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3:02 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: How to project point cloud onto the ground plane and transfer it into an 2D image (OpenCV Mat) in Point Cloud Library? by gouchaoer on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector why

@SmokeDetector who!

Not sure

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: Understanding Three-Dimensional Arrays by user4824897 on stackoverflow.com

Undo

@SmokeDetector tpu, inappropriate

SmokeDetector

3:09 PM

@Undo Blacklisted user.

Undo

Yay for Martijn.

ASCIIThenANSI

How do you cancel a flag?

Undo

@ASCIIThenANSI You can't

What kind of flag is it?

ASCIIThenANSI

@Undo I flagged that 'YOLO' spam answer and it must've been deleted.

Undo

ah, yeah.

3

cky

3:15 PM

@ASCIIThenANSI I could decline it for you. Back in the olden days that would have murdered your flag weight, but now we don't seem to use that any more.

Undo

Them new mods are on the ball

Patrick Hofman

@Undo Yes!!!

ASCIIThenANSI

@cky Thanks!

Patrick Hofman

1-0 for the Tavern :)

cky

@Undo I know! I'm very happy for the new mods on Code Golf too, very on the ball. :-)

Undo

3:16 PM

Aaarg, new CG mods?

ASCIIThenANSI

@Undo There are multiple new PPCG mods?

Undo

I see no new PPCG mods

cky

@Undo I'm referring to Doorknob and Martin.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Get a definite weight loss cleaning formula by jannebetty on math.stackexchange.com

Undo

@cky Oh, okay

@SmokeDetector tpu SPAM

SmokeDetector

3:18 PM

@Undo Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

cky

Well, Doorknob's been a mod for about 6 months now so he's not "new" per se, but much newer than the original batch of mods who've been there for 4 years.

Andy

Newegg is teasing me. I ordered parts for my new machine. 5 shipments from four different locations - TN, IN, NJ, CA. The shipment from CA doesn't get here until Monday. Everything else arrives today or tomorrow. The shipment from CA contains the hard drives. shakes fist in Newegg's direction

Undo

0

Q: Rails model custom validation

I have an attribute (:book) in my database that I'd like to restrict to three different values >>> :classic, :modern, :historic I want to create a custom validation, so that when it is created or updated, a user can't type in googly-moogly book: classic modern historic

ruby-on-rails

> I want to create a custom validation, so that when it is created or updated, a user can't type in googly-moogly

cky

@Andy Hard drives? What's that?

Undo

Smokey needs a Googly-Moogly filter :P

cky

3:20 PM

(Floppy drives? What's that?)

Andy

@cky Ok. You caught me. 1 hard drive (yay storage!) and 2 SSDs

cky

@Andy Much better. :-)

Speaking of "hard drives? what's that?", the default volume label for the Mac system drive is "Macintosh HD". I felt compelled to rename it "Macintosh SSD" (and I have done so for the Macs I have).

ASCIIThenANSI

@cky Wait, they have to be hard? Mine is just a gelatinous information blob.

cky

@ASCIIThenANSI I believe that's called a cloud. :-P

ASCIIThenANSI

@cky No, my friend has a cloud, but he says it's really hard to keep in his computer. Seriously, I almost confused my blob for an uncooked egg this morning.

Ian Kemp

3:27 PM

@Andy i generally find that assembling a new pc and getting all the cabling nice and neat takes about a day

Undo

@cky OS X doesn't care, from what I can tell

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: python selenium- how can i make 100 account by user3671239 on sqa.stackexchange.com

Ian Kemp

@Andy i dunno if you're as finicky about that as i am, but it would definitely not be a waste of time to get everything wired up so all you have to do is slot in the drives when they arrive

cky

@Undo Of course it doesn't care, I just think it's a more correct name. ;-)

@IanKemp (Sorry for editing your message; orphaned replies are kind of a personal peeve. ;-))

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: App for Office for Desktop and 3rd party authentication by wolfgang lindner on stackoverflow.com

Ian Kemp

3:30 PM

@cky no probs, i'm still learning the SE browser chat client thing

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: How to make two threads communicate through handler In android by 斑斓焰火 on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Python selenium - how can I loop a function to make 100 email accounts by user3671239 on sqa.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

@Undo Why is this so satisfying?

It just feels... right. :p

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@user147263 Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

user259867

@SmokeDetector edited

ASCIIThenANSI

3:42 PM

I'm the 20000th starred message! Have a smiley! C:

Unihedron

consider yourself a hero.

