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just how dumb must one be to literally post spam on the question on the site with the most... obsessive users and on a question a moderator literally answered

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek where?

tripleee

1:28 PM

@ShadowTheKidWizard you have TP:ed a couple of posts where the consensus seems to be FP, maybe review? crypto electronics

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard meta.stackexchange.com/a/383994/135565

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@tripleee xgf.nu sounds like very risky stuff, I have no desire to get malware so not even clicking. But that's red flag for me.

And the post is deleted, so...

Same for the other one, new user linking to product, I consider it spam.

tripleee

@ShadowTheKidWizard that is indeed quite fishy - changed my feedback and added a note in metasmoke

the electronics one seems run of the mill for that site, many new users link to a product and ask what voltage to use or is it compatible with their particular brand of frobozz oscillator frambrupler

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@tripleee hmm

@SmokeDetector f

Done.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

2:15 PM

@Journeyman munch time, second offense. (at least)

I think OP posted this already today.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard strangely enough... no

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek hmm, I'll have to re-scan my memory then.

Journeyman Geek

you're confusing it with the spammer on SU

Shadow The Kid Wizard

memory re-scan in progress, please wait

beep

@JourneymanGeek oh lol, probably.

Journeyman Geek

Heads up is appreciated and I did take a look and confirm :)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

2:21 PM

@JourneymanGeek thanks! Next time I'll just verify with my browser's history

Journeyman Geek

ehh

I can see enough to confirm, and frankly isn't much work

Shadow The Kid Wizard

3:20 PM

Hey @Mgetz long time no talk. How are you?

Example person

3:37 PM

-5

Q: No idea about how to store the image captions in a file format

How to store the image captioning in a text file format

I have no idea how people come to stack overflow, but then switch to meta se

I am just confused now

Kevin B

it happens a lot, but i don't see any specific pathways

featured on meta maybe, but idunno

Meta Andrew T.

@Exampleperson usually Q-banned on SO

Kevin B

this is a new acct, created today

Meta Andrew T.

ah yeah, they even created the account on MSE and posted the question first before creating an account on SO...

Example person

3:53 PM

what!

Mgetz

@ShadowTheKidWizard stressed as usual

Example person

is there any reason MSE should be accessible to new users?

Kevin B

is there any reason it shouldn't?

Example person

to avoid these type of questions, i guess

but since they are rare, i don't think we need such a system anyways

Kevin B

it's not unusual for new users to post good questions on MSE, it's just sometimes people get lost... for whatever reason

Example person

4:01 PM

that reason, that, I am confused about.

it seems so rare that such a thing would happen, but still happens everyday

another one again

Kevin B

this one's been a member for 50 days

only mse

Example person

hmm.. you're right

only mse, maybe deleted SO profile

Meta Andrew T.

Oh, spam

Example person

...

i didn't even read the question lol

the more I know....

Kevin B

4:19 PM

imagine reading the question

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Mgetz sorry to hear. As you know, I hope, if there's anything I can do to help, just ask. Talking about good things, perhaps?

Mgetz

sadly no, it's either politics or economics

or mental health

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Mgetz yeah, this sucks. How's your job?

@Exampleperson FYI, there was one time in MSE history that they raised the threshold needed to ask new question to 5 reputation, to prevent totally new users from asking new questions.

Example person

hmm

Shadow The Kid Wizard

That was result of inbox message sent to all millions of users, linking directly to MSE.

And leading to TONS of off topic questons.

Think it reached around 50 in few hours before they pulled the plug.

Example person

4:24 PM

lol, just 5 rep!

for all that!

Shadow The Kid Wizard

But generally, MSE is the place for anyone to ask anything related to the network.

Example person

yeah you're right

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Exampleperson it worked perfectly.

Example person

Wow

Shadow The Kid Wizard

The silence was golden.

These days I guess you refer to the "lost souls", those who post thinking they're on a different site, those really aren't a problem, and volumes aren't high.

Example person

4:26 PM

hmm

Shadow The Kid Wizard

One thing though, I'd support making it easier to close questions as "Not related to Stack Exchange", maybe lower to three close votes instead of 5.

Example person

" inbox message sent to all millions of users" - why tho?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Exampleperson I'm not sure, think privacy changes, I'll try to dig it up.

Mgetz

@ShadowTheKidWizard I'm in tech... so dubious at the moment

Meta Andrew T.

36

Q: Sudden increase in off-topic posts on MSE

It seems that the Updated Terms of Service message linking to the MSE post discussing it had a undesired side effect: there is a huge increase in off-topic (mostly programming) questions. (Not to speak about the hundreds of drive-by upvotes on that posts and its answers...) While I think the mes...

support off-topic terms-of-service

Example person

4:28 PM

@ShadowTheKidWizard you're right

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@MetaAndrewT. yeah, so it was 2, not 5. :)

Meta Andrew T.

also linked:

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Q: What's responsible for the increase in the number of accounts created every week here on Meta Stack Exchange?

I've noticed that since the past year, the number of accounts created on Meta Stack Exchange every week has increased noticeably, and has sustained a much higher rate than it has sustained for the previous years. Here's a query and a graph: Historically, the rate of account creation has ...

discussion meta user-accounts statistics

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Mgetz well, but I do hope the corworkers are OK, and boss doesn't cause you trouble. :)

Meta Andrew T.

So, some users do login from the SE homepage?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@MetaAndrewT. huh, forgot about it.

@MetaAndrewT. yeah this might explain some off topic questions, though I'd say 90% of the times the users already have account in the proper site.

So it's either they're question banned and asking on purpose on different site, or they end up in MSE in other ways (e.g. after clicking a featured question) and think they're in the other site.

@Exampleperson actually I'm left. (handed) ;-)

nobody

4:38 PM

How hard is it to get an old email removed from Stack Exchange's records? I changed my email over a year ago, found that removing the old one from my account required several non-obvious steps, eventually filed a GDPR request to have the old email removed, and yet... I've suddenly started receiving emails for Stack Overflow for Teams on the old email again.

Kevin B

I would assume they changed providers at some point and missed a step when migrating

unsubscribe should fix it

nobody

A GDPR request to remove that email from their records should have removed that email from their records though.

No amount of missed steps should be able to recreate data that has been deleted

Kevin B

of course

however

mistakes happen, particularly when you're dealing with user data existing across multiple systems

it would certainly be nice if we lived in a perfect world

Meta Andrew T.

@nobody considering that SOfT has been moved to another domain ~~and its account has been disassociated from SO~~, you might want to check the account setting there instead.

SPArcheon

4:54 PM

@Tinkeringbell apparently the game runs a tab better if you set the switch resolution to 720p.

But then you would have to switch every single time.

Hopefully they could lock the game at 720 with an update...

Example person

@ShadowTheKidWizard lol?

Tinkeringbell

5:20 PM

@SPArcheon It runs fine enough over here... I'm not going to bother ;)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

5:38 PM

@Exampleperson depends?

@nobody if only they knew where to remove it from. The dev team is being replaced in such a high rate that there must be things that get forgotten over time.

Example person

@ShadowTheKidWizard oh no, by "lol", I meant that you replied "i'm actually left" to my comment saying "you're right" (which actually meant that you said the right thing. Sorry if any of my messages caused any confusion :)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

5:53 PM

@Exampleperson confusion caused: 0

Example person

@ShadowTheKidWizard Does that mean the ':O' emoji or does it mean that there are no confusions caused?

(lol)

nah, i understand it, let's stop it

Okay, what is going on, on SO today?

I haven't seen much myself

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Exampleperson elections ending, guess this cause some fuss over MSO

Example person