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01:24
I think I can see myself as a Berkeley student more than as a Duke student.
The CS peeps are at Berkeley.
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01:43
@YvetteColomb nice shining coat/fur :)
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How is the unborn foal coming along?
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02:04
also I partially scraped SE ... bought this grey hat software and was playing with it and ended up with hundreds of email addresses from this partial scraping
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which is fairly small compared to the list I already have from scraping other sites
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but don't worry, I am not turning into a spammer
user202362
02:18
I mainly use it to scrape other things, lol ... crawling site gives me almost as much fun as driving a truck ...
02:31
Ugh... I had a deja vu where I had another deja vu...
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Q: Building Stronger Communities — Changes to the Area 51 Process v3.0

Robert CartainoFor anyone who follows this site, you may have noticed that Area 51 has been churning out progressively weaker site proposals and more anemic site launches, about a third of which fail in private beta. There is nothing inherently wrong with most of these subjects; it's just that we've largely ...

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yo dawg, I heard you liked glitches in your matrix, so we glitched the glitches in your matrix...
 
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04:08
I thought I was banned again when top bar didn’t showed my reputation
 
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05:48
13 hours ago, by Sonic Wizard
10k+ https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309165/i-have-a-question-about-an-objec‌​t
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@ShadowWizard nope - not at all :)
user310756
@TelKitty seeming to be ok... can't see it yet :)
06:44
Oh
Is penny in labour?
07:12
@JourneymanGeek I don't think so
Who's penny?
Or, whose penny?
...
Oh do keep up!
user202362
07:24
@JourneymanGeek Penny is like 70 year old woman, how likely is she going to be in labour? :p
user202362
The one that's pregnant is Tuppy.
@πάνταῥεῖ found a better and duplicate and thanks for the support.
@ShadowWizard or what?
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07:40
@PrincessLuna or he'll p . . . Whoops, not Shadow's Den
Hello! I have a small question: what software do you use to automatically fix common spelling errors in posts? Afaik, the Chrome built-in spell check requires one to fix each spelling error one-by-one, and it also gives false-positives like PHP/CoffeeScript. Moreover, it isn't always sensible to look for spelling errors inside MathJax or code blocks. I found this, but has there been a better userscript? Like, one that wouldn't touch codeblocks/mathjax?
hmm
I mucked arounf with writeley for a bit but I think most of those things are not code aware
@JourneymanGeek this? techcrunch.com/2005/08/31/… seems to be pretty old :/
07:50
heh I think its still updated
08:29
There's a userscript @GaurangTandon
Takes a lot of common errors and doesn't change code and quotes (probably not jax either, not sure as I haven't tried)
08:56
@PrincessLuna i think that's the same userscript as what I pointed out earlier :P but, that repo of userscripts seems quite useful, so I'll check that out :)
It's slightly different from it though. More features and stuff
09:13
._.
the answer is literally to type yes.
@PrincessLuna oh, I didn't notice, you're right. Installing!
@JourneymanGeek based on that other screenshot it look like they didn't install perl
Also possible
09:36
When certain posts get updated I always wonder if something is going on ...
10:02
@PrincessLuna you don't want to know!
@JourneymanGeek closed, now needz 2 morez del votez
@ShadowWizard ok then, it's gonna be finished in 6-8 weeks
 
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sd k
sd tpu
 
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14:26
@Shadow I believe I am quite good in smelling something as well:
It is also not within the policies to undercut possible question bans in the SE network. As this looks suspicious I'd love to see the site moderators having a deeper look at this. I just wasn't sure enough myself to flag for such intervention. — πάντα ῥεῖ 2 mins ago
14:48
Sent a mod flag: This user is probably the same as german.stackexchange.com/users/31811/hussien-chahin and avoiding question block. The last question from the original user (as of current writing) was 20 hours ago, and this user started asking questions since 18 hours ago. Also, this user was created after the suspected question ban came. Could it be investigated?
@HTTPS I refrained sending a mod flag so far. But as that OP announced to flag my comments for violating the be nice policy, I probably don't even need to do so :-)
15:10
sd tpu
 
