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Infinite Recursion

11:05 AM

@Frank Thanks, then I won't flag it as dupe

Infinite Recursion

11:16 AM

Looks like Bart: stackexchange.com/users/1384276/talles

rene

If that was the OP's intention I would be offended ;)

Unihedron

-229! New record!

-229

A: Info: Contacted by spammers (Ispirer Systems) referencing Stack Overflow

We would like to comment on behalf of the company. There are several questions on this website, the possible solution to which can be the use of our tool. Our answers were always deleted by the site administration, despite of the fact that they contained useful information for the SO users. Th...

Bart

11:31 AM

Yay

SPArchaeologist

@Unihedron actually, -230

Unihedron

-231 for me

rene

Hé, don't do the meta-tavern-down-vote-gang-effect, that poor OP...oh wait...

4

DroidDev

@Unihedron that was mine :D

SPArchaeologist

@DroidDev can't the clones be used?

DroidDev

11:37 AM

@SPArchaeologist but, they don't have accounts on SE :/

btw, how come same user has 36 repz from this answer?

I also don't see any negative vote in his reputation, but only one upvote on that answer :/

rene

+4/-3

Frank

@DroidDev Starts at 1, gets 4 upvotes and 2 downvotes.

@DroidDev stackoverflow.com/users/4116112/…

DroidDev

@Frank oh! thanks :D

Infinite Recursion

What should we do with this? naa? stackoverflow.com/a/26413074/2982225

Frank

What I don't know is: Why is the answer score 1, not 2?

Pham

11:44 AM

@DroidDev Sorry, what did you say? ;)

Frank

@InfiniteRecursion naa

DroidDev

@InfiniteRecursion OP got the clarification about it in comment. Its time to nuke it :D

@Pham I SAID MAFIA DUCK IS LOOKING AT YOU :P

5

Sam

:O

Pham

Oh, hi @Inf

Infinite Recursion

@DroidDev Eeek, am not a mafia duck!

HI @PHAM

DroidDev

11:50 AM

@InfiniteRecursion but....you wear those cool glasses....

google.co.in/…

Infinite Recursion

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26368771/…

strange question drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/134572/…

Sam

gets a pair of noise cancelling headphones

Infinite Recursion

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/4194147/…

Unihedron

@InfiniteRecursion repost to Moderators?

Infinite Recursion

@Unihedron Don't know, I have not taken the tour of Moderators.

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/4194147/…

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/26492017/2982225

can anyone please salvage this? stackoverflow.com/questions/26491837/read-web-page-line-by-line

Unihedron

12:03 PM

@InfiniteRecursion impossibru

Infinite Recursion

@Unihedron ok, then cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26491837/read-web-page-line-by-line

Bart

@InfiniteRecursion semi-salvaged. Still not great.

Unihedron

It's more of a "How to browse a website" question.

SPArchaeologist

@Unihedron actually, there could be an answer for that. But even if I posted it, the way the question is written makes me think it wouldn't be of much use to the poster.

Infinite Recursion

@Bart Thanks :)

Bart

12:06 PM

I guess the real answer is that you should use a regex to parse html and extract the relevant info ... right? Right?

Infinite Recursion

@SPArchaeologist If you think it will be useful for future users, go for it. Helping the OP is not the primary purpose of answering.

rene

@Bart Yes, please do that...

Infinite Recursion

^^

Andy

@Unihedron Yes

Though it is a little broad

Unihedron

12:21 PM

@Andy You fix the question and repost it if it's not a dupe then.

jurgemaister

Who process flags? Only moderators?

ProgramFOX

@jurgemaister Depends on which flags.

jurgemaister

Off topic, too broad, genral shit etc

ProgramFOX

VLQ and NAA flags go to the Low Quality Posts queue and to the moderator flag queue.

jurgemaister

NAA == Not an answer?

ProgramFOX

12:22 PM

Off-topic and too broad flags also go to the Close Votes queue.

@jurgemaister yup

The only flags that are only handled by moderators are spam/offensive (though posts get removed with 6 of those flags) and "needs moderator ♦ attention" flags.

Unihedron

Some mods reviews close votes.

@ProgramFOX VLQ flagged posts also goes to a high prior queue if the user has a positive flagging history, I think.

ProgramFOX

@Unihedron Might be, don't know about that.

Unihedron

Just flag correctly.

It doesn't really matter who handles them, as long as bad stuff gets cleared.

ProgramFOX

!!/alive?

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 7 secs ago, by ProgramFOX

@Undo SmokeDetector is dead in both rooms!

Sam

I wonder...

>>status

Patrick Hofman

12:30 PM

Current status: Beta.

Sam

:)

jurgemaister

12:41 PM

@Unihedron Just seems like the flag que is too long to handle. I've got active flags back to January

Unihedron

@jurgemaister I think it's been mentioned on Meta before. If you have 500 rep to access the queues, you'll notice that the Close Votes review queue has like 11k items.

