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3:11 PM
2k helpful flags!
@AvinashRaj Someone keeps proposing the tag synonym [regex] <- [pcre]. We might have to tell HamZa to make a meta post about this.
 
is this really programing related? stackoverflow.com/q/12414009/792066
feels more like deployment of something, not creation
 
Ugh, internet is slow for some weird reason.
 
someone is DDoS'ing internet
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status-norepro
 
3:25 PM
@hichris123 my star on @braiam's message took 5 secs to show up..
 
wow
 
@Unihedron the scary thing is that is possible
 
Congrats on 2k flags @uni.
 
yeah
 
Thanks @inf :)
 
3:31 PM
Hi @Frank. You really changed your name to Frank!
 
[regex] <- [pcre] , no...
regex also includes BRE..
 
@AvinashRaj I am well aware that's not a synonym, but i've seen it suggested 12 times, we gotta do something to stop it
 
:( What... happened to J. Musser? WHO'S THIS @FRANK THAT REPLACED HIM???
 
@InfiniteRecursion I did.
I can become J. Musser again in 30 days. :)
 
56 mins ago, by Unihedron
@Frank he's dead. I burned him.
 
3:33 PM
Next time I will suggest something ridiculous and see if you change your name to that too :)
 
do you know the user who suggested it for 12 times?
 
@Frank ... or you just go to another site and press 'save & copy to all SE sites' or whatever.
 
@Unihedron YOU'RE KILLING THE ENVIRONMENT!
 
@hichris123 But I like a little fun sometimes
 
3:35 PM
@AvinashRaj no
synonym suggestions are anonymous
 
@InfiniteRecursion aha!
@Unihedron no
 
Why would anyone download w3schools books? — Braiam 5 secs ago
 
@Braiam Some people are smarter than the folks who rail against that site ;)
It's a great reference, with a grain of salt.
@hichris123 Did they redo that page? Something looks... different.
 
no, looks the same
 
3:37 PM
Yes @Frank, it's nice to use a different name sometimes. Look at lostsock, he gets a new name frequently, and there is a user who is "Will" on SO and "Won't" on MSE :)
 
@ɥʇǝS I personally feel bad seeing people doing stupid things
 
@ɥʇǝS Not that I know of...
 
@InfiniteRecursion I agree. Will/Won't is good.
 
Can you have different avatars and profile names on different sites?
 
maybe I will never reach enlightenment
@Unihedron ask Grace Note
 
3:40 PM
! (has an idea)
 
The users you were frank with haven't budged though. Annoying is in the room, diseased is still staring, self-centered is still eccentric @Frank.
 
@InfiniteRecursion +1 for making me google and learn the word "eccentric"
 
@Unihedron thats embarrassing, Unihedron. You should know that word.
 
@Frank yet I don't.
I'm just this other user, you know? :P
 
@InfiniteRecursion True. But they're inactive, because they're afraid of what migh happen...
@Unihedron So am I. Must have something to do with age.
It's an old word.
 
3:44 PM
It's funny @uni, all your funny attempts to camaflauge your gender. You are not in a ratio of 1/5000 in SE population, so need to try so hard :D
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I'm not really trying to hide my gender, just keeping the gender-neutral environment. :D
 
@Unihedron Which is stupid.
 
(glares)
 
I can stump FOX's bot with scientific names of plants. :)
@Unihedron (glares back)
 
quick, it's animuson. Hide the cake!
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3:47 PM
(eats the cake).
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Don't lie to me about cake!
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(glares at @Unihedron)
 
Well that backfired.
 
(eats @uni)
 
@Frank :D
 
3:48 PM
(glares at @Braiam)
 
@ɥʇǝS everyone hates when they are lied about the cake
 
(squeezes @Braiam, to get the cake out)
 
Sam
(glares at the madness)
 
@Sam sam you're no fun.
 
