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12:04 AM

@Shog9 I hate those... with all my soul

user259867

12:14 AM

I picked a wrong time to bring up the comments under Doorknob's first question: Shog9 nuked a couple of them, including the one I linked. (Someone said something to the effect of "my first downvote here"; quite an achievement. That user even now has only 44 downvotes on SO, versus 24800 upvotes).

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ERROR. MVC DEPLOY TO FILEZILLA by Zaz on stackoverflow.com

Infinite Recursion

12:42 AM

Yay, finally someone read my answer on MSO and came here to ask for rollback :)

@Rafflesiaarnoldii: Atleast we found out that he was a picklish doorknob

@PicklishDoorknob: Use your new power wisely. — trashgod Mar 2 '12 at 19:28

user259867

Interesting. What does "picklish" mean, anyway?

Infinite Recursion

Don't know, but PicklishDoorknob sounds funny.

Jan Dvorak

Maybe it's like "ticklish", but with pickles?

Infinite Recursion

I didn't wake up yet, just came to check hichris123's ping. I will ignore all the ???s

user259867

It's mildly interesting to browse first posts by top users. Jon Skeet's first answer wasn't accepted! Darin Dimitrov's first post was a question!

user259867

12:57 AM

Any follow up? (Sorry for impatience) — Rafflesia arnoldii 1 min ago

user259867

^ Notice me not flagging as NAA, but trying to salvage the answer. :)

user259867

I found a picture of Doorknob, back from the days when he was picklish:

user259867

bjb568

sniffs furever aloooone

No group to activity with.

And why's it sideways?! >:(

user259867

1:15 AM

I like part (d), sounds like fun. It would be even better if they gave the graph of a function (without any formula) and asked for a sketch of the graph of f'.

user259867

Also, a cellphone pic turned sideways looks like a typical Math.SE question.

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bjb568

@Rafflesiaarnoldii E is better: An algebraic proof of D. You get cos/root(cos^2) which is |sec|

Wait, no it isn't.

user259867

Well your picture cut if off >:(

bjb568

It's cos/root(cos^2) = cos/|cos| = flippityflopfunctionsquarewavething

hichris123

@InfiniteRecursion ... when did I ping you? looks I ping so many people. ;P

oh right my comment.

user259867

1:25 AM

If sign / signum / sgn function is a thing in your course, I would use that to state the answer to (e).

Infinite Recursion

@hichris123 :(

hichris123

@InfiniteRecursion It has cool graphs! ;)

Infinite Recursion

Graphs are boring

user259867

No they are not. Hm, putting bold outside of link []() breaks the link? Works on the sites.

hichris123

@InfiniteRecursion -1 NARQ (not a real question). ;P

Infinite Recursion

1:39 AM

I never asked a real question. I only ask meta questions @hichris123 :P

user259867

Woohoo Mortarboard on Meta. A lot of familiar names there.

hichris123

@InfiniteRecursion ... and then I ask meta questions about those meta questions. ;)

Infinite Recursion

looks for spam to post on Earth Science

hichris123

DON'T YOU DARE!

has finger on destroy button :P

Infinite Recursion

I GOT SCARED

PicklishDoorknob looks like a chocolate doorknob.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii: Should I give your answer the tiny bounty now, or wait for a week so that the post gets more attention?

user259867

1:47 AM

@InfiniteRecursion If you wait it will get more exposure, which would be nice.

Infinite Recursion

Ok

bjb568

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Doesn't matter, nobody actually grades the homework :P But kewl, why isn't that built into programming langs?

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 it is

bjb568

@JanDvorak RLY?

user259867

JavaScript has it, and I'm sure most others do.

bjb568

1:54 AM

Oh, ECMA6, that's why I didn't know about it.

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 Javascript: check. Haskell: check

Braiam

@Rafflesiaarnoldii mmm... MDN is slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

user259867

Actually, JavaScript is not a simple check. The browser support is very partial.

bjb568

Yeap.

Jan Dvorak

OK... ES6: check

Braiam

1:56 AM

Chrome/ium: check; Firefox: check; others: who cares?

user259867

> This function has 5 kinds of return values, 1, -1, 0, -0, NaN, which represent "positive number", "negative number", "positive zero", "negative zero" and NaN respectively.

user259867

Don't tell that to your math teacher.

Andrew T.

2:11 AM

Hhh.. it seems I have a COI with a 20k+ rep user on Android Enthusiasts who doesn't really like duplicate flag.

This and this questions are dupe to this...

