You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...
@Exampleperson It shouldn't be too hard to write a SEDE query for, at least to find suchbpists on a single site. (But I don't know SEDE). It would be fairly similar to this: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/466/…
@ShadowWizard A couple of days ago you posted a link to a song by Dion & the Belmonts. FWIW, Dion DiMucci is still going strong. He even released 2 albums during the pandemic, although he hasn't toured or released anything in the last 12 months. Of course, he's no longer a teen heart-throb. :) He's now in his early 80s, and has a perfect grizzly blues singer voice.
@Tinkeringbell Do you like banana smoothies? If so, you might enjoy adding a small amount of avocado, especially if the bananas are a bit over-ripe for your taste.
@Exampleperson I think you're right. Now that you mention it, I'm sure I've seen that question mentioned as the all-time most popular SO question. It has 27102 up & 97 down votes.
> Initially the lead singer of the vocal group Dion and the Belmonts, Dion embarked on a solo career, and was one of the most prominent rock and roll performers of the pre-British Invasion era. He had 39 Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a solo performer, or with the Belmonts and the Del-Satins.
I was browsing Stack Overflow for tags of interest related questions and I noticed that there was no 'hot meta posts' section on the right side! I navigated to the corresponding meta and found the same.
Even here on Meta Stack Exchange, it doesn't show up.
Is this another move by SE management af...
@mousetail Not necessarily. I still hate that they removed the option to un-sticky the top bar. And it's really hard for me to see when I've voted on greyscale meta sites.
I browse almost exclusively using my Samsung phone's dark theme. Unfortunately, with these new buttons it's now almost impossible for me to see when I've voted on a greyscale meta site post. This is particularly problematic because it's very easy to accidentally vote when scrolling, and now I'm unlikely to notice such accidental votes. — PM 2RingJun 3 at 12:31
All I'm asking for is if a community elected moderator, or a staff member, is deleting it. I will not complain any further about it here. I just want to know.
@Andreasdetestscensorship No, you don't. You can do that in any Answer box. Just don't accidentally post the answer. Or if you prefer, use the Sandbox chatroom. chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1/sandbox
@Andreasdetestscensorship no, I did it. I'm sort-of striking too, but while that comment may improve the dumpster fire, it does not improve the question. You can upvote it instead, though I'm pretty sure you did as well :)
Evidence that it may be a bug: on Astronomy, the Blog post link got killed, but the Featured on Meta is still visible, with a pro-strike post shown: astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions
@Glorfindel While possibly true, trust is so broken at this moment, that this isn't likely to be trusted by a lot of people. They should be extra cautious about technical changes that can lead to these things, these days, especially when they did intentionally get rid of HMP last time something similar took place.
OTOH, it is highly suspicious that this bug just happened to manifest right now. I doubt it just happened spontaneously. I suspect someone was trying to do something to filter out strike-related posts from the Hot Meta, but they screwed it up.
We'll see ... bugs like these tend to get solved quite soon, with a decent explanation. Let's hope it'll be the same this time. If not, in ~6-8 days I might think about malice.
@SPArcheon but I can't imagine an authority that would have prevented all the four scenarios from happening, or even one that would be expected to intervene in all four.
They weren't caused by the same people either, but I get that you're saying there's precedence for negligence
@PM2Ring why would anyone do that. I mean, if you're gonna generate heaps of stuff to read about a subject, there's already textbooks and documentation and what-not
I wanted to ask a question about this but didn't know a way to do it. Say you set a bounty on a question. there are 4 answers and you don't choose any of them. since the rep has already been taken from your account does it get put back if you don't choose anyone at the end of the bountry experiation date ?
im gonna look at the faq again
If, after the end of the bounty period, a question has no answers, the bounty will expire and the reputation will disappear.
@BigJoe But if there is an answer (with a positive score) and you haven't chosen an answer manually, the bounty will go to the top answer automatically.
(Actually, it has to be an answer that was posted after the bounty was started.) Details on this page: <https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work>
I reported meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389879/… 6 hours ago that was a bug. it was answered once but hasn't had a hard look or answer yet to fix it. Does it take time? I would really like to read specific answers in a post witout scrolling all the way
@BigJoe Yes, it certainly takes time for bugs to get fixed. Often it will take weeks for a bug to be properly acknowledged, let alone fixed. There is a large backlog of bugs. If you haven't gotten your bug addressed in a week or so, I suggest updating your post with more details.