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12:08 AM
in Mathematics on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 2 hours ago, by Will Hunting
Sometimes we can teleport and get somewhere without walking.
These math flags... what even
 
user315433
A Twitter bot that posts flagged chat messages could be entertaining.
 
user315433
Though likely to be shut down by Twitter due to content.
 
I had an idea like that, but instead to post the room and message author and not the content in a separate chatroom on the SE network
I'm still entertaining that Twitter follower scraping bot idea as well... :D
 
Writing code comments in non-code font: ick. ICK ICK ICK.
 
12:26 AM
haha
I saw yesterday that my professor writes the entire subject material in one big TeX document and converts it into a PDF
 
user315433
I use a separate TeX doc for each class period. Tagging them with semester-course combination and storing on Overleaf.
 
user315433
After a while, substantial time savings.
 
12:43 AM
I write all my assignments in Markdown, I haven't migrated to TeX yet
 
user315433
Then I suppose you're not using much math.
 
I just use Mathjax for the math parts
 
user315433
Ah, that makes a lot of sense, if you are not too concerned about the layout of printed version.
 
@Undo Everyone told me the FRQs were really hard. Now I have to take a look at them myself...
 
That test looks maddening
 
user315433
12:52 AM
s/That test/Java/
 
Writing code w/o syntax highlighting, autocomplete, a compiler, or the Internet? No thanks.
Sounds like a darn good way to turn tens of thousands of kids off of programming altogether
 
Okay yeah I got tired of looking at them. After 3 hours of testing in a day... you get a little tired of FRQs. :P
 
user315433
Would you rather have MCQs?
 
oh, I shudder to think what AP CS MCQs look like :/
 
@Meta I did 50 of those today too, thank you very much. :P
 
user315433
12:59 AM
Hm... how about simply Qs, then?
 
@Undo be thankful you have a computer; I had to do a programming test once where I wrote the code out on paper
 
@Quill oh, this is with a pencil
AP test
 
@Meta Maybe I'll do a roomba pass to take a break. Although that's... not exactly the best break.
 
user315433
> WRITE YOUR SOLUTION ON THE NEXT PAGE.
 
user315433
Wonder how they score them, are they actually typed and compiled?
 
1:03 AM
;p but it's a PDF, you can just use a text editor...
I love how all the standardised tests I've ever done claim to have "a magical OCR system that screws up if you use a different type of pencil"
 
@Meta I suspect it's a bunch of semicolon-counters
 
@Meta Here's the scoring guidelines for 2015: secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/…
 
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Unrelated. In Chrome, when I do right-click and "open image in a new tab" on Gabe's photo here, I get "ÿØÿà�JFIF������ÿþ�;CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v80), quality = 90 ÿÛ�C�". and some such things. Not what I mean by opening an image.
 
Repro, 50.0.2661.94
 
+1
 
user315433
1:05 AM
 
I wonder whether the test makers version of OCR is actually cheap labour in a third world country
 
@Meta Wow, there are a lot of Careers salespeople
 
user202362
Oo, got to pick up a parcel from the post office
 
user202362
looks like my mini drone has arrived
 
user315433
After today's additions, there are 264 faces on that page, the all-time high (as long as I keep tracking it).
 
user315433
1:11 AM
So, what causes JPEGs to spill out their content on the page (same in FF as in Chrome), wrong MIME type or something like that? It's not with all of them: Nicolas, Juan, and JNat show normally.
 
@Undo they are the people who directly make money
 
user202362
@Undo err, that's how SE makes money?
 
user202362
By selling career/employment services
 
user202362
nowadays I have to deal with lawyers a lot for the paperworks
 
Everything has gravity - here's a droplet of water orbiting a needle in 0G. https://t.co/lPQvHr1IYw
It's not gravity
it's electrostatic charge
 
user202362
1:15 AM
go me (with my limited English as second language skills)💃
 
user315433
Of course. The centri\w* force is way too high for gravity, for any visible mass/velocity combination. (Until we get to astronomical sizes)
 
user202362
what's the force for the acceleration?
 
user202362
also my limited English skills is compensated by my superior overall computer skills, everything is computer generated and looks awfully professional </shameless self promotion>
 
user202362
and that I did a bit commercial law back in the post grad days ... one can never possess too much knowledge
 
@Telkitty F = q(E + v x B)
 
user202362
1:21 AM
ever get to use your palms in the exams? :p
 
@Telkitty Only palmfaces.
 
user202362
@JamesENL without further information, it's hard to say what force makes the water drop to move the fashion it does in that picture.
 