(throws @uni instead)
 
3:49 PM
:)
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Sam
:)
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:)
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:)
4
 
catches @uni
 
3:51 PM
That awkward moment when there's a smile chain on and you don't dare interrupt it.
 
ouch!
 
currently watching: Dwarf Fortress on Twitch
 
@JanDvorak bah
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They really need to take away some people's star privileges in here...
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@JanDvorak bah
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(I agree)
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3:52 PM
These are @Bart's socks. Please nuke the main account.
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@animuson Gimme a star!
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@Unihedron no.jpg
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@animuson ♪ If only you were blue
 
@JanDvorak sad.catgif
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Sam
Goes to make a star abuse bot...
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3:55 PM
~ not everything is star-worthy
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I feel like playing Assassin's Creed.
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goes to flag Bart's account for star abuse socks
 
~ Everything is star-worthy!! EVERYTHING!!!
 
@hichris123 keywords detected: smart, watch, free
 
3:56 PM
@Unihedron You stole my message! ;)
 
All balls on @Bart ....
 
"You have fully used your vote allowance for today' BAH!
 
@ProgramFOX :))
 
@JanDvorak wonders if Jan is now a bot
:P
 
@Frank finally
 
3:57 PM
@JanDvorak (stars)
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there's still one more star troll here
3
 
Looks like 2.
 
plot twist - there are three
 
On other news: International Programmers day next year renamed to Boredom Day
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@rene post that on SO Tavern, we'll pin it..
 
3:59 PM
starry, starry night
paint your pallette blue and grey
look out on the summer's day
3
 
Except the star trolls, no one likes your song Jan :D
 
I made it through season 7 of Doctor Who and now my life feels so empty without more of The Doctor to watch. :|
 
@animuson that's how I feel after each catch-up marathon on Youtube
 
@animuson I ran out of my 100 comment flags flagging comments with just the word "thanks" and now I have no clue what to do with my life anymore..
 
@animuson I love doctor who, but I don't like fish fingers in custard.
 
4:02 PM
@Unihedron 23 hours of sleep, then resume
 
@Unihedron 1) Post a challenge on Programming Puzzles & Code Golf. 2) Post a question/answer on Moderators. :D
 
In other news: currently building Chromium. On ~ 10530 / 16723.
 
@hichris123 but... why?
 
That's how I feel every time a season of Sherlock ends.
 
@JanDvorak I'm sending in a patch for a bug.
 
4:04 PM
nice
 
@InfiniteRecursion I love Sherlock too.
Cumberbatch is better than anyone else.
including Robert Downey Jr.
 
Sam
@Uni almost done typing up the tag definitions readme...
 
@Sam great job!
Hunt for questions be right back..
 
Robert Downey Jr's worst performance was in the Sherlock movies as Sherlock. Cumberbatch is unmatched.
 
@InfiniteRecursion ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
4:12 PM
How is eccentric an old word @Frank? I remember the Time magazine used it to describe Cumberbatch when he was on the Time cover - actor par excellence known for depicting eccentric genius on screen...and that was just a few months ago.
 
room topic changed to Tavern on the Meta: MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS! Wheel of blame link bolted on for your ease of use: jsfiddle.net/AYPpF/82/embedded/result [bug] [crickets] [discussion] [excuses] [support] [waffles]
 
@InfiniteRecursion It's not, entirely. That's why I think Uni should be ashamed of himself.
 
plot twist: @hichris123 patch for Chromium breaks everyone else workflow
 
Thanks @Balpha. No more edge case resolutions, only stars. Now it's officially @Bart's world.
 
@Braiam hehe.
No, this one will be touching the AutoImport logic. (basically, it'll change it to only auto-import bookmarks, etc. from a default browser, and if there isn't one let you choose it manually.)
 
4:18 PM
@hichris123 but, I always want to import things from the non-default browser!
YOU BROKE IT FOR ME!
 
status-dont-care
:P
 
No @Frank, nothing to be ashamed of. I didn't know it when I was in school. Everybody's vocabulary is different. @Uni's is full of programming words, and he learns very fast.
 
@InfiniteRecursion I know all words.
Which is why i would win in den if I had more time.
 
@Frank You sure? I own a regex library..
 
@balpha : room description didn't update itself until I refreshed.
 
4:20 PM
@InfiniteRecursion Thank you!! .. :D
 
Are you a native speaker @Frank?
 