ProgramFOX

@jurgemaister There are up to 2000 flags in the moderator queue and 11k items in the Close Votes queue, so it can take some time indeed.

jurgemaister

I need 3k reputation to access the que

Unihedron

You can see the number though.

jurgemaister

Yeah

ProgramFOX

12:43 PM

@Unihedron You can always see the number.

Unihedron

@ProgramFOX Confirmed on bot account.

But it's 11k.

ProgramFOX

@Unihedron You can even confirm when you are not logged on.

Unihedron

:o

Cool, never knew the number was publicly open.

jurgemaister

Is there a 40 review limit per day or something?

vba4all

cvs-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26507664/…

ProgramFOX

12:45 PM

@jurgemaister When there are more than 1k items in the queue, the limit is 40, when there are less than 1k items in the queue, the limit is 20 per day.

vba4all

"convert VBA to VB.NET for me"...

jurgemaister

@ProgramFOX I guess there's a reason for the limit

ProgramFOX

@jurgemaister Yes, to avoid robo-reviewers (people who review just for badges) or people who do bad reviews to go through the whole queue making bad reviews.

jurgemaister

I should go and answer some questions so get 3k rep instead of flagging :P

ProgramFOX

@jurgemaister Yea, I should probably do the same :D

jurgemaister

12:48 PM

You're almost there!

/me sends a foxhound after @ProgramFOX

This isn't IRC? :(

ProgramFOX

@jurgemaister /me runs away and hides behind the voting arrows of a question

Jan Dvorak

VLQ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/242434/…

Lynn Crumbling

1:20 PM

'morning all

ProgramFOX

@LynnCrumbling Morning!

Unihedron

Morning!

Sam

Morning!

Lynn Crumbling

@InfiniteRecursion This blows my mind... someone with > 600 rep asking for an offsite res recommendation.

^ 1 more cv needed on that, btw.

I love the last "things I'll need" bullet item. "Probably lots of other stuff I'm not thinking of"

rene

@LynnCrumbling Maybe add common sense to the list...

Lynn Crumbling

1:37 PM

@rene There's an off-the-shelf package that supports that api?

rene

@LynnCrumbling Common Sense comes in every API, as long as it is not designed for Android....

Vogel612's Shadow

@rene I disgress, neither JAVA nor LISP nor PHP ship it..

you need to purchase an extra-pack

Jan Dvorak

2:02 PM

VLQ title drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/134238/…

Infinite Recursion

2:14 PM

@LynnCrumbling Thanks, we certainly gave OP one thing they didn't think of - a big banner telling them how to ask

@JanDvorak Edit it and get 2-rep, you are a Marshal with 101, get some rep to match that gold badge. Contribute!

Jan Dvorak

I don't think it can be fixed

Infinite Recursion

:(

Jan Dvorak

VLQ stackoverflow.com/questions/26509830/…

Undo

!!/rev?

SmokeDetector

@Undo 84c7aae (hichris1234: Would still post if it was a false positive)

Infinite Recursion

2:31 PM

>>status

Braiam

wut? stackoverflow.com/q/5127791/792066

vba4all

please vote to reopen meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/274994/…

wrongly marked as a duplicate of a completely different question

Undo

voted

vba4all

ta

Lynn Crumbling

@vba4all reopened

cv-pls polling stackoverflow.com/q/26510261/656243

cv-pls opinion stackoverflow.com/q/26510239/656243

Infinite Recursion

2:51 PM

cv-pls meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/275082/…

Braiam

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/2731179/792066

Jan Dvorak

@Braiam too many answers, or too opinionated?

Braiam

@JanDvorak both fit

Jan Dvorak

SPAM math.stackexchange.com/questions/985937/…

It's football season again???

Undo

apparently :P

user259867

3:00 PM

I shall call this "title blindness", an instance of tunnel vision that is common on SE. A 6K user makes several edits to the body of a question, and leaves the title as it was...

user259867

(Not fixing since I know nothing about drupals)

Infinite Recursion

I did see the edit history, an invalid edit and an invalid edit summary that is more of a conversation. I posted my possible duplicate comment here for future readers, because I feel it's a valid use of comments. Please flag for removal if you find it inappropiate. — Infinite Recursion 5 mins ago

^vba4all, your edit summary should have been a comment, not an edit summary

Jan Dvorak

3:17 PM

SPAM math.stackexchange.com/questions/985966/…

SPAM travel.stackexchange.com/questions/37788/…

rene

fake passport s(p|c)am

Infinite Recursion

Is football spam common in football season?

Undo

it was last year, IIRC

rene

If you ask that crook Blatter it is all year football season

Infinite Recursion

Thanks, TIL football spam. I haven't seen this kind of spam since I became a member.

