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Doorknob

00:11

So apparently I already have the required score for the discussion gold tag badge. This means that if I post 90 answers and none of them get any votes, it'll still get me the badge O_o

hichris123

Oooh, more answers to downvote.

Thanks @Doorknob! ;)

Frank

@Doorknob lel

Kevin Brown

@Doorknob I'm in a similar boat on Meta.SO, I've got a silver badge without the number of questions

SmokeDetector

00:26

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Powershell script won't save Excel Workbook - says the method isn't there by anthony b on stackoverflow.com

Frank

00:39

@Doorknob @hichris123 You guys are mods. Am I correct in thinking that only the help > on-topic section of the help center in editable by mods?

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore - no idea what triggered this

SmokeDetector

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

Doorknob

@Frank Yes.

Only /help/on-topic, and only mods can edit it.

(Barring SE dev employee magic, of course.)

Frank

That's what I thought

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

00:49

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

AstroCB

@KevinBrown Same here

1k score for gold, but only on 100 posts out of the required 200

One day, I might just go through and answer a bunch of discussion questions to get the badge so that I can wield the dupe-hammer.

bjb568

starts doing homework finally

user259867

Good idea. starts grading homework finally

bjb568

hopes skewl canceled tomorrow because snow

AstroCB

01:09

@bjb568 The three day weekend wasn't long enough?

bjb568

I missed 2 days of luxury because sick.

hichris123

@Frank Wait, I'm a mod? Huh, didn't know that. Thanks for telling me! ;)

user259867

Turns out Chrome's desktop notifications are relative to Windows Taskbar position, not to the browser's window. Moved the Taskbar.

user259867

No idea how it's supposed to work on Metro, and not going to try...

Kevin Brown

On Metro they probably go into Chrome's notification bar

Braiam

01:45

@Frank flags for sock puppetry

user259867

02:27

In the user profile, we can sort our questions by views - is this a new feature or something I never noticed before?

hichris123

@FamousBlueRaincoat It's new.

user259867

If this is meant as a sensible alternative to People Coddled, I'm all for it. But then the answers should also have this kind of sort, based on question views.

Braiam

02:59

@hichris123 eh? nah, that's old

activity, votes, newest and views has since I know been there

hichris123

@Braiam I only remember the three: activity, votes, newest.

Braiam

@hichris123 on answers and the summary, that holds true

SmokeDetector

03:13

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MEMORY CARD ISSUE WHEN INSERT IN PC by Sagar Gupta on superuser.com

Braiam

03:30

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

@Braiam Registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Doorknob

@SmokeDetector fp (and suggested an edit)

SmokeDetector

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

user259867

@Doorknob too bad; conflicted with mine

user259867

@Braiam Why is that tp?

Doorknob

03:33

@FamousBlueRaincoat Heh, whoops, forgot you're the math.SE editing ninja

Braiam

@FamousBlueRaincoat trying to figure out a good title for a while, but the question is utter crap

check the markdown

Doorknob

@Braiam VGJ in Vim ;)

(not going to bother trying to polish the turd though)

user259867

@Braiam The easiest thing to do then is nothing... all-caps report are automatically "ignore" unless another command is given.

user259867

I don't know what the oft-mentioned doctype is used for, if anything... is it for spam or LQ?

Braiam

@FamousBlueRaincoat therefore, I would want smokey to catch all those crap question so they can be promptly downvoted/closed

btw, doing nothing is never an option

user259867

03:38

But you haven't downvoted that one.

Kevin Brown

@FamousBlueRaincoat My guess would be LQ, if it's even actively used.

Braiam

@FamousBlueRaincoat I have close votes on SU

user259867

@hichris123 Are you using Bayesian doctype updates from Smokey for your bot?

hichris123

Nope.

I should probably start my bot up again.

user259867

@Braiam I thought of downvoting but left a comment instead. Getting old and mellow.

user259867

03:54

I think I cant get any answer of my que on this site It was my mistake to come on this site because u people always do critcism in my questions like title shouldnt be capital or all characters should not be capital or u should migrate que.Can u please tell me how i can delete my stackoverflow account.Your help will be very much appreciated — Sagar Gupta 35 secs ago

user259867

^ being old and mellow did not help

AstroCB

@hichris123 So much code...

Frank

SPAM gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3683/…

Doesn't smokey pick up email adresses?

spam gonna last all night at this rate

more

~~SPAM gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3683/…~~

it's really old.

That one's on the line, but I think it's spam.

user259867

@Frank You posted the same link twice

Frank

SPAM gardening.stackexchange.com/a/8233/419

@FamousBlueRaincoat sorry abt. that

user259867

04:09

SPAM askubuntu.com/questions/586370/that-is-most-effective-protected

user259867

@Frank It would be appropriate to protect that question, because it received so many answers already, some of them LQ/spam.

