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Journeyman Geek

12:41 AM

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311666/…

also meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311665/…

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

1:29 AM

chaos-emerald-pls both targets in my comment: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311668/… (@Shadow @rene)

bjb568

I'm gonna claim credit for influencing the SO ask page improvements with my DD implementation on every interview from now on.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

dd command? Disk drive?

bjb568

DevDoodle.

Journeyman Geek

1:54 AM

disk destroyer!

Somewhat Memorable Name

2:14 AM

DeeDee

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

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Q: What should we do with the Organizer badge?

The Organizer badge, awarded for editing the tags of a question, was originally introduced in response to an old, now-removed privilege that allowed 500+ rep users to "retag" questions. This was during a time without suggested edits, and later on when suggested edits were introduced, such users c...

Somewhat Memorable Name

@πάνταῥεῖ if I'm not mistaken.... happy birthday :)

(belated?)

user393523

hi

user393523

first time in chat

user393523

anyone here?

user393523

2:26 AM

hi rob

user393523

@Rob

Rob

Hi

user393523

are you new?

user393523

finally got 25 rep. able to chat now

user393523

oh you arent.

user393523

2:32 AM

i see your profile

user393523

well im with @SonictheInclusiveHedgehog on this post:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311669/change-description-of-organizer-badge-to-be-more-descriptive
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311672/what-should-we-do-with-the-organizer-badge

user393523

i influenced the question and am a constant commentor and upvoter!

Journeyman Geek

wait

ah I was scrolled up

and people were not talking about mangos

which would have been odd

user393523

mangos?

Somewhat Memorable Name

and I thought advocaat was avocado...

user393523

2:40 AM

wow

Journeyman Geek

hardly

user393523

bye bye for now.

user393523

just rember

Journeyman Geek

@SomewhatMemorableName not really

user393523

well im with @SonictheInclusiveHedgehog on these posts:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311669/change-description-of-organizer-badge-to-be-more-descriptive
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311672/what-should-we-do-with-the-organizer-badge
i influenced the question and am a constant commentor and upvoter!

user393523

2:42 AM

and bye bye

Journeyman Geek

@itstoobadilostmymainaccount you said that already

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@JourneymanGeek It seems their browser showed the messages as not sent, when in fact they were.

Somewhat Memorable Name

3:23 AM

weird, afaik, we need more downvoters, not constant upvoters

Journeyman Geek

3:35 AM

bleh

We need people voting appropriately

and commenting appropriately

Catija

{for some unknown definition of "appropriately"}

Journeyman Geek

Quality >>>>>> Quantity

@Catija true

But its better than "we need to DV/UV more"

Feeds

4:03 AM

With just one extra line, he could have anticipated the 2003 film The Core, but some things are too audacious for even the greatest visionaries.

Cilan

4:20 AM

@ShadowWizard if you have to say it's not boring it's boring

Journeyman Geek

4:48 AM

meta.stackexchange.com/users/394235/user394235 Both this user's questions need one final delvote

SmokeDetector

5:33 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: streaming parts of an mkv container with mkvextract by Angel Waugh on superuser.com

SmokeDetector

5:48 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body: Are you Ready to Join Autumn Season with 6% off Deadman Autumn Seasonal gold? by mary sila on gaming.SE

Shadow Wizard

6:40 AM

@Cilan well, you're easily bored! ;)

Somewhat Memorable Name

I'm board

Gaurang Tandon

Hey! Anyone knows what local.mso.com was? I found it in an old (2012) userscript written by balpha

Somewhat Memorable Name

@GaurangTandon perhaps equivalent to meta.dev.stackoverflow.com

Gaurang Tandon

@SomewhatMemorableName oh cool, didn't know that existed. Thanks!

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog @Glor already did, but the second is not related, OP knows how to retag, just wondered if it will give a badge on own posts.

@GaurangTandon yeah it's a well kept secret! :D

@SomewhatMemorableName better than boared! ;)

Journeyman Geek

6:56 AM

he looks more surprised....

Shadow Wizard

sure he is, boar didn't expect someone to get boared..... :D

Journeyman Geek

boared is gored man.

Somewhat Memorable Name

GBoared

> An Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in the Numan and Guyuk LGAs, and in Kaduna State northeast of Kaduna town.

wut???

Shadow Wizard

sounds reasonable.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

8:07 AM

delv-pls 2k+ meta.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/58386

Journeyman Geek

well technically its a possible answer

Shadow Wizard

8:57 AM

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog no, it's valid answer.

Ideally the original answer can be edited with new links, but it's not a must.

Shadow Wizard

9:16 AM

@JNat cross site spammer.... thanks!

JNat

@ShadowWizard all gone ;)

Shadow Wizard

@JNat cheers!

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

9:44 AM

@ShadowWizard It was the case when I initially voted, but the author edited it out.

rene

delv-pls 20K ubuntu meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311639/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: How much joyful to choose a best place for your vacation? by kaividart on mathoverflow.net

Shadow Wizard

10:07 AM

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog oh, missed that.

@rene pizza!

