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3:06 PM

!!/blame

@AndrewT. It's PeterJ's fault.

[ SmokeDetector ] Korean character in body: Weird characters and deficiency of the attribute. Python by Nikita Shub on stackoverflow.com

Kevin Brown

sd ignore-

hichris123

Since when did the SO shirt change? The one I just got is just the stacks -- no tony the pony or unicorn or anything.

It doesn't even say Stack Overflow on it.

Andy

What'd you get a shirt for?

hichris123

It's the election swag.

user259867

3:17 PM

@hichris123 pic pls

hichris123

Too lazy to take one...

Geek day at work ...Thanks @StackCareers for the #stackoverflow t-shirt ! #devooxfr http://t.co/dhApGWBlQL

Tweeted by MorganLeroi on April 21, 2015 at 9:36 AM

It's that ^

user259867

Hm. I guess the message is that the logo is recognizable enough that the name isn't needed.

hichris123

I guess so... but the regex post in the shape of a unicorn was... nice.

Feb 4 '14 at 0:45, by Undo

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: What happens if you use much larger quantities of that gun primer like dough that kids hit the ground with? by user17395 on chemistry.stackexchange.com

Kevin Brown

sd tpu-

user259867

3:25 PM

rude, naa, and OT a bundle of 3 in 1.

Kevin Brown

There's two answers there that need to be flagged

user259867

@hichris123 I don't like it. Neither the post nor the idea of putting it on a t-shirt. It does not send the message "this is a useful resource".

user259867

More of "this is a place full of people that are ticked off about something, tread carefully"

hichris123

Mmm... okay...

Braiam

@1999 but, but... UNICORNS!

hichris123

3:30 PM

It's a little... bland though.

Also @Undo got more swag than I did. :P

Braiam

watches as @hichris123 breaks into @Undo's house and steals the shinnies

hichris123

You're watching me? Stalker much?

;P

Braiam

not you, no...

glances suspiciously

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[ SmokeDetector ] Korean character in body, korean character in title: 〔유다이소↓Udaiso01｡com〕 §강남오피방의 위치ᘠ수지오피≫ ᘡ사당오피 by hkwb5335 on gaming.stackexchange.com

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Sigh... Korea takes over the world

TCPMAN.EXE

3:44 PM

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy o/

user259867

@SmokeDetector gone

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Korea takes over the world

yesterday, 47 minutes total – 29 messages, 6 users, 10 stars

Bookmarked 10 hours ago by Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Lynn Crumbling

offtopic || migrate: stackoverflow.com/q/31330394/656243

Also ot || migrate: stackoverflow.com/q/31345099/656243

Moshe

Morning

Lynn Crumbling

o/

SmokeDetector

3:59 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Strange result with Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel by Alejandro Jurado on stackoverflow.com

xkcdBot

Today's xkcd comic (XKCD Phone 3):

If you're not completely satisfied with the phone after 30 days, we will return you to your home at no cost.

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hichris123

What happened to Stack Overflow OS?

Braiam

> waterproof, but can drown

HA!

@hichris123 SOOS? beats me...

user259867

Was that before or after SOTV in the sequence of stupid ideas?

hichris123

He's back:

-2

A: Taiwan is not a province of China

Tell me WHY MY POST IS DELETED? Taiwan, by UN standard, is 100 PERCENT province of China; either definition of China is ROC or PRC. Majority of countries acknowledge this including USA !!! Taiwan, at most, is de facto independent; self-ruled independent political entity. HOWEVER: Taiwan has N...

Kevin Brown

4:09 PM

Screenshot for those of us who can't view it?

Braiam

@KevinBrown the exact same body as last time... just that now with a header

Kevin Brown

I never saw it last time :(

hichris123

And if you didn't see it last time... it's just an angry rant about how Taiwan is part of China.

Undo

@hichris123 that's cause I drew a crappy picture, which naturally deserves more swag than, ya know, participating in democratic community processes.

hichris123

@Undo obviously. :P I'm a little disappointed though... I got a shirt, a mod hat, and stickers. Oh well though.

