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user259867

6:05 AM

Because the proposal is unsalvageable. Its purpose is to fix European currency system, and the data you have is a chocolate-covered banana. — Raff 12 mins ago

user259867

It may be an old and tired quote, but I just now realized its author is a very active Math.SE user...

Jan Dvorak

6:17 AM

SPAM superuser.com/questions/848331/…

Unihedron

6:31 AM

@JanDvorak dead

Jan Dvorak

@Unihedron yay!

Andrew T.

need confirmation, again: do we flag spam seed as spam? android.stackexchange.com/q/89698/44325

user259867

Given that the OP posted a spam answer to own question, the case is clear. Flagged.

Andrew T.

Ok

SPAM android.stackexchange.com/a/89702/44325

halp!

user259867

I see -- same user who posted the other answer to the toilet question.

Jan Dvorak

6:46 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/138832/…

user259867

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/244627/…

user259867

1:1 so far

Jan Dvorak

SPAM math.stackexchange.com/questions/1051067/weight-loss-supplement

Jan Dvorak

7:15 AM

that username sucks math.stackexchange.com/users/131970/need-help

DroidDev

I so much want to report that profile as offensive/off-topic/anything with which it will be deleted

user259867

There are many many more

Jan Dvorak

that site sucks math.stackexchange.com/questions

DroidDev

too many @$%#*&^$ not enough bullets

user259867

triple spam on Android is still there. (math spam long gone)

Andrew T.

7:26 AM

*shrug*

Given there are only 0~3 active users at a time, I'm not surprised :(

user259867

With all the flaws of Math, it's active. And there are some nice questions by decent people. Hard to find them, of course.

user259867

5 hours ago, by Shog9

too many of our systems still tie up resources moderating sand instead of finding pearls. This puts an unbelievable amount of strain on even a site the size of Stack Overflow; on smaller sites like Super User, Math or Ask Ubuntu it can be positively crippling, siphoning away the time and energy of people who could be sharing their expertise with others.

user259867

Not sure that "smaller" is the right adjective: it's size XL instead of XXXXXL.

Anna Lear

@Raff Eh. Alive for an hour-ish, in the middle of the night? Meh.

Not ideal by any means, but be careful of sitting on the sidelines of a site and marvelling at how nobody is there. Different sites move at different speeds.

Andrew T.

Yeah, my timezone sucks :D

Anna Lear

7:32 AM

@Raff If you haven't yet, you should try to find nice questions by decent people on Stack Overflow among the sea of recent questions. :)

Jan Dvorak

We could still use more early bird moderators on Drupal.se

Spammers really like that site around that time (early morning UTC)

user259867

According to quantcast, 15% of Android visitors are from India. It's day there.

Anna Lear

With site growth comes... shock, guilt, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. ;)

@Raff Visitors != users with rep to do stuff

user259867

Semi-retirement from answering questions, too.

Anna Lear

@Raff becoming a moderator can fastrack you on that path

Andrew T.

7:35 AM

@Raff Except, most of them are asking questions, not answering... or "answering" with "I have same problem too!!1!"

user259867

I'm getting pinged more than usual today.

Jan Dvorak

that title sucks math.stackexchange.com/questions/1051095/…

Anna Lear

@JanDvorak That whole question sucks...

Jan Dvorak

true...

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/138839/…

Anna Lear

7:50 AM

@JanDvorak handled

user273376

hello @AnnaLear

Anna Lear

hey

user273376

Not nagging, but just wondering what the very rough approimate turn around time for account deletion emails are at the moment

Anna Lear

@SabreTooth Give or take 24-48 hours. Which site are we talking here?

user273376

2 sites - my A51 account area51.stackexchange.com/users/120432/sabre-tooth and GL.SE account gardening.stackexchange.com/users/7410/sabre-tooth

DroidDev

7:55 AM

Welcome to stackoverflow. Please elaborate your problem and also state what you've done to solve your problem and where you are stuck. Visit Help Center or have a Tour to know more about community and the kind of questions expected. Thanks :) — DroidDev 57 secs ago

this time, chose NOT to downvote, I don't know why :/

Andrew T.

@AnnaLear hi, could you handle this spam answer on android.se too?

user273376

and make sure that disembodied pair of glasses behaves himself

2

Anna Lear

@SabreTooth I see 4 support tickets from you. 3 of them are about area 51 and the 4th retracts it... so which is it?

user273376

apologies for that - A51 to go

user273376

and the GL.SE to go

Anna Lear

8:00 AM

k. If you want to preserve your other profiles (like HSM), you should go to your profile in the next 40 minutes and click "cancel"

I will remove your A51 profile and schedule GL.SE for removal

user273376

thank you muchly, I owe thee a beer!

user273376

nah, I am letting HSM go as well - I will keep the remaining 5

user273376

and I couldn't leave MSE, @DroidDev would cry in my absence!

