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user259867
12:04 PM
The keyboard shortcut for flagging is easy to remember: "posted by some m.f."
I haven't yet come up with a mnemonic device for closing (mc) or downvoting (vd).
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
@Normal While the term seems to have fallen out of favour when I was growing up vd was mostly used as an acronym for venereal disease so perhaps that helps with that one
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: The Best Way On How To Improve Your Memory Naturally by OrvilleDemarest59 on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: How To Gain Strenght Fat? by gloriagprimuse on stackoverflow.com
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Can somebody tell me where this is?
sd 2tpu
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
12:19 PM
1. [:3841052] Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
2. [:3841049] Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: creating a classified - stuck by Rackons on stackoverflow.com
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
@KevinBrown I think I've fixed it...
@KevinBrown yep.. fixed! :)
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Awesome, I think I might install it later to test it out :)
 
ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
@KevinBrown great :) Here's link you could test it on:
:)
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
12:45 PM
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector ignore- but needs a major edit
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@SmokeDetector It's crap, but it's a question.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: Find longest lines from a file by Bridgeton Industries Automotiv on codereview.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@tjw as I said before, it's your job to convince us that it'd be useful; not the other way around. We've given an argument against, and all you said was it's just common sense. — inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M 9 secs ago
@Normal I'm getting tired of this.
Should I quit answering them?
Or should I tell them to come to chat, as I'd do in SE itself?
 
Patrick Hofman
Patrick Hofman
12:59 PM
 
rene
rene
@PatrickHofman done
 
Patrick Hofman
Patrick Hofman
@rene Thanks
 
user259867
1:11 PM
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M If you're no longer enjoying it, stop doing it...
 
user259867
 
user259867
^ Monthly uniques from China, network total. Source: quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc?country=CN
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@NormalHuman Just did; they're frustrated, and I don't have time for their frustration.
 
user259867
It is possible that both spam and the increased number of visits are results of some change in the Great Firewall. Someone recognized that access to SO is important...
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
Or Stack Overflow moved and they haven't put the blocks back up?
 
user259867
1:23 PM
Are their IPs different now? I never looked at them.
 
user259867
There is CloudFlare, I don't know if it matters...
 
Andy
Andy
They moved to Denver. They may have messed with some stuff
 
rene
rene
Don't see a reason for Oded to only mention SPAM
 
user259867
Colorado is closer to China than New Jersey...
 
Andy
Andy
I challenge that assertation. TO GOOGLE MAPS!
 
rene
rene
1:25 PM
@Andy Nick forgot to move the firewall...
 
Andy
Andy
@NormalHuman False. Colorado to New Jersey: 1863 miles Colorado to China: 6883 miles
 
user259867
I didn't say "Colorado is closer to China than to New Jersey..."
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Hmm, that darn ellipsis.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: Few Facts About Cod Liver Oil Cerebria by haniyaroyl on stackoverflow.com
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
user259867
1:36 PM
One of the more common domains. It's been a long time since we saw optimalstackfacts.
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
Does anyone happen to know for new but registered user how you end up with this sort of profile photo instead of a gravatar, is it a Facebook login? electronics.stackexchange.com/users/83440/user67674
 
rene
rene
yeah
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
Thanks, thought I'd seen a possible correlation with question quality so that explains it
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@Rene how do suggested edits in per site metas work?
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I don't think you can suggest edits
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
1:40 PM
@KevinBrown I thought that too, but how are these stats showing up?
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
Yeah the only thing you can suggest an edit on is tag wikis
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
Oh right, I always forget about tag wikis
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Oh!
That makes sense.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
@PeterJ I can confirm that it is a FB login - it only became visible to me when I allowed Ghostery to show FB.
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
@S.L.Barth, thanks didn't think to do the obvious and check the image source
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
1:46 PM
You're welcome. I found fiddling with Ghostery faster than wading through the HTML and CSS in this case....
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
1:58 PM
Halo
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Hello @UniformsForSale!
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Hi
Can't believe the derp I just did
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Ok, @UniformsForSale, I'll take the bait... what was it?
 
bjb568
bjb568
0
A: Legends is a duplicate of Mythology

KslkghThere isn't one. See fbueckert's answer here.

