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12:35 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Remove /index.php from the Magento URL gives 404 error by Jamu Tradisional on magento.stackexchange.com …

user315433

What kind of TLD is .id, anyway? Indonesia

user315433

12:55 AM

We've got about four sites that are getting a new design in March/early April. After those launch, Emacs is second in the queue. Shouldn't be too long. — Kurtis Beavers 4 hours ago

user315433

I ran the idea of a Magneto image by the design team internally. We've determined that this is most likely a copyright violation and shouldn't knowingly use an image without securing the proper permission. We could explore a parody version, but that requires more time. The image above using Russell Crowe is in violation and will be updated as well. — Hynes 8 hours ago

Jeffrey Bosboom

That's a polite way of saying "sixth", I guess.

Can you mark a message as a reply without pinging the author? That wasn't worth pinging for but is related.

user315433

No, and don't worry about pings.

Jeffrey Bosboom

@404 Okay.

Andrew T.

Morning, anyway

Andrew T.

1:28 AM

@404 ugh, yes... it's Indonesia. The site's about traditional herbal drink...

oops, that's the other spam, but who cares....

SmokeDetector

1:41 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Do not wait anymore to buy Lavino Cream by ctowparm zesi on superuser.com …

Andrew T.

2:51 AM

Speaking of WordPress Development... I always thought it is Wikipedia.SE

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: How can I refinance or get out of a car loan I am upside down on? by Johnathan Medina on money.stackexchange.com …

user315433

@AndrewT. It was even more WP-ish in the preliminary version of design update, meta.wordpress.stackexchange.com/q/4064

user315433

Which was followed by -8 on the announcement of design rollout and things being fixed. In the process, circled WP went away.

Andrew T.

Interesting story.

Anyway, is there anyone from SE who I can ping for Android.SE chat room design update? Is it balpha?

(related meta post on Android.SE)

user315433

3:13 AM

@AndrewT. The person would be Kurtis, I think. He worked on the design, and was the one who fixed that yellow stripe I reported recently.

Andrew T.

@404 Thanks, I'll try contacting him

SmokeDetector

3:31 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, mostly non-Latin body, mostly non-Latin title: 怎么办理♥皇家墨尔本理工大学毕业证成绩单（Q微860155399）办理澳洲毕业证成绩单学历认证RMIT University by Ko Be on english.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, mostly non-Latin body, mostly non-Latin title, blacklisted user: 怎么办理♥南十字星大学毕业证成绩单（Q微860155399）办理澳洲毕业证成绩单学历认证Southern Cross University by Ko Be on english.stackexchange.com …

Andrew T.

3:50 AM

!!/bed

bwDraco

4:32 AM

in Root Access on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 3 mins ago, by bwDraco

Tested some Brother inkjets, managed to insert cartridge into wrong slot. This is bad design, cartridges should be keyed! @BrotherOffice

Tweeted by bwDraco on March 24, 2016 at 4:28 AM

What on earth were they thinking?

user315433

You could call one of their support numbers to complain... we have those.

bjb568

5:11 AM

Haha, printers. Next you'll say you use paper too!

Andrew T.

5:32 AM

Hi cat

user315433

When I see @username in the body of a post, I kind of want to edit @ out because it feels wrong... should I?

Jeffrey Bosboom

Sure, you can start here, from before I knew it wouldn't ping.

Andrew T.

@404 Add the reference link if possible, just remove the @

Jeffrey Bosboom

Though I don't really know why I wanted to ping Jon on that post, anyway.

user315433

I was thinking of this one

Andrew T.

5:39 AM

lol

Jeffrey Bosboom

Heh, Shog doesn't usually address individual users in answers like that.

bjb568

I took a nap, not tired anymore. I think I rolled over. It's 1:47, I'll try to go 15h from here.

user315433

DailyActivityQuota rolled over.

user315433

An idea for Close queue: use science to predict the outcome, based on the reliability of those who reviewed the post so far. If the system is sufficiently confident in the outcome, make Community close the post / kick it out of the queue.

user315433

Reliability refers to their past review actions, and eventual fate of those posts.

user315433

5:55 AM

An idea for April 1: reset everyone's rep to 1 at the beginning of the day.

user315433

Restore at the end of the day. Should be fun.