Frank

@FamousBlueRaincoat yeah

AstroCB

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/26293110/…

user259867

!!/status?

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Running since 03:50:54 UTC

Frank

04:11

@FamousBlueRaincoat done

user259867

I thought the AU spam would match the arrow regex.

user259867

Yes, it should have. =====> matches (>>>>|===>|==>>>)

Braiam

@FamousBlueRaincoat HOW YOU DARE!!!!! >:(

Frank

Is there a way to search protects by user?

@FamousBlueRaincoat gone

user259867

@Frank With Google... "protected by J. Musser" site:gardening.stackexchange.com

Braiam

04:16

@Frank I asked about that in mse, just look for [support] and protect

@FamousBlueRaincoat the heck...

Frank

only 3

user259867

@Frank I got 6.

Frank

@FamousBlueRaincoat huh.

I wonder why

GL spam still needs a ton of flags

user259867

@Frank one, two, three, four, five, six. -- not counting today's.

Frank

@FamousBlueRaincoat When I do it it shows only 3, 4, and 5

weird

user259867

04:19

Google is evil.

Frank

We're all evil.

We should start a club

many large comments by everyone but me rofl

user259867

This is the way to win in comment debates.

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/147724/…

Frank

@FamousBlueRaincoat lol.

Why would I want lean muscled bodies? That would look kinda suspicious. :P

And I gotta head out - cy'all

hichris123

Hey @Frank: someone forgot about our topic challenges. ;)

Frank

04:29

@hichris123 whoops my bad

How long was it this time?

is embarrased

user259867

I don't often look at Lifehacks, but when I do... I just don't know what to think. Especially of the answers.

3

user259867

6

Q: How to stop lizards entering through windows

The very sight of lizards makes me take a stick and drive them out of the windows. I heard if we place egg shells near the windows they repel. But is there any other way we could accomplish this? Due to this, I have most of my windows closed..

hichris123

@Frank ~2 weeks extra (should have ended end of January ish). I forgot too, so...

Frank

opps

hichris123

Eh, don't worry about it.

SmokeDetector

04:56

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username, Bad keyword in answer: Long file path get out of right margin on PDF by brianfo on tex.stackexchange.com

user259867

On TeX - LaTeX, of all sites.

Alexis King

What the hell is with all the "Long Path Tool" spam? o.O

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/147727/…

user259867

And... that was my 400th helpful flag on Drupal Answers. One hundred remains until Marshal.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNAL SWITCH DIODE by Shubham Raghuvanshi on electronics.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle Building Supplement by baazigar420 on meta.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

05:18

@SmokeDetector tp

bjb568

No skewl tomorrow! Yay

Night!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: today but I think package right by Mary dodge on meta.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

user259867

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

05:23

@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Alexis King

Smokey doesn't like me. :x

user259867

@AlexisKing Doesn't recognize you... one of project contributors can add you to the privileged users, but none seem to be around now. Ping Undo tomorrow.

user259867

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/248652/…

Alexis King

@FamousBlueRaincoat Okay, thanks. I don't really care, but I figured I'd help if I can. ;p

user259867

05:39

SPAM askubuntu.com/questions/586384/…

Alexis King

@FamousBlueRaincoat That question isn't even plugging anything. It's spam without the spam.

user259867

@AlexisKing now edited in the link

Alexis King

You're right. :p

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, Phone number detected: most-expert〖(卐)〗91 9660627641 love vashikaran specialist baba ji uk by jimolvi40 on webapps.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Duplicate id founds while select query is fire by Chintan on salesforce.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

0

A: Burninate or rename [common]

16 of these questions are about Fortran, and probably Fortran common blocks. I've created the fortran-common-block tag as suggested; after retagging these and others, it consists of 41 questions. Feel free to create a tag wiki if you wish. 14 questions look like they're about apache-comm...

user259867

05:51

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

user259867

The Salesforce answer needs some Markdown fixing, but I'm on mobile...

Alexis King

@FamousBlueRaincoat Suggested an edit. Only have 101 rep, though.

user259867

Same as any of us here, I guess.

AstroCB

Only the first two and a half pages of users on Salesforce have editing privileges.

Andrew T.

05:58

@SmokeDetector ignore ***************************************************Note*****************************************************

SmokeDetector

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

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: How to Get wrinkle free and younger looking skin? by neslb husl on superuser.com

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: AUDIO OUT FOR LG 42LN5400 LED TV by Harish on electronics.stackexchange.com

J. Steen

06:25

I seem to be having an unpopular opinion along with the question-asker here. Thoughts?