 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
....keep in mind that it'll be on the chat transcript forever, before you answer....
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
2:04 PM
@S.L.Barth I didn't put the 'i' in my regex
And I sat there wondering:
 
bjb568
bjb568
@bjb568 LinkError: Cannot contextualize language input, broken reference "one".
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
> Wai u no work
@bjb where do you live?
 
bjb568
bjb568
Huh?
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Country
 
bjb568
bjb568
US
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
2:05 PM
Oh
Sup @Nor
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
It happens, @UniformsForSale ... in retrospect the mistake is always obvious... but until you find it...
 
bjb568
bjb568
Unless you still don't understand it :p
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Well, then you have some more learning to do.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: A Spotlight On Effective Prodroxatone Products by user50925 on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Which is fine.
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
2:08 PM
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Flag time
 
user259867
@PeterJ Look at the URL of the profile picture. If it begins with fbcdn, as is the case here, that means they used Facebook to login, and SE pulled the profile pic from there (it's done automatically for both FB and Google). If they have the default FB profile pic, it's pulled too.
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector Why not "at the end of body"?
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
@NormalHuman Body - Position 105-122: fitnesscafe360.co
 
user259867
That doesn't answer my question...
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
2:09 PM
IIll
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
No account there... but the title already screams "tp"
 
Braiam
Braiam
@NormalHuman maybe it just matched the website and bailed out
 
bjb568
bjb568
Maybe ur mom matched the wabsite and bailed out
 
user259867
@Braiam You're right, it matched the first appearance of the link, which is close enough to the beginning to be included in the body summary.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Derp is fixt
 
user259867
2:11 PM
"Position 105-122" was indeed a hint for me that it happened, the summary is just about that long.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
So now the regex works, @UniformsForSale?
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Yep
> 'I' should be caps;
'U' should be 'you';
Cleaned up punctuation;
YAS!
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
Just noticed that the OSS ads for the second half of 2015 was never posted on Meta SO
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Sup @Jco
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
@Normal, I still get graph.facebook.com for that profile image, maybe cached because I'd already viewed it. I guess maybe they pull the pic from FB asynchronously.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
2:14 PM
@UniformsForSale Please tell that to a number of SO posters and editors...!
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
@S.L.Barth The VLQ posts?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Yes, and a number that aren't in the VLQ queue as well.
 
user259867
@UniformsForSale Is for i in myArray safe from your regex?
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
@NormalHuman what do you mean?
 
user259867
I mean will it also be capitalized?
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
2:15 PM
Oh, it ignores code
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
That regex is part of Smoke Detector or some other SE bot?
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
if (line.startsWith('    ')) continue;
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
What about backticks?
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
@S.L.Barth Ummmm
No
Need to find time to check that
> Heeeaeaeaealp
Catches that as well!
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Backticks is one of those things that appear simple and get tricky when you think about them.
 
user259867
2:20 PM
@S.L.Barth No, this is a separate auto-editing project by Uniforms.
 
user259867
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Lol
> hHHHhHhhhhHhHaaaaAAAaaAAlLLlLlllpppppP
Also finds that
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Aha. Interesting.
I'm thinking about backticks. If there are no quotations around, you just have to keep track of whether the number of backticks is even or odd.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Thats hard
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Well that can still fit in a regular expression.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
2:23 PM
status-deferred
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
At least you could create a finite state machine for it easily.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
status-think-about-it-later
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
As one of my friends liked to say... "one miracle at a time!"
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Found this on SO:
> Ruby on Rails: How can i add css file with rails project?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Found it. It's from 2011.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
2:26 PM
Tested script:
(with my own things, of course)
 
