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AstroCB

00:13

naa meta.stackoverflow.com/a/284452/3366929

Braiam

00:33

^ people angry because "just now", should not complain

Shokhet

00:44

@Sue I'm in here on occasion, but I wasn't when you asked. I usually try to remember to leave a room when I leave, but I guess (at the time you asked) I was actually just a faded avatar :)

user259867

SPAM travel.stackexchange.com/questions/42432/…

Shokhet

@Fundamental Flagged. Was that a bot, or was that you?

user259867

@Shokhet A little bit of both. My script reports possible spam to me, and I post it.

Shokhet

Nice.

user259867

01:09

SPAM travel.stackexchange.com/questions/42433/…

Shokhet

@Fundamental It's by the same user, who I see took the trouble to register their account. Hm...

hichris123

I poked a Travel mod about that user.

user259867

@hichris123 I was looking in Smokey's source for email regex... it doesn't have one?

hichris123

nope

both questions gone

user259867

0

Q: Space Web Cam - Does Space Really Exist?

If space really exists, then why are there no webcams with 24 hour/day streaming from any/all space satellites or telescopes? If space really existed, people would be interested in being able to view 24/7 webcams pointed in different directions in space. Is there anything like this available? I...

hichris123

01:22

o..kay.

Braiam

There are a lot of graduate-educated young-earth creationists.

I wonder what is the status of that ticket

user259867

Interesting idea...

user259867

-1

Q: Can I use my iphone 6 as a workstation mac / computer?

My pc is low. Can I use my iphone 6 as mac / windows computer so that I can work faster with netbeans and visual studio ? as i guess iphone got higher cpu than my own pc. thx

osx mac iphone apple netbeans

Braiam

@Fundamental I know why people would like to do this... but please, no

bjb568

02:05

@hichris123 :O

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Newtonsoft JsonConvert with non-standard keys? by tesme on stackoverflow.com

Undo

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

@Undo true/tp cannot be used for answers because their job is to add the title of the question to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'. If you want to blacklist the poster of the answer, use trueu or tpu.

Undo

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Undo Blacklisted user.

hichris123

02:06

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28132484/…

Undo

^^ abusve

hichris123

@Undo lol the bot just admonished you, the owner of it. :P

2

Undo

I know :(

hichris123

Should we close questions like stackoverflow.com/questions/28132214/… as typos?

or as not enough context?

cv-plz no logcat stackoverflow.com/questions/28130001/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28129525/…

Braiam

@hichris123 go for "why isn't this working"

hichris123

02:17

ok

This guy has a lot of spammy answers: stackoverflow.com/users/4490943/lightning-xd?tab=activity

Frank

@hichris123 edited by animuson, and not deleted ...

hichris123

@Frank He got the worst of them.

Doorknob

02:41

We're 75% there :D

user259867

And Robert Cartaino posted an answer in the discussion area, which wasn't we are so going to shut you down!

Frank

@Doorknob grats

bjb568

@hichris123 *lolcat

@Doorknob *76%

user259867

I was disappointed to find there is no user #200000 on Mathematics... then I found there are no users numbered between 199347 and 200344... the gap happened on December 11 between 05:42:26 and 05:46:24 UTC. Timing suggests this SQL upgrade is to blame.

user259867

The gap in Lifehacks posts that was mentioned here previously may also be because of this.

user259867

02:55

Yes, the gap in posts 534-1519 occurred on December 11.

user259867

The Lifehacks gap in posts 2615-3612 was on January 7, because of this.

hichris123

@Fundamental huh -- does that mean the missing IDs are in Oregon, and the duplication process messed up autoincrement?

user259867

@NickCraver Is it by design to create an Id gap of ~1000 gap during SQL upgrades? ^

Frank

Looks slightly like hichris

user259867

Only slightly. Everyone knows hichris has rounded corners.

hichris123

03:04

stackoverflow.com/users/3574819/fuzzytree looks slightly like you, @Frank

2

Frank

@Fundamental No, he simply has 8 corners instead of 4

@hichris123 But I dont slick my bangs back like that

user259867

@Frank That would be 12, if we count 3 intruding corners.

hichris123

@Frank hah

Frank

@Fundamental but not rounded :P

Braiam

touche!

user259867

03:07

Depends on the scale. On the pixel level, a b&w circle has a lot of corners.

