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12:00 PM

Even some answers contain typos. Wtf.

ANd now maybe some del-v... I need to attain that vaunted rank of being able to do it myself...

Infinite Recursion

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28714029/…

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28670678/…

12:22 PM

Good to see ya back @inf

Hard at work, already.

Infinite Recursion

@Mooseman :D

Martijn Pieters

Spam: stackoverflow.com/questions/28718881/…

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@MartijnPieters gone

Martijn Pieters

More spam: stackoverflow.com/questions/28718873/…

user259867

12:32 PM

also gone

Martijn Pieters

ta

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Hiya @Inf! :D

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28718757/…

Hmmm, it wasn't my intent to get Bummi fix the post...

12:51 PM

@rene it can nevertheless be closed if necessary

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website, Blacklisted user: Retrieve Number that couldn't be dialed by user95630 on android.stackexchange.com

@bummi Yeah, but maybe I shoud have done that edit instead of leaving a comment and posting the cv-pls here

Tnx for the edit though ;)

@Unihedro Win8 doesn't freeze.

It comes prefrozen.

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@rene never mind, I made an edit today, where I would have like to delete just because we hate fun stackoverflow.com/a/28714879/1699210, but I did

1:01 PM

(I'm joking, I mostly like Win8)

Can we block the phrase "ahh it's ok"?

@bummi That's the best previous revision.

@JanDvorak ahh that's ok.

Spam filter suggestion: multiple users link to the same non-whitelisted website -> alert us

@JanDvorak why is that not Ok?

1:08 PM

@rene too much shst on SE

1:40 PM

Wow. Only 5 votes left today.

googeling to the contained rotten link leads to spam android.stackexchange.com/a/100860/39544

It's not even a proper link. Spam fail.

@J.Steen spam try though

No fail without try.

I flagged it. :)

metoo

1:46 PM

Speaking of flagging - coffee!

user259867

2:00 PM

Morning routine: coffee, donut, spam flags.

mhhmmmm ....

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In the donut vs. doughnut battle, bjb appears to have won.

Is softchamp.com blacklisted?

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@SmokeDetector fp but if anyone wants to fix formatting, the link is stackoverflow.com/questions/28721105/…

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

2:19 PM

@bummi wouldn't surprise me

3 posts by 1 user (2SU/1SEC) yesterday and 1 new today by another user

2:35 PM

fp

@SmokeDetector fp

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

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: How to diagnose repeated OS X hang / spinning ball of death? by Jolly on apple.stackexchange.com

3:02 PM

crap.

I just realized I don't have any more privileges to get :(

Poor, poor you.

@Undo time to switch to yahoo answers?

@rene do.... do they have privileges?

there are enough SE sites :)

I thought they misbehaved and we took all their privileges away

3:06 PM

lol

Adrian Leonhard

@Undo did you see the relevant clip from the new user page post?: youtube.com/watch?v=w9yKJeUesIQ

yeah

I guess now I go for 20k on SO

it's only taken me... uhhh... three years to get to 10k

Adrian Leonhard

or aviation.SE?

@AdrianLeonhard don't know anything about flight :/

@Undo Spread your wings!

Adrian Leonhard

3:09 PM

didnt stop mclane :P

@Undo So? Do you have plans to do something useful with your life instead?

@rene well now that I think about it...

no

There you go! Pleasure to help....

Wut.

JUST as I edit a comment, SO goes down.

MY PRECIOUS COMMENT

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: AVAST VS GOOGLE INCOGNITO by Ralf Hartmann on security.stackexchange.com

3:16 PM

Gordon Ramsay discovers 'fresh frozen' - Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares

Oh. There it is again.

Me cast off.

Feel bettah

Did history test, think I did ok

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^ @bjb568 just now

d'aw.

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3:32 PM

wat WORM TEST please read over and tell me if it will work on Code Review

@FamousBlueRaincoat flagged as "code must be owned or maintained by you"

Oh yay I can DV

3:48 PM

What is Gamma and how does it relate to music? — Shevliaskovic 19 hours ago

wat...wat....wat?!?!

Hi people, are questions about close reasons that are present in many sites considered off-topic in meta?

@nicael Gamma scale?

@CRags not based on that description, no. Why?

