A: I did run into Linus Torvalds B: Did LT call you ugly and stupid? A: No, sadly. B: That's easily rectified. Send a patch to the kernel mailing list.
@Unihedron There is no documentation yet. I'm actually waiting for one last random bug to occur so that I can get a proper stack trace and hopefully squish it
@lostsock Accepted answers just plain don't go to the LQP queue. They remain in our queue under NAA or VLQ (whichever it was flagged as) with no indication that it won't get pulled into review, because the default (collapsed) view of a post doesn't show us if it's accepted or not.
The vast majority of disputed low quality flags are "more delete votes than looks good"
@InfiniteRecursion that was weird, it said "you do not have permission to use this type of flag".. if anyone wants to start a bug report... b.c that is very misleading error message
If you try to flag a post that has been deleted since you loaded the question page, the system returns a rather unfortunate error message:
You don't have permission to use this type of flag
Actually, the problem isn't that you don't have permission to use the type of flag (in the particular...
@SantaClaus It takes effort and bandwidth to run a bot. These bots are running on their individual machines, not on the server side, so respect their time and resources. Ask those who are running bots, how much effort it takes.
^@Sam, @Undo, @jan, @Andy: please tell @SantaClaus that running a bot takes time and bandwidth
@InfiniteRecursion ask @SantaClaus how much effort it takes to travel around the world, going down and back up every chimney on earth, carrying millions of pounds of luggage, while weighing 350lbs , all in one night
@lostsock Whose side are you on? We already have one genius abusing that feature of smokey when he wants to shout in the tavern, we really don't need @SantaClaus to join him, do we?
Almost 8 months ago, I introduced encouraged my team members to follow Stack Overflow so that they can read questions, help others, and build their skills. But now this has gotten out of hand. I have a team of 5 developers, and three of them make at least 150 points on average,each. (This is most...
Yesterday in my office was weekly fruit day. As always, I took a few, and did not eat them all. I left two on my work table. The fruit were in perfectly good condition, and I have done this more than a few times.
Today I came to work and realised that the fruit was missing. I left work late and ...
If I remember correctly, there's a project in the pipeline to rethink how question and answer bans work, in light of the fact that extremely low-quality contributors will just cease to care about their bans and register new accounts to post new, terrible material - i.e. the system kind of reaches a threshold where it implodes and starts working to the opposite of the intended effect
@IonicăBizău Yeah. We've tried about half a dozen times to get something to you, I don't know what it is about FedEx in your area but half the stuff we try sending there comes back undeliverable. We're working on trying to figure out what's going on there (well, our logistics company is).
I strongly suspect it's software related, something about unicode getting clobbered somewhere in the process. Unfortunately, it's not our software, so trying to figure it out from the outside-in has been irritating.
@doppelgreener Zephyr is Andy's bot. It listens in 5 different rooms for all cv,dv,spam requests that users make and posts them in the LQP room. So we can help in cleanup from that room, because we don't want to be in all 5 rooms .
@doppelgreener We = Jan and I. I poked Jan at first and came to know that he doesn't have rep. After that I poked you with the cumulative result - "we don't have rep"
@SantaClaus Building, maintaining and running a bot is a lot of work. All the code has to run on the owner's machine, sucking up CPU, memory, and more importantly, bandwidth. In fact, my IPS is actually throttling me atm which, makes it very difficult for my bot to download data, which then slows down the entire catching process. So, adding all these fancy features and just general bot operation is a strain on the owner's resources, and therefore should not be abused in any manner or form.
@InfiniteRecursion, I intentionally made it that way, see the comments and downvotes, they don't even want this question to be answered. — J.Lucky57 secs ago
@rene ok, I dv'ed it too. Let's see how the flag turns out. I too don't expect it to be helpful, but I wanted to push the answer into the queue for community review.
Atleast the answer will gather a few more downvotes, which is a helpful signal