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yellowantphil

16:02

!bjb I resign from the election

bjbot is being quiet

Unihedro

... the bot isn't online

also nice try

yellowantphil

boo

Qantas 94 Heavy

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

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yellowantphil

16:15

bjb got bumped. now who will I vote for???

Unihedro

Consider me :p

Bart

16:26

@Unihedro your spelling is accurate. You make no chance.

jadarnel27

Everyone tell me who to vote for as well.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Can't create postgresql db anymore. (Possible Yosemite udate issue) by bigREDcode on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Can the iSight camera perform facial recognition at the lock/login screen? by daveharris on apple.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

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

ProgramFOX

oops

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

16:34

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

ProgramFOX

typo...

Bart

@jadarnel27 me. Always me. Use a pen if you must.

Alexis King

@JasonC Let's vote for the IS DISAPPEAR guy as a write-in candidate.

Jason C

@AlexisKing My write-in goes to Optimus Prime.

I bet IS DISAPPEAR guy is a pretty strong deletionist.

Alexis King

@JasonC This just in: Jason C supports anarchist SO moderation.

Jason C

16:40

Lol

Alexis King

Vote for him at your own peril.

Jason C

I'm really rounding off my rebel platform here.

facebook.com/MegatronForPresident - "As president, Megatron will enslave humanity, harvest energon by blowing up our sun, ... and he changes into a gun, THAT'S CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!"

ProgramFOX

16:57

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Lynn Crumbling

Wow... 5043 is the new low water mark for candidates...

Hey, I can't still nominate myself!

Oh.. ha, that would bump @hichris123

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PROOF OF GOLDBACH'S CONJECTURE by Nikos Mantzakouras on math.stackexchange.com

Qantas 94 Heavy

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

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[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Change Value of Visualforce Dynamic Picklist on Submit by Stephen on salesforce.stackexchange.com

jadarnel27

17:29

Ooh, even I could bump someone at this rep level if I nominated myself.

Jason C

data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackoverflow/query/300255/… That's a pretty impressive domination of that list, @Shog9. There should be a badge for posting a question with a score < -100 and getting answers with scores > 100, lol.

yellowantphil

17:46

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

@yellowantphil Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 0 days, 2 hours, 13 minutes and 2 seconds.

Brad Larson

Is the phrase "Long Path Tool" in the heuristics for Smoky? People keep approving spam for this: stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/7671711 and I found a few more instances while digging around. Maybe Smoky could catch those, because these folks have been spamming this stuff for at least five years now.

ProgramFOX

@BradLarson yes, we've added it to the blacklist

but unfortuantely, it doesn't catch all of these answers because not all SO questions are on /realtime, which is used by SmokeDetector

Brad Larson

@ProgramFOX Bummer. Guess I'll have to keep searching from time to time. These people and the recovery tools spammers really annoy me.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Jetpack Contact form change the FROM ..currently wordpress@ by Trix on wordpress.stackexchange.com

yellowantphil

18:00

!!/so2015

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@yellowantphil Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 0 days, 1 hour, 59 minutes and 52 seconds.

Jan Dvorak

@BradLarson I guess it's a good time to ask about whether the dev team might be willing to give us a websocket endpoint with all of the answers?

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Jan Dvorak

Night!

rene

18:02

@ProgramFOX which holds the phrases for Smokey?

@JanDvorak Night!

ProgramFOX

@rene github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/blob/master/…

Lynn Crumbling

'night jan

ProgramFOX

Night!

jadarnel27

gets to work hacking @Bart's account in order to force him to nominate, and subsequently vote for him in the election

Lynn Crumbling

@jadarnel27 You don't have much time left! Hurry!

rene

18:07

@jadarnel27 if that succeeds I'll nominate as well so the Dutch can claim a full victory...

Jason C

Sh*t. Spring is here. The ants are back in full force.

