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Unihedro

17:00

that makes no sense..

rene

that ^^^^

bjb568

Morning!

Meta Wonder

Well then this makes sense meta.stackexchange.com/questions/247941/… on meta

ProgramFOX

Morning!

rene

@MetaWonder Let's agree to disagree and ask @ShadowWizard for ice cream

Morning!

Unihedro

17:02

Sorry, "disagree" and "cram" does not rhyme.

Dammit, edited.

rene

lol

user259867

@bjb568 Posted at 12:01pm BJB time

Unihedro

@MetaWonder It's perfect for meta.

bluet

@rene Posted at 07:02pm RENE time (just a guess)

ProgramFOX

@bluet 06:02pm RENE time :P

Unihedro

17:04

Morning!

Meta Wonder

@Unihedro Marked as off topic

LOL

ProgramFOX

ugh, why do I always think 18:02 is 08:02PM? -_-

bluet

what time is it on the moon?

Unihedro

1:05 am

ProgramFOX

@bluet Probably 89:76 AM.

Meta Wonder

17:05

The same time when you are looking at the moon

user259867

@Unihedro Is that Alpha Centauri timezone?

Unihedro

@Fundamental yep.

rene

@bluet wrong ...

Unihedro

Calibrated into 24 hours, though.

Pre-calibration, it's 89:75 am.

user259867

@MetaWonder But if you are on the moon... what time is it then?

bjb568

17:08

@Fundamental yeah so?

user259867

That's technically not morning.

Meta Wonder

12:08 AM EST ;)

user259867

"Technically that sentence started with 'well', so--" "Ooh, a rock with a fossil in it!"

Unihedro

@Fundamental Well, technically morning is just a state within time without being clearly defined, as "morning" could be when someone wakes up.

Which it is.

Good morning!

bjb568

@Fundamental It's morning on internet chat time.

I can't find the link to that tho.

Braiam

17:12

I was thinking that the tavern uses UGT, and that anyone that doesn't use it would have their ass laminated.

Meta Wonder

What is UGT ??

rene

The sound you make when you see someone wearing UGG's

bjb568

ahh ok found it total-knowledge.com/~ilya/mips/ugt.html

Meta Wonder

Hats off for discovery ;)

Ok guys i am leaving Bye !

bluet

bye

Braiam

17:24

great job mailing me my password in plain text format

bjb568

O_O

Unihedro

@Braiam That, in 2015? kidding

I've been told that after microwaving food, I should leave it for a minute for the microwave thingy to cool down to be safe to eat. Is it true?

Braiam

@Unihedro Skeptics

Unihedro

@Braiam They need more official proof than "the sales lady told me that", though. :P

Braiam

btw, it depends

Unihedro

17:30

Oh.

Braiam

@Unihedro not actually

Unihedro

@Braiam Meh.

Braiam

0

Q: Is the after life real?

There is many life after death, like reincarnation, heaven and hell. There are many culture around the world who believe in this such as Christians and Indians. The indian believe in reincarnation base in the indu belief and christian believe in heaven base on christian beliefs. The A six-year...

yep, that is a question

Unihedro

in Teenage Programmers Chatroom on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by Mateon1

So, I can't talk on chat.meta.SE. I wanted to ask if it's possible to get a permalink to a message on a phone.

lol

@Braiam O_o

LQ

bluet

Hi @Mateon1

rene

17:40

@Unihedro Not to cool down but to prevent accidents due to Superheating. You can leave a spoon in the cup to prevent the effect from occuring

Unihedro

@rene Ah, interesting. Thanks a lot!

Braiam

but I think @uni wouldn't boil water using a microwave, or are you?

ProgramFOX

SPAM answer stackoverflow.com/a/28265440/2619912

Unihedro

@Braiam It's instant noodles, so water is involved.

Braiam

18

Q: What causes you to abandon an edit?

I'm working on that last queue that we'll be adding to /review as part of the quality project, and it's arguably the most interesting piece of the puzzle. It's a queue where folks that are interested in helping (mostly) new users can go to work on questions that the community has deemed likely ...

discussion featured edits se-quality-project

bluet

17:47

seeing a notification pop up

user259867

Yes, everyone's main reason seems to be edit conflicts. My typical experience: I'm in the middle of a long painful rewriting of a muddled question, someone else sees that x^2 is not typed as $x^2$, and edits that ignoring everything else.

Unihedro

"My connection suddenly died and it won't submit" anyone?

Braiam

an entire day where my internet just randomly died

user259867

@Unihedro But then you'd simply copy your version and edit after reload?

Unihedro

@Fundamental What if the connection isn't back after all the waiting and you'd had dropped the edit by then?

Not like everyone has office internet.

user259867

17:53

Well, post an answer there.

bluet

SPAM?? stackoverflow.com/q/28265811/3041194

Unihedro

@bluet YES USER ABOUT ME

Kill it!!