Andrew T.

I had a similar, but very opposite idea. In welcoming these elections, make everyone a mod.

Should be fun.

bjb568

@404 That was my idea for DevDoodle like 5/2 years ago…

Andrew T.

5/2 years...

@404 calling Google DeepMind

user315433

6:22 AM

Perhaps this is why there is almost no spam today... portalseven.com/calendar/Holidays_India.jsp?year=2016

IͶΔ

Hah

Andrew T.

Google has a ~~yankee~~ Doodle for it

user315433

Not for me.

Andrew T.

Ah.. here

user315433

Now that I think of it, it's awkward that I've scheduled a meeting that can result in a person's termination for Good Friday...

user202362

6:40 AM

Trying to find a water leak on a 20+ metre driveway can as hard as trying to find a memory leak in a large c++ program that some other people have written ..

user315433

Someone probably unpublished a small segment of the water pipe.

Andrew T.

Some of our office got attacked by Ransomware... great.

user315433

Ugh. Running Windows?

Andrew T.

Yeah,,

user315433

Hopefully the reaction will not be to shut down all Internet connections...

Andrew T.

6:44 AM

halp, i can't work without stackoverflowz

user315433

7:06 AM

sigh Trying to retag on Русский язык is a Sisyphean job. I hope to at least make a dent in such gems of tagging as [russian], [language], and [general-questions]...

Andrew T.

@404 will their meta work?

wot.

0

Q: Как возник мат?

язык

user315433

Yes, title-only questions are not unheard of on that site.

user315433

@AndrewT. It's densely covered in cobwebs, and I hate spiders.

SmokeDetector

7:37 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: FIFA has alone some of the fast by bobgull on drupal.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: iPhone lost and erased for no reason by Michel Brooks on apple.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Send text message from multiple numbers by AnaiZacuNt on apple.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Check if its the front page in twig template DRUPAL 8 by kirenansari on drupal.stackexchange.com …

IͶΔ

7:58 AM

Hmm, how can the parent site of a chat be a meta site?

Andrew T.

@IͶΔ Except Meta SE... where do you see it?

IͶΔ

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/10121/test-room

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, mostly non-Latin body, mostly non-Latin title: Q微 (文凭毕业证成绩单)+181144918办理美国雪城大学SU毕业证成绩单学历认证使馆认证文凭学生卡驾照 Syracuse University by jimlongs on english.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Yourself a considerable measure by JamesWyatt on drupal.stackexchange.com …

Andrew T.

@IͶΔ umm, somehow some child meta sites are selectable on chat room

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Your wellness. It won't require by shanjuan21 on movies.stackexchange.com …

IͶΔ

8:09 AM

Should I ask a question on meta?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Who claims basic seat: website one by JamesWyatt on android.stackexchange.com (@AndrewT.) …

Andrew T.

@IͶΔ sure, I think it's a valid bug

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Non-English link in answer: no video with support format and mime type found by du tiêu trịnh on askubuntu.com (@kos) …

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, mostly non-Latin body, mostly non-Latin title, blacklisted user: {毕业证成绩单+认证}{Q/WeChat181144918}办理英国谢菲尔德大学毕业证成绩单学历认证 University of Sheffield by jimlongs on english.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Mostly non-Latin answer, blacklisted user: Q微 (文凭毕业证成绩单)+181144918办理美国雪城大学SU毕业证成绩单学历认证使馆认证文凭学生卡驾照 Syracuse University by jimlongs on english.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Picks up you need a ton sooner so you have by JamesWyatt on money.stackexchange.com …

Andrew T.

What is this sudden surge of spam wave... thought there are on holidays...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Mostly non-Latin body, blacklisted user: Please delete this stuff! by jimlongs on english.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Mostly non-Latin answer, blacklisted user: {毕业证成绩单+认证}{Q/WeChat181144918}办理英国谢菲尔德大学毕业证成绩单学历认证 University of Sheffield by jimlongs on english.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Mostly non-Latin body, blacklisted user: Please delete this stuff! by jimlongs on english.stackexchange.com …

IͶΔ

8:38 AM

0

Q: Why can meta sites be parents of chatrooms?