Braiam

@Fundamental nitpicky!

Frank

@Fundamental visible scale with 20/20 eyesight :)

Out of all 16 pages of users here, I only know 13 individual users. :(

euphoria overlord

3

Q: Allow filters for bounty lists?

As you can tell, SO has quite a huge amount of bounties. Can we get a filter option for bounties like these? So similar to shopping sites, we can have filters for highest bounty --> lowest bounty, date expiring, activity, views, etc.

feature-request bounty

bjb568

@Frank distance from screen?

Resolution of pic/screen?

How would you guess which of these symbolizes a HTML/CSS/JS playground/example?

Frank

@bjb568 2'

bjb568

03:18

stackoverflow.com/help/badges/298/javascript?userid=2371861 :D

user259867

I don't recognize the third icon, so it has to be the one by exclusion.

bjb568

@Frank People really move their heads that far away ever?

Frank

@bjb568 yeah, just use a bigger screen

bjb568

meh

Frank

I'm about 3' from mine right now

bjb568

03:20

I'm awaiting 5k display from apple so I can have large screen and close head.

since this is all I can fit on screen now

and PI delete

hichris123

@bjb568 5k? Someone has money to burn.

bjb568

No, my family has priorities straight.

hichris123

lolno

bjb568

i.e. computers/monitors > all else

hichris123

Computers that run IE are better than all others? I think you need to reevaluate your priorities.

bjb568

03:28

hey, dots

hichris123

@bjb568 chat.meta.stackexchange.com/messages/2955461/history

bjb568

:P

user259867

A single user got 2935 audits, more than 1% of all audits shown during the timespan of statistics collected.

user259867

Was it someone from this room?

hichris123

Not me.

SmokeDetector

03:39

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Trying to differentiate between the three muscle tissues with small pictures by Refractor on biology.stackexchange.com

Doorknob

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@Doorknob Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

user259867

6 hours ago, by Fundamental

@SmokeDetector I see that only Fitness is excluded from "muscle" check. Should Biology be exempt too? It's not like they are having a spam problem.

AstroCB

-9

A: What is a cool comment?

Cool comments are comments that the general populace feels good about agreeing with. For example, "Man, matcha is really cool."

AstroCB

04:02

How did he put a badge next to the link? Is it just an image that he put in (I don't have editing privileges and it's a per-site Meta, so there are not suggested edits and hence I cannot see the source)?

7

A: My iOS syncing headaches is a “White Elephant.” Can anything be done to reframe the question?

Questions shouldn't be deleted just because they haven't received an answer. Despite everything, an answer may still be found in the future and deleting the question doesn't help anyone as the original research is lost. Moving the research to a new question defeats the purpose and the original qu...

Tim Stone

@AstroCB Yes, it's just an image

AstroCB

Interesting; I might use that.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: system32.dll virus keeps wiping my porn folder by Flappot on superuser.com

user259867

^ offensive

Doorknob

> I cannot see the source

Yes, you can

AstroCB

04:09

@Doorknob That's a fancy trick.

I was just about to make a feature request.

user259867

Browser's "view page source" works too; SE pages have reasonably clean layout and in any case one can search in page for a word in the post. (This gives the HTML version of the post, unlike the revision history which has Markdown)

AstroCB

@Fundamental The Markdown is what I was looking for (if it were some SE trick, it would be rendered as HTML either way).

Frank

04:41

Hey look, a blatant lie:

bjb568

04:53

naa marked helpful? wat parenting.stackexchange.com/a/18433/9608

-1

Q: In divorce, who is more affected: boys or girls?

Who is more affected by divorce, boys or girls (less then 10 years old )? Especially when the mother takes custody. What does the university research say?

gender divorce

parents are weird.

Frank

@bjb568 so are kids

Everyone's weird

especially from the perspective of other groups

Jan Dvorak

Sturgeon's law strikes again

Frank

Sturgeon's law strikes everything.

It's a brutal law.

bjb568

@Frank nah, just the parents. Their weirdness makes them think kids are weird.