Kevin Brown

4:15 PM

a mod hat?

hichris123

I'm happy that I did get swag though.

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Apr 6 '14 at 2:43, by Undo

Undo

@hichris123 wow it was so clean back then

Andy

@hichris123 I didn't get a mod hat :(

hichris123

@Andy Well, uh... I guess you didn't ask for one? Oops, probably should've told you to ask for one.

> The form "Someone Thinks You're Awesome!" is no longer accepting responses.

boo.

Tiny Giant

Hello :)

Andy

4:20 PM

@hichris123 They've gotten enough Awesome, I guess

hichris123

I guess so. :P

bjb568

@bjb568 In CSS width and height are actual property names. Questions concerning widths and heights may not necessarily relate to those properties, so I feel tags named Height and Width would be more appropriate in this situation. — James Donnelly 10 mins ago

What does he mean, just capitalized?

People who think width should be a tag probably haven't put to much thot into it anyway…

Tiny Giant

whotespace would be a bad tag

What would it mean?

Mysticial

@hichris123 DDOS attack from China in 3, 2, 1...

bjb568

agh

somebody post a burninate req for whitespace

Andy

4:25 PM

@bjb568 No, he's just saying that he thinks width and height should be separate tags from your proposed css-width

Tiny Giant

why not [wh tespace]?

Andy

Perhaps a synonym between width and css-width?

bjb568

I don't even. width is not a good tag.

Tiny Giant

Useless tags. I'm sure there are many more useful tags that could be applied to the same posts.

Andy

Why is whitespace good but not width? (Genuinely curious since I'm not a CSS person)

Tiny Giant

4:30 PM

We don't like wh tespace either

bjb568

They're both non-catagorizational.

Braiam

yeah, we don't need tags that don't catagore something

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/30607264/…

@Mysticial Well, at least I think everything is backed by CloudFlare now.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Can I cast a purely verbal spell through my familiar? by oldSchoolDM on rpg.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: android expandablelistview does not expand or receive click events by wannagotopopeyes on stackoverflow.com

Tiny Giant

4:50 PM

... I don't see anything offensive in the second.

user259867

@TinyGiant Log.d("onGroupExpand", "this shit works?");

Shadow Wizard

@Pandya glad for you it's solved, but my opinion stands - they can't support all browsers, and other things might break suddenly.

Tiny Giant

Ahhh....

Shadow Wizard

@Pandya as far as I know, there was never help center for chat, only faq.

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/31120790/…

Tiny Giant

4:53 PM

Don't you love it when people actually take pictures of their screen, lol

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: INSERT INFO FROM ONE REPORT TO AN EMPTY REPORT WITH ONLY HEADERS by Chantelle Brink on stackoverflow.com

user259867

I'm used to it on Math... an out of focus picture of a screen with homework assignment is a popular way of asking questions.

user259867

!!/report askubuntu.com/questions/646871/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Male Perf Croyez-moi, je l’ai utilisé by ryednyjadeey on askubuntu.com

Braiam

@SmokeDetector funny, is tagged with "performance"

user259867

4:57 PM

blacklist candidate male\Wperf\w*

Braiam

anyone has trouble to understand what is said here?

user259867

I do. But I've no clue about building packages, so that is to be expected.

Tiny Giant

Pretty straightforward

user259867

pedagogy isn't one of the strengths of Stack Exchange

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hichris123

5:17 PM

4

A: Does SO 'celebrate' the 10M Question milestone?

Yes. But I'm not yet sure what we'll do. It's been awhile since we just had a bit of fun here on meta and felt great about something awesome that just happened to this thing that every single one of us have worked so hard to build. It will probably involve: Unicorns and rainbows Copious amou...

@BoltClock True, but Stack Overflow is now my job (and only job), and we have folks on our ops team to help send it out. I'd hate to miss a chance for everyone to have some fun around a pretty awesome achievement for all of us. — Tim Post ♦ 5 mins ago

Jamal

I would be surprise if it didn't involve unicorns and rainbows.

hichris123

I think Tim heard my cries.

Jun 28 at 15:28, by hichris123

We haven't had a swag contest in a while. :(

So... @1999 when should we expect the 10M'th question?

