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Ooker

15:02

Differences between Reddit and Stack Exchange – submitted in Reddit

looking to your feedback

Bookends

I only ~~steal~~ quote and give proper credit to Reddit for some of their crowdsourced info, but I'm not participating on it...

Because I don't even know how to find suitable subreddits when there are 3 or more similar/overlapping to ask on...

Mithrandir

I just stalk /r/gopro and that's it...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

15:39

WTH, Reddit is uncensored again

I read a bit of /nosleep, and that's about it.

Tinkeringbell

I've never been on Reddit. The mascot is cute though, and on my planned crochet project list ;)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): I can't install any packages or make any updates 18.04, I'm trying to remove old kernels by Augusto Tomás on askubuntu.com

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ If there are a lot of answers to a question you know you've answered, it's hard to find your own answer. Sure, you could use Find to search for your username, but Find tends to be very slow on large pages (on Edge at least). You could go to your own user profile's list of answers, but if you've posted a lot of answers, you'd have to hit Find again to find the question title.

Derpy

@Tinkeringbell ...... the reddit mascot. The parrot wants to crochet the reddit mascot....

Tinkeringbell

@Derpy It's cute!

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

15:51

It's useful to quickly find your own answer to a question you come across and know you've answered. The process for doing so is very complicated, however. So I'd support an FR to make this easier.

Derpy

@Tinkeringbell Here, improved it for you.

Tinkeringbell

That's horrible

It got something nasty coming from its ears

Derpy

loyal to the original

John Dvorak

That's actually a scarf that goes right through its brain.

Prevents brain freeze.

Tinkeringbell

16:07

:D lol

rene

del-pls 20k+ support off-topic / needs 1 moar /cc @sha @bar @glo @tra html How can I make a URL without a file at the end of its path‭ - user9277283‭ 2019-02-06 15:20:33Z

Derpy

..... so, not wanting to do a crochet Kyubey?

Fine.

as you wish

would you prefer a crochet Mitty?

SmokeDetector

16:38

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): How can I stop mice from chewing garage door bottom weather strip? by Toni on diy.SE

MEE is Johann Gambolputty ...

16:55

I think about writing a network-wide suspension-FAQ. Not sure wheter I should write a new post or append it to the suspension FAQ.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@MEEisJohannGambolputty... Not much more to say about it other than what's in the tag wiki

> If you see that an account is suspended network wide for more than a year, it's a strategic move on the part of an employee with developer access to bring something disruptive under control.

For long ones, not much more to say.

John Dvorak

Could also be a dev trying to cause disruption, at least to one user. Ex?

It's only a case of gross misconduct if you're found out.

MEE is Johann Gambolputty ...

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog that would be the „chase away“ type. There are also a“offenses on multiple sites“ and some cool down for users who are e.g. suspended on one site and then rage on other sites.

Bookends

17:14

So, I decided to browse r/stackexchange and noticed... a very familiar username...

Feeds

There's one person in Missouri who says "carbo bev" who the entire rest of the country HATES.

Bookends

One more before going to sleep...

Epic: reddit.com/r/VoteMeUp/comments/6e7fku/welcome_to_the_votemeup

John Dvorak

More than four colors, really?

Machavity

Did you guys tinker with notices just now? I got stuck to where I couldn't clear them. Was about to post on MSE but it suddenly stopped

Catija

@Machavity Notices?

Review queue notices?

Machavity

17:29

@Catija Had an inbox notice and a rep notice that wouldn't go away for about 10 mins

It was like cat that wouldn't go away

Catija

Hmmmm. not sure. Is it still a problem?

Machavity

No, went away as suddenly as it started

Catija

I'm not sure what caused it but hopefully it was a blip.

If you see it again, feel free to write something up.