:P

Frank

anyway, gtg cya ltrs

@bjb568 and vise versa

bjb568

05:01

:O

Doorknob

cv-plz typo stackoverflow.com/q/28133436/1223693

Unihedro

05:23

Yay drive-by downvote on my highest scored question (again)

bjb568

wants to drive a car to downvote things quick and efficient

bjb568

05:56

Night!

Unihedro

Night!

bluet

Night!

bluet

06:23

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/28086861/3041194

SmokeDetector

07:10

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Bluestacks ask Google Play Service eventhough it was installed by Tushar on android.stackexchange.com

user259867

^ NAA

user259867

Congratulations to @bjb568 on reaching #13 in most rep gained from a negatively scored answer, with 176 gained.

user259867

The record holder is post #357 (that's pretty early in SO history...) with the gain of 581 points.

Unihedro

07:26

@Fundamental Nice achievement :p

PeterJ

07:38

@Unihedro, looks like you make #21 on this list: data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackexchange/query/267643/…

Ahmad

Hi

Unihedro

Heh :D

Wait, why didn't it count in the bounty? xD

It would throw me on the toptens :p

Ahmad

Hi @InfiniteRecursion

Infinite Recursion

@Bart :D

@Ahmad Hiya

Ahmad

you think it was just a subtle rant?

Infinite Recursion

07:42

Yes.

Ahmad

my English is not good, I tought it wasn't friendly, not?

Infinite Recursion

This site is about content, not users. I have no friends here.

Ahmad

I hope so! that is about content, but I am suspected

my content may are not excellent but not deserved the way people vote

Infinite Recursion

Ok

Ahmad

its still a legitimate sane question, meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284017/… which they treated like that, but when @bart pointed it, they recalled that is an issue

OK is not sufficient, I try to not but I am loosing my faith to the honesty of people that they vote the content...

Infinite Recursion

07:48

15

A: Requesting answer or solution from a particular SO user

If the user is known to frequent chat, you can politely show them a link to your question and ask if they've got any insights - just take care to not be a pest about it. Badgering another user in chat to answer one of your questions will likely get you suspended in chat. The other thing you can...

@Ahmad You have poked Bart multiple times about that question. I request you to kindly stop poking him for that particular post. He is clearly not interested. Please read Tim Post's answer ^

ProgramFOX

Anyone else not seeing badge icons on their chat profile?

Ahmad

was it for me? I requested no one to reply the question, otherwise I dindn't write it on meta, I wait maybe a user reply it there

Unihedro

status-no

Ahmad

right poking! sorry, it was just a habit! as users put @ when they name someone, I don't care, however he was the one who promised me to answer my question

Unihedro

ProgramFOX

07:53

@Unihedro huh, okay

Unihedro

@Ahmad He didn't promise you an answer, he only made a similar question to show how you should compose a question properly.

Infinite Recursion

@Bart about why we favour those who delete their account... I had a similar question meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284017/…, you may want to answer it or review its current answer. — Ahmad 14 hours ago

^ He didn't post an answer, so please stop poking him now.

Unihedro

^

user259867

@ProgramFOX I don't see badge icons. Inspection shows that they use sprites from http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/sprites.png which was changed with the redesign.

Ahmad

because he also mentioned the same ambiguity, that why we favour... then if he can find an answer to his question then can answer mine too, its not my question, its a question which many future users could have too

Unihedro

07:55

@Ahmad That doesn't change how Bart didn't promise you an answer.

ProgramFOX

@Fundamental Okay, thanks!

Infinite Recursion

We are all volunteers. It is not COMPULSORY for us to answer anything. So stop.

Ahmad

I don't expect bart or anyone answer it, but I expect someone really put a care to it

Unihedro

> however he was the one who promised me to answer my question

^ lying

user259867

In @Unihedro's case, the color scheme may be at play.. ?

