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animuson

12:00 AM

I should go pee now then, I guess...

Five... four...

New UTC day!

confetti

Lights... camera... action!

Nothing yet...

Doorknob of Snow

yaaaaay!

Undo

12:01 AM

No animuson in the list :P

Doorknob of Snow

Happy New ~~Year~~ UTC!

Undo

What the heck, I might as well go review some.

hichris123

@Undo Me wantz! Fkey? :P

Undo

hehe

You would need my cookies too

Ugh, the queue is really slow.

Flyk

@hichris123 if I had no cap, and there were 1000 things to review, this is the sort of thing I would do

hichris123

12:02 AM

♪ If only I could close vote. ♪

Doorknob of Snow

I'm in the list :P

in fact, I'm at the top!

stackoverflow.com/review/close/stats

hichris123

@Flyk I'd do that too. :P

Michael Petrotta

Sorry, @DoorknobofSnow, #3.

hichris123

Animuson... 1 reviewed.

Undo

I'm above animuson!

Michael Petrotta

12:03 AM

(from the start of UTC0)

Flyk

I did 100 edits in a day to get mortarboard on AU

Doorknob of Snow

@MichaelPetrotta ? I see myself at the top

Flyk

didn't even take all that long

Undo

He'll probably be reviewing along and hit about 50 then discover a sock puppet gang in one of the posts and follow that down a hole.

hichris123

Me is going to answer questions now since I can't partake in this party. :P

Doorknob of Snow

12:04 AM

Top Reviewers today:

Doorknob of Snow
9

Undo
4

Adi Inbar
3

Josh Mein
2

animuson♦
1

Undo

;(

Michael Petrotta

Time to set the record for fastest time burning through your CV queue votes, @DoorknobofSnow.

Undo

animuson: 3

yay!

hichris123

Animuson... 4.

@Undo You better review... he's coming after you! :P

animuson

Are you guys going to post a new message for every single review I do? Because I think 1,000 "animuson... x" messages would look rather odd.

Doorknob of Snow

12:06 AM

I'm up to 17 :P

Undo

@hichris123 He'll just do 41 and taunt me with it :P

@animuson Yes. We'll make Manish write a chatbot to do it.

hichris123

@animuson Chatbot time!

Doorknob of Snow

hint: filter "primarily opinion based" :P

Undo

I want manish to make me a button in the close queue for one-click agreement with the vote.

hichris123

@Undo He passed you.

Doorknob of Snow

12:08 AM

Top Reviewers today:

Doorknob of Snow
23

animuson♦
5

Undo
4

Adi Inbar
3

Josh Mein
2

Michael Petrotta

Shog9's joining in the fun.

hichris123

The great close vote party of 2014!

Undo

@hichris123 He was going to anyway :P

Doorknob of Snow

Doorknob of Snow
32
animuson♦
9
Undo
4
Adi Inbar
3
Shog9♦
2
Josh Mein
2

Undo

I'd like to see all the SO mods and all the CMs all do a fifteen-minute spree through the queue :D

hichris123

12:11 AM

Anyone have any good bountied questions for me? ;)

@Undo Would be fun. :P

Doorknob of Snow

I hit the max :P

new record for using all 40 reviews: 11:56

Undo

Remember that every animuson/Shog review is worth up to five times as much as a review from a mere mortal

Doorknob of Snow

Doorknob of Snow 40
animuson♦ 13
Shog9♦ 4
Undo 4
Cory Petosky 3
Adi Inbar 3
Josh Mein 2
Michael Petrotta 1

@Undo :( I'm not in the lead, then

hichris123

You know I'm data logging this to see if it actually makes an impact? :P

Undo

hehe

It will

Doorknob of Snow

12:14 AM

tomorrow I'm going to try to set a new 40-reviews record :P but failing an audit disqualifies it!

suprisingly I only saw 1 audit this whole 40 reviews

Flyk

really, you get 40 per day on SO?

Ryan Carlson

@Flyk That isn't normal?

hichris123

@Flyk Yeah, the queue's so large you get 40.

Flyk

review queues are normally 20/day on all other sites

animuson

:o Shog stole one of my reviews!

Undo

12:17 AM

IIRC you get 40 on any queue with over 50 items.

Flyk

oh so it's a queue size thing rather than a setting

interesting, TIL

hichris123

100
reviews today

Flyk

I wish we had busy review queues on Arqade

animuson

70

A: The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide

Rate Limit Rationale Comments Voting 5 seconds 5 comment flags/day 30 comment upvotes/day no limit for ♦ mods timer resets Deleting (treated like voting) 5 seconds no limit for ♦ mods timer resets Creating 15 seconds 5 seconds for ♦ mods timer resets Editing 5 seconds; comme...