Praxis Ashelin
Praxis Ashelin
"Ruby on rails" always makes me think about trains and rollercoasters
2
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DELETE WITH JOINED TABLE by Oscar Ho on stackoverflow.com
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Adds new VLQ regex
Boom done
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
The edit suggestion looks reasonable. Should get the typography for CSS right, and remove the tag from the title.
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
@Uniforms you left CSS in lowercase and tags in the title
^^ we posted at the same time
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
2:29 PM
And about the same things.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
?
> h e l p
B u t I t y p e t h i s d i d n ' t w o r k
I broke something
Dunno where 'help' is from
Sup @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
Bye @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
> But i type this didn't work???
SUp Bye @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
That becomes this:
> But I type this didn't work?
Ahhhh
Help fixed
 
user259867
July 2015 was the first month with 100M unique visitors to SE network
 
user259867
Which is also notable because in other years, July had less traffic than preceding months of the year.
 
user259867
Mobile apps, combined, contributed the whopping 72K uniques to this total.
 
user259867
After several years of development by several full-time employees.
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
2:38 PM
I wonder how Quantcast estimate things like kids / income / race etc?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Is there a breakdown in subdomains? I imagine that the SE sites on entertainment (and Travel.SE) are more frequently visited during the summer break.
 
Braiam
Braiam
they ask the NSA
 
bjb568
bjb568
they ask the Google
 
user259867
@S.L.Barth Yes, just click "6 sites", pick a domain, then pick a subdomain...
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
@PeterJ Tracking cookies, Quantcast tracks a large portion of the internet
 
bjb568
bjb568
2:41 PM
Should be biased tho, don't a lot of people disable third party cookies?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
@NormalHuman Thanks!
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Eeek
This is hard
 
bjb568
bjb568
TWSS
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
I need a function in my JSON string
But the parser doesn't understand the function
 
user259867
You need a method in your madness.
 
user259867
2:42 PM
Grr, spoiled it.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Hm, QuantCast doesn't seem to track meta.mechanics.stackexchange.com ?
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
@S.L.Barth I think they only track the top domain, in this case stackexchange.com
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
@KevinBrown No, there is a breakdown in subdomains, and they do track the other per-site metas.
Not a young site either. According to Area 51 it's in beta for 1623 days.... that's over 4 years.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: carrier in carrier by Ken Murphy on electronics.stackexchange.com
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Grr
I was trying to flaj "ken"
 
Praxis Ashelin
Praxis Ashelin
2:50 PM
y u flaj
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Spam
 
user259867
No, it's not spam.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
No?
It seems like spam
 
user259867
 
Praxis Ashelin
Praxis Ashelin
it totally is spam
 
Andy
Andy
2:54 PM
You sure it's not just more information about that was posted as a comment 3 hours ago?
The post with the datasheet?
 
user259867
@PraxisAshelin The question is about the inner workings of Comtech modem. Someone from Comtech replies with a link to their documentation. Spam?
 
Andy
Andy
No, it's not spam. It's low quality, but not spam
 
Praxis Ashelin
Praxis Ashelin
can be edited I guess
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Sigh...
Still need to update everything to use the new CSS
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Andy isn't it a case of spam seed?
 
Andy
Andy
2:59 PM
The link to a white paper makes it seem like it is not. My spam radar isn't beeping on this one. It may be because there was a more established user that commented with a similar paper earlier
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Looks like comtechefdata.com is an official domain from Comtech.
 
Andy
Andy
@PraxisAshelin I understand how to suggest edits. Just FYI
 
Praxis Ashelin
Praxis Ashelin
@Andy yeah it's just that I can't see ur edit
oddly enough also not giving me the option to edit, it's greyed out. never saw that before
my comment was also partly directed to Ken
 
Andy
Andy
The email and the "thanks" have been removed. I added no additional content as EE isn't my area of expertise. Someone else can do that. My goal was to prevent the spam flags.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
@PraxisAshelin Because another edit is pending, probably.
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
3:07 PM
Personally I thought the answer was probably not spam, but did VTC the question as "use of electronic devices" because without any real reason for asking I didn't see a real EE quesion. There are many ways that can be done and it's mainly marketing speak.
Although after a quick Google it does seem to have been coined for that particular technique, but probably remains too broad when it's that easily found without a specific question about it.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SQL DATA BASE (INSERTING) by Jayson Marquez on stackoverflow.com
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
3:23 PM
Ugh. Not nearly enough information to help them.
Not that I feel inclined....
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Is there any errors here? by Murad on stackoverflow.com
 
SirPython
SirPython
@SmokeDetector It looks like the user did this because they were notified that their post was mostly code and that the couldn't post if it didn't contain more context.
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector ignore- but closable as either unclear or typo or no MCVE...
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Whoot
Yay! Almost instant approve!
 
