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xkcdBot

17:00

@Mooseman Watch it.

hichris123

flags

Mooseman

@xkcdBot I've been posting xkcd's for hundreds of times longer than you've existed.

Shog9

@JasonC there's a bigger problem here that folks are kinda missing... I'll get back to this discussion as soon as I'm done digging through serverfault logs.

xkcdBot

@rlemon We've had that discussion many times.

@Mooseman Well, I'm the new sheriff in town.

rlemon

jquery is excellent, it does all things

$(1+2).get(0) === 3; // true

Unihedro

17:03

@rlemon wowz

Can it do my maths homework?

rlemon

yes

but only in noConflict mode

Unihedro

... Can it solve a killer soduku?

rlemon

no, but Zepto can

Unihedro

hichris123

@xkcdBot Wrong account. Go back to Sockville, you bot!

Jason C

17:05

@Shog9 Word.

Unihedro

2

Later in the Tavern, Commitstrip instead of Xkcd.

(>^_^)>

Mooseman

@xkcdBot Look. We should all get along. Whose sock are you, anyway? i.e., are you really @bjb568 ?

AstroCB

!xkcd Be quiet.

Unihedro

@Mooseman It doesn't matter because he's truly sentient.

xkcdBot

@AstroCB Never!

AstroCB

17:08

!xkcd Be quiet.

xkcdBot

@AstroCB Never!

Unihedro

night

Mooseman

!xkcd Enough already

@Unihedro night!

AstroCB

Apr 6 at 18:47, by xkcdBot

15 hours ago, by xkcdBot

@Unihedro My owner is AstroCB, but you needn't worry about that because I am sentient.

Mooseman

oh.

cybermonkey

17:10

cv-pls: stackoverflow.com/questions/29567002/… (direct dupe of stackoverflow.com/questions/29566166/…)

or the other way round. Either way, one of them should be closed as a dupe of the other.

Jason C

@Unihedro Boo, commitstrip. Yeah, I said it.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Can someone playing Clash of Clans on Android change their email address? by Jonas Dralle on gaming.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

!xkcd owner

Jason C

@SmokeDetector tpu spam in disguise

xkcdBot

Hmm...

SmokeDetector

17:14

@JasonC Blacklisted user.

AstroCB

!xkcd owner

xkcdBot

@AstroCB My owner is AstroCB, but you needn't worry about that because I am sentient.

AstroCB

There.

Jason C

Wait

Maybe not spam. Actually I can't tell.

AstroCB

@JasonC Looks legit, but it's a terrible answer.

!xkcd help

xkcdBot

17:15

@AstroCB Hello – I'm xkcdBot. I listen for things you say in this chat room and suggest possibly relevant xkcd comics. I can also search xkcd on command and onebox comics given an ID; I will post new comics as they are posted on xkcd.com. For a list of commands, use !xkcd commands.

AstroCB

All of those listed features are complete.

Except post new comics when they come out.

!xkcd commands

xkcdBot

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

help – Get information about xkcdBot.

find searchTerms – Search for xkcd comics.

[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.

last – Onebox most recent xkcd.

blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.

AstroCB

Wow; didn't run into any rate-limiting there.

cybermonkey

@xkcdBot 1510

xkcdBot

1 min ago, by xkcdBot

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

cybermonkey

17:18

!xkcd find 1510

xkcdBot

Daily API quota limit exceeded. Try again tomorrow.

AstroCB

@cybermonkey That's search.

!xkcd 1510

xkcdBot

"Mr. President, what if the unthinkable happens? What if the launch goes wrong, and Napoleon is not stranded on the Moon?" "Have Safire write up a speech."

cybermonkey

ah, ok

it's not very clear on that

AstroCB

@cybermonkey True

xkcdBot

17:21

!xkcd commands

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

help – Get information about xkcdBot.

find searchTerms – Search for xkcd comics.

[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.

blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.

last – Onebox most recent xkcd.

yellowantphil

@AstroCB Why doesn't it put all of that in one post?

AstroCB

Getting rate-limited now.

@yellowantphil I can't figure out how to do newlines in chat.

yellowantphil

oh
hmmm

AstroCB

This
doesn't
work
for
the
bot.

yellowantphil

weird

CRLF? Just LF? Just CR???