Not sure if it counts as a bug or not, but some per-site metas can be the parent sites of chatrooms. This room is a living example, where the parent site is MathOverflow meta. Here is a beautiful screenshot: 10 meta sites are selectable as the parent site, 2 of which are beta sites. As choosi...

bug chat meta

CC @Andrew

Andrew T.

8:58 AM

!!/report android.stackexchange.com/questions/140491/…

Derpy

9:27 AM

@IͶΔ what does happen if you go to a meta site and start a ping-pong comment battle with an user there? When the "move to chat" feature triggers, "where" is the room created? Based on that, I suspect it is the meta site that becomes the room parent, not the main one. I also expect that this is why some rooms appear as selectable there - those would be the metas that had a chat room automagically created in the past.

IͶΔ

9:39 AM

@Derpy Makes sense.

Only 10 metas are available, one is Math Educators meta, so there's prolly something random and unintended here.

Anyway a bug.

morning

morning

morning

10:00 AM

morning

IͶΔ

morning

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer, non-English link in answer: My website hosted on GoDaddy and it is not visible by Tuyên Trần on webmasters.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: Custom essay writing service by Marygraham on writers.stackexchange.com …

Derpy

10:30 AM

morning

IͶΔ

morning

Quill

3

Q: javascript left-pad bowl

In the wake of the left-pad npm package fallout, let's have a javascript-only code bowl for implementing left-pad in the most innovative way. I don't care if you understand innovative as shortest or abusive. May the answer with the most upvotes win!

javascript code-bowling

SmokeDetector

10:57 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: As I have already said, according to scientific by bellakarn on movies.stackexchange.com …

Doorknob

@Quill I closed a dev's question :O

2

rene

It was nice knowing you ...

IͶΔ

It was nice knowing you ...

Jinx

Quill

11:12 AM

@Doorknob haha

Somebody closed one of Jon Ericson's questions on SciFi before IIRC

It was fixed and reopened IIRC

Derpy

zzzZzzzzzZZzzzZZz

Andrew T.

beep, cannot find error

Derpy

11:36 AM

oh, nice, so there is a Chrome pony too?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to change the defaults for screen mode in Photoshop? by fuck on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com …

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector wth, it was offensive, but then edited into "nonsense" by 3k+

Derpy

11:59 AM

mwhahaha....

0

Q: Can you identify these Fantasy / Sci-Fi Weapons from Grrl Power?

Previously, I've been very iffy on these sorts of posts, but I figure it's worth a try. These images are from Comic #408 of Grrl Power. The author has stated: Most of these are pulled from comics, movies, etc where there is a definitive version to replicate here. Some of them are gimmies, bu...

webcomics object-identification

Not going to reply, I want to enjoy the guessing while it last.

SmokeDetector

12:21 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, mostly non-Latin body, mostly non-Latin title: {澳洲MQ文凭}+{Q/微2796053907}办理麦考瑞大学毕业证MQ文凭成绩单学历认证使馆证明 Macquarie University by yugszhw9 on english.stackexchange.com …

Unikitty Blends People

12:42 PM

sd k

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: viatropin uite common for folks by B21 Testosterone on drupal.stackexchange.com …

user315433

Uh oh, I can't hide by attaching my room to meta anymore. :( meta.stackexchange.com/a/277355

user315433

Wonder if this also makes it appear on the front page of the site, in the sidebar...

