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bjb568

12:07 AM

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Zach Saucier

@bjb568 Is your first name Brandon?

bjb568

@ZachSaucier no… Why?

Zach Saucier

Also, I wrote a post on why I contribute to SO medium.com/@ZachSaucier/…

@bjb568 my professors initials are bjb and he always puts 3 numbers after them for usernames

Frank

@ZachSaucier This dude is not your professor.

Zach Saucier

I know

bjb568

12:10 AM

@ZachSaucier Maybe I am your professor. :O

Zach Saucier

didn't figure, but was worth a shot

bjb568

The Chat MSE server just hiccuped for me.

Frank

Good here

Zach Saucier

chat hickups about once a month for me

bjb568

Is your prof bjb569? :P

Zach Saucier

12:11 AM

no

bjb568

aww

Zach Saucier

I hate that there are different chats for this, SO, and other sites

I'd like 1 tab with all of the chats

Frank

@ZachSaucier no

Finally found some time for the challenges.

2

Q: Weekly topic challenge: pruning [completed]

I made a post asking for topic ideas for the challenge, and the next open suggestion is for pruning. Please use the tag pruning when posting questions for this challenge, and remember to keep the site quality at a good level. Next week, on December 22, I will tally up the results to see how we ...

Zach Saucier

I don't mean one chat room

I mean one system so we can see what other rooms we're in on the side using one tab

Frank

@ZachSaucier I do that

Of course, not with MSE, but

Zach Saucier

12:14 AM

that's my point :P

I have em pinned.

it's still a hassle

not for me.

maybe we can make a third party site to do it

Frank

I have lots of screen space.

Zach Saucier

12:15 AM

screen space isn't the issue

tabbing is

bjb568

> The current algorithm divides the number of page views with the total amount of question and answer feedback received (adding a bonus for high view counts), excluding questions with less views than the median :- 243.

:- … ? (on stackoverflow.com/questions/greatest-hits )

Frank

@ZachSaucier I have lots of tab space.

Zach Saucier

lol

user259867

16

Q: What should we do about Greatest Hits?

A few years back, the team rolled out a Greatest Hits page that purported to display the "public face" of a site's (or an individual user's) content. This was never linked to from within the UI, because... Well, we weren't sure what to do with it. That's probably not gonna change; in fact, we mi...

discussion greatest-hits

user259867

(My answer: "Kill the page, or continue to ignore it.")

Frank

12:20 AM

in The Junk Drawer on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 1 min ago, by apaul34208

Does deleting and un-deleting clear close votes?

user259867

44

Q: Self-deletion and un-deletion without any changes should reinstate the original close/delete votes

Currently, when a user self-deletes a post and subsequently undeletes it, any votes to delete or votes to close magically disappear as if they never happened. While that might make some sense if a user deleted a post to then significantly update it, it seems to make no sense in the case where not...

feature-request status-completed vote-to-close vote-to-delete undelete

Frank

@Fundamental Thank you

user259867

Updating the FAQ on undeletion was fun. "How can I get my post undeleted?" -- If self-deleted, you can undelete. If user-deleted, you can vote to undelete if have rep. If mod-deleted you can't even vote. Oh, and if your answer was deleted from review before getting three 20K delete votes, you can still undelete yourself. Where 20K is 4K if it's a beta site...

Frank

:D

user259867

If a user deletes own highly-upvoted unanswered question, undeleting it takes more votes than if it had zero score or was downvoted.

user259867

12:32 AM

Logic!

user259867

Martin Smith voted four times to undelete this question: Open links in new tabs

bjb568

O_O

user259867

And Omar voted four times to delete. Some people take new tabs way too seriously.

Braiam

1:08 AM

mod haz no powaz

Frank

I like the name 'answer man'

yay, GL!

user259867

I once wanted to find a closed question where all five closevoters would be deleted users.

SmokeDetector

1:27 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: THE BEST FRAMEWORK TO WORK WITH JSON by Luram Archanjo on stackoverflow.com

Sompuperoo

@Fundamental but then you ended up finding a stargate instead?

Jan Dvorak

nuke-pls ^

user259867

Maybe there is no such question yet.

Jan Dvorak

Lemme check: this question is a recommendation request, unclear, has too many possible answers, is primarily opinion based, possibly a duplicate... — Jan Dvorak 1 min ago

closed

by none of the taverners...

user259867

You were busy counting the ways instead of closing?

user259867

1:35 AM

I got a helpful closeflag out of it. And DVed.

