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bjb568

7:00 PM

Introduction to Higher Mathematics - Lecture 4: Proof Techniques

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Ooh, these videos are pretty good.

And I can watch them @1.25x.

user259867

Out of 7K+ questions on The Workplace, exactly one is unanswered. The site currently leads SE in answered %.

user259867

@bjb568 Yes, videos can be good for that: you can fast-forward them, unlike a lecturer in class. (If you take this class in college, you will likely want to do just that.)

user259867

I wish they'd tone down that background.

Braiam

@HomegrownTomato I would like to do exactly the opposite... for no good reason

user259867

7:18 PM

@SmokeDetector fp-

SmokeDetector

7:45 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: Modal every few seconds with CyanogenMod 11 20140708-SNAPSHOT-M8-hammerhead: “Unfortunately, Google Play services has stopped” by Adam Monsen on android.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: Precision of LinearModelFit with Polynomials by mcocdawc on mathematica.stackexchange.com

cybermonkey

sd fpu-

SmokeDetector

8:13 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Krenko revenge campaign - Magic 2013 by John on gaming.stackexchange.com

rene

sd tpu-

Braiam

8:35 PM

here it comes... patching systems again in 4-6 units of time. At least this time we know ahead of time

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Creating a Java regular expression that will match on numbers at beginning of the input only by cjawahar on stackoverflow.com

user259867

sd fp

SmokeDetector

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

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: What's a less profane alternative to “as f**k”? by DesertLion on english.stackexchange.com

cybermonkey

8:51 PM

sd fpu-

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: How do I report a security vulnerability about a trusted certificate authority? by Dean Coclin on security.stackexchange.com

cybermonkey

sd fp-

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@cybermonkey Registered answer as false positive and whitelisted user.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ERRO AO INSTALAR MONGOOSE EM WIN. SERVER 2008 R2 by Nodejs on pt.stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DO I NEED ISOLATED DC DC CONVERTER FOR THAT DESING by legerme on electronics.stackexchange.com

user259867

9:22 PM

> Anyone need somewhere to keep some ones and zeroes? #milehighops pic.twitter.com/tYNy5oVFbH -- Shane Madden at 2:01 PM - 10 Jun 2015 via Twitter

bjb568

$test$

Kewl, mathjax bookmarklet works on mobile safari.

SmokeDetector

9:55 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: ACPI Package problem on boot Ubuntu 14.04.02 by Bartłomiej Miśkiewicz on askubuntu.com

xkcdBot

10:25 PM

Today's xkcd comic (The Martian):

I have never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a loose wire.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: What type of power supply unit should I use for my pc? by Stantofix on superuser.com

AstroCB

sd fp

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB Registered answer as false positive.

bjb568

AstroCB

@ProgramFOX Yes, but what kinds of posts should we be reporting, and for what reason?

I just don't see the point when we could say it ourselves.

Since SD's "manual report" syntax doesn't give much information about the post.

hichris123

10:30 PM

I kinda agree.

Hi!

bummi

Hi!

@AstroCB seems to be error-prone too, in case Smokey posted meanwhile

SmokeDetector

10:48 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How could the cruel House Bolton be a banner man or ally of the honorable House Stark? by Timonidas on scifi.stackexchange.com

gunr2171

11:13 PM

Can someone help me find a relevant meta post? Looking for a post that talks about "can we get notifications when a post you voted on is edited or reopened?"

request from here: chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/23815861#23815861

Lance Roberts

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Q: Are users notified when their questions are reopened?

Do users get notified when their question is reopened? I know there are no notifications on close, and that makes sense because 1) you assume the user is paying attention to their open, unanswered question, and they'll probably notice it's been put on hold and 2) it follows with the SE policy of ...

Of course, there's more questions on notification on closing, that also mention reopening.

bjb568

DV pls inapplicable ux.stackexchange.com/a/79951/42756

gunr2171

@LanceRoberts thanks

I found these two posts: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1751/… and meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252055/…

those should help

user259867

11:28 PM

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Q: What posts get deleted, and why?