0

Q: How to deal appropriately with answers posted for obvious help vampire questions?

Today I came across this question that obviously didn't deserve to get an answer, in preserving from getting future researchers the impression, such questions are well formed, and achieved at SO well. Though there was an answer given by a (very) high rep user, where I thought these should know...

discussion answers low-quality-posts

Alexis King

@J.Steen The community has historically been very divided over those sorts of questions.

Some people adopt a "live and let live" attitude, while others (with some reason) think that giving poor questions answers reduces the overall quality of the site.

Personally, I'm a little ambivalent.

J. Steen

I wouldn't downvote an answer left to a low quality question, I'd focus on the question. But I wouldn't leave an answer, either.

user259867

Some people suffer from chronic answer incontinence, that's just a fact of life. When this is needed to get the question roomba'd, I'll downvote their answers... otherwise I ignore the answers and deal with the question.

J. Steen

Fair point. I'll remember that in the future.

Is it answers with 0 score or less that make it roomba-able?

user259867

@J.Steen Basically yes, but the complete rules are a bit more complicated.

J. Steen

06:40

My word.

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/147733/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Suppliment For Muscle by gizan wioz on meta.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

SmokeDetector

06:56

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: http://www.musclehealthfitness.com/magic-result-about-tst-fuel/ by Rendonpolanco on meta.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

SmokeDetector

07:22

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle & Fitness by Margaret Lopez on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Supplements and Herbs for Muscle Building by Jenny Kelly on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Supplements and Herbs for Muscle Building by Jenny Kelly on meta.stackexchange.com

Sam

Morning.

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Andrew T.

07:27

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. Registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: 8 Things To Build Maximum Muscle Mass by lollitions on meta.stackexchange.com

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

SmokeDetector

07:44

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Hamstrings and gluts and if you're pressing with the mall by Brenda Smith on drupal.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

J. Steen

Morning! Again!

Unihedro

Morning! Again!

J. Steen

Ah, nothing like a two hour bureaucratic meeting with no breaks to start the day.

And thank deity of choice for spell checking in Mac OS X and some browsers.

SmokeDetector

07:49

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Is Exposed Skin Care the Ultimate Acne Cure? by uoranera on meta.stackexchange.com

J. Steen

Have I mentioned recently how much I love continuous deployment and continuous deployment tools?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, Bad keyword in username, Phone number detected: №+919602314644 LOVE VaSHiKaRaN--specialist baba ji by Vashikaran Baba Delhi on webapps.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

user259867

Unusually for Baba, user has a profile pic... from Facebook?

user259867

08:03

fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-1/p200x200/…

user259867

Since the end of January, Baba focused his efforts on Web Applications

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector fp 0.0111111111111112% chance of malice

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered answer as false positive.

Pham

08:54

Spam Q (TPA'd by bummi): Online Girl Boy¶ᏉᏗᏕᏂᎥᏦᏗᏒᏗᏁ¶91+7742228242 Love Problem Solution Molvi Ji Usa Dubai New Zealand, by □ molvibaba580, on webapps.stackexchange.com.

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector gone

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Apache MQ: SEVERE: A child container failed during start, Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/jms/Destination by Dee on stackoverflow.com

bummi

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector gone

@bummi del dupe

Unihedro

09:21

> Today's weather report for shut-ins and geeks: Sun present if you have the curtains open, no chance to rain, temperature at whatever you set your thermostat to.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Change screen pre-dimming animation ( transition ) or it's duration by user94718 on android.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak 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.

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Blacklisted user.

Andrew T.

09:24

that link again...

Jan Dvorak

@Undo please stop Smokey from bitching about TP. It's still useful for other taverners.

SmokeDetector

09:40

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website, Blacklisted user: How to delete Group Contact that is greyed out without an access to menu or drop down box? by user94718 on android.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Adrenalast Use Fitness Equipment To Stay Fit And Fine by elmawadl755 on meta.stackexchange.com

Hobo Sapiens

@SmokeDetector tp

@SmokeDetector tpu

bummi

spam android.stackexchange.com/a/99054/39544 three posts of this user

Pham usually catches those, is he hanging?

Jan Dvorak

09:56

EEK! Where's the list of rooms a user is in?

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 7 mins ago, by Zephyr

Close Vote Request for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28558843/javascript-plugin-for-site by PeeHaa from JavaScript

SmokeDetector

10:12

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Failed to invoke future method by Shilpa Kamble on salesforce.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Boost muscle supplement by sonia alex on meta.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

10:28

lots of zeros

but still fp

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscle Building Is Easy By Using This Advice by marics eppa on meta.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected, All-caps title: LOVE BACK ASTROLOGER +91-9001360023 by astrosirji on webapps.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

ProgramFOX

10:52

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ANSWER THIS QUESTION!!! by satyakaam on math.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

Vandalism?