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16:48
sd why
@bro why?
user315433
17:05
One of my tools (a kind of network-wide First Posts review) abbreviates site names as the first 5 letters of their domain name. Which worked well for a long time.... and now we have Quantum Computing in addition to Quantitative Finance
THX for the explanation
17:34
sd tpu
Friendly advice, use tpu- (dash after command) to supress Smokey's reply to reduce the clutter :)
sd why
sd f
????
user315433
18:07
My books: 📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦 His books: 📱 Quite possibly the most convincing argument I’ve seen yet to finally switch over to an @AmazonKindle #moving #packing
@πάνταῥεῖ undirected ping command will be applied to the latest messages. It doesn't look up to the last report. So Smokey's "why" explanation and "that message is not a report" were... not a report ._.
user315433
Convincing for sure. But what's with the weird map?
user315433
Also, math books don't really work on e-readers.
@SmokeDetector f
@HTTPS Silly me :-/
@πάνταῥεῖ practice makes perfect ;p
18:14
@bro Just so you know, Smokey now has a reason mechanism for manual reports. It works like this: !!/report [link] "[reason here]"
user315433
OK
Hmm... after thinking a little more about the recent "anonymous vs biased action", it might be true after all... using Japanese looking user name on Japanese.SE might give advantage if not unsupervised. Learners/beginners could believe anything what they say even if it's wrong until other experts point it. This might be amplified on smaller sites.
... me using Japanese name on Anime.SE could be deceiving... hmm...
^ when answering question requiring Japanese knowledge
18:39
@HTTPS Well, after deciding to do so at least, the mod flag was marked helpful and a number of comments were removed. I believe the mods at this site are slacking a bit, but who am I to really judge their decisions , or what they came up with research. Anyways that was quite obvious for me.
user315433
People have all kinds of implicit biases and all kinds of irrational reactions to things.
user315433
I suppose SO isn't going to organize mandatory implicit bias training for all its users.
Not to mention that there are only 3 mods active at that site.
user315433
Some askers may perceive editing their questions as hostile. And this perception may well be common among under-represented groups.
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> I wish @StackOverflow moderators stopped editing questions. A question belongs to the person who asked it. This person is not there to help you build a database of properly asked Q&As, they're there to get an answer. Fix the formatting, tags, etc. but leave the questions alone! -- Miguel Grinberg at 1:47 PM - 20 Apr 2018
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18:43
> Can't agree more. Still remember the first time someone moderated my question, and I have never written a question after that! :/ -- Anubhav at 3:41 AM - 21 Apr 2018
@πάνταῥεῖ my mod flag also got marked 'helpful'. No visible action, but maybe the user got a mod message.
user315433
Looks like removing "edit" button along with downvotes would make the site more inclusive.
@bro like, "This username smells like jQuery lover! Insta-upvote!"
@HTTPS "but maybe the user got a mod message." Could well be. @HTTPS
@bro and close votes, and certainly delete votes...
18:59
@πάνταῥεῖ :
in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 27 mins ago, by Makyen
@πάνταῥεῖ and @zoe (neither of whom are actually pingable in here). You might want to reassess your tpu feedback on this MS post and your potential spam flags on this answer. See the brief discussion after it was re-reported due to an edit, which significantly improved it.
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Q: What language Visual Studio Code is written in and how is it compiled to be executable?

Joan VengeIs it written using javascript? If so, how do they compile it into an executable?

