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Frank

21:00

@InfiniteRecursion Thank you!

Shog9

Straw poll: When I say "native app", what's the first thing that pops into your head?
- .exe?
- bundle?
- iOS?
- Android?
- other?

Frank

@Shog9 Indians

user259867

I associate "app" abbreviation with mobile devices. My interpretation was Android.

Braiam

@Shog9 runs without the need of internet

rene

anything that doesn't run on a desktop and not on a Nokia 6130

bjb568

21:12

@Shog9 Mac App Store

.exe is only for viruses, right?

nicael

@Shog9 official stack exchange mobile app :D

(dunno why)

bjb568

There are 2.

Both useless.

user259867

Not another 78 MB gif...

bjb568

This one isn't even that big…

Besides, it's Chrome's problem.

nicael

@bjb568 it took quite a while for your cat to become alive... ouch those oversized images... (;D)

bjb568

21:21

:D

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Using freebase for a twenty questions application by GStack on stackoverflow.com

nicael

0

Q: UI suggests that better fit elsewhere is a valid reason for closure

The criteria for migrating a question are: The question is off-topic on the current site. The question is high-quality. The question is on-topic for the target site. Or, as stated in the faq, Don't migrate for the sake of migration. We only migrate questions because they are off-topic ...

Frank

delete pls. @bjb ^^

bjb568

too late

nicael

214

Q: Add optional box for spam flags letting you say why you think it's spam

This came up recently, where a user had taken the time to look at the link on a post and realized that the post wasn't just off-topic, it was actually half-decently-disguised spam. So he flagged it as spam, and an overworked mod declined it, giving the questioner the benefit of the doubt. And we ...

feature-request flags spam

migrated :)

(and was remaining in the CB of SO for some time)

Lynn Crumbling

21:45

@HoboSapiens I think @Bummi and I were the two additonal spam flags that jumped on that Safari-Apple-Rejected-Spam-Flag thing.

> However, the question then gained two more spam flags in quick succession so I took another look and conceded that I'd made a mistake the first time in not just deleting the post.

bummi

@nicael Hi nicael, AFAIK you are collection possible bugs, I upvoted this before on meta.stackexchange.com and was able to upvote again on meta (just tried, took it back) I'm not sure if this should be possible.

@LynnCrumbling hm, what did I / we wrong?

tchrist

Why can’t we have a vandalism flag?

-2

A: Words for before, during and after a theatrical performance?

78oiiiuiuiuiu ed fd g etergrefr erfrfeefrerf erfeferfet 4 54gg gt4tt4t4g

I find vandalism offensive, but I don’t expect that flag to be acceptable here.

bummi

abusive?

Jan Dvorak

abusive

tchrist

It’s hardly hate speech.

Because that presupposes it to be speech.

Not line noise.

bummi

21:52

abusing the system, even with this username, nothing which happens clueless?

tchrist

Well, throw flags on it. We’ll see if we can delete it that way.

Jan Dvorak

Many have been deleted that way already

tchrist

I’ve had my wrist slapped before for not using NAA on those.

Jan Dvorak

When?

tchrist

@JanDvorak New mod. Some time ago now.

Well, that worked.

I feel like we see so many of these that we should be able to teach Smoke Detector.

nicael

21:56

@bummi that's quite a useful feature btw :D and it seems to be by design and already reported (lazy to search now :D)

bummi

If there is a real username and something which could point to a clueless user I go for NAA, especially on sites I'm not too familiar with

hichris123

@bjb568 lol yes, 'cause Firefox, Safari, and Chrome are all viruses.

bummi

@nicael so I can upvote again? I'd like too, I was about to ask for this feature for a long time ....

bjb568

@hichris123 :P

hichris123

@tchrist We usually catch these, hold on...

nicael

21:59

@bummi wait, of course you can :D are you afraid to do it?

bummi

@nicael feels like a kind of fraud (2 votes of me on one post)

nicael

Ah nah, dunt worry :)

(I already upvoted it the second time about half an hour ago)

Lynn Crumbling

@bummi Take a look at this meta.stackoverflow.com/q/288062/656243

I'm out - night all!

bummi

@LynnCrumbling night :) , in this case I was not involved :/

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

I have a slight feeling nobody's going to like what I've written here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288238/…

Jan Dvorak

22:14

I think I can see why

AstroCB

This feature request grew out of a situation where the user hadn't actually done anything seriously wrong. — Pekka 웃 48 secs ago

Sue

Hi all. Here's a silly question-am I in here? I somehow showed up and left my avatar behind!