PeterJ
PeterJ
Now it just needs delete votes on the question
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
3:36 PM
@SHA delete plz
Why does @Sir have no profile image?
 
SirPython
SirPython
Not sure.
It didn't carry over from my other SE accounts, and I never came to changing it.
 
user259867
Looking into this. I suspect our CDN was finally whitelisted, but that's kinda hard to confirm. I'll report back if and when I figure it out. — Tim Post ♦ 46 mins ago
 
user259867
If Chinese government is now okay with SE (or at least with SO), a proposal for SO in Chinese should be forthcoming...
 
Andy
Andy
@UniformsForSale Was this entirely an automatic suggestion?
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Nope, did it by hand
 
user259867
3:52 PM
@SmokeDetector fp-
 
xkcdBot
xkcdBot
Today's xkcd comic (Back Seat):
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
4:10 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: how to cast set into list in this situation by Pravin Singh on stackoverflow.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector again, working around the "wall of code" regex...
 
Braiam
Braiam
@xkcdBot mmm?
no https on the link...
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Yay!
Closes Eclipse and opens IntelliJ
Well
The day has come
Its time to use the new CSS
 
user259867
4:29 PM
So, Code Review declined the offer of incremental graduation (basically, removal of beta label with nothing else). In a couple of hours, Magento will be the first beta site to lose the label without getting a design.
 
user259867
Will they hide it with display:none? Stay tuned...
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
And....
Its the ad break?
 
user259867
Or lunch break, as the case may be.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
What do you guys think?
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
I honestly hope I don't have to hear Code Review complain about not getting closer to graduation for a while
 
user259867
4:33 PM
Oh... I thought you were in primary school.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Why
 
user259867
Based on chat interactions.
 
Uniforms For Sale
Uniforms For Sale
Errrrm
Really?
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@KevinBrown Does nagging in chatroom count as complain about not getting closer to graduation? 'cause I do it a lot in ELL's chatrooms.
 
user259867
<CR whining was here>
 
user259867
4:39 PM
 
user259867
5:00 PM
This article could be related to the surge of SO popularity in China... ? news.cnblogs.com/n/526552
 
user259867
(Chinese translation of Haney's blog post)
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@NormalHuman I can see blah blah blah blah Haney blah blah blah blah.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
5:20 PM
@UniformsForSale delete what?
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@ShadowWizard This I believe:
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
@NormalHuman Man, that Google translation was impressively bad
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@KevinBrown Ping me when it isn't.
(Which is already deleted)
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
5:41 PM
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M well, OP deleted it. Too late for him though, most likely he got question ban by now.
The system works, bit less crap on SO.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
0.000001% less crap on SO. Let's celebrate.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
happy dance
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Hee, are you PHB?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Powerful Homeless Brewer? nope.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Nah, I meant the one in Jon Skeet facts.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
5:46 PM
still clueless
this?
Pig Heart Boy
Pig Heart Boy is a children's novel by Malorie Blackman which was first published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The novel was adapted into a television series, which was broadcast by the BBC in 1999. == Plot introduction == Thirteen-year-old Cameron Kelsey is dying of heart disease, and time is running out to get a transplant. In desperation, his father approached transgenic doctor Richard Bryce, who is trying to conduct research with pig hearts. To Cameron's mother's chagrin, Dr Bryce agrees to perform the operation on Cameron, although it has never been done before. His...
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M it still doesn't explain what is PHB... starts crying
oh but yeah, that's the same banana
 
Braiam
Braiam
6:05 PM
@ShadowWizard the ugly brother of PHP
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Since when is something uglier than PHP?
 
rene
rene
For me that is known as a drug, but here almost every 3 letter acronym turns out to be a drug...
 