Unikitty Blends People

sd k

lol

rene

@404 you can down vote the answer ...

user202362

12:56 PM

404 - always found (on meta) :p

user315433

Apparently not; the main site's sidebar shows two main site rooms, even though Normal Chatroom was active more recently than one of them. Good.

user315433

@IͶΔ Meta sites being chat hosts makes sense. Chat servers being chat hosts is something stranger: see chat.stackexchange.com/?host=chat.meta.stackexchange.com or chat.stackexchange.com/?host=chat.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

@404 That just shows your favorite rooms.

user315433

Eh... I guess I meant chat.stackexchange.com/… and chat.stackexchange.com/…

ProgramFOX

ah

it just ignores the chat. prefix apparently

IͶΔ

1:03 PM

@404 Hah

user315433

@IͶΔ See what you have done: Meta chatroom back from the dead! by Joel Reyes Noche on meta.matheducators.stackexchange.com

rene

1:45 PM

Sorry, this site is English and not Dutch. And anyways, it is the wrong site to post this on. — Patrick Hofman 1 min ago

I didn't notice there was Dutch there, I already voted to close after the first sentence

KutuluMike

2:04 PM

@Derpy Mos Eisley loves those kinds of questions.

SmokeDetector

2:24 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: Q微744043126办理芝加哥大学毕业证成绩单学历认证The University of Chicago by soso1717soso on english.stackexchange.com …

Unikitty Blends People

sd k

@balpha cjk block on english?

2

There's no reason why you speak chinese on an english site

Shadow Wizard

2:57 PM

in Language Overflow on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 30 mins ago, by John Clifford

What's with all the Chinese spam today?

yup, they need it. :D

Unikitty Blends People

3:12 PM

lol

Derpy

3:24 PM

From Arqade, just now.

fivejs.lol

tchrist

How much sinospam have we gotten each of yesterday and today, both collectively and individually? I forget the link to show that.

Derpy

oh, hi @unikitty. We were discussing if you should be considered as a Lego MLP knockoff before on Mos Eisley.

Unikitty Blends People

lol

tchrist

What's the link for Smokey graphical data?

KutuluMike

five.oclock(); // '🕔'

user315433

3:34 PM

@tchrist metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/graphs

tchrist

Thanks.

Unikitty Blends People

RARRRW

GOLD BADGE!

500 helpful flags

Derpy

@KutuluMike I still prefer vanilla-js but this one is good too

KutuluMike

4:01 PM

The last programming book you'll ever need https://t.co/cnObD8GYGZ

Tweeted by ThePracticalDev on March 4, 2016 at 6:42 PM

Unikitty Blends People

lol

Night!

KutuluMike

@Derpy it is until it gets yanked off NPM in the middle of the day and suddenly all the Fibonacci number generators break

Derpy

4:21 PM

@ShadowWizard one more quest for you.... Have you ever noticed that GraceNote actually has worked on SharePoint (whistles)?

So many things in common...

rene

4:32 PM

Why did you bounty that ticket question @ShadowWizard?

Shadow Wizard

5:17 PM

@rene as the bounty reason says, an excellent answer. :-)

rene

As if he needs the rep ;)

Shadow Wizard

He really delved into it instead of just saying "that's how it is"

@rene well, he might lose the diamond at some point, then rep matters. :D

rene

lol

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy Plot twist: you are a sock of @Grace - that would indeed explain lots of things... ;-)

SmokeDetector

6:04 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] English text in body on a localized site: Error during creation Uber API service object by Arthur Kalmykov on ru.stackoverflow.com …

rene

sd f

rene

7:18 PM

somewhat disturbing question used as ad for outdoors.se given the fact that where I live the wild life has to visit the backyard of government officials before permits are granted ...

SmokeDetector

7:46 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Is that a bad thing? You might sense that I'm walking on thin ice by Offreyzz on drupal.stackexchange.com …

rene

sd k

IͶΔ

@404 Gee, people post meta for a bazillion reasons. Answered that

user315433

8:24 PM

Hi @jDo neat profile message.

user315433

Just yesterday, I was thinking of something like that...

user315433

yesterday, by 404

It's disappointing that none of PPCG nominees posted their nomination in the form of a golfed script that prints their actual nomination.

user315433

On the list of nominations, @Doorknob stands out as a dinosaur. Nobody else has more than "2 years" in the "member for..." field.