@Telkitty you've got better english than a lot of people I know.. :)
 
user202362
@bjb568 so you never have to use this in the exam?
 
They rubbed the needle with a plastic bag to charge it.
 
user202362
1:25 AM
 
@Telkitty Yeah, people use that.
Some people even bring on pencils and rubber bands to construct their own coordinate axes.
 
user202362
@JamesENL doesn't explain why does it go around the needle and bounce at both ends
 
Magic
 
user202362
...
 
user202362
1:30 AM
and also the gravitational force is very small
 
user202362
other wise two adjacent cars would have collided because of it
 
user202362
thus:
 
user202362
6 mins ago, by Telkitty
@JamesENL without further information, it's hard to say what force makes the water drop to move the fashion it does in that picture.
 
user202362
trust me, my physics foundation is very solid
 
1:53 AM
I'm not doubting you
 
@JamesENL /HTML/ ~dies internally
 
@Quill Hey, it was the first thing in the search results
 
@SmokeDetector fp-
 
2:38 AM
If you took a 3 year break from UI design, now you're all caught up: https://t.co/4pdL17dXaF
 
user202362
in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, Jul 17 '13 at 3:34, by Telkitty 猫咪咪
lol ios7 & window8 are going back to the simple flat design
 
user202362
old news
 
user202362
when you run out of innovation ideas, reuse old ones
 
3:15 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Get Free 200M 2007 rs gold from RSorder Mother’Day Flash Sale at 03:00 a.m.GMT on May 9,2016 by accolac99 on gaming.stackexchange.com
 
> @dcydhb a paste it into the first thing you should not do is to look at top right? Moreover, it has been written in the title of the top? Whatever your reason, my patience has been exhausted. Here you can tell, Except as I mentioned in this chat room, paste it and SE as well as a few a few must abide by the Code, I will not make any initiative to inform you, but if you breach the words, something out of the SE I downvote, in the bar and I'll add it posted blacklist
Thanks google translate
From here
 
3:33 AM
78
A: How does Stack Overflow do pagination?

HaneyWell, the whole process is pretty complicated, but I'll try and answer you without writing a post that's as many pages (see what I did there?) as the last Game of Thrones book. Assumptions For the sake of discussion, we'll all agree that pagination is basically a function of pageNumber * pageSi...

nice
 
3:53 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: http://bettercoloncleansingguide.com/rexburn-and-maxgain/ by EverettJohn on gaming.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: For the ladies who will probably be a new by RousQune on apple.stackexchange.com
 
4:09 AM
[ QuillBot ] New XKCD! Full-Width Justification:
 
@Quill noice
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Natural Recipes For Skin Care Skin by Alanreyes on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: consider is the fact that not all fat gainers are made for your same individual by Dhoom on gaming.stackexchange.com
 
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@Quill What's with that post?
 
4:24 AM
Apparently someone thought <== works...
they deleted it like 45 seconds after I commented.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: stipulations, and also via pregnant females by vesgashelly on askubuntu.com (@kos)
 
4:36 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: The group behind the Neo 2 framework by Christinswong on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer, pattern-matching website in answer: Word used to describe "exam essay"? by ronrogers on ell.stackexchange.com (@ShadowWizard)
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Doing the identical exercises will also bring about higher gains by Divonzzz on superuser.com
 
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The choice between candidates may depend on their software stacks. Different ideologies...
 
