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AstroCB

12:02 AM

...and the Tavern was silent.

@xkcdBot: Get me a conversation-starter.

xkcdBot

!xkcd latest

Oh, weird, Amazon is out of butterfly nets.

AstroCB

So...how about those drones?

ASCIIThenANSI

@AstroCB Sure. Say, drone, can I have a pizza?

James

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@James It's Doorknob's fault.

Doorknob

12:13 AM

:'(

AstroCB

!xkcd blame

xkcdBot

@AstroCB It's Frank's fault.

AstroCB

That seems more plausible.

Doorknob

A doorknob and a tree... your bots are all speciesist.

They never blame humans.

AstroCB

I don't know what just happened, but right now, I'm getting the ping sound endlessly in the background.

5

Doorknob

12:15 AM

hahahaha

AstroCB

Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da

It's not stopping.

@devs Fix this, please.

James

@AstroCB, false alarm

AstroCB

@James That made it stop.

!xkcd blame

xkcdBot

@AstroCB It's tchrist's fault.

hichris123

ping @AstroCB

AstroCB

12:16 AM

THAT TRIGGERS IT.

Why?

hichris123

@AstroCB HI!

AstroCB

Someone do !xkcd blame and tell me if it does endless pings.

hichris123

!xkcd blame

xkcdBot

@hichris123 It's ASCIIThenANSI's fault.

hichris123

nope

AstroCB

12:17 AM

I have no idea, then.

!xkcd blame

xkcdBot

@AstroCB It's Doorknob's fault.

hichris123

status-you-broke-it

AstroCB

Now, there's no ping at all.

hichris123

Check your speakers.

Doorknob

@xkcdBot No it's not

AstroCB

12:18 AM

Do any devs work on chat?

hichris123

Perhaps you muted them. Or maybe they blew out due to the mass of pings.

@AstroCB balpha occasionally.

AstroCB

@hichris123 Pings are back.

!xkcd blame

xkcdBot

@AstroCB It's Ian Kemp's fault.

bjb568

@AstroCB Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doo-da Dee-da-doooooooo-da-de-da-daaaaaaa…

AstroCB

Well, that's definitely what sets it off.

bjb568

12:18 AM

(mi mi mi do, mi mi mi do, do mi so---- so fa me re;)

hichris123

I thought we were going Jeopardy-ing here...

AstroCB

The only thing that stops it is another ping or a refresh.

Doorknob

@hichris123 doo deeeee doo deeeee doo deeee dooooooo...

Braiam

note to himself: do not refresh the chat room

bjb568

self, not himself

hichris123

12:20 AM

@Doorknob Jeopardy was just on ~25 minutes ago, so...

Mar 11 at 3:13, by hichris123

bjb correcting grammar...

!xkcd find grammar

!xkcd find crypto

Apr 20 at 19:41, by AstroCB

Does anyone in here have an opinion of internet filtering in public schools that they'd be willing to share in the form of an interview within a chat room?

Thanks to all who participated – I got a 54/56 on the project that that was a component of.

bjb568

12:23 AM

What project?

AstroCB

I'm amazed that my teacher accepted you all as a reputable source...

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Apr 20 at 19:50, by AstroCB

@Andy I'm compiling a list of sources for a school project from which a person can take information and synthesize an argument; one of those sources is an interview.

user259867

@AstroCB How did you cite the transcript?

AstroCB

@Yes You just triggered an endless ping with that edit.

Braiam

we too, @AstroCB, we too

Doorknob

@AstroCB (which was probably not the best idea)

James

12:26 AM

@AstroCB What do you mean? I'm a totally reputable random man on the internet. I am a Nigerian prince I'll have you know.

3

bjb568

AND I'M A KITTEH!

James

!xkcd kitteh

!xkcd find kitteh

AstroCB

@Doorknob I was running low on options.

bjb568

!find xkcd kitteh

AstroCB

@James Maintenance.

James

12:29 AM

lame

AstroCB

@James I heard you needed some help transporting funds out of the country.

bjb568

(uh… I'll accept funds!)