ASCIIThenANSI

(You have to star it first)

Unihedron

nope

ASCIIThenANSI

@Unihedron NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Unihedron

your message would be the 42216th star, not 20k's.

ProgramFOX

3:47 PM

@Unihedron That counts the total amount of stars, not starred messages.

ASCIIThenANSI

No, the 20000th starred message (total messages starred, look on the starboard and see 'show all 19999')

Unihedron

K

2

ASCIIThenANSI

The waiting! It burns! D:>

Unihedron

4 mins ago, by Unihedron

consider yourself a hero.

MUAHAHAHA

20k'th starred message

is MINE

Alexis King

@Unihedron I'm making this the 20,000th starred message just to screw with @ASCIIThenANSI.

Unihedron

3:51 PM

@AlexisKing <3 u

Bam

ProgramFOX

Who cares about the 20000th starred message, it's 12768 more to a round number anyway.

Unihedron

@ProgramFOX ASCII does :D

ProgramFOX

:p

offensive answer stackoverflow.com/a/29828533/2619912

Alexis King

@ProgramFOX It's called "inappropriate" now.

ProgramFOX

I know... but everyone knows what I mean, and "offensive" is easier to type anyway :p

Undo

3:55 PM

^ that

ProgramFOX

gone

Undo

user gone too

Jason C

@ProgramFOX I prefer base 11. Only 1296 more stars until we get to the nice round number 15000.

Unihedron

@JasonC 15000 is not a round number. :p

Alexis King

@ProgramFOX I was being sarcastic, but hooray for lack of tone on the internet. >.>

Jason C

3:56 PM

@Unihedron Define round number.

Alexis King

@JasonC Pi is the only round number.

you're welcome

@ProgramFOX isn't that a poor question anyways?

Jason C

3:57 PM

@Unihedron Mine also ended with 3 zeroes. Be more specific.

Undo

15000 is not a power of two

Unihedron

^^

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Button dynamic matching and hiding android by Ιγνάτιος Γληνός on stackoverflow.com

Undo

... fuction?

Jason C

@Undo @Unihedron So round number is a power of the base? Why didn't you say so.

user259867

3:58 PM

> Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Fuck",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

user259867

Why do people keep doing that?

Ian Kemp

@user147263 that is golden

Undo

@JasonC I said so :P

Unihedron

@user147263 cuz they don't deserve the job

Undo

@user147263 I have no idea why people keep using Java ;)

Unihedron

3:58 PM

or, their employers don't deserve a better labour

Jason C

@Undo No. You just posted a picture of a number ending in 3 zeroes. :P

Ian Kemp

@Undo oh burn

Jason C

So, only 141051 more stars until the nice round base-11 number 100000.

Unihedron

true

but wait, express 141051 in base11

Jason C

@Unihedron 96A79

Undo

4:00 PM

96a79<sub>11</sub>

awwww

Unihedron

96A79 starred messages later...

Jason C

Yeah, we're sub-less. It's a bummer.

Alexis King

I'm still angry that <sub> doesn't work in chat. :(

ASCIIThenANSI

Guess I'll have to work on the 30000th star... or the 48879th! (convert it to hex)

ProgramFOX

96A79₁₁

Jason C

4:01 PM

All right I've had my fill of unnecessary mild conflict for the day. Back to work, lol.

Unihedron

hex sucks

Jason C

Oh also have fun with elenzil.com/esoterica/baseConversion.html

Unihedron

transformers are so 1990 i do the base conversion in my head

JK (2).toString(16)

Alexis King

@Unihedron Really? I thought the Transformers ran in the 1980s. ;)

Unihedron

@AlexisKing I don't do time.

cky

4:03 PM

@AlexisKing Lern2unicode

Alexis King

@cky But what if I want to write my numbers in base π? D:

cky

@AlexisKing :-O

Undo

@JasonC I just throw them at Wolfram Alpha :P

Alexis King

π is very easy to express in base-π ;)

ASCIIThenANSI

I will work on the 51114976161730483698th star. (Convert to base-36, enjoy the awesome)

Which will take 5.92981162*(10^20) days at our current rate

about 162460592 billion years

Conspicuous Compiler

4:09 PM

I broke the round number problem.

You're all welcome.

ASCIIThenANSI

@ConspicuousCompiler Oh, no, what have you broken now?

cky

@ASCIIThenANSI ideone.com/Gta3Tl

2

Conspicuous Compiler

@ASCIIThenANSI: "20,001"

ASCIIThenANSI

@cky You're welcome. C:<

cky

@ASCIIThenANSI Seriously, Common Lisp's formatter is a thing of wonder.