Flyk

I mean, I'm the most active on them, but I have to go to other sites to get my reviewing fix

Undo

12:19 AM

@Flyk It's 100 or more.

@animuson What are you doing posting oneboxes in chat? There's still things in that queue...

Michael Petrotta

Look at all those pretty diamonds in stackoverflow.com/review/close/history

Flyk

@animuson only one of those thresholds I hit frequently are 20 reviews/day and chat throttling

and the highest I've ever had chat throttling is 19 seconds

animuson

Bad Shog! Stop stealing my reviews. >:(

Flyk

@animuson solution: review quicker

hichris123

2580 repz... anyone have 400 rep to give me?

Flyk

12:25 AM

I don't, actually, I have ~150 rep on SO

Shog9

@animuson funny, that's not supposed to happen... Are you filtering by OT?

animuson

@Shog9 Yes.

Shog9

'k, that's it then

I'll filter to winapi

hichris123

> PS: Because of StackOverFlow; I'm Learning :) Thanks.

Okay then...

Undo

Good...

Uhmm... that's [status-bydesign]

Doorknob of Snow

12:27 AM

status-thats-the-whole-point

hichris123

I want more [status-tag-parsing]! feature-request

The queue dropped almost 40 questions within 5 minutes...

Doorknob of Snow

lol

animuson

The review audit message still scares me every time.

hichris123

@animuson But you can't be review suspended...

Undo

@hichris123 Actually he can

But he just goes and removes the suspension.

hichris123

12:32 AM

He could just unsuspend himself...

So really it doesn't count.

animuson

No I mean just the event of it popping up is frightening. Like "ahhh what did I do??"

Even when it's a pass.

It still feels like you broke something.

Doorknob of Snow

I get that too :P

it's so... unnatural

Michael Petrotta

I don't even see the message on suggested edit audits.
It's so obvious when you're getting one.
I sort of see it out of the corner of my eye as I click "Next".

Flyk

12:45 AM

I haven't seen an audit in months

5

Michael Petrotta

Oh, please delete that, @Flyk.

Undo

No.

Please don't :P

Flyk

I'm receiving conflicting instructions

Undo

sudo forbid deletion

Flyk

and now the moment has passed

that picture made me laugh quite a bit

Undo

12:50 AM

I love it.

Flyk

"right, yep, let's sort this mess out"

Michael Petrotta

The first hundred times.

Flyk

"no... NO... NO" tries to escape

"Now none of it works..." :*(

Undo

is making a timelapse of the snow building up outside his house

Flyk

that should be interesting

we've just got lots of wind

lots of wind.

Michael Petrotta

12:52 AM

Thought I'd be slick and drive into the office today.
Turns out something else was slick too.

Flyk

did you actually drive into the office?

Michael Petrotta

Yep. Nobody else was there.

On the upside, I got a chance to feel what the antilock brakes in my newish car feel like.

Undo

But apparently they didn't work well enough to keep you from driving into the office.

Michael Petrotta

Nope :)

Undo

@Flyk I think @MichaelPetrotta still doesn't get it :P

Michael Petrotta

12:55 AM

Oh. Clever.

animuson

He has a really big office.

Michael Petrotta

Beautiful ceiling art.

hichris123

You guys are making a dent in the CV queue: hichris.erwaysoftware.com/closegraph.php

Doorknob of Snow

logo.svg
newlogo.svg
newnewlogo.svg

I'm so creative with file names :D

Michael Petrotta

@hichris123: that's depressing.

animuson

1:00 AM

@DoorknobofSnow At least you'll know what they are...

I have a habit of naming files random things that make no sense, like "zebra"...

Then later on I think "wtf was this?"

hichris123

@MichaelPetrotta Yeah... :( I so want to be at 3k so I just don't report the news; I actually do something about it. :P

@animuson What file did I put my server password in? Oh, yeah, it was named zebra. Dumb me.

animuson

I once named a file that was used for calculating a leaderboard as "cogen" - still never figured out how I came up with that name.

Doorknob of Snow

@animuson "calculation ofleaderboard generator"? :P

(ofleaderboard is obviously one word)

animuson

We should get a bunch of moderators to all review at least 41 items today so no regular users appear in the stats. :P

Undo

ha!

You would get called so many names on meta...

hichris123

1:06 AM

@animuson Do you have that many diamonds (excluding SE employees)?

animuson

Imagine the names we'd get called if we all reviewed exactly 41.

hichris123

@animuson Shog passed you up... :P

animuson

@hichris123 There are 16 moderators on SO...