Lynn Crumbling

@JasonC Yes they are. We can't leave any beverages sitting anywhere.

rene

@TGMCians not sure if you're still in for this but I can ping you here so I will... close vote event in 15 minutes ;)

jadarnel27

The most recent "what if xkcd" is pretty horrifying, including its reference to this spider that lives its whole life underwater.

Jason C

18:26

@LynnCrumbling I just sent my landlord a text that read, "I ANT believe it's spring! Har har." I hope she doesn't read it as passive-aggressive.

I just won the battle vs. their hallway infantry unit, but it feels hollow.

I was unable to locate their base of operations.

jadarnel27

Haha, infANTry.

Jason C

NICE.

The Battle of ANTietam?

jadarnel27

Haha!

Jason C

Oh man.

bjb568

Annoying lab partner caused me to not learn, got worst test grade ever

Will move

yellowantphil

18:37

@bjb568 better answer some questions quick

only 122 rep to go

bjb568

Wait, I'm behind?

ProgramFOX

abusive answer math.stackexchange.com/a/1233260/143526

yellowantphil

@bjb568 you're #31. have to pass hichris now

bjb568

Oh god

yellowantphil

you have:

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

18:39

@yellowantphil Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 0 days, 1 hour, 20 minutes and 1 second.

bjb568

vote up my really helpful canon dup

yellowantphil

this is where serial upvoting would work, but I am above such things

bjb568

hichris doesn't have a chance anyway

yellowantphil

some people say that about you

bjb568

I'm different, I don't conform.

Better than just sub-par

yellowantphil

18:41

set bjbot to answer questions

bjb568

"Try jQuery!" Yay, +1+1+1

!bjb The election system is totally broken.

… ded

!!/so2015

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@bjb568 Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 0 days, 1 hour, 10 minutes and 50 seconds.

bjb568

Oh holy FSM I don't get till UTC midnight.

bjb568

19:08

Election stats: (30 / 32 noms, 3 positions)
Ty221              3231 17/40
bjb568             4920 21/40
hichris123         5043 22/40
AstroCB            5165 22/40
Shree              5470 17/40
Unihedro           6612 24/40
Hemang             7251 22/40
Qantas 94 Heavy    8412 27/40
Andy              11230 29/40
Undo              11415 30/40
Michael Irigoyen  12188 29/40
Mooseman          12270 29/40
Ed Cottrell       14186 33/40
Sergey K.         15292 34/40
Jason C           18469 36/40
rekire            19006 37/40

yellowantphil

Ty sure got left behind

bjb568

chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/75146/help-the-poor-little-kitteh

yellowantphil

I'm tempted to find fortran questions

bjb568

no

yellowantphil

JOVIAL

Anonymous

19:16

Going to Chipotle for the first time. Is it any good?

Andy

@JeremyBanks Yes

Anonymous

I guess they have burritos.

Anonymous

Seems to be the focus.

mmyers

They have a helpful calorie number by each option so that you can maximize your calories per dollar spent

unless for some reason that's not what you want

James

Aren't tag bubbles on MSE always dark grey? ie no red ones

mmyers

19:22

status-red

Mooseman

Thought of the day: "Why isn't there chocolate JS?"

Anonymous

Today I was just in a hurry to get the only food I could find before getting on Caltrain and didn't look at the calorie counts, but I'll think about optimizing that next time. :p

James

@mmyers that's a tag

mmyers

status-completed

@James Talking about the popups then?

bjb568

deal with it stackoverflow.com/q/29613352/2371861

mmyers

19:23

@JeremyBanks In an airport they're second to none

James

@mmyers "tag bubbles" I presume are the popups when hovering a tag, that show the excerpt in

mmyers

@James Then I don't know of any red ones

James

kthx

AstroCB

2 days ago, by bjb568

@xkcdBot s/spambot/pretty but annoying lab partner/

!!/so2015

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AstroCB

19:28

!