Conspicuous Compiler

4:11 PM

That looks very similar to the pack/unpack function in Perl. Do they have similar heritage?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: How to fix CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED by kprovost7314 on superuser.com

cky

@ConspicuousCompiler No, no common heritage at all.

Alexis King

@cky The dark side! :O

ASCIIThenANSI

@AlexisKing MAGIC!

cky

@AlexisKing Yes, the dark side. Too bad Scheme's formatting facilities (SRFI 28) are nowhere near as capable.

Alexis King

4:16 PM

@cky Someone recently implemented LOOP in Racket. :p

It's sort of horrifying.

cky

@AlexisKing How does it compare to foof-loop?

Alexis King

@cky I'm afraid I'm not familiar with foof-loop.

cky

If foof-loop didn't already exist, I'd be tempted to implement loop in Scheme too.

@AlexisKing mumble.net/~campbell/scheme/foof-loop.txt

Alexis King

@cky I've usually found Racket's for loops to be quite sufficient, but maybe I just haven't been exposed to the greatness that is the more powerful looping constructs. :P

cky

@AlexisKing Racket's for comprehensions are indeed sufficient for almost all cases, if not all cases.

especially in conjunction with make-do-sequence that allows you to write your own custom sequences.

Alexis King

4:26 PM

@cky Their expansions are hard to typecheck with Typed Racket, though. :(

Some of them don't work properly in TR.

cky

That's a shame, because I want to get into TR but I like for so much!

ASCIIThenANSI

Just noticed there is a guy named @ConspicuousCompiler... Seems legit

Alexis King

@cky for works fine, as do for/list, for/vector, and for/fold. I've had trouble with for/first and for/last, though.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Do airliners use single physical network for both avionics and passenger wifi access? by user25960 on skeptics.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

They do require explicit type annotations, though, because the type inference isn't smart enough to figure them out on its own.

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

4:28 PM

@AlexisKing Blacklisted user.

Alexis King

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

ASCIIThenANSI

You know what we need? A spam room, where you can spam anything you like (mostly, anything really out of bounds will be flagged.)

Alexis King

Sandbox

Formatting Sandbox

Unihedron

@ASCIIThenANSI /dev/null

Alexis King

4:34 PM

@Unihedron Careful. That's the NSA backdoor.

Conspicuous Compiler

Then what's /dev/zero ?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ASP.NET MVC INTERNATIONALISATION by Adrail Dokte Zhanaraliev on stackoverflow.com

ASCIIThenANSI

@Unihedron No, I'm serious. You could just post funny, off-topic stuff and not have to worry about cluttering up an actual room.

Unihedron

@ASCIIThenANSI You can create your own room.

ASCIIThenANSI

@AlexisKing Close, but where it wouldn't disturb people who need to test things.

@Unihedron For real?

Unihedron

4:39 PM

Alpha Centauri

Where The Unihedron lives in and codes with people who come by...

^ my room!!

ASCIIThenANSI

AWESOME!

Unihedron

(Watch a CM run in and freeze it or something)

ASCIIThenANSI

Do you want a link?

@Unihedron It's worth a shot.

Ugh, need 1 more rep to get the privilege to make chatrooms...

Sterling Archer

@Unihedron that's the name of a clan on Clash of Clans

Unihedron

@SterlingArcher ?

Sterling Archer

4:50 PM

Your room name

Unihedron

I don't do mobile games.

Sterling Archer

"a clan" not "your clan" ;)

Unihedron

Cool.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: sending bulk emails when receiving an email from specific address by Opetmar on softwarerecs.stackexchange.com

Madara Uchiha

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

4:57 PM

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

rene

is the id returned by setInterval guaranteed to be a sequence? Or is that an implementation detail I shouldn't rely on?

Jan Dvorak

implementation detail

rene

I thought so.

Madara Uchiha

@rene Pretty sure the specs don't specify what the ID should be.

Jan Dvorak

the spec only guarantees them to be positive numeric IIRC

rene

5:01 PM

So this is fishy: var id = setInterval(function() {}, 5); clearInterval(id - 2); to clear the last or second last started setInterval?

Jan Dvorak

yep

w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/timers.html

> 1. Let handle be a user-agent-defined integer that is greater than zero that will identify the timeout to be set by this call.

Madara Uchiha

@rene Yes, you have no guarantee of the order.

For all you know, it's a hash of the function body.