DroidDev

@SabreTooth haha, I owe thee a beer for that :D

user273376

@AnnaLear - please accept a virtual beer from me!

Anna Lear

8:04 AM

@SabreTooth you should be all set - I resolved the support tickets, so you won't be hearing from us by email about them. FYI and all that.

And on that note, I'm off to get some sleep. :)

DroidDev

user273376

@AnnaLear have a great rest and thank you again and enjoy the virtual beer!

Anna Lear

will do, on all counts :)

user273376

@DroidDev i concur!

user273376

just noticed on the star board, a whole lotta hollering at chat! love it!

DroidDev

8:10 AM

@SabreTooth cheers!

cVplZ

@AnnaLear hint hint nudge @Raff

rene

Should I get a badge if I complete one review in the Triage queue? Or is it caching?

cVplZ

@rene it's not about the badges!

well, not mostly about the badges

rene

Huh? Really? Oh, nevermind in that case ... ;)

It is caching....

DroidDev

8:27 AM

it always is...

cVplZ

yep, just checked I got one stackoverflow.com/help/badges/2278/custodian?userid=3041194

DroidDev

NAA or SPAM? stackoverflow.com/a/10923388/2389078

rene

Not spam,

It is NAA IMHO

DroidDev

ok, flagging as such

cVplZ

@DroidDev maybe neither? I don't want to read all that thread. But it looks like an unorthodox question that isn't a real question, but rather just provides an example of how to do something.. and that answerer just provided his own example, although it's link only, so yea, could be naa

DroidDev

8:32 AM

@cVplZ OP answered his own question after sometime. That answerer copied the code somewhere and also posted a blog from it. Then published it under the question.

cVplZ

SE borking?

> The connection has timed out

Unihedron

2

user273376

$20 cup of coffee? what??? does it have a sprinkling of unicorn dandruff???

Jan Dvorak

Maybe they mean the plant?

user273376

fertilised by unicorn droppings

Jan Dvorak

8:40 AM

Maybe they mean a huge bag of instant coffee?

DroidDev

Maybe their coffee cups are equal to beer jars in size... :/

user273376

maybe it is the intraveinous coffee

Unihedron

Wikipedia Programmers' Coffee Cup Size™

user273376

even superman cannot leap over them!

cVplZ

SE unborked for me now

Unihedron

8:43 AM

17

Puzzle and Riddle Challenges

Proposed Q&A site for posing challenging puzzles and riddles and answering them

Currently in definition.

Hmm, actualpuzzling.SE incoming

user273376

uh oh, need bigger coffee cups

Jan Dvorak

Maybe they are using coffeeducts piped directly into each office?

user273376

maybe the wiki programmers, wheeling around on their office tricycles wearing yellow raincoats and boxer shorts on their heads need coffee as fuel...

Jan Dvorak

Maybe they are using camel packs full of coffee?

user273376

maybe the camels are full of coffee!

Jan Dvorak

8:48 AM

Maybe the coffee is full of camels?

user273376

mind.... blown!

user273376

i can just see it "MOAR COFFEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Jan Dvorak

this username sucks math.stackexchange.com/users/196783/01123581321345589144

Caffeine dependence

Caffeine is a commonplace central nervous system stimulant drug which occurs in nature as part of the coffee, tea, yerba mate and some other plants. It is also an additive in many consumer products, most notably beverages advertised as energy drinks. Caffeine is also added to sodas such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi, where, on the ingredients listing, it is designated as a flavoring agent. Caffeine's mechanism of action is somewhat different from that of cocaine and the substituted amphetamines. Caffeine blocks adenosine receptors A and A2A. Adenosine is a by-product of cellular activity, and stimulation...

cVplZ

> The latest Tweets from 01123581321345589144

Fibonacci number

In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers or Fibonacci sequence are the numbers in the following integer sequence: or (often, in modern usage): (sequence A000045 in OEIS). By definition, the first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 1 and 1, or 0 and 1, depending on the chosen starting point of the sequence, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. In mathematical terms, the sequence Fn of Fibonacci numbers is defined by the recurrence relation with seed values or The Fibonacci sequence is named after Fibonacci. His 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western...

Unihedron

Definitely a vote grab if they run for mod..

Jan Dvorak

9:00 AM

sternBrocot = (1,1) : [x | (a,b) <- sternBrocot, x <- [(a,a+b), (a+b,b)]]

Bart

sees coffee talk. Goes to grab a coffee ... $20 worth of it ... even though it's free here ...

