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Derpy

11:02 AM

@Bookends yep, and either a) I can't read, b) the mod can't read or c) question framing is overrated.

probably either A or C

Shadow Wizard

11:21 AM

@Derpy what? No idea what you mean, sorry. (And yes, saw you meant it to be about the ExpressVPN rant)

@Bookends why closed??

"Is [company name here] using hidden trackers or spyware?" is totally legit question on site like Information Security.

Derpy

@ShadowWizard the mod said:

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Derpy

While we appreciate your concern, this is off-topic here. This is either a question for ExpressVPN support or for SuperUser. — schroeder ♦ Jan 29 '16 at 15:44

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy yeah, saw that. What about it? I think he's wrong, posted a reply too.

Derpy

as usual, the question has two parts: an initial rant and the actual question.

the actual question is:

> I would like to monitor the .exe to see what other connections it makes, any suggestions on how to (on Windows)?

the fact that he wants to do that because he thinks something odd is happening with the vpn is only the why.

So, yep, I fail to see why it would be Off Topic on that site, and I am glad I am not the only one.

Shadow Wizard

11:28 AM

Well, mod posted a new comment, worth reading.

Bookends

The question are multiparts and made it... "annoying". The title asks if ExpressVPN is spyware/malware, but the body asks how to monitor it. The ExpressVPN dev answered the title.

Derpy

@Bookends and the correct course of action is to fix the title.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy no it will invalidate the answer.

Bookends

might be related to that meta post: Being repeatedly targeted and harassed with disputable/arbitrary deletions of answers by a specific moderator -- Meta.Security.SE

Derpy

@ShadowWizard it wouldn't. The answer is already a frame challenge by itself, but a valid one since it actually explains what is happening without the need to further analyze the issue.

that again, assuming that the OP is fine with believing to the vpn company and doesn't want to perform the tests himself.

Bookends

11:37 AM

> I am getting down votes and now banned forever for asking a really easy questions. I thought this website is supposed for beginners as well as intermediate programmers.

daily life of meta site

Derpy

@Bookends I don't know, I don't have enough elements to judge.

Only thing that I can say is that I can totally see users wanting to avoid joining / contributing to specific sites "thanks" to the local community. If that is the case, I don't know.

To be fair, I for one try to stay away from Arqade despite being probably able to contribute there.

Shadow Wizard

@Bookends hehe, totally

Magisch

@Bookends One more expression of miscommunicated expectations leading to unwelcomingness

Not the system itself, but what people expect from it

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch people will always expect to have their question or answer upvoted at least 100 times, and give them at least 10 gold badges.

Magisch

Also, as fallacious as that question is, the -22 feels just a bit gratuitous

Shadow Wizard

11:42 AM

So it's impossible to make them happy.

Magisch

some people are going to have impossible expectations, but the # of people can be reduced

Shadow Wizard

nah, don't think so.

If there will be lower limit of -8 for example, you really think it will make a differnce?

Bookends

apparently the OP is learning for GCSE... I just checked some of the questions and really looks like XY-problem :(

Shadow Wizard

Then when it won't, the limit will be -5... etc.. until all new questions will get auto upvote, and won't be able to have negative score.

And that will be the end of SE.

Bookends

> How to replace a value in a array using .append()?

Magisch

11:44 AM

@ShadowWizard I don't advocate for a limit, but personally I don't downvote below -3 unless I want to make a statement

at that point it's no longer visible on the homepage and any additional downvotes just increment a number

Shadow Wizard

-3 means "meh, it's not really a good question". -22 means "It's a really bad question".

The difference is important.

Magisch

for whom?

Shadow Wizard

for those who care about site contents and quality.

Both will also be auto deleted in a week, assuming they're closed.

Magisch

I think -3 is just as bad as -22 but maybe the -22 had something in it that got meta's goat

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch you have the right to think so, all good, but just better not enforce that view on others who don't think this way. That's my point. :)

Magisch

11:48 AM

dont get me wrong I'm not for enforcing any of that

it's a personal choice

Shadow Wizard

(e.g. with feature requests to have minimum score for posts)

@Magisch good. :)

status-eating-cake

Bookends

The same personal choice for me not to upvote anything on HNQ unless I know it's on-topic...

Shadow Wizard

hehe, yeah...

I don't upvote to not "inflate" the hotness.

As I do agree with @gnat about some of his views, e.g. that questions stay there for too long.