Maybe Trump's site runs on PHP ;p
 
5:05 AM
> The i element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose in a manner indicating a different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, transliteration, a thought, or a ship name in Western texts.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: http://bettercoloncleansingguide.com/rexburn-and-maxgain/ by SarahQuiroga on workplace.stackexchange.com
 
5:35 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Doing so permits you to have Muscle Pro Xtreme by Bobet Trab on money.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: http://menhealthreviews.org/rexburn-reviews/ by Giltyar Jil on arduino.stackexchange.com
 
5:51 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in body, email in body: Urgent Loan Ofeer by Barry Hamilton on money.stackexchange.com
 
sd 4k
 
6:09 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: It yet showing them themselves is there by user34153 on movies.stackexchange.com
 
6:23 AM
@hichris123 OK, pinged you here as well
 
7:10 AM
The Tavern only 3rd in the list of rooms? Gah, I almost entered the Den. Brrr.
 
That was a close one
 
One of those war stories you will tell your grandchildren about
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: Does Goji Top Works Effectively? by tiliherokixe on askubuntu.com (@kos)
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link following arrow in body: The Overall Challenge in a Light Brain by Deanna336 on webmasters.stackexchange.com
 
sd 2k
 
7:54 AM
MSE is flooded again with programming questions... think I saw about 10 in the last couple of hours.
 
Maybe it is time again to enable my friendly banner?
@ShadowWizard you can't hide your sock puppet, nicely played though ...
 
@ShadowWizard might as well as ping Shog
16 hours ago, by Shog9
@Meta yeah; my estimate based on the number of people still reading inbox messages is that we'll get 1-3 off-topic questions a day; if we exceed that by much, back up it goes.
 
8:10 AM
@Shog I've seen about 10 off topic questions on MSE in the last couple of hours, can the barrier please be brought up again?
@AndrewT. done.
@rene lol, thanks!
 
Oded in action ....
 
yay! @Oded started to delete them!
 
Clean.
 
Wonder why now though..... ?
 
Because you pinged Shog9 and that pings all his socks ...
2
 
8:14 AM
imgur gif seems broken on Chrome 50...
(or, "I can't see vaultah's avatar")
 
... muscle memory kicked-in: I close vote every new post in the active tab ...
 
@AndrewT. nothing is broken. It's a 864x864 transparent canvas.
If anything, vaulth is broken. ;)
 
Genius! :O
 
:O:
 
8:19 AM
O=C=O
 
@ShadowWizard why you had to tell him that??? I was going to say that it was the picture of a muffin.
 
19 hours ago, by Shadow Wizard
That's me, Master Spoiler... ;)
 
@ShadowWizard here is my reply...
 
8:37 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body: Some Male Enhancement Supplements kind by AfbeQeqi on apple.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector ignore- edited
 
@rene I don't see an edit?
 
He suggested an edit.
 
@JamesENL No. I'm low rep there
Hard to believe but true
Plz upvote all my things there....
 
Weird
How is Runescape still a thing?
 
8:54 AM
@JamesENL nowadays, online "mmorpg" are more about reaching a critical user mass and then going inertia from there than coming out with something new every year. Notice that I am not advocating against runescape quality, I am just stating it reached the "self sustaining fanbase" point like WoW and other objectively old mmorpgs, and that is creating a lock-in for people to switch to newer games.
 
> The game has had over 200 million accounts created and is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's largest free MMORPG and the most-updated game
 
True
 
OKAY! Time to lift our #startup. Everyone visit http://localhost:8080 and share :)
........
I am hoping this was just a joke.
 
9:46 AM
@Talhiner yes, that is where I'm good at. — rene 3 mins ago
 
@Derpy probably not. That suspiciously sounds like where the local version of the website may be running
 
@Bart I know that. But it seems so lame that I am still hoping it was a joke
 
:D
 
@Sunshine couldn't resist, guilty of being snarky ...
 