SPAM stackoverflow.com/a/26964487/2821954

user259867

Let's start a new Meta.SO about why users choose attractive female avatars in order to spam...

user259867

hichris123

https://www.google.com/search?q=mirana+kerr&tbm=isch&imgil=FhxUy39oCF804M%253A%253BFh0op8-PbE2ceM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.beauty.al%25252Ftag%25252Fmodele%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&tbs=simg:CAEStgEaswELEKjU2AQaCAgCCBcIPQhDDAsQsIynCBo8CjoIAhIUkx6cHqcekRjuHd0S1xKEH48Sqh4aIFeyTnOIrdUhqN2cfZyrsyuZMyMhAJ50RB-RBCF_1bKQcDAsQjq7-CBoKCggIARIEqjo_1zAwLEJ3twQkaQQoICgZwZXJzb24KCwoJaGFpcnN0eWxlCgsKCWxvbmcgaGFpcgoNCgthZG9sZXNjZW5jZQoMCgpicm93biBoYWlyDA&fir=FhxUy39oCF804M%253A%252CFh0op8-PbE2ceM%252C_&usg=__6FnrsPDAczKm_mTXGBTiBe-lOuo%3D&biw=1366&bih=643&ved=0CD4Qyjc&ei=PlxpVIXdF4n6yATptAE#facrc=_&im…

@Rafflesiaarnoldii ^

(found via a Google search by image)

Braiam

2:27 AM

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I wonder why people downvotes that Q...

hichris123

2:47 AM

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Q: "Post as guest" is a bad user experience and encourages low quality contributions. Get rid of it

Since its inception Stack Exchange has tried to make it as easy as possible to ask a question, most of the time. This was done by implementing the concept of an "unregistered" user, identified only by a cookie, who otherwise does not have to log in to a Stack Exchange site. The unregistered user...

user259867

2:58 AM

I deleted my comments there, but I still think the proposal goes too far. SE gets many good answers from drive-by users who searched for a topic and found something related - not exactly what they wanted, but something they already knew an answer to. So they spend one minute to type in the answer, often a good one, and sometimes leading to long-term contributions. I wouldn't want to lose this. Sure there's a lot of junk too, but it's what gives us Steward badges...

bjb568

@AndrewT. What's a COI?

Andrew T.

@bjb568 conflict of interest

bjb568

Ah.

user259867

I am not familiar with this usage. In my (U.S.-centric) usage, COI means a single person having a conflict of interests, like negotiating a contract with another company headed by a relative. A conflict between two people is just that, a conflict.

bjb568

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Let's start a new Meta.SE about how users are treating spanners' avatars' women like objects and raping them by calling them attractive.

Andrew T.

3:04 AM

I got that usage from WP:COI, but maybe I used it wrongly.

user259867

> editor stands in a conflict of interest.

user259867

I.e., a single person. Not about a conflict between two people.

hichris123

@bjb568 ... I think you just crossed the line there.

Andrew T.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I see, thanks

bjb568

… nobody appreciates my youtube-style sarcasm.

Infinite Recursion

3:22 AM

@hichris123 I agree with that

@Rafflesiaarnoldii "Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

ɥʇǝS

4:04 AM

@bjb568 nope

Shokhet

4:20 AM

I got Mortarboard today! I always wondered what happened after the rep cap is hit -- do I get the rep from those extra upvotes the next day, or not at all?

Infinite Recursion

@Shokhet you don't get it

Shokhet

@InfiniteRecursion Oh well :(

Infinite Recursion

@Shokhet You do get a Mortarboard badge, so you have to be content with that :)

Shokhet

@InfiniteRecursion I noticed that badge; that's how I knew I hit the rep cap :)

Infinite Recursion

@Shokhet The next time you hit the cap, you will feel bad. You will neither get the badge, nor the rep. After you hit it a couple of times, you will get used to it.

Shokhet

4:24 AM

@InfiniteRecursion After you hit it a whole bunch of times (100?) you do get a gold badge....

Infinite Recursion

@Shokhet yes, then you feel happy again :D

Shokhet

50 for Epic (silver), 100 for Legendary (gold)

user259867

@Shokhet We got the badge at the same time! Well, almost: you got it 8 minutes earlier. After that, there is a slow grind toward Epic (50) and Legendary (150).

Shokhet

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Cool!

user259867

And then it's over. :( Unless SE implements my feature request: Now that Socratic is awarded multiple times, Legendary should be too

Infinite Recursion

4:26 AM

:)

Shokhet

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I think that's a good idea, +1 ;-)

Is that request applicable to you? .....I haven't been here all that long, and this is the first time I've gotten Mortarboard (and not even on my top site!)

user259867

No, the request is not for my own sake. I don't even have Epic on any of the sites.

Shokhet

I think it still makes sense, though.

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/137078/…

user259867

The site/reputation page gives the number of 200 rep days you have. I got 32 days on Math, still a long way to Epic.

SmokeDetector

4:34 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Do you have any natural formula to gain high muscles mass? by joyceerviin on drupal.stackexchange.com

Infinite Recursion

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@InfiniteRecursion Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad' and blacklisted user.

user259867

Spammers don't have a problem registering: most spam is from registered, one-use accounts.

bjb568

Night!

Braiam

@Rafflesiaarnoldii AU's babaji spam wave stopped after the registration requirement

Infinite Recursion

4:51 AM

cv-pls rec-tool stackoverflow.com/q/26777686/2982225

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/36186/2982225

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/16504449/2982225

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/187465/2982225

Shokhet

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Yeah, today was my first ever, network wide. Thanks for the tip!

SilentKiller

#2 at 4-cv need one more rest are closed.