Unihedron

Free coffee ⊙︿⊙

user273376

@Bart EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK the disembodied glasses returns with coffee!!!

DroidDev

who upvoted that?!?! An accepted answer within 12 minutes and show of zero common sense from OP.

user273376

what the heck? The deletion countdown on my HSM countdown was at 30 minutes past and then cancelled????

user273376

9:09 AM

and no, I did not click to cancel it

cVplZ

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/20529966/…

Bart

@DroidDev edited it a bit.

DroidDev

@Bart thanks, at-least now, it is somewhat polite

user273376

how is that even possible?

Bart

Aliens

user273376

9:23 AM

possibly

DroidDev

finally

cVplZ

eventually

user273376

just want to be rid of that site

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/138855/weight-loss-title

SPArchaeologist

winterbash2014.stackexchange.com currently in work. Displays a password field. Try to input a random password and see the effect :P

rene

9:31 AM

@JanDvorak gone ... without flagging

Unihedron

What's the password to grant access behind the cat vid?

Jan Dvorak

@rene yay!

rene

@Unihedron Miauw

SPArchaeologist

@Unihedron Tried unicorn, bacon, meta

@balpha Can you please tell the staff behind the winterbash that the nian cat video on the pass page was brilliant? ^_^

Andrew T.

Trolling level: SE

balpha

9:35 AM

@SPArchaeologist that was my doing (still from last year actually), thanks ;)

Dec 16 '13 at 10:20, by Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@balpha Oh, by the way, what was the password for winterbash2013.SE before it launched? Or was it just some random string?

Dec 16 '13 at 10:32, by balpha

and the password was muchwinterveryhatwow

in case it helps you guessing this year's :)

SPArchaeologist

@balpha Wonderfull, just wonderfull :P

cVplZ

when winterbash is live, can you post a list of the failed password attempts?

balpha

great idea, but I'm not even storing them

SPArchaeologist

@balpha winterhatseveryponynow?

user273376

hey @balpha can ou elaborate on a mystery for me?

Andrew T.

9:37 AM

I thought it's great idea at first... but there is a possibility someone input their own password, so...

rene

You might want to fix that...

Unihedron

Someone make a userscript that keeps track of the failed attempts so I can spend an hour or so trying out strings.

Andrew T.

just... brute... force... it...

balpha

@SabreTooth He is Darth Vader's son.

user273376

@balpha phew that's a relief! and also can you possibly tell me/see why my deletion countdown wen to 30 minutes after the countdown, then cancelled? on hsm.stackexchange.com/users/22/sabre-tooth?

user273376

9:41 AM

and no, I did not cancel it

balpha

I see this:

> This account is scheduled to be deleted in 23 hours. To cancel deletion, click here.

don't you?

user273376

yes, however, a moment ago, it was 30 minutes after and then cancelled - I clicked on the deletion link again to get it going again

user273376

current theory is aliens, but possibly a bug perhaps?

user273376

it be rather odd

balpha

It wasn't cancelled, it was put in a queue because it needs manual approval (because your number of votes is above a threshold). I suppose we could make that clearer somehow.

user273376

9:49 AM

aaaaaaaah that makes sense!!!

user273376

so, I am not going completely mad (only partially)

user273376

ah that could mean that the same thing may occur on the GL.SE deletion request when it reaches the zero mark gardening.stackexchange.com/users/7410/sabre-tooth

Andrew T.

Come to think of it, I rarely see Frank nowadays..?

Jan Dvorak

He's there on the face wall

third row

user273376

a shaded tree

Sam

9:55 AM

Morning

user273376

Evening

cVplZ

@AndrewT. he was here the other day, said something about being embarrassed that he's losing his leaves

user273376

lol

user273376

@balpha thank you for the explanation, makes sense to me!

rene

10:13 AM

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/27291316/…

Nice from the Triage queue

Hmm, I'm already a day behind. I never gonna make it into the top reviewers list in the Triage queue....

Bart

COUGH get the others suspended COUGH

user273376

nasty cough there, spectacle-man

cVplZ

> Thank you for reviewing 20 triage questions; come back in 13 hours to continue reviewing.

Bart

You haven't even seen the phlegm @SabreTooth

cVplZ

ugh... but I was just getting to know triage :(

user273376

10:18 AM

@Bart does the phlegm dance?

Bart

@SabreTooth my phlegm don't dance and if they don't dance they ain't no friend of mine .... p p p p h h h h

user273376

lol

cVplZ

@rene i starred, not sure why everyone being so stingy with their stars today

6

rene

hehehe

Maybe they should announce the new Close vote queue in the same way ...

