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user315433

00:01

> If I ever quit, it’ll be because of email. -- Nick Craver at 1:44 PM - 23 Feb 2017

Sklivvz

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Proposed Q&A site for phenomenon believers in: Psionics:Psychokinesis/Telekinesis; ESP:Astral/Lucid/RV/NDE/OBE; Energy:Meditation/Consciousness; Magic:Occult/Healing/Reiki/Crystals/Runes/Rituals/Exorcism); ET:Aliens/UFO; Metaphysical entities: Spirits; Astrology, etc.

Currently in definition.

Should totally be renamed "Alternative Facts"

Shog9

Alt-normal

Sklivvz

@zaq a shit sandwich

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC great minds... :P

Journeyman Geek

@Sklivvz beat me to it :p

Sklivvz

00:12

high five

user315433

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC yeah, need a script for that!

user315433

It's not obvious to me what the featuring of Smoke-announcement post was supposed to achieve... okay, greater awareness of it, but...

user202362

abnormal distribution

user315433

Could be an item for mod newsletter, maybe. (Hm, May 2016 post is still in progress)

Jon Ericson

00:17

@zaq I'm not sure what else featuring is useful for.

user315433

Usually it's "here's a new development, which may change how you interact with these sites"

Sklivvz

I'm off to bed, later...

Jason C

@zaq I kinda like that it's featured. It's cool, and it's a ton of work done by volunteers. Everybody should know about it.

As opposed to, say, featuring Joel's political anxiety attacks.

Shog9

down to one outstanding flag on MSE

Jason C

Quick everybody raise some more flags.

user315433

00:25

Okay, maybe feature a post about SOCVR next...

ɥʇǝS

@zaq because they are taking automatic action on all sites? You don't think that's something those sites would like to know about? Considering sites like The Workplace have their auto deletion amount set to 3 that'd be a big deal for them for sure.

I think the charcoal folks already knew about that change and so built around it, but that doesn't mean they'll know about other such changes to other sites. That's just one example.

Jason C

What's that thing you can type in comments that inserts a link to how-to-ask?

@zaq If you make a baller post about it, maybe they will.

user315433

@JasonC [ask]

Jason C

Sweet thanks

user315433

This post is one of greatest spam-related mysteries on Stack Exchange.

user202362

00:32

pest.stackexchange.com

user315433

00:44

Congratulations to the new Community Management Team Lead @Shog9

user315433

Also, JNat is now Community Operations Team Lead and Juan M is International Community Team Lead.

user315433

Leading the whole international community sounds like a daunting task.

user202362

congrats

SmokeDetector

01:08

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website answer: Opening multiple documents by Printable Calendar on apple.SE

user315433

@SmokeDetector Good call, bad grammar.

Undo

'in', yeah.

Jason C

Sigh, there's always one...

user315433

So, the 15 members of Community Team now have 7 distinct job titles:
8 x Community Manager
2 x Director of Community Management
Community Growth Operations Specialist
Community Management Team Lead
Community Operations Team Lead
Director of Community Development
International Community Team Lead

Jason C

Did shog get promoted? Congrats

TFW you think your computer is frozen then you remember you're looking at a screenshot.

user315433

01:22

There are 114 job titles in total, the most common being "Developer" (x30). And 85 of them are held by one person. (I mean each... not all 85 by one. Although Nick Craver comes close.)

Undo

Two ways to read that, one more entertaining than the other.

user315433

As long as they are unique, one can replace job titles with names, saving the trouble of remembering both things.

Jon Ericson

MSE user number is even more memory efficient.

user315433

Or would be if people had accounts. Even Kristina Lustig, UX researcher, doesn't have one.

user315433

Or it's not linked.

user315433

01:30

Kristina Lustig, London, United Kingdom

1 1

user315433

She does, it's just not linked. Can I send a PR to that page?

user315433

> My roommate brought home some birthday cake, even though his bday is in August. He referred to this as a "life hack." -- Kristina Lustig at 12:43 PM - 22 Feb 2017

user315433

She (or rather her roommate) should have an account on Lifehacks

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer, blacklisted user: Opening multiple documents by Printable Calendar on apple.SE

Rob

Why was ^ that reported twice?

user315433

01:42

Another answer was posted, so the question became active again, and all answers got re-scanned.

user315433

> I recommend this applicant for admission as follows:
Not recommended | Unenthusiastically | Fairly strongly | Strongly | Enthusiastically, without reservation

user315433

Such nuances of feelings, so confusing.

user315433

I much prefer Looks OK | Needs Improvement | Unsalvageable

user315433

Considering that the admissions committee is going to triage the applicants anyway...