Braiam

maybe this can be helpful w3.org/TR/html5/webappapis.html#list-of-active-timers

rene

Ok, I'm going to reject that as an acceptable patch. Tnx.

Jan Dvorak

@MadaraUchiha different timeouts for the same function must have different IDs

Madara Uchiha

5:08 PM

@JanDvorak hash of body plus time then :P

Jan Dvorak

I'd prefer just the time ;-)

Madara Uchiha

Point is, not necessarily sequential, or even ordered.

Jan Dvorak

getUUID50

(but honestly, having them be array indexes is handy)

JonasCz

5:21 PM

Hi all ! I'm thinking of writing a script to find off topic questions on SO, using a bayesian clasifier which I'd train using already closed and known good questions (from the API) just like Andy did for comments. Would this be feasable / doable ? Seems like the SmokeDetector bot already does something like this.

Jan Dvorak

You may try but I recommend not automating the closure votes (yet?)

Braiam

@JonasCz actually, it tries to find known spam and crappy titles

Jan Dvorak

The issue is that you want to close questions as soon as possible

JonasCz

Yea, obviously i would't automate flagging stuff until I get more accuracy than myself. (I don't have enough rep to CV yet btw). I wonder if this would actually work ? Might have a go over the weekend.

Jan Dvorak

might

Braiam

5:27 PM

I think the api has the most recently closed questions

Braiam

5:48 PM

@JonasCz check out http://*.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=close&daterange=last30days&mode=recentlyCl‌osed&_=someid

SmokeDetector

6:02 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: incuding graphics by bhuvaneshnick on mathematica.stackexchange.com

Lynn Crumbling

So... funny thing.

I just found out that the project lead for JQuery UI is local.

Crazy.

cky

@LynnCrumbling It's a small world, for sure.

SmokeDetector

6:19 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to export a slo-mo video with the slow motion intact and without losing quality? by Post as a guest on apple.stackexchange.com

Lynn Crumbling

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@LynnCrumbling Blacklisted user.

bjb568

6:38 PM

@Bart 2015

SmokeDetector

6:48 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Meaning and origin of "at bay" by bruana on english.stackexchange.com

vlq?

Sure

I mean, VLQ only?

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Keep getting "Package hypcap Error: You have forgotten to use \\caption." error from this part of my code by Tianna on tex.stackexchange.com

bummi

@JanDvorak I'm not sure I've seen harmless for which the user has been deleted and worse where happened nothing. A can't see a good reason to answer this way and went for inappropriate ....

SmokeDetector

7:29 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Dangers of sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') by Red Pill on stackoverflow.com

Alexis King

@SmokeDetector Wow. That is a very long answer. I don't even want to deal with that.

Bart

Paging Martijn Pieters. Paging Martijn Pieters.

Alexis King

@Bart You can actually do that! It's called a ping. @MartijnPieters Isn't it wonderful what kind of world we live in?

But seriously, @MartijnPieters, you might want to take a look at that.

Bart

... I was aware of the feature ... this one is on you.

He has a diamond now. Never trust a Dutch guy with a diamond

Alexis King

That answer is a blog post, not an answer. And a blog post I wouldn't care about reading.

rene

7:39 PM

If the zalgo answer ever get deleted this is good replacement...

Conspicuous Compiler

@Bart Looks harmless to me. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/…

rene

Yeah, the first couple of kings were a mess....

Bart

@ConspicuousCompiler "He kicked and hit his servants about. He was inclined to terrorize and humiliate his courtiers. The King was cruel to animals as well. His ministers were afraid of him. Most people around him agreed that he was, to some degree, insane."

Conspicuous Compiler

Sounds like you could trust him to behave in a very particular fashion.

rene

Blue print of Dutch behavior

bummi

7:42 PM

pob at the best ? apple.stackexchange.com/q/182301/55266

hichris123

@user147263 never

Conspicuous Compiler

The proper thing to do is use a local proxy to rewrite all requests for identicons and replace them with monster IDs. Behold Monster hichris123: gravatar.com/avatar/…

hichris123

eeeek

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Where can I find Prenumeraten/Prenumeranten? by Moshe Gross on judaism.stackexchange.com

hichris123

Big Victory @spolsky! @EFF Busts Podcasting Patent Using Prior Art Found at @AskPatents http://bit.ly/1EiCNhX http://bit.ly/1yjidx0

Tweeted by SiegelMicah on April 10, 2015 at 8:38 PM

Bart

8:03 PM

Nice

Sue

Hi all! Can someone please check something for me?