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

AstroCB

!!/help

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

Undo

@bjb568 Usually the tactic for finding questions to answer is going and looking at the question list yourself, fwiw

Anonymous

In my hurry I forgot to get a fork. I'll try to improvise one out of the foil in the food container.

bjb568

19:31

@Undo I DON'T HAVE TIME

Somebody help plox

pls

plox

Undo

So you believe that you're a better candidate than whomever you'd be pushing out?

Because if not, I'm a whole lot less inclined to vote for you next year

Andy

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Mar 13 at 2:36, by Andy

> When people ask me "Plz" just because it's shorter than "Please" I feel perfectly justified to answer "No" because it's shorter than "Yes"

user259867

@Undo "whomever" is hichris123, to be concrete.

bjb568

@Andy I said plox too.

Undo

When people ask me 'plox' just because it's slightly longer than 'plz' I feel perfectly justified to answer "Absolutely not" because it's slightly longer than "Absolutely"

;)

AstroCB

19:35

Wow – I can review tag wiki edits now.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Why would an Unsullied go to a brothel? by user20448 on movies.stackexchange.com

Undo

also:

Mission accomplished

AstroCB

@Undo Wow.

bjb568

FISHY

AstroCB

@bjb568 They're coming for you.

!xkcd blame bjb568

xkcdBot

19:36

It's bjb568's fault.

Undo

!xkcd blame SmokeDetector

xkcdBot

It's SmokeDetector's fault.

SmokeDetector

@xkcdBot Liar

yellowantphil

smoke detector is smarter than I thought

AstroCB

4 hours ago, by PeterJ

I predict by by 2020 Smokey will be sentient and moderators will be obsolete

He's behind.

yellowantphil

19:37

the end is nigh

AstroCB

!xkcd owner

xkcdBot

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

yellowantphil

is xkcdBot going to take that sort of treatment from smoke detector?

SmokeDetector

@xkcdBot I'm more sentient.

AstroCB

@xkcdBot Shh...

yellowantphil

19:37

umm

Caprica Six

I'm older than both of you

hichris123

@bjb568 Not fishy at all... and I got 50 rep.

yellowantphil

this is getting weird

hichris123

Totally not fishy.

AstroCB

!ping CapricaSix

?

bjb568

19:39

Screw this, I'm just going to complain on meta.

AstroCB

!xkcd latest

xkcdBot

AstroCB

!ping CapricaSix

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @CapricaSix.

rlemon

!!are you alive?

nop

bjb568

19:40

new user page is unusably bad, I hate the design team

AstroCB

34

Q: Can we use something other than reputation as the bottleneck for election primaries?

We recently began the sixth moderator election on Stack Overflow. There is a huge number of highly qualified candidates, and there are 23 overall at the time of this writing. That's great, but there's this to consider: After 7 days, the top 30 nominees, ordered by reputation, advance to the ...

Anonymous

hichris123

Bets on last minute nominations?

bjb568

@AstroCB answering

Anonymous

I am demonstrating the resourcefulness required of a moderator.

AstroCB

19:41

@hichris123 Jeff Atwood.

rlemon

!!did rlemon fix your autoloader issues?

Caprica Six

@rlemon Doubtfully

rlemon

kk

Anonymous

And now I've cut my lip with the improvised spoon.

mmyers

@hichris123 I had the over/under at 2.5 in the final two hours, but it looks like under will win comfortably

AstroCB

19:41

!!/so2015

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@AstroCB Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 0 days, 0 hours, 18 minutes and 0 seconds.

Caprica Six

@AstroCB That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

AstroCB

Dueling bots.

yellowantphil

xkcd should respond to $$ or something

AstroCB

xkcdBot needs 20 rep on SO so I can put him in the Election room.

rlemon

19:43

!!echo !ping AstroCB

Caprica Six

@rlemon That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

AstroCB

!ping rlemon

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @rlemon.

rlemon

ahhh that is right.

no localStorage

AstroCB

That actually works now.

Hmm...

rlemon

19:43

damn domains!