Unihedro

07:57

fin

Ahmad

great for you, I see how you support eachother, wish there was one who supported me like that

Unihedro

Chrome Beta ^

ProgramFOX

0

Q: Badge icons not showing on chat profile

I just noticed that badge icons for my chat profile don't show up anymore: Unihedro could not repro, but Fundamental could. Is this a bug, or is it just us?

bug badges chat

Ahmad

why you all get anything serious! things are not that serious to me, whatever you do you is up to yourself

Unihedro

@Ahmad Erm, I think you're taking this more serious than we are.

user259867

08:00

user259867

Chrome 40 beta ^

Unihedro

@Fundamental Weird, I use that version as well. Might be a regional thing.

Ahmad

whenever I begin a conversation it just lead to some warns from he and she, don't know what they think about me

Unihedro

~miniatureAvatars++;

PeterJ

@Ahmad, I've only been half following your situation but at the moment do you have a question ban only or is it answers too?

user259867

08:02

@Unihedro Ah, yes. Of course. Although it was a bit depressing to see @InfiniteRecursion talking to herself "I have no friends here."

Unihedro

@Fundamental :(

Ahmad

@PeterJ thank you for considering my situation, I have a question ban

what is that most serious to me is that I am behaved like any other and people are fair to my questions or chat ... anything,...

Unihedro

0

A: Badge icons not showing on chat profile

As mentioned, I could not reproduce this. Here the sprites are in the CSS class that holds the badges:

Ahmad

@Unihedro you got that too serious that you even didn't let me to finish my request on my past conversation

Unihedro

There you go.

PeterJ

08:05

@Ahmad, I was just looking at some of your questions and many in their current form are fairly reasonable. One thing that can happen on SO though is when the first revision isn't very good is they'll get a lot of downvotes quickly which I think is a lot of your problem. It's probably good to spend a good bit of time formulating a question before asking.

Sam

Morning!

Unihedro

Morning!

Today is a busier day over here.

Sam

Busy == productive?

PeterJ

Also remember in chat it's not a phone call, @Unihedro wasn't really interrupting what you were saying just choosing not to participate the same I suspect Sam won't get upset because I posted this.

Ahmad

@PeterJ thanks, I also had that critique to the system, its the way a user can stuck in the ban, my answer to this question shows my proposal meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284271/…

Unihedro

08:08

@Sam busy == trying to finish a project when near due :|

Sam

@Unihedro Oh, that one with the questionnaire?

Unihedro

@Sam Yes, unfortunately.

Typing furiously >:|

Sam

@PeterJ Nope, feel free to keep "interrupting". ;)

@Unihedro inb4 keyboard explodes from furious typing

Ahmad

@PeterJ don't know what to say!

user259867

@Fundamental ... Now it broke. — Unihedro 38 secs ago

user259867

08:11

I get +1 for breaking Uni's chat badges.

Unihedro

:(

Halp it's b0rk3n

Ahmad

Hi @Bart, I was waiting you get an answer to you question as you said, did you get any?

PeterJ

@Ahmad, I don't know how far you're into a block (or really how the rules work) but I believe answers can help as well. I thought rather than a total block it was more of a rate limit now but not really sure?

Bart

Good morning @Ahmad. Could you clarify? I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.

Ahmad

@PeterJ yes I think the policy has changed since I was banned, but can't know how to enjoy new policy

Sam

08:13

'Morning @Bart. Where's meh coffeez?

Bart

@Sam next to me, in my cup ..... slurp.....

Unihedro

D:

Sam

:O

Unihedro

coffee is dead

Ahmad

@Bart ;), don't take it serious, the last time we chat, you posted meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284271/… before you complete your answer to me, and you said wait for an answer to it. but no problem

Sam

08:14

~ R.I.P. here lies Sam's coffee.

Bart

@Ahmad that's a comment by Gnat, not me.

@Unihedro stop looking at me. I don't know anything about Cupcake either!

Unihedro

:|

user259867

@Bart Seeing "gnat" capitalized is so odd.

Ahmad

I mean in the chat room, you were the one who cared what I am saying

Bart

@Fundamental force of habbit

Ahmad

08:17

will back soon

Bart

@Ahmad so you're generally asking if I have an answer to my question now? If so, to some extent, sure. I'm debating whether or not I'm entirely satisfied and what I want to do next, if anything.

user259867

I think it makes sense from SE team viewpoint. Getting loads of emails appealing q-bans must be tiresome. So they offer a (mostly) self-service option: delete account, get 1 q/week.
Something like this is done in some online homework software: a student can click a button and get automatic (short) extension on homework due date. As a result, professors don't get as many desperate pleas by email.

