Tavern on the Meta

12:02 AM

don't waste votes plz

Especially precious del votes.

user259867

^ yes, those. Not to be used on roomba-able questions. And those with 20K should avoid LQRQ until using up delete votes.

Sompuperoo

maybe there should be a 10 commandments for advanced users? that would contain this useful info

user259867

s/advanced users/meta police/

bjb568

1. Use all your votes. And don't waste any.
2. Don't use LQRQ until after using votes.
3. QUIT SHARING ON CHAT MY DELETED META POSTS, RLY!
4. You better be responsive with delv reqs.
5. When reviewing answers, consider whether or not the question can be deleted.
6. Don't handle my chat flags badly.
7. YOU ARE ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO LOOK FOR PLAGIARISM IN TAG WIKI EDITS!
8. You're not better. Act like you're not.
9. Screenshot the deleted post on meta.
10. Stop rep whoring.

2

user259867

12:09 AM

But 3 helps ur deleted meta posts get undeleted, if roomba takes them.

bjb568

I'm talking about the ones where deleted comments make things go out of context and everything is skewed in their favor because of gang voting and meta harassment.

Yes, that happens when chat.so rooms are involved.

user259867

Then replace 3 with "ignore chat.so rooms".

user259867

BTW this is deleted again: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254305/i-want-to-review-more

bjb568

undelv'd

user259867

Which is a shame because it has one of the more poetic Shog's comments.

bjb568

12:13 AM

:D

Doorknob 冰

@Behaviour whoosh

(opposite of kaboom)

Jan Dvorak

moob?

bjb568

moobak!

user259867

Now who's going to post some answer there, so it does not get deleted again?

bjb568

Not me.

SmokeDetector

12:40 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: IS MY WATER CONTAMINATED? by Penny on diy.stackexchange.com

bjb568

@SmokeDetector ignore

Is that how you do it?

I can't keep track of these bots.

Sompuperoo

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@Sompuperoo Post ignored; alerts about it will not longer be posted.

bjb568

Oh, I just can't.

Why not?

Sompuperoo

@bjb568 need to get permission from someone

bjb568

12:46 AM

I WANNA PERMISSIONS!

Who do I ping?

Jan Dvorak

"I want to permissions"?

also, *Whom

bjb568

Nobody says whom.

Don't be prescriitiveist .

Or whatever

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 that's not even a real word?

bjb568

Linguistic prescription

In linguistics, prescription or prescriptivism is the practice of championing one variety or manner of speaking of a language against another. It may imply a view that some forms are incorrect, improper, illogical, lack communicative effect, or are of low aesthetic value. Sometimes it is informed by linguistic purism. These normative practices may address such aspects of language use as spelling, grammar, semantics, pronunciation, and syntax. Linguistic prescriptivism includes judgments on what usages are socially proper and politically correct. Its aims may be to establish a standard language...

hichris123

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

12:49 AM

@hichris123 Registered as false positive, added title to Bayesian doctype 'good', whitelisted user.

hichris123

lol he works at SE

bjb568

What was it?

Why does it delete. That just makes people curious.

hichris123

16

Q: Does the brain limit muscle strength in humans, but not in other apes?

In researching whether the brain limits our muscle strength, Sciencedaily has a quote: Add to this the effect of severe electric shock, where people are often thrown violently by their own extreme muscle contraction, and it is clear that we do not contract all our muscle fibers at once," Walk...

user259867

3

bjb568

0

A: Does the brain limit muscle strength in humans, but not in other apes?

Son Goku used 100% of his muscle powers, it's been known for a while that a few individuals in history have been able to unlock and disable the mental limiters on muscle usage, the best known man to use it was Super Man, Son Goku wasn't real a man, but then again so wasn't Super Man, he was actua...

Uh… wat?

user259867

12:53 AM

Flagged NAA

bjb568

It was a LQ browserling, now it's a troll. — bjb568 7 secs ago

Anyway, I flagged it abuse.

user259867

@bjb568 The snowman formerly known as Undo.

bjb568

@Undo ^ Gimme access to SmokeDetector

hichris123

status-bydesign

bjb568

Why?

Jan Dvorak

1:00 AM

@bjb568 because you suck at flagging?

I don't suck.

status-no

Or blow!

"Why?" - "No." I provided a fairly helpful answer, right? :P

Doorknob 冰

!comp Why?

bjb568

1:01 AM

Because.

!comp Why?

!comp help

!search Why?