Jan Dvorak

Computer decided to find something on the hard drive; no time left for the browser.

Sompuperoo

@JanDvorak maybe computer found a stargate on your hard drive?

Jan Dvorak

@Sompuperoo I don't steal movies

Braiam

@JanDvorak err.. I think he means that you found the blueprints

user259867

@SmokeDetector false

SmokeDetector

1:40 AM

@Fundamental Registered as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

Jan Dvorak

:2866636 fp

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

Jan Dvorak

@Braiam fp

user259867

It'd be probably too much hassle for little benefit, but one could fetch user's rep via API to avoid some false positives. User with 1000+ rep => not spam.

Sompuperoo

@SmokeDetector fp

Jan Dvorak

1:44 AM

@Fundamental you sure?

user259867

Have we ever gotten any true spam reports about 1K users?

Sompuperoo

how many false spam reports have we gotten from 1k users?

user259867

But there weren't many of false ones either, so it's not worth the trouble. As @Sompuperoo was saying.

user259867

On the large scale, 1K users are relatively rare...

user259867

Among SO users with 100+ answers, Vitalii Fedorenko leads by the average score of questions answered (129). Among those with 1000+ answers, the leaders is Bill the Lizard with 20.

Sompuperoo

1:48 AM

@Frank meta.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/34704

bjb568

Looks ok.

Jan Dvorak

it's not an answer

user259867

Recommended Deletion.

Sompuperoo

it's an answer, low quality probably, but i leave open made me laugh

bjb568

It's a joke.

Next you'll be deleting unicorns.

Frank

1:51 AM

@Sompuperoo lol

user259867

Delete all the unicorns

Andrew T.

Self-proving answer.

SmokeDetector

2:07 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PLEASE HELP WITH THIS MATH PROBLEM by shannon on math.stackexchange.com

Braiam

@SmokeDetector for @Undo 's list

Andrew T.

I wanted to vote down that, but I couldn't ;_;

user259867

Well it's at -6 already so ...

Jan Dvorak

-7

still open though

Andrew T.

Was there an improvement that math.se downvotes more, or so I thought...

Jan Dvorak

2:11 AM

There might have been

user259867

Yes, the number of DVs is noticeably up. Not sure if Winterbash hats had lasting effect, or the general population trend. Generally, younger math users grok SE platform better than 50+ old profs who consider it a mark of nobility to never downvote.

Sompuperoo

800 answers and suspended for another 10 years stackoverflow.com/users/2665694/andreas-jung

Andrew T.

> network-wide

anorton

@Sompuperoo :o

Frank

I get only 51 flags/day on GL.

Jan Dvorak

2:15 AM

I thought the max was 1 year?

Frank

On SO, I get like 75 which is better

Qantas 94 Heavy

@JanDvorak: special exceptions apply for network-wide bans.

Andrew T.

I think 25 is the max

Jan Dvorak

Interesting...

user259867

For a mod, yes. Employees can suspend for ... who knows what type that variable is.

anorton

2:16 AM

What did he do? (if it's known)

user259867

More of concern: how old will we be when their suspension is over? :-/

Frank

@anorton He should just create a new account and start over.

anorton

@Frank Creating sockpuppets to avoid suspension is grounds for suspension.

Frank

@anorton I know.

But they don't necessarily tell you...

user259867

Jul 1 '14 at 20:24, by Vote to Close

2027 here http://stackoverflow.com/users/2398036/user2398036

Jan Dvorak

2:20 AM

mods aren't stupid...

Frank

@JanDvorak Then u cant be one

jk

user259867

The 2027 suspension is not network-wide. Maybe because it's one account.

Braiam

@Fundamental eh, just delete the account...

@JanDvorak mods can't suspend network wide

Andrew T.

Btw, I need clarification about closure message.

From what I know, the closure message will be displayed to OP only after someone flag as off-topic

anorton

@AndrewT. I think it's only after someone close votes as off-topic.

Sompuperoo

2:25 AM

only if flag/close as duplicate or custom close reason

Unihedro

What @Sompuperoo said

Andrew T.

I see. Thanks!

Unihedro

When one CVs as duplicate, a banner is shown, and when one flags as blatantly OT with custom close reason, a custom comment is added; other than that, no trace is left unless they have 250 rep

then they can see the close (1) number, but they don't get notifications for it

Andrew T.

That explains my misunderstanding about the banner... Really thanks, @Uni!