Braiam
Braiam
thats the scary part
 
Andy
Andy
@ShadowWizard PHB = "Pointy Haired Boss"
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
6:20 PM
What, it wasn't the D&D "Player HandBook"? :-D
 
user259867
6:33 PM
Is there any meta post with "official" position on shared SE accounts? I.e., one account used by several people.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SSL_ERROR_BAD_MAC_READ by simonC on stackoverflow.com
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@NormalHuman Haven't seen it.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
I don't think multiple users is against the rules.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Hmm, why would it?
There aren't any rooms for abuse.
Unless they're spammers web ™ and company.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
You could get quick rep, I suppose... more opportunities to post.
But if the qualtiy of the posts is good, there is no problem with that.
And there's the rep cap as well.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
6:38 PM
Yeah. And there's the 50 questions in 30 days limit.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Spammers could be a problem. But companies - I could imagine a company having a "company account" like they have social media accounts.
 
user259867
@MichaelT: We are planning (as in everything is ready to go but we need to wait for a data center move) to release meta data about deleted posts. When that happens, I encourage you to rerun the analysis. Having never spent much time with the statistics of the Programmers site (or really at all), I hadn't realized quite how much deletion is going on here. Personally I think giving you all more close votes is a great way to treat a particular symptom without addressing the underlying problem. I'd suggest the goal should be a healthy site and I don't think this feature request helps much. — Jon Ericson ♦ 2 hours ago
 
user259867
The underlying problem: Internet is full of stupidity. Good luck fixing that...
 
Braiam
Braiam
> September is coming
I'm sure he meant Winter there
 
user259867
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
6:52 PM
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Well... apparently there is a company that has a company account on SO: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/302635/…
 
user259867
Hmmm. Why do the question titles all begin with a tag?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
The Meta discussion was about creating a tag.
 
user259867
Okay, but why do all four questions answered by that user have titles structured in the same way?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Hm yes, this is fishy.
 
user259867
6:54 PM
All are asked by brand new users, too.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
2 of them by the same user. But it looks like sock puppeting.
 
user259867
Oh I see, the meta post explains:
 
user259867
> Olympus also announces to post question with title including a keyword "Olympus Camera Kit"
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
@NormalHuman I think the title format might have been recommended
 
user259867
Yeah, I'm a slow reader today. Need more coffee
 
user259867
6:55 PM
!!/coffee
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
@NormalHuman brews coffee for @NormalHuman
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
> Why Olympus camera kit call ######1-234-5678######
Like that?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
I guess they could quickly find the questions that way. They didn't have the rep to create the tag.
So they asked users to start their posts with "Olympus Camera Kit: "
 
user259867
Yes, it all makes sense after I finished reading the meta post.
 
user259867
So, the bottom line is: it's okay for several people to use the same account.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
6:58 PM
I guess so.
It could be trouble on their end. If they get a mod warning and only one of them sees it, and fails to communicate to the other(s).
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
If they're using one SO account and they can't have a decent communication medium, they probably don't ask anything useful after all.
 
user259867
I was thinking more in the context of answering. If I answer one question per month, and a dozen of my classmates do the same, we are all low-rep users.
 
user259867
But if we use the same account, we'll have enough rep to close questions, etc.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
Ahh, now you make sense. But how are we supposed to find who're doing that?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Even that doesn't have to be a problem. If they share wisdom in closing/reopening/voting as they share wisdom in answering...
 
user259867
7:04 PM
They don't have to share any wisdom in either way.
 
user259867
E.g., @Braiam answered some SO questions, and so did I. Neither of us has 3K rep yet. But if it was a single Normal Braiam account, we'd be closing left and right... still acting independently.
 
user259867
Ethical? I'm not asking about enforceability.
 
user259867
(Thought it would seem odd that IPs of an account rapidly alternate between NY and DR..)
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@S.L.Barth He has a point: 10 people with one account can achieve close vote reviewing 10 times easier than a person with one account.
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Yes, it could be open to abuse that way.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
7:08 PM
But again, @Normal can we find a way to find those accounts?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
But what matters is the actions of the account, not how many people are behind it.
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It could be a problem if one person in the team was really bad, but the contributions from the other(s) kept them from getting a ban.
 
user259867
Well, any of y'all are welcome to answer Controlling of Stack Exchange accounts by tatan on meta.math.stackexchange.com because I don't know what to say.
 