I won't go as far as blocking upvotes from users who reached by clicking the HNQ sidebar link though.

i.e. this is just personal choice same as @Magi and his downvotes. :)

plz-delete Audio meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323814/… @rene @Glorfindel

Avnish Kabaj

Is there a stack query which let's you know the percentage of users on a specific site whose home site is that site?

Bookends

what is "home site"? do you mean "parent user" on the chat profile? or the first account created on SE?

or having the highest rep on that site?

Avnish Kabaj

12:04 PM

The first account

I was just curious

Because I never knew about the se network only knew about stack overflow

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Wat

Bookends

Maybe SEDE wizard can help with that (I'm not :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Magisch And indicating that sometimes is useful, and sometimes all the way up to counterproductive

Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ 'dat vinden wij niet raar, dat vinden wij bijzonder' :P Freely translated: That's not strange, just special. It can happen ;) It took me a while to realize there was more than SO too...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

FWIW, the people that do get upset do so as early as -2 or -1

@Tinkeringbell No I know him from Chem, that's why I watted

Hi Spyware! Questions about answer deletions are supposed to go on the meta of the specific site an answer was deleted on. I think people already tried to communicate this on your previous question as well. Feel free to re-ask about deletion on the other site, but remember that asking is different from demanding and keep in mind that your posts are much more likely to be well received and answered when you ask nicely what led to the deletion/what must be done to get it in a suitable shape for undeletion. — Tinkeringbell ♦ 2 hours ago

Tinkeringbell

12:10 PM

Nice huh? :D

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Tink I think someone should just tell this guy "zomg dood, ur rigth all along, SE is affiliated with Expresswhatever and they've hidden it from the public" so he could sleep better at night but that's just me

Bookends

I'm still holding back to post on meta, whether showing closed questions on Filtered Questions is a good idea or not...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Haha you don't let go

"Onc you do so, you lrn qckly that we hve vry gd rens why, and what you can do bot it" I agree you have rens, and I have taken the time to read them, but you rigid in your appliction of your prciples of opetion. That rigdty makes you unfrendly, time after time. I see it in other peple's coments. "and what you can to about it" I can do nothing about it! Your only suggestion is to get 200 reputation points. But I've been contributing to these websites for years and have less than 100 points. Today I staed answeg quess with 0 ansrs. So far today, my repuion has gone down! — David Spector 16 hours ago

Tinkeringbell

Character limits?

To be fair, for a moment I thought someone was making fun of spelling mistakes. It's not :)

Bookends

Certainly reminded me of a research at Cambridge University...

> Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Tinkeringbell

12:16 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ If they genuinely want to know why their answer was deleted, I hope my comment helped. Otherwise, having it on the specific site doesn't do any harm, site mods can handle these kinds of behaviours and having that recorded on the site the problem is happening makes it possible for those site mods to make better informed decisions ;)

@Bookends I think there's also this thing where people leave letters out making them easier to misinterpret, and somehow that always ends with people recognizing sexually loaded words instead of the more innocent alternative

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

One of my biggest pet peeves is folks leaving reviews like "I spent two years on this game and I've only gotten to level 3!" and immediately excluding any other possibility than the game sucking

Bookends

I just checked on the latest answer, on a question posted in 2011...

well, there's nothing wrong with that, but...

Tinkeringbell

@Bookends I think my first answer on Movies SE was on a really old post, and it got me over 200 rep in upvotes + a bounty :D

Sorry, I exaggerated. Must've counted the association bonus ;) 8 upvotes and 50 bounty points :)

Bookends

Extra old questions requires extra ordinary answers(?)

Derpy

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ spent a lot of time on Undertale, still at LV 0.

Tinkeringbell

12:21 PM

@Bookends Was a post from '16, answered about a year later in '17. So not that extra old to begin with, I guess. But I enjoyed answering that one, as it was basically just finding and translating some Dutch sources.

Bookends

12:37 PM

@Magisch I'm curious about 1 thing I observed on TWP, so if you have time & comfortable with answering this... What do you think about using meta for reopening closed questions? Because AFAIC see, there are like, 2 obvious groups: the closers and the reopeners.

John Dvorak

Character limits always strike at the most inoppo

Shadow Wizard

@Bookends no mods?

(i.e. flag?)

@JohnDvorak inoppo? Is this some kind of hippo?

If so, the hippo is really poor, character limit can hurt badly.

