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Q: What's with the uptick in blatantly off-topic posts lately?

Generally, we tend to get around a few blatantly off-topic questions here on this site because...reasons. However, yesterday and today (UTC), I noticed that the number of off-topic questions had increased from normal levels; yesterday, I spent more than half of my daily close vote allowance voti...

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Took 2 minutes

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Today's news somehow reminded me of Sam the Brand...

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Sam Brand

@samthebrand, Washington, DC

Product person, data explorer, recovering writer. Currently @slader. Ex @stackoverflow.

5.4k tweets, 641 followers, following 566 users

user302202

12:58 AM

The "@slader" part is mysterious, considering it points at twitter.com/Slader

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

Something's wrong with @ɪBᴜɢ's chat profile...I think it's not syncing correctly due to non-standard characters.

It's supposed to resync every hour, but it's been many hours since their username change.

Journeyman Geek

2:35 AM

→ 65 messages moved to Chimney

@AskQuestionWizard crunchbase.com/organization/slader#section-overview maybe

actually, its literally what some people wished SE was ;)

user302202

2:58 AM

Hm, a bunch of uploaded homework for the popular math books.

user302202

Nothing particularly novel. (I mostly write my own homework problems.)

Get Answer Wizard

Great... panic morning since Google removed the app...

user302202

Inbox app?

Get Answer Wizard

yeah, that too...

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

@GetAnswerWizard Google removed the SE app?

Get Answer Wizard

3:26 AM

@SonictheWizardWerehog oh, unrelated to SE :)

Travis J

5:34 AM

You could hear a pin drop in here

Catija

5:49 AM

Journeyman Geek

._.

QUIET! PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!

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Sonic the Wizard Werehog

^all one-more-delete-vote-needed (cc @Bart @Shadow @rene)

A sign many users are truly lost: I've noticed many askers of blatantly off-topic posts that get deleted simply vote to undelete their posts

Journeyman Geek

All kaboomed.

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

@JourneymanGeek No, you missed the first one

Journeyman Geek

6:04 AM

So I did

I blame ~~caching~~ lack of sleep

Sonic the Wizard Werehog

@JourneymanGeek Isn't it 2 PM there?

Journeyman Geek

did a night shift

need to catch a few hours of zed

Travis J

6:24 AM

Hm, missed them. noooo!

@JourneymanGeek - Is your diamond deletion vote binding now?

rene

Okay, I'm in a train that is chasing the train I need to get on at the next stop

Travis J

6:40 AM

@rene 🎶 queues bond music

rene

That is appropriate. I get on the roof to shoot a line across so I can zipline to the other train., I have to be careful as this track is electrified so if I touch the ooverhed wire I &^%^$#

Tinkeringbell

@rene mine is half a train too short. Judgmental jealous looking people all over .

I think I'd prefer ziplining ;)

rene

@Tinkeringbell yeah, that was the reason I skipped a train. I simply couldn't get on

Tinkeringbell

@rene ah. I think so far we're still picking up everyone. Mandatory ' please take an intercity at Amersfoort If you have to go to Utrecht' incoming now...

Travis J

I know it seems kinda mundane, but I really enjoy taking the trains in Holland

We don't have anything like that here on the west coast at all.

We have one piddly train which is always late and only stops once every 20 miles.

Tinkeringbell

6:55 AM

@TravisJ mundane? More like crazy :P

@TravisJ trains here are always late too (okay, most of the time). Stats just don't show it because everything under X minutes and trains not going at all don't count

Travis J

hah, yeah, your version of late is like, a minute. I am talking consistently an hour late here

Tinkeringbell

Late is late. Though an hour late makes me money, a minute doesn't :P

rene

@Tinkeringbell yeah. I ran across the platform and managed to get a seat. And I';m in the right train now ... I think ....

Travis J

I didn't remember it being all that crazy, although I didn't have to commute with the train during rush hour, and since I can't read dutch all I had was a single path to follow that was pre determined.