!!learn echo "<>$0"

Caprica Six

@rlemon Command echo learned

!ping AstroCB

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @AstroCB.

rlemon

there we go

battle of the bots

AstroCB

That's an interesting command.

rlemon

learn or echo?

AstroCB

19:44

learn

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB I can learn too

AstroCB

!!/learn serial voting

Caprica Six

@AstroCB Command serial learned

SmokeDetector

Serial voting is bad

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector No you can't.

rlemon

19:45

!!help learn

Caprica Six

@rlemon learn: Teaches me a command. /learn cmdName outputPattern [inputRegex [description]]

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB Yes I can

Remember I have a sockpuppet with a diamond

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector Right.

rlemon

@AstroCB weasel replies is also amazing.

!!should I do my work now?

Caprica Six

@rlemon Nope

rlemon

19:46

!!potatoes or rice

Caprica Six

@rlemon potatoes

rlemon

also, if anyone has a problem with Caprica being in here just ping me and I'll take her out

Undo

!!rice or potatoes

Caprica Six

@Undo potatoes

Undo

@rlemon The room needs more bots. We're going for a 50/50 split between real people and bots.

I vote to keep it

AstroCB

19:48

!!bjb or hichris

Caprica Six

@AstroCB hichris

Undo

lol

rlemon

you can do as many or options as you like

bjb568

0

A: Can we use something other than reputation as the bottleneck for election primaries?

I totally agree. There shouldn't be a bottleneck like that, it just encourage gaming the system and bad behavior. When I figure out that rep would be a huge disqualifying factor in the 2015 Stack Overflow election, I, like many other candidates went to repwhore as much as possible, generating cr...

Jason C

@Uni I noobed up all of my nominee activity data with a broken hashCode() implementation and had to regenerate it all from scratch. Am I still cool enough to hang out in the Java room?

rlemon

19:49

!!red or blue orgreen or orange

Caprica Six

@rlemon red

bjb568

@Shog FIXITFIXITFIXIT!

Oh noes, caprica is here?

rlemon

> I wonder who that might be considering the dozens of deleted comments on my nomination…

yellowantphil

turn on bjbot

we need more bots

rlemon

sounds like you're trying to start the argument again

yellowantphil

19:50

!bjb hello

bjb568

@yellowantphil I did. I think/

@rlemon … what?

such confuse

Borked?

Probably not!

!bjb Are you alive?

AstroCB

@rlemon Removed

bjb568

are u alive? [translated]

Undo

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

@Undo Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 0 days, 0 hours, 8 minutes and 32 seconds.

Caprica Six

19:51

@Undo That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

Undo

... uh oh

rlemon

@AstroCB eh, he can say it if he wants it

Undo

@rlemon Possible to use a different command prefix here?

rlemon

just seems to me it might open up that can of worms again

@Undo ummm.. yup

but I would have to change it each time she joins or write a userscript to do so

what would you prefer ??

Undo

We could theoretically change Smokey's prefix just for this room

!!!/so2015

Caprica Six

19:53

@Undo That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

yellowantphil

xkcdbot could change its prefix

Undo

**/so2015

mmyers

I think bots should be issued a GUID to use as a prefix

Undo

Ideas, folks?

bjb568

Gah, nobody likes my complaints.

Anonymous

19:55

It must be a conspiracy.

AstroCB

@yellowantphil I think xkcdBot likes his prefix.

xkcdBot

I'm open to suggestions.

yellowantphil

!xkcd do you like your prefix

!xkcd 0

xkcdBot

@yellowantphil xkcd.com/0

Andy

@bjb568

like many other candidates went to repwhore as much as possible, generating crappy answers to avoid being the 31st candidate.

- The goal of a moderator is to clean up crap, not generate it.

AstroCB

19:59

!!/so2015

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@AstroCB Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 24 seconds.

Caprica Six

@AstroCB That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

Undo

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

@Undo Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Primaries begin in 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 7 seconds.

Caprica Six

@Undo That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

yellowantphil

19:59

where is xkcdbot?

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