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@chmod666telkitty too many downvotes, too few upvotes. So the system takes it "most likely this user won't post good stuff in the future, no point letting that user keep posting".

user202362

I got more upvoted than downvoted questions ...

But what is the sum of upvotes vs. sum of downvotes?

+1 question can't possibly "make it up" for -20 question.

And I'm 99.99999999% sure you have more downvoted questions, which are deleted by now.

1:13 PM

Lol

user202362

irrelevant - I could have a question with -100 downvotes, and 10 questions each with 3-4 upvotes.

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How can I read Chrome Cache files? by Hacktor Bumbard on stackoverflow.com

user202362

it's the amount of good vs bad questions

user202362

if a question is bad, it's just 1 question

@chmod666telkitty no it's not.

How bad is every question counts as well.

-1 question is "OK, nothing wrong, really". -100 question is "Duh.. totally wrong"

user202362

1:15 PM

but shouldn't that be downvotes/views for the 'badness rating'?

nope.

user202362

should be

Feel free to start new feature request.

Oh wait...

Google got it all wrong

user202362

If 1% people found your question bad but view counts was in the 5000, then you would have 50 some downvotes. But if only 10 people viewed your question and 100% of them found it really bad, then you would only have 10 downvotes. So 50 downvotes doesn't make a question any worse than anything with only 10 downvotes.

1:22 PM

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE sure? I always had a suspicion you're much older than what you claim you are ;)

I'm 13

So you say

user202362

more like 31 + gst ...

1:39 PM

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE mmm? where is that?

Google ad settings

I kept getting the same ad, so I checked it up

user202362

why don't you have your adblock on?

I dunno

Too busy messing around with getting past CSP

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE Chip support package?

Content Security Policy

1:47 PM

oh

@nic might be able to help, he's good at "getting past" things. (aka hacking)

;)

Nah

Already dunnit

Bit of window.postMessage

user202362

why does google randomly celebrate things?

Dunno

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Trying to understand why my turtle graphics are not drawing the grid [percolation/recursion/depth-first search] by Cody Wirth on stackoverflow.com

sd why

1:52 PM

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE [:4256007] Post - Repeated character: ################################################################################‌##################

...

@SmokeDetector fpu

@ShadowWizard Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

## #hashtag

Tweeted by Eyeballcode on November 29, 2015 at 1:53 PM

Google Doodle

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepage that is intended to celebrate holidays, events, achievements and people. The first Google Doodle was in honor of the Burning Man Festival of 1998, and was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Subsequent Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor, until Page and Brin asked intern Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day in 2000. From that point onward, Doodles have been organized and published by a team of employees termed "Doodlers...

PeterJ

1:53 PM

@chmod666telkitty I normally don't take much notice - so google.com.au has the 141st birthday of a Canadian author

> In addition to celebrating many well-known events and holidays, Google Doodles are known for celebrating several noted artists and scientists on their birthdays

@chmod666telkitty quora.com/…

user202362

I know I am odd, but I find google doodle annoying

user202362

it's great that one can type the search term on address bar & avoid seeing google front page at all

odd indeed. But hey, there are odder things!

2:10 PM

anyone using the new nav see this when using the not operator meta.stackoverflow.com/q/311221/792066

2:25 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Which Darwin book (and today edition) is illustrated by his own drawings? by Abhimanyu Gahlot on biology.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: About `argv` and opening a file with command line by ShadowStarrr on stackoverflow.com

2:43 PM

Is there a list somewhere of the dates that beta sites opened?

You're not odd, @chmod

(Poetry by Jason C)

I hate the doodles too. Not entirely. But it annoys me that they are constant and not special any more.

@JasonC I recall @NormalHuman kept a list

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Why was Zacchaeus saved according to Jesus? by Enock Olusegun Idowu on hermeneutics.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

@SmokeDetector tpu-

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/10376686

People never read FAQ:

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/10376073

user202362

Well, I hate doodles because they force me to know something I don't care about - it's almost like advertising. I only want to know those I must know or I think I should know. Internet already has too much noise to distract people from their goals (even though a lot people don't seem to have goal of their own, it's cool ...)