AstroCB

> "Undo" [A], "Mooseman" [B], and "bjb568" [C]. "Web Filtering in Public Schools." Online interview. 20 Apr. 2015. <http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/855/web-filtering-in-public-schools>.
This interview was conducted between members of Stack Overflow, a site for programmers. The interviewees all have experience with web software and development, and they are quite familiar with the online tools used for filtering. While their pseudonymous identities may seem to detract from their credibility, a quick glance at the content they have published on the site will quickly dismiss …

bjb568

I only got a C? aww…

Doorknob

@AstroCB He's even a long-lost cousin of yours.

bjb568

12:31 AM

> While their pseudonymous identities may seem to detract from their credibility, a quick glance at the content they have published on the site will quickly dismiss this notion.

3

lol

James

@AstroCB Indeed, for only $50,000 USD you could potentially make an African blood diamond. Only if you let me fix your malware infestation with pancurium bromide before I seduce your grandmother and travel forward in time so you can be rich quick with the Testo-o-boost 9000

2

Braiam

@bjb568 is good that I didn't participate...

ASCIIThenANSI

@James Don't forget to forward this to 10 people so you can become a wizard!

bjb568

@James i can haz nike gamer coinz?

James

@AstroCB, my collegue @ASCIIThenANSI, has just reminded me of our special offer, redemeemable for one spherical chicken in the Large Hardon Collider

ASCIIThenANSI

12:34 AM

@James Ooh, I want a spherical chicken! How do I sign up?

xkcdBot

I have returned.

James

All you have to do is immediately jump off the Empire State Building, and land in Scotland and your Spherical cow will be posted by first class IPvCP mail

*IP v Carrier Pigeon

ASCIIThenANSI

@James OK.

James

It's at times like this, I wonder how I come up with this random crap

ASCIIThenANSI

fires portal in Scotland

2

fires portal onto street

James

12:36 AM

Then I go back to snorting MSG off a hookers tummy

ASCIIThenANSI

jumps off Empire State building into portal

flies out into Scotland

James

@ASCIIThenANSI YOU'RE THE LOCH NESS MONSTER!!!

IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING

ASCIIThenANSI

closes both portals and lands safely on friend's mattress

@James There. I did what you said. Problem?

James

@ASCIIThenANSI You will have one Spherical cow to you by first class carrier pigeon

It might take a while, see once we strap the pigeon to the cow, the cow has to wander to you of it's own accord

Hobo Sapiens

SPAM: stackoverflow.com/q/30179839/1864610

ASCIIThenANSI

12:38 AM

@James OK. Where's the shipping facility; I've still got the portalgun.

James

@ASCIIThenANSI Bahahahaha

You're too smart for me

!xkcd blame

xkcdBot

@James It's derobert's fault.

ASCIIThenANSI

You heard xkcdBot. We'll send him to the sun.

!xkcd blame

xkcdBot

@ASCIIThenANSI It's Jon Ericson's fault.

ASCIIThenANSI

Jon will be the one to do it.

James

12:41 AM

Quick the lights are off in the office, I need something funny to say about the subject

a pun of some kind

user259867

spam gone

ASCIIThenANSI

@James And now, suddenly, all the jokes in my brain are gone.

bjb568

@James apostrophe?

James

@bjb568 I don't get it

AstroCB

7 mins ago, by James

It might take a while, see once we strap the pigeon to the cow, the cow has to wander to you of it's own accord

bjb568

12:45 AM

@James hookers'

AstroCB

@bjb568 Found it.

bjb568

ಠ_ಠ

James

@bjb568 Oh the hookers' tummy

see but this is the Internet, where spelling is made up and punctuation doesn't matter

bjb568

oh, I see

Chris Jester-Young

@bjb568 Plurality agreement fail.

ASCIIThenANSI

12:47 AM

@bjb568 Ya bro, dis iz da internet'z. U bettr lern 2 use you're grammer and speling rite.

3

bjb568

@ChrisJester-Young oh, then remove the "a"

Obviously there are multiple hookers.

James

@ASCIIThenANSI You deserve a scholarship of English Literature for that sentence alone

Chris Jester-Young

@bjb568 Then it'd be tummies, not tummy. :-P

bjb568

that too

!bjb Yeah bro, this is the internets. You better learn to use your grammar and spelling right.

