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I'm just choosing this:

> Blatantly off-topic (this question has nothing to do with programming)

Ummm nevermind

Its already closed

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: Magento Product CSV Import error by dsfsf on magento.stackexchange.com

user259867

sd tpu- fp-

user259867

> more GitHub projects have been added to Careers profiles in the last 12 hours than Google+CodePlex+SourceForge projects combined for the whole of 2015 so far ~ meta.stackexchange.com/a/264335

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: remove items with low frequency by nicnoe156 on stackoverflow.com

1:15 PM

sd tpu-

Prepares for lag

Gawd, CompSci teacher keeps complaining about missing newlines, I realized he's on Windows and can probably only see carriage returns.

Lol

Shtoopid Windows…

2

I have windows XP

Summons the mighty Windows XP

1:20 PM

U suk

Well windows is better then geography

@bjb568, sounds like he needs to use Wordpad instead of Notepad

We do fieldwork and have to get toilet water

Blech

@UniformsForSale btw, you realize that now I can ping you from the Cube whenever I want?

Because I said boo?

1:21 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Regular Expression to not allow disposable email addresses by Juergen Wagner on stackoverflow.com

SPAM?//?

user259867

No, but I think it's NAA.

Hi all

Sup

@UniformsForSale you walked thru the door, now you will be pingable forevvver

1:23 PM

Not forever

Ignores @SPA

Boom done

@UniformsForSale and who said that I shall be the one who does the pings?

You?

>=

Why is there always weird stuff in the den?

@UniformsForSale nm u?

I'm in class!

1:32 PM

@bjb568 YAy!

@bjb568 Dunno

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Good

@UniformsForSale ok.

Ok

ok

kO

okey dokey artichokey

1:34 PM

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA ʎǝʞoɥɔᴉʇɹɐ ʎǝʞop ʎǝʞo

@SmokeDetector hmmm idk why that is being downvoted... it looks legit to me. upvoted... he is giving his list of blacklisted domains...

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Regular Expression to not allow disposable email addresses by Juergen Wagner on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore-

Waaaat?

Now he got upvotes

user259867

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA The post isn't malicious ... just a non-answer that is missing the point of the question. The OP is not asking for a spam filter.

1:42 PM

>
"down_vote_count": 9,
"up_vote_count": 3,

@NormalHuman he is asking for a disposible email filter.

> gorillaswithdirtyarmpits.com

???

user259867

> babybeddingset.org babyblanketsetc.com babyboybedding.org babybumpers.org babycribsets.org babygirlbedding.org babyhamper.us

user259867

I don't know, maybe these are providers of disposable emails, but they don't look like that...

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: Can you mass edit all files returned in a grep? by dada on stackoverflow.com

1:46 PM

@SmokeDetector Perfect time, what are we supposed to flag these answers as?

NAA and spam

user259867

NAA.

Spam?

I figured it'd be NAA most likely

Well the emails and websites look like spam

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in title: Alternative to onlinefontconverter.com for converting EOT to other formats? by CreeDorofl on superuser.com

Q: "�" causes a problem on opening question with cyrillics (с кириллицей)

1:48 PM

Dances

11

� sign cause a problem on accessing the question. Bad Request - Invalid URL HTTP Error 400. The request URL is invalid.

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Iterating through a text file to find a username and password match in Python by Compoot on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector why

@UniformsForSale There is no why data for that post (anymore).

Ummm

why only works on regex ones

Also, the answer is at the bottom of the question

user259867

1:49 PM

sd 2ignore-

1. [:3886062] That message is not a report.
2. [:3886060] <no return value>

user259867

sd - - 2ignore-

@Undo bug bug bug

user259867

No bug. Most recent message was not a report, it was "There is no why data for that post (anymore)."

user259867

In any case, it wasn't Undo coding the "sd" logic.