Machavity

Ok, will do

Wheel of blame landed on Shog9. That works

Dragonrage

@Machavity shouldiblamecaching.com

Shog9

17:36

I did kinda break review sync... On all sites... for like 30 minutes

Mgetz

17:53

Sigh... just saw that an old "needs moderation" flag to move something got closed even though that's exactly what you're supposed to do when the question is supposed to be moved to a site not listed in the "move to site" close reasons

rene

@Shog9 kind of telling that meta didn't get flooded with bug reports ... in my defense: I was shopping at the grocery store ...

SmokeDetector

18:26

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly non-latin answer (50): How can I tell TeX Live Utility where my TeX distribution is? by user181039 on tex.SE

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

18:36

Meta act of the day done

0

A: So many answers in comments

Huh, weird. This gets asked often enough in metas, and I was fairly certain it was asked here too, but for the life of me I can't seem to find it. Anyway, here's the wisdom of the ancients on it. Bottom line is, people develop a certain 'answer barrier', meaning, what they don't consider a high...

@SmokeDetector Broken translation but sounds like lyrics of a song

@SmokeDetector N

Travis J

19:14

@rene - Have you ever done any research on the efficacy of tag burnination?

@Shog9 - Have you? I know it is a sponsored practice, but does it really work long term at all?

For example, api was burninated, yet has 65000 questions tagged at present, another while I was typing this.

Travis J

19:37

Hopefully you guys were enjoying lunch or something. I figured you would just know off the top of your head. Since there was no reply, I reviewed just about all 162 of the tags in burnination-request. Of the newer burnination request stuff it does look highly effective. I am guessing things like api and the older requests did not go through the more modern process being used and that is why they were not fully removed or altered. Anyway, no need to get back to me.

user302202

@JohnDvorak In practice you want to avoid using the same colors for regions that are close to each other, even if they do not share a border. Easier to read at a glance, without inspecting the details of borders.

user302202

4 color theorem is not really useful for actual map coloring.

user302202

"Carbobev" sounds reasonable to me.

user302202

"Sparkle Fluid" being second.

user302202

It's actually only "Helvetica" if it comes from the Helvetia region of Europe. Otherwise you have to call it "sparkling Arial"

Tweeted by PavelASamsonov on December 23, 2018 at 6:11 PM

rene

19:49

@TravisJ we've started this room: chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/165597/trogdor last year and then created this google worksheet to assist the mod team in deciding which action to take. The reviewers used some ground rules but did visit every MSO burn post to give their verdict. Once that was done both Bhargav, Cody, Yvette, Jon and later Rob moved in to handle that sheet.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, potentially bad keyword in body (100): which is the best information tecnology traning by it course on superuser.com

rene

I agree that most burn requests are kind of pointless and I believe it helps if we provided that feedback early and firm.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I'm not sure about the firm part

rene

It also helps if we get rid of the backlog if only to show that we're serious about status-declining requests that have no merit

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

You'd probably hold the guy breathless

rene

19:52

we plants can survive without breath for a while. You humans better get used to that

user302202

Backlog is irrelevant. Burnination is futile.

user302202

Also, xkcd.com/1726

Mithrandir

@rene Need to poke Bhargav harder...

Tinkeringbell

@Mrs.Robinson theawkwardyeti.com/comic/counter-productive

user302202

Oh, Munroe has a new book coming out. Wonder how much it overlaps with the Lifehacks site.

rene

19:55

@TravisJ the huge tags are either kill this right here and now or it should be left alone or blacklisted. Not worth spending 6 weeks on closing, editing, deleting posts only to have 20% rolled back by either high-reps or mods.

@Mithrandir I rather not poke mods on my main site.... they have buttons to click that can have an negative impact on my ability to use the site ....

user302202

Closing/deleting a bunch of posts you wouldn't care about otherwise, just because they happened to have a tag? Never found that important.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer (53): Are there any blockchain explorers that provide raw Tx data and block headers? by Blockchair on bitcoin.SE

user302202

At the bottom of xkcd.com/how-to there is "Language | Publisher | Pub Date" quasi-table. I never heard of any of those languages.