Search isn't even a valid command.

hichris123

!find Why?

bjb568

1:02 AM

Why? is an American alternative hip hop and indie rock band. [DDG is kewl]

hichris123

@bjb568 It should be.

bjb568

:P

hichris123

@bjb568 lol

!find define why

bjb568

@hichris123 Fine, I'll implement it when I get around to it

Doorknob 冰

!comp hichris is a copycat

1 min ago, by hichris123

!comp Why?

:P

hichris123

1:03 AM

@Doorknob冰 !comp Doorknob doesn't help fixing ChatExchange

:P

Doorknob 冰

!comp Why?

hichris123

!find why

bjb568

Because.

Why? is an American alternative hip hop and indie rock band. [DDG is kewl]

Doorknob 冰

@hichris123 ^

hichris123

@Doorknob冰 ^

Doorknob 冰

1:04 AM

!find doorknob

bjb568

A door handle is an attached mechanism used to open or close a door. In the United States, door handle generally can refer to any fixed or lever-operated door latch device, including on car doors. The term door knob tends to refer to round operating mechanisms. Door Handles and Doorknobs are the same exact thing. The terms are completely interchangeable. [DDG is kewl]

hichris123

!find Doorknob stack exchange

bjb568

Nothing found, sorry

hichris123

!find doorknob stackoverflow

user259867

I see, I wasn't exactly right re: pinging Undo, the list of priv users is there in Github, so can be modified by any of the contibutors to Smokey source. I somehow imagined it being held in a super-secret directory on Undo's server running Smokey.

3ventic

1:04 AM

!find chatroom covered in bot talk

hichris123

!find doorknob stack overflow

Doorknob 冰

> This article has multiple issues

:(

!find API overload

!find definition of borken

hichris123

!find $jQuery

!find broken

bjb568

An EP released on September 22, 1992. [DDG is kewl]

hichris123

@bjb568 wut

Doorknob 冰

1:05 AM

!find wat

hichris123

DDG fails.

bjb568

A monastery temple in Thailand, Cambodia, or Laos. The word wat means "school". [DDG is kewl]

hichris123

DDG fails.

Sompuperoo

!comp tell a knock knock joke

Doorknob 冰

!find what is ddg

bjb568

1:05 AM

An Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the "filter... [DDG is kewl]

hichris123

!find Duck duck go is horrible

bjb568

Nothing found, sorry

hichris123

!find Google is amazing

!find hello

bjb568

A salutation or greeting in the English language. It is attested in writing as early as the... [DDG is kewl]

Doorknob 冰

!find Why would you use a search engine that is not Google? O_o

hichris123

1:06 AM

!find Google is amazing

bjb568

Nothing found, sorry

Doorknob 冰

Does !find only search Wikipedia?

Sompuperoo

!find Jupiter

bjb568

The fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System. It is a gas giant... [DDG is kewl]

Doorknob 冰

!find Stack Exchange

!find Stack Overflow

!find bot fail

!find StackExchange

!find foo

Sompuperoo

1:08 AM

!find Stock Exchange

Doorknob 冰

!find hello

user259867

Only three SE sites have own Wiki pages: Stack Overflow, MathOverflow, and Ask Ubuntu.

Doorknob 冰

!find broken

user259867

Shockingly, not Puzzling.

hichris123

!find Stack Overflow

!find @bjb568 your bot is broken

user259867

1:10 AM

The Wikipedia pages being Stack Overflow, MathOverflow, Ask Ubuntu.

user259867

The Ubuntu page has a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Collins_(programmer). But it's just a redirect, @BenCollins

Doorknob 冰

@Behaviour What's with that "history" section on the SO page? O_o

bjb568

Stack Exchange is a network of question and answer websites on diverse topics in many different fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process. The sites are modeled after Stack Overflow, a forum for computer programming questions that was the original site in this network. The reputation system is designed to allow the sites to be self-moderating. [DDG is kewl]

Doorknob 冰

wat

> Stack Overflow, a forum

>:O

user259867

> Questions ... are usually closed by a down voting process carried out by the site's participants.

bjb568

1:14 AM

SE modled after SO?

Doorknob 冰

Well, SO came first.

bjb568

Site creation process: Graduation?

@Doorknob冰 But SO is part of SE, so I wouldn't say that SE was modeled after SO.

Sompuperoo

!comp tell me a physics joke

bjb568

Q: What did the quantum physicist say to get her kids out of bed in the morning?
A: Up and atom!

> Stack Overflow is a privately held website, the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network,[5][6] created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky,[7][8] as a more open alternative to earlier Q&A sites such as Experts Exchange.