Chris Jester-Young

Speaking of being anal-retentive, it's time I spent more time on Code Review SE....

bjb568

12:49 AM

yeeeh bro, dis iz the internetz. u better leeern to use yur grammar n spelling right. [translated]

ASCIIThenANSI

@James I wonder what happens when all the stuff we say becomes 400-500 years old and people count it as the classics.

James

@ChrisJester-Young Me too

bjb568

@bjb568 good enough

ASCIIThenANSI

Seriously, I'm probably a future Shakespeare.

@bjb568 close enough

AstroCB

!bjb Butcher this sentence.

bjb568

12:51 AM

butcher dis sentence. [translated]

@ASCIIThenANSI I'd be the infamous "hard to analyze" kitteh

ASCIIThenANSI

!bjb I wonder what happens when all the stuff we say becomes 400-500 years old and people count it as the classics. Maybe this sentence is the start of a new era of literature.

bjb568

me wonder what happenz when all the stuff we say becomez 400-500 yeeerz old n people cunt az the classicz. maybe dis sentence iz the start of a new era of literature. [translated]

2

Andrew T.

!bjb did you mean recursion?

bjb568

did u meeen recursion? [translated]

ASCIIThenANSI

@bjb568 And so it begins.

!bjb !bjb !bjb I love recursion

Andrew T.

12:56 AM

!bjb did u meeen recursion?

bjb568

bjb bjb me love recursion [translated]

AstroCB

!bjb !bjb !bjb test

bjb568

bjb bjb test [translated]

Andrew T.

?????

ASCIIThenANSI

!bjb !xkcd blame

bjb568

12:56 AM

xkcd blame [translated]

ASCIIThenANSI

Noooo

!xkcd blame !bjb hi

xkcdBot

It's !bjb hi's fault.

AstroCB

!ilovebjb !xkcd blame

bjb568

!xkcd blame

xkcdBot

@bjb568 It's derobert's fault.

Braiam

12:57 AM

@xkcdBot O_O

!xkcd find recursion

6

^ THE TAVERN

@AstroCB That's it. Let's play StackExchanges and Data Exploration.

James

@ASCIIThenANSI Is that like Snakes and Ladders?

ASCIIThenANSI

12:59 AM

@James No. It's like D&D (or SE&DE), but in the Tavern.

Andrew T.

> You are browsing the internet and accidentally find a site called Stack Overflow. You decide to create an account.

goes to character creation

James

What do you do next?

bjb568

@ASCIIThenANSI Like DD?

James

@AndrewT. By the way, unless you Nat 20 your Intelligence roll, when creating a new character, you get an intelligence of 4

bjb568

@James rant on meta

James

1:02 AM

@bjb568 Start advertising your own shitty jQuery ripoff, get flagged as Spam for not having enough jQuery

bjb568

vanilla!

Braiam

@James you mean that nobody gets Nat 20

James

@Braiam I mean that only 1/20th of new SO users display an Int score above 4

Braiam

ah...

ASCIIThenANSI

Name: ANSIThenASCII
Role: Awesome Dude
Dex: 16
Agi: 14
Con: 13
Wis: 10
Int: 8 (Upped by my profession)
Str: LOLOL
Profession: Coder/Helper/Editor/Answerer
Alignment: Um, a good guy who helps people, but can be evil if he needs to?

James

1:05 AM

@ASCIIThenANSI considered to be evil by new users, for judicious use of the +2 Flag-Hammer he wields with considerable skill, taking out great swaths of poor gimme-teh-codez questions

ASCIIThenANSI

@James But my primary weapon is my editing staff, which I use to fix questions with minor errors.

Jan Dvorak

@ASCIIThenANSI chaotic good?

ASCIIThenANSI

@JanDvorak Sure.

Jan Dvorak

What would help vamp feeders be? Chaotic neutral?

ASCIIThenANSI

Let's see how long this game lasts. Aaaand... go! (ping me when it ends)

James

1:08 AM

@JanDvorak Neutral Evil

Andrew T.

Perhaps do that in a new chat room, otherwise GM No. may flip the table.

James

because they are doing bad things for personal gain

Jan Dvorak

@James They don't come to cause harm, do they?