A fair number of posts get deleted on Stack Overflow each month, for a wide variety of reasons and by a diverse set of methods. Because these posts are, by definition, not visible and not searchable, there tends to be a lot of misinformation about how much gets deleted and who deletes it. So,...

discussion deleted-questions deleted-answers statistics

user259867

I don't know what's there to discuss... not nearly enough

user259867

just wait for me to get 2000 on SO... [and get review-banned trying to nuke a well-received link-only answer]

Lance Roberts

I wish we could have more breakdown on mod deletions; i.e. whether they were spam or offensive. There is nothing worse than mod deletion of popular posts, since they are then locked and can't be voted on by the community.

user259867

@LanceRoberts Mods don't delete spam/offensive posts, they flag them just as we do.

user259867

(Except their flags are binding, of course)

Lance Roberts

11:38 PM

Hmm, that means that 814 non-spam/offensive posts have been deleted by mods. That can't be good.

user259867

814 questions, and 10035 answers.

user259867

814 questions in 30 days isn't much on the scale of SO.

hichris123

@HomegrownTomato Yep.

Shog9

@LanceRoberts not necessarily true

hichris123

Corner on the @Shog9! Any progress on your roomba proposal from a while back?

Dronehinge

11:43 PM

Corner on the @Shog9! Any progress on your roomba proposal from a while back?

hichris123

...

Hi @Dronehinge.

Dronehinge

trainbot? ...

@hichris123 if (is.question == true) { roomba(); }

Lance Roberts

yep, questions.

user259867

@hichris123 Which roomba proposal: from July or from May?

Dronehinge

@HomegrownTomato July...

the May one is just figuring out how to clear the HIQ

hichris123

11:47 PM

@HomegrownTomato I was talking about July's but how about both?

Downvote please: stackoverflow.com/questions/25884112/…

user259867

@hichris123 It won't be deleted unless closed... or unless that proposal takes effect.

hichris123

@HomegrownTomato Oh right. :(

Well then cv-plz ^

Dronehinge

@hichris123 tomorrow

user259867

My issue with July's proposal was that the authors of answers to deleted questions won't even know what was deleted (outside of 60 days period), and will have no practical way to access that content. Some may be upset.

hichris123

Also whoever upvoted the answer... that makes it harder to roomba.

Shog9

11:52 PM

@LanceRoberts Moderators can and usually do flag-delete blatant spam and offensive posts. However, there are borerline cases where the flag will be handled via deletion but not necessarily via flag-deletion if that makes sense.

A huge pile of deletions are due to VLQ and NAA flags. Yes, moderators still handle a decent-sized chunk of them.

Lance Roberts

Thx

user259867

More than all reviewers combined, it seems. 10K vs 6.6K.

user259867

Of course, some of these went through review but had positive score or accept mark. Not clear how many.

Kevin Brown

Do accepted answers that are flagged NAA/VLQ skip the queue? I noticed that those tend to take quite a bit longer to get reviewed (and often rejected) compared to non-accepted answers.

Shog9

@HomegrownTomato the big win for review is that it removes a LOT of the noise that would otherwise bog down the moderators.

@KevinBrown I believe so, yes

Dronehinge

11:56 PM

What's the difference between Answer - Author Vote and Answer - Owner Deleted

user259867

When a user is deleted, any posts owned by them scoring < 0 are deleted as well, @Lucas. There's also a mod tool that'll delete ALL posts owned by the user along with them - this is generally used for spammers. I suppose I could've called those "Owner was deleted" and avoided this confusion. — Shog9 ♦ 2 hours ago

Dronehinge

oh

Shog9

@KevinBrown yeah - high-scoring, accepted, or locked posts skip LQ review entirely.

user259867

> VLQ and NAA flags on posts that have not been previously reviewed and are not closed, deleted, locked or accepted will enter /review/low-quality-posts. Item 2 here

Kevin Brown

@Shog9 Interesting, I guess it makes sense for them to.

user259867

11:59 PM

Hm, "high-scoring" clause isn't documented there.

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