1:50 PM

hides

:P

No, the <no return value> part

Glares at @Pro

user259867

No return value because -

@UniformsForSale That's correct. ignore- is "silent mode", so no return value.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DB.DC = HA.HC + KA.KC by Maria on math.stackexchange.com

Lol, chat bug

2:01 PM

?

Q: Message dropdown descriptions and actions for owners (and mods?) are incorrect

Nevermind:

2

I found at least two situations where the message dropdowns show incorrect status and action description. Scenario 1 Pin a message. Unpin it and clear stars for it. Reload the page. The message dropdown now says: You have starred and pinned this message. Unstar as interesting U...

bug status-norepro chat chat-pins

See the don't delete room

The RO message appears pinned, but really isn't

weird, I added RO's before and don't remember such thing happening. Oh well...

Do you see it?

No, it doesn't pin by default. Another RO must have pinned it.

I pinned it

And I unstarred it

Do you see it starred?

Check here:

Cloud Cuckoo Land

No rules, no government, no babysitters, no bedtimes, no frown...

2:07 PM

Yes

I see the bug now.

I am now 2 weeks ahead on homework in compsci

@Inf so you see the pinned message?

Please don't write a botling if you are free. Go bork DD..

Yes, I see it @Uniforms

Well

Must be client side

status-unpinned

2:10 PM

@InfiniteRecursion It's already written and running!

NooOooo

> You have already voted, but the voting has been cleared by a moderator

??//??

Not again

SINCE WHEN IS @SHA A MOD????

known bug

@bjb568 :)

:D

Stars

2:11 PM

Probably, once upon a time only mods could pin and unpin, and when the power was given to RO as well, they didn't bother to update the messages.

Well

voting on messages

clear status-meh

[tag:feature-request] Can we get rep from starred and pinned messages?
We can vote on the questions as another [tag:feature-request].
Also, downvoting suspends the user for 1 hour. Upvoting grants mod and super cow powers for an hour

declined

downvote

2:13 PM

@UniformsForSale I use my fake mod status to reject your feature request

status-declined

Bart will be rich if stars give rep.

OMG @Bart is not pingable!!11!!!!11!

3

Lol

We need elections for the new Bart.

2:14 PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Candidates, please come forward!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Shoves cat (@Bjb) forward

Whoops

Didn't see you there, @bjb

Judging from recent stars, @Norm would have a good chance ;D

True

2:16 PM

The new Bart need to be annoying as the original.

@SPArchaeologist or we can have a totally new Bart

Bart 2.0

@ShadowWizard beat me

and then it is not a Bart.

@SPArchaeologist depends, how you define a Bart?

@ShadowWizard bart = new Bart();

2:17 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SPECIALIZED SCATTER PLOT by judy on stackoverflow.com

If Bart is defined as "Unchallenged King of Stars" then @Norm would fit just fine

A new Bart needs a touch of Dutch-ness ....

Question:

Who is Bart?

Answer:

My Sock!

Wow

2:22 PM

@rene No! My sock!

@rene so, you are Shog sock, huh...

Summons the might @Shog

@rene is many men's sock...

@ShadowWizard Yes, Bart got lost in your collection...

@rene but, can you find him? :D

runs

2:23 PM

Shadows socks

Jun 25 '14 at 17:45, 4 minutes total – 6 messages, 2 users, 4 stars

Bookmarked Jun 25 '14 at 18:10 by rene

@Braiam aren't we all?

It is nice to see how whenever someone "summons the mighty Shog9", they always forget the "@".......

5

@SPArchaeologist fear can cause such effects

Casts spell and throws bunnies into fire

Spell to summon Shog fails

Nooooo

Climbs the tree and throwing coconuts on @UniformsForSale

Bonk * 10

Ouch

Andy

2:30 PM

@SPArchaeologist I summoned him the other day and received a very pleasant response.

yesterday, by Andy

@Shog9 What application do you use to take screenshots? I'm interested in the "ripped out" (Method 2) image from this answer.

He's just a big fluffy tiger.