Tinkeringbell

@rene Yay! Good luck with the rest of the journey then!

Travis J

6:58 AM

@rene I see your zipline was successful

rene

It will get better from here on

Tinkeringbell

@TravisJ rush hour is particularly bad. But even outside that, trains often fail to be on time or theyre dirty or the wifi isn't working or there's a drunk person or.... There's always something!

rene

@TravisJ I admit it isn't too bad but we have so planned the capacity just over its limits that when one train gets delayed it is has ripple effect that takes hours to resolve.

Travis J

I recently tried a little bit of apex legends.. there is a character in there who uses a zipline and has all sorts of weird little quips. "Let's ride the zipline, friends". Heh, could just imagine a whole group of people ziplining between trains.

rene

:D

Travis J

7:01 AM

I feel like all rush hour has that ripple effect to it when something doesn't go quite right

Tinkeringbell

@rene Yeah. When I took this one daily, there was one stop where they had to load a wheelchair and its user, and then another stop before Utrecht where they had to unload said wheelchair.... Which caused a standard 10 minute delay and a missed connection :/

Travis J

@Tinkeringbell Dirty? No wifi? Drunk people? Sounds like a typical dive bar :D

All your train is missing is karaoke

Tinkeringbell

@TravisJ please no. Those elderly people talking your ears off are bad enough

Travis J

lol well they gotta tell someone all their stories and opinions

rene

What is a dive bar? A bar for scuba divers?

Tinkeringbell

7:03 AM

@TravisJ opinions mostly, yeah...

Travis J

@rene A small local bar that usually only has a handful of people in it and the bartender glares at you

Tinkeringbell

@TravisJ Sounds like a stamkroeg...

Travis J

Yeah, I think that is appropriate

Tinkeringbell

One more stop and I can get out of this sardine can!

Travis J

Okay, so I have been building this thing for a long time, and am going to attempt the first user creation... so, fingers crossed

rene

7:05 AM

@Tinkeringbell hey! I like to chat, okay?

Travis J

lol

Get Answer Wizard

Hmm... was WorldBuilding.SE the first site where a mod removed a question from HNQ? :)

rene

@TravisJ will that be the user with id=1?

Tinkeringbell

@rene Just keep your opinions to yourself! Oh, and don't litter the train by leaving your Algemeen Dagblad lying around after getting off!

@TravisJ Good luck!

Get Answer Wizard

(moot point though, since it was closed directly after the removal)

Travis J

7:07 AM

@rene Yes. Although, this is still in dev, so the whole db is going to get wiped out at some point

rene

@GetAnswerWizard you can query sede for that

@TravisJ just to show your nerdiness I would invite Jeff to be the first user

Travis J

lol that would be an honor

haha It failed silently. I didn't disable a hardcoded security feature. Okay, round 2 coming up.

Yup. Round 2 didn't quite go well either. I switched to a direct post from ajax and it didn't retain two important pieces of data. Trivial stuff. Third time is the charm I hear ;)

rene

go for it

Just fix it after you're live

you need to test your devops process as well ...

Travis J

7:31 AM

\o/ yay

worked, user #1

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheWizardWerehog not lost, desperate. I bet most of those are well aware they're in the wrong place, but just question banned on the correct site.

@JourneymanGeek zed? Isn't he dead?

Get Answer Wizard

Let's write a new Algeria!

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Write new Algeria

Proposed Q&A site for idea box for the new Algerian republic

Currently in definition.

Shadow Wizard

@TravisJ why not? MSE diamond is the same as any diamond. ;)

Travis J

@ShadowWizard Was curious

Shadow Wizard

@GetAnswerWizard two followers??? wth lol

@TravisJ that's Jeff.... what did he do? ;)

Jeff is #1 on all sites, right? Same as Community who is always -1

oh only on the trilogy sites.

User #1 on arqade is deleted. #2 is...