:D

Bookends

no close/reopen wars, just a meta post inviting to reopen a question. I'm curious, don't they check the review and choose meta instead?

Shadow Wizard

@Bookends probably not

Bookends

But I guess it's already their site's policy so, yeah...

Tinkeringbell

12:43 PM

Looking at their meta now, there's not much going on on the first page of new questions with regard to reopening... but I spent a few months on Workplace last year, and seem to remember meta being regularly used for such requests.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323829/…

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323831/…

Magisch

@Bookends I think its fine for people to have priorities, and I think meta is fine for discussing closures

In theory its not problematic if someone just reopens or just closes, as long as the closings and reopenings are ok

Bookends

1:02 PM

@Magisch k, good to know :)

Shadow Wizard

BTW @JourneymanGeek wonder if your army uniform looks like this?

(not yours personally ;))

That one is part of a failed pilot for our army... the soldiers in the pilot complained the uniform isn't comfortable, makes them sweat more, and looks like the enemy uniform, thus will result in lots more friendly fire cases during war.

So the army just spent millions over nothing. :/

Derpy

Shadow Wizard

lol

Derpy

could switch to this one?

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy this will surely make the enemy think twice before attacking the soldiers... :D

Derpy

1:09 PM

@ShadowWizard well, if said soldier could then react like the original wearer of said uniform does....

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy well... also... looks like it's based on Nazi uniform, from quick look on the game info... so doubt our army will use it. :)

But I didn't find what special powers they have in the game, didn't search that far yet.

Hey @Pritish and welcome to Tavern! Awesome game you have there. :D

I won battle against @Derpy yesterday:

23 hours ago, by Shadow Wizard

Derpy

@ShadowWizard I think you may have flipped sides there. The story IS somehow based on WWII (and the international version also uses a map based on Europe) but you got the two factions wrong

Shadow Wizard

So without permalink, only way to share is via screenshots. Which is also fine. :)

Derpy

anyway, I would worry about something else there.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy which is?

Derpy

1:19 PM

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy woman with a gun. What's wrong with that?

Or is it the boots which worries you? ;)

Derpy

@ShadowWizard that is a skirt, not short pants. Doesn't seem very pratical

(nor does the bow-tie)

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy oh.

Well, those uniform appear to be just the "official" type, not the field type.

In our army, soldiers get both types of uniform.

Derpy

She is a scout in the game. ^_^'

Shadow Wizard

So for training/war they go with the field uniform which don't look nice, but are practical.

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1:23 PM

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Derpy

@ShadowWizard I realize that Shadow. What i meant is that in the game that is the battle uniform for a scout solider.

Bookends

@ShadowWizard he's gone :/

Tavern's too chaotic for new contributors...

Pritish Vaidya

@ShadowWizard, thanks, I'll probably add the shareable links by this week.

Tinkeringbell

@Bookends Lies! :)

Hi Pritish!

Pritish Vaidya

Hello :)

The current issue that i'm facing is to include dynamic meta tags so that the scores page reflects as current image while sharing on twitter facebook linkedin etc.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

1:36 PM

I see my Team Dark counterpart invited you here...

Pritish Vaidya

Yes (Y)

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Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

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Asuna

1:57 PM

Why tf does FF store input field states? xd

@Derpy It's anime. Does it matter?

there we go uwu

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

delv-pls 20k+ answer meta.stackexchange.com/a/323834/377214

Also it's an FAQ and FAQs are generally protected

Bookends

HNQ about HNQ on HNQ widget

Catija

It's turtles all the way down.

Tinkeringbell

2:14 PM

@Catija Sheep, it's sheep all the way down ;)

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@Catija Turtles don't have eyes

Catija

Sheep don't have tails.

Tinkeringbell

They do!

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

A fox stole the extra tail.

Tinkeringbell

Especially on lambs, the tails look really cute and soft :)

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

2:17 PM

And now that fox is going around, "look at me, I have two tails"

Bookends

A fox stole 8 extra tails.

Derpy

@Asuna it is also some sort of war-based tale (albeit a pretty simple one with black&white morality) - not DOA

Bookends

@Derpy and not... BF5

Tinkeringbell

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog More often, a human docks the tail.

Asuna

@Bookends BFS? :p

@Derpy and?