@Arrrstin imagine you want to buy a pizza in a foreign country. You arrive to a shop that does not sell pizza, but something else. People in that shop tells you that you are in the wrong place. Those are the downvoters here. No harm is meant. 15 is extreme, but result of the question not being deleted for many hours, e.g. like you'll stay in that wrong shop for long time, so more and more people will tell you it's the wrong place. — Shadow Wizard 1 min ago

Hopefully it will send somewhat clear message...

Somewhat Memorable Name

huh? tea.mathoverflow.net

Shadow Wizard

huh

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Q: Ignore this question

This question is a hacky way to create some tags for you to use. Move along.

ag.algebraic-geometry at.algebraic-topology ca.classical-analysis-and-odes ct.category-theory co.combinatorics

lol

boo coffee.mathoverflow.net is dead. :(

Suraj Rao

looks like the parent company url lussumo.com redirects to safechoicesecurity.com .

Shadow Wizard

@SomewhatMemorableName think it's the meta site before migration into SE

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A: Should "Theoretical CS" and "Algorithms & Data Structures" proposals be merged?

You might be interested in reading the thread on meta.mathoverflow.net about inviting in the TCS community. http://tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/498/bringing-theorycs-over-to-mathoverflow/

Gaurang Tandon

10:24 AM

Hey! I regularly check suspected SE answers for plagiarism, however, I used to do it the lame way (paste into google, put double quotes, rinse repeat for different sentences). Today I googled "plagiarism checker online" and there's dozens of such software all willing to do this for free! I wish to ask which software's the best (in terms of effectiveness). Which SE site do I ask this on? Or is there an existing userscript that pro users use to achieve this functionality?

or, I should say it in other words, how do pro-users of existing SE sites currently check answers for plagiarism of content (from other online websites)?

Somewhat Memorable Name

Err... Software Recommendations?

I do it manually with Google though

Gaurang Tandon

Huh, I thought it was Open Source Recs

rene

@ShadowWizard not very welcoming ...

Somewhat Memorable Name

@SomewhatMemorableName not very welcoming ...

SmokeDetector

10:44 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: How do I protect a canvas photo print after the fact? by Harry_james on photo.SE

Somewhat Memorable Name

@NormalHuman that was posted before the spam link was inserted :) — Glorfindel 2 mins ago

curious ping!

Shadow Wizard

@rene it explains the downvotes, and since users are offended by your "Welcome to meta!" comments anyway, think it doesn't really matter what we write, they will always be offended and feel unwelcome.

and that's a special case since it survived whole day on MSE...

SmokeDetector

11:07 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body: Off topic ask about Photoshop portable by ALexMatt on askubuntu.com

Gaurang Tandon

If any of the pro users has any idea, please drop by:

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Q: Which online software to use to check answers on StackExchange for plagiarism?

Whenever I have some free time on my hands, I check StackExchange answers for plagiarism. I am not referring to cross-SE plagiarism, I am looking to check answers posted on SE that have their content plagiarized from other Internet sites. I initially used to do this the lame way (paste into goog...

cloud-service plagiarism-detection

thank you!

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Regarding your recent edit, can you also please update the FAQ answer?

Shadow Wizard

11:27 AM

Done.

rene

@ShadowWizard lol! I'll start my auto comment with Unwelcome to Meta! from now on .., ;)

Shadow Wizard

hehe

Maybe from the shock they'll forget their anger..... :D

Suraj Rao

@GaurangTandon you might want to talk to SObotics. There is a project Guttenberg which checks onsite plagiarism.

Gaurang Tandon

11:58 AM

@SurajRao ah, that's cool. thanks for posting the link there :D

Shadow Wizard

12:11 PM

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311684/…

!!/test spam removed

SmokeDetector

> Would not be caught as a post, title or username.

:7054362 > Would not be caught as a post, title or username.

Somewhat Memorable Name

12:48 PM

"Welcome to Meta! It seems you're lost and posted this question here. Unfortunately, this question is off-topic here since blablabla. Consider taking a quick [tour] to understand how Stack Exchange sites work. Oh, did you know that ~~90%~~ ~~95%~~ 100% of this message's recipients weren't really welcomed?"

Shadow Wizard

1:05 PM

lol

John Dvorak

1:34 PM

Worth answering? stackoverflow.com/questions/51024775/…

Shadow Wizard

plz-delete huge wall of code meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311689/… @Bart @rene @JourneymanGeek @Glorfindel

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard maaaaan

I really wish people wouldn't do that

Shadow Wizard

@JohnDvorak too late, it's trivial so already got several same answers.

heh, funny it's exactly what you talked about the other day, @John.

John Dvorak

darn, missed my chance to classify myself as not-so-overzealous-to-only-close.

Shadow Wizard

so I guess you were sarcastic. lol

John Dvorak

1:38 PM

that's fine, I would have missed out the double negation anyways, and earned me some downvotes. Unexplained ones, presumably, because it's less unwelcoming to me that way.

Shadow Wizard

Hmm... when did Kasra leave SE? He has no diamond anymore, but his profile still says he works for SE.