Now it's here!

Jan Dvorak

define presence

Sue

@JanDvorak I was afraid someone would ask that!

Jan Dvorak

And yet you seemingly didn't prepare an answer

Braiam

22:17

where is the meta post about questions which only one answer is the same as the other, but that doesn't make both duplicate

Frank

lol, what a goofy story

stories.tickld.com/x/…

Sue

@JanDvorak Lol! You're right, I didn't, should've planned ahead. I was going to say "Hello, hello, is this microphone on?" Should've stuck with that!

Jan Dvorak

Microphone? What microphone?

Frank

Hiya @Sue

Hobo Sapiens

flag-pls Offensive comment: english.stackexchange.com/q/234425/102554

Frank

22:21

@JanDvorak audio chat

(jk)

nicael

0

Q: Question views should be migrated along with upvotes

I just saw a question migrated from MSO and it immediately made me think about my confusion long time ago. The reason was, of course, the fact that the number of views doesn't get migrated and always resets to 1 after migration. For example, the question I just mentioned now has 218 upvoted and ...

feature-request migration migrated-questions

Frank

@HoboSapiens gone

Jan Dvorak

@HoboSapiens I can only see one comment, and what's so bad about it?

Hobo Sapiens

@JanDvorak The offensive comment has been removed already

Jan Dvorak

\o/

Sue

22:22

@Frank Where in the world do you find these things?

Frank

@Sue Ha!

Braiam

cool, firefox autocompletes https:domain.tld with the slashes

Frank

2 mins ago, by Frank

@HoboSapiens gone

@HoboSapiens But next time, if you could directly link to the comment, it'd be better.

Jan Dvorak

notes to trust Frank more

Sue

@JanDvorak That's what I thought would happen!

Frank

22:25

@JanDvorak To be Frank, I'm quite honest.

Sue

Hiya back Frank!

Hobo Sapiens

@Frank I have no idea how to link to a comment.

Frank

@HoboSapiens right-click the timestamp

then copy the url

Jan Dvorak

right click, to be exact

rene

or right click if you are blessed with a windows-box

Hobo Sapiens

22:27

@Frank That's a feature I never dreamed existed, let alone find a use for. Thanks

Frank

@JanDvorak right. :P

forgot to specify

Sue

@Frank I think you could have left the other instruction up too, for those of us on tablets with no right-click!

Frank

@Sue Can't you click and hold? Or is that just mine?

Jan Dvorak

"or the equivalent action for your device" is always assumed

Sue

@Frank You're right-I can!

Frank

22:31

I see a jpg I posted in here is on the star wall - forget what I posted 12h ago... scary

Oh, just that

rofl

bjb568

> You've accomplished a great deal already, and I'd like to help you transform those accomplishments into college admissions success.

gr8

nicael

lifehacks.stackexchange.com/a/6231 why spam...

Frank

@Mooseman a toddy is a drink. Not offensive ^^

lq though, but not offensive

Mooseman

Changed to regular delete.

Jan Dvorak

@nicael gone

Frank

22:35

@JanDvorak that... wasn't a regular spam report

:P

nicael

:D

Yeah, not a spam report, @Jan

Frank

@Mooseman I added post notice

Jan Dvorak

...oh.

Sue

@BrianNickel Are you around?

a square?

No biggie-I'll catch up with you later here or in the other room. Can you just leave me a note with the most up-to-date IOS version? I'm running 1.2.2 which is what's in the App Store, but my screen shot looks different-no buttons along the bottom. Is it based on my iPad's iOS version, which is 8.1.1. There's an update to 8.2 but I haven't done it because you never know what will happen!

Jan Dvorak

does iOS have bricking updates?

Sue

22:49

Bricking?

Jan Dvorak

or crippling at least

Brian Nickel

@Sue A hexagon

Sue

Most definitely crippling, and you never know what will break when you update.

Brian Nickel

Which buttons are you referring to?

All 8.2 will get you is some security and bug fixes and an undeletable app called "Watch".

hichris123

Looks like Kasra finally became productive and got work done on the Android app.

Brian Nickel

22:55

Kasra has had a hell of a week. He finally figured out why lower end devices sometimes have blank post bodies and pushed out a fix.

Sue

@BrianNickel Oh hi. The buttons on the bottom of the screen on this. The bottom of my screen is blank.

Doorknob

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Doorknob Blacklisted user.

