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John Dvorak

5:21 AM

forget the toilet paper - they still have gas

rene

5:43 AM

Maintenance scheduled for Friday, June 4, 2021 at 12:00am UTC

@Luuklag there you go

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

6:20 AM

@Rob not enough.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

6:37 AM

A: How many times do questions go through a delete/undelete cycle by the same group of users?

It is stupidly low. It is so low that more users have viewed, voted, commented and answered on the Meta posts then the total number of posts or users involved in these (un)delete "wars". And I didn't even bother to exclude the moderators ... Let me answer this bullet (all numbers based on current...

> If you insist you can ask a CM to run my query on the internal SEDE instance but that would only be to counter that one user that dares to claim these numbers are fake.

@rene I burst out laughing when I read that

rene

Glad I made one user laugh. My day is complete now. Let's see what Friday will bring.

Tinkeringbell

7:12 AM

@rene Hopefully, weekend XD

rene

7:34 AM

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

7:45 AM

@rene Ice(land)

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Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

8:46 AM

Bad answer, but proper in the context of the question and the site it's posted in.

Luuklag

9:04 AM

Meh, you ask for stuff you get it. No need to debate the quality of that in comments, let votes do that.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

9:19 AM

@Luuklag I was annoyed by the use of "very good fit", which it's not. :)

It can fit, yeah... but "very good fit"? Not at all.

If it was written is less arrogant way, I'd probably not even downvote.

M.A.R.

Why is it arrogant?

Because it's just a one-liner?

ELL sigh

Every post is crappy unless proven innocent.

Tinkeringbell

I'm mostly disappointed no one has mentioned polishing turds yet.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@M.A.R. assuming it's "very good fit" when it's not.

@Tinkeringbell maybe they don't need polishing. :D

rene

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard you're a very, very good fit. If we can find a space ...

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

:-P

Luuklag

10:00 AM

@JNat cross site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20917729/aliakhan?tab=accounts

Rob

10:30 AM

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard both wrote on the wall and rolled them.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

10:51 AM

@Rob meh, in 99% of the public toilet rooms I was in that has writings, the writing had nothing to do with either the word "shit" or any form of literature. It was mostly curses directed at people the writer didn't really like, or in the army mostly directed towards the sergeants.

Can't even Translate to see what it means, so assuming offensive.

(Trying to translate results in same text)

@JNat cross site troll (?) posting stuff in non-English that is likely offensive. You can see this as example. Worth checking deleted posts on other sites though. Thanks! :)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard apparently its arabic, but google detects it as persian

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@JourneymanGeek well same letters, no?

Journeyman Geek

\o/

I am familiar with two alphabets and no more :D

Apparently reads "Where is your message?"

Waffles

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

11:14 AM

@JourneymanGeek what? The text in the reported answer? It looks... longer.

Journeyman Geek

That's what google translate says!

Rob

@ShadowTheVaccinatedWizard It was written without spaces, becoming difficult to translate (for most but not all translators): translate.com/english-persian "this is the yankee of the heart of the dondemsite, the reason for the expansion of the syllableshecksheetsblatts".

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@JourneymanGeek it's just guessing, you can put any language there and Google will use some cryptic Neural Network AI to guess the meaning, it's different for each language. e.g. Hebrew: (the text contains no letter in Hebrew!!)

Journeyman Geek

Whisky Tango ....

Go home AI, you are drunk?

Rob

... and dondemsite is German for "put on the site" (don the site).

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

11:22 AM

Easier to see it in action when typing Gibberish.

Typed nonsense in Hebrew, and Google used some algorithm to extract a "best guess" meaning.

So this makes me believe the reported answer is actually nonsense that can't be translated e.g. jeoprt eorpjsetp esjtesotit wtjwet, hence my red flag is correct and it's really a troll.

Rob

M.A.R.'s avatar says talked 16 minutes ago ...

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

@Rob writing without spaces on purpose just makes the suspicion towards malicious action even bigger. They just want to waste the reader's time.

@Rob you want to ask @M.A.R. what it means? You can just ping him. ;)

Rob

They created their account 7 months ago to trip you up today, sneaky.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

yeah

@Rob you can also click "recent" to see what was posted and where. (Unless it was written in private chat)

Rob

I'm satisfied with my translation.

Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard

11:28 AM

I'm satisfied that you're satisfied. ;)

Rob

We shall see.

rene

12:14 PM

I was typing a comment!

Luuklag

Good for you!

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Feeds

2:03 PM

How to prevent scope creep when managing a project from home

Ryan Donovan on May 27, 2021

When unexpected changes are requested during the development process, your final product may be a lot more complicated than what your spec originally called for. This phenomenon is called “scope creep.” Add a fully remote team with thin work-life boundaries on top of that, and you’ve got problems.

Spevacus

:( When you write up a long answer and the question gets self-closed as a duplicate of something it's really not a dupe of.

vote to reopen!

I did the do!

Good you :)

2:22 PM

🚽

Journeyman Geek

2:53 PM

lol

@Spevacus throwing a link here might help too

Spevacus

Eh. Thing is, I don't want it to seem like I only want it to be reopened so I can post an answer. Other reviewers are signaling that they don't side with me, so I'm not gonna press it further. I was gonna say something unpopular anyway, so this saves me some downvotes. :)

Journeyman Geek

lol

waffles

Spevacus

lol^2

Rob

3:20 PM

@Spevacus Didn't it let you post your answer on the closed question, often it does; there's a long grace period.

Nord The Lofty Wizard

@Rob speaking from own experience here, but I recall once that this can happen faster than say, 5 min (once happened to me in less than 1 min)

then again, it was on SO i think? and I'm more used to Unix.SE so..yeah

Spevacus

@Rob I was actually really surprised. I got the alert that the question was closed within 2 minutes of it being closed, and the answer box + "post an answer" button were disabled. I copied my answer to a text file in case the question was reopened, but yeah. I remember reading about the grace period but it was just not lenient this time around :(

Nord The Lofty Wizard

@JourneymanGeek is this a synonym for "lol" that I didn't yet know about :o?

Journeyman Geek

Nord The Lofty Wizard

@Spevacus this happened to me too before but much faster than 2 min

Spevacus

3:22 PM

It may have had something to do with it being a self-close situation, but I have no evidence to support that notion.

Nord The Lofty Wizard

@JourneymanGeek alright. Thought this was a joke or a reference I didn't know about which was what i asked

Journeyman Geek

@NordTheLoftyWizard Its a traditional edit of typos

Spevacus

@NordTheLoftyWizard It's possible that it notified me as soon as it was closed, and I only refreshed once I had saved my answer to a text file. Not sure exactly when I was notified, but it was pretty quick.

Nord The Lofty Wizard

@JourneymanGeek oh, gotcha

@Spevacus yeah. I'm used to see it done in less than 5 min, especially if it's known people who vote for closing, then some people just "follow" through

Rob

@Spevacus Darn:

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A: How was this answer posted after this question was closed?

If a question is closed while you're answering on the full version of the site, you will receive a notification that the question was closed and the 'Post Your Answer' button will be disabled. However, this is only a client-side restriction, so it is possible in some cases that this process fails...