Unihedro

It's something like this:

Frank

2:31 AM

Users with a marshal badge should be allowed to downvote on that site, even if they don't have the rep...

Unihedro

@Frank inb4 comment flag farmer

Frank

@Unihedro I mostly flag ot

Unihedro

To add to that picture, I voted to close that question of mine as duplicate before, so I saw that banner.

Jan Dvorak

@Frank Why would I downvote on Drupal?

Unihedro

@JanDvorak cuz all their questions suk

Sompuperoo

2:32 AM

status-no

Unihedro

@Frank Or, you know, farm rep by retagging

Gold badge makes your edits go in quicker

* I think

hichris123

@Fundamental Not on chat. :P

Frank

@JanDvorak Downvoting bad posts cause that's what downvoting is for

user259867

@Unihedro Retag-only edits don't give +2, do they?

Andrew T.

@Unihedro got it

Unihedro

2:35 AM

@Fundamental Any approved edits are +2, no exceptions.

hichris123

@ZachSaucier stackexchange.com/legal/trademark-guidance - s/StackOverflow/Stack Overflow/ ;)

Andrew T.

So the only way to let OP know before it's closed is to comment...

Unihedro

Edits that doesn't demand approving (full editing perks, etc) doesn't give rep though.

Sompuperoo

@AndrewT. but being closed doesn't have to be a permanent state. They just need to edit it to a satisfactory level for it to be reopened.

user259867

Yes, but even of that they are not notified. The banner says: it's on hold, edit it... in case you see this.

Unihedro

2:38 AM

@AndrewT. AKA Education

user259867

Meanwhile, we get bright green for every +5 and +10.

Sompuperoo

@Fundamental they asked the question, if they care to receive an answer they will go back to their question and see it

Unihedro

@Fundamental and +2

or even +50 and +500

Braiam

@Fundamental (completing Uni's) until you hit 1000 rep gained from it

Sompuperoo

You should care about your question more than any other human being on the planet. If it is closed, you should already know about that without needing a special magic notification.

Unihedro

2:40 AM

@Braiam 2000

user259867

@Sompuperoo I asked a question on Math a few weeks back. It's not that I don't care, but I'm not going to reload the page every week just in case. I know there's no answer because there is no notification.

Unihedro

> earned 372 reputation from suggested edits

Braiam

@Unihedro no, once you reach 500 approved suggested edits or 1000 rep gained from them, you stop gaining reputation from suggested edits

Unihedro

@Braiam Pretty sure it's 2k, and the rep gained count can be seen on stackoverflow.com/reputation

Oh, it is +1000, so I am wrong. :(

Braiam

grrrrrrrrrrrr!

about to paste the quote

Unihedro

2:50 AM

Review please stackoverflow.com/q/27790676/3622940

I might be out of my mind, or all the answers are wild shots into the dark

hichris123

@Braiam have a second?

Frank

3:07 AM

Why is there an answer with a score of 4 in my top network posts list on my network profile?

user259867

status-norepro

user259867

I see scores 20 to 14.

Frank

@Fundamental lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/369/… this one shows for me

user259867

@Frank screenshot

Braiam

@hichris123 counts one second done

Frank

3:10 AM

@Fundamental I mean, top answers. On the last page.

hichris123

@Braiam What does the slash in this do? (end of second line)

do
  cd $gitdir && ( git fsck && echo "${gitdir} - "'HAPPY !' ) \
  || echo "${gitdir} - "'ERROR !';

Andrew T.

continue to next line?

ignore line break?

Braiam

^ that

hichris123

Okay.

Braiam

is the equivalent to the line:

do
  cd $gitdir && ( git fsck && echo "${gitdir} - "'HAPPY !' ) || echo "${gitdir} - "'ERROR !';

but in this case you can spread the long command in several lines

Frank

3:15 AM

I get to flag easily, cause it seems like I get an endless supply of 'great, thanks' type comments in my inbox. So Im like, 'You're welcome; nuke'

hichris123

@Braiam I'm doing echo "$REPO_PROJECT" && (git fsck) || echo "$REPO_PROJECT" >> errors.txt, but it doesn't seem to be working (this already takes care of the cd and all. Thoughts?

Braiam

@hichris123 why instead of (git fsck) (which actually does nothing) you don't simply use git fsck?

hichris123

@Braiam shrugs because?

Is there anything wrong you see in there?

