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ProgramFOX

there we go

user259867

@Unihedron Isn't this a sign that the user's questions are useful to others?

user259867

However unappealing they might look at first.

37 mins ago, by Unihedron

Why are those badges even a thing? Low quality questions with many views shouldn't be awarded only because it has a good answer that kept it alive.

^

see followup for context:

37 mins ago, by Unihedron

I should write a proposal to change the criteria to views + score of 2+.

user259867

4:21 PM

An objective measure of being useful trumps subjective "low-quality" opinions.

@2mkgz the question with more views I asked wasn't objetively nor subjectively useful anymore, and still gathered "views"

user259867

Was it useful for a while, until technology changed?

s/changed/was fixed/

user259867

As I've said before, with over 21,000 downvotes to only 14 upvotes I find your opinion on this matter to be highly suspect. I do understand your defense of this practice as basically stating "those are the odds", but I find it to be quite meager - particularly, when you've answered over 1600 questions. I find it hard to believe that less than 1% of the questions you've found interesting enough to answer were worth your upvote. I think I'll flag this comment for moderator attention because I don't intend to be out of line and, frankly, I'm curious as to their opinion on the matter. — Mark McClure 1 min ago

user259867

Uh oh, I'm being reported to mods for not fulfilling my upvote quota. :)

4:31 PM

@2mkgz I'm surprised for that...

... Why can't I downvote comments?

@Unihedron feature-request

How to downvote comments: use a comment that state that you are downvoting the comment.

> -1

@Mark: -1 for claiming upvotes to be important for active members of communities to cast: Downvoting is how Stack Exchange maintains its quality, not otherwise! — Unihedron 12 secs ago

ok

4:41 PM

Uh oh DD's borked

I need to spin up a server to mine dogecoin

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: BIOGRAPHY BLUES by Hopeful on writers.stackexchange.com

user259867

> I am writing a biography of a woman I very much admire, how long should it be?

user259867

length = f(admiration), I suppose

obviously

user259867

4:49 PM

DIY and Stats are getting design update soon, but it's not live yet.

Lynn Crumbling

5:06 PM

How have we still not gotten a final cv on this? stackoverflow.com/q/30033957/656243

5:17 PM

@LynnCrumbling it has...

Lynn Crumbling

5:52 PM

cheers

6:04 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: AIRBUS FINAL LANDING APPROACH THROTTLE POSITION by Peter Bourne on aviation.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector gone

user259867

6:34 PM

My 5000 is good enough for no.15 among top Meta investors... Pëkka is way ahead of everyone else.

user259867

Hm, Pekka answered two SO questions in May, his first answers in 2015.

user259867

With a view like this, who would care about internet points?

6:54 PM

@2mkgz Good, I'm with Anna Lear and Lightness...

On the starboard... The note about Star Wars day has 4 stars and the one about revenge of the Fifth has 5. MIND. BLOWN.

JonasCz

cv-plz offsite stackoverflow.com/questions/27843177/…

So, come to the point can somebody tell me about any good java library

voted

user259867

7:11 PM

Abby Hairboat created sonos tag, applying it to 7 questions... no tag wiki yet.

user259867

This one probably should have been closed instead.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SFML AND SDL TOGETHER? by Grant Fisher on gamedev.stackexchange.com

@2mkgz as too broad? or ROFL like the first answer?

user259867

7:26 PM

@rene too broad. "which files has to be modded to make this happen"

Ok, did that

user259867

This is the kind of questions that "minimal understanding" reason was initially intended for.

7:51 PM

What seed does Gravatar use to generate your user identicon?

email/IP

[ SmokeDetector ] Url in title: Anyone heard of newapptesting.com (paid app testing offer)? by user11891 on sqa.stackexchange.com

@hichris123 So if my email was ASCIIThenANSI@example.com, and my IP was 127.0.0.1, it would use the seed ASCIIThenANSI@example.com127.0.0.1? Or just one of them?

@ASCIIThenANSI If you provide an email, it uses the email. If you don't provide an email, it uses your IP.

I think IP is used only for unregistered accounts? Something like that.

@hichris123 Ah, OK.

7:57 PM

(since to register you need an email?)

@hichris123 Wait, unregistered? How do you get unregistered? I thought you signed up and that was the registration.

(Sorry, I'm new to this)

user259867

@hichris123 Everyone is required to provide email address, including unregistered users. (It doesn't have to be valid). Gravatar string is based on email hash, which is salted by SE.

user259867

source: meta.stackexchange.com/a/204540/259867

user259867

IP is not used for gravatar. This is why users with emails like abc@gmail.com end up with identical gravatars.

user259867

@SmokeDetector What do you think, Smokey -- spam or just a bad question?

user259867

8:01 PM

@ASCIIThenANSI You are an unregistered user if you posted without creating an account. This is possible for questions on most sites (except a few big ones, e.g. SO), and for answers on all sites.

Sounds like a bad question to me.

user259867

Unregistered accounts don't have a login method other than a cookie.

user259867

Okay, flagged VLQ

user259867

@2mkgz actually, this part is probably false.

@2mkgz SO accepts unregistered posts

Or at least answers

user259867

8:07 PM

@Undo "and for answers on all sites"

@Mooseman can I get icecream please?

Hiya @ShadowWizard!