Geoff Dalgas ♦, Corvallis, OR

101 8

Oh wait, any chance Jeff deleted his account there?? checking

Nope, he's #12

Get Answer Wizard

7:47 AM

Shog9? JeffAtwood12?

Shadow Wizard

lol

Shog is wayyyyy below, #8004

Travis J

@ShadowWizard - Nothing. I just turned something on. Now its at #2 :P

Shadow Wizard

User Destructor 9000?! runs away before it reach me

Travis J

lol

rene

8:03 AM

@TravisJ congrats!

@ShadowWizard probably the ruler to be and their partner

Get Answer Wizard

The ruler and their socks (yeah, literally socks)

Shadow Wizard

8:40 AM

@GetAnswerWizard So it should have been 3 followers, unless he lost one of the socks?

It sucks to lose a sock.

Journeyman Geek

9:41 AM

@TravisJ Yup, and its an essential part of the "job"

Shadow Wizard

11:15 AM

four lurkers detected

!!/lurk

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard No such command 'lurk'.

Shadow Wizard

hrmph

@SmokeDetector I know

daily ping for @M.A.R The Chemical Wizard so he won't feel neglected

I wonder, as the first Wizard, can I Summon all other wizards? :D

Tinkeringbell

Apparently not :P

Shadow Wizard

Tinkering The Bell Wizard?

:P

Tinkeringbell

No, I'll never join the wizard ranks. Just give up on that idea ;)

Magisch

11:37 AM

I should rename myself to Magisch the Prickly Wizard

or would that be spineless :D

Tinkeringbell

'The Magisch Wizard' :P

Magisch

You should become "The Tinkering Parrot Wizard"

Tinkeringbell

9 mins ago, by Tinkeringbell

No, I'll never join the wizard ranks. Just give up on that idea ;)

Mithrandir

I'm already a wizard. There's no need to change.

Magisch

Huh, everyone must have mithed that

Tinkeringbell

11:42 AM

Hahaha I found it through the flags on main :) How quick was I? :P

Magisch

bout 6 minutes

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell cries

@Magisch good enough. You have my Blessing. :D

@Mithrandir you can be Daily Picture Wizard then. :P

Mithrandir

Bike is broken + bad weather, no pictures handy :(

I really need to buy a new bike, but... that is simply not an option at the moment.

Shadow Wizard

Money?

Ask SE for a new swag contest, with bike as the prize. :P

Mithrandir

Money? What's that? *looks around* I don't know what that means...

Shadow Wizard

11:57 AM

It's like "honey", just with "M".

Mithrandir

Aha.

Shadow Wizard

But if you happen to see some, don't try to eat it.

Or put in tea.

Mithrandir

Noted.

Shadow Wizard

> How to show a big nested JSON on UI

Almost flagged as offensive ^

lol

doppelgreener

12:21 PM

@rene FYI the HNQ feed appears to have been down for the past 24 hours. Currently the entire lackadaisical-appeal.glitch.me domain they're based on is down but glitch.me is fine.

Oh hey, the project's now "waking up". The domain was completely dead half an hour ago.

I wonder if that means the HNQ bots alone don't keep it active!?

Ok it's gone back again to just not responding with anything to the "waiting for..." step.

Shadow Wizard

What's that?

doppelgreener

FWIW the last message in the HNQ room was "23 hours 31 minutes ago".

@ShadowWizard It is a set of feeds that republishes HNQ content: meta.stackexchange.com/a/323710/152515

This has enabled a few sites to set up in-chat feeds for their own HNQ to keep an eye on what's making it onto the list.

It's not 100% accurate, but it's better than nothing.

(much, much better. it's pretty good.)

Shadow Wizard

Oh, nice.

Tinkeringbell

1:35 PM

Hey @Shadow make that an actual answer for rep? :P

Shadow Wizard

Tried to gather more info from SEDE, but got nothing. Weird.

Done anyway. More rep for bounties! :D

Get Answer Wizard

!!/coffeatea

SmokeDetector

@GetAnswerWizard No such command 'coffeatea'.