Bart

What?

Braiam

I could, if you tell me what

Bart

The suspense is killing me

Sue

Lol! When I select edit my profile, it has something gray in the box that looks like someone else's profile. It's only happening on sites with the new profile. Here comes the picture!

Jan Dvorak

8:06 PM

s/e\b/ion/

Sue

I know you can't read it cuz it's gray and small

Bart

... stackoverflow.com/users/4477550/vince-banzon

That is .. weird.

Jon Ericson

@Sue Yes. That's a prompt intended (I guess) to inspire you to write something.

Bart

@JonEricson ... that seems ... stupid?

Braiam

@Sue its a place holder

Sue

8:08 PM

@JonEricson I had a feeling, which is why I didn't want to file a bug report.

Lynn Crumbling

@Bart That is weird.

hichris123

@Bart I quite agree.

Bart

@LynnCrumbling apparently that user thought it was appropriate then

Braiam

@Bart probably his browser messed up

Sue

@Braiam It's bizarre if you ask me-especially since it really looks like a specific person's profile. It even has a website reference.

Braiam

8:10 PM

sometimes I submit the placeholder title as title in metas

Alexis King

The whole new profile feels a little too silly to me.

Bart

Just as annoying as this cutesy "this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them" ...

Alexis King

@Bart Yes, that. :P

Sue

@Braiam That makes more sense than this. I was afraid it was hijacking someone's profile.

Bart

But that's enough "grumpy old man" for me.

Lynn Crumbling

8:12 PM

Hahah.

Sue

@Bart I totally agree about that one. It's almost rude, but not my place to argue. The one about tunnel vision or whatever is weird too!

Alexis King

Is there a Meta.SE questions asking for its removal I can upvote?

Sue

@AlexisKing I'd like that question too! Maybe one of you respected meta-people would write it.....

Bart

HAHAHAHA ... respected ...

Alexis King

@Sue Psh, I'm not a "respected meta-person". I only have 1,200 rep.

Sue

8:16 PM

@AlexisKing That qualifies! Plus I respect you :)

hichris123

@AlexisKing You mean this?

Lynn Crumbling

Useless trivia: on SO, Unsung hero has been awarded over 2x more than Steward.

hichris123

59

Q: The site should not make speculative statements about its users

The redesigned user profile sees it fit to speculate about the motives and inclinations of the user. E.g. here: Apparently, this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them. We respect a laser-like focus on one topic. Keeping a low profile. This user hasn't posted... yet. ...

feature-request profile-page

Alexis King

@hichris123 Oh, I already upvoted that.

Haha.

Jon Ericson

@AlexisKing I'd respect you more if you had half that.

Alexis King

8:18 PM

@JonEricson So should I make a new account with 1 rep? Will I get all the respect then? :O

hichris123

@JonEricson I guess you respect minitech a lot?

:P

Jon Ericson

It was a sad day when MSE became my top site. ;-)

Sue

@hichris123 Looks great, thanks, will go vote. How about one for the profile message? That looks confusing to any user.

Alexis King

@Sue I don't think there's an existing question about that, though I could be wrong.

hichris123

@Sue I think you're the first person to bring that up. :)

Go ask a question! :D

@JonEricson I try to keep my SO rep above my mSE rep.

Alexis King

8:22 PM

My SO rep is almost exactly 10 times my MSE rep. :P

hichris123

@AlexisKing "almost" key word there. :P

Braiam

I need to get more SO rep :(

Sue

@AlexisKing Actually, it's almost touched on by that other question, but I think I'll write it up and see what happens. It's not a bug though, right? So it would be a feature request?

Alexis King

@Sue Yeah, it's technically a feature request.

Bart

@JonEricson welcome to the club

Alexis King

8:24 PM

@Bart good god that's a wide disparity

I never noticed xD

Shog9

@JonEricson let's face it: UserVoice is the only reason we got to go as long as we did without that happening.

Jon Ericson

@Shog9 That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about UserVoice.

Alexis King

Hey, @Shog, your next tag badge on Meta.SE is down-votes! Just need two more answers! :P

Anonymous

http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/forums/1722-general/suggestions/87407-give-1‌-full-day-before-a-question-can-be-closed

Bart

@AlexisKing to summarize "I'm an idiot, but a convincing one"

Sue

8:27 PM

@Bart Ha, ha!

hichris123

> THIS SITE IS DISCONTINUED. PLEASE CONTACT Oded Coster PERSONALLY INSTEAD!