:(

oh hey @Undo

Been a while

you saw my icecream?

8:08 PM

No, but now I want some.

I need to find a way to negotiate me getting half of your ice cream when you find it

@Undo yup, I visit here often but rare that our path cross :)

status-fixed

@Undo there is in my Den.... :D

@Mooseman you know where I can get icecream?

:)

8:10 PM

Chaos has descended on the skewl. Nobody is at class all the time and the bell schedule is all wonkey. And there's lots of panic

ION, I made a calculus hat.

user259867

@bjb568 pics!

@bjb568 don't forget your towel then

@2mkgz hrm, okay.

Any Android folks around?

@hichris123 Need a question closed?

My votes work on Android questions too

@ShadowWizard ok

8:15 PM

@Undo No, info on an SQLite library.

@2mkgz k, when I get home from mcdoogles

A: ruby on rails to_json include only count

Booooring

0

I'm glad I could help, can you accept or upvote my answer? Thanks!

^ go flag that

and this

@Undo I was going to ask for advice... but then I realized SQL queries are in "beta". The main point is to abstract away SQL... so I think not.

Q: Include the "People Reached" and "Helpful Flags (count)" data in SEDE

oh, and go upvote this

13

I know the new profile design hasn't been updated for every site on the network yet, so maybe this is a bit too early. Nonetheless, please include the "People Reached" data in SEDE at your earliest convenience. Also, I was just made aware that users helpful flag counts are now publicly displaye...

user259867

I already downvoted when I saw it first.

8:20 PM

It'd be interesting to see correlations between sock puppetry and helpful flag count.

And post count and flag count, for that matter

user259867

I downvoted because of PR part. Don't really mind flag counts being available.

@2mkgz Why the PR part?

user259867

PR corrupts everything it touches.

meh, not SEDE

The query works...

8:32 PM

@rene I'm thinking more of flag count

@bjb568 You need to try to wear that to a test

I don't think they'll allow it.

@bjb568 Looks like an AB Calculus Hat to me...

The BC is on the other side.

The taylor poly formula is there tho.

user259867

Yeah, BC calculus hat should have convergence tests and trigonometric substitutions on it.

user259867

8:42 PM

Maybe those are on the other side.

I didn't write the convergence tests because they were so common sense.

user259867

Days until YCS suspension ends: 47

user259867

Days until new suspension begins: ?

3

48

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: [PUZZLE PLACEHOLDER] by Engineer Toast on puzzling.stackexchange.com

user259867

8:47 PM

?? puzzling.stackexchange.com/posts/13312/revisions

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in answer: Which should be designed first: logo or website? by Giugiudoro on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

@2mkgz ?????

Just going to nuke that answer.

pacoverflow

What do you guys think about this question: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28924/…

It is marked "status-completed", but the feature was only implemented for moderators, and the question did not specifically ask for it to only be for moderators.

It's already there for mods, don't see a reason for regular users to have it

Q: Find old display names of a user

Apr 27 at 1:14, by 2mkgz

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As observed here, it can be confusing when certain users who had gone months under one name suddenly switched to new names So I've made a simple API-based tool: Old display names of a user It is based on /users/{ids}/mentioned method of Stack Exchange API, which returns all comments in...

app users website

pacoverflow

8:55 PM

Sometimes it's confusing to read comments when people have changed usernames, so it can be helpful to regular users.

A week with that name, @2mkgz?

Is it time for a change?

Apr 27 at 1:14, by AstroCB

yesterday, by AstroCB

2 days ago, by AstroCB

Anyone working on a userscript that replaces all references to @user147263's name with "That user who changes usernames once every two weeks"?

Maybe not yet.

user259867

Anyone working on a userscript that suppresses nested quotes in chat?

!tchrist

\

> yesterday

Yeah right.

pacoverflow

8:57 PM

If people think that only moderators should have that feature, then wouldn't it make sense to edit the question to state that the feature request is only for moderators?

Somebody go file the bug.

@bjb568 Today -> April 27 -> Yesterday -> 2 days ago

@2mkgz $('.quote:has(.quote:has(.quote))').remove()

user259867

@AstroCB [ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in chat message

jQuery? Someone call @bjb.

user259867

8:58 PM

@Doorknob But there could be arbitrarily many iterations.

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@hichris123 boom

NO JQUERY

Okay.

!xkcd find quotes

@2mkgz Correct, yet the top-level quote still matches .quote:has(.quote:has(.quote)).

More actual results: 'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You [are the best. The best thing ever]', 'Revenge is a dish best served [by a group of people in my room]', and 'They may take our lives, but they'll never take our [money].'

user259867

I was thinking of replacing multiple quote lines with a single one, keeping the quoted text.

user259867

9:01 PM

But then it's unclear what to do with multiple usernames in the nested quote.

!xkcd 1520

I'M SORRY, FROM YOUR YEARS OF CONDESCENDING TOWARD THE 'SQUISHY SCIENCES', I ASSUMED YOU'D BE A LITTLE HARDER.

user259867

Final round of Money election has begun.

@bjb568 What have we done?

tchrist

9:23 PM

@Unihedron By using the Flag widget, of course. You know how much mods enjoy handling comment flags. However, unless the comment contains one of the magic words, this may not work out to your advantage.