BoltClock's a Unicorn

nicael posts question on SO

I answer it

Explodes in popularity. Remains only answer

stackoverflow.com/help/badges/262/publicist?userid=1114

hichris123

It's a hot question.

What did you do, @BoltClock'saUnicorn????

BoltClock's a Unicorn

@hichris123 How does a question reach HNQ with just one answer?

hichris123

5:26 PM

Okay, maybe it's not a HNQ.

I can't explain "viewed 4849 times" if it wasn't a HNQ though.

BoltClock's a Unicorn

> catagore

hichris123

Although HNQ is weird... stackoverflow.com/questions/31338934/… hit HNQ even though it's super super simple. I guess that's what a Skeet answer does though.

bjb568

argh the wifi suddenly turned horrible, 5s ping times…

Braiam

> non-catagorizational

@bjb568 wifi = lag + longer round trips + jitter

user259867

5:49 PM

@hichris123 Publicist badge implies it got traffic from outside SE network, i.e., not via HNQ.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to shuffle all songs in iOS 8.4 music app by Austin on apple.stackexchange.com

BoltClock's a Unicorn

@SmokeDetector Clearly the answer is to get an iPod shuffle

Braiam

@hichris123 he didn't, Jeremy on the other hand...

user259867

Would embedding a 1px image with src = questionlink on some popular page drive up the views?

Tiny Giant

Maybe.

Kevin Brown

5:53 PM

@1999 Probably not, referrer checking usually gets in the way.

Braiam

@KevinBrown why referrer?

Andrew T.

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. It's SmokeDetector's fault.

Tiny Giant

Would viewing the question in an iframe not drive the views up?

If so, I can't see why it wouldn't work.

Braiam

considering how borked iframes are, I'm not sure

Tiny Giant

5:55 PM

But there is an easy way to find out.

Kevin Brown

Frame busting probably prevents that

user259867

Yes, SE content cannot be iframed.

Kevin Brown

@Braiam The referrer will be different if you have a small image driving up views

user259867

Why 10 million and not 10*1024^2 ?

user259867

Also, I think reaching the number is a cause for lamenting, not celebrating. It means not deleting enough.

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user259867

5:58 PM

@hichris123 Depends. For all we know, next month one of Shog's proposal gets implemented and the count is down to 5M.

bjb568

16777216 is what really needs to be celebrated

Tiny Giant

Damn, that last star pushed the bjb mascot off the starboard :(

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[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Polymer Neon Animations doesnot work by Rushabh Ganatra on stackoverflow.com

hichris123

@1999 Based on your Expert Analysis™, what's your guess?

Andrew T.

searching for stackoverflow 31324387 (the nicael question) returned "Progginator!", I couldn't find relevant post from social media though

Braiam

6:01 PM

@hichris123 check out how many questions are eligible for autodeleting

user259867

@hichris123 I'll post it on expert-analysis.com

Andrew T.

> Fedora Test Page

hichris123

Whatever happened to ExpertsExchange?

user259867

You can buy the domain now.

Tiny Giant

Experts Exchange powers the growth and success of technology professionals worldwide.

user259867

6:02 PM

inb4 bjb buys it to redirect to DD

user259867

Oops, I forgot the hyphen.

Tiny Giant

otherwise, it could be misread as "expert sex change"

BoltClock's a Unicorn

@AndrewT. You mean proppy-go-ae.appspot.com/progginator_? You can see the link in the line where it says "TIL that even elements like [...]" if you do a quoted search for that the proggit post comes up first

Andrew T.

ah, I see

!se stackoverflow user 1114

it's Jeremy Banks

BoltClock's a Unicorn

41 mins ago, by BoltClock's a Unicorn

http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/262/publicist?userid=1114

Andrew T.

6:08 PM

yeah I noticed. Just want to know where he shared the question

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Where to find Magick++ API? by jah on askubuntu.com

hichris123

abusive ^

Andrew T.

the rest of his answers on the same question are NAA

not the longest one though (I guess)

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/31120790/…

SmokeDetector

6:31 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: XPS 13 Ubuntu Issues by czaarek99 on askubuntu.com

user259867

About that rep char : post length ratio...