Conspicuous Compiler

How personally are we taling?

hichris123

Personally enough to get the feature implemented, I guess?

Sue

@JonEricson What's UserVoice? A tech-y thing?

Bart

@Sue pre-meta-meta

Sue

8:30 PM

@Bart Cool!

Conspicuous Compiler

So with a pint and a bag of fish+chips, then.

Bart

Meta before it was cool. Hipster meta really.

Sue

Thanks for your help all...........

@Bart I like that!

Jon Ericson

Blog - Stack Exchange: New Top Bugs and Top Requests on Meta

Jeff Atwood on May 14, 2010

Before we switched to meta.stackoverflow.com, we used UserVoice to track our bugs and requested features. It had a nice leaderboard of the highest voted items which we treated as a sort of de-facto “to-do” list. We did our best to satisfy the top-rated UserVoice requests and work our way down the list.

While it is possible to manually replicate the UserVoice feature/bug leaderboard on meta by …

querying for questions with specific tags, by adding multiple tags using the server-side tag wildcard (~) operator excluding some tags using the not (-) operator sorting by votes …

Shog9

@hichris123 so... I did that when the MSO/MSE split happened, and then UV lost my login and now I can't change it.

Sue

8:32 PM

@JonEricson Hmmm very interesting.

Conspicuous Compiler

So at least 3 people liked the placeholder text enough to decide that they are, in fact, alt-rock ninja cowgirls: google.com/search?q=%22alt-rock+ninja+cowgirl%22&filter=0

Sue

@ConspicuousCompiler So we did hijack a user profile. Poor Vince!

hichris123

@Shog9 ahaha. So I can blame you for something then.

Sue

So if I ask the question it will come back as Status-By-Design...

Bart

If it's just a question I guess so

@hichris123 "then UV lost my login"

Conspicuous Compiler

8:36 PM

Generally speaking, placeholder text should be deleted by the browser when you fill in the field. (Just like the "search" field you see in the upper right of this page.) I think those users went to some trouble to use the placeholder intentionally. Only way to know is to ask, though.

Sue

@ConspicuousCompiler Makes sense. Maybe it should be worded to request a different type of placeholder in there.

Martijn Pieters

@AlexisKing Meep, do I really have to?

That's 24Kb of text!

Alexis King

@MartijnPieters Welcome to being a moderator! :D :D :D

Braiam

27 mins ago, by Braiam

sometimes I submit the placeholder title as title in metas

Martijn Pieters

I already criticised their other post on the same question for being unclear.

Shog9

8:39 PM

@hichris123 clearly User Voice's fault.

Alexis King

@MartijnPieters This one's even more unclear, but like, five times as long.

hichris123

@Shog9 Of course, of course.

Sue

@AlexisKing Definitely

Alexis King

1 hour ago, by Alexis King

That answer is a blog post, not an answer. And a blog post I wouldn't care about reading.

hichris123

Er.... health.stackexchange.com - "33,482 visitors/day". area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/66048/health - "76 visits/day".

Conspicuous Compiler

8:41 PM

Is there a close reason that matches "lack of summary and excessive length makes this answer unlikely to be useful to anyone". You know, "Close reason: RFC"

hichris123

One of those is just a little off.

Alexis King

@hichris123 Caching! flails

hichris123

@AlexisKing By a factor of 440? Somehow, I don't think so.

Alexis King

stackexchange.com/sites?expand=true#traffic says 33k visits

I find 33k visits per day highly unlikely, though.

Martijn Pieters

@Bart wees bevreesd, Bart. Ik kijk vanuit de schaduwen toe.

Alexis King

8:42 PM

Role-playing games is pretty big, and it only gets 15k per day.

Sue

@hichris123 That definitely looks strange, especially if you consider the number of questions. Does that mean 33k visit and most of them have nothing to say?!

hichris123

@Sue More than likely it's just a bug or caching... IIRC it just moved out of private beta, so not too many people would have seen it anyway.

Braiam

I bet it squashed all visits into a single day

Sue

@hichris123 That's what I mean. It's cool, but very young.

user259867

@hichris123 Sounds like ru.SO traffic got applied to Health

bjb568

8:47 PM

Remember When Nostalgia Was Good?

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Sue

@hichris123 Caching is very confusing. I think it should mean the giving of cash :)

Shog9

I'd be caching you some cash from my cache, but I'm cashed out.

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Sue

@Shog9 Thanks for the offer. I'm cashed out too...

And my cache has fallen behind.

user259867

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