I want to post a feature request to reclassify homework as on-topic but against policy

@Bart Yep! But can't it be just gamma...

@nicael Sure. I don't see why not. But perhaps they never heard of gamma scale before and hence don't get why "Gamma" ... ?

3:51 PM

@Bart homework definitely is on-topic but against policy.

@CRags it's isn't. As in, we don't care about homework. We only care about good questions.

@Bart I understand that. But currently questions closed as homework are displayed as off-topic

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@Bart For context: C Rags's remark is more about Biology and other science sites than, say, Stack Overflow

user259867

@CRags Sure, Meta is an appropriate place for a feature request like this: introduce support for site-specific closing reasons that are not off-topic. However, consider that it may be a duplicate.

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Q: Shouldn't "off-topic" be only about... off-topic?

A related question/discussion point to this one posted just now, but with a completely different rationale. Whenever a question is closed because it doesn't contain SSCCE, or specific code, it also gets marked as "off-topic". I would argue that this is confusing, especially to new users, since t...

feature-request status-declined close-reasons off-topic

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4:01 PM

status-declined

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Personally, I don't have a problem with such closing reasons being nested under off-topic. For me it's a part of SE-speak, just as "unanswered questions may have answers".

@FamousBlueRaincoat then the site-specific Meta would be a decent target still

Today my PARCC test consisted of a few articles on the health benefits of coffee.

I think it was meant to make me crave coffee, in which case it worked.

Ok. Then I request there that those both colors were dark green. — nicael 17 secs ago

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^^ just terrible...

want old color!

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4:28 PM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/3956403/… math

voted

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BTW questions with "someone help" in title tend to be... you know. stackoverflow.com/search?q=title%3A%22someone+help%22

4:42 PM

Today's Listening | Synthwave / Instrumental

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: Is Hydrogen have 7 isotopes ? According to this website periodictable.com/Properties/A/KnownIsotopes.html by Apurv Zoad on chemistry.stackexchange.com

4:56 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GALAXY Y- RESTARTING AGAIN AND AGAIN AFTER FACTORY DATA RESET by Hinal Chauhan on android.stackexchange.com

5:06 PM

o/

o/

\o

\o/

> Jan Dvorak has been ignored.

wait, what?

Two can play the game. Or I can just agree with whomever said SE was going down the road of Y/A.

5:59 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Hoffman tree Vs, Binary balanced tree by Peregrine Mendicant on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector tpu

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user.

6:12 PM

@SmokeDetector fp

haha

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

6:23 PM

Can I haz all the rep?

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A: Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.)

The "next badge" info can be useless 0/0 isn't useful. At all.

6:45 PM

I've fed the hot question feed, the PCG and PCG meta homepages and the sandbox into my RSS reader. Now I have nothing to check for obsessively.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: COFFEE LID - FOR JEWS? by Dan Durbinstein on patents.stackexchange.com

unclear, or trolling? patents.stackexchange.com/questions/12282/coffee-lid-for-jews

Looks like trolling to me

that ^^^^

> I claim, the ornamental design for an lid of cup, as shown and described.

user259867

7:05 PM

The inventor is Sung IL Kim, not a typical Jewish name.

@JanDvorak F5 FTW!

wakes up

unless it's a nickname and "sung" is a verb

or more like it, lunch break

@Braiam doesn't help with the hot question page

7:10 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Exponential Distribution by user218698 on stats.stackexchange.com

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28727152/…

lol

0

Q: How to make Stackexchange questions more appealing?

I keep asking questions and I never get answers so: How do I attract more attention to my questions?

user259867

Most disconcerting question of the day (so far):

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Q: I am doing a project on robotic surgeries!Can anyone help me and give me some details related to this topic?

Can anyone hepl me,because i am doing a project ion robotical surgeries and I would like someone to help me and advise me.I wonder if anyone could give me some data ontests he or she has run in a surgical robot...thank you for your attention Anything else will be much appreciated!

sensors robotic-arm automatic

robotic-arm lol

7:19 PM

Not what you think.

cv-pls Rec request, too broad: stackoverflow.com/q/448412/1864610

ok, that's it, we should just shut down the internet

@HoboSapiens done, and night!

night @TGMCians

@Braiam in 5....4....3....