@JasonC this one: dropproxy.com/f/A62

that is posted in this comment: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/89?m=3097045#3097045

user202362

2:54 PM

As I learn new things, I also forget about old things. Having a bunch of irrelevant information doesn't help. I wish I had a photographic memory on things I would rather remember ...

@chmod666telkitty Perhaps you don't forget about old things because you're learning new things, but rather because detailed knowledge necessarily fades with time.

user202362

True, but I didn't come on to the Internet if I did not want to have a choice on what information I would receive.

user202362

I could just ... Watch tv for example ...

3:11 PM

stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/10376796

WHAT

No my finger slipped while editing

If I'm in triage and there's something that should be migrated, do I skip, flag or choose unsalvageable?

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: An imaginary friend is teaching my son how to swear by ConcernedMother on parenting.stackexchange.com

2

sd why

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE [:4256120] Body - Position 485-490: whore

Wow

......

Yay audits

4:23 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How does arm wrestling work? by embla on gaming.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How does rogue planet PSO J318.5-22 stay 800ºC? by Mix Tabal Bouda-Lycaon on physics.stackexchange.com

5:02 PM

@JasonC Use DuckDuckGo.com

user259867

@JasonC Newer version, with some old betas hand-filled: normalhuman.github.io/timeline

2

user259867

I should redirect that dropproxy thing there.

user259867

5:15 PM

The API gives no way to tell when the sites got their design + standard privilege levels.

@NormalHuman Nice, thanks

Hardware recs may be giving lifehacks a run for its money as far as damage to society goes.

5:33 PM

Do you have a foot ? Does she have an ass ? Maybe having those 2 meet together might be what she needs. I know this goes the opposite side of others pointing to a possible depression, but lazyness could also be an explanation. Also, from what you describe I see no reason to be proud of herself, so I don't see why you're telling her she should... — Laurent S. Nov 25 at 15:38

Oh, parenting…

@bjb568 Scariest SE in my list/

user259867

So far, three sites turned 5 years old without graduating: Board & Card Games, Homebrewing, and Writers.

@NormalHuman Chemistry's below biology in that list. That's a sin.

5:48 PM

@NormalHuman PPCG isn't far from that, is it?

user259867

Unless you suddenly graduate just before turning 5 years old...?

user259867

I mean, Code Review even got its design by now.

user259867

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. It only means Chemistry is younger... yet it has more questions (and answers) overall, more users, and also beats Biology in traffic, 23K vs 15K.

@NormalHuman ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

user259867

Much of that traffic is homework, of course.

5:52 PM

Same goes for bio.SE.

Actually, I prefer that we remain small like this.

I don't want traffic if that's beheading quality.

Q: Robo Reviewing of the first degree

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: UNIX BASH SHELL IN C WITH PIPES SUPPORT by oMpamparos on stackoverflow.com

user259867

0

Why am I getting "Robo Reviewing of the first degree" message upon clicking review queue? Previously I never saw any message like this. Can any one tell me why this happening with my account? Is my account suspended for reviewing new post?

support review review-suspension

@NormalHuman Wow.

user259867

That's a pretty blunt message.

That's Awesome though.

user259867

6:00 PM

Let's also add "Help-Vampirism of 2nd degree", "Rep-whoring of 3rd degree", etc.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE could that happen?

Is there a hat for that?

Note: Iranians have an inherent love for titles.

user259867

A secret hat for being banned from review during WinterBash would be cool. "Dunce cap"

2

Do you want more robo-reviewing? That's how you get more robo-reviewing. :P

user259867

6:06 PM

I hope SE will reconsider the message though.

user259867

Nov 22 at 20:31, by Shog9

the folks who you'd wish were terrified to ask are so unafraid that they'll cheerfully flood the site with questions in the face of abuse. The folks who (with a tiny bit of assistance maybe) could ask interesting/useful questions are often so petrified of being criticized that they never even try.

user259867

Replace "ask" by "review".