@rene But you are good at closing, not downvoting
 
10:02 AM
I know ... shame on me
 
10:28 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Você pode executar seus impactos em desenvolvimento através by Hend19 00 on engineering.stackexchange.com
 
sd k
 
10:47 AM
You can go beyond just cards; I recently found myself using a variant of Quicksort to sort a stack of papers I had to organize without even thinking about it because there were too many for a basic insertion sort. — JAB 2 days ago
 
Oh god, the town hall is soonish
 
Sam
11:03 AM
Yup
 
11:20 AM
@Quill yes, and finally we have a quality discussion here ...
 
LOL
 
hmm.. SEDE loading slowly... especially this resource: data.stackexchange.com/mini-profiler-resources/includes.js
10 seconds load time.
Anyone else have this? @rene @Dro
And this cause the "Run Query" button to redirect me to data.stackexchange.com/query/run/1/415266/530145
 
Sam
@ShadowWizard Seems fine to me
 
hmm... so something on my side. :/
 
@ShadowWizard no repro
 
Sam
11:27 AM
Yeah, it loads in 0.7 secs here.
 
@ShadowWizard loaded in 1st second for me
@ShadowWizard that's a 404 for me
 
Sam
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
@DroidDev yeah, as it should be.
2
Q: When not logged in, clicking Run Query navigates to the raw text result rather than showing the result on the same page

Peter O.Lately, clicking Run Query on any Data Explorer query (where the result wasn't generated beforehand) navigates to URLs like data.stackexchange.com/query/run/1/*/*, usually with the JSON query result, rather than showing a reCaptcha challenge (as it usually would). This issue occurs only when I am...

 
@ShadowWizard that is interesting as that is similar to this: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/321455/578411
 
So now I know how to reproduce ^^
 
11:31 AM
@ShadowWizard :'(
@ShadowWizard you come to Clash of Kings game, I'll wreck you bad :P
 
hello
 
@rene yup, same thing. Borked connections everywhere....
@PichiWuana hello!
@DroidDev yeah, insane lag...
 
What's upp
 
sky...?
 
This is the tavern
Where productivity goes to die
 
11:40 AM
@PichiWuana did you mean WhatsApp? ;)
 
Sam
@Magisch Yep
 
@ShadowWizard haha
 
this is tavern, where everyone comes to die, because they're gonna die anyway
 
this is tavern, where unicorns are born.
 
user202362
11:59 AM
this is tavern, where unicorns are porn.
 
Do the users' icons become transparent when they're not in the tab or when they are for a specific time outside it?
 
... I feel awkward being here now @Telkitty ...
 
@PichiWuana it becomes transparent when they are idle, meaning still in the room (i.e. didn't close the browser tab) but haven't posted anything in a while. (10-15 minutes, I think)
 
would that message be flagged and removed and @Telkitty be banned, if I star that message?
 
@DroidDev maybe, go ahead! ;)
 
12:11 PM
@Telkitty is used to chat bans. I'm sure she wouldn't mind. :p
 
so she would be banned.
 
@DroidDev actually, we could flag it even without the star....
 
Nah
 
@Bart see ^
 
@ShadowWizard I understand. So they can become transparent even when they're inside the tab?
 
12:12 PM
I'll just copy the link in another room and star it there. lol. Win win for everyone
 
There is also another option - one of the room owner could spontaneously send it to the trash bin. Or we could ask Shog to do this... but I fear the sleeping one wouldn't awake just to burinate a message....
 
user202362
As you may or may not aware, I am not a big fan of unicorns. I was hoping to create some association between unicorns and the p word, so people would be too ashamed to mention unicorns
 
@Telkitty so I should start it here. To complete your quest ;P
 
user202362
p.s. naked unicorn pictures should be banned on this chat
 
user202362
Be shamed, be shamed when you think about unicorns!!!
 
user202362
12:17 PM
@DroidDev you know me so well 😂
 
@Telkitty you have a picture of naked animal as your avatar. Looks at his own avatar, oh wait...wait....
 