Night!

7:27 PM

I dare not repeat that

@TGMCians G'night! (Just had breakfast!)

@Frank how has there been no voting yet?

ok, it's closed. All is right with the world.

@rene closed

tnx

@FamousBlueRaincoat closed

cv-pls ? stackoverflow.com/q/1383695/656243

^ I picked software.

7:38 PM

Got deputy on Woordpress now.

that was random

@Frank aka.. Spam-killer, Level 1

lol

Congrats!

that's only my 8th one tho

network wide.

Next up is tex

then a whole bunch of others at once

still only 2 Marshal though

Did you already have Marshal on SO?

7:47 PM

@Unihedro I have almost 1500 helpful there

heh :p

I can only get 100/day tho

and usually I don't end up using them all.

7:58 PM

cv-pls tool-rec stackoverflow.com/q/28728381/656243

cv-pls ot-network stackoverflow.com/q/28728433/656243 (ec2 failover)

cv-pls ot stackoverflow.com/q/28692322/656243

I don't think the last one is "general computing"

I would say "why isn't it working"

@gunr2171 Isn't the question asking about how to use a piece of software? (a plugin for Wordpress)

Doesn't seem like there's a programming question there... more like software config?

Yup, you are right.

Then I agree, never mind

Is it a programming tool, though?

Sorry I missed the close event today... we had a chili cookoff.

8:10 PM

did ya win?

That's fine. I would rather go to a chili cookoff

(no offence rene)

@JanDvorak the plugin was for google adwords.

I'd go to a chili eatoff

@Frank but would you drive to York for it?

nope

8:11 PM

@Frank oh well...

did ya want me to?

@Frank No.. sadly.. there was an absolutely awesome turkey sausage (3 different kinds - sweet + hot + regular)-based chili that took first place.. and deserved to.

yum!

@Frank Hey, if you want me to let you know when it is next year, I could ask about getting you in ;)

lol

went from #9 to #5 on GL. data.stackexchange.com/gardening/query/224705/…

8:15 PM

cv-pls ot-lol stackoverflow.com/q/28228424/656243

when you search by 20 answers

^^ poor guy... 4k spent.

:(

Closed

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this is an issue that needs to be discussed with Google. — cpburnz Jan 30 at 16:05

That's a really good close reason (for real)

8:18 PM

@gunr2171 It is...

wow

from hero to zero

@Frank Shanna needs to answer more questions and get that accepted % down a bit :)

cv-pls broad stackoverflow.com/q/28355437/656243

Can anyone else repro this?

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Q: Portuguese tab names on profile page

A few minutes ago, when I viewed profile pages on my phone, the tabs were all in Portuguese: On the mobile interface: On the full site But it didn't happen on my desktop, and now it's back to normal. Other users report that the site is normal, but Seth says it's still happening, so I've ...

bug localization

some flags needed here webapps.stackexchange.com/a/74334/45867

8:33 PM

@bummi gone

@Mooseman :)

Only a ":)"? :(

@ɥʇǝS not for me ...

@Mooseman ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

feel better?

O.o hides in corner from scary face

8:35 PM

@rene hmm, that's odd.

made me happy :-)))

@ɥʇǝS Maybe there is one server screwed-up...

@Mooseman Was it something I said?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@rene That is a good possibility.

@Shog9 could you poke Kasra with a sharp stick for me? Getting notifications of all new meta posts just isn't the novelty it was a couple days ago

@BenCollins Network wide? Now you know a good April fools for someone >:D

8:47 PM

@ɥʇǝS not sure if it is or not; i'd have to check each site for new posts and compare to my inbox

@BenCollins Someone is getting called into HR. No poking with sharp sticks

If it helps make MSE free from spam, I'd say keep it.

@BenCollins I pinged him softly instead.

@JonEricson muchas gracias ;-)

@BenCollins Both Shog and Kasra stepped out for a bit, as it happens.

8:57 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW COULD CHANGE MY PERMALINK FROM BLOG TO CUSTOM STUCTURE by Krishanu on wordpress.stackexchange.com

that whole post needs an edit

Q about how meta works: on meta.SO I reported an issue, got marked as [status-completed], but something regressed. How should I re-raise the issue? Edit the question? (I can't remove the tag), new question?