Braiam

remove the redirection (>> errors.txt) and tell me what it says

hichris123

@Braiam platform/external/chromium_org

Braiam

3:21 AM

I don't understand anything... let me see the whole thing

Andrew T.

seems the code was originated from this SO answer

hichris123

@Braiam It's a whole lot of crap. platform/external/chromium_org is $REPO_PROJECT, if you want to know.

@AndrewT. lol, yup.

Braiam

@hichris123 I know, but git fsck should either say command not found or:

fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

Frank

Is there a way to sort users that have a certain badge by their rep?

hichris123

@Braiam Why? (oh sorry, forgot to tell you this: I'm using a thingy called repo for repo forall)

source.android.com/source/using-repo.html#forall

Braiam

3:25 AM

@hichris123 because otherwise it would be working

hichris123

@Braiam Well, it is.

Braiam

...

hichris123

broken link from    tree 9f6ac256fa56db1e7ad1097bb13d8a7a736276a6
              to    blob ea448c5a7d8d599317f39b526c9ce0ea7af25a8d
broken link from    tree d2336385d563c36b8d5ae7ca7328fb38707113bd
              to    blob 52b455b297268b50f1691d9a67caf0a448319391
broken link from    tree d2336385d563c36b8d5ae7ca7328fb38707113bd
              to    blob 90acd9da66428247c6e3517f38b8ee98fefbac0a
broken link from    tree d2336385d563c36b8d5ae7ca7328fb38707113bd
              to    blob e6e48203fe1ebed8ba15c938daf2d5a807877ad4

better? :P

Braiam

> but it doesn't seem to be working

?????

jadarnel27

It seems you have misplaced some of your blobs, @hichris123.

hichris123

3:26 AM

@Braiam It's not creating a file.

Frank

I can't find any user with 101 rep on SO.

That has the electorate badge.

hichris123

@jadarnel27 More like "my internet connection is crappy & wget can't tell the difference", but... :P

Frank

Goes to fix that

hichris123

(don't ask why it uses wget to download a git repo. it does.)

Andy

@Frank You need 125 to vote I believe

Frank

3:27 AM

@Andy To downvote.

hichris123

@Andy To downvote, yes.

user213963

Could I get some spam flags please? programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/268141/…

Braiam

@MichaelT who downvoted?

Frank

@MichaelT bam

hichris123

boom

Frank

3:28 AM

@Braiam not me

user213963

(previous spam (10k links) from the user: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/268102/… and programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/268101/…)

Andrew T.

gone, also on his SO account

jadarnel27

@hichris123 Note that I didn't actually think that you misplaced any blobs.

Frank

@jadarnel27 #NotBrown

hichris123

@jadarnel27 lol. Really, if you're misplacing blobs... what are you doing to your git repo?!

user213963

3:29 AM

Thank you. He's been showing up a few times on P.SE... and at this hour, we're away from our desks (the active reviewing / flagging regulars tend to be 9-5)

jadarnel27

@Frank I have mixed feelings about that message.

Frank

@jadarnel27 Green!

jadarnel27

@hichris123 Truth.

Braiam

@hichris123 looks like a hassle to reproduce your environment... but just to be sure, are you calling directly the shell with the -c operand or using -c to run an script that does the actual work?

jadarnel27

@Frank My feelings are less mixed about this one.

They are homogeneous.

hichris123

3:31 AM

@Braiam Calling it directly. repo forall -c 'echo "$REPO_PROJECT" && (git fsck) || echo "$REPO_PROJECT"'

Frank

@jadarnel27 Green is more awesome and less dead than brown

hichris123

erwaysoftware.com/brown

Frank

@hichris123 chocolate - yum!

Braiam

@hichris123 and the redirection at the end of that? repo forall -c 'echo "$REPO_PROJECT" && (git fsck) || echo "$REPO_PROJECT"' >> here?

Frank

Haven't seen Jason C. in a while.

Ah, last post over a month ago.

hichris123

3:33 AM

@Braiam No, I had the redirection inside. repo forall -c 'echo "$REPO_PROJECT" && (git fsck) || echo "$REPO_PROJECT" >> error.txt'

Braiam

@hichris123 I presume it creates a temporary directory where it executes all and then cleans it up, just use it outside

hichris123

@Braiam Probably true. Didn't think about that. thanks!

Unihedro

@hichris123 Why is it cyan?

hichris123

@Unihedro Because your colors are inverted?

Unihedro

:o

hichris123

3:39 AM

Go back to sleep @Uni.

