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00:00
Is there a way to view the markdown source of a comment?
Well, conveniently, in a pinch from a browser.
user259867
00:22
It can be made convenient with a userscript, but AstroCB is busy writing another one.
user259867
Seriously, API is the only source for that. SEDE has html only.
@hichris123 Oh cool, thank you.
user259867
SE sites should have an API console built in.
user259867
And generally, all navigation should be based on text commands. Down with weird clicky shapes with vague labels.
user259867
00:26
"recommended", sheesh.
@Woodface And then dumb users like me would be stuck for good.
user259867
status-bydesign
5
user259867
:P
hey, be nice :(
:D
user259867
How many LH users got suspended on the first day of moderatorship?
00:32
I must make an SE console.
Maybe during my free time, which I estimate happening, oh... in my next life.
@Woodface I had to suspend someone within my first few days
Haven't suspended anyone since, IIRC
Write a script to suspend a random user once a week.
user259867
There is a suspicious voting pattern: one user cast 1366 votes, while the second-highest number in that category is 482.
Remembering that nothing is truly random. Let the universe be your guide.
@Woodface none
00:36
@JasonC Ugh that reminds me of something but it's in TL. :(
@Woodface uh... can't help that everyone else is lazy...
user259867
@Frank Now you can tell them: vote N times a week or be suspended.
@Woodface Ha, yeah. And let them guess at what N is. >:]
Change to "exactly N" for added fun.
user259867
Like M&Ms in a jar...
user259867
00:54
@SmokeDetector fp edited
@Woodface Registered answer as false positive.
both gone
01:52
Somebody with 2k on math edit out age from math.stackexchange.com/q/1185259/166367 please
I tell ya, I'll be telling my kids how people tossed around agist phrases just like us now are taught about how old people once would say "how to explain to a girl/slave/whatevar"
yay kids and freedom n stuffz
</rant>
user259867
@bjb568 What to replace it with?
nothing
> How to explain to a 14 year old the notion of a geometric series without any calculus (i.e. limits)?
user259867
Educational background of the person matters. Middle-school student?
Also i.e. should be e.g. right?
@Woodface Meh, ok, if you really think it's necessary.
user259867
02:09
> How to explain the formula for the sum of a geometric series without calculus?
user259867
One of the weirder questions on math...
user259867
> in the name of god let A be a matrix with m rows and m+(m choose k) columns
user259867
NO I WILL NOT LET IT
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edit is kitteh approved
Now, that homework…
user259867
The tags [web] and [design] on SO are kind of cluttered.
02:26
51
Q: Burninate the [web] tag

Dukelingweb is way too broad. It could currently include any sort of web programming, which could apply to (as a guess) about half the questions on Stack Overflow. Can we burninate and/or blacklist it? I mean, if [web-development] is gone... There are currently 12,579 questions, maybe some server-sid...

this accepted answer doesn't look suspicious at all
@Andy Wow....
free flags!
@NoviceSEMetaGeek The answer @Andy linked to is a perfect example of something that could be flagged with the "Not an Answer" reason.
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02:40
bingo
me yearling at CR yay
@bjb568 good job!
@Andy That looks like a bad question as well. Goes to close vote, and then...
> put on hold as unclear what you're asking by andrewsi, Juergen, showdev, AstroCB, Andy 10 mins ago
...oh.
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@bjb568 You yearling? Someone can't use participles.
ME YEARLING
02:51
Well, looking me am a civilized person.
Don't do it; you'll ruin his/her remaining childhood. — Quinn Culver yesterday
Hehe
h(is|er)
or just they
or it, since that's the popular options these days
doesn't offend anyone at all
Meanwhile, in me spanishs…
Can you answer this? Userscript or extension to indicate when a Stack Exchange question is scheduled ... http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/17905?atw=1 #chrome
user259867
@AstroCB Neat. Hm, someone retagged from web-browser to chrome... okay, whatever.
03:00
@Mawg because i think ascii is to be depreaciated in favour of utf8 . and YES . ( you say text terminals as a whole are depreaciated ? ( smile ) ) — soubunmei Feb 27 at 8:31
user259867
Why did SE stop creating twitter bots? Just imagine what LH bot would tweet.