Lynn Crumbling

Needs two more (ot) : stackoverflow.com/q/31330394/656243

user259867

blacklist candidate daytradingacademy (.org)

SmokeDetector

@1999 That does not look like a valid post URL.

user259867

!!/report money.stackexchange.com/a/49766

SmokeDetector

6:44 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Wash Sales and Day Trading by jose on money.stackexchange.com

user259867

Clever choice of spam title:

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Android TargetApi annotation and the Just-In-Time compiler 2 by diftbolf on stackoverflow.com

Tiny Giant

@1999 Should we instead lament our failure with unicorns and rainbows?

user259867

More daytradingacademy SPAM: money.stackexchange.com/a/49767

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

user259867

6:51 PM

SPAM daytrading again: money.stackexchange.com/a/49768/22480

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Need XSLT to remove Nodes from nodes from top of XML by jdeluca on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector edited

SmokeDetector

7:07 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Cronbach's alpha, When to use it by Joseph on stats.stackexchange.com

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

7:20 PM

Is Meta the place for Area51 bugs?

hichris123

meta.A51.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

I have no idea whether that was a joke or not :/

never mind

it doesn't resolve ;)

user259867

Is this like... the opposite of spam? RE: Is outsource.com a good place to find a job, or is it a scam? by Developer on freelancing.stackexchange.com

user259867

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Yes, report on Meta. Heads up: nobody cares.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

@1999 lol - I care tho! ;P

user259867

7:24 PM

Okay, that was too harsh. They will probably fix some breaking behavior, but they aren't likely to react to nicael-style bugs.

user259867

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Then my warning fully applies. Area 51 is not under development; no features are being added. Since closed proposals are automatically deleted...

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

@1999 oh

ok

thanks for telling me!!

you saved me 5 minutes of my life! :P

@1999 what was your old username if you don't mind me asking? I've completely forgotten!!

user259867

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ normalhuman.github.io/oldusernames

hichris123

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ discuss.area51.stackexchange.com

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

@1999 Wow - those are a lot of username!

Ahh that's it!

Homegrown tomato!!

did you make that?

@hichris123 ?? Are they supposed to be posted there?

user259867

7:34 PM

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Yes, it's my script. Source here

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

@1999 cool - you should post that on Stack Apps for an upvote from me :)

user259867

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ You could post there, in fact some people do. But Area 51 is also on topic on Meta, which is more active. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/area51

user259867

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Done: Find old display names of a user by 1999 on stackapps.com

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

@1999 ok thanks - I'm not posting it now anyways!

@1999 hmmm - apparently I've already voted on that before!?

user259867

The Stack Apps post is from back when my version control system was "a folder on Dropbox". I don't feel like bumping all the posts to change the links, but will add a comment.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

7:37 PM

I should probably start paying attention to what I vote on :P

@1999 you might as well bump it! Stack Apps hardly gets bumps!

hichris123

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

(other than by Community ;)

hichris123

@1999 Hrm, I always thought it was supposed to be reported on discuss.A51. But shrug.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

@hichris123 thanks for the link - if I ever do post a bug, I might post it on A51... I dunno ;)

@1999 I never knew about that API method! Cool use!

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[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: free uk domains on getdotted.com? by Valentine on webmasters.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: Free .uk domains on getdotted.com? by Valentine on webmasters.stackexchange.com

hichris123

7:46 PM

@SmokeDetector ignore-

Kevin Brown

That smells like a spam seed

user259867

@hichris123 Verry interesting. I think it's a spammer

Kevin Brown

I'm going to flag it

user259867

This other post is also spam: webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/83035/…

hichris123

Probably, but I'm tired of the reports. :P

@1999 why?

user259867

7:47 PM

Okay, what's the deal with putting "free stuff <site name>" if not for SEO purpose?

rene

I'm not so sure,,,

hichris123

which? The one in the screenshot?

rene

this one looks OK-ish

user259867

The body of the post is just diversion.

user259867

And they did it twice

user259867

7:50 PM

@hichris123 The ones they put in the title of each question

hichris123

@1999 startSSL is fairly well known.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: INSERTION & RETREVING FROM MYSQL DATABASE RETUURNS ?????????????? SIGN FOR ARABIC TEXT by ALMrsomi on stackoverflow.com

hichris123

@SmokeDetector fp-

user259867

@hichris123 That doesn't mean they don't want better pagerank for "free https certificates"

hichris123

@1999 They might, but I kinda doubt it's spam. I've known about it for years, so...