Doorknob

I've been called many things before, but never "dinosaur." :P

IͶΔ

Phallic dinosaur

in Test room on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, May 19 '14 at 2:21, by Doorknob

This room was placed in timeout for 1 second; the topic of this room is "Need room to test a few room owner features. Please disregard." - conversation should be limited to that topic.

jDo

9:06 PM

@404 Trying to find my profile message while hoping I'm not being flattered by a bot :D But thanks!

user315433

    "".join([chr(y) for y in (int(y) for y in "106,118,100,64,116,117,116,97,46,105,111".split(","))])

jDo

@404 Ah, the email obfuscation! I hope the scrapers don't know list comprehensions yet :)

Quill

9:39 PM

Quite a few popular websites do that kinda thing

They use some javascript to reorder an array and inject a value

jDo

9:57 PM

ok yeah, i've also seen it in malware and on some video streaming sites that hide their api links and use eval() to turn the gibberish back into URIs

maybe i should throw in some lambdas and XORs in the spirit of needless complexity!

user315433

10:42 PM

Stack Overflow is hiring a real-life lawyer. Know anyone? http://stackoverflow.com/company/work-here/188175/corporate-attorney

Tweeted by samthebrand on March 24, 2016 at 10:32 PM

user315433

> He/she will be responsible for (i) drafting ... (ii) providing ... (iii) help manage our IP portfolio;

user315433

Grammar check exited with code 1

tchrist

11:05 PM

First, there is no such person as he/she. Second, ENOPARALLELISM.

Alexis King

@tchrist Embrace the singular they?

user315433

@blahdiblah, see my latest to get a sense of volume. We don't have counsel on staff for these because they'd get bored. If we got a questionable one (asking for lots of user's info, or info that couldn't logically seem to connect to the charge, we'd probably consult with counsel to see if it's worth challenging. — Jaydles ♦ Oct 3 '13 at 18:44

user315433

Things changed... Could be the recent Jobs-scraping revelations, I suppose.

Shog9

I've no inside knowledge of this specifically, but my guess would be that at a certain point having multiple high-ranking employees "playing lawyer" + a real lawyer on contract to vet their output is probably less efficient than just putting one on staff.

user315433

11:22 PM

The section "What you’ll need to have:" can't decide if the items should begin with an uppercase letter or not.

user315433

No suggested edits there :(

Jeffrey Bosboom

@Shog9 Re your recent comments here about downvotes weighing more than closures for question bans, I'm thinking about going through 0-score closed questions and downvoting some of them. It's voting based on content, but I'm not doing it to rank the content, but instead to push users who seem unlikely to ask good questions in the future closer to the question ban. Is that cool?

user315433

> What you’ll get in return: ... Stock options

user315433

@JeffreyBosboom inb4 a quote from Admiral Grace Hopper

tchrist

@AlexisKing Embrace them, I say, embrace them.

Shog9

11:42 PM

@JeffreyBosboom you're asking if it's cool to downvote lousy questions?

Jeffrey Bosboom

@Shog9 It sounds obvious when you phrase it like that, but we always say "vote on content, not the user". I sort of am voting on the user here, saying "based on the content so far, I don't think you can contribute good questions in the future".

Shog9

@JeffreyBosboom well, then don't do that.

Just downvote lousy questions. And upvote good ones, if you happen across any.

Quill

@JeffreyBosboom that's a shitty way to do things. people can and will improve. don't conclusively profile them based on their shitty questions

Shog9

If I'm reading you right, the only way this would be problematic is if you ended up downvoting decent questions based on some prediction of what the author would likely post in the future. Obviously, that's not a great idea unless Tom Cruise is coming after you with an eye transplant.

So avoid it by ignoring the author and just downvoting crap.

Jeffrey Bosboom

Okay, that addresses my concerns. Thanks.

user315433

11:53 PM

Like: what will i need to create a website with a chatroom? and custom made Magento website to responsive website ... which both got answers :/

Alexis King

@404 I wish the roomba deleted questions with score < -3 and all negatively-scored answers even if they weren’t closed. I can’t imagine there would be many false positives there.

user315433

> If a question is more than 30 days old, and...
has a score of -1 or less, with no votes in the past 30 days
has no answers with a score > 0
is not locked
...it will be automatically deleted.

user315433

That is... after the proposal gets implemented.

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