@bjb568 And yet he couldn't follow through with a ☺.
user259867
SR is lucky to have one; it was the second-to-last site created with a twitter bot.
@Woodface because they're useless. And most sites hate their bot.
el árbol
yay me learn teh thinz n frank be happy
user259867
03:10
I don't understand.
> Help this community grow (by) clos(ing) the questions posted by this bot
user259867
This was an actual ad on U&L
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BAD TWITTER BOT! BAD! GO STAND IN THE CORNER! — voretaq7 ♦ Jan 6 at 22:21
@Woodface Do you know what it means? I'm staring at it and it's bugging me, I can't comprehend it.
user259867
03:15
@JasonC ? It expresses the opinion that the algorithm used by the Twitter bots to select questions tends to pick sensationalist, shallow, fundamentally off-topic questions.
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: What does the word "pinche" mean? by Eric Lee on spanish.stackexchange.com
user259867
The main twitter.com/stackexchange account works in the same way, though it's run by a person.
@Woodface The twitter bots post questions?
user259867
@JasonC To Twitter, not to SE. From SE to Twitter with love.
03:17
Oh. Oh now it makes sense.
@SmokeDetector this refers to this answer, not the one below of it.
@SmokeDetector fpu
@JasonC Registered answer as false positive and whitelisted user.
user259867
Does Google have a list of services they don’t care about somewhere? You know, just so we don’t waste our time.
user259867
That would be great. I spent some time today on my Google Scholar Library, and wondered if it's on the list.
03:22
Gave up on Photoshop vectors, manually coding the SVG of my blog logo was way easier (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html#PathDataMovetoCommands): http://t.co/G0gpbbzZI4
kitteh approve!
SVGs are simple. Just do it.
Do we really need one-boxing for twitter quotes?
It's exactly the same information as a comment quote, plus a selfie or a picture of somebody's kid, but in like 6 times the area.
Except now you know they actually said that
user259867
Well it it was moving something important off the screen...
03:25
Sure but a link to the tweet gives the same credibility.
user259867
Ok let's try that...
> Does Google have a list of services they don’t care about somewhere? You know, just so we don’t waste our time. — Nick_Craver Mar 13 at 1:36 via Twitter.
Looks fine to me...
If SE can change into that format (quotation), then I wouldn't have any problem with it.
user259867
Advantage to quote: starring shows the actual message instead of its URL.
user259867
03:38
@SmokeDetector fp though a hw dump
@Woodface Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
user259867
I'm 6 flags away from Marshal on Drupal. Moar spam, please.
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A: css div max-width not working

eggomelette.......................................................................................................................

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer, Offensive answer detected: Is there a connection between late post exilic Judaism with Christianity? by user3325915 on christianity.stackexchange.com
Omelette du fromage
03:49
submitting to gfse. Any caption recommendations?
well too late.
> css div max-width not working
Well, yo mama 'snot workin!
I actually considered buying a macbook tonight, but looked at the keyboard and remembered there's no place like [the] home [key].
HA HA GOOD ONE IT'S FUNNY CAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT KEY
04:08
Pos vel accel jerk snap crackle pop yay
Night!
Night
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, Bad keyword in body: Feeling tired and over tired all the time? by sinjaruva on drupal.stackexchange.com
@SmokeDetector tpu
@JasonC Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
@SmokeDetector fpu
04:15
@JasonC Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
@Woodface Honestly, now that I know the SE sysadmins eat their own dogfood with SE chat, I'm boggled that the chat application still sucks as much as it does.
user259867
@AlexisKing dogfood? Unfamiliar with the idiom. Yes, they use this chat system for internal communications. And Google Hangout when need more bandwidth.
Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company uses its own product to validate the quality and capabilities of the product. == §Introduction == Dogfooding can be a way for a company to demonstrate confidence in its own products. The idea is that if the company expects customers to buy its products, it should also be willing to use those products. Hence dogfooding can act as a kind of testimonial advertising. InfoWorld commented that this needs to be transparent and honest: "watered-down examples, such as auto dealers' policy of...
lunch time?