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

7:58 PM

meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/39992

reject^^

user259867

rejected

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

:)

user259867

But in general, these have 0 chance of being approved on Meta (think of who has 2000 rep here), so it's hardly worth posting.

user259867

Although getting the spammer blocked sooner is probably good.

Dronehinge

code review election voting began just now

bjb568

8:09 PM

rene

I don't have enough rep on CR

user245368

@rene It's easy to get it.

Mast

@rene You still have 4 days to get it.

rene

Really? I don't have sock-puppets, remember

Braiam

that's what a @rene would say...

user245368

8:15 PM

In fact, we upvote so much that certain users think we have a site problem.

Mast

On CR, one good question will net you at least 6 votes within a day. You'll get the first 101 from being already a regular on SE.

bjb568

I got more than that with my md-html.

But time of day is key.

rene

@Braiam tnx for blowing that cover...

bjb568

You're a dandelion, but it's too blurred to see that?

rene

What I am remains a mystery

Mast

8:20 PM

@rene According to your profile picture: a flower

Braiam

@rene that's what a Shog would say...

Braiam

8:39 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/31053017/792066

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

hichris123

@1999 github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/commit/…

user259867

Looks good, except I'm not familiar with "".join(match) is this how one converts to a string in Python?

hichris123

@1999 That's how you convert an array/tuple to a string.

The first .join() is since we have two capturing groups, it returns the match as a tuple, the second is to turn all matches into a single string. So array of tuples -> array of strings -> string.

user259867

I see, it's the other way around compared to JS [array].join(separator)

user259867

8:48 PM

Makes sense.

hichris123

@1999 yeah, it's weird.

Braiam

@hichris123 now, you need to add extra lines?

hichris123

Flake requires two lines between methods.

I... kinda forgot that. :P

user259867

Number of "make flake happy" commits ++

Braiam

is that a convention or what?

user259867

8:57 PM

Apparently, a requirement of this source file checker, lint-y thing

hichris123

It's based on PEP8, I think.

Braiam

> Method definitions inside a class are surrounded by a single blank line.

???

user259867

> You should use two spaces after a sentence-ending period.

user259867

Blasphemy!

Braiam

I never understand that two spaces after dot stuff... I mean, you don't space it twice while handwriting

hichris123

9:03 PM

> Surround top-level function and class definitions with two blank lines.

@Braiam ^

Braiam

@hichris123 don't you have a text editor that supports editorconfig?

hichris123

That... takes configuration. :P

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Is Haki based on anything real? by Dr.Solid on anime.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: "fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value" when trying to use predicate with a relationshipobject by PlainPeppers on stackoverflow.com

bjb568

We're totally going to write and perform a nose flute symphony over here.

Can't wait, right now we're scheduling auditions.

user259867

Will a recording be online somewhere?

bjb568

9:15 PM

Yeah, I'll make sure it gets recorded.

Just wait a few weeks.

hichris123

6-8 perhaps?

bjb568

About

Braiam

10:03 PM

obligatory reference to Where did that recursion question go? — gnat Jul 3 at 15:50

user259867

Data scraping seed questions, if anyone wants to spend closevotes without thinking much:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31339603/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31348470/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31347790/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31346781/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31346319/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31346700/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31339801/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31337846/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31348778/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31347907/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31338287/

user259867

Or if a mod is in the mood for clicking delete...

Braiam

@1999 a mod in the mood D:

Jamal

So many free flags!

Braiam

> If he manages to survive and gain some combat skill, he'll be able to clean fish and kick ass at the same time.

I wonder how many people can say the same?

bjb568

10:32 PM