Jan Dvorak

3:28 PM

Football spam was what I started with

Unihedron

review-pls stackoverflow.com/q/26496265/3622940

Infinite Recursion

3:46 PM

> I'm curious!! I wanna know what I can do Inorder to work and go to school here

Where is "here"? — Gagravarr 29 mins ago

durron597

cv-pls-duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/26511558/…

thx

Infinite Recursion

4:04 PM

Every city smells, and every city smells differently from any other city.

ProgramFOX

!!/alive

!!/alive?

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Yup

cVplZ

@Bart and 100% spammer

Pham

Low Quality Q (100%): I cannot add oracle listener with windows server 2008 r2, by Hung Luong, on dba.stackexchange.com.

Infinite Recursion

Yakshemash ! This is a very good post for me. When I with wife, I always want to run away to farthest point opposite to her. Chenqui. — Borat Sagdiyev May 4 at 1:01

cVplZ

4:07 PM

@InfiniteRecursion run out of skeptics comments to quote? Nonetheless, that is a very good post

Infinite Recursion

@cVplZ, No, I went to travel. SE today to flag Jan's spam, and started reading their posts, they are very entertaining.

cVplZ

@InfiniteRecursion star for Jan's spam

Infinite Recursion

:D

If reaction time is an indicator of intelligence, that means most house flies are more intelligent than I am... — Flimzy Nov 26 '13 at 16:58

Jan Dvorak

Star troll on the loose

Infinite Recursion

Nazi owl on the loose

Jan Dvorak

4:21 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26511035/…

Sam

^ The bots are finally together.

Undo

!!/alive?

SmokeDetector

@Undo plz send teh coffee

cVplZ

@InfiniteRecursion the bigger the fly, the easier to smash, but the harder to cleanup

Jan Dvorak

use spiders

cVplZ

4:30 PM

the tavern mob. the head duck, and his two henchmen

3

2

*henchmen

*her

*The

@JanDvorak lol

*its

4:48 PM

*they're

Jan Dvorak

@Unihedron ???

cVplZ

*What?

Jan Dvorak

@cVplZ I'm not actually saying anything. I'm merely giving @Unihedron a puzzled look

cVplZ

*.

Braiam

s/.*//m

Unihedron

4:52 PM

naa \ vlq stackoverflow.com/a/16586685/3622940

as well as the one downstairs

The accepted answer works well so I don't feel like salvaging

cVplZ

@JanDvorak *Russian

@JanDvorak *English

Unihedron

s/^(?::\d+\s)*.+//m

ProgramFOX

@cVplZ ... you found that on the transcript from January? Great search skills! :D

Unihedron

@ProgramFOX *You

cVplZ

@ProgramFOX @JanDvorak has a lot of spelling and grammar errors. Not hard to find one random one.

ProgramFOX

4:56 PM

@Unihedron After three dots? I don't know, going to look that up.

Srikanth

Hi guys

Unihedron

I was kidding. :p

Srikanth

I want to know how to get the newest and unanswered questions for a specific tag for example sql. I have tried all the answers in these questions :meta.stackexchange.com/questions/122898/… and meta.stackexchange.com/questions/34001/… none of them work

ProgramFOX

@Unihedron :D

@Srikanth The link in the first answer works. Just add [sql] to let it find SQL questions.

stackoverflow.com/…

Infinite Recursion

@cVplZ Sam is my oldest friend on SE :D

Unihedron

5:01 PM

"hi @Sam @Sam" was @inf's first chat message :p

Infinite Recursion

Lol

Sam

@InfiniteRecursion :)

Unihedron

Nope, the other way around :P

in The SO Tavern (Free Snacks) on Stack Overflow Chat, Jul 28 at 10:33, by Infinite Recursion

@Sam @Sam Hi

cVplZ

@InfiniteRecursion : ( I thought iStimple was

Unihedron

@cVplZ Nope.

Reality is cruel.

Infinite Recursion

5:05 PM

@cVplZ He was VoteToClose when we became friends :)

Srikanth

@ProgramFOX Oh cool thanks. When I tried it it didn't work i60.tinypic.com/x1a9du.jpg not it works i58.tinypic.com/2zs31uf.jpg strange

ProgramFOX

@Srikanth On your first pic, you were on the 'relevance' tab, not on the 'newest' tab.

Srikanth

@ProgramFOX oh cool got the difference thanks

ProgramFOX

You're welcome!

Unihedron

Night!

Sam

5:14 PM

Night!

Unihedron

/* poof */

ProgramFOX

Night!

Infinite Recursion

Night!

/* sleep well */

TGMCians

Night!

Infinite Recursion

cv-pls meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/275102/…

Hi @RobertHarvey welcome to meta.stackoverflow. Here's a bit of 101 to help improve your comments: Add comments indicating what, specifically, is wrong. Provide better answers of your own. More here: stackoverflow.com/help/behavior — Max Hodges Jun 19 at 9:59

Sam

5:34 PM

/me thinks Inf is on a comment hunt today

Infinite Recursion

^did OP miss Robert's shiny diamond? :O

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