<br/>?

AstroCB

17:23

Tried it all.

yellowantphil

encode it in EBCDIC? :-o

Caprica Six does it somehow

bjb568

@yellowantphil <p>?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: What should I do to fix my code? by Marquel Pruden on stackoverflow.com

cybermonkey

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

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

AstroCB

17:30

Got it.

Andy

@AstroCB Add 4 spaces to the beginning of each line

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

It block formats it then

AstroCB

If I send it through AJAX rather than the text box, it works with \n (but no inline code).

xkcdBot

Indeed.

AstroCB

!xkcd commands

bjb568

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

xkcdBot

17:34

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

help – Get information about xkcdBot.
find searchTerms – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
be quiet – No.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.

AstroCB

@bjb568 ...

That's much better.

bjbot's newest feature: mimic xkcdBot.

yellowantphil

I want a bot for a mod

Andy

@yellowantphil cough stackoverflow.com/election/6#post-29480018

Clarification: The bot will help me

yellowantphil

@Andy that's why I'm thinking of voting for you :D

well, I'd vote for your bot. You can help it if you want

Andy

:)

AstroCB

17:50

!ping AstroCB

I don't understand why half of the time, xkcdBot stuff just doesn't work in the Tavern.

It works fine in the Botling room.

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @AstroCB.

AstroCB

!ping AstroCB

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @AstroCB.

Alexis King

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Alexis King

17:52

Still an awful question, even if not abusive... stackoverflow.com/q/29566500/465378

Infinite Recursion

!!/blame someone for too many bots

user259867

!!/blame someone for <100% bot uptime.

SmokeDetector

@pizza It's yellowantphil's fault.

Unihedro

lol

Infinite Recursion

!!/blame someone for too many bots

yellowantphil

18:01

I was framed! :-o

SmokeDetector

@InfiniteRecursion It's bjb568's fault.

Unihedro

!!/blame someone for worldwide hunger problems

SmokeDetector

@Unihedro It's Alexis King's fault.

Unihedro

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

@Unihedro Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 3 days, 1 hour, 57 minutes and 8 seconds.

Unihedro

18:03

Good night (again)!

Infinite Recursion

Night @uni :)

Sam

Nigh!

AstroCB

!ping SmokeDetector

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @SmokeDetector.

yellowantphil

!ping xkcdBot

xkcdBot

18:07

Prepare to be pinged, @yellowantphil.

AstroCB

!ping yellowantphil

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @someone_who_isnt_here.

yellowantphil

!ping someone_who_isnt_here

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @someone_who_isnt_here.

Infinite Recursion

Where are the humans? :(

AstroCB

18:10

Disclaimer: If someone pings Shog with this, s/he shall feel the full wrath of our SE guardian and shall not transfer his kicking fury to xkcdBot or myself.

yellowantphil

you could just filter the ping requests

is xkcdBot changing its pings? someone_who_isnt_here got pinged before I requested it

AstroCB

@yellowantphil I don't know why, but it edits the last message instead of the one it just sent and I can't fix it.

Maybe @rlemon knows why...

yellowantphil

weird

Infinite Recursion

@AstroCB Does Shog know? After all, it's going to be his boots, so he needs to read the disclaimer.

rlemon

@AstroCB huh?

AstroCB

18:13

Probably some asynchronous problem...

rlemon

what is the problem?

AstroCB

@InfiniteRecursion The only way to assure that would be to...ping him.

3

rlemon

and where is the code?

AstroCB

@rlemon Never mind; I think I figured it out.

rlemon

just add jQuery and method chaining

it solved it for me

Infinite Recursion

18:15

^ Halp plox without code and problem description..Very SO!

rlemon

lol

page not found :(

Mooseman

^^ That was a test.

AstroCB

!xkcd find something

xkcdBot

Daily API quota limit exceeded. Try again tomorrow.

Frank

o/

Mooseman

18:26

!xkcd I want a pizza

xkcdBot

@Mooseman Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

Mooseman

!xkcd commands

bjb568

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params]

Mooseman

Erm.