@gunr2171 Suggested an edit, but now that it's done the post makes less sense than it did before. C'est la vie.

9:22 PM

@BenCollins fixed, sorry

0

A: Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.)

I love this new possibility to view badge progress. Any plans to add to those stats "Tenacious" and "Unsung Hero"?

@LynnCrumbling lol

I like 0ver 50 though

@KasraRahjerdi no worries! I'm grateful for your time

9:40 PM

0

A: Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.)

Per this request the color of accept background is the new light green. But accepts now look very ill: Please leave everything consistent, as in the request I mentioned, but change new light green to old good dark green, which is still used, for example, on SO:

Just FYI, I have a policy of downvoting everything that a non-tavern regular posts in the Tavern.

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why don't i have the Curious badge yet if I have 9 out of 5 posts that qualify?

Is that a bug?

You also need 0 out of 0, IIRC.

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0/0 what?

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Positive question record.

9:51 PM

so how do you get that?

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And I don't have neither first, not second...

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A: Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.)

I didn't earn the Curious badge, because I don't have a positive question record. If I'm not mistaken, this means I will never earn the Curious badge (unless I would delete questions). Yet, it appears as the 'Next badge' in my activity tab. Also, at first, I didn't get why I didn't have the bad...

@SmokeDetector fp, maybe example.com in titles should be ignored?

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

@vcsjones ask a new one

I like how the shrunk and white badge links to the LQRQ to edit posts

10:11 PM

We though y2K was all in the past...

blog.longnow.org/02013/12/31/…

Hmmm - how to get that to one-box?

user259867

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28729140/… pick any reason

user259867

10:41 PM

Feb 3 at 19:57, by bjb568

country list is awful, US should be at the top.

user259867

Turns out, @bjb568 had a point...

user259867

This is what happens when your survey includes an alphabetical country dropdown. http://t.co/IlJgc0QDxt

Tweeted by samthebrand on February 25, 2015 at 10:14 PM

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10:56 PM

Can someone with 2K on SO edit this Q&A into shape? The answer should be cut-pasted to the other box. The thing seems useful: over 3.5K views.

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Q: Don't I Have 101 Rep not 10?

I was trying to try to earn some rep in some of my newer accounts when I see this on protected questions: Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality answers, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site. Would you like to answer one of t...

support reputation protected-questions

sigh... this must be at least the 50th time this has been asked

Guess what's first when you google gardening and landscaping stack exchange?

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'J. Musser', and his contact info :/

one person sees the email, but I only see the ping

hahaha

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@Frank for lifehacks stack exchange I get you and @Mooseman

@FamousBlueRaincoat weird... I barely do anything there

I get, in this order, 'J. Musser, Mooseman, Shokhet'

11:11 PM

Anyone got a post from a deleted user?

@hichris123 from Raincoat's recent message above

thanks!

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Q: Do Lifehacker and Stack Exchange have some sort of partnership? Why is Lifehacker replicating SE questions in full?

I love Lifehacker as much as any other fan but I am a bit confused as to how they are creating posts (which do give credit) that mimic SE questions in full. How Do I Stop My Fire Alarm from Going Off When I Cook? Lifehacker How do I stop my fire alarm from going off when I cook? Seasoned Advice...

discussion stackexchange seo

#LifehackerIsEvil

#Lifehacks.seIsCool

user259867

11:29 PM

> My profile image is now blooming, because it is spring. :)

user259867

I wish... does not even remotely look like anything blooming here. :(

user259867

Also, by what calendar is it spring, @Doorknob?

@FamousBlueRaincoat Uhh... s/(spring)/almost \1/

plz use $1 instead of \1

Whenever you use \1 in the replacement part of a regex replacement instead of $1, a butterfly falls to the ground and dies.

@Unihedro and 2 and 1/2 babies are born

11:39 PM

@Unihedro This is a Vim regex

because... Vim!

Isn't s,pattern,replacement the way of using vi/vim re?

wat

I mean, you could use any delimiter... but / is by far the most common of course

11:53 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Is it possible to connect an Xbox One wireless controller to the Xbox 360 wireless receiver for PC? by BUTT on gaming.stackexchange.com

@SmokeDetector tpu

@Doorknob Blacklisted user.

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