Experts Exchange.

I thot it was expertsexchange

anorton

Hyphen, for crying out loud! :P

Ben Collins

1:16 AM

@Behaviour differen Ben Collins. I'm also a famous race car driver :-)

anorton

@bjb568 If I create a hat, and then create an entire fashion line after that hat becomes popular, do we say that I modeled the hat to be in my fashion or that my fashion line was modeled after my hat?

user259867

@bjb568 First came SO. Later came the idea to create SF and SU, which were modeled after SO. Then came the idea to sell the platform as service (SE 1.0). It led to a few decent projects, but for the most part was not a success. After that, Area 51 was created, heralding the era of SE 2.0.

Sompuperoo

!comp tell me a programming joke

bjb568

> The Stack Overflow team has recently[when?] begun the creation of an API for accessing the data contained on the other sites. Discussion on Stack Apps centers around the API, although users are encouraged to list apps and libraries developed for the API.

Doorknob 冰

!comp the answer to life, the universe, and everything

bjb568

1:17 AM

42
(according to Douglas Adams' humorous science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

user259867

Yes, the SE Wikipedia page does not meet the quality standards of SE.

bjb568

@anorton I'd say you created a fashion, of which the hat was the first product.

anorton

Hm. Ok, I guess we'd say different things, then...

user259867

@anorton Do you think Mathematics deserves its own Wikipedia page?

bjb568

Wikipedia generally does a bad job with anything tech related.

No

Like… what's the point of it?

user259867

1:20 AM

So your bot can find it.

Doorknob 冰

I think there should only be Wikipedia pages for Stack Exchange and S[OFU]

Maybe -SF -SU

anorton

@Behaviour Of course I think Mathematics deserves a wiki! :)

Sompuperoo

!comp tell me a joke.

anorton

It is the third largest site in the network (sorry SF).

bjb568

Q: Why did the mathematician name his dog "Cauchy?" A: Because he left a residue at every pole.
(according to what passes for mathematical humor (my favorite sub-genre), drawn from several sources but primarily from P. Renteln and A. Dundes in their paper "Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor" in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 52, pp. 24-34, 2005)

user259867

1:21 AM

@anorton Second.

anorton

Really? Wow.

Doorknob 冰

!comp tell me a joke

bjb568

Q: What is brown, furry, runs to the sea, and is equivalent to the axiom of choice? A: Zorn's lemming.
(according to what passes for mathematical humor (my favorite sub-genre), drawn from several sources but primarily from P. Renteln and A. Dundes in their paper "Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor" in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 52, pp. 24-34, 2005)

user259867

@anorton By the number of questions, number of answers, number of questions per day... second to only SO in all these categories. But not as many users or visits per day.

Sompuperoo

!comp Morse code "upvote all my things"

bjb568

1:24 AM

..- .--. ...- --- - . .- .-.. .-.. -- -.-- - .... .. -. --. ...

Doorknob 冰

!comp Morse code "oooooooooooooo"

bjb568

--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---

anorton

@bjb568 what commands does your bot accept?

!comp help

user259867

The proper syntax is probably !comp HALP PLZ.

anorton

:D

ArceusMaster0493

1:26 AM

Someone approve this edit gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/198491/… her grammar is just... PERFECT.

bjb568

@anorton !find, !comp, !vote

user259867

What does "vote" do?

Sompuperoo

!comp Santa-like curve

bjb568

!vote HALLO

vote command usage:
- for [canidate] [pollname] (vote for a candidate, replacing any previously cast ones)
- create [pollname] (create a poll)
- result [pollname] (print the results of a poll)

!vote print

VOTES: {}

Ok.

Sompuperoo

!comp Plot Santa-like curve

ArceusMaster0493

1:27 AM

Uh, everyone?

anorton

I was hoping that !vote would let me vote as bjb on SO. :)

2

user259867

@ArceusMaster0493 Yes, everyone's here. You have a question?

ArceusMaster0493

What are these?

!vote,!comp, all sort of things?

bjb568

@anorton no

ArceusMaster0493

Are these MADE UP?

bjb568

1:29 AM

I see we've found ourselves a n00b.

ArceusMaster0493

Yep.

anorton

@ArceusMaster0493 bjb is only half-human. He's also half-botling.

user259867

@ArceusMaster0493 This is bjb using GuckGuckDo and Wolfram Alpha APIs.