Morning!

Infinite Recursion

Morning! Thanks

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/26094614/2982225

user259867

Spam. meta.stackexchange.com/q/243718/259867

user259867

Drupal spam is gone.

SilentKiller

5:00 AM

yay!

status-closed

Infinite Recursion

thanks

SilentKiller

:)

Spam at -6 //// Need one more CV

user259867

5:16 AM

Spam gone

Infinite Recursion

User is doing the same edits rapidly: stackoverflow.com/users/4130971/…

user259867

5:29 AM

Getting approved, too. I am not fond of the edits; people write "golang" for a good reason, even if it looks ugly. But technically he's right...

Infinite Recursion

Meh, he is doing bad edits. Adding unnecessary bold and not removing signatures from the end of the posts

SmokeDetector

5:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SQL SERVER STANDARD EDITION by HAROON on dba.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: JSP ERROR ON LOGIN by Rakesh on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Skin Care help tag by ni sion on meta.stackexchange.com

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 85.5686: Skin Care help tag on meta.stackexchange.com

user259867

^ SPAM

SilentKiller

gone

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector fixed, though I don't understand why there are wild %> and <% tag in the middle of the code

Infinite Recursion

@hichris123 ~~tpu~~ oops

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

5:54 AM

@InfiniteRecursion Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad' and blacklisted user.

user259867

@AndrewT. Maybe because there's a bug in his script that automatically dumps Java error messages to SO.

user259867

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243723/…

SilentKiller

gone

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/137084/…

user259867

Bots detect skin care but not skincare?

user259867

6:07 AM

Gone.

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 52.5631: Can i buy a license to create a Pokemon game? on gamedev.stackexchange.com

Jason C

6:38 AM

@animuson stackoverflow.com/questions/7034/… is missing the first "T" in the historical significance notice (sorry to ping; but I can't flag it again).

cVplZ

@Rafflesiaarnoldii here's a question that we need a math genius to answer!!

Jason C

Nice job cleaning that up by the way.

user259867

> Really guys, all that math?

user259867

I agree with this remark. I am a theoretical mathematician... besides, the site does not have MathJax. So I'll pass.

user259867

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243724/…

SmokeDetector

6:48 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ASP.NET WEB APPLICATION PROJECT by bala on programmers.stackexchange.com

user259867

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243725/…

user259867

@SmokeDetector Oh goodness. Posting this on Programmers....

user259867

Both spams gone

user259867

@AndrewT. Good job of sizing/cropping the screenshots and, most importantly, keeping the battery charged. (+1)

Andrew T.

@Rafflesiaarnoldii lol thanks

user259867

6:59 AM

My ancient Galaxy S3 probably not going to get L...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SQL SERVER STANDARD EDITION by HAROON on dba.stackexchange.com

user259867

Editing a tag and leaving all those caps in place. :/

Infinite Recursion

Editor left a comment

Writing all UPPERCASE is considered SHOUTING and rude. Please don't do it. — a_horse_with_no_name 23 mins ago

Andrew T.

:/

user259867

Edit suggested (used convertcase.net)

DroidDev

7:10 AM

too-broad? stackoverflow.com/q/26967300/2389078

Andrew T.

seems off-topic though

user259867

Even the author seems to agree it's offtopic.

user259867

Yes but is that possible or not?? — Harnil Oza 1 min ago

SilentKiller

now there is answer too.

user259867

Downvoted for answering OT question.

DroidDev

7:14 AM

I flajjed it

the question

user259867

Hey, another answer!

SilentKiller

rep hungry users. :@

DroidDev

> Totally off topic bud

I flagged it as "Blatantly off-topic". Wasn't able to find anything else

Infinite Recursion

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I saw your profile now and read the quotes you listed there. Can you please tell me the context of this quote by Shog?

> Guess what: if your site is full of crappy questions, your site sucks - even if they're not highly-ranked by your own users, folks are finding them via Google, and that's where the vast majority of your readers are coming from. You can work to fix that - as painful as that process is - or you can bury your head in the sand and blame it on all of those stupid people from elsewhere.

It's interesting, I would like to read the entire post

user259867

@InfiniteRecursion This answer

Infinite Recursion

7:18 AM

Thanks :)

DroidDev

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/26967420/2389078

Infinite Recursion

Nice answer

DroidDev

7:36 AM

Is this question in "Greatest Hits" just because of the viewed count!?

with a question with most number of upvotes on 9th rank, I wonder what is the algorithm to decide "Greatest Hits" :/

Andrew T.

Greatest hits from search engine?

DroidDev

@AndrewT. Greatest hits of SO

Andrew T.

yea

> Questions that got a large amount of views or a large amount of feedback.

DroidDev

Is there a link to SO's Greatest Hits somewhere or do we just have to type it in address bar. I see a lot of these things on SE network, like lot of cool things, with no "easy to find" links. Only a user with some experience on site is able to find them, which should be easily available to new users, to get them to use site.

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/26967821/2389078

DroidDev

8:07 AM

Please don't recommend me reading, show me step-wise work.

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