@Catija thanks for the explanation! I tried using the search bar for "[support] What happens to the votes you made before you gained voting privileges after you gain voting privileges?" but didn't find the post you linked me to.

@starball Yeah, search is meh sometimes. I just happen to know some keywords because we get that question a lot. :)

do you think it's worth posting what I searched for to add a signpost? Or is it not good enough to be a signpost?

huh TIL that voting to reopen your own questions isn't given by default and actually is earned at a rep threshold.

Its treated the way any other reopen vote is?

yeah, it's not uncommon to see users vote to reopen after they edited, or even just as a protest against having their question closed

(speculative, of course; I can't see who voted, but it's pretty clear in aggregate)

Don't forget some edits (and until recently by default) let you reopen

and yanno

You might think your edits are good enough

sometimes yes, sometimes clearly just cosmetic changes and clearly no understanding of the close reason

flag-pls spam returning spammer (MS) codereview.stackexchange.com/a/282698

probably same analogy to flag/vote to close, different rep requirement

whoa. wikipedia's CSS just glowed up.

and importantly

UNLIKE SE IT MAGNIFIES CORRECTLY

the sticky contents sidebar is actually a nice thing too

@starball huh? Where?

@tripleee f

No proof the author is affiliated with that site.

It's valid to link to external sites.

@αλεχολυτ what about it? How is this related to the chat message you replied to?

@ShadowWizardChasingStars wikipedia's stylesheets changed. "glowed up" is a slang I learned a while ago. I think it means "got prettier"

@rene huh! Feeling old now. :P

@ShadowWizardChasingStars they spammed Stack Overflow slightly earlier with a link to a blog article which was published today; to me, it's hard to imagine that they are not the owner of the site, which has a previous history of spamming using a different account which is now suspended

@starball ohh... I see it as the opposite, glowing text is huge "ewwww" for me.

It was a real thing once, on many crap sites.

Full with glowing, blinking, and moving text all over.

SE even used it themselves for one day, as April Fools (very bad) joke.

They thought people in the 90's liked it. They are wrong.

Anyway, let me see the changes...

@starball I don't see any changes at all. Probably it's A/B testing.

Wikipedia looks 100% the same as it always did for me.

@tripleee still can't see proof, but if you want it deleted you should write that as comment and ping the mod who already commented there.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars ah

@ShadowWizardChasingStars thanks, done

@tripleee nice, now we wait.

@JourneymanGeek heh, I don't have impressive streak of consecutive days because I don't always visit during weekends or holidays. But I'm consistent and visit in most other days. :P

There's a whole Q&A on MSE with people bragging with biggest consecutive streak.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars Is it the one suggesting more badges?

@starball huh, lol. No, let me find it...

Thought there were more answers, but still, that's "Show it off" thread. ;)

holy

Fun fact, Asaf Karagila and me had the same lecturer in University. :D

@ShadowWizardChasingStars I think my MSE break was my brother's wedding

the SU one was probably me forgetting to log in for some reason 0_0

@JourneymanGeek ohh, pity.

@JourneymanGeek wild party resulting in bad hangover? ;-)

naw

just busy

@JourneymanGeek watching TV?

I wonder what will happen when VonC streak will end. I see two options: either he'll retire from SO/SE, or a developer will intervene and fill the gap manually to make him stay.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars naw

@JourneymanGeek sleeping? :D

running around mostly

@JourneymanGeek chasing stars?

Maybe that will quicken backlog treatment... ;)

naw. Indian weddings involve a lot of errands :D

@JourneymanGeek ohh, thought that was before the wedding

@ShadowWizardChasingStars ah, you remembered it this time ;)

@JNat yes! Even broken memory is correct twice a year. :D

Exactly one month, 26 items in backlog, if my analysis isn't wrong.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars one part of comment is very relevant "it's like an addiction"

@ShadowWizardChasingStars 28 I think

at least I have 28 tabs open

@αλεχολυτ ohh, but different context, I meant addiction to post bugs, while being fully aware it's useless.

The addiction to visit is something stronger, yeah.