8

@Shog9 huh? Why you want to drop me? :(

Lol

@Andy That's not valid. You called him for a perfectly reasonable and understandable reason. You need to ping him without reason to trigger the orbital burinator death ray.

Andy

Well, I suppose that's the difference then. I really had no desire to randomly annoy him.

Why is everything about the Mighty Shog starred?

3

2:36 PM

@SPArchaeologist and is my reason valid?

Anyone heard of outlookexpress.repair before?

I.e. seen spam waves for it?

Nope

user259867

@Undo To my knowledge, all .repair sites are spam until proved otherwise. Don't remember this particular one.

@NormalHuman hrmph

@ShadowWizard yes, but to be sure.... you should do that again, multiple times.

2:45 PM

ya'll aren't making this easy. Although the proxies aren't helping either.

Ye can use the old good "Ping Droid" macro

@Dro love pings

Love pings, @Dro

@Undo Confirmed as future spam domain

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Нужна помощь по выводу сайта из под фильтра Яндекс. Понижение в выдаче по поисковым запросам by Сергей on ru.stackoverflow.com

@KevinBrown Oh, that's awesome.

user259867

2:48 PM

@SmokeDetector Perhaps not spam, but OT post more suitable for freelancer.ru should it exist.

oh no! I'm out of YOLO!

Throws YOLO on @Sha

> Hello! The website www.holodguild.ru under the filter of Yandex . months. .and the use of SEO links.Links purchased in seoulite. After the filter ... links have been removed, but the filter remained. Need help for withdrawal from under the filter for remuneration.

Thats the latest spam

Somethings like that

@UniformsForSale on nom nom

Haha

user259867

@UniformsForSale He's saying the site is penalized by Yandex for SEO tactic, and asking how to avoid that.

user259867

2:52 PM

This is a sensible question.

Q: Getting a domain name off of the blacklist

7

I have a friend who purchased a domain name recently that he found out (after buying it) is apparently blocked by many corporate firewalls or proxies b/c it's been tagged as porn by the blacklist db they're using. Are there any common agencies he can appeal to in order to get the domain name o...

domain blacklist

!!/test foobar.repair/baz

> Url in title
----------
Title - Position 1-19: http://foobar.repa

@SmokeDetector you are drunk... that's not 19!

count the http://

2:57 PM

!!/test foobar.repair/baz

> Would not be caught for title, body and username.

user259867

I think all .repair is blacklisted.

yep, that's wrong...

@Undo Can you give Smokey the unicorn avatar on his SO account instead of the default one

Might be a word boundary issue in the regex

2:58 PM

@durron597 Yeah

@Undo thx

user259867

The regex is "\\.repair\"" because it parses HTML

user259867

Which chat doesn't have.

Lol

2:59 PM

Sneaking up on 10k notifs

Is it real?

Very real

I've heard of @Undo tricking people with inspect element

user259867

!!/test <a href="http://outlook.repair">Buy now</a>

> Pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title, url in title
----------
Title - Position 11-30: http://outlook.repa
Title - Position 25-33: .repair"
Body - Position 25-33: .repair"

3:00 PM

@Undo lol nice.

99 helpful flags on SO

user259867

And the reason for " after repair is because this is how those links appear in spam posts. They don't use path in practice.

user259867

Without " there were quote a few false positives caused by some .repair method or property of something.

^ somehow we didn't catch this

From Aug 9 '15

user259867

@Undo I see, the slash ... regex needs debugging

user202362

3:03 PM

I am drenched in boredom ... so bored that it feels like I am a gold fish dipped into liquid nitrogen, I can not feel anything anymore. What do I do?

Lol, found a bug

It overlaps

@chmod711telkitty You could go write some regexes for Smokey. That's generally considered the pinnacle of excitement around here.

@SPArchaeologist ye still remember :P

@UniformsForSale This user story has been marked CRITICAL

@ShadowWizard I also love b..... #YouKnowWhatIMean ;)

3:06 PM

@DroidDev bacon?