It's tagged SEO, it's clearly an SEO attempt

I wonder where Pham is.

ProgramFOX

@Sam ^

bjb568

wat, how'd I get flag banned from 2 declined abuse flags?

And why'd they get declined?

eg stackoverflow.com/q/28239210/2371861

Unihedro

inb4 abusive mods complaint by In Praise of Moderators participants

ProgramFOX

17:57

@bjb568 Why is it abuse? VLQ, yes, but not really abuse.

bjb568

Well, it's crap that's bad enough to be trolling and see rev 1.

ProgramFOX

The flag description is:

> This question contains content that a reasonable person would deem inappropriate for respectful discourse.

Yes, it contained "shit" in rev 1, but that's easy to be edited out and not enough to be considered abuse.

Unihedro

> you can edit that out yourself instead of flagging

bluet

> I'm Aman Gautam and I'm new here. It is my first time that I am asking questions on StackOverflow.

lol

bjb568

If you're at a fancy dinner and a guest comes up and literally says revision 1, is that appropriate at all?

Unihedro

18:00

@bjb568 No, but Stack Overflow is nowhere near a fancy dinner.

ProgramFOX

^

Unihedro

A beach, of sand, with occasional pearls falling from the sky, probably.

Sam

@ProgramFOX Eh sorry, I didn't bother starting him up when I got back in.

bjb568

> A respectful discourse

Unihedro

@bjb568 Under respectful discourse, the phrase used in the original post was frustration rather than insulting or abusing for a reasonable person as the reader for respectful discourse? And just because that phrase is there doesn't raise it to the "this post sucks throw it out of our community" level.

Sam

18:04

@Unihedro Just a few mins and I'll have him running (I need to clean + re-build)...

Unihedro

@Sam ok

Braiam

@ProgramFOX Shog changed the definition IMO

@bluet great, leave the salutations will ya, vladis?

Unihedro

@Braiam *IIRC

Braiam

@Unihedro no, in my opinion, Shog changed the definition of the flag, he didn't actually do that

ProgramFOX

Err... how can someone change a description in your opinion? Whether it's changed or not is a fact, not an opinion.

Braiam

18:09

when it's posted in meta

user259867

@Braiam How did he change that? I remember his often-quoted suggestion that keyboard-smash posts are included under that category. But that's also within the description: posting nothing but "uyuburt ffkjff mcjdf" is not appropriate for respectful discourse.

Sam

Eh, forget the rebuild. VS takes too long to load.

hichris123

@bjb568 er........

Braiam

now, where is Tim Post post (?) about rejecting anonymous suggested edits if all previous ones where rejected as "spam", umm?

user259867

> If you suggest an edit to a post that has a certain number of edits rejected as spam recently and then that edit is rejected as spam - we deal you a blocking penalty in the spam system. In other words, known targets dynamically become honeypots. Cool, huh? -- Tim Post

Braiam

18:14

too late

SmokeDetector

18:37

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: COMPARISONS OF INFORMATION BETWEEN TWO EXCEL WORKBOOKS by IRS on superuser.com

Shadow Wizard

rene

Tnx, those look yummie

bjb568

me want

ME WAAAAAANT!

Shadow Wizard

You're welcome @rene and there's one extra for @bjb as well :D

bjb568

:D

Doorknob

19:04

kill-plz stackoverflow.com/q/28266554/1223693

rene

@Doorknob is fixed now

sort of...

Doorknob

Better-ish. But why in the world did someone upvote that?!

rene

oh sorry

Little bit hard to answer as I don't have FF3.5 running anymore

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/2507567/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28168678/…

Kevin Brown

@hichris123 Cleaning up open-source?

hichris123

19:17

@KevinBrown yeah -- looks like that's all of them with close votes so far.

rene

I had just two in the cvq

Braiam

ff 3.5 is actually Firefox 3.5? Because if it's like that you, learners, have more pressing problems — Braiam 1 min ago

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/27747955/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/317046/…

rene

Are you able to cv on specifc tags @hichris123 so that we get a bunch of one tag in the CVQ?

hichris123

What do you mean?

bjb568

19:24

Closevotes

Post questions you want closed here with the same syntax as ex...

Doorknob

cv-plz typo stackoverflow.com/q/28266772/1223693

delv-plz ^

rene

@hichris123 cast off-topic votes on 40 question tagged open-source?

instead off 'looking -for' and then all kind of tags or library

hichris123

@rene Not yet, but I should.

rene

@hichris123 I assume you use blaze to find them?

or whatever the tool was called

hichris123

Nah, I'm just doing a search.

Kevin Brown

19:28

You can also throw cv-pls requests that fit the "looking for" type in the other room

chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/69389/…

Santa Claus

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 2 days ago, by Santa Claus

Anyone else in a state doing PARCC tests?