@JNat hmm so maybe two from Dec 19th which were posted after you finished handling the backlog.

perhaps

we will find out tomorrow

;P

:) :)

BTW, @Journeyman I'm still waiting to see a single bug fixed, been months since that happened.

In recent days they added completed tags for bugs that were fixed years ago, that doesn't count.

O/

Anyone else having trouble opening stackstatus.net?

Hmmm probably my phone automagically added https

https worked

so....

let's see what @ShadowWizardChasingStars will nitpick this time...

@SPArcheon hmm, well the neck is too thin for one. Head appears to be hastily glued on top of the neck. The left side of the face appear to have weird blush, though this might be just the lighting position. Apart of that, not bad. :)

@Luuklag and? All SE sites are https for long years, over are the days where adding it break the URL.

@Luuklag going yo stackstatus.net forwarded me to stackstatus.net

In stackstatus case it's something with the www, not https, it breaks it for some browsers.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars stackstatus isn't on the SE platform proper so can't take things for granted

@JourneymanGeek only really ancient or really shady sites don't have https these days.

With all the problems SE have, that's not one of them.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars as far as you know

MWAHAHAHAHA

But yes, that's not the issue

Well for me going to stackstatus.net doesn't work, it keep loading forever.

@Luuk same for you?

hm

Just add www and it will work. This can't be fixed on the server side, not technically possible.

so stackstatus.net redirects and https doth not?

quaint

It's some odd browser/internet thing, guess no person in the world knows why exactly, but it's a fact.

(maybe the one who invented the internet might know why we still need to add the silly "www" to any address.)

@JourneymanGeek no.

It's not related to https at all.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars short answer?

Its not the same domain name

and lets you use the same main domain for different services

@JourneymanGeek well, if you ask me it's plain silly, but yeah, probably the case.

At least all the links are fixed by now.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars for internal use I do a lot of (service).domainname stuff

@JourneymanGeek sure, internally feel free to go wild, but when it's out in the public, having two different sites just based on "www" isn't good idea IMO.

In this case it probably let them keep the tumblr site up in parallel, and would be fixable later

6-8?

@JourneymanGeek no. Aaron clearly said it's impossible to fix. Ever.

Which as a hobbyist sysadmin... confuses me

Well my boss back in amdocs got a request from management once: "send all the employees link to https://site name with spaces.com. Needless to say, he almost got heart attack on spot.

Same thing, it's something that can't be fixed.

microsoft.com is blacklisted, awesome.

While I'm the last to defend M$, doubt they hire spammers.

Wonder what will happen when someone will blacklist stackexchange.com on MS.

Thousands of fp's every day.

Custom flag then, yeah. Also might be used for adding actual spam link in the future, luckily Smokey should catch it.

oh wait you're mod there. lol

@ShadowWizardChasingStars no, the "customer service" part is pattern-matching. the domain is not blacklisted

@Mithical that's not how I read the message.

@Mithical no it's not spam.

Even David agree this time.

@DavidPostill :9400379 Also, that is spam; it's a forum post to a now-deleted post about outlook customer service

It links to a blog.

I doubt Microsoft sent spammer to advertise their blogs.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars No, it's a spammer used their forum to post spam and then linked to the forum post. The forum post 404s now.

flag-pls spam (subsequently) returning Korean casino spammer (MS) academia.stackexchange.com/a/192670

@tripleee gone already, someone here was really fast ;)

@ShadowWizardChasingStars no, it's just a really trigger happy rule which looks for URLs with "customer service"

@ShadowWizardChasingStars oh, hang on, my bad - I broke up the link I was visiting :P

hmm, it was up for about an hour ...

@Mithical still no idea what you mean, the link is to techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook-global-customer-service/… it's hosted on microsoft.com domain, written by M$ employee. Nothing 404.

Yeah, I was visiting a partial URL, my mistake

any new flaggers around for these? 1 (MS) 2 (MS) 3 (MS)

@Mithical Why do you think the link to techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook-global-customer-service/… is spam?

1 gone!

Partial link would indeed lead to 404 which makes it suspicious.

all gone now

thanks to all who played; save your receipts for the end-of-year raffle

:)

🚽

@Feeds more creepy fingers