Ahmad

@Fundamental should I delete my account myself? all the question, all answers, votes everything should be erased?

@Bart it seems you are not satisfied. your question was unclear by the way :)

bummi

Morning

Unihedro

Morning!

Ahmad

08:28

Morning

@Sam is here, I didn't recognize him

Sam

Morning!

Bart

@Ahmad why? Because I didn't accept an answer yet? There's no rush. And if it was unclear you could have mentioned that at the start. But given the score I'm not entirely sure that clarity is an issue.

bjb568

Morning!

Sam

@Ahmad Yes, I changed my avatar.

user259867

@bjb568 train-detecting botling in action

Ahmad

08:30

@Sam Good, I thought something bad happened to you! a fire or ...

Sam

@Ahmad lol, no, no.

Ahmad

@Bart I just pointed it in a comment, you can't hide the possibilty of creating a new account from users, its unfair to those who don't know they can do that ;)

Bart

I get a feeling we're talking on different wavelengths @Ahmad. I'm out. I may revisit that question, I may accept an answer, I may wait a little longer, we'll see.

Ahmad

I myself didn't intend to answer your question, in the way you was worried, but it was a chance to say the concerns of a banned user too

Jan Dvorak

@Ahmad So we should tell every criminal it's possible to 3d-print handguns?

PeterJ

08:36

@Jan we probably should, most 3d printed materials I've seen would probably end up doing more damage to the shooter :)

Ahmad

@JanDvorak I just said it was unfair to good users, for example check me, what I earned by waiting 3 months to leave the ban

Jan Dvorak

@Ahmad We never said you were a good user ;-)

Unihedro

@Ahmad By definition, if you can even run into a ban, you're not really a 'good user'.

Single quotes, not double.

Ahmad

@JanDvorak most users are good, we just don't take them to the point they pick the 3d-print handguns. the way you go, even if they don't realize that in the fist, they soon will realise it

@JanDvorak most users are good, we just shouldn't take them to the point they pick the 3d-print handguns. the way you go, even if they don't realize that in the fist, they soon will realise it

Jan Dvorak

Now you're just repeating yourself, literally.

Ahmad

08:40

there seem a bug in system. I tried to edit my old message but the backspace worked for the browser and I was got out of the chat room

Jan Dvorak

Perhaps you should have stayed there

Ahmad

Thanks that 'Good user' here is just related to the context, I am just maybe a different user, smarter one, but not a bad one ;)

lol, even the system is bad with me

Unihedro

@Ahmad Practically, the post ban exists to catch bad users, so the context has no relationship with the definition whatsoever.

Ahmad

@Unihedro beside kidding, honestly the ban mechanism need some reconsideration, it seems they have done some changes since I was banned, but I can't benfit from them

Bart

Sure you can. It should by now be very clear to you how you can proceed. What disconcerting however is to see how much your focus is on "how can I continue?" rather than "how can I improve?".

Ahmad

08:49

if you have checked this unanswered question meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284017/…, yes my concern was "how can I continue", you think waiting for three months isn't sufficient for me to know "how can I improve", I am just afraid even if I found it, no one opens door again

unfortunately my English is not good to compile a huge texts, I didn't yet found should I delete my account by myself? should I send a request? can't it be done without deletion, do I loose all my questions and reputations and answers....

Unihedro

@Ahmad "do I loose all my questions and reputations and answers...." -> Yes.

Bart

And no, you can't delete your own account. You're going to have to put in a request.

Unihedro

@Bart Or rather, you can only delete an account by submitting an account deletion request.

Bart

@Unihedro that. I'm down a mineshaft being attached by various creatures.

Ahmad

if that is the only way thats ok, however the other user @PeterJ told me that my questions are not that bad to be deleted, but why my answers?!!!

Jan Dvorak

08:54

... and deleting and reinstating an account will gain you attention from the moderators

Unihedro

@Bart I hope you have a lava bucket. You can effectively clear a whole village of cave spiders with them.