@AlexisKing What, in particular, would you change about it?
@TimPost Honestly, I mostly just don't like the UI. Also I think it could be much better advertised so that people would ask chat instead of spamming the site with terrible questions, but that's a different problem.
04:31
Add SuperCollider to chatroom!
status-declined
Participating in chat needs 20 rep, while new user starts with 1 rep. It's still a problem even though it's advertised.
@AlexisKing If you can narrow particular things that you don't like about the UI (more to the why than the what), we'd definitely love to hear it on meta. We want to do more with chat, it keeps coming up internally, but actually picking a direction and going that way has turned out to be a little harder than we thought.
@TimPost Okay; I actually considered doing that once before but figured SE chat wasn't really a priority so people wouldn't be interested. I might get around to typing something up when I have the time.
Our internal rooms are basically the same system, with the addition of being tied into other internal systems (like our HR system, so we know if someone is on vacation or something if we go to ping them). Chat hasn't seen any significant development in a long time, we use it too, we'd love to see it move again.
user259867
@SmokeDetector fp
@Woodface Registered answer as false positive.
user259867
04:40
thankkkkkkkk you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!‌​!!! ive been loooking alll night for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you !!!!! god bless you and ur family!!!!!!!! have a great 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — NORM Jan 7 '11 at 7:18
user259867
^ A bit too chatty, right?
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: How To Gain Weight To Create Muscle? by beld clsa on superuser.com
user259867
@AlexisKing I wouldn't want to direct questions to chat. Can't close as a duplicate in chat. No filtering. Doesn't scale to the volume of questions on main site. Hardly searchable.
@Woodface I think chat would be better served as a "is this question okay to ask on SO" sort of space. Considering people need 20 rep, anyway, they won't be completely clueless.
When comments on a post are moved to chat, does that chat room stick around forever?
user259867
04:46
Call me skeptical, but I think the users who post terrible questions don't care if it's okay or not. They just want an answer.
How is that skeptical? That's precisely correct and pretty obvious.
And the sad part is 9 times out of 10 they'll get their answer, even if it's just in a comment.
Either that or our favorite "Hey look I can solve a problem too!" style answers.
user259867
> A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users. Rooms not worth retaining which are inactive for 7 days will be deleted. -- chat FAQ
Thanks.
@TimPost Well they're not very well integrated into the sites, although I have no ideas to suggest, myself. All I know is there's currently no real natural, attractive path from a user saying "I have a question" or "I have something to say about this post" to a chat room. The chat system feels tacked on and incidental. Leaving comments is the path of least resistance and at least comments aren't guaranteed to be removed.
If there were some way to make chatting as natural as commenting...
That said I kinda like how quiet it is.
user259867
Also, deleted rooms aren't really
Although I didn't have fajita seasoning and used wine instead of beer, and baby back ribs, still came out ridiculous.
05:00
user image
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Ha, I've definitely had those moments. These actually came out looking almost exactly like the picture.
Well mostly, except I got distracted playing with cats while they were in the broiler.
The ribs not the cats
Although one of my cats is pretty meaty... hmm...
Well that's good, I've got a food plan for when the zombies attack, at least.
Baking cat is easy for a highly trained engineer!
05:12
What's the actual product?
It doesn't look like omelette du fromage
@Woodface gone
@JanDvorak I think it's still called "cat".
I'm going to fall asleep giggling at "eggs are basically cheese that comes from chickens"
"cat" as in the animal, as in methcathinone, or something else entirely?
Oh, sorry, I should have clarified. I meant a spiteful or angry woman.
05:51
If a minor doesn't have any accidentals, then it's parents get a discount on car insurance. — Adam Davis 10 hours ago
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ha!
Bahaha
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: How To Build Your Muscles Fast by Ronnie Bartley on meta.stackexchange.com
@SmokeDetector tpu
@JasonC Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
user259867
06:13
@SmokeDetector fp strings deep in the code, probably nike
@Woodface Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Moisturizer For Aging Skin by houan wioz on drupal.stackexchange.com
@SmokeDetector tpu
@JasonC Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
06:25
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: The internet was also Ellsworth subsides postal by siennajohn on drupal.stackexchange.com
user259867
@SmokeDetector tpu Congratulations you are my 500th spam flag on drupal!