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87K user?
@bro 754 Qs vs 24 As
O' tempora, o' mores :P
19:12
@bro it is easy
@rene 11k of that assuming no rep cap
but even then, with over 700 questions and 87k rep you'd expect that person to know those kinds of questions are off-topic
hypothetical snark comment: FYI, current Stack Overflow is not the same as Stack Overflow 9 years ago.
additional "Please take the [tour] once again"
user315433
Yeah, any comment with "Stack Overflow is not" should have been reworded.
user315433
But since it's too late now... one-flag rule would help.
@PrincessLuna glancing over the other questions I have no idea why you think they would know by now.
19:20
Meh
user315433
Okay, my SO day is over: 40 up/down votes, 50 closevotes, 13 delete votes. Nothing else to do.
How about flags @bro?
user315433
Comment flags are almost exhausted too. NAA flags, yeah, I might add some.
Lots of stuff in SOBotics
user315433
But it's annoying when looking at a NAA you realize the question is at fault and can't do anything about that.
19:26
yeah, that's annoying
Annoyer, annoyee
(time to sleep, 💤)
19:40
@GaurangTandon Brain 2.0 - awesome software.
:D
Why is a bare link to idownvotedbecau.se accepted as the only content of a comment? I know it's Will's site, and one-flag deleteable, but...
@hichris123 why won't it be accepted?? Was it blacklisted at some point?
I mean, we can flag it, but no need for auto block IMO.
Personally I really dislike this site and the idea to throw it on users, but still...
It's like saying "you suck, go [here, here, and here] to see why"
@ShadowWizard It is accepted, that's the question here
It's not blacklisted
lmgtfy is though
I don't think it should be... it's bad but not THAT bad.
@hichris123 and it's accepted because the combined length of the URL > 10, which makes it a valid message. They're not gonna block link-only comments because, well, they're comments.
19:49
Maybe worth raising meta discussion on MSO about it.
Since SE team officially nuked "What Stack Overflow Is Not" project, there's a chance they will blacklist this one as well... who knows.
I guess what hichris means is the bare link idownvotedbecau.se, not the more precise link with reasons like idownvotedbecau.se/beingunresponsive?
In that case, it's almost the same as "I downvoted you because I'm lazy to explain it"
@HTTPS need AI to detect those things
Train it what links are "bare", and what links are valid.. will take 6-8 thousands years or so. :D
(and I couldn't sleep.)
@HTTPS I was referring to both, but the former especially. I just did a quick SEDE search, and there are 2562! comments with that link. Most of which have the link and nothing else.
@HTTPS still got that nasty cold? :(
Tea is better in that case...
19:56
@ShadowWizard already healed :) but couldn't sleep as usual...
oh
But... coffee cause one to stay awake... usually.
To be honest, I can't understand how one actually falls asleep... one moment I'm still awake, then after a second I'm not. Looks like magic to me. ;)
And another moment, half awake in lucid dream :O
This takes a while, I think, but yeah.... sometimes I remember my dreams. :)
(usually the bad ones, but not only...)
Like compare:
Welcome to StackOverflow! A question is more likely to be received positively if you show what you've tried already. As it stands right now you're mostly asking for the community to do work for you. Best of luck solving your problem. Also the picture you've linked needs a description, and it doesn't appear to link to an animation of any sort. — 0112 Apr 12 at 4:31
with
The first one is much more actionable -- the second one is a variation of "I downvoted, click to see why!"
20:05
Read also: April Wensel's link on the star wall
Yeah, that's actually what encouraged me to look for comments like that.
@hichris123 Also, occasionally I may want to link to that site without casting a downvote, but because of the domain name I'm bound to cast a downvote even though I give the link a friendly title (because of its contents).
Well, we can create a new site with the same system without that domain name...
@SonicWizard Yeah, I think stuff like that should be incorporated into the help center or something -- maybe open up the help center to community contributions.
^ or that, or a canonical meta for reasons to downvote
20:10
Yep, and I'd maybe even suggest moving away from "this is why I downvoted" to "this is how you can improve your post if <X>" type things.
21:02
@HTTPS bah, she complains too much. And as for the gender distribution differences, the tech sector is dominated by males on a global scale.
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Is the new feature to ask a question about one's own post on a per-site meta even without 5+ rep enabled on Stack Overflow? It was rolled out to all sites except Stack Overflow a while back, but was it ever later enabled on Stack Overflow?
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Considering we never see such questions, probably not. I don't have a 1-rep account right now.
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@SmokeDetector naa-
@SmokeDetector tp-
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> To make your question better, you should probably add the ‘arrays’ tag, glad you have arrays in your title, format your code snippet, and tell us what you tried. Oh yeah and you should also remove ‘thank you’ from your draft. We don’t do that here ;)
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21:29
> our Help Room option was presented to 71,068 eligible novices—520 entered the Help Room and 271 interacted with a mentor and went on to ask a question
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And after that "To determine if a change in quality occurred, we compare questions by mentored novices to those from eligible novices who chose not to receive help."
user315433
So, was it the effect of mentoring or self-selection bias?
user315433
The control group should have been the users who wanted to receive help but were given a sugar pill instead.
user315433
I signed up for SO with another account, and got "Your friendly, fear-free guide to getting started" email. The third of three tips is "Create custom views based on tech you like." Browse and save tags. Hm. Custom views?
21:55
"Your friendly, fear-free guide to getting lost"
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> idownvotedbecau.se/noresearch – Someone
> Why I have -6 points? Did I curse someone? – OP
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Apparently an explanation is not getting through.
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22:28
@SmokeDetector fpu-
23:36
@Shog9 - Hai, someone is mercilessly spam downvoting my posts at StackOverflow, I raised a flag but no avail, can you help?
user315433
Shog is on vacation
oh, good for him :)
user315433
This looks like it will surely be reversed by a script within a few hours.
@JonEricson perhaps you could help?
user315433
Around UTC 3:00 if I remember correctly.
23:39
@bro This is day 2.
Ony one of them was reversed, out of 11.
@TravisJ Not quite 24 hours. I expect they'll be reversed next time the check is run.
@JonEricson - It is a group, same people each time. I am hoping for more than jus a rep reveral.
@TravisJ Use the contact form please. (Thanks!)

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