Braiam
Braiam
hate the sin, love the sinner :P
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
I want to keep off math.
 
user259867
I had to use y'all because there is a shortage of it in the Tavern.
 
rene
rene
7:11 PM
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Well somebody here observed that the internet is full of stupidity and that that was hard to fix. Making the internet really slow could be a way :-)
It comes at a price, of course, but so does almost everything in life.
 
user259867
7:47 PM
> Babies are industrial strength assholes; that's how we all start out. Some of us improve over time. -- Tim Post at 11:42 AM - 17 Aug 2015 via Twitter
 
user259867
Hi @Rubén
 
Rubén
Rubén
@NormalHuman Hi!
I was searching for the Tavern for it didn't shows up in the chat room search. I have to search for the link that you posted in one of the Web Applications chat rooms.
 
Undo
Undo
0
A: A place for discussions about the secret moderator tools

Smokey BetaAs an undercover moderator, I'd very, very much support this. However, I would want to be absolutely confident that the site is actually locked down. Chat is extremely secure and thus I'm comfortable that things I say in TL are actually private. On the contrary, private betas have never been ...

darn upvote-pandering chatbots
 
user259867
@Rubén This is because we are on a different instance of chat: chat.MSE. The most elusive member of the unholy trinity of chat.SE, chat.SO, and chat.MSE.
 
Rubén
Rubén
@NormalHuman :)
 
user259867
7:55 PM
@Undo Shame on them, shame...
 
user259867
(+1)
 
Rubén
Rubén
By the way I come here to day to report a spammy post
 
user259867
We love those! What is it?
 
Undo
Undo
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
 
user259867
7:56 PM
Thanks; it was reported by me earlier but we obviously need moar flags there.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: While Loop in php not working properly by Cat on stackoverflow.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector Today is the international pad-a-codeblock-with-gibberish day :(
 
Undo
Undo
@ShadowWizard Rep for chat.
Trying to get a beta smokey account working
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
lol, you threw that poor sock right into the deep water then...
 
user259867
@Rubén gone now
 
Rubén
Rubén
8:00 PM
@NormalHuman Yay!
 
user259867
Behold: Magento without the "beta" word.
 
user259867
They actually removed <span class="beta-title">beta</span>, did not just make it "white on white", as Joel proposed on a podcast.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
@NormalHuman Without a design change, I feel there's something missing.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
8:18 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Ruling on Watching Female Animals by Yahya on islam.stackexchange.com
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
What is this jizz site you're talking about? — random Jul 17 '10 at 0:56
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector naa?
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
Somewhere between an edit on the question and a self-answer.
 
user259867
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M They also got mod election and a meta thread for community ads.
 
user259867
I.e., everything except big-site priv levels and design.
 
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M
8:24 PM
@NormalHuman No design, no cigar. Says someone full of apathy 'cause his main site got graduated
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Censorship program in Javascript by Ryland Cook on stackoverflow.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector ignore- but funny
 
user259867
Actually not that funny. Typical LQ stuff
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
They could easily run into the clbuttic mistake.
 
bjb568
bjb568
8:41 PM
ur mom is clbuttic
 
S.L. Barth
S.L. Barth
8:56 PM
Just search for it @bjb568 ... it's a DailyWTF.
 
bjb568
bjb568
I know, classic, s/ass/butt/
 
user259867
A hot day today....
Nice: I have working A/C in the office for the first time this summer.
Not nice: the unit (ceiling-mounted) is leaking water at a brisk pace.
3
 
user259867
A Home Improvement question may be coming up soon..
 
user259867
10:33 PM
Looks like desperation time for Open Science: i.stack.imgur.com/ACpdP.png
 
user259867
Monthly rep update for Arabic Language: BigOTHER earned 614 rep, all other users 409 combined.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
10:59 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Is the Talmud compatible with Christianity? by Tom Lacovara-Stewart RTR Truth on christianity.stackexchange.com
 
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