James

Doing something bad for personal gain, means they must be some kind of evil

Jan Dvorak

or just misguided

James

1:09 AM

depends how you RP it

Jan Dvorak

Then there are outright trolls, which are lawful evil

James

True

bjb568

because youtube comments don't have permalinks

James

@AstroCB, has your endless pinging stopped?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected, repeating words in answer: BitLocker vs. Encrypting File System (EFS) on Windows 7 by user447165 on superuser.com

AstroCB

1:24 AM

@James No – you activated it.

James

@AstroCB that must be annoying

Braiam

Why one must (not) ping AstroCB

4 mins ago, 3 minutes total – 4 messages, 3 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked just now by Braiam

AstroCB

@James ...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Including My Institution in A Research Paper by user3208706 on academia.stackexchange.com

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector ignore, sample format (though it might be misunderstood as signature since it's at the end of the post)

SmokeDetector

1:35 AM

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

hichris123

1:49 AM

del-vote-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/4204964/android-custom-list-view

Or I guess we could just downvote the answers...

Hello Tavern?

Braiam

@hichris123 answer with 3 2 upvotes should just be removed, is a comment

other answers aren't better...

hichris123

Just downvote.™

One more downvote on stackoverflow.com/a/4205104/2581872.

Where's @JasonC been?

Also one more downvote on stackoverflow.com/questions/1473944/ps3-cell-programming.

user259867

@hichris123 Jason's activity is sharply cyclical; I suppose much depends on how busy he is with his clients' projects.

AstroCB

@hichris123 ^ and creating a VR Tavern for the next mod election.

hichris123

heh

@Yes Yeah, what if the Tavern became one of Jason's clients?

2

AstroCB

2:08 AM

naa stackoverflow.com/a/30180560/3366929

I've gotten two Reversal badges on M.SO in the past week.

hichris123

Heh, I'm actually pretty close to a reversal. Still not sure why the question was downvoted that much, but...

AstroCB

I'm pretty sure Shog is the master of Reversal, though.

Jason C

@hichris123 Super busy. It's this time of year, tons of short deadline projects.

hichris123

@JasonC Can we become one of your clients?

Jason C

@AstroCB He's also the master of getting... reversalled... data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackoverflow/query/300255/…

@hichris123 If you have money and a fun project, sure.

hichris123

2:18 AM

@JasonC Make a chatbot that accurately mimics bjb. Would $1 be a fair price?

;)

Jason C

Also I've been sick, or allergies or something, for like a week. It's been killing my motivation to do anything during free time, like SO. I think my headache is going on 72 hours straight now.

I already made that bot, I usually run it as my sock, bjb568.

5

Not worth $1.

hichris123

heh.

@JasonC Ever heard of painkillers?

Braiam

@hichris123 he's a naturist

and somehow my spellchecker is changed to spanish... wtf

"Spanish (Cuba)" well, at least is near

Jason C

^ I am, a little. But this headache is painkiller proof. At least over-the-counter. I'm having better luck with things to get rid of sinus pressure. Afrin works great but you can't really use it for a long time. Cold showers have somehow been helping.

But it's easier just to curl up under the covers and cry.

jadarnel27

@LynnCrumbling Thanks!

hichris123

2:22 AM

With your ~~cat~~ sock (bjb) under the covers with you, @JasonC?

Hiya @jadarnel27! :)

Jason C

No.

Wait. Maybe.

Thanks, you've confused me.

jadarnel27

@hichris123 Howdy!

hichris123

@JasonC Go back under the covers then. :P

@jadarnel27 How your life been?

Jason C

I think I will. Peace.

tchrist

@Braiam I thought everybody’s was that way. :)

SmokeDetector

2:40 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: barcelona-vs-bayern-munich-en-vivo-0 by dgfbg gjfgyjm on patents.stackexchange.com

user259867

looks kind of spammy to me

bjb568

slightly

Eh, I think it could be disputed…

I mean there's no real indication that poor little dgfbg gjfgyjm wrote the question with malicious intent… He's probably just misguided.

And I think it's our fault for not being welcoming enough to new users.