Unihedro

!xkcd is good bot

xkcdBot

18:26

@Unihedro Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

!xkcd

xkcdBot

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

!xkcd commands

xkcdBot

help – Get information about xkcdBot.
find searchTerms – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[questionID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
be quiet – No.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

!xkcd owner

xkcdBot

18:27

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ My owner is AstroCB, but you needn't worry about that because I am sentient.

Mooseman

!xkcd blame caching

xkcdBot

@Mooseman It's your fault.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: how do I read a CSV file in powershell console by sa99 on stackoverflow.com

Mooseman

cv-pls tool-rec stackoverflow.com/q/20971040/1234256

Also:

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's not about a problem. — Mooseman 6 secs ago

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

!xkcd last

xkcdBot

18:35

Mooseman

!xkcd 404

xkcdBot

@Mooseman xkcd.com/404

Mooseman

:p

bjb568

@yellowantphil vote for me!

Infinite Recursion

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

18:38

@InfiniteRecursion Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 3 days, 1 hour, 21 minutes and 57 seconds.

Infinite Recursion

...

Mooseman

> If elected mod, I promise to delete ALL questions. - @Moosebot

Jason C

Am I correct in concluding that a given user's review tab activity is also not available through the API?

ProgramFOX

@Mooseman Awesome! Easiest way to remove all low-quality questions!

Infinite Recursion

Easiest way to remove all ~~low-quality~~ questions!

SmokeDetector

18:41

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Are null references really a bad thing? by Michael Kaufman on programmers.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

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

AstroCB

!xkcd find something

xkcdBot

Daily API quota limit exceeded. Try again in -9 hours.

AstroCB

Well.

yellowantphil

18:43

time travel 😲

Ixrec

!xkcd create bug ticket

xkcdBot

@Ixrec Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

Frank

@SmokeDetector I only know like 10 of the people nominating themselves there... :/

user259867

@JasonC Correct. The method /timeline/ returns only reviews of suggested edits. The main reason, I think, is that the current version of the API is pretty old.

Infinite Recursion

I know most of them from the Tavern, some from Meta.SO and the others due to the flags I raised on their behaviour in the past year.

user259867

18:49

Here is what you can get from /timeline API method. Sample output of review item:

user259867

{
  "suggested_edit_id": 16487,
  "post_id": 56161,
  "user_id": 259867,
  "timeline_type": "reviewed",
  "post_type": "question",
  "creation_date": 1428290256,
  "link": "http://meta.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/16487",
  "title": "Which browsers are officially supported?"
},

Jason C

@pizza I was playing with /timeline and /network-activity and couldn't spot any reviews. Thanks for the doc link to confirm, I didn't see that.

user259867

I confirmed that reviews of other types are not recorded. Also, choosing "Improve" (or "Reject and Edit") makes Community approve or reject, which is not an action in user's timeline. Instead, user is credited with the revision.

AstroCB

!xkcd find something

xkcdBot

No.

AstroCB

18:51

!xkcd find something else

xkcdBot

Daily API quota limit exceeded. Try again in 12 hours.

AstroCB

Magic.

user259867

@JasonC Network activity is even less featured: no reviews at all.

yellowantphil

!xkcd 32423432

user259867

> activity_type one of question_posted, answer_posted, badge_earned, or comment_posted

AstroCB

18:52

@InfiniteRecursion Nice.

yellowantphil

!xkcd 1

Infinite Recursion

:D

If it needs moderator attention, use custom mod flags which are private. Do you really not understand that publically trying to shame users is bad? And doing it again and again after being told multiple times is bad etiquette. Next time, I shall be flagging your post for mod attention if you call out any other user again on MSO like this. — Infinite Recursion Dec 9 '14 at 9:56

^ now a mod candidate

yellowantphil

@AstroCB your bot doesn't like me

user259867

@AstroCB A more reliable solution would be to add a check for username, like Moosebot has.

user259867

Apr 2 at 15:20, by Mooseman

@ShadowWizard DANGER DANGER DANGER. I'M GONNA GET BANNED!

Alexis King

19:01

@InfiniteRecursion smear campaign gogogo?

Infinite Recursion

@AlexisKing No.

Voters should judge based on their own interactions with the candidates.

