoverflow.com/questions/25216119/…

user163250

Canonical?: stackoverflow.com/questions/14999573/…

user163250

Um, I think I just found a blatant attempt at sock-puppeting.

oldmud0

12:17 AM

Hello, where can I report anonymously a moderator that is abusing the system? I don't want to hold grudges with him

Oh well, too bad. It's not anonymous anymore

user163250

@oldmud0 you want to report a moderator?

Braiam

@oldmud0 stackexchange.com/contactus

user163250

Wait.

user163250

Before you do that.

user163250

Are you sure it's an official moderator, and not just a user with high-rep privileges?

user163250

12:18 AM

If it's just a high-rep user, use a flag.

oldmud0

Nope, it's an ♦

user163250

Ok, go ahead and use the contact us page. But before you do that...

oldmud0

I hope he removes his silly answer, because this is ridiculous

user163250

Where's the MSE post that talks about this?

user163250

This shouldn't be that hard to find :P

oldmud0

12:21 AM

But, isn't the contact system also managed by moderators?

user163250

I think it goes straight to SE employees, not community mods, but I'm double checking...

Jon Ericson

@oldmud0 It bypasses moderators and goes straight to an employee. (Like me.)

@Cupcake Looking for this?

user163250

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Q: What recourse do I have if I believe a moderator has abused his/her privileges?

Recently, I had the following things happen to me on Super User: One of my answers was locked, and a moderator left me some wrong comments (which spoil my name). Maybe I did that myself very long ago, but after my warning, I have not done any such thing. Check my records. How come moderators ca...

user163250

That shouldn't have been as hard to find as it was :P

user163250

There's this one too:

user163250

12:23 AM

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Q: Is there somewhere to complain about offensive moderator behaviour?

Possible Duplicate: What recourse do I have if I believe a moderator has abused his privileges? Is there anywhere or anyone to complain to about the behaviour of moderators? I've been "spoken" to offensively by a moderator, and I'm unhappy about it.

support moderators

user163250

@JonEricson for meta.stackexchange.com/q/92064/163250, do you think it would be easier to find if "complain" was replaced by "report" in the title?

user163250

I was searching for "report moderator", and I finally gave up and used moderator + "report" in the search.

user163250

@oldmud0 are you all set now?

oldmud0

@Cupcake Yes, I think so.

user163250

Duplicate?: stackoverflow.com/questions/25123502/…

user163250

12:28 AM

Canonical?: stackoverflow.com/q/16663606/456814

Shog9

@Cupcake "report" is what we hope folks do. "complain" is what actually happens. "Fight for great justice" is what folks wish they were doing. Therefore, the title should actually read, "How can I report a complaint about offensive moderator behavior for great justice?"

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user163250

@Shog9 that sounds very memeable.

oldmud0

justice = "just us"?

user163250

@Shog9 something along these lines...

user163250

user202362

12:37 AM

user202362

almost the same shade of blue - coincidence? I think not!

user163250

@chmod711telkitty stop, you're creeping me out :P

user202362

~_~

AstroCB

@showdev: Actually _() is a call to a function called.. well.. _ — Antoine Lassauzay Apr 16 '13 at 20:36

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/25276295/…

user163250

@AstroCB OP deleted.

Jamal

12:42 AM

Well, deleting is easier than posting code, I guess.

AstroCB

@Cupcake Well, that works.

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Q: HTML / CSS Video end event issue

I am currently designing a website. I have everything done but I cannot figure out this last step. Here's the deal: I want to play a video but I want it's z-index to be over the entire website index page. Since the video is not full screen I want the rest of the website to be black. So in a wa...

javascript html css video

Three upvotes...because?

AstroCB

12:56 AM

104

Q: Stack Overflow Moderator Cards

We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great. It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for the past few years. They may not be employees, per se, but great community moderators are why o...

discussion community design business-cards

Was this a one-time thing or are these still sent out?

animuson

New moderators can still get them, but AFAIK they don't custom design them for each site anymore.

I have some Stack Overflow business cards.

user163250

This guy posted the exact same solution (verbatim) to three different questions. You think we should start closing them as duplicates?

user163250

1. stackoverflow.com/a/13577739/456814

user163250

2. stackoverflow.com/a/11720640/456814

user163250

3. stackoverflow.com/a/11519855/456814

user163250

1:00 AM

Oldest to newest.

user163250

Duplicate?: stackoverflow.com/questions/25098282/…

user163250

Canonical?: stackoverflow.com/questions/235855/…

user202362

The bug I love the most is the balmain bug:

user202362

Ibacus peronii

Ibacus peronii, the Balmain bug or butterfly fan lobster, is a species of slipper lobster. It lives in shallow waters around Australia and is the subject of small-scale fishery. It is a flattened, reddish brown animal, up to 23 cm (9 in) long and 14 cm (6 in) wide, with flattened antennae and no claws. == Description == In common with other slipper lobsters, Ibacus peronii has a broad, flattened body and a large carapace. The carapace is reddish brown, and reaches lengths of 2–8 centimetres (0.8–3.1 in), with the whole animal able to reach a length of 23 cm (9 in), and a width of 10–14 cm (3.9...

user163250

cv-plz duplicate stackoverflow.com/q/2388991/456814

user163250

1:06 AM

Or wait, is that a duplicate?

Jason C

@Cupcake It's not.

The question was.

But the one you linked to was actually an XY problem.