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

2:20 PM

@Tinkeringbell I was referring to the two-tailed fox character Tails, from my namesake franchise

Asuna

pff, two tails is overrated

Nine tails is better

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

A certain someone with big knuckles doesn't need tails to fly

Catija

@Tinkeringbell yeah. I was referring to my drawing. I'm guessing that's what @SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog was referring to when he said turtles don't have eyes.

Tinkeringbell

@Catija Well, turtles have eyes, and sheep do have tails. So both drawings are horrible? :P

To be honest I had missed neither yet ;)

Catija

😢

Derpy

2:22 PM

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog just please do not bring bag the old meme "how can the tails be used as an helicopter without tangling up"

Tinkeringbell

@Catija Practice, practice, practice. You'll get better ;)

Catija

Pretty sure I won't.

Tinkeringbell

It looks like you and Ben were having fun though :)

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@Catija Correct

Mithrandir

Drawing?

Catija

2:27 PM

I was holding Gus in one arm, trying to calm him while Bennett asked me to draw dump trucks, excavators, and trains for him repeatedly. One is never enough.

@Mithrandir Twitter.

Mithrandir

oy, too many platforms :P

Catija

Meanwhile, Andy was enjoying a leisurely bowl of oatmeal and cup of coffee. 😑

Derpy

I read that as "Gau"

Mithrandir

Anyway, it is completely obvious that the one on the right is a turtle and the left is a sheep. Who would ever think otherwise?

Catija

Oh, and monster trucks.

Tinkeringbell

2:30 PM

I see a rocket too :)

And a chicken? duck?

Mithrandir

Is that a shark?

Catija

Yeah. He didn't ask for those, though... that was me drawing anything other than dump trucks, excavators and trains for variety.

Rocket - duck.

Magisch

Hey cat

Catija

Hey! Saw your nomination on TWP.

Tinkeringbell

@Mithrandir Can I get a ... let's say green, as it isn't there yet ... freehand circle showing where you see a shark?

Catija

2:32 PM

I'm guessing Mith is talking about the rocket.

Tinkeringbell

But that's clearly a rocket, not a shark!

Mithrandir

Right above the hairy turtle.

Tinkeringbell

That's a yellow squiggle

Derpy

@Catija you may still have time... don't let the little ones stick to such un-creative designs

Buy them THIS:

Magisch

@Catija Yeah, I'm catching some heat for it. All good though

Derpy

2:33 PM

Mithrandir

A is for Azathoth...

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Catija

@Magisch Some people do and end up being great mods. Something about the diamond tends to impact people's behavior in a way you don't expect. Usually good.

Magisch

@Catija Like I said, all good. I signed up to be questioned when I nominated myself :p

Catija

Yeah. TWP is a difficult one. :) Best of luck. It will be interesting to see who else nominates.

Tinkeringbell

2:37 PM

@Magisch Oi, that's some serious grilling :P You're doing great though, so far ;)

Catija

Your answer seems to be well-received. :D

Derpy

@Mithrandir actually...

Mithrandir

the Necronomicon works too

Derpy

@Mithrandir waiting for the inevitable Cthulhu themed dreamscape in the Dreams beta.

Catija

Unspeakable Words: Troy Baker, Erin Gray, and Felicia Day join Wil on TableTop SE2E15

►

Fun Cthulhu game.

Magisch

2:54 PM

If nothing else, it'll be a good learning experience

Derpy

@Magisch .... yes, especially when you are left with one sanity point.

Mithrandir

3:37 PM

Oh, lovely. The army sent me three different dates to come in for a chat, so I need to go check my automatically created profile on their website to see which of those three dates they actually want me to come into. They sent me a password in the mail to get in to it, so I open up the site, put in my ID number and the password... and it's not working. Great. >.<

Catija

Sounds like that means you're exempt :D

Derpy

maybe it is a test.

John Dvorak

You'll just have to come at all three dates.

Also,

Mithrandir

@Catija Don't I wish :P It just means I have to pick up the phone and actually talk to them.

(I'm bad at phone calls.)

Derpy

@JohnDvorak exactly what I was going to sugest

John Dvorak

3:42 PM

Status Quo "In The Army Now (2010)" (official video)

►

Catija

@Mithrandir From working in retail, I created a sort of phone persona. It's not me, it's the happy, helpful customer service person. Doesn't make the calls any easier but it's an act rather than just me.

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ArtOfCode

@Catija Someone must have studied this. Everyone I've ever talked to who's worked in public-facing roles has developed one of these customer service personas.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@Shadow If you wouldn't mind reconsidering your decision to close this question, that would be very nice. The two questions are referring to different things.