SmokeDetector

11:23

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: UBUNTU GNOME FILE MANGER “PLACES MISSING” by KryptoMac on askubuntu.com

Martijn Pieters

RO mode on Stack Overflow.

What Happen? Someone Set Us Up the Bomb?

Unihedro

no news from stack status yet?

SPArchaeologist

@Unihedro they were expecting this Klein guy for fixing a problem with UPS, that is the last know info...

J. Steen

It seems to be fluctuating...

Martijn Pieters

We are looking into network issues now, stand by.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 17, 2015 at 11:31 AM

Shadow Wizard

11:32

No flags. No close votes. So... empty!

J. Steen

There are other sites!

Like Yahoo Answers!

Unihedro

Wait, Yahoo Answers is a site?

J. Steen

I don't know, I'm just using words.

Unihedro

My hands are typing words aaaaaaaa

J. Steen

Exactly like that.

Unihedro

11:34

I'm going to watch a video then, someone ping me when it's back.

J. Steen

Brain, not really involved. Like most questions in the php-tag WOOOH

waits for retribution from... somewhere, surely

Frank

SPAM still there gardening.stackexchange.com/a/8233

but read-only

:P

J. Steen

Stop teasing us!

rene

Who pulled the plug?

Shadow Wizard

@Frank Read Only Spam?

Frank

11:45

@ShadowWizard yup

Unihedro

read only do not click

SPArchaeologist

@Frank you know what would be epic? Sites returns online, spam-flag hunters runs to the question... only to find a deleted question page. But in place of the standard picture, there is a sign with the words "we deleted the question during maintenance. No usefull flags for you".

5

Frank

That question ain't goin' nowhere

Unihedro

@SPArchaeologist that's not epic that's irritating

Mooseman

> Oops! Something Bad Happened!

SPArchaeologist

11:50

@Unihedro When you have know Celestia for 4 seasong, irritating and epic starts to coincide.

Oded

@SPArchaeologist I'll see what I can do.

Mooseman

We're in read-only mode now. :/

Oded

We're in full-panic mode now. :/

J. Steen

BORED NOW

Have brown.

SPArchaeologist

@Oded ^_^

Oded

11:51

@J.Steen thank you. I needed some.

J. Steen

Coffee is always a good excuse to take a step back and rethink and review.

My first action after the cancelled RO was to flag that spam on Gardening.

Oded

twitter.com/StackStatus/status/567652684480937984

Unihedro

hehe https breaking onebox again

ProgramFOX

@Unihedro no, oneboxing seems to be totally broken atm

rene

@Unihedro 6-8 devs needed to get that fixed

J. Steen

11:57

It's all good. We had mousebuttons before we had oneboxes.

Mooseman

@Oded SO is still read-only for me. Other sites including LH are back. SF is also read-only. (Is that something to do with CloudFlare?)

Oded

@Mooseman we are still looking at the internal network issues.

J. Steen

Working for me. So you might be on one of the non-working nodes.

Oded

Might just be the server you are hitting.

Martijn Pieters

One-boxing tweets is affected too.

twitter.com/stackstatus/status/567652684480937984

@Oded I am one of those users, I think. Loads of errors for me.

Mooseman

11:58

@MartijnPieters Image uploading in chat is broken.

Martijn Pieters

I do see that people are voting on my posts, just cannot see my profile.

or post, or comment.

Oded

Most probably all related

Unihedro

We have recovered from read-only mode, but are still tracking down an internal network issue causing errors for some users.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 17, 2015 at 11:52 AM

J. Steen

w00h

Unihedro

Oneboxing isn't broken, you all should just stop using https links. :p

Mooseman

11:59

@Oded I'm closer to NY than OR, if that matters.

Martijn Pieters

@Unihedro So it works for you?

:-P

Unihedro

10 secs ago, by Unihedro

Oneboxing isn't broken, you all should just stop using https links. :p

Martijn Pieters

twitter.com/stackstatus/status/567652684480937984

Unihedro

Eh.

Martijn Pieters

Nope, it isn't about https either.

Unihedro

11:59

Never mind.

Mooseman

twitter.com/stackstatus/status/567652684480937984

J. Steen

It's still some nodes, I'm sure.

balpha

@MartijnPieters Nah, oneboxing tweets is just twitter being broken. If it doesn't onebox, just edit and submit again

J. Steen

We have recovered from read-only mode, but are still tracking down an internal network issue causing errors for some users.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 17, 2015 at 11:52 AM

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