Now with 10K worth of juicy questions to be closed, every day

SPArchaeologist

2

^ me refreshing the winterbash site page.....

user273376

10:29 AM

that's me looking at my site list and hoping the deletions are happening...

Infinite Recursion

@cVplZ Be stingy! Save your stars for your retirement.

user273376

but am in no hurry

Pham

Spam Q (66.7%): Is Weight Loss Harder, by fginy firy, on math.stackexchange.com.

rene

@Pham tpu

Sam

10:44 AM

@rene Pham doesn't have a tpu command.

Unihedron

I wish I could edit from the triage panel.

SPArchaeologist

11:05 AM

18

Q: Designing a Santa alarm (honestly)

You read the title and that's what I am trying to do. Synopsis: I have a young son who is determined to catch Santa (to what ends I don't know). He even dreamed up using some-kind-of pressure plate and connecting it to a light that will turn on when Santa steps on it to get cookies. I would love...

Arthur Fischer

@Pham Actual mod-only flag from that spam: This question doesn't fit for MSE

Pham

Offensive A (92.8%): ***** **** ** **** ******* * ******* *** ** ***, by ****** ********, on unix.stackexchange.com.

Spam Q (55.6%): Slim And Smart With Burning Extra Calories, by user276443, on meta.stackexchange.com.

Spam A (70.9%): Unless you have a SATA drive, be sure to buy..., by tony ohare, on superuser.com.

Sathya

@Pham neat

Pham

11:29 AM

Low Quality Q (40.1%): Can't see bangla font in pc also in android mobile. Any way to solve it?, by Himu Rocking, on stackoverflow.com.

Jan Dvorak

abusive/trolling math.stackexchange.com/questions/638799/geometry-locus-question/…

DroidDev

> we children in world are getTing killed because of this stupid subject MATHS

ahem...

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/138869/…

Pham

11:44 AM

Spam Q (55.6%): Gluco Health Review, get Fitness?, by Nicholascann, on askubuntu.com.

Spam Q (55.6%): Why Sapphire Packers and Movers is best service provide of home relocation services in lucknow, by Sapphire packers, on apple.stackexchange.com.

rene

12:03 PM

@Sam you go fix that?

....and I'm out again...

Sam

@rene Pham works differently to Somkey. Besides, there's an FR on GitHub.

Cya

DroidDev

@rene go inside, its chilling outside :P

Unihedron

@Sam Yeah, except it's "Low Prio" and has been there for an entire month.

Sam

True, well I do have more important things to be working on (e.g, the websockets).

Mooseman

0

Q: Please use the new reCaptcha on the human verification dialog

I posted a question this morning and got this beauty of a captcha: Can you read that? Go ahead, get your glasses. Still no? We can fix this: Google announced a new reCaptcha API that is captcha-less. It looks like this: Instead of staring down some distorted words and numbers, we could be ...

feature-request captcha

Pham

12:10 PM

Spam A (72.4%): The best way to make money is to follow a de..., by Robert Walker, on gaming.stackexchange.com.

Mooseman

0

Q: Merge [taskbar] and [windows-taskbar]

Look at taskbar: The Taskbar is the application switcher and launch area for Windows... Look at windows-taskbar: ...a taskbar is a bar displayed on an edge of a GUI desktop that is used to launch and monitor running applications... Their wikis are nearly switched in OS-specificity! S...

discussion tags retag-request burninate-request

Pham

Spam A (70.9%): use RAID recovery software which is capable ..., by tony ohare, on askubuntu.com.

Vogel612's Shadow

whole question smells like spam: askubuntu.com/questions/284346

Pham

Spam A (70.9%): One way to recover permanently Deleted Chrom..., by tony ohare, on superuser.com.

Unihedron

EDR spam wave incoming, gear your flags

Vogel612's Shadow

12:17 PM

EDR?=

Pham

Spam A (19.1%): If your Acrobat Reader or other tools can’t ..., by TobiasBolahan, on superuser.com.

Unihedron

e*sy d*t* r*c*v*ry

aka. FRF??

^-:

Yes..

12:27 PM

My school wifi blocks SSL.

Vogel612's Shadow

wat

Pham

Low Quality Q (67.2%): Flappy Bird Game Play Online its a new version, by john lee, on mathoverflow.net.

Low Quality A (31.3%): Ygzdtfhfifhffyuryfurdfdftudfdtuzthfhdyjfhffh..., by ALI ABBAS, on gaming.stackexchange.com.

Mooseman

@Pham Only 31.3%

Sam

@Pham why

@Mooseman That specific term has a history of being inaccurate.