I feel like I could probably make a pretty solid defense in court if I just started murdering people who posted questions on both parenting and lifehacks.

@NormalHuman That's a custom message.

@NormalHuman I don't think that's a SE message; that was written by a SO mod.

ninja'd

6:07 PM

for once, I beat @Doorknob

user259867

Ah, I didn't know that existed. Looks like a system message in the UI.

It's kind of hard to argue that that isn't for the benefit of mankind's future survival.

My guess is that the mod didn't realize it would be displayed to the user.

Although it does state that the message will be shown to the user.

@NormalHuman apparently, neither the mod

@hichris123 yeah, good boy, it was like that meta.stackoverflow.com/a/311388/792066

"good boy"? Undo's the dog here, not me. ;)

6:16 PM

> good boy

Do you want a treat?

dangit, ninja'd again

Maybe tomorrow @Doorknob. :P

Maybe a treat would help.

FGitW?

user259867

Jason C could also be a dog, but I'm not sure.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

6:41 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: How to 'minify' Javascript code by user1644062 on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore- I guess it's the question's problem

user259867

"Link at end of answer" is experimental, and may need to be turned off for SO if these keep coming up.

user259867

It requires a short post, a link at the very end, and the link must go to the homepage of a site (empty path).

user259867

Matched some spam answers, but now we also have this...

user259867

That said, the link is broken (of course).

6:51 PM

@ShadowWizard the comment is from review, what do you expect?

@rene if there's no proper comment, then none is better.

It's just confusing.

OK

Anyway of course I downvoted and voted to delete. Broken-link-only answer, no idea what the author had in mind.

user259867

@SmokeDetector why

@NormalHuman Title - Scam aimed at Gmail customers. Keywords: email, account

user259867

6:55 PM

Needs work. :/

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

7:09 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: How to show category products using owl-corousel slider in Magento? by Vsquare Microsystem on stackoverflow.com

Is that rolled out?

SD why?

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. [:4256304] Post manually reported by user Tunaki in room SO Close Vote Reviewers.

Oh. Noice.

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Magento Product Details Image Size by Vsquare Microsystem on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector why

7:21 PM

@hichris123 Blacklisted user - blacklisted for stackoverflow.com/a/33986535 by chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/27179313

ooh fancy

Smokey is.

BTW this seems suspicious.

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: EqualHeight JavaScript not actually making columns equal by user3089039 on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore- cv no mcve

7:38 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: About `argv` and opening a file with command line by Brian Williams on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector gone

What, twice?

Your last one is a repeat offender on the same post.

@tchrist What?

Mr `argv`

8:07 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Shortened url in answer: How can I clone an SQL Server database on the same server in SQL Server 2008 Express? by Tomasz Moska on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector Undecided between spam and NAA... went with NAA.

@NormalHuman Hey, when someone answers a question on SO, should we assume the best or the worst in them?

user259867

Assume the best. But why intentionally obscure the URL?

Assume neither. Just look at the usefulness and correctness of the answer objectively.

Pretend a bot posted it.

user259867

@JasonC That's a big assumption there.

8:13 PM

@NormalHuman it is spam

user259867

This is what I get for assuming the best... but why?

that site it dodgy and the tool time limited

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: 3% interest rate Loan offer by user35320 on money.stackexchange.com

user259867

sd 2tpu-

Meh. I didn't flag it. I'd probably use that tool.

I'm sure it'll get decimated soon enough.

@normal Is it still a big assumption if you pretend it's a really tiny bot?

user259867

8:20 PM

I think the IETF hit the right balance with the 128 bits thing. We can fit MAC addresses in a /64 subnet, and the nanobots will only be able to devour half the planet.

ASMR videos in spanish will definitely help my spanish education…

when did Law.se start as public beta?

@rene 3 (?) months ago.

OK

user259867

There is a list that you linked recently... :)

user259867

8:30 PM

Private beta 2015-05-26, public beta 2015-06-08

user259867

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Almost twice as much. time flies.