Catija

3:58 PM

@ArtOfCode I think you have to. No one is as "good" - kind, welcoming sweet, patient, etc... as a customer service person is expected to be.

Derpy

poem of the day.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@Catija You wouldn't mind if I edited your tracking post to indicate that the responsive design has rolled out on Area 51 Discussions? (I previously commented about this but got no response or edit.)

Derpy

> The first time they didn't know
The second they had no time to prepare for
The third one they weren't looking
and the fourth you won't be telling.

Catija

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog I specifically encourage people to edit if I miss something in the comments.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@Catija I was not sure which order you wanted the site list to be in, and considering you reverted every edit I've made to that post so far I wanted to ensure you wouldn't revert this one.

SmokeDetector

4:10 PM

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Magisch

@Catija i've adopted something similar talking to vendors and clients when I have to

Catija

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog That's not even technically true.

Magisch

It's scary. I can be cursing at my screen to almost bubbly in a second

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@Catija Yes, I forgot that I did make the "stock theme" edit; I just checked the revision history. I was about to edit that message to say "just about every edit", but it was too late to edit.

Derpy

@Catija ... some customers deserves a totally different kind of Persona....

Bookends

4:17 PM

don't forget to shout!

Kevin B

hi

Derpy

Okie dokie lokie

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Bookends

> Does S4 (and B) hold for the strongest interpretations of ♢ and □?

best HNQ title.

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Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

4:59 PM

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Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@rene It would be nice if you answered this question with an SEDE query for searching for protected questions

ArtOfCode

let people choose what they want to answer

"it would be nice if" is becoming your way of saying "you should do this"

SmokeDetector

5:23 PM

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user302202

5:46 PM

federalgovernment568@gmail.com ... seems legit

Bookends

> Country Code 568 is for Swaziland

wait, is this correct???

Shog9

not according to Wikipedia

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@Shog9 It's for eSwatini

Shog9

Telephone numbers in Eswatini

To call in Eswatini, the following format is used: yy xx xxxx calls within Eswatini +268 yy xx xxxx calls from outside Eswatini == List of allocations == Fixed line numbers changed from seven digits to eight digits in February 2011 by adding a preceding digit '2'. Mobile numbers begin with '7'. == List of area codes in Eswatini == == Calls to and from neighbouring countries == Until the 1990s, Swaziland was integrated into the South African telephone numbering plan; calls from South Africa to Swaziland were made using the code 0194. Calls to South Africa from Swaziland, however, required the...

Bookends

Thanks, Google's "quick" answer...

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

5:54 PM

@Shog9 Just being "pedantic"

fbueckert

Yay! Furnace broke last week.

During one of our cold snaps.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@fbueckert Try a space heater

Space Heater Nonsense

►

fbueckert

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog Did.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

Always 1500 watts.

fbueckert

They suck at providing heat efficiently.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

5:59 PM

@fbueckert In which case you'll find that video interesting

John Dvorak

Punch a tree, make a wooden pickaxe, mine 8 m^3 of stone, make a new furnace.

fbueckert

We have super cheap electricity. And my calculations yesterday estimated I spent $45 a day keeping the place livable.

John Dvorak

The best heater is a bitcoin miner anyways

Kevin B

move south

John Dvorak

or a hot-filament lightbulb

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

6:00 PM

Or an old desktop computer

fbueckert

@KevinB I like free health care.

Got it all fixed yesterday.

Only for the cold snap to end.

Kevin B

coldest we got was 22, but it lasted all of 8 hours

reached 80 the following week

:p

fbueckert

@KevinB We had -50 a couple weeks ago.

John Dvorak

+80 and -80 are both unlivable

even for computers

Kevin B

F

Bookends

6:02 PM

@JohnDvorak stuck on step 1, help

fbueckert

At -50, the difference becomes a minor issue.

Kevin B

+80 is pretty comfortable F

fbueckert

The larger issue is surviving.

And not slipping everywhere on ice as you drive into work.

John Dvorak

@Bookends locate a tree; point at its trunk; hold left mouse button until you get a log.

Kevin B

sevtech says you first need a flint hatchet

Bookends

6:05 PM

@JohnDvorak it's already midnight here, and there's no tree

but i see something... looks like a cactus... moving?

