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Cole Johnson

19:08

downvote-plz stackoverflow.com/a/10368712/1350209

TGMCians

wut

Cole Johnson

It's an incorrect answer with four upvotes.

Jan Dvorak

I lack the expertise to confirm that, sorry

TGMCians

^

rene

Take my word for it, it is wrong

Undo

19:14

hey @balpha, while you're here, would you be so kind as to give chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/266345/smokedetector write access here?

hichris123

@Undo With that number of bans on chat.SE? ;P

TGMCians

@rene ok, Cole done.

Undo

@hichris123 heh :D

Cole Johnson

You can read the question. The accepted answer is correct. There needs to be a cast, but minitech didn't realize that. Over a year later, his answer still stands sadly

balpha

@Undo why?

Braiam

19:15

@ColeJohnson blames shiny diamond/reputation

Undo

Because it's the spam-catching websocket bot that a few folks in here seem to want, @balpha.

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/11540/charcoal-hq

^ Its main haunt.

Cole Johnson

I like it

Is this comment too rude?

Braiam

possible duplicate of What will happen if I overstay in Thailand with an expired passport but get a new passport months later? Also not quite sure what exactly your question is. Could you structure your question better, so that we can understand what exactly your question is? — drat 27 mins ago

you are not sure what the question is, yet decides to flag it as duplicated, great!

Jamal

kill-with-fire-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24918943/…

Jan Dvorak

@Undo can't you grind it to 20 rep?

Undo

19:19

@JanDvorak well I could, but it's easier to just ask someone :P

hichris123

-4

A: Relational Algebra Queries questions

So, did your instructor ask the class to just post your homework straight to the coding forums??

lol

TGMCians

haha

I was about to paste that @hichris123

Jamal

@hichris123 And someone upvoted it...

Jan Dvorak

@hichris123 crap attracts crap

10

TGMCians

gone

Jan Dvorak

19:20

answer is, that is

balpha

@Undo so it's just a replacement for chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/251018/manishbot?tab=recent ?

Undo

@balpha Yeah, a more reliable replacement.

Manish's is dead.

Jan Dvorak

it's its spiritual successor

SmokeDetector

YAY hi folks.

TGMCians

hi @SmokeDetector ! welcome

balpha

19:21

Jan Dvorak

Thank you

Undo

Thanks!

Jan Dvorak

G2G now. food + airplane

Braiam

@JanDvorak wow! you eat an airplane O_O

hichris123

We will be taking the #stackexchange Data Explorer offline for upgrades in about 15 minutes. ETA is 2-3 hours for completion.

Tweeted by StackStatus on July 23, 2014 at 7:14 PM

Go do your SEDE queries now!

SmokeDetector

19:24

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started (@Undo)

Undo

Yay!

rene

@JanDvorak Take a safe flightpath...

Undo

@ProgramFOX done.

hichris123

burn-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24919169/…

Cole Johnson

If you don't like SmokeDetector, can't you just mute him? So why are people complaining?

rene

19:26

@hichris123 I guess the new disks are being delivered...

Undo

@ColeJohnson You can, sure.

And there are a few trusted people that can kill it from Charcoal HQ.

hichris123

@rene yup. stackstatus.net/post/92575084134/…

@Undo I'm usually in here, so ping me or ping Undo.

Cole Johnson

@hichris123 how do you get those comments to show up in the nice box?

hichris123

@ColeJohnson Oh, that, I use tag formatting. [tag:stuff] = stuff.

rene

@hichris123 That means I can mark this as answered in 2-3 hours...

Braiam

19:28

> we don’t advise using these Samsung consumer drives for SQL Server workloads (they don’t handle things like power failure well).

hichris123

I'm burning the app tag on SO! :D

Cole Johnson

@hichris123 no, I know about tag formatting. I mean comments.

hichris123

@ColeJohnson ... uh... not sure what you're asking about.

@Undo closeable? stackoverflow.com/questions/24918463/…

rene

@Braiam Power failure? When should that happen in a datacenter....

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Cole Johnson

@hichris123 chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2223129#2223129

SmokeDetector

19:30

@hichris123 Why?

hichris123

@SmokeDetector lol. wrong account.

Undo

gah, this having two windows open with different mes :P

hichris123

I was thinking maybe dupe?

@ColeJohnson Do you mean the onebox? Or do you mean the actual comment on the post?

Undo

@hichris123 I... can't find one.

There has to be one, but I'm not seeing it.