Undo

@hichris123 No, there are only 16.

Michael Petrotta

It'd be worth it, for the 656 items removed from the queue.

Undo

1:08 AM

But then you only need four CMs

hichris123

20 slots, right?

animuson

There's only 15 slots in the stats.

+You on top of the list

Undo

@animuson Really? Huh. So you could do it :D

Michael Petrotta

16.
pedantry++.

animuson

Or maybe that's just not enough reviewers to fill the list yet

hichris123

1:21 AM

^ Graph of CV data from midnight UTC, FYI.

Undo

ooooh

hichris123

I love having data and Excel. :P

Undo

hehe

hichris123

What do you think would happen if I asked Jon Skeet for a bounty? :P

Undo

@hichris123 Hmmm... you'd have to track him down first.

hichris123

1:29 AM

Well, at least I'm getting way closer than I was before... I've earned ~300 rep between Wednesday and now.

animuson

The answer I posted today only got 1 upvote. ): It's clearly the best answer on the question.

hichris123

@animuson sympathy upvotes :P

Undo

@animuson Yay rchern smilies!

(:

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/21640684/…

Undo

boom

hichris123

1:32 AM

22 seconds.

Top Reviewers today:
Shog9♦ 136
animuson♦ 122

Wow.

Flyk

do you really have 100k items with close votes pending?

hichris123

@Flyk More, 116.9K ish.

Flyk

you should bounty me up to 3k rep so I can join in :P

hichris123

No, bounty me.

:P

Flyk

no bounty me

pick me pick me

hichris123

1:38 AM

But... I'm so close!

Dec 17 '13 at 2:57, by hichris123

I feel like I'm not contributing, as I have 1.2K rep, so can't review CV.

^ I beat you by about 2 months @Flyk. :P

Undo

heh

Flyk

I asked a question on SO

It's well on its way to tumbleweed

hichris123

@Flyk What is it?

Undo

I should do something to it to deprive you of your badge.

Flyk

don't ruin it, I want tumbleweed

hichris123

1:40 AM

Me is too lazy to look...

Flyk

you asshat

sets fire to @Undo

my experience with SO is that all of my questions get ignored

OR

I have an army of people ask comments containing questions

hichris123

SQL-Server... ug. :P

Flyk

that were already covered clearly in the post

hichris123

I like MySQL much better.

Undo

@Flyk Ow. That hurts!

Flyk

1:43 AM

@Undo fire tends to

Undo

jumps in swimming pool Ah that's better.

animuson

No skinny dipping!

Flyk

my fire is water proof

it even burns when there is no atmosphere present

Undo

Aaack thermite!

Aaack, this art history book I have to read decided to put a diamond after every important person's name. So confusing :P

Doorknob of Snow

@Undo EVERYONE IS A MOD

Undo

1:50 AM

@DoorknobofSnow Yeah, every time I see someone's name with a diamond I think, "huh, that's weird. Where are they a mod?" Then I remember I'm reading a book :P

Doorknob of Snow

@Undo You must be so confused when playing cards :P

Undo

No, those diamonds are red.

Only SciFi has red diamonds.

And I don't hang out on SciFi :P

Shog9

2:03 AM

[winapi] is GONE!

(...from the close queue)

animuson

:o

Flyk

somebody just upvoted me on SO

Shog9

whelp, my corner of SO is clean. Time for some mac'n'cheese

Flyk

the world is about to end

animuson

Ewwww mac n cheese vomits

Flyk

2:05 AM

what's wrong with mac n cheese?

KD4lyfe

Shog9

not just any mac'n'cheese

DAY-GLO KRAFT DINNER mac'n'cheese

animuson

I think I've had mac n cheese maybe like five times in my life, and only because it was a school lunch and I was forced to eat it.

Shog9

gotta eat it with fresh-ground pepper & sriracha

hichris123

You two have had fun today. :P

animuson

Why is there no meta post complaining about our shenanigans yet? ):<

hichris123

2:16 AM

@animuson Because it actually helped. Wasn't there one that complained about mods being able to be above all users on the standings?

Shog9

let's face it: most of the posts I closed were 6 months to 2 years old. No one's looking at 'em.

Now, if we'd thought to leave a delete button in the close queue...

hichris123

@Shog9 That's your job: create a thingy for CM's that batch deletes posts (just put in the id's). :P

Shog9

I already have one of those: it's called a for loop

hichris123

Then use it?