@Woodface Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
Spam keyword: /^(?!(?:.*\w\.(?:\s|$)){2})/
(the entire post is one long "sentence").
user259867
Way too many fps :( I see them daily
/^(?:(?!\w\.\.).){100,}(?:.*\w\.(?:\s|$)){2})/
(... and that sentence has at least 100 characters)
or maybe 1000?
@SmokeDetector fp
06:33
@JanDvorak Registered answer as false positive.
06:48
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Human Muscle Energy - Increases or Decreases by doing work? by Friend Forever on physics.stackexchange.com
@SmokeDetector fuuuu i almost flag it...
@AndrewT. Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SECURITY NOTICE by Marinda on android.stackexchange.com
Should I comment?
@Woodface obsolete
07:05
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Continue that and then you treat you Muscle Building by gollu pawa on drupal.stackexchange.com
@SmokeDetector tpu gone
@Roombatron5000 Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
That site sucks
Sounds like a good way to get rid of them to me
07:11
Better luck next time @nicael :(
0
A: Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.)

nicaelIf I win a badge, the tag badge window shouldn't say "Track the next one" if I don't have all the privileges yet, because in this case privileges are tracked, not tag badges.

@Roombatron5000 mhhmmm .... Username and link target with the same name, but a mod did see it ....
And, while we are there, I am the only owner of design silver tag badge :)
Congrats @nicael!
Anectodal evidence: when my mum was hunting down a rat, she tried poison (left alone), rat traps (shut, eaten out but with no rat trapped) and some other tricks too, then resorted to putting poisoned food as a bait into the traps - which resulted in an empty trap and a poisoned rat somewhere in the house. Somewhere. In the house. Rotting, stinking, dead rat. It took six to eight weeks to find it. Finally it was discovered inside our stove, burnt to a crisp, stuck to the gas pipe and almost impossible to remove. — Jan Dvorak 15 secs ago
07:22
^ I see "6-8 weeks", that evidence can't be serious :P
I don't remember the exact amount of time
07:46
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username: Change add comment box for SharePoint 2013 blog post by Muscle rev Xtreme on sharepoint.stackexchange.com
@SmokeDetector tpu nonsense spam
@AndrewT. Blacklisted user.
08:45
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: http://rxtestosteronesite.com/nutra-tosterone/ by thehiwik on askubuntu.com
This chat user just created 10 rooms and invited every single person they could find to each of them to help them with a problem, evidently. Is that even allowed? Most of them are unnecessary.
09:18
@Unihedro Likely not, I'd flag for a moderator if I were you.
@Unihedro Also flagged them for moderator attention, as far as I know only moderators can delete those rooms.
Please could an SO moderator action my flag for my Rust answer? stackoverflow.com/users/flag-summary/2422013
09:39
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: this C++ code always gives same output by farheen on stackoverflow.com
09:54
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, Bad keyword in body, Bad keyword in title: XTreme Antler | Muscle Building Supplement by david rice on meta.stackexchange.com
@SmokeDetector tpu
@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
@SmokeDetector tpu
@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: wifi connected but no internet for web apps by Joseph Makolojane on android.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Duplicate Push Notification using Azure Push Notification by Jigar Joshi on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CONFUSION ABOUT USAGE OF WORDS by Vibhu on ell.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MAKE ANDROID APPS by Vibhu on android.stackexchange.com
10:59
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: why do i get this mysql error messages by Acquah Ebo Kwabena Stephen on stackoverflow.com
11:10
My word, that was some tasty lamb and pork.
Decisively. Easy to spot. =)
@J.Steen sorry for bothering :(
@bummi I wasn't criticising. ;)
11:21
@SmokeDetector tpu
@bummi Blacklisted user.
what's that??? webapps.stackexchange.com/q/74931/45867 question and answer
...uh.
It's like two translate-bots chatting.