Cole Johnson

@hichris123 the onebox

hichris123

19:32

@ColeJohnson Just paste the link to a post on a line of its own.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24918463/ios-closing-an-other-app-through-a-‌button

=

-5

Q: Close another iOS app through a button

I made an app. Now I want to close an other app (not mine) - do anybody here how that will work? The app will not be submitted to the App Store - I am not concerned with using approved/documented methods.

ios

Okay, [app] is successfully burned. Now to keep it dead for a few more hours.

burn-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24919382/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24803182/…

Cole Johnson

Done

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/20637273/2581872

TGMCians

19:51

voted..

hichris123

20:09

Blog - Stack Exchange: Please welcome jmac, Community Manager of the Rising Sun

Shog9 on July 23, 2014

As Stack Exchange continues to expand to serve new audiences, we’re constantly on the lookout for folks who can take the principles and practices we all hold dear and communicate them effectively to the folks who would otherwise find them strange and difficult. I’m happy to announce we’ve found another of these rare specimens in the form of Joshua Maciel:

Josh joins us remotely from beautiful Kansai Japan, where youthful ignorance brought him for a two-year stay (maximum!) to teach English. Eleven years later he still hasn’t left, having found gainful employment doing internat …

user163250

20:20

Um, jmac is not Japanese.

user163250

I've been deceived.

user163250

@JanDvorak it's the Law of Craptraction.

user163250

I thought the community bulletin was supposed to display the right icon for things not on Meta?

user163250

bjb568

20:53

Weird... review is borked and imgur doesn't respond.

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

@Lamak - how does this sound?

Lamak

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells like a chirpy sound?

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

@Lamak Yes.

Lamak

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells I prefer the "fart" one

swasheck

@Lamak HIT ME!

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

20:55

@swasheck Thwack

hichris123

@bjb568 So it's not just me.

swasheck

thhhppppptttt

@Lamak I prefer the fart, too

Lamak

@swasheck I got delayed searching for a correct onomatopeia

swasheck

out

Jacob

Can someone @ me so I can hear the notification please?

Anna Lear

21:04

@Jacob ping

Jacob

@AnnaLear Thanks.

That totally needs to be universe wide.

It really should be an ISO standard.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: E51A818 = 1N5818? on electronics.stackexchange.com

bjb568

And SE's up!

Jamal

No, do not "bump" a question like that. Just be patient. — Jamal 15 secs ago

I believe this is the second time this same user has done this. ugh

Anna Lear

21:29

Eh, that's what answer blocks are for. He'll get there if he keeps it up. ;)

bjb568

Stack.imgur is up!

hichris123

yay!

bjb568

WTH happened to my flags?! Declined NAA, Declined VLQ, Declined VLQ.

>:(

Stijn

@bjb568 first one is an answer, it suggests to use some class and links to said class's documentation. Whether or not it's a good answer is another thing.

@bjb568 The VLQ flag says "This question is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed. " but those questions don't fit that criteria at first sight.

bjb568

@Stijn "You could use StringBuffers reverse" How is this better than "you can use jQuery"?

@Stijn They're crap and should be immediately deleted.

Stijn

21:44

@bjb568 NAA is not meant for crap answers. They should be downvoted instead.

bjb568

@Stijn So "use jQuery" is an answer?

Stijn

@bjb568 There's a difference between "you can use library X" and "you can use method X of class Y".

bjb568

@Stijn There are other answers that say the same thing with more detail posted before. Is that enough?

Stijn

The ones with a code example are better answers indeed.

bjb568

Isn't it possible that NAA was copied from those?

Stijn

21:48

Still, that only means you may downvote that answer because you think it's not a good one. NAA really is for "this does not attempt to answer the question at all". It took me a little while to get it right when flagging.

Anna Lear

Your time can be better spent than trying to guess and assume malice. Downvote and move on.

There is so much crap on SO that truly and uncontroversially needs to be cleaned up. I suggest going after that instead.

Stijn

Something I just did made me do some self reflection. I downvote answers to questions that are obviously off-topic because I think it encourages more of those questions. Am I then a hypocrite for commenting on obviously off-topic questions to try and still help the user? I think I am.

ThiefMaster

22:06

@Stijn I'm also too nice in the same way ;)

I would iterate over positive numbers starting with 2 and multiply each number with ((i % 2) != 0 ? -1 : 1). Since you want to stop once you reached a certain number and increment the number in each iteration, it should be obvious which type of loop you want. You should be able to implement that without trouble if you have some basic programming knowledge. — ThiefMaster ♦ 5 mins ago

(as a comment on a piss-poor "do my homework" question that's at -9 right now and will probably be deleted in a few minutes)

user163250

22:35

This is a pretty good answer:

user163250

20

A: Should downvotes lower rep more than just -2?

Maybe. I neither accept or reject your proposal, but I would like to point out that it does not really matter. The vast majority of bad questions are from people which do not really care about reputation points, most likely also because they are not familiar with the concept on the site. They si...

user163250

This is a pretty reasonable answer to:

user163250

9

A: Should downvotes lower rep more than just -2?

How much rep you'll lose for asking a bad question has much more to do with how many SO-users will look at the question rather the amount you lose for a single vote. Do not make the mistake of assuming that this is where it ends, your question is now permanently recorded and will not be automati...

user163250

Oh boy, just be glad it wasn't another separate feature request: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266513/456814

bjb568

-3

A: Should downvotes lower rep more than just -2?

Downvote system currently is not working as intended and should be removed. Why? Look here: Downvote system change proposal

^ NAA'd

user163250

22:45

@bjb568 I was just about to flag that one too.