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector gone

hichris123

@BrianNickel Now the question is why didn't he figure that out last week? ;)

Sue

22:57

Screenshot of mine.

Brian Nickel

Okay, "Switch to meta site", etc are in the beta channel. You can get it by filling out this form: docs.google.com/a/stackoverflow.com/forms/d/…

Sue

Cool-be right back. Since you so kindly offered to discuss the app with me, I've been doing lots of research (@Frank knows I love research!), and want to make sure I'm looking at the right version. There's tons of awesome new stuff since I last used it though!!

Frank

eh?

Oh.

Sue

@Frank Ooops, didn't mean to ping you when you were already here!

Frank

@Sue I

@Sue don't

@Sue care

@Sue really

Sue

23:04

@BrianNickel Cool-I'll be expecting a link...

Frank

@Sue at

@Sue all

@Sue :P

Sue

@Frank I'm

Doorknob

Does @Sue need more pings?

I think @Sue needs more pings

Sue

@Frank glad

Doorknob

Maybe @Sue doesn't need more pings

But I'm guessing that @Sue needs more pings

Sue

23:05

@Frank to

Mooseman

@@Sue

Sue

@Frank hear

Mooseman

Ugh. Mod doesn't extend to MSE chat. :/

Frank

@Mooseman Nor SO chat

Jan Dvorak

> In the world of blind the one-eyed man will find no place to buy a camera.

Sue

23:06

@Frank that!

Doorknob

@Sue you skipped two :P

Frank

lol

@Mooseman It's a different network.

Sue

@Doorknob Yikes, I'm slipping!

bummi

I'm feeling old reading this all :(, Night @all

Sue

@bummi Bet you anything I'm older than you! Nighty-night!

Frank

23:08

@bummi Night already :)

Sue

@Mooseman Thanks!

Frank

@Mooseman ¡sʞuɐɥ┴

Brian Nickel

@Sue Sent

Mooseman

@Frank O.o

Frank

@Mooseman ha

Sue

23:11

@Frank I think you've told me before that you usually don't do much about user names, just what they say. True?

Frank

@Sue I flag for offensive names, if that's what you mean.

Sue

@Frank That's what I meant. Was on Ask Different yesterday. I flagged the post but didn't know if you do anything about the name, which is f***1 or something like that.

Frank

@Sue Yeah, def. offensive

was the post bad?

Sue

@Frank It may have been Android but I can't find him now. I was actually reading the transcript here and saw the post come in so I flagged it, but the username was still there later.

Frank

@Sue oh, so in chat?

AstroCB

23:21

@BrianNickel I've been meaning to ask for this on Meta, but I didn't get to making the demo showing how many steps it takes to get to a child Meta site.

Sue

@Frank Yup.

Brian Nickel

@AstroCB Yeah, it's been long overdue. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/229369/…

Sue

Last evening. I think it was Android. I have an account there so when I saw the request come in I went. Three downvotes came through while I was reading the post, which already had 5 when I got there.

Frank

@Sue oh, so the poster wasn't in chat, but he was reported there... kk

Sue

@Frank Yah-I didn't mean to insinuate it was a post here-it was one that was reported here.

Frank

23:25

So much android spam, if the mods didn't nuke the user yet, prolly not worth digging up unless a lot of people are likely to see it otherwise

Sue

I get it, seems like tons of stuff there is spam, but I met a nice person in the chat room!

She couldn't answer my question, said I should probably post in meta, but maybe one of you knows.

Frank

@Sue Mods can get a list of who posted spam, if they wanna nuke stuff.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Unihedro

^ What I think every interviewer does

Frank

23:30

lel

@Sue But when I see spam, I keep a link to the users profile, and if it isn't deleted shortly after, I flag.

Sue

My question was similar to my iOS issue-I have the right Android system for the newest version, and my phone's set to update, but I'm a version behind and my play store is too. Do I have to do something like I just did with IOS?

Frank

@Sue Hmm, I don't know.

Sue

@Frank That's what I figured-which was why I was surprised to see it later. Maybe just took a while.

Frank

@Sue Feel free to flag spam/offensive users in any case - there's no good reason to ever decline that flag.

Sue

Thanks. I definitely will next time.

I did flag the post but not the user. I should check to see if it was a "helpful" flag.

Yikes-he's still there! I got a helpful flag on the post but they left him alone. His username is F***itunes (he spells it out). How do I help get rid of him?

Unihedro

23:40

Flag again?