Bart

@Ahmad account deletion doesn't discriminate

Jan Dvorak

... and burn any wooden structures that may have been there

Unihedro

@Ahmad I don't know what feedback to give here, so - Why not?

Ahmad

I waited long, if really its what I should do , and I won't regain my account soon, I do that, just I feel pity to my answers! and the answer of them... oh

Jan Dvorak

08:59

What's more important to you? The answers you gave, or the questions you will give.

Ahmad

I am a bit worry about SO without my answers

I don't know why he goes to suicide

I mean SO

Jan Dvorak

Sure. The entire site will outright give up when they realise you have been gone

... not.

Ahmad

by the way, I think you could say these at first when I posted my question on meta

Unihedro

@Ahmad No?

Ahmad

isn't it meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284017/… all my concerns and questions and ambiguous points I asked there? it can help other users too not?

ProgramFOX

09:04

cv-pls POB stackoverflow.com/questions/2394280/…

Jan Dvorak

done

Ahmad

Thank you for your help so I find the way to continue.... then I am going to request my account deletion, I was concerned with my reputation points and my answers (Anyway I have suffured to provide them) but if its what should be done. I am going to do that

bye

Jan Dvorak

So, apparently, yes, the answers you gave are by far not as important to you as the questions you will give.

What a shame

bummi

@JanDvorak del

Bart

... that's over the top

Jan Dvorak

09:11

better?

Bart

yes ... better ... ;)

Ahmad

@JanDvorak be relaxed with the sentence, I am OK, you know me

Jan Dvorak

The fact remains you are willing to discard useful contributions for the ability to ask more questions

... which is really annoying about you

bummi

@Ahmad not familiar with your topics, is there no way to get out of the ban by improving the Q/A's

Ahmad

OH good news, you can't get rid of my questions and answers as soon

@bummi it seems at least I couldn't but till the moment

when I was going to request account deletion, I check the ability to ask question, and now I CAN ASK

Bart

09:15

....

Jan Dvorak

...

bummi

@Ahmad so just stay careful in future :)

Jan Dvorak

Can I undelete my comment now?

Ahmad

yeah to be careful to avoid some people ;)

Jan Dvorak

...

Unihedro

09:16

...

Bart

Why do I have the suspicion you're going to be banned again in no time ...

Ahmad

Thanks all, I should leave you alone, see you later, it seems there are some people out there who watch me

Jan Dvorak

"It's okay to be a criminal if the cops don't see you" ~~ Ahmad, 2015

3

Ahmad

I mean to know my value

Bart

@Ahmad put all your focus on your content and the quality of it. Not other people. They are not your problem. Good luck.

Jan Dvorak

09:18

You have erased all of your contributions when... you literally erased all of your contributions

Ahmad

@JanDvorak No! I barely walked in front of Cops, by exposing my questions and ... but they had no evidence

Jan Dvorak

...

Ahmad

I am a proud one who waited in prison and came back!

Unihedro

@Ahmad ... of?

ProgramFOX

cv-pls most of these: stackoverflow.com/…

Ahmad

09:20

if you (the gang) don't report me, nothing happens to me

bye for now

Jan Dvorak

it will

Bart

Don't post crap and nobody needs to do anything but upvote you. Cya

bummi

still votes needed on those: http://stackoverflow.com/q/12135309/1699210
http://stackoverflow.com/q/8900564/1699210
http://stackoverflow.com/q/2700914/1699210

does someone know if there is no roomba on SU? It looks as if cleanups like closed:1 answers:0 locked:0 duplicate:0 score:1...1 are useless

PeterJ

09:38

@bummi, don't they have to be score zero for the roomba or otherwise really old?

bummi

@PeterJ yes, that why I'm searching them combined with terms like looking for tool e.g. and bring them to zero

if apropriate

PeterJ

@bummi, not sure I follow but wouldn't most of those get deleted with a single downvote?