Found it.

Announcement: sad goodbye to my Stack Overflow family but very excited to be starting a new job as Head of Technology at http://Inscape.life, a meditation and wellness startup.

Tweeted by jc4p on June 18, 2018 at 4:55 PM

He needs to update his profiles...

Journeyman Geek

aw

kinda makes sense though, I mean, they brought him in as an android dev right?

And that does look like a promotion

Shadow Wizard

Anyway, even though he's not really around...

Farewell @Kasra and thanks for everything you've done in Stack Exchange! :)

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@JourneymanGeek yup, sure is.

@JourneymanGeek yeah then he got re-assigned to DAG

Journeyman Geek

Well ya

Shadow Wizard

Guess this is the last nail in the android app coffin. :/

Now there's even no theoretical chance it will ever be revived.

Somewhat Memorable Name

1:49 PM

Reminded by his story on MSO, I surely wish all the best for Kasra's future

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard well tbh

If they do responsive apps and web notifications....

MSE works really well on my phone

We wouldn't really need the SE mobile apps any more

Somewhat Memorable Name

Jun 21 at 4:58, by Shog9

status-hopeless

@JourneymanGeek well... did you know that.... SO mobile app has... err... multiple drafts feature? :/

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek yeah, looks like they're going this way

Journeyman Geek

Nope?

Shadow Wizard

@SomewhatMemorableName you mean iOS app

Journeyman Geek

1:53 PM

And personally I think that forking off the SO mobile app was an odd/unpopular decision

Shadow Wizard

Brian is awesome

Somewhat Memorable Name

@ShadowWizard SO Android app also has since its inception. SE Android app doesn't though

Mgetz

@SomewhatMemorableName I'm waiting for status-drunk to be a thing

Journeyman Geek

@Mgetz heh, yanno? I used to work in a place where that was a thing ;p

and lets hope not

that means SE is doomed

Mgetz

@JourneymanGeek it'll be an alias of gdpr-questions

Journeyman Geek

1:57 PM

I used to work in a VFX studio...

they closed down the office, by basically shifting out our non local staff... and folks were sad and drunk at work...

and then people started getting let go, despite them saying they wouldn't ...

so nuuu

I'd rather status "I wish I was drunk"

Mgetz

@JourneymanGeek They always say this, and then they do sneak layoffs to to avoid actually admit they are doing layoffs

Journeyman Geek

yup

Mgetz

I'm pretty sure it's going to happen in a few months where I work

Somewhat Memorable Name

Meanwhile, it's been a while for another DMCA meta post, this time on MSO

don't know how many posts were affected since SO is too big...

surely not as dramatic as this one on Anime.SE :)

Shadow Wizard

@SomewhatMemorableName hehe, might be thousands, anyone can pretend to be anyone else and demand to delete anything. Paradise for trolls.

and what is "Lidl"???

Lidl

Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (German pronunciation: [ˈliːdl̩]; UK: LID-əl), formerly Schwarz Unternehmenstreuhand KG, is a German global discount supermarket chain, based in Neckarsulm, Germany, that operates over 10,000 stores across Europe and the United States. It belongs to Dieter Schwarz, who also owns the store chains Handelshof and hypermarket Kaufland. Lidl is the chief competitor of the similar German discount chain Aldi in several markets, including the United States. There are Lidl stores in every member state of the European Union, except Latvia and Estonia. == History == In 1930, Josef...

This? ^

Somewhat Memorable Name

2:06 PM

> UK branch of Lidl, a European supermarket chain

looks like it

Shadow Wizard

So a random troll sent delete requests on their behalf to harm SO. Nice.

Stijn

@rene I'd love to delete but I'm a casual with less than 20k rep :p

Mgetz

@ShadowWizard it's going to get worse, not better

rene

@ShadowWizard delv-pls 20K MSO gets useless edits meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/370077/…

@Stijn sorry, I forgot the exact rules ...

Shadow Wizard

@Mgetz of course, surprised the SO-haters out there didn't use this method more. This can bring SO/SE down pretty easily.

Just request to delete all the good questions, and SO is done for.

Mgetz

2:17 PM

@ShadowWizard if the EU copyright directive passes... expect it to become a tidal wave

then all they have to do is file false positives in the database

rene

@ShadowWizard it contained screenshots of their folder structure and stuff like that in the question. It looked legit for them to have that taken down.

Shadow Wizard

2:32 PM

@rene what? Who?

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Gaurang Tandon

Hey! Is there a statistic on the ratio of edited posts to non-edited posts on SE? (edited includes both self-edited and others-2k+edited) I'd expect it to be > 1, but I just wanted to cross-check.

rene

@GaurangTandon Posthistory on SEDE has that, for postid's with posthistorytypeid 4,5,6 are edited

Gaurang Tandon

@rene ah, thanks for the heads up, I'll try it out

SmokeDetector

3:31 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: How many tubes can you balance in a centrifuge? by Matt Baker on math.SE

Catija

4:05 PM

Someone make Shog some coffee...

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