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1:01 PM

Low Quality A (TPA'd by ProgramFOX): ghghghf fgdgdgdfgdf dgd gdfgdfgdfg dgdfgdfg dgdfgdf dfgdfgdfgdfg dgdfgfd..., by □ gfgfgfg, on codereview.stackexchange.com.

Bart

Gone

Pham

1:24 PM

Spam Q?: Como organizar elementos no estilo Masonry?, by □ Rafaela Bublitz, on pt.stackoverflow.com.

Jan Dvorak

why?

looks like "help me with my page plz" to me

Mooseman

Spam is fp. Is it no-code?

Jan Dvorak

no-code

Mooseman

> Não contém nenhum código..--apenas um link para seu site.

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@Mooseman Registered answer as false positive.

ProgramFOX

1:38 PM

@SmokeDetector delete

bjb568

edited

hichris123

Still too broad.

ProgramFOX

true

cv-pls too broad stackoverflow.com/questions/28630295/…

hichris123

Hmm... who can we poke:

11

Q: Are questions in Triage shown on the real-time tab?

Questions selected for Triage are not shown on site's front page. Do they appear on network-wide real-time question list? (Reason for asking: spam-detecting bots rely on the realtime feed.)

Jan Dvorak

S9?

hichris123

1:41 PM

0

A: removing laravel/public/ from path in laravel

Watch arjun yonjan youtube video on removing public in url.

...

@JanDvorak Huh?

Oh, Shog.

Hmm, yeah, let's poke Shog.

With a non-pointy stick of course!

@Shog9 Do you know if questions in Triage are shown on the real-time tab?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Getting segmentation fault when giving input to structure members on run time by renga_incharge on serverfault.com

Mooseman

Poor @Shog9 must get so many pings.

hichris123

"pointless" I'm saddened you think my message is pointless. ;)

Jan Dvorak

Not yours, but @Mooseman's is

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

Mooseman

1:54 PM

@hichris123 I didn't intend to imply that...

fact-check-pls meta.stackexchange.com/a/249832/202832

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Mooseman): Thanks, Derek. I might look a little bit further into finding a way to d..., by ■ Creative Arc, on expressionengine.stackexchange.com.

Mooseman

^ NAA

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@Mooseman Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Getting segmentation fault when giving input to structure members on run time by renga_incharge on serverfault.com

J. Steen

Blatantly off-topic, too.

Lynn Crumbling

@SmokeDetector Nike?

@J.Steen yep.

ProgramFOX

2:10 PM

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

rlemon

troll-alert stackoverflow.com/a/28630925/829835

Jan Dvorak

abusive

J. Steen

All of them, in fact.

Three answers so far.

rlemon

yup

just posted the latest

Lynn Crumbling

2:12 PM

@JanDvorak yep

J. Steen

And abusive suggested edit.

@rlemon gone

All gone.

good stuff

I really wish people would flag as offensive, rather than just downvote.

rlemon

2:13 PM

I flagged all three

last one with a mod flag

J. Steen

Oh, I know. I meant in general.

rlemon

I flag and downvote

:P

Lynn Crumbling

@rlemon ^ this

Jan Dvorak

Don't downvote

J. Steen

I don't downvote, to see how long until it's removed.

Lynn Crumbling

2:13 PM

@JanDvorak Why?

rlemon

why not?

I want to bury the spam until it gets axed

J. Steen

A practice I had a habit of before, but picked up for sure after Jan Dvorak explained that a while ago.

Jan Dvorak

It hides the information of how long until it gets removed

rlemon

how so?

Lynn Crumbling

@JanDvorak the magical "-6"?

rlemon

2:15 PM

I have no idea how that stuff works, so please explain :P

Jan Dvorak

six spam/offensive flags autodelete a post

Lynn Crumbling

@rlemon 1 mod approved abusive flag OR 6 community abusive|spam flags kill it.

Mooseman

Dear Stack Exchange: Can I haz 100 delete votes/day? I want to burn the crap. Thanks.

rlemon

@LynnCrumbling yes but how does downvoting it block that? cc @JanDvorak

Lynn Crumbling

@rlemon It doesn't, you just can't tell how far you are into the -6.

Jan Dvorak

2:16 PM

It does not, but it hides from us how many flags have been cast

J. Steen

User nuked.

Lynn Crumbling

@rlemon (since flagging abusive or spam inherently "-1"s the post.)

rlemon

ahhhhhh

ok that I did not know

Hobo Sapiens

Spam: stackoverflow.com/q/28631029/1864610

J. Steen

And again with the downvotes on a spam-q...