if you search score zero they all seem recent and I think every site has the roomba

bummi

@PeterJ ok, I'll dig in my older voted to verify

PeterJ

@bummi, a few seem to either be new or recently closed, although not sure why this one would still be there: superuser.com/questions/262295/…

although maybe a recent downvote and user deleted so hard to know if it was a recent downvote

bummi

mhmm ... Looks as if I can not see them if they are gone :/ low rep :) this one could be used to give it a try , I'll keep the link superuser.com/q/495150/172747

would need one downvote

PeterJ

09:53

@bummi, bookmark it and check after 3:00 UTC tomorrow - I think that's when it'll disappear.

bummi

@PeterJ that's what I did, thx :)

PeterJ

10:09

That sort of question make me wonder if there should be a new auto-delete rule. If closed that long without a single answer it's not like any useful content has been removed, and especially after say a year sometimes the scope of the site has changed a bit so not likely it'd get re-opened for anyone to answer.

I've seen a lot of questions like that get an upvote or two and they just sit around forever.

bummi

@PeterJ I think there was a discussion about on one of the meta's ... the better way might be a manual review and voting on those you are sure about?

PeterJ

10:25

@bummi, didn't see that discussion but not sure. I've seen the odd good late answers to old questions that are open but with closed ones seems like it'd be a battle to get them re-opened (even more so for a new user) and then answer. It can be a bit of a broken window for search users to find a question somewhat similar to what they want to ask a year or two later without any answers if they don't know why it was closed.

bummi

10:40

@PeterJ While I agree it would be nice to have a good automatic way, there always could be the chance for a user to improve and reopen a (not to bad) question in case he gets on a ban border, but that's another topic ...

PeterJ

@bummi, guess that's a good point. Anyway was about to head off soon catch you later.

Unihedro

Seeya!

bummi

Hi :)

SmokeDetector

10:56

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: [stackoverflow.com/questions/28135474/… by Simran kaur on dba.stackexchange.com

Unihedro

^ how did that markdown fail? !cc @Pro @Undo

Infinite Recursion

@Fundamental My Friends --->

bluet

[stackoverflow.com/questions/28135474/…

@uni not the bot, it's SE

Unihedro

http://about:blank

It's so inconsistent.

[http://about:blank](http://about:blank)

bluet

[stackoverflow.com/questions/28135474/…

Infinite Recursion

11:11

@bluet report a bug?

Your hairpin looks good @uni :P

2

Unihedro

:D

bluet

? @uni or @SD

Unihedro

Thanks!

Infinite Recursion

@Ahmad She, and I wasn't warning you. I merely linked the documentation for your reference.

bluet

was @bjb568 suppose to be woken up yet?

Infinite Recursion

11:22

inb4 grammar owl

bluet

naa? stackoverflow.com/a/28084402/3041194 was declined by mod

Mooseman

@bluet Definitely...

Infinite Recursion

It contains a tiny speck of useful information, so not NAA.

> sets a color filter on drawable.

Mooseman

@InfiniteRecursion ...and if the link dies. This is no different than saying "Use jQUery bcause it is GREAT!!!1!!1!"

Unihedro

@bluet I think it's NAA, but for a different reason; While it does say "this code sets a color filter on a drawable", it doesn't say that it's any use towards solving the problem, so it may well be immaterial. "Check out my code (external link) here, it draws red circles" aren't answers.

And I just flagged it as such.

Rather; "you have to draw red circles" (the solution) != "try this; it draws red circles" (potentially immaterial description).

bummi

12:03

-3

A: Change background of ProgressDialog

You can try my gist. It basicly sets a color filter on drawable. import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Color; import android.util.AttributeSet; import android.widget.ProgressBar; public class ColoredProgressBar extends ProgressBar { public ColoredProgressBar(Context contex...

is set another mistake of me in flagging on disputed by editing after flagging

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12:21

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12:49

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13:14

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ProgramFOX

@Unihedro what bluet said

Unihedro

k thx

ProgramFOX

13:43

in Teenage Programmers Chatroom on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by Unihedro

kill-pls http://stackoverflow.com/q/28129362/3622940

Pham

Low Quality A?: Marriage...................................., by Brian Hitchcock, on worldbuilding.stackexchange.com.

Jan Dvorak

14:13

It doesn't answer half of the question...

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