@chmod711telkitty ping Shog, see what happens

user259867

Wait, forgot to escape a space. Wheeeeee[taptaptap]eeeeee.

@ShadowWizard seriously?

@DroidDev #yesOfCourse ;)

@ShadowWizard you are hereby stripped of the title "Uncouth den member"!!!!

I am sorry, but you brought this upon yourself

NoooooOOOOOOOOoooo0000ooooOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo

throwing #youKnowWhat on @Dro

3:14 PM

How old is this guy?

Evan Carroll, Houston, TX

870 3 15 37

linux strongswan vpn windows-8 ubuntu networking nginx

@UniformsForSale there are actually two persons in that picture and we don't know which one you are talking about... :/

The boy

what if she is a girl with short hair?

@Uniforms he's 42

@PeterJ How do you know?

S.L. Barth

3:16 PM

@UniformsForSale I think that was reported on Meta.SE a while ago. User nicael, IIRC.

Post please?

@Uniforms because he is the answer to everything

@PeterJ Ummmm ok

user259867

stackexchange.com/users/42701/evan-carroll says 29 years

3:17 PM

NOOO Not that one

oh

The MSE Post

user259867

SF already has four viable candidates for 3 positions, not that bad. The dire predictions that nobody will want to moderate didn't materialize.

Actually it reminds me I'd better start answering SF questions so I can vote... serverfault.com/election/5#post-716427

He was suspended?

3:22 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SELECT CONTENT FROM REPOSITORY WHERE ID = ? FOR UPDATE by Praful Prajapati on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: BUBBLES IN TOMATO CANNED TOMATO SAUCE by Nancy on cooking.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector An emergency has been reported in the kitchen: BUBBLES IN TOMATO SAUCE

2

Lol

S.L. Barth

Don't put your smoke detector in the kitchen! :-)

> 4 files changed, 327 insertions(+), 176 deletions(-)

Thats a lot of stuff

@UniformsForSale meh

> 9 files changed, 679 insertions(+), 679 deletions(-)

^ what I produced today :P

3:27 PM

Well

Have you ever had an outdated repo and needed to pull?

Yeah.

Mine is a month behind

Then... just pull? :P

merge collisions are !!FUN!!

P4Merge ftw

S.L. Barth

3:33 PM

Hm, can't find that question about the reputation and inbox in the collider.... I'm pretty sure I've seen it though.

On MSE.

Mogsdad

3:57 PM

I need to have private API information redacted from this Q & A. Is that something for a custom flag or is there a mod here who can help?

@Mogsdad Custom flag. Needs to be developer, say so in the flag.

that ^^

Mogsdad

@durron597 Thanks

@Mogsdad but the OP should request a new key because this one is already compromised, no matter how swift the action of @Oded ...

In the library, working as a student worker, managing the bathroom pass…

4:04 PM

@rene Yep.

Manager Bathroom, impressive ...

Just the other day I went on a duping spree about not storing passwords / keys in code, too.

A: What should I do if a user posts sensitive information as part of a question or answer?

34

Edit it out, if you have enough rep Yes, certainly as a first step. Minimize damage. Point out the issue in the edit comment, though not initially in a regular comment (as it will draw attention to the redacted information). Flag for moderator attention with "other" flag, explaining th...

user259867

@bjb568 +1 to schools employing students in whatever capacity. Simply doesn't exist in my country, at least didn't back in the days.

Oh, they don't pay me.

user259867

4:14 PM

That doesn't matter. You have employment_record !== ''

Oh, well sure.

user259867

Whereas mine is empty, outside of academia.

Yeah, I don't have a lack of stuff to put on my resume. Skewl, clubs, this, achievements, hobbies…

And I suppose they'll like DevDoodle. And how it's bug-free.

Mogsdad

You should request a new API key, because the one you posted here has been compromised. — Mogsdad 7 mins ago

Edit Q & A + debugger screenshot, flagged. What a PITA.

I can the be the next Bart here, btw.