Shog9

@zaq ah, thanks

user315433

02:23

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A: Open justice v secret police

I volunteer at the county jail on Saturday mornings. In the jurisdiction I live in, trials are generally open to the public, there are detailed records of the proceedings and, critically, it's easy to find out if a prospective employee has a criminal past. More than false or sketchy convictions, ...

user315433

Things we didn't know about Jon Ericson, 200 points

user315433

100 pts was "makes typos often"

user315433

02:46

The answer Who are the Community Managers, and what do they do? does not match the company page. Tim Post removed himself from the answer, but Abby stays there despite having identical job title. Hmm.

user315433

Perhaps the list in the answer should be replaced by a link to company page, which contains the same links to profiles? Having both seems redundant.

Shog9

Then we gotta re-do the list if the company page gets redesigned and the link breaks. If we weren't lazy, we'd just update the answer.

user202362

03:01

what happened to rock's rep?

user315433

@Shog9 Yes, but which way? Tim is on the Team according to the company page, but explicitly does not want to be in the answer.

user202362

Also the other 2 properties with lower rent were both rented out last week, now my house becomes the lowest 3 bedroom property in the area.

user315433

Or maybe that was an overreaction to being demoted to management, and he wouldn't mind returning to the list...

user315433

Would it be possible to include typical timezones the team members are active in within this list? — Zhaph - Ben Duguid Jan 23 at 11:49

user315433

03:18

in Ask Different Chat on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 7 hours ago, by Tetsujin

@grgarside - I've not been following it myself, but the spam recently has got beyond a joke, so I'm up for anything that can remove it sooner. I'm really hoping that by signing myself up for it that is realised - I'm not in any way positioned to join in with the actual 'smart' analysis - way beyond my skills - but if allowing my account to participate in the filtering will aid the overall effort, I'm proud to be a part of it.

user315433

Not sure how it really aids the effort, one access token is as good as another...

user315433

In fact, distributing the flags between more users makes it less likely that they'll notice and retract the mistakenly cast flags.

user202362

Come on, at $565 per week, my 3 bedroom house costs only as much as a brand new 1 bedroom apartment across the road. Although it's not available until tomorrow - still a bit painting to finish this afternoon. Quick, before it's all gone!

user315433

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A: How much vanilla will kill a person?

The primary question is "If I drank a shot of expensive vodka from a 750 ml bottle and a clone of me drank the same expensive vodka from another 750ml bottle but one that had 6 Tahitian fresh vanilla beans that were split in half and soaked for six months in said vodka, would we have different to...

user202362

Life is great - I get to do so many interesting things <3

Shog9

03:51

@zaq Good question. I'll bring it up.

SmokeDetector

04:06

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: TA asks me to marry her so that she can obtain a green card, by Tylor on academia.SE

qwer

04:18

spammy time

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@qwer Body - Position 536-556: buying" a green card

qwer

@SmokeDetector f

Quill

04:38

github.com/pirate/sites-using-cloudflare

they claim SO is affected by cloudflare vulns but i dont know how accurate that is

Rob

Any site behind cloudflare was affected

user315433

Yeouch, one buffer overflow that thankfully did not impact Stack Overflow https://twitter.com/taviso/status/834900838837411840

Tweeted by SuperDalgas on February 24, 2017 at 12:02 AM

Rob

Twitter's blocked here - can you give a summary?

user315433

IDC personally, I can't change my password anyway...

Rob

I don't see how someone can say SO wasn't affected. Perhaps no one has found leaked SO information cached, but that's quite different.

SmokeDetector

04:44

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: brainfireadvice.com/biovivacity/ by Bikalyb on graphicdesign.SE

user315433

> Yeouch, one buffer overflow that thankfully did not impact Stack Overflow - Geoff Dalgas

Quill

i thought they dropped cloudflare months ago; hence the skepticism

user315433

Also, hi @Quill, a bearer of bad security tidings.

Journeyman Geek

Yup

And I don't think they used the specific leaky features

bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139

@Rob non Twitter sauce.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: x4up.org/pure-nitro-max/ by iiomr pus on apple.SE

Rob

04:49

@JourneymanGeek Cheers - that's the first article I wrote. From what I understand, though, is that information from anywhere could be leaked to sites that were using those features

That is, a faulty feature used on site XYZ may leak memory which was related to site ABC

Journeyman Geek

blog.cloudflare.com/…

Also

@Rob I blame being on a phone on a bus

Shog9

05:09

@zaq none in the past day.

Only one false-positive with the new expression

and... That was an answer written entirely in Chinese, so I can't get too upset about it.

The author obligingly translated it to English and posted it anyway

Two other answers were allowed through untranslated, and later deleted because no one understood them.

ɥʇǝS

05:53

how did my edit get rejected because of a "subsequent edit" but the OP edit using my exact edit reason? stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/15260462 strange.

user202362

hey @quill, I love your cat

Quill

sweater cat

blog.discordapp.com/…

user202362

Also hacking doesn't count as being courageous, say 'no' to online violation!

Anonymous

06:09

@JourneymanGeek I'm not sure whether you needed to be using those features to have your information leaked, maybe just to be a destination of the leaked data.

Anonymous

@Rob Stack wasn't using Cloudflare during the period when this vulnerability existed.

SmokeDetector