5

Braiam

you are drunk @Uni....

jadarnel27

@hichris123 I'm still happy this page exists.

Although I am still unhappy that inline styles are being used. Even for a joke page.

Braiam

@hichris123 why is the height set? it overflows...

Andrew T.

@hichris123 I like it. a lot better than this page (warning: might hurt eyes)

Braiam

@AndrewT. why is sometimesredsometimesblue.com all the time blue?

Andrew T.

3:48 AM

@Braiam it's red for me :O

Braiam

what the...

bjb568

@Braiam coz ur a blue guy

Frank

@Braiam red here

@Frank flag marked helpful

Unihedro

4:08 AM

Why isn't Chat documented in Stack Exchange API? Is it intended not to remain as part of the public API?

hichris123

@jadarnel27 @Braiam Blame @Undo. His page, not mine. FIX PLEASE UNDO!

@Unihedro Chat doesn't have an API.

Unihedro

@hichris123 But it does use POST and GET requests.

hichris123

... still not an API.

Unihedro

Hmm.

Yeah, you're right. :p

bjb568

@Unihedro roflcoptr, the whole distinction between a get/post thing that retrieves and modifies and a get/post thing that retrieves and modifies called "API" is stupid.

user259867

4:10 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/142322/…

hichris123

@bjb568 APIs are usually more stable and are public. Non-APIs can break anytime and are not meant for public use.

bjb568

@hichris123 Because caching, you can't really change non-APIs anytime.

user259867

16

Q: What exactly is the meaning of an API?

I've searched for the definition of an API in a programming language and I am still finding it hard to understand. Could anyone advice me in simple, layman's terms: What is an API? How is it used? When and where is it used?

api

Unihedro

By the way, it seems that Behaviour is now Fundamental.

bjb568

If you have a non-API and people use it, then it's like… the same thing as an api

Unihedro

4:14 AM

@Fundamental Thanks!

Ok, then in that case, aside from this, does anyone know of documentation (official or unofficial) of the interface?

hichris123

29

A: How do the Stack Exchange WebSockets work? What are all the options you can send to them?

Websocket-endpoints (You can play with these on http://www.websocket.org/echo.html if you don't want to do it in JS) (wss://qa.sockets.stackexchange.com) <userid>-topbar: User topbar. <userid>-inbox: User inbox/achievements <siteid>-<userid>-reputation: User's rep on a site <siteid>-home-...

Andrew T.

trial and error!

Frank

#UseASandbox

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: It does direct you towards weight loss? by Degnan on askubuntu.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

4:26 AM

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

Andrew T.

Happy hour!.... wait, it's not drupal.se?

Zach Saucier

@hichris123 what'd you link that for?

user259867

Drupal was 20 minutes ago, gone now.

hichris123

@ZachSaucier The proper name is Stack Overflow, not StackOverflow. Nice blog post otherwise.

bjb568

@Frank #whatsthehashfor

#ywenospace

Frank

4:31 AM

#Because

bjb568

#cozwut

Zach Saucier

@hichris123 :P sorry

but thanks!

Frank

#CuzItsAwesome

Frank

4:53 AM

-1

A: Should I flag answers consisting only of "No" or "Yes"?

Yes. ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

lol, people are still voting on that

anorton

@Frank Data.SE FTW: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/262930/…

(Example user with 101 rep and Electorate: stackoverflow.com/users/331051/oleg-kuznetsov)

Frank

@anorton ah, thx

@anorton stackoverflow.com/users/151323/anonymous is more like it, because only asociation bonus, no post/edit rep.

Only one...

I'll make it 2

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/142324/…

anorton

@Frank And that one wants to go away. :P

user259867

5:13 AM

Suggested spam keyword: /bodybuilders?/ except on Physical Fitness

bjb568

Ugh… 12:22 and havne't event taken my daily hour debugging (literally).

Will quickly spray fur with water and smear with basic things.

user259867

5:33 AM

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@Fundamental Registered as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

bjb568

Night!

Andrew T.

User who wants their account to be deleted via standard procedure will be awarded autobiographer badge :O

Jan Dvorak

5:50 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246646/best-diet-plans

DroidDev

@bjb568 lol, you are a smart one indeed :P

user259867

Possible spam keyword: /diet plans?/

user259867

Or just "diet"? Unless there's a JS library with that name.