Shog9

meh; 9 days and a good many will go away automatically.

hichris123

2:20 AM

Must get rep so I can join in your fun parties! :P

Flyk

night all

20 mins ago, by Flyk

KD4lyfe

KD is the best

I have to import it though

which sucks to be me

you know you're weird when you import kraft dinners across the atlantic

Undo

2:37 AM

@animuson @Shog9 You guys are awesome :D

animuson

Fourth of the way there in under three hours. :D Food time!

Doorknob of Snow

forces mac n cheese into @animuson's mouth

animuson

I have nachos. :P

doppelgreener

I made a bug report yesterday, and it's currently sitting at +2/-2. I'm not sure exactly why it's being downvoted. (Or, specifically, I'm not sure why I received the second downvote after I did my first edit.) Is my bug report unclear or something?

I don't appear to be getting any responses from the downvoters themselves on how I could improve it (or if it needs improvement), so I figured I'd ask here.

Shog9

@JonathanHobbs needs screenshots + hand-drawn circles

Please refer to the bug tag wiki

doppelgreener

2:56 AM

@Shog9 Ta. :)

animuson

3:21 AM

@Shog9 I really wish the Close Votes queue differentiated the custom off-topic reasons. Especially for the typo reason - that's not usually immediately obvious since answers are not shown in review. Seeing that someone used the typo reason would spawn more investigation to determine if it's valid. Just seeing "off-topic" doesn't.

hichris123

animuson♦ 273

@animuson Great job! :P

@Undo Thanks for Sublime! :D

Doorknob of Snow

@Undo ^ I'm using it right now, in fact :D for designing my new site

animuson

I couldn't figure out how to install a plugin. Though I put in a rather minimal effort into figuring it out.

hichris123

@animuson If you do 1000 close reviews today (UTC time)... I'll give you a cookie.

2

animuson

A gluten-free cookie?

hichris123

3:29 AM

Sure.

Doorknob of Snow

okay, this next part might be a bit awkward

"hey dad, you're going to have to enter your credit card information into this web hosting site you've never heard of. ok? :D"

hichris123

@Doorknob Which domain name did you go with?

Doorknob of Snow

@hichris123 it's a sekrit :P

for now

(not in a few minutes)

I've finished the logo, too

hichris123

@DoorknobofSnow Cause we'd buy it?

Doorknob of Snow

@hichris123 Lol, no, just for suspense

Doorknob of Snow

3:47 AM

okay, so my dad is now getting his credit card

...I can just imagine someone buying all the domains now :P

animuson

My parents gave me a credit card for their account with my name on it.

Undo

buys all the domains

animuson

300! ^_^

Undo

offers to sell one to Doorknob for $50

hichris123

animuson♦ 303

@Undo ^

> @*|SCREEN|*, take your business to the next level by driving more website traffic and sales 140 characters at a time.

Twitter, my name isn't @*|SCREEN|*, thank you very much.

Doorknob of Snow

4:00 AM

okay, yay, got website! waiting for it to appear...

ipage y u so slow -_-

keyboardfire.com

yay!

michaelb958

4:18 AM

Doorknob of Snow

@michaelb958 yes I know :P

okay I'm going to sleep now; I will do stuffs in the morning

michaelb958

I want my rep back.

hichris123

4:30 AM

What rep?

michaelb958

As in "I want my money back" s/money/rep/.

hichris123

Oh, imaginary rep. Gotcha.

Dennis Meng

4:43 AM

vote count: 374 up, 375 down :(

michaelb958

Oh, your Stack Overflow profile @DennisMeng. I was thinking "one controversial post you've got there".

Shog9

4:56 AM

@animuson This could use some polish, but...

/ ==UserScript==
// @name ShowReviewOT
// @version 1.0
// @include http://stackoverflow.com/review/close*
// ==/UserScript==

function with_jquery(f) {
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.type = "text/javascript";
script.textContent = "(" + f.toString() + ")(jQuery)";
document.body.appendChild(script);
};

with_jquery(function ($) {

$(document).ajaxSuccess(function(event, XMLHttpRequest, ajaxOptions)
{
if ( ajaxOptions.url == "/review/next-task" || ajaxOptions.url == "/review/task-reviewed" )

animuson

@Shog9 I actually found out that if you click the "(more)" link to expand the instructions, it includes all the close reasons on the post with their descriptions, including the custom off-topic reasons. So I added the custom style .review-more-instructions ul { display: none } to hide the annoying button instructions so it doesn't take up so much space.