@Unihedron Yeah.
 
status-no-repro
 
@InfiniteRecursion Why?
^^ delete that
 
Another day, another new account!
 
4:22 PM
@hichris123 a(nother(A(?1))?)Account!
 
@Frank Use "> url" if you want to post without oneboxing elegantly
 
A native speaker's vocabulary is expected to be better than an Asian school teen's vocabulary @Frank.
 
@Unihedron url ...
 
@InfiniteRecursion You might be able to call me one, not sure
 
4:24 PM
@JanDvorak What's a url?
 
@InfiniteRecursion actually that is a fallacy
 
:)
 
universal resource locator
 
@hichris123 Really? Worked for me.
 
4:26 PM
@balpha Hmm, maybe due to me running Chrome dev channel (39)? I'm not sure.
 
@ProgramFOX your bot replied 'laughter' to 'drown'. A very merciless bot.
 
@Frank :D
 
Sam
@Uni Readme created. Now I just need to commit...
 
Famous last words
 
commit and push
 
Sam
4:30 PM
^ yeah, I meant that.
 
Checkin anybody?
 
I used to do ^^
now commit -> push
 
@rene I'm in if we have a CV stream!
 
Is your review ban over @uni?
 
14 hours @inf, but I find my moderation activity more productive outside the queues.
 
Sam
4:35 PM
... committed 'n' pushed.
@Uni This is the current tag filter.
 
Are there site-specific implementations of them?
 
Good to hear that @uni. You should write about it on MSO. Let me find the post.
 
Sam
@Unihedron For those specific tags? I'm not sure.
 
@Sam some tags may be worse on some sites.
@InfiniteRecursion Really? But it says here that "We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed." Never mind I'm stupid.
@Sam I was thinking if you make it read stackoverflow.com:object it would be amazing.
 
You are not stupid @uni. You can write an answer for meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/271095/…
 
4:41 PM
@InfiniteRecursion wish I could star that...
 
Sam
@Unihedron Yeah, well it currently gets: title, post url, author name, author profile url and site. I can get post body and score, but that requires additional data to be downloaded.
 
@InfiniteRecursion It might be well-received as a post but it doesn't really answer the part about audits in the q :/
@Sam I mean tag "object" when it's used on "stackoverflow.com" questions.
 
Sam
@Unihedron Oh. Just add it to the list then ;)
 
@Sam :))
 
yesterday, by Infinite Recursion
Please stop starring my messages. It makes me grumpy:
 
4:45 PM
@InfiniteRecursion But bart is not on :(
 
Sam
@Unihedron Happy now? I've updated the definitions now (not committed yet though).
 
He has gone with his team have gone to keyboard a user @uni.
 
wonder who got keyboard'd :)
 
I have a deputy badge on GL now. compares to 2k flags
 
writing a post, @inf
 
4:55 PM
Last time I heard from him, he was going to keyboard the one that called a pair of glasses a keyboardwarrior
yesterday, by Bart
@InfiniteRecursion we're on it
 
yesterday, by Bart
user image
 
Are you writing a post for being banned due to improper review audit @uni?
 
> - You're a developer / programmer too. We all know how hard it is to have the best system.
- (words)
- (sea of words)
- (postscript)
 
If only I type as fast as Jon Skeet..
 
4:59 PM
@Unihedron everybody wants to be like Skeet
 
Congrats deputy @Frank :)
 
The diamond in that post if funny @TGMCians
 
thanks @Inf
 
@TGMCians I know the answer!!
 
5:05 PM
Let's reopen!!
 
It's a closing parenthesis!
 
thinks @uni wants the shining diamond
 
What a title - this may be easy for you!
 
-4
Q: Need to convert lot of html files into images

Nimit JainI need to convert html files into images. Is there any way to it together. Please help. Regards, Nimit

 
5:10 PM
done
 
This low quality post will stay oneboxed forever in the tavern @hichris123
 
@Braiam done
> Should Dennis Ritchie receive all of the credit for the development of C
 
@Braiam one more cv needed.
 
boom
 
Sam
5:26 PM
@Uni I've added definitions for SU...
 
