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On stackexchange.com/filters one can set up a filter "questions with favorite tags on every site". Apparently, there is no filter "questions with favorite tags on these sites". Am I missing something? As is, the feature is not really useful when some of the sites/tag combinations throw questions from a firehose.

Jason C

@Yes I suppose you could set up a custom filter with a rule for each site, entering your favorite tags per site manually. I think that's as close as you can get.

AstroCB

@AlexisKing It would probably work better if you used the right commands...

Alexis King

@AstroCB shut up, your bot should be able to read my mind and nothing less

AstroCB

10:31 PM

It should accept search as a valid command now, though.

Jason C

Can the OP edit a locked post?

user259867

@JasonC Hrm. One filter can still do the job, as it can contain multiple site/tag combos. Maybe I should script the filter creation interface...

user259867

@JasonC Nobody edits locked posts.

user259867

Except moderators, possibly.

user259867

Indeed, it's not unusual to lock a post precisely to stop the OP from vandalizing it.

Jason C

10:33 PM

@Yes Yeah that's what I mean; one filter with multiple rules. A script would be pretty cool. You can scrape the "show details" button at stackexchange.com/filters/143900/favorite-tags. I can't find an API call for favorite tags but I didn't look hard.

I think the "favorite tags" filter is just an automated regular filter.

(My link was supposed to go to the "favorite tags" btw, but it has a filter ID in it so maybe the link is only valid for me)

user259867

@JasonC It is the link to your favorite tags filter (which is publicly visible). It's mostly like a regular filter, except it syncs with your favorite tags and can't be edited manually.

bjb568

@JasonC Same here even tho I didn't exist in that era.

Jason C

@bjb568 It also brings back memories of the smell of 5.25" disk plastic, mod trackers, epic megagames, apogee (original duke nukem), oh man.

Setting up soundblaster interrupts and hardware addresses. Oh the fun.

I miss the magic of owning a soundcard, the actual music and poorly sampled voices instead of square wave beeps.

bjb568

10:53 PM

@JasonC the mod tracker UI things look better than current windows

user259867

> today is the same backwards or upside down (#americansOnly) pic.twitter.com/BtMtBKQiBP -- Joel Spolsky at 2:39 PM - 15 May 2015 via Twitter

user259867

> @spolsky Well, that explains all the crazy then. -- Joshua Heyer at 2:47 PM - 15 May 2015 via Twitter

SmokeDetector

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Jason C

@Yes "Tavern" explains all the crazy. :P

Replying to @Yes is annoying because it looks like I'm just constantly agreeing with things.

Is a comma a valid character in a display name?

user259867

No,

user259867

11:05 PM

> Display Name can only contain letters, digits, spaces, apostrophes or hyphens and must start with a letter or digit

Jason C

Lame.

I guess an apostrophe is sort of like an upside down comma.

bjb568

u r amaze

Jan Dvorak

It,s not.

Louis

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/30268457/…

Jason C

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Louis

11:07 PM

@JasonC Your keyboard is upside down!

Jason C

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bjb568

The new prev/next buttons are addicting. I got my IP banned for a minute.

user259867

I don't have them. Feeling unworthy.

Jason C

Lol

It's so nice out, I'm going to go walk off the feelings of disgust that @rene will never learn more about. Peace.

user259867

11:42 PM

> See w3schools.com/xpath for more information on XPath. -- from Google documentation :/

Jan Dvorak

Is it that nobody uses xPath because only w3schools documents it, or that only w3schools can be bothered to document something as little used as xPath?

user259867

MDN documents it

user259867

It seems useful for scraping the content of arbitrary pages into a Google Spreadsheet with importxml. (The importhtml command only scrapes tables and lists.)

user259867

My current project is to tie together a few Google services for better visualization of SE sites stats.

Jan Dvorak

@Yes finally. I remember it only linking to w3schools for documentation

bjb568

11:51 PM

> As well as this, it can also

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