Travis J

20:15

@rene - Yeah overall from I saw the current process is very efficient once engaged. I agree that some of the requests which do not progress into the later stages seem rather questionable.

rene

yep, true that

Andras Deak

20:36

hello, just leaving this here

155

Q: Please don't share my e-mail with Amazon without my express consent

Before the developer survey, I was invited to test it, and promised a $5 gift card from a web shop for taking part. Recently, I've received this gift card on my personal e-mail. But to my dislike, it was not Stack Overflow that sent me the gift card, but Amazon directly (and in German, a languag...

I know it's MSO, but it highlights a fundamental flaw in the topic of the company vs data safety which is relevant to a broader audience

Kevin B

i mean

it highlights a mistake

:shrug:

Mithrandir

21:38

14 vials of blood. Tomorrow morning should be fun.

Andras Deak

bring some garlic

Mithrandir

Just in case the doctor's a vampire. Got it.

But yeah, lotta bloodwork to do.

The last time I did bloodwork, they had to untie the thing they tied around my arm when they were drawing blood because my arm ran out of blood. That was fun.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mithrandir Army blood tests?

I swear they're frigging vampires.

Mithrandir

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Pre-military, yes

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

ICU units run fewer tests.

^ Not speculation

Mithrandir

21:46

I haven't been in an ICU unit since I was released from the hospital as a baby, so I wouldn't know

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Thankfully me neither.

ArtOfCode

> ICU unit

> PIN number

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ArtOfCode Huh, there's a word for that. You win.

You're lucky I'm here after 6 hours of solving ridiculous physics problems.

Mithrandir

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ RAS syndrome

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I don't have rash

But I'd reject anything that doesn't have obvious positive connotations because it's me who did it this time

user302202

22:03

What will arrive first?
a) saved custom searches in left nav rolled out for everyone
b) year 2020

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Questions 5, 6, and 7 in meta.SO's newest-Q sorting are so neatly standing at -33, -22 and -22

I wanna hug someone

Mithrandir

*backs off*

Kevin B

you do realize... you probably just ruined it

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I am about to

Mithrandir

BUY ME DINNER FIRST YOU DRAGON RIDING NAZGUL FREAK

....Those who get the reference will get it, the rest will Google...

user302202

22:06

It's because they forgot to add "using AI" to the titles of those questions.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@E_net4 I'm just saying it's pointless to respond to someone saying it's not easy to make a neural network to say that making a bad and ineffective neural network is easy. That's not what they're suggesting doing, so saying doing that is easy is just pointless. — Servy 6 hours ago

But then it would have been pointless to point this out

And pointless for me to bring it up in chat

Dangit, I'm stuck in an infinite loop

Or hmm, it's kinda finite

So it was pointless to say it was infinite

Dang.

user302202

They told us all we were gonna get phish tested at work and now none of us will open the legitimate e-mails. NO ONE WANTS TO BE THE ONE 🤣

Tweeted by JasonPunyon on February 6, 2019 at 12:22 AM

user302202

Nearly all phishing messages I get are those forwarded by IT department with the comment they are phishing. Hardly get any directly. I wish IT would stop doing that.

Kevin B

22:42

most normal inboxes here get the same treatment, they detect it and provide a warning. but.... this one inbox i have to keep track of is wide open, everything gets through

well, with the exception of blatant spam

user302202

There was a StackStatus tweet today (about the Teams) but it didn't show up here... is the Twitter->RSS->chat connection broken somewhere? chat.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=stackstatus&room=89

user302202

Apparently that feed was removed at some point? chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/89/…

user302202

And so our dear SNAFU bot fell silent chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-171/snafu?tab=recent

user302202

I see, the Google Apps Script that was forming RSS feed from a Twitter widget fell apart, probably because of some changes on Twitter's end. Was fun while it lasted.

ThiefMaster

22:57

@Mrs.Robinson why isn't whoever is sending out the fake phishing emails answering to any reports related to them?

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