ArceusMaster0493

:O

Sompuperoo

!comp two things are infinite

bjb568

1:29 AM

The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
(attributed to Albert Einstein)

ArceusMaster0493

bjb I thought you're... totally human. So we have how many bots now...? Uh... 3.5?

Wow. AMAZING!!!

bjb568

:D

anorton

!comp integrate from 0 to infinity e^(-x^2) dx

ArceusMaster0493

That makes me more determined to be a programmer.

OK. Off topic: Someone approve this edit gaming.stackexchange.com/… her grammar is just... PERFECT.

Sompuperoo

!comp oil painting effect image Lady Gaga

anorton

1:31 AM

@ArceusMaster0493 I doubt any of us have edit privileges over there.

bjb568

!comp integrate from 0 to infinity e^(-x^2) dx

Doorknob 冰

@anorton I do! :D (just barely, 2019 rep)

ArceusMaster0493

@anorton No one has so much reps? Oh... OK thanks, still.

bjb568

@bjb568 Oh, it returns images.

Doorknob 冰

@ArceusMaster0493 Uhh, what edit?

ArceusMaster0493

1:32 AM

@Doorknob冰 Someone approve this edit gaming.stackexchange.com/… her grammar is just... PERFECT.

Doorknob 冰

???

anorton

@Doorknob冰 gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/198491/…

bjb568

6 mins ago, by ArceusMaster0493

Someone approve this edit http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/198491/i-cant-place-or-break-blocks-in‌-minecraft her grammar is just... PERFECT.

hichris123

This is a test

ArceusMaster0493

Oh yea.

bjb568

1:32 AM

@hichris123 Hi

ArceusMaster0493

XDDD Sorry I just realised that I posted a wrong website link :P

bjb568

…

Too late. Done.

hichris123

@bjb568 ... that worked? weird.

Undo the Snowman

@bjb568 adult voice Not when you ask like that.

Sompuperoo

!comp Panthers at Falcons 2014

bjb568

1:35 AM

@UndotheSnowman I WANNAAAAAAAA GIVEEEEE MEEEEEEEEE

Undo the Snowman

... improvement, but not nearly enough

hichris123

GRR WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING?

Sompuperoo

!comp words that rhyme with jan

bjb568

noun | the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice

hichris123

Ugh maybe it's another ChatExchange instance on a different machine?

user259867

1:38 AM

inb4 all hichris's conversations leak into the Tavern through a forgotten chat client.

bjb568

@UndotheSnowman GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

hichris123

@Behaviour lol. Currently I'm just trying to get it to print This is a test.

Sompuperoo

!comp al__la_

bjb568

A | l | n | i | l | a | m

Sompuperoo

!comp find words matching al__la_

Doorknob 冰

1:40 AM

!comp d??rk??b

bjb568

d | o | o | r | k | n | o | b

Doorknob 冰

!comp ?al??la??

bjb568

S | a | l | s | o | l | a
v | a | l | v | u | l | a

Doorknob 冰

@Sompuperoo Wat?

Sompuperoo

!comp ?al??la??

bjb568

1:41 AM

S | a | l | s | o | l | a
v | a | l | v | u | l | a

Doorknob 冰

!comp d???k???

bjb568

d | e | i | n | k
D | e | r | e | k
d | o | n | e | k
d | r | a | n | k
d | r | e | c | k
d | r | i | n | k
d | r | o | c | k
d | r | u | n | k
(8 words)

...

:P

!comp d??????b

1:42 AM

d | i | v | e | b | o | m | b
d | o | o | r | j | a | m | b
d | o | o | r | k | n | o | b
d | o | t | - | b | o | m | b

Sompuperoo

@Doorknob冰 not sure why not showing the right stuff , like "calculate"

Doorknob 冰

@Sompuperoo It doesn't seem to like blanks at the end of a word

bjb568

@Sompuperoo It sees it as al__la_

It doesn't see markdown.

Doorknob 冰

@bjb568 It also ignores ?s at the end of a word.

hichris123

This is a test

aha.

anorton

1:47 AM

It worked!

hichris123

yup.

user259867

Posted an answer to prevent Shog's comment from disappearing again.

bjb568

:D

user259867

Just got the annual end-of-year blagging report from Wordpress. None of the 5 most-read posts this year were written in 2014. Time to retire, I guess.

user259867

@anorton Any idea how many views Math blog is getting? Or who would even know such a thing?

bjb568

1:58 AM

Just updated !find.

!find this is the first DDG result

wat

!find bjb568

My FSM…

!find hichris123

BAD BOT

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