Mooseman

@Sam Am I able to use @Pham why or is it whitelisted?

Unihedron

12:31 PM

@Sam Term found: (Sensitivity: 6.1%. Specificity: 76.1%. Ignored: 87.5%. Score: 27.9. Auto: False) (\S)\1{3}

Sam

@Mooseman Atm, you'll have to go to the HQ to use commands.

Mooseman

@Sam Thanks

Sam

Np. I'm still working on reactivating command access for secondary rooms (i.e, here).

Mooseman

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/27294260/1234256

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 16 secs ago, by Zephyr

Close Vote Request for http://stackoverflow.com/q/27294260/1234256 by Mooseman from Tavern on the Meta

Mooseman

12:58 PM

naa drupal.stackexchange.com/a/138874/39661

Unihedron

@Mooseman Welcome aboard!

Mooseman

Thanks @uni

rene

1:29 PM

@DroidDev Yeah, tnx ... it is zero degrees here ... (Celsius that is)

Pham

Spam A (28.3%): annie.mark.champion@btinternet.com, by Annie, on unix.stackexchange.com.

Bart

1:46 PM

Pham has a point

Unihedron

@Bart ... Nope.

Bart

What else would it be @Unihedron? Just a really low quality answer from an unregistered user?

Unihedron

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 10 mins ago, by Unihedron

@Pham tpa

^ I deserve that point instead.

Bart

Unihedron has a point

Sam

Meh, points are overrated.

Bart

1:53 PM

Unihedron gets Sam's points.

Mooseman

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/27295846/1234256

Bart

Seems he has got it figured out. Just fill out captureCameraPic() and you're good to go.

Mooseman

naa stackoverflow.com/a/27295764/1234256

Pham

Spam Q (56.4%): Buy VPN, Secure Data Storage for Bitcoin Privatoria, by Privatoria, on bitcoin.stackexchange.com.

Mooseman

2:09 PM

@Pham tp

Sam

@Moo BTW, TPing from the Tavern is redundant. As the TPA command (which is used to get it reposted in here) also combines the actions of the TP command.

Mooseman

@Sam Got it.

Welcome to Stack Overflow! Reading the Google Maps documentation should help you; we are not a code-writing service. — Mooseman 7 secs ago

Pham

Low Quality A (28.8%): I don't have an answer but will keep a looki..., by Grinny, on stackoverflow.com.

Sam

^ WTH

Mooseman

@Sam Accepted, too =D

Sam

2:22 PM

I know right?! lol

Bart

Something smells ...

Unihedron

-5... You people are harsh

inb4 meta rant

Sam

0 to -5 in 1 min...

Unihedron

gone

whoops. you all just put them that much closer to getting post-banned.

Bart

A job well done

Mooseman

2:23 PM

META EFFECT STRIKES AGAIN

2

Jan Dvorak

accepted non-answer gone, the other one still there

two more CVs for the question

*fire

Sam

Closed.

Jan Dvorak

\o/

3

Unihedron

status-wontfix

2

Mooseman

No stars for hours... :(

6

Unihedron

2:25 PM

\o/

3

Jan Dvorak

Star troll on the roll

Mooseman

:o

Jan Dvorak

You shouldn't have asked

2

Unihedron

That rhyme is SICK!

cVplZ

get it out of my head!

Mooseman

2:26 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/27296374/1234256

Unihedron

unhearit.com

cVplZ

ty

Unihedron

> We created this site for those of you that have a song stuck in your head and you can't get it out no matter what you do. Using the latest in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology, we've been able to allow our users to “unhear” songs by hearing equally catchy songs. So really all we're doing is making you forget your old song by replacing it with another one... sorry.

5

cVplZ

@rene It's worse then we thought. We're also missing a diamond. stackoverflow.com/review/triage/stats

Sam

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/27168260/…

Andrew T.

2:31 PM

101??? omg cheat hax!

Unihedron

Wait, really? I thought this was the first day for the triage queue, yet my review task ID is "6387292".

Mooseman

0

Q: "You have less than n seconds left for editing"

In chat, any user can edit their own messages. Whilst editing one of mine, this tooltip appeared above the input: You have less than 8 seconds left for editing This is grammatically incorrect. You cannot have "less seconds". This would be correct: You have fewer than 8 seconds left for ...

discussion chat grammar

user259867

@Unihedron They number all types of review tasks consecutively.

Mooseman

@AndrewT. Mods can eat you alive. 101 is nothing.

Unihedron

@WarmFuzzies Oh, thanks!

Bart

2:39 PM

WarmFuzzies .... right .....

Unihedron

The message should really be "Just give up. You're not going to be fast enough anyway." — Bart 15 secs ago