@JNat cheers! :)

is this okay to gain reputation?

any idea? what do you think about this?

@KushanGunasekera if done once, it is fine. If it is persistent also toward users that have accepted many answers already it is noise.

Flag the comment as no longer needed.

@KushanGunasekera see also meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12543/… among other Q/A's on the same topic

I leave them in place unless someone's particularly annoying about it

@KushanGunasekera It's not OK to "gain reputation" it is useful only because the person whom it is directed towards is a new user (not just on the one site, but to all the SE sites) and they may not understand that after waiting a reasonable period of time that they should accept the most helpful answer (and upvote it, along with other useful answers). Begging for reputation or trolling/spamming questions (or answers) isn't appreciated. -- It should never be done to gain rep, it should be done

to offer new information to the one receiving it.

To be fair,

(huh, the user has left chat...)

STV working in the IPS election. The candidate with the highest first-choice votes turned out to not be the winner: opavote.com/results/5526120231337984

It was also sort of decided randomly, with one candidate having a tie for the lowest first-choice votes, and being eliminated due to random choice.

The result was kind of expected and unexpected at the same time.

Meh, that randomness didn't matter in the end, since the other tied candidate was also eliminated.

tl;dr many people who voted for losing candidates selected the previous second-place candidate as a backup choice, and because of that they won.

@KushanGunasekera If you tap on the date for a comment it gives you a link to the specific comment, then if you collect a few links (or several) you can flag one for the Moderator and briefly explain that they do this, and save space for all the links you are including - that shows a large pattern of unwanted behavior (maybe the Mod will send a letter). If it were only one or two leaving a comment reply would be better. You can get a list of all their comments by going to there profile and switching to

the main site - for example, here are yours: stackexchange.com/users/8234344/kushan-gunasekera?tab=activity

@ShadowTheCurlyBracedWizard gone

If they're leaving the comment on different questions from different new users, I don't see if it's a problem though... but, meh...

Switch from the [All] tab to the [Comments] tab.

Meta Andrew, scrolling back I did explain what's appropriate.

@ShadowTheCurlyBracedWizard gone

@ShadowTheCurlyBracedWizard gone

Yes, I've read your previous comment, but "this developer did this in several times" didn't give any clue if it's rep-boring or genuinely helping new users.

@SonictheBracketedHedgehog strikes me more as a somewhat clueless user... don't see clear instances of spam on this one :)

anyway, time to sleep... 💤

@JNat For context, what post did they make?

@SonictheBracketedHedgehog how d'you stumble upon 'em?

meta.stackexchange.com/q/329910/208518

@MetaAndrewT. That's Kushan's comment to me, my comment to him explains it (and is the one to refer to).

> Someone put an upvote bot on my questions and got me question banned again for "cheating"

I'm assuming that's not how that works at all, right?

No

Only if the upvote bot is yours

Then you don't get question banned but suspended

for the user it probably doesn't matter. Either way they can't post questions

@rene I thought so lol this kid is full of crap

He's on pace to be on the JS no fly list :(

despite some shocking patience from the regulars

@SterlingArcher Cool! Can I be on the no fly list as well? I feel I'm much better with my feet in the soil.

Isn't that how flowers work anyways? :P

I rather like taking precautions

@rene JS airlines provide cozy soil for all plant customers.

yeets rene

y'all don't ever visit a garden pls

I have been very cautious since I found out about carnivorous flowers.

This place has the best conversation lines I'll ever see in my entire being.

I would be careful to utter them in the wild ...

Yeah, rene is a domesticated flower.

Does that mean he doesn't pee on the carpet?

No

I dunno, he gets pretty wild when your next downvote rant comes along.

@Bart We're still working on that.

@JNat Ah, right; it was later deemed a false positive by Charcoal users. Retracting nuke request...

downmoat rene

@JourneymanGeek Can we (by which I mean you/a mod, for speed's sake) delete some of the answers on this FAQ? The top answer is the canonical answer to the FAQ; the rest are answers to what the question used to say.

Given that at least one CM has expressed that FAQs should generally have just one answer, I'm in favor.

I'm tempted to ask for the deletion of another answer on this proposed FAQ...

but that's censorship!

(okay, really time to sleep now...)

@MetaAndrewT. I flagged that answer for deletion, but that flag was declined on the grounds that it was only a proposed FAQ and not an actual FAQ.

StackOverflow is down for me: 503 stackoverflow.com is currently unable to handle this request.

not loading for me either

is it that busy?

NOOOO

I need halps with a MutationObserver acting weird

A MutationObserver acting weird is by design.

there's something in my inbox

and now I can't read it

Great, well, I guess I will just have to buy a book, or decompile some source code now. Thanks, Stack Overflow!

:P

Buy a book? is your monitor too low?

too low?

I have reverted to hacking a solution.

Got a runtime error this time

its back for me

@TravisJ what's up with it?

@ArtOfCode I am using it in an extension, and it is only detecting changes during the first page load, but not on subsequent changes from the result of an ajax call

link me to the question when you post it :)

I wont be asking a question for it

It is difficult to reproduce and may be the result using plotly on the page during the ajax load

Ah, okay. Happy to take a look if you want more eyes, but no guarantees :)

If I felt it wouldn't just result in "looks fine to me" from others I would. I just don't want to waste anyone's time, and I am now becoming more and more convinced that the issue is plotly. Mostly, from a theory perspective, I am trying to figure out how to detect if my observer is removed and then reattach it.

sounds like you need a MutationObserverObserver

lol

I do tho, I really do

Can a Proxy trap reassignments, I wonder

I wish there was C#'s ~Finally so I could detect if it was getting gc'd

@TravisJ if you store your observer as a property of an object, you could proxy the object and trap on deleteProperty, and filter for your MO's property name

was trying to work out if you could proxy window itself, but that's probably a bad idea

And you think that would get triggered if the gc runs?

Can't you see that from the dev console in Chrome when you do a memory profile?

perhaps

Nick skipped a heartbeat : twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1143977157095559168

leaking threads is a great way to stop a service

profiler crashed the tab =/

Okay, full hack then. This is only to make printing easier for one employee.

#published.

As Brandon replied, it was never down for some of USa:

@Bart me? Nah. I am civil.

Oh and welcome back!

You were missed! ;)

@JNat thanks x 3

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