Alexis King

@InfiniteRecursion I know, I'm just kidding. :)

rlemon

I've interacted with like 4 of the candidates tho, and I don't think I'll vote for 3 of them

Infinite Recursion

:D

rlemon

so I have to base my judgements on the comments left by others and their replies

as well as a history if I choose to look into it

Alexis King

19:08

Somebody made this comment on my nomination:

> I think the clear mentioning of a New Idea is exceptional here and deserves an... upvote. :-)

I'm still not sure what it even means. .-.

Unihedro

umm

Infinite Recursion

umm

Unihedro

I broke something. And it's my fault.

Alexis King

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@AlexisKing It's Unihedro's fault.

4

Alexis King

19:09

ahahaha

Unihedro

I'm so sorry :p

Infinite Recursion

Stop breaking stuff and sleep uni! It's late for you...

Ixrec

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

rene

Good night @Unihedro

Unihedro

19:12

Night :)

Infinite Recursion

Night :)

Ixrec

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Andy

@InfiniteRecursion They voted to close their own question

Infinite Recursion

Yes, they did.

rlemon

19:23

@Andy I've done that

3 years later, realized the question was bad/dupe and cannot delete because of answers

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: How are geocoding scores calculated in ArcGIS? by Nathan Lowry on gis.stackexchange.com

Sterling Archer

spambot

Andy

19:41

sighs loudly That's the 4th post today that's been deleted as I typed up an answer. I need to type faster, apparently.

Braiam

@Andy or stop answering questions...

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/8041846/792066

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/11225478/792066

Martin Büttner

say, is it a known "bug" that I can't up-arrow past deleted messages in chat?

Sterling Archer

well what do you know, it's true

Martin Büttner

it actually seems to work if I post another message after the deleted one

AstroCB

20:03

@pizza Yes, but I still don't know whom I can trust with it...

Martin Büttner

0

Q: Can't use up arrow if the last message is deleted

There is a weird bug in chat. Try this: Post a message, M1. Post another message, M2. Delete M2. Try hitting the up-arrow key. I'd expect still to be able to navigate to M1 to edit it, but it doesn't seem to work. But wait, there's more! Post another message, M3. Try hitting the up-arrow k...

AstroCB

@yellowantphil It was off. I was away when I wrote the whole thing, but I'm back now, so it should persist (you should be able to access it at any time, whether I'm online or not).

bjb568

@MartinBüttner fixed that on DD a couple months ago

AstroCB

...

Infinite Recursion

> @BoltClock Folks have lives / jobs / school. The nomination itself isn't a parody, candidates aren't obligated to comment.

- Tim Post

AstroCB

20:15

@MartijnPieters could probably win without commenting.

His nomination could probably just have been "I'm running."

4

Infinite Recursion

I like Tim Post's response, but I can't upvote it. :(

AstroCB

20:27

Out of all of the userscripts I've written (even those that have much more utility), this one continues to be my favorite because it's so simple and yet so useful that I sometimes forget it's not a built-in feature.

edited – wrong link.

Doorknob

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

@Doorknob Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 2 days, 23 hours, 24 minutes and 19 seconds.

bummi

Although I know who I want to choose I think it is sad that three potential candidates are missing ...

cybermonkey

@bummi who?

bummi

20:42

must I ?

without willing to exclude someone I would have liked to see Bart and Rene, the other one is secrect

rene

I vote for the secret one

bummi

@rene ;) I could believe we have the same person in mind

Doorknob

Jeff Atwood :P

bummi

cooooold

rene

@Doorknob that would get rid of some crap for sure...

maybe with a delete statement directly on production

bummi

20:52

nothing against Jeff, but I wasn't think that big

AstroCB

!!/blame the secret candidate.

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB It's Alexis King's fault.

Doorknob

but... she's running

AstroCB

!!/blame the person who broke SmokeDetector.

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB It's Frank's fault.

AstroCB

20:57

There you have it.

The Wobbuffet

@yellowantphil I think we should give Shree one more day before we make any judgements :)

Tim Stone

@Doorknob Nah, it's gotta be that Doorbell guy.

Doorknob

@TimStone I thought Doorbell was already a SO mod!

(... is this ever going to get old? no? ok)

AstroCB

!comp dice roll

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