Braiam

@bjb568 maybe you want to weight in here meta.stackoverflow.com/q/266609/792066

user163250

@animuson do you have a cloak of invisibility or something? Why is it that you usually respond to things in chat so promptly, yet we can never see you?

animuson

Ninja Kitty!

user163250

I guess so :P

user163250

animuson

22:47

Oh crap I probably just pinged Martijn...

user163250

Who can pretend that they're not here the longest? Go.

animuson

When I really don't want to be seen, I visit the chat transcript and refresh it occasionally to see what's going on.

user163250

Oh, and how do you know he hasn't always been here all along? hmm?

hichris123

@Cupcake hides

See, I'm not here at all!

user163250

@Braiam that is very funny...except I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about.

user163250

22:52

Is this supposed to be about dupe hammers?

Braiam

@Cupcake nope, answer quality

user163250

...

user163250

You should probably go make that clearer.

user163250

+unicorn for creativity though.

Stijn

perhaps replace sledgehammer with fizzwidget

user163250

22:53

Or cannon.

user163250

Cannons as fly swatters.

bjb568

@Cupcake Did you try reading it?

user163250

@bjb568 yes, I did.

user163250

It was full of unicorns.

user163250

Braiam

22:56

user163250

That's the horse that animuson rides in on.

user163250

Guns blazing.

user163250

Someone should photoshop his kitty head in.

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24922385/…

Braiam

@Cupcake added a summary in the bottom

hichris123

22:59

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/24903757/…

Braiam

@bjb568 only 20kers can vtd answers, not 10kers

bjb568

@Braiam Bah, even more annoying.

hichris123

Hmm... do you guys think I can make it to 4k today?

(50 rep)

Hmm... I'll attempt to answer a question.

Stijn

is that subtle begging for upvotes? ;)

hichris123

@Stijn No.

Please no.

I want to do it by myself. ;)

Stijn

23:02

I didn't plan to, don't worry :)

I might try the same, 70ish more rep for 6k

hichris123

i.e. if I get an upvote... ALL OF YOUR HEADS ARE TAKEN OFF!

3

user163250

Um, can someone explain to me what's up with this?:

hichris123

@Stijn Hmm. Seems doable.

user163250

Braiam

@Cupcake caching...

user163250

23:03

Oh...

user163250

Are you sure?

user163250

That seems really weird that those last 3 upvotes wouldn't give me any rep.

user163250

I've never seen that happen on a non-wiki answer before, and I'm 7 rep away from the daily cap.

bjb568

►

hichris123

@jonsca but others aren't happy about it :) — Shadow Wizard Jul 18 at 23:20

Uhm... nevermind. Timestamps... make me confused. ;P

bjb568

23:14

Time is stupid. We base it on a dirtball.

Braiam

@SysDragon We launched Portuguese Stack Overflow in January, and have been watching and learning. We'll begin work on Stack Overflow in a different language soon. — Laura ♦ Apr 29 at 13:57

user163250

Um, seriously, the reputation thing is bugging me.

user163250

Something must be wrong with the caching in the last couple of hours.

user163250

I get the upvotes, but none of the rep that usually come with them.

bjb568

23:23

@Cupcake Worst case: wait for a recalc.

Stijn

@hichris123 I'm still trying to find a question that interests me. No luck so far.

animuson

@Cupcake When I view your history it shows you as having earned 199 today.

bjb568

@Stijn Try these.

user163250

@animuson I still see just 193. Weird. I've noticed a little delay with chat too.

bjb568

What's room 1?

hichris123

23:31

@bjb568 Probably an employee room.

user163250

I heard it's the secret VIP room for people with 2 million rep.

Stijn

I wonder what'll happen if I request access

> You have requested access to this room; please be patient while the room owners process your request.

user163250

Did you seriously just request access?

bjb568

I just did.

Stijn

yes

curiosity

user163250

23:33

...killed the cat?

user163250

Watch out for men in black showing up at your door to "ask you some questions".

user163250

hichris123

Here, ah, just join Earth Science, and we'll ~~ban you for a year~~ fix things up for you.

bjb568

@hichris123 Employees don't spam!

hichris123

@bjb568 ... how do you know that?

Maybe Tim Post is the head of the baba ji spam ring!

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user163250

23:40

@hichris123 Tim Post is a double-agent?

user163250

LIES! THEY'RE ALL LIES!

Jamal

I hear Pops has been feeding secrets to the Indian Hacker Team.

5

user163250

It's all a cover up.

bjb568

@Jamal It doesn't matter, they're indians. :P

user163250

23:42

Believe Nothing.

user163250

Trust No One.

hichris123

@Jamal That's why he doesn't give me any spammer stats!

Jamal

@bjb568 And Pops can make them mods, but then it would be obvious that there's an inside man.

bjb568

@Cupcake Especially from the government. I heard they have soma dihidrogeen mono'id commin' out ur drains.

user163250

Dihydrogen Monoxide! O_O

hichris123

23:44

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

user163250

What's up with July 20th?

bjb568

Strange mate... it's not working for me. — user3870894 35 secs ago

^ Taken out of context, comments are a lot better.

Jamal

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/23520751/…

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