Andrew T.

too many (actually 12) FPs for 'diet'

user259867

Damn you Skeptics

DroidDev

5:55 AM

@Fundamental Close everything as too-broad!!

user259867

Actually, skeptics is a low-traffic site, so even with its breadth it's not going to give a lot of FPs.

user259867

We need a cross-site SEDE query for keyword in title.

Andrew T.

Fair enough, compared to the flow of spam

user259867

6:08 AM

Debating a more structured Ask Question page, back in August 2011:

user259867

Discussing the Ask Question page: Effectiveness and shorter headings.

Aug 11 '11 at 17:13, 1 hour 54 minutes total – 140 messages, 6 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked Aug 11 '11 at 19:14 by Tom Wijsman

user259867

Nothing came out of it. But now we have DD with its awesome Ask page.

Andrew T.

> Bounty (make question featured, costs 50 reputation per day which can be awarded to an answerer)

> per day

Sompuperoo

high rollers only on DD

Andrew T.

~~I dunno, but after submitting the question, the preview page (devdoodle.net/qa/preview) seems to be borked. Maybe my corporate firewall didn't like it either.~~ probably due to 'bounty' set.

Sompuperoo

6:17 AM

I figured out a great way for SE to make more money, I saw a commercial for some movie , and a line they showed in the clip was "I could buy 1 of these or 127 toyota corollas" .. Funny joke yea, but obvious advertisement for toyota inside of an advertisement for some movie...

So what? Have advertisements inside of advertisements!

Or ads inside of ads inside of ads which are inside of an ad!

multiply the revenues!

user259867

I'm curious: who's developing DD? Obviously bjb, also Unihedro... anyone else?

Jan Dvorak

adception

Sompuperoo

@Fundamental i thought primarily bjb

Jan Dvorak

shouting bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/27435/…

user259867

It certainly seems so. Uni's chat profile also mentions it: "Meta police, trying to be a programmer; DevDoodle, JavaRoomLabs, Hats!"

Sompuperoo

6:21 AM

should be closed until improved urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Adception

@Unihedro are you affiliated with DD, what is your role if so? Any others besides bjb?

Unihedro

@Sompuperoo Why don't you ask bjb directly?

Sompuperoo

he sleeping?

I'm not asking, I'm asking for @fun

user259867

It's alright, answer can wait until @bjb568 emerges from coma.

Andrew T.

Eh, the new login/registration page is already alive?

Unihedro

cv-pls debugging without minimal code stackoverflow.com/q/27242220/3622940

... which escaped from the close vote review queue

user259867

6:29 AM

@AndrewT. Not for me; they are A/B testing.

Andrew T.

testing without announcement? ok

Sompuperoo

any bets on when the winterbash2014 blog post gets posted?

user259867

dammit, I didn't know that test was running, sorry. Yeah, I'll be needing lots of new screenshots. — Shog9 ♦ 11 hours ago

Unihedro

@Sompuperoo How much are you betting?

I'll bank 150 rep on "future"

user259867

SO rep or DD rep?

Sompuperoo

6:32 AM

@Unihedro how about 2014 rep on sometime before friday?

Andrew T.

@Fundamental lol, thanks

Jan Dvorak

6:45 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/142333/…

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246649/…

Sompuperoo

@JanDvorak that was gone fast

user259867

Dec 19 '14 at 4:38, by Infinite Recursion

Drupal spam with an ad on the top is the most annoying :P

user259867

Thankfully, it seems SE dropped the idea of extending ad banners to non-trilogy sites. Commercial ads exist on some, but not as banners anymore. They sit in the sidebar, like this DBA ad.

Andrew T.

Jeff Atwood was there

Sompuperoo

I heard GM is going to have some new cars that give you ads like when you search for directions to a place like fast food/restaurant or something.. Gotta love corporate America.

user259867

6:50 AM

yeah the last para is really interesting. Make the hats have "difficulty levels" that add stuff the more you do in that area. — Jeff Atwood ♦ 7 mins ago

user259867

An honor for @Sompuperoo -- get a now-rare comment from network founder.

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Sompuperoo

@Fundamental blush , and an upvote too!

user259867

@Sompuperoo Your answer says this was your first WB, but your account existed during WB 2013.

Sompuperoo

@Fundamental explanation can be found here meta.stackoverflow.com/a/280513/3041194

SPAM stackoverflow.com/q/27793597/3041194

at least spammer used correct tags [weight] [loss]

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Jan Dvorak

-7 and alive

user259867

6:59 AM

dead

Discussing the Ask Question page: Effectiveness and shorter headings.

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