Lynn Crumbling

2:17 PM

@HoboSapiens This is a good case @rlemon

it's at -6... should be gone if all of those are ONLY flags.

-9...

@HoboSapiens Gone.

gone

Gone.

gone.

2:17 PM

So, it had 4 downvotes.

Lynn Crumbling

Yah.

rlemon

I flagged as spam and it deleted :D

TIL

Jan Dvorak

It's not advertising

Lynn Crumbling

@rlemon It is fun be to that final spam flag that kills it.

HAHAAHA.. just read bart's starred msg, then read the rev.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Error: Jframe cannot be resolved to a type by daisy hernandez on stackoverflow.com

Lynn Crumbling

2:21 PM

HELP!! please.

Mooseman

???

Lynn Crumbling

It's been edited out of the question Smokey caught, now.

J. Steen

It's frightening how utterly incapable of using a web-based editors some people seem to be, and yet they're writing the software that runs our lives...

Jan Dvorak

"runs our lives"???

J. Steen

I'm generalising heavily.

Jan Dvorak

2:26 PM

You had me scared for a moment

J. Steen

Not Skynet. That's outsourced to gerbils in the Australian outback.

user259867

J. Steen runs on Java :-O

J. Steen

You take that back.

user259867

You said that it runs your life...

J. Steen

OUR lives.

Mooseman

2:34 PM

wow bad audit stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/7109679 apparently code dumps should be reopened.

Jan Dvorak

grabs popcorn

J. Steen

It should be closed as typo, anyway, judging by the answer...

Lynn Crumbling

That's a little brutal: stackoverflow.com/a/28631386/656243

J. Steen

Honest.

Mooseman

@LynnCrumbling Fixed

Jan Dvorak

2:40 PM

Also, it's an answer where should have been a close vote

Patrick Hofman

Hey guys and girls :)

o/

\o

You all missed me?

@PatrickHofman wb

2:42 PM

wb? @Mooseman

Mooseman

\o/

Patrick Hofman

@Mooseman wb then

Mooseman

\o/

/o\

\o/

/o\

J. Steen

HEAD ASPLODE

Mooseman

lava lamp :p

J. Steen

2:47 PM

Freaky lavalamp.

Wohoo, power outage at home.

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28631470/bill-me-later-silent-call

Lynn Crumbling

cv-pls dup stackoverflow.com/q/28606856/656243 (NEEDS ONE MORE)

ProgramFOX

done

Lynn Crumbling

^ for anyone familiar with the classic browser detection FAIL of IE10 in .net, that's it.

@ProgramFOX thanks

nicael

0

Q: The star and number of favorites are positioned slightly wrong relative to the vote buttons

...as you can see even without this not really good freehand line.

bug design

New disaster found

J. Steen

3:02 PM

You're really targeting that site.

nicael

Cuz the design for it was recently launched

And does have some problems now

J. Steen

Just stating fact. =D

And now - brown. And weekend.

o/

Lynn Crumbling

@J.Steen Have a good weekend!

TGMCians

o/

Mooseman

"even without this not really good freehand line" - One could argue that the use of freehand lines is a bad choice in the first place when you're complaining about details that amount to sub-pixel accuracy on the final page anyway. — Napoleon Wilson ♦ 1 min ago

Jan Dvorak

3:16 PM

heretic...

Mooseman

approve-pls stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/7109678

Jan Dvorak

meh.

Lynn Crumbling

> This item is not reviewable.

Bart

@Mooseman for shame!

Mooseman

There goes 50 rep

Lynn Crumbling

3:22 PM

@Mooseman How'd the last ~~one~~ bounty turn out, with the extension issue?

I seem to recall it was something to do with associating items with no extension? .. or something similar.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: How to find a point inside a multipolygon? by Saurabh Kumar Karn on gis.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

ProgramFOX

that took pretty long

Jan Dvorak

3:41 PM

What did?

ProgramFOX

@JanDvorak It took 28 seconds until Smokey replied to my command.

Bart

@ProgramFOX he was ignoring you until he realized you meant he should ignore the post. He's becoming ... human!!!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: VBA COPY WORKSHEET AND UPDATE CELL VALUES by Angela Bowden on codereview.stackexchange.com

Lynn Crumbling

^ no code question posted on the code review site.

Given the large quantity of excel+excel/vba questions, it's amazing that there isn't a site just for that.

excel has 60k questions.

user259867

4:04 PM

And I should point out that SE isn't the only place being hit by these people: google.com/search?q=1-844-780-6751 , but it appears to be one of the few sites that's actually cleaning up after this spam. — Brad Larson ♦ 34 mins ago

user259867

They have gmailcustomersupportnumber dot com among other domains.