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28258189/…

bjb568

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/…

hichris123

...

2

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/users/237813/bjb568

Doorknob

delv-plz ^

2

Kevin Brown

19:35

Oh god, the broken images on Chrome: stackoverflow.com/questions/470468/…

hichris123

ouch

Doorknob

"The site ahead contains malware"

silly Chromium

hichris123

@Doorknob What page did you get that from?

Doorknob

@hichris123 Kevin's link

Kevin Brown

If you open any of the images in a new tab

Doorknob

19:36

wow, I literally can't access the page at all

I can click "visit unsafe site anyway" but it just redirects me back to that page

Kevin Brown

It's because it redirected

You get sent to a Russian (?) site that I didn't wait long enough for it to load

user259867

TODO: restore lost images. — sastanin Dec 28 '09 at 20:26

Braiam

@Fundamental O_O

bjb568

O_O

@hichris123 …

Santa Claus

@bjb568 IIRC, you are in a state taking the PARCC tests...do you know if your school is doing paper or computer-based?

bjb568

19:43

idk

Paper, i think

Santa Claus

@bjb568 Thats probably good...

hichris123

@bjb568 ... yes sir?

bjb568

@hichris123 … contrast to ...

hichris123

@bjb568 Yeah, "smart ellipses" or whatever are kinda dumb.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: String converter program not working by Luan Swanepoel on stackoverflow.com

Braiam

19:52

@SantaClaus because 2 != "2"?

bjb568

@hichris123 :O

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore

user259867

feels ignored by Smoke Detector

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp, I told you to ignore it dammit

SmokeDetector

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

bjb568

20:02

D:

SmokeDetector

20:21

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How do I get a macro to run in Outlook 2010? by Mediterrano on superuser.com

user259867

^ not offensive, but NAA.

Kevin Brown

The end of the first paragraph is probably what tripped it

user259867

Yes, I figured that. We need a regex that distinguishes verbal abuse from frustration...

hichris123

@Fundamental Probably restarting.

rene

@Bart Am I missing something? What is downvoted here?

SmokeDetector

20:27

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: an engineering Ph.D. teaching math in college by afgghfds on mathoverflow.net

hichris123

@SmokeDetector ignore, it's MO

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Kevin Brown

If I had a dollar for every time I've seen this question... meta.stackoverflow.com/q/285090/359284

Looks like it was deleted already

Sue

@Frank All these are helpful, thanks! I just posted something in Area 51 and had to prove I was a real person! Good to know!

bjb568

20:43

@KevinBrown What was it?

Kevin Brown

@bjb568 Some form of "require comments on close votes"

bjb568

ugh

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Q: Some zero-width characters add to the comment legth

It seems that the comment-length check counts some invisible characters valid, for example: the characters ranging from ⁪ (U+206A) to ‬ (U+202C) and ⁪ (U+206A) to ⁮ (U+206E). This allows users to post comments that look shorter than the specified threshold of 15. See below.

bug comments

user259867

Bart

@rene nothing that's visible

rene

20:56

@Bart so why the meta-post?

Bart

No clue. Don't know if he asked something and deleted it after a single downvote

Hobo Sapiens

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/28267727/…

user259867

gone

bjb568

21:48

When playing hour long music mix things you realize that you spend hours on stuff.

Mooseman

NAA stackoverflow.com/a/25767367/1234256

Jan Dvorak

I use that as a timer. When I have an hour before departure, I pick an hour-long album.

Braiam

> Winston, they asked for you, but you never came back with the jar of pickles you promised the mayo kingdom. And now, look, we are but chomping with dry bread, unsalted by the calories.

Bart

22:08

^ edit summary by Random?

hichris123

yup

rene

@Doorknob Can you revisit that

user259867

@Braiam Perhaps random has Superbowl-watching snacks in mind?

user259867

2

Braiam

@Fundamental that's so cool

... and I'm hungry

Mooseman

22:31

Somebody's a robo-reviewer

hichris123

@Mooseman Err.... no...

Braiam

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/13927581/792066

hichris123

It answers the question...

user259867

22:45

@hichris123 An answer to a question that shouldn't have been answered rarely merit preservation. Exceptions can be handled with historical lock. Deletion is a not a punishment for the user who left the answer; it's a housekeeping task.

hichris123

@Fundamental Perhaps, but it may prove to be useful. In addition, we're wasting people's times by deleting answers on an old off-topic post rather than cleaning up a high-visibility or new post.

Mooseman

VLQ? stackoverflow.com/a/17599545/1234256

Braiam

wut? stackoverflow.com/q/28185244/792066

Hobo Sapiens

one-cloe-vote stackoverflow.com/questions/28268892/…

Kevin Brown

@HoboSapiens Gone

Mooseman

22:58

NAA stackoverflow.com/a/26092783/1234256

Hobo Sapiens