John Dvorak

Your best bet is to wait until morning then. Just dig a 2x2x1 box of dirt out of a mountainside with your bare hands, walk inside, replace the dirt you don't occupy, listen to the sound of burning zombies.

fbueckert

@JohnDvorak Are we playing Dwarf Fortress in real life now?

John Dvorak

Minecraft...

fbueckert

Burning zombies has a very dwarfish feel to it.

John Dvorak

Zombies and skeletons burn in direct sunlight. Spiders just become friendly.

Bookends

6:09 PM

this cactus-thingy is following me...

fbueckert

Carp can maul dwarves. There's something going on there between them.

John Dvorak

RUN

rene

OK

John Dvorak

Super-carps have been fixed

Incidentally, super-carps still work in Pokemon, you just have to know how.

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6:23 PM

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user302202

7:08 PM

Why would anyone heat space? dilbert.com/strip/2006-04-03

2

user302202

@Bookends That's not why I used that number...

Fabby

8:08 PM

@Mrs.Robinson :D :D :D

Starred!

fbueckert

8:25 PM

Oof. This isn't going to end well

Tinkeringbell

@fbueckert I'll try :)

user302202

I have and it made it worse — Luna 36 secs ago

user302202

Feb 5 at 1:09, by Mrs. Robinson

> Yeah? Well, I'm writing in reference to your mom's Stack Exchange account.

fbueckert

@Tinkeringbell Better you than me.

Looking through their history does not give me confidence.

Tinkeringbell

@fbueckert I was too slow :P

fbueckert

8:29 PM

Can't please everybody.

In other news, I have apparently managed to smash dependency injection with entity framework successfully.

MEE is Johann Gambolputty ...

@Mrs.Robinson Turning meta complaints into profile pictures seems to be the latest trend.

Shog9

Supplanting the previous trend of turning Area51 proposals into profile names?

rene

8:58 PM

Is users flair broken? stackoverflow.com/users/flair/578411.png 500 error for me.

ArtOfCode

not for me

rene

you are on the good server then

I got the broken one ...

Shog9

"out of memory"...

rene

sd f

SmokeDetector

9:16 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): I used to play mc but all of a sudden my mc keeps on saying 'Not Responding' please help by u wanna have bad tim boi on gaming.SE

bwDraco

So... folks, looks like the crisis is essentially resolved and I will continue to live at my parents' home. Some changes have been made to ensure this doesn't repeat. (@Catija)

fbueckert

@SmokeDetector Even for Minecraft questions, that one is exceptionally bad.

John Dvorak

9:45 PM

so is the username

user302202

How about a StackOverflow successor with the only two rules "Let's be nice to each other" and "Help the asking person to actually solve their problem"? That would be nice.

Tweeted by Sujan on February 12, 2019 at 5:31 PM in reply to Sujan

Magisch

@Mrs.Robinson "... and either full of so much noise that you couldn't find anything worth answering or completly dead"

It's not like "Make a better search function" will help. When people get no help for their bad questions, they'll start keyword spamming to get people to see it again, diluting the search results further.

fbueckert

@Mrs.Robinson Yeah, it would be nice.

For the month or two it'd take to be overrun with junk.

Kevin B

i mean

that depends on how much you market it

if you keep it very secluded it might last a little longer

fbueckert

Okay. I'll give it three months.

For context, pretty sure he's the one that asked this:

-1

Q: Find out how many people are downloading/using a specific version of a npm package?

We want to know if our new releases on npm are actually picked up by users, or if the majority is still using outdated code to develop. A package page on npmjs.com shows its downloads, and I can switch to other versions of the package via the “x Versions” tab - but even when looking at the detai...

Magisch

9:57 PM

it's a "grass always greener on the other side" type of issue

"Wouldn't it be great to have a site where everything goes?"

"Wouldn't it be great to have a site not filled to the brim with the same 10 low effort questions in infinite permutations?"

fbueckert

There is a site like that. It's called Yahoo Answers.

Or Quora, I guess.

Kevin B

"wouldn't it be nice if humanity wasn't so.. human"

user312109

Can someone tell me exactly why I got suspended in physics.SE for editing on my own questions? I made sure not to invalidate them, and they were significant improvement in wording, grammar and structure.

fbueckert

@Muze Isn't that what the Physics mods are for?

Shog9

probably the moderator who suspended you

user312109

9:59 PM

can talk to them suspended

ArtOfCode

Reply to the mod message

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