Doorknob

@Sue Got a link to the user account?

Frank

@Sue Flag the user.

Sue

yup

Frank

on one of your own posts, if none of his exist

Doorknob

@Sue Pinged the Apple mods in TL.

Undo

23:43

@Frank ... wait, we can?

tell me of this secret tool

Frank

@Undo yup

Doorknob

@Undo score:..-6 locked:yes deleted:yes

Undo

... oh

well that's cheating

Doorknob

:P

Undo

and turns up nothing on SR

so it's not reliable

Doorknob

23:44

Really?

It should.

Undo

Really

Doorknob

... has SR not had any spam?

Undo

score:..-6 deleted:yes turns up some stuff

@Doorknob we just haven't had any get community nuked

Doorknob

Or has all of it just been mod-spam-flag-nuked before reaching 6 mortal spam flags?

Undo

^ that

Doorknob

23:44

ah

Sue

Thank you! Me no like that stuff. this is my flag summary which shows part of the post. Will delete this once you've seen it.

Doorknob

@Sue Can't see that; I'm not a mod on Apple.

Frank

^^

Sue

@Doorknob I embedded the link in the word "this."

Doorknob

Yeah, I'm just a mere mortal on apple.SE. Can't see your flag history.

Undo

23:46

@Sue right, that link won't work for anyone except you and Apple.SE mods

Braiam

@Undo locked:yes deleted:yes is more reliable

Sue

@Undo Even through my link to the page?

Doorknob

@Sue Of course. Otherwise people could just see other users' flag histories by sticking any user ID into the URL.

Braiam

> Don't ever underestimate how stupid humans can be!

Unihedro

Open Source in commitment! Go support it if you want!

Sue

23:49

@Doorknob That's a good point, actually! I wouldn't want to be able to do that. I just tried to delete it and the x is there but it didn't delete.

No biggie since you can't read it. Glad to know some things are actually private :)

Braiam

@Unihedro inb4 "i wantZ open source dat do X"

Doorknob

@Unihedro Hmm... I can't think of many questions about that that would fit within the SE scope.

Braiam

@Doorknob you just need one

Unihedro

@Doorknob Look at the questions asked in the definition phase.

hichris123

@Unihedro Okay, I gotta ask: why did you use your other account for some flagging action, hmm?

Unihedro

23:51

Eh?

Sue

@Doorknob Thanks for doing that. I hope he goes elsewhere!

hichris123

Also, your age is leaking on that account...

@Unihedro Why'd you flag with a sock instead of your own account?

Unihedro

Oh, that was a test to see if we could programmatically flag from a user without borking it. We're not doing that anymore.

Braiam

@hichris123 the only important part is that nobody knows he's a turtle

Unihedro

cc @Sam

hichris123

23:52

:P

@Unihedro huh, okay.

Unihedro

@hichris123 Bah.

Doorknob

@Unihedro api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-question-flag?

Sue

@hichris123 I noticed the age too. And I love turtles. Had one for a pet-he was cool!

Unihedro

@Doorknob "requires access token" We weren't using one :p

hichris123

@Sue Never had a turtle before.

@Unihedro needs to change his avatar to a turtle.

Unihedro

23:54

On it!

Doorknob

We should really have change-your-avatar-to-a-dog-day. :D

Frank

@Doorknob April 1

Braiam

@Doorknob april 1

Doorknob

lol

Frank

lel

Braiam

23:56

lal

Doorknob

Okay, why not. I'm becoming Dogknob next month.

hichris123

Also, @Unihedro: your Careers profile is borked.

Sue

@hichris123 He was cool. We rescued him from a group of hatchlings that had been run over while crossing the street.

Braiam

Uni is being audited D:

Unihedro

Mar 12 at 7:24, by Unihedro

Can someone try out my "careers profile link" button? I think it's broken http://meta.stackexchange.com/users/266094/unihedro?tab=profile

Undo

23:57

much borked

Unihedro

@Braiam Random thorough information audits conducted by moderators of another site in the network for no apparent reason :D

Braiam

his socks are being seized, his profile scrutinized, his links verified

Unihedro

hum hum

Frank

@Undo site.stackexchange.com/admin/users, and look for users with 1 rep, and multiple flags...

hichris123

@Braiam Spring cleanup time!

Unihedro

23:59

@hichris123 Don't kill me sock! :p

To school, bye o/

hichris123

> This user was created to circumvent system or moderator imposed restrictions and continues to contribute poorly

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