4:19 PM

that comment...

yeah ;)

and an edit?

Oh Eugene.

What the heck are you doing.

rene

yeah retagged to SPAM

Pham

4:20 PM

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Mooseman): THANK YOU!! I Have been beating my head against the wall with the exact..., by □ Garrett Martin, on sharepoint.stackexchange.com.

Lynn Crumbling

com'mon rene.. you'll get it :)

rene

We have a grace period, now I will use it

Lynn Crumbling

When I google for Jan Dvorak, a pic of Czech porn actor comes up.

ProgramFOX

lol

Lynn Crumbling

@JanDvorak Is this your way of dissuading people from googling for you?

Or... do you have a side gig?

@ProgramFOX Now.. now, it's not nice to point and laugh.

:)

ProgramFOX

4:23 PM

@LynnCrumbling Now.. now, it's not nice to point and accuse me of pointing.

:P

Lynn Crumbling

@SmokeDetector fp matched on float;#6.00000000000000

SmokeDetector

@LynnCrumbling Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

@ProgramFOX hahaha

Morning!

Morning!

4:28 PM

Morning!

bjb568

The what google porn Jan?

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector fp, black magic

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

ProgramFOX

but no baba black magic

Farhan

Hello Room.

I know about the 200 rep per day rule, but is there any suggestion lifting up this limit?

The entire SE network is a lot more popular than years ago.

rene

4:37 PM

No, why?

How often did you hit the rep cap?

Kevin Brown

@Farhan You want Jon Skeet to have more rep?

Farhan

@rene Not many times but when it happens, I lose it.

Mooseman

0

Q: Adding bounty shows two listings on /revisions

I started a bounty on this question. On its /revisions, there are two entries for this: I propose that it look like this instead:

feature-request bounty revisions-list timeline

Farhan

@KevinBrown Wouldn't it be more rep for you too? :)

My question is: How can it be proposed to StackOverflow to increase the daily rep cap to 500, or 1000?

Mooseman

@Farhan It can't.

bjb568

4:42 PM

Already done and declined.

people don't hit the cap barely ever

Mooseman

approve-pls stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/7109678

rene

@Farhan it isn't a big problem: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/216994/…

Jan Dvorak

@Mooseman meh. Why retry?

Mooseman

@JanDvorak Must. Remove. tag:. From. Excerpt.

bjb568

nohaz5k

Farhan

4:50 PM

@bjb568 Was it a question?

bjb568

Yeah MSE

!se Increase OR Remove the rep cap site:meta.stackexchange.com

How does "Reputation" work? - Meta Stack Exchange

75

Q: Revisiting the rep cap (yes, again)

TL;DR: The rep cap system isn't as effective or fair as it might be. I'm proposing one alternative for comment, and would welcome other suggestions too. Disclaimers I'm pretty sure the rep cap hits me harder than anyone else (pretty often over 1000 points in a day), so a change could easily be ...

discussion daily-reputation-limit

Crappy title for SEO

Farhan

@bjb568 That's what I was looking for. Thanks.

Mooseman

5:05 PM

0

Q: How to rehang a door by myself?

I have a door. It fell down. How can I rehang it by myself? More specifically, how can I hold it up, a few inches off the ground, while screwing in the hinges?

home hardware

> I have a door. It fell down.

rene

More a DIY question

The hinges can't be separated? Don't they have a pin that keep the two parts together?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: QUICK WAY TO DEPLOY WEB BROWSER by Michael DiFulvio on unix.stackexchange.com

rene

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@rene Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

bjb568

5:23 PM

Little Professor - Calculator Unboxing

►

user259867

Redesigned Stack Exchange user profiles coming Real Soon Now. Here's what mine will look like http://meta.stackexchange.com/users/4/joel-spolsky?tab=profile http://t.co/Ku3NDgKTUL

Tweeted by spolsky on February 20, 2015 at 4:52 PM

Alexis King

I can't decide if I like the new profile design or not.

bjb568

I don't.

Alexis King

At least there's always the "Activity" tab, which just goes back to the old one.

user259867

@AlexisKing It's getting redesigned too, that's the second step of the project.

Alexis King

5:29 PM

Meh.

user259867

And People Reached is of course there in everyone's face... Reach Out and Touch Faith

Alexis King

The only thing I really dislike about the new design is that it brings other sites from the network onto my profile.

I'd really prefer my site-specific profile to be site-specific, thank you very much.

user259867

Yes, bjb's Helping a Child to Program question will be a top item on all of his profiles. <emoticon fail>

bjb568

@FamousBlueRaincoat eww dark age