(y)
 
@Sam exactly, what are you doing?
 

Low Quality Posts HQ

Home of bots for catching low quality posts (and sometimes spa...
427 words (wordcounttool.com) into the post and I've only gone a thirds through it :d
 
Sam
@Braiam Creating definitions of "bad tags" for SE sites for my bot.
You can find the current definitions here.
@Unihedron ?
 
i'm composing an answer on the post @inf linked.
 
Sam
5:34 PM
Oh, ok.
 
@Sam for what?
 
Sam
@Braiam The bot checks a post for "bad tags" which I have to define, and if said post has one of those tags, it'll post a message "Bad Tag Used..."
 
@Sam add error, bug and internet
 
Sam
@Braiam Kk
 
No. The minimum answer needs to be 30 chars. The '3' was the 30th. I thought id end there. ^^. No one but me could ever get this. — Saariko ♦ 5 hours ago
^ Huh?
^ Huh?
 
Sam
5:39 PM
It's a work in progress...
 
@Sam Try ruling out things with score>1…
 
@bjb568 some people do upvote spam
 
@JanDvorak Yeah, but we're talking signal/noise ratio here. Of course there's false positives/negatives, but we just want the best algorithm we can get.
 
@bjb568 the... wat?
 
Sam
@bjb568 I can't, the functionality is there to get post body and score, but it requires an additional request to be made, which'll slow my internet down too much. I'll just have to unblacklist "beneficial"...
 
5:41 PM
ah, forgot crash @Sam
 
Sam
@Braiam Added.
 
If you want to find a bunch of low quality posts, the easiest thing to do is probably code to blabber ratio.
 
Sam
That still involves getting the post's body...
 
I guess… So what can you get?
 
Sam
Title, post link, author, author bio link, site, tags.
 
5:45 PM
Author reputation?
 
Sam
Nope. Well, not without an extra request.
 
@Sam tag in title = VQ?
 
Sam
@JanDvorak I've thought of that, but it's a matter of defining all the tags.
 
???
 
Title is lowercase, author is user\d+, site is stackoverflow. OR anything in the regex tag.
 
5:47 PM
or rather, title is all-caps
 
Sam
@bjb568 The current LQ regex: homework|newbie|\bq\b|question|correct this|school project|beginner|!|asap|urgent|please|(need|some)( halp| help| answer)|(no(t)?|doesn('t|t)?) work(ing|ed|d)?|(help|halp)
I'm not solely relying on regex though, there are other mechanisms at work too.
Brb, dinner...
 
@Sam for (i in tags) {if title.match(i) do_stuff()}?
 
@hichris123 why?
 
@Braiam duplicate
 
acknowledged by the OP as well
 
@Unihedron I find that the dup should be backwards
 
6:22 PM
@Braiam tell chris
 
@Andy link?
 
odd. that didn't copy well
 
@Braiam meh, it could go both ways. They're each about the same.
 
@Andy need one more cv
 
6:36 PM
I see a new guy here. Nice to see the hidden avatar has been implemented chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/254082/newguy
 
hidden avatar?
 
@Andy users without enough rep to talk has avatar hidden so they don't disrupt chat, as mentioned by meta users
 
Sam
@Braiam foreach (var tag in post.Tags) { if (badTags[post.Site].Contains(tag.ToLowerInvariant())) { return true; } }
 
I don't think you should be discouraged from meta participation because your first post here wasn't well received @EduardLuca, you well-elaborated your thoughts, the votes were to express opinions and that they do not agree with "Why are Review Audits not more clear and well-explained?". As I mentioned Meta is a great place to gather accurate feedback from the community instead of the person who has to write it, who will eventually burn out from writing a "fail summary" for every audit task in the system.. — Unihedron 4 mins ago
^ I say as I write a large post...
 
status-closed
 
6:38 PM
@Unihedron Ah. Hadn't seen a post about it.
 
@Andy open the profile and click "why". This was feature request on MSE because of the swastika incidents
 
@Andy mso i think
 
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A: Prevent low-rep (readonly) chat users from showing up in user lists

balphaThis is probably not the final solution (more ideas still welcome! A 300 rep bounty awaits!), but I wanted to have something done now, because these morons are just wasting too much of everybody's time. So for now, users with less than 20 rep will appear as the "anonymous shape":            Th...