@Telkitty well, please consider the "Be Nice" chat policy before further continuing on this argument. I am starting to really consider the flag discussion option.
oh, wait. Someone must already have summoned the door handle.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: We should research at its amazing by operwminoe on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
user202362
@Derpy define 'be nice'
 
user202362
I am entertaining the mass
 
12:25 PM
@PichiWuana only when inside the room/tab - otherwise they won't be displayed at all. Many people simply leave their browser open 24/7 hence appear idle here for days, weeks, even months.
 
@Telkitty ask Shog. if Shog gets angry, it wasn't nice
 
user202362
I estimate the fun I provided way exceeds the offense I introduced
 
user202362
I was question banned on April fools day, has anyone been nice to me?
 
@Telkitty but sadly, I am not a big fan of John Stuart Mill.
 
@Telkitty one offense is enough to destroy the fun for all others
 
user202362
12:30 PM
right ... one person one vote
 
user202362
too bad
 
user202362
foundation of democratic world
 
user202362
foundation of stackoverflow voting system too
 
One Shog to rule them all.
 
user202362
😂
 
12:34 PM
@Telkitty Actually, that would include the old "your liberty ends where someone else liberty starts" adagio.
 
user202362
@Derpy it doesn't matter who is your favourite or not, at the end of the day it's what works and what does not and why it works the way it is
 
user202362
@Derpy what hilter would say
 
user202362
nobody wants to live in a world where there is no freedom
 
user202362
so stop throwing in 'I think you should behave this way because I feel strongly of it'
 
user202362
I don't care
 
12:37 PM
@Telkitty actually, that is quite the opposite of what he would probably say, but it requires understanding the whole "liberty doesn't imply you are free to offend/hurt others" thing
 
user202362
Am I offending you? If so why?
 
Please don't drag Mr Hilter into chat
 
Mr. Titler?
 
user202362
Yeah sure, the poor thing does even have a bachelor degree
 
user202362
12:43 PM
he did not attent any college. Then he tried to get into art college in Vienna, but failed, not once, but twice, to meet the requirements for getting in. In Vienna, the Vienna Academy of Art, rejected his application as "he had no School Leaving Certificate". His drawings which he presented as evidence of his ability, were rejected as they had too few people in them.
 
user202362
 
user202362
not sure whether it's true
 
@ShadowWizard Do you mean that when I go to YouTube I'm not appearing in the users box?
 
user202362
I guess if he lives in the current period, he could purchase a degree from a Chinese spammer
 
@Telkitty If you did, probably I would have flagged the offense, wouldn't I? I just pointed out that you shouldn't expect others to agree with the "fun outweighs people offended" thing. As Shadow also stated, it is never fine if you offend someone. There is no cost/benefit involved. The whole "your liberty ends where someone else liberty starts" is just about this - one is free to act until it hurts someone else in the process.
 
12:48 PM
@PichiWuana that is right. After few minutes you are automatically leaving the room.
 
did I really start that conversation, because I wanted to star a message?
 
Yes you did. Words are powerful! ;-) 😈
 
lol, I thought they were mightier than sword :/
 
13 hours ago, by Quill
I had an idea like that, but instead to post the room and message author and not the content in a separate chatroom on the SE network
 
@DroidDev sharper than any sword, heavier than any stone.
 
12:58 PM
@Meta I finished this idea and the bot's gonna post here
 
@ShadowWizard oh... wow
 
@ShadowWizard what kind of words are those? I need to burry my ex under them ;)
 
Incoming blog post
they're announcing employees again! \o/
 
Alexa Scordato on May 4, 2016
The Stack Overflow team is beyond excited to welcome Adrianna Burrows as Stack Overflow’s new Chief Marketing Officer. She’s an industry veteran of everything from global product launches to partner development and she is as laser focused as we are about empowering developers.
 
Turns out my bot doesn't have MSE rep ;-;
no MSE watching for it yet
 
1:23 PM
@Feeds was this Laura's role?
 
user202362
what with the term 'laser focused', lol
 
9
Q: Is “laser-focused” a new word?

Yoichi OishiI found the word “laser-focused on the bottom line” in the following sentence of the New York Times (August 6) op ed titled, “Dream, Baby, Dream!” “We also know – look at Syria – dictators who have spent decades ruling through fear do not go quietly into the night any more than great powers r...