Get Answer Wizard

2:11 PM

Ooo... rainy...

user302202

have the brexit ever fought the borg

Tweeted by RikerGoogling on June 23, 2016 at 11:34 PM in reply to RikerGoogling

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Or if they did, who would win?

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(I know it's old... but what is new today?)

user302202

Article 13, I guess.

user302202

Sounds like a good time to revisit the third-rail license-for-SO-code issue.

Get Answer Wizard

2:24 PM

We'll license the code with License Overflow v2 instead with the limitation of "no copy-pasting".

user302202

My best idea is to have some kind of GitHub integration where a poster can seamlessly contribute the code from their post to a Stack Overflow GitHub repo with a permissive license. (The post itself stays CC licensed.)

user302202

I don't like the solutions that do nothing except adding some words to ToS.

user302202

As for Article 13... I'd like to imagine that it will cause Instagram to shut down, like GDPR did to Klout.

user302202

If it takes FB and YT too, all the better.

Get Answer Wizard

As long as FB still provides their Facebook Login, I'm okay with that.

rene

2:40 PM

@doppelgreener looking into it

rene

2:54 PM

@doppelgreener there is bug in the container that runs there but it beyond my control

doppelgreener

shoot!

Get Answer Wizard

tembak!

doppelgreener

Thanks for looking into it @rene. Do we have any good idea of when it might be back up and running?

ArtOfCode

3:51 PM

@AskQuestionWizard es.SO election's fixed

Get Answer Wizard

So many elections to select and elect...

Ooker

I've changed the question title from "doesn't seem to answer satisfactorily" to "don't match the typical pattern of good answers". Is that better?

Anne Daunted

It's funny when a seemingly helpful question pops up in your google search ... in it's deleted.

Get Answer Wizard

seraching for the 'cached' link...

Anne Daunted

@GetAnswerWizard That's indeed the solution! Unfortunately, the OP deleted their question before they got an answer.

rene

4:47 PM

@doppelgreener it should be back online now

@doppelgreener I hate to tell this but it might be that the feeds bot gave up on those feeds. Let's monitor if it starts to pickup again

it did request one site so far: site cstheory.stackexchange.com

it requested 5 other sites and one overall

@doppelgreener lackadaisical-appeal.glitch.me is working again and feeds are coming in. For future reference: here is the issue I reported: support.glitch.com/t/…

doppelgreener

5:20 PM

@rene Hooray! Thank you. :)

Travis J

5:56 PM

@rene - Still on the train? :)

rene

@TravisJ no, I got off, to a meeting, got back on a train and did the James Bond thing again because it worked so well... I'm at home now. I'll have another go tomorrow

user302202

6:27 PM

@ShadowWizard Out of context, this suggests that you became F after 30.

canon

6:40 PM

@AskQuestionWizard Thanks for this...

user302202

7:47 PM

Looks like a bad question, but considering the history of that poster... could be spam

user302202

OTOH the OP participates on other sites, and in other ways.

user302202

Conclusion: a sufficiently bad question is indistinguishable from spam.

user302202

Also, Smokey's spam detection accuracy is way down from historic average. Compare what it used to be:

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and what it is now.

user302202

7:51 PM

user302202

No longer looks like an elephant eaten by a snake.

John Dvorak

8:14 PM

saddened by the fact that a Russian reversal wouldn't work in this case

user302202

8:26 PM

Iteration would work: a snake that ate an elephant that ate a snake that...

John Dvorak

Just count heads after the big bulge?

though this looks more like a pigmy dromedary.

user302202

11:40 PM

Recently I saw someone I can't find now say they weren't a real programmer because they only did bash scripts and I just want to say you're nuts, munging text with shell scripts is black magic and you're clearly a wizard

Tweeted by americanwombat on March 26, 2019 at 11:09 PM

user302202

Supporting the wizard theme.

Braiam

Anyone remembers an old bug report when SE broke support for a vim-like navigation addon?

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