 
Writing "Your code was terrible" is a terrible thing to say.. consider a more polite way, you don't want to discourage people from learning a programming language. — Mark Hughes 2 hours ago
 
One is in the tavern right now :)
 
6:41 PM
The new guy :)
 
@InfiniteRecursion Ah. Nice. I hadn't seen balpha's implementation post
 
@Braiam that bounty message
@Andy need one cv left quick kill it
 
@Unihedron what with it?
 
@Braiam made me smile :)
 
6:55 PM
@Unihedron gone
 
> Tip of the iceberg - the question or comments reveal an underlying issue that would need extensive investigation by a consultant or database vendor support team: issues like this do not fit the SE Q&A model well.
Cool close reason
 
lol :)
vlq | off-topic: blatantly offtopic
 
Sam
@Uni Well, it took 2 days but it seems like the LQ filter is pretty good now :D
 
@rene lets review cv queue...
 
7:06 PM
@Sam yep :) two days ago I was like (ugh I doubt this post is actually LQ), now I click on every post :P
cvq warriors @TGM and @rene :D
 
Sam
lol
 
@TGMCians Give me a minute...
 
ok
 
status-closed-by-mod
 
Sam
Oh, I forgot to add "solved"/"fixed" to the blacklist...
 
7:07 PM
@Sam just SEDE those...
 
@Unihedron Why make them stick around for a week?
 
Yeah, good idea.
 
@TGMCians OK, let's move to the SO Close voters room
 
Sam
... Annnnd done.
 
@rene yes I am there
 
7:10 PM
ostrich and cians at work :)
(reviews in MSO)
Out of CVs. Good night!
 
Sam
Night!
 
good night @Unihedron!
 
thank you!!
 
how can I write backtick....backtick englobing everything in <code> tags?
 
I suggest you don't try to read that out loud. The first period is 3/4 of the way through the "question"
you'll pass out
 
7:22 PM
It is a favourite of one user....
@Andy Hold on I'll try...
 
Uh-oh. He passed out
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ELAN EM78P156NP SAMPLE PROGRAM on electronics.stackexchange.com
 
@Braiam :O
 
@Andy deleted by ThiefMaster♦ 9 mins ago
> put on hold as off-topic by David, Andy, rene, TGMCians, ThiefMaster♦ 10 mins ago
 
Sam
7:41 PM
Quick poll: how long should my bot remember posts (to avoid posting dupes)?
 
2 days
 
@Sam 5 eva!
 
Sam
lol
2 days sounds better...
 
cya
 
Sam
cya
 
7:54 PM
cya
 
hya
 
mya
 
Sam
oya
 
iya
 
8:31 PM
uya
 
Sam
aye (:O doorknob's bot)
 
so, yeah, Firefox now has a integrated chat funtion
 
8:55 PM
Oh, wait: there's no more too minor.
...
 
@AstroCB remove the thankyou...
 
Sam
Maybe I should add "india" to the spam list...
 
Sam
10:01 PM
I'm off to bed, night all...
 
10:17 PM
night
 
It would be
 
great if people
 
would stop starring
 
every single message
 
</sockpuppet-abuse>
 
10:43 PM
 
ha.
 
 
1 hour later…
11:50 PM
heh
@Sam I thot we were reversing, adding 5, then reversing…
 
*thought
 
No. Thot.
He thot thru thuroly tho no solution was found.
 
6
Q: What does "thot" mean and when was it first used?

HugoThe word thot is all over Twitter. The @lovihatibot Twitterbot routinely finds it in searches for "I love the word [X]" and "I hate the word [X]", in fact it's the most hated word and third most loved word (presumably use in one category feeding the other). Similarly it's the second most commo...

Welp, if you were using thot as a word... you're using it wrong. It's a noun, you're using it as a verb.
 
@hichris123 I'm using the new spelling of WARNINGTHENEXTWORDISWRONG thought.
I don't really care about other definitions.
 
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