 
@CodeQuicksand @Nick_Craver https://gist.github.com/balpha/c68b5195015e78704641dc6bdca140d4#file-sample_output-txt
Distinguished Systems Administrator at Transatlantic Big Data Technologies, Inc.
Senior Business Analyst at Synchronized Research Technologies
Senior Systems Programmer at Modern Finance Technologies GmbH
Database Programmer at Oonyckun
Consultant at Pathouyr
Distinguished Reliability Programmer at Plumeg
Hilarious
 
[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, pattern-matching website in title: http://musclegainfast.com by cipnevgy on money.stackexchange.com
 
OomVeestouck
 
user315433
1:39 PM
@ShadowWizard No, Laura was a Product Manager, placed with the Engineering on the company page. Arianna is an executive, along with CEO, CFO, COO.
 
user315433
Arianna's job is outward-oriented, "show the world". Laura's was... different.
 
user315433
Dec 23 '15 at 18:10, by Shog9
a proDUCT manager at Stack Overflow is more or less the person stuck in a kitchen with 6 vats of soup and scores of cooks, trying to make sure nothing gets ruined.
 
Important enough to make grown men weep on Twitter
 
user202362
I don't know why, but every time I mentioned the word IPO I get some sticks coming my way. But this really looks like a serious attempt for a future IPO. Please, no sticks. TY
 
user315433
Yes, though not strictly a function of importance. I imagine there'd be fewer Twitter haikus if the CFO left.
 
user202362
1:51 PM
why are people getting so emotional when I mention IPO?
 
what's IPO?
 
^
 
@Meta thanks, didn't really remember that. So Laura got nobody to replace her?
 
Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company usually are sold to institutional investors that in turn, sell to the general public, on a securities exchange, for the first time. Through this process, a privately held company transforms into a public company. Initial public offerings are mostly used by companies to raise the expansion of capital, possibly to monetize the investments of early private investors, and to become publicly traded enterprises. A company selling shares is never required to repay the capital to its publi...
 
Internet Police Office?
 
1:54 PM
@Andy thanks, now next goal challenge is trying to understand what @Tel means...
 
user315433
@ShadowWizard They are hiring and losing PMs pretty much non-stop.
 
The Irish Poker Open is the longest running No Limit Texas hold 'em poker tournament in Europe and second longest in the world after the World Series of Poker. First organised in 1980 by Terry Rogers, a well known Irish bookmaker, the tournament is Europe's largest and a fixture on the international poker calendar. It is traditionally held over Easter weekend each year. Since Terry Rogers death in 1999 the tournament, originally held in Dublin’s Eccentric Club, has been hosted by tournament director and poker player Liam Flood and the Merrion Casino. paddypowerpoker.com began sponsorship of the...
 
user315433
So it's hard to know who's replacing whom.
 
@Meta yeah, think Jon mentioned something about PM that left causing the whole Mentorship project to die before being born. Too bad.
 
I’ve worked places with churny PM positions.
 
1:57 PM
@ShadowWizard Mentorship project?
 
user315433
59
A: Opt in "mentor" privilege at 7.5k

Jon EricsonI'd like to float a modified version of this idea as a 30k (10k beta) privilege. Problem statement Stack Exchange sites (and especially Stack Overflow) intimidate new users who might become exceptional contributors if only they got over the hump of asking and answering questions. Meanwhile, top...

 
Ah. I do remember that.
 
@Telkitty you mean those "sticks"?
It's because you say totally wrong things.
Who said SE will go public? Maybe they will, maybe they won't.
NAA 20k'ers on MSE plz delete meta.stackexchange.com/a/279050/152859
 
user202362
IPO is a event where you give out part of your company shares in exchange of billion dollars that you would never have to repay back (even though you most likely have to part with some of company's future earnings in the form of dividend). It is one way and most common way for venture capitalist, and other original shareholders to make a very handsome sum through the process of initial offering to the public. It's also a great way to be rid of existing debt.
 
user202362
2:05 PM
And oh, expansion almost always requires capital, so if you want the company to become gigantic ...
 