:o

Sure it does. I constantly feel I lack time these days.

Whoops, wrong answer (though that's NAA)

sd poof

!!/report superuser.com/questions/951737/mouse-sensor-stopped-working/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Mouse sensor stopped working by Alan Smith on superuser.com

!!/rmblu superuser.com/users/260175/meduza

8:34 PM

@bwDraco User removed from blacklist (260175 on superuser.com).

Flagged as spam because the linked video promotes, and its description mentions, DriveTheLife, which is known spam. This is in addition to the spammy "Make up to $100/ hour" text in the video description. The post is reverted to its original form. — bwDraco 7 mins ago

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: python, json, extract nested node to new json file by Sandipan Ghosh on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector why

@NormalHuman Body - Position 4355-4363: skincare

sd - false

user259867

8:39 PM

Should be closed though; it's a dump of JSON file with "help me process this in Python".

@chmod666telkitty: I've given you a few more question upvotes. You have some meritorious questions, and you do not deserve to be question-banned.

Again, I cannot just serially upvote your posts, but I'm doing what I can to support you.

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Magento static block issue in 1.9.2.2 by Vsquare Microsystem on stackoverflow.com

user259867

^ is "sort by close reason" a new feature of 10K tools?

[ SmokeDetector ] Shortened url in answer: How to duplicate MSSQL database on the same or another server? by Tomasz Moska on serverfault.com

user259867

8:52 PM

@SmokeDetector tpu- this time I'm flagging spam

@NormalHuman no

Or, not very.

[ SmokeDetector ] Shortened url in answer, blacklisted user: Best way to copy a database (SQL Server 2008) by Tomasz Moska on stackoverflow.com

9:21 PM

@NormalHuman no, but I know why you say so, is a very well hidden feature

Well-hidden, no, easily gone unnoticeable, yes.

I just noticed what it does right now.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: How to Add data to MS word by Mike Alvaro on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- not just spam but also totally off-topic

user259867

> #ChatOps: where bots scream into empty chatrooms on the weekend until someone wakes up and responds 12+ hours later :-P #TheTreeMakesNoSound -- Greg Bray at 12:02 PM - 29 Nov 2015 via Twitter

Doorhandle

10:07 PM

youtube.com/watch?v=kgFYaocPG7Q youtube.com/watch?v=LjO2Wjz_qPM This is your moderator, @Doorknob

... huhwhat?

user259867

Good production, but tightening the plot a bit would help.

user259867

(Videos are taken private now.)

Doorhandle

@NormalHuman there's also this youtube.com/watch?v=MtIqbbtQZB0

and oddllamaprod doesn't exist before... he thought keyboard fires were more appropriate

10:25 PM

What's in the videos?

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: How i got my loan by Mrs Joy Sharpe on money.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- the restricted email-in-body check has become a lot more reliable.

Are you guys talking about porn

Cool

Huh?

God I hate the mobile chat

I hate mobile everything

Actually, I just hate everything, really.

I see no need to be picky.

10:40 PM

@JasonC Then use the desktop version.

OMG

THERE IS AN EDIT BUTTON ON MOBILE

…

No I hate the desktop version. I hate the mobile edit button too.

Wow, there's a nice competition going on in chem's CV reviewer top position.

chemistry.stackexchange.com/review/close/stats

10:42 PM

@bjb568 I just grabbed the lead since yesterday.

It's really easy to sound the horn and say "Boo! You've got problems!". If you have a constructive suggestion on how to solve this, do your civic duty and enlighten us. This is a community driven by your and my contributions anyway. — Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. 2 days ago

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. I read it as lead as in the element.

Pekka also had a comment like this, but more elegantly written.

Bjb has problems

@bjb568 If I meant lead lead, I'd've used Pb.

Pro tip: Laziness usually happens when there's a potential.

@JasonC Today I saw a dead kitten on the street.

My condolences @BJB

buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/…

10:47 PM

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. all y'all'dn't've read it as the noun of to lead if you'd've used Pb.