It's spam seed and spam.
second post of this troll superuser.com/a/889134/172747
@SmokeDetector tpu
11:27
@bummi Blacklisted user.
Yup. Flagged.
But noone else is awake.
Just made my first account destroy on Lifehacks :D
Congrats!
May there be many more. It probably needs it. >.>
Now go flag those posts. =3
^^^^^^
Got four lined up, just for you.
And everyone else.
SU-troll nuked.
So, two posts.
But I can't repeat the url with a proper prefix, cause someone will complain. >.>
cv-pls refusing to share code stackoverflow.com/questions/29031071/…
Cheers.
Four comments asking for code. Think he gets it?
11:39
check edit please! — user3430861 7 mins ago
...but there is no edit.
@Mooseman there is no spoon
There was. Within 5 minutes.
*facepalm*
Where he added "I cannot show code as bla bla bla irrelevant reasons"
Does someone want to drop a NAA on this? My flag got dismissed when they did a delete / undelete: stackoverflow.com/a/29025771/1599751
11:44
Dropped.
@PeterJ Still under a flag ban :/
@Mooseman Hahahaha! =D
Oups.
I've been reviewbanned due to crap audits, at some point in the past. I feel your pain.
@Mooseman Mod with flag ban ... curious
11:46
Thanks, it's annoying how that works and you can't raise the flag again.
@PeterJ I guess you could have other-flagged, but disturbing a mod for that... well. =)
@bummi Disputed NAA's on link-only answers.
@SmokeDetector tpu
@Mooseman Blacklisted user.
I can't even flag that as spam now.
11:47
@Mooseman that's bad :/
@bummi Yes. Yes it is.
@PeterJ done
@J.Steen there are two posts of him
400 vlq-posts in the review queue...
People keep flagging five year old posts.
11:59
The user Gone is gone.
Flag-banned by inattentive reviewers and review-banned by bad audits. That's how you know when Stack Overflow is FUBAR.
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@SmokeDetector tpu
@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
@SmokeDetector tpu
12:03
@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
If there were cv audits I probably wouldn't be able to cv either. :/
Answered by a 23ker. anyone wants to comment?
@Mooseman There are
@JanDvorak Only via the queues though. And they don't block cv'ing, right?
@JanDvorak It is an answer, even if it's extremely broad and sweeping. More a symptom of the question.
12:14
Not every question deserves to be answered
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Definitely not.
@JanDvorak Tell that to the rep farmers.
12:17
@SmokeDetector tpu
@Mooseman Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
um... SO just went down Temporary hiccup. nvm.
I don't know if having 6 yearling badges and less than 10k rep is a good thing.
@J.Steen veteran (sure there would be several marshal badges if it would be awarded more than once )
12:21
There should be a badge for getting 5k helpful flags within a year. xD
@Unihedro Yes. We saw. :p
@Unihedro Flag less, rep farm more!
@J.Steen ... why?
It's a lovely haiku, but not a question: stackoverflow.com/questions/29032152/…
@Unihedro I wasn't serious.
same game here seed/spam
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/74935/45867
as here:
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/74931/45867
13:23
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET?
(just a test, u can ignore)
DIALOGCEPTION!
2
What the... NOOO
13:44
Sometimes you find things you can not flags because there is no evidence of spam or abuse, just a strong feeling something fish is going on there. Was there ever a thought about something like a pool for fishy flags a thing (as swarm intelligence) Invisible to the users but would be visible to moderators, without declines or usefull just a indicator for the mods and the team.
Which is essentially what mod flags are for.
My connection is being weird, what does DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NO_INTERNET mean anyway?
@Unihedro I have list of users where I have to check ever and ever again if I find a real evidence, if I would flag at once it would get declined often, sometimes I get them, 50% of them are deleted on a later check ... it's just difficult to handle this way
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Why didn't the Eight Tails' horns grow back? by Narutofan. on anime.stackexchange.com
How's that offensive? It's kind of LQ though.
Other question by the same user: anime.stackexchange.com/questions/20020/…
@Unihedro probably the F-word in second last sentence.
13:50
@PeterJ Thanks, it was very easy to miss.

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