So the answers for the "base" one don't solve the real problem of the one you linked to.

user163250

Ok. I'm not an Android guy, so I can't tell.

Jason C

Me neither. I've never written a line of Objective C. I just read the question and answers.

Undo

@Cupcake I know how to find crazy cases of stuff like that. Even without diamond powers on SO, some socks are somewhat easy to see.

user163250

@JasonC oh, how embarrassing! Yeah, I meant iPhone :/

AstroCB

1:10 AM

I don't understand why people use iphone on questions that have nothing to do with the iPhone. If you're talking about objective-c and cocoa-touch, tag your question as such.

user163250

@AstroCB just make iphone into a synonym for objective-c

Undo

NO. NO NO NO NO.

Jason C

@Cupcake Oh I wasn't referring to that. I just mean, we should read the question and answers closely before marking duplicates. In the one you linked to, the question had the code that the "base" one had as an answer already in it, and the accepted answer was related to some formatting when writing the log entry.

AstroCB

@Cupcake That's probably not a good idea. Really, nothing that actually needs that tag is a programming question and should be redirected to Ask Different, so it should probably be burninated, but there are way too many questions to do that.

194,489, to be exact.

user163250

So is anyone here actually an android developer?

Jason C

1:13 AM

@AstroCB I don't understand why we have iphone at all. We have android which makes sense, and ios which makes sense. But an iPhone is the product. We don't have motorola-droid.

hichris123

@Cupcake Sure.

Undo

@JasonC iOS is a product too

iPhone is hardware.

user163250

@hichris123 stackoverflow.com/q/25061845/456814, stackoverflow.com/q/6146106/456814

AstroCB

@JasonC Exactly. And technically, we don't need ios either, because questions about iOS development should use cocoa-touch.

Jason C

@Cupcake I'm telling you it's not a duplicate. Blunt way of saying what I meant: It's not a duplicate, and it was easy enough to see that by just reading the question despite not knowing the languages.

Undo

1:14 AM

NO

@AstroCB Not all iOS code is in Cocoa Touch.

hichris123

@Cupcake Yeah, dupe.

Doorknob

@AstroCB ... so get rid of [android] too, because it's all [java]?

Jason C

@Undo Yeah that's what I meant.

Doorknob

@Undo Motorola Droid is also hardware, right?

Jason C

@Cupcake Im dum FROM THE FUTURE!

Undo

1:15 AM

@Doorknob uhhh... stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/motorola

user163250

@JasonC I wasn't going to argue about it, I was just wondering, because I'm looking through some other android questions right now.

AstroCB

@Doorknob @Undo No, but I mean that in a general sense, that's what they're talking about.

Jason C

The first guy is converting just fine.

Doorknob

@Undo Wait, why do we have a tag for a company?

Undo

and [motorola-droid]

user163250

1:15 AM

@JasonC we're talking about a different set.

AstroCB

Look at this tag wiki: stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ios

hichris123

@Cupcake Must be. Because the answers are exactly the same. Plagiarism rules! :/

Undo

THAT TAG IS A THING!

Doorknob

@JasonC Uhh apparently we actually do; I didn't bother to check :P ^

Jason C

@Doorknob Christ. Me neither. Why...

Doorknob

1:17 AM

@Undo Woah. You can have brackets in links? :O I've never been able to do that!

AstroCB

Who wants to write the burnination-request for one and two?

Undo

@Doorknob it took me about four tries :P

escape them with `\\\` 's

hichris123

cv-plz-dupe stackoverflow.com/questions/25061845/…

Doorknob

Heh, this is going to take four tries as well :D

Undo

crap, those things hate me

Jason C

1:19 AM

[i can totally do it!]

Undo

heh

Jason C

have some cats!

Undo

We might be able to get rid of [iphone], but someone's going to need to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no question that that tag would be suitable for before we go retagging almost 200k questions

AstroCB

@Undo I can't think of anything iPhone hardware-related that would have to do with programming.

Jason C

@Undo Can we remove it, observe that nobody complains, then retroactively justify our actions?

AstroCB

1:21 AM

Someone'll just create it again.

Jason C

Blacklist!

AstroCB

I wonder what people who come here to post problems with their phones about would use.

Jason C

We could synonymize iphone with motorola-droid and see if anybody goes nuts on meta.

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Undo

@AstroCB "The torch on my iPhone won't enable when I run this code. What's up?"

AstroCB

@Undo True. I feel like the use-case is very limited, though.

Undo

1:22 AM

@JasonC Someone would do that just to see the fireworks. Some of them would come from me.

AstroCB

Perhaps i and phone?

Undo

love it.

;)

AstroCB

Oh my: I give you [phone].

"Do not use this tag"

Undo

i cant-get-my-code-to-work

Doorknob

Okay, I did an experiment for SCIENCE! Out of the first 50 [iphone] questions, exactly 8 are actually iPhone-specific (2 dubious, 2 extremely low quality). Some were tagged with [css] [iphone], which is a rare case of the tag actually making sense (although [mobile-browsers] (or something) might fit better here), and some were hardware-specific.

Jason C

1:25 AM

I stopped reading at SCIENCE

Undo

@Doorknob why does [css] [iphone] make sense?

it should probably be [css] [mobile-safari] or [css] [ios]

Jason C

[css] [safari] maybe

Braiam

@Undo you need to create a css image of an iphone...

Jason C

^