2

user259867

4:20 PM

Heh: "Don't shout" warning without capitals by joriki on meta.math.stackexchange.com

user259867

I think Smokey wouldn't trip on that.

user259867

!!/test $$0+1+2+3+4+5$$

> Numbers-only title
----------
Title - Position 1-16: $$0+1+2+3+4+5$$

user259867

That's a correct report.

!!/test hallo world

4:23 PM

> Would not be caught for title, body and username.

!!/test I AM NOT SHOUTING

> Would not be caught for title, body and username.

!!/test I AM SHOUTING!

> Would not be caught for title, body and username.

All caps titles aren't a thing anymore?

4:24 PM

That's... weird.

!!/test HELLO

> Would not be caught for title, body and username.

es borko

¡borko!, yo digo

user259867

^(?=.*\p{upper})\P{lower}*$

user259867

Begins with an uppercase letter, followed by whatever is not a lowercase letter. Am I reading this right?

Test for bathroom pass: if it comes back wet and gross, somebody can't figure out how to not get the bathroom pass wet and gross

user259867

4:32 PM

if content_lower.startswith("!!/test"):
string_to_test = content_lower[8:]

user259867

No wonder it doesn't trigger all caps. :P

>>>.<<<

user259867

But not worth fixing, imo.

Shouldn't be too hard to fix, I'll work on that.

user259867

ok

4:40 PM

!!/test NOW IT SHOULD WORK

> All-caps title
----------
Title - Position 1-19: NOW IT SHOULD WORK

yup

@NormalHuman I think it's actually "contains at least one uppercase letter, and no lowercase letters"...

!!/test !!!111TEST!!!11

> All-caps title
----------
Title - Position 1-16: !!!111TEST!!!11

!!/test !!!111T!!11

> All-caps title
----------
Title - Position 1-14: !!!111TT!!!11

4:47 PM

!!/test !!!111T!!11

> All-caps title
----------
Title - Position 1-12: !!!111T!!11

@ProgramFOX yep

!!/test hOW DO I FIX MY jAVA PROGRAM

> Would not be caught for title, body and username.

Bart

@bjb568 no

4

4:53 PM

THE BART IS HERE!!!!11!!!

Hides

Bart

@UniformsForSale thank you. Glad to be back

Checks

Phew

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ERROR WITH MY LINQ QUERY by Xander Schlebusch on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Probiotic America Telomere shortening and seems? by Roni Dept on drupal.stackexchange.com

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

OMG OMG OMGGGGG

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- so it seems

5:07 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: How to boot Lenovo X1 Carbon 2014 from a USB thumb drive by alice xu on superuser.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- generic text + promotion

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

1

UniDev

Proposed Q&A site for developers in universities, polythecnics and colleges across Africa.

Currently in definition.

ok I hijacked the area51 proposal title

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Interested in contributing to a story about investing strategies? by Molly Triffin on money.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Do mild facial scars (from fingernail scratches) on a young child fade? by nississima on parenting.stackexchange.com

user259867

5:30 PM

sd fp- ignore-

user259867

> With @aalear doing most of the hard part, All Stack Exchange sites (including Stack Overflow) are now exclusively serving https gravatars. -- Nick Craver at 9:46 AM - 27 Aug 2015 via Twitter

user259867

And there was much rejoicing.

user259867

Live example: pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CNW29qwU8AA00Op.mp4

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: Running javascript code on page load, without using the onload tag by kuda on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- gibberish

user259867

5:45 PM

> I was 'signed up' to match.com 's 'silver' service to meet singles over 50 - no verification email was sent to my address. -- Tim Post at 9:19 AM - 27 Aug 2015 via Twitter

5:57 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Long term vacation on Falkland islands? by John Henski on travel.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- spam

Andy

I'd like to congratulate the Careers team. One of your suggested jobs for me is for a consulting firm who's major client is my current employer. The portfolio they have listed on their site has two projects I worked on. I'd say I'm qualified for that position.