Shog9

ha! That works too

animuson

Also, when you pass a review audit, it automatically hides that expanded information when you move on to the next item. ):

Or, maybe more accurate, forgets that you had it expanded.

animuson

5:27 AM

That couldn't get any more obvious: stackoverflow.com/review/close/4007073

This is MY page!

Dennis Meng

6:35 AM

@michaelb958 Yep. Flipping through the VTC queue 80% of my SO time makes me sad

Though 15% I guess is spent here whining; I could cut that out.

animuson

6:45 AM

I'm up to 500 today. (:

Dennis Meng

500 what?

500 whines sounds terrible

animuson

stackoverflow.com/review/close/stats

Dennis Meng

ah

huh. i've only done 9

i should fix that

i'll try not to weep during the next 31 reviews

animuson

You should do 500...

Dennis Meng

hey, if someone made me a diamond mod right now, i'd do a little more than just that

animuson

6:49 AM

I'm going to bed. I'll work up to 1,000 tomorrow.

Dennis Meng

7:02 AM

the review audits that add language tags sometimes make it hilariously obvious

i just got one that had "c" and "scala" tags together

and had a "java' and "haskell" one a while back

Jan Dvorak

8:13 AM

is this a valid edit? It seems to me to introduce spam, but it was unanimously approved.

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4007592

michaelb958

It does improve the post, but ...y'know... example.com.

Jan Dvorak

I dispute the rewording is an actual improvement; and the site he links to does exist

I have considered a partial rollback of only the URL, but it seemed not an improvement enough for that.

This one is definitely too minor, right?:

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4007638

michaelb958

8:35 AM

I concur. Way too minor for that post.

Manishearth

8:52 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: QUESTION IN LINEAR ALGEBRA 2

rene

9:39 AM

@animuson That is some achievement (and that goes for @Shog9 as well). Still no 6003 reviews but you're getting there :-)

Manishearth

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MYSQL QUERY FOR COMPLEX TABLE STRUCTURE

rene

@JanDvorak I don't want to hammer a new user immediately

Jan Dvorak

being nice != not voting

rene

I don't consider my self to be nice for that user

Jan Dvorak

I don't think this question will be improved enough, and if it does, I may revert my vote.

rene

9:46 AM

Oh, I said please

I agree on that

Let's see if the OP is around...

Probably gone the other internetz to vampire...

Hmm, oracle... I'm out...

Jan Dvorak

Uhh... your attempt does not match the schema create table ??? (ID1 ???, ID2 ???, ID3 ???) (as inferred from what you've written) at all. What is your database structure, and what do ID1..ID3 refer to? Also, please don't shout. All-caps is rude and hard to read. — Jan Dvorak 1 min ago

rene

Maybe I should downvote

Jan Dvorak

Time to vote to close as unclear, if I hadn't already.

I've considered editing, but 1) I still have no idea what's his table structure, and 2) I'm afraid of an edit clash. OP is quite active

was

rene

Yeah, I left a final comment, needs one more vote

plz guide me ..janDVorak — user248816 1 min ago

Jan Dvorak

10:04 AM

@rene yeah... I'm trying to :-)

I understand learning a foreign language can be hard (even if it's english), but please use a spell checker when posting in a language you don't know - it helps catching mistakes like "retive" and even identifying text-speak. Most text editors have one, and even a good web browser can do that. — Jan Dvorak 1 min ago

@rene opinion? ^

rene

That is good advice. That is also stated in the help center. I tend to believe that some users simply don't grasp the guidance that is available.

Jan Dvorak

that's why we have the ban-hammer

rene

I have the query from that question in Sublime reformatted now

Jan Dvorak

and downvotes and closevotes are the food for the banhammer.

OK... I don't think we'll see any other development on that question

rene

That is true

rene

10:33 AM

@JanDvorak I've edit that question...

I couldn't resist

Richard Tingle

11:34 AM

-11

Q: Flag questions where OP says they solved it themselves in comments

I have seen a lot of questions ending up with the OP writing a comment like fixed! solved it by doing x or y forget it found it out myself ..And so on. I have a phrase to this, when I meet it: "You could answer your own question and accept it, maybe helping other people with similar problems...

If this guy didn't have such high SO rep I would think he was just trolling

rene

Yeah I noticed...

Looks like a major miscommunication between all parties

Laszlo Papp

-1

A: Complexity of the function to calculate gcd of two numbers

looks like home work where is your work?

-1

A: Turbo C++: Why does printf print expected values, when no variables are passed to it?

please what is wrong with this statement in turbo c++ printf("press any key to end the program"); i tried running a program in turbo c++ and this was the only error it read.