Braiam

@SmokeDetector tpu spam

SmokeDetector

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

Braiam

107

Q: Recent Mass Football Spam

Is something wrong with StackOverflow's spam filter? Recently there have been huge numbers of spam topics related to football streaming. They have all been spam flagged and deleted but there are more getting posted all the time, I just flagged another 6 or so a few minutes ago. This has been goin...

@Yes @bjb568 ^

bjb568

3:02 AM

Why is it so quiet here?

What is everybody doing homework?

ohcrapohcrapineedtotoo

Jan Dvorak

Morning. Is it football season again?

bjb568

Depends on when football season is.

Thumbprint by Eve Merriam

In the heel of my thumb
are whorls, whirls, wheels
in a unique design:
mine alone.
What a treasure to own!
My own flesh, my own feelings.
No other, however grand or base,
can ever contain the same.
My signature,
thumbing the pages of my time.
My universe key,
my singularity.
Impress, implant,
I am myself,
Of all my atom parts I am the sum.
And out of my blood and my brain
I make my own interior weather,
My own sun and rain.
Imprint my mark upon the world,
whatever I shall become.

lolwut?

It's your damn thumb! Get a grip, woman…

> I am myself

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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Visa Information by Muhammad Iqbal on travel.stackexchange.com

bjb568

3:17 AM

VLQ as unclear what you're spamming

James

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

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

James

@bjb568 lol

@bjb568 why are you still awake?

bjb568

Only 23:18 here.

jadarnel27

@hichris123 It's been grand.

And you, @hichris123?

hichris123

3:25 AM

Eh. Kinda busy here, but it'll calm down soon enough.

bjb568

3 weeks left for me.

Thinking positively, only one more monday instruction day left.

> 4. Give an example of a metaphor the poet uses to describe her thumbprint?

Ok, I will give you an example?

Sentences obviously end in question marks?

Commands too?

Characteristic of an english teacher?

It is night time and I'm going to bed?

Frank

kinda weird ^

but kinda meh also

bjb568

2015-5-11 is the correct way.

and it don't werk.

Jan Dvorak

@Frank only if you use mixed-endian

Frank

@bjb568 But dere is nuu corekt weyyyyy

I ken do hoow i wunt too

Just kidding, sorry for that mess ^

Jan Dvorak

3:35 AM

@Frank I was worried...

bjb568

3:50 AM

Unworry yourself, Jan.

Be happy.

Gah, all y'all old people making me learn old references and feel old.

Andy

Damn kids. In my day they were just references.

bjb568

Sigh…

Night!

Unihedron

4:06 AM

in Alpha Centauri on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, yesterday, by Unihedron

Every day next week will be the same backwards: 5/10/15 5/11/15 5/12/15 5/13/15 5/14/15 5/15/15 5/16/15 5/17/15

Tweeted by WTFFacts on May 10, 2015 at 3:36 AM

Hobo Sapiens

4:17 AM

cv-pls A candidate for today's most unanswerable question: stackoverflow.com/q/30181688/1864610

Unihedron

42. — Unihedron 6 secs ago

cv'd

Jan Dvorak

This has to be trolling...

Braiam

it doesnt have any database it just a question ? — Sevim WebDesign 2 mins ago

Hobo Sapiens

I don't know - there' seems to be a spate of particularly awful questions right now :(

Braiam

MIND BLOW~~

SmokeDetector

4:23 AM

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Jan Dvorak

Should I answer?

no need to. The answerer seems to have picked up on trolling the troll.

Unihedron

I admire their courage

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Fight off wrinkles and fine lines by brixkris merok on drupal.stackexchange.com

user259867

Can you please your code, It will be helpful to resolve your problem. — Homo sapiens Nov 7 '13 at 20:01

user259867

Pleasing your code might help in debugging, but...

Andrew T.

4:35 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu gone

SmokeDetector

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

user259867

I was considering editing that question with the pleasing comment, but can't figure out what it's supposed to say.

Jan Dvorak

You need to please your code if you're coding in INTERCAL.

Braiam

4:51 AM

@Yes I'm sure homo was joking

SmokeDetector

5:09 AM

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Unihedron

hi

James

morning uni

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

James

5:25 AM

@SmokeDetector gone

Hobo Sapiens