Turns out to be a common spammer: meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/44328
@Shog can you nuke this account? Those are likely to return and spam again.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Why does fuse blow up sometimes? by bob on electronics.stackexchange.com
 
user202362
Once some finance person I know of called IPO a scheme to quickly rope in money, but if we look at Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg & Sergey Brin, it's probably true.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Why does fuse blow up sometimes? by bob on electronics.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Why does fuse blow up sometimes? by user109056 on electronics.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Why does fuse blow up sometimes? by user109056 on electronics.stackexchange.com
 
2:25 PM
huh, what an attack. Reminds me of the Indian hacker boy attacking Tim (and others)
@Telkitty so you say this whole IPO is scam?
 
user202362
It's how capitalism runs, so by current definition: no
 
@Telkitty so you say capitalism is bad?
 
user202362
@ShadowWizard Is an eagle bad for killing other birds to feed it's youngs? It's just how it works. I am afraid a lot of the times, it's not just black and white
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Why does fuse blow up sometimes? by user109056 on electronics.stackexchange.com
 
Sam
@SmokeDetector Flagged all of 'em.
Killed one.
Still a few left.
 
2:35 PM
yay! Spammer account on MSE nuked.
 
MSE rep-to-post is back at 2
3
roughly 25% of accounts sent that inbox message have read it, 75% of those active in the last 30 days have read it...
...but that still leaves tends of thousands of accounts per day reading it.
I guess enough of them get confused.
@ShadowWizard ^^^
 
user315433
Imagine picking up your mail in the morning, and as you open the envelope, you're suddenly teleported to another planet. Yes, must be confusing.
 
Different Country at best
 
user315433
Or, an alternate universe where most things are the same but some are not.
 
Adrianna
 
user202362
2:44 PM
@Meta sounds like it's something that would happen if you drank too much the previous night ... and did some drugs while at it. Not that I have any experience in the field.
 
Oh, I was just late by 1 hour
 
@Shog9 thanks! (and also thanks for nuking that MSE spammer :))
 
user202362
 
user202362
posting this because .. too cute
 
user202362
those little claws ...
 
user315433
2:48 PM
Did we get anything worthwhile from 1 rep users during this day when they were able to post on MSE?
 
user202362
For young birds, getting stressed out can be a good thing ... but for young humans, childhood disturbance is a bad thing?
 
@Meta this:
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Q: First time user getting "This looks like spam" when trying to post

dksobaI tried posting my question here (which I thought was the correct place to post false positives for spam) but it tells me that it looks like spam here too. EDIT After posting the above simple post, I was able to post my entire post below. Should this be how I post my original question? I trie...

That is all.
 
user202362
If I hold my chicken the way the person is holding the bird, my hen will probably wing slap me
 
Need more Town Hall on Castle Age~
 
user315433
Which was a duplicate.
 
2:52 PM
@Shog9 but it's a dupe, like all (most?) others... 1, 2, 3 and probably tons more. Somehow most are for the android app.
 
Which doesn't exactly strengthen the call to allow more 1-rep user posts
 
user315433
Does posting a pro-forma question and then editing in the actual content circumvent that restriction?
 
user315433
Because if yes, that could be mention for the benefit of other users in that situation.
 
@Shog9 exactly. So you will consider leaving the MSE rep-to-post at 2 for good?
 
user315433
Long-term this is problematic because it essentially says you can't report a bug or ask for support until you get 200 rep on one of the sites.
 
2:54 PM
@Meta this can be fixed by allowing 1 rep users to answer on MSE.
One fair answer, and you're free to ask.
 
user315433
Wouldn't work. If you try to do X on a site, and can't, and don't really know how the sites work, looking for a question to answer isn't a natural thing to do. And posting a good answer is even less likely.
 
Moreover, it's MSE, where common users won't be able to answers easily.
 
user315433
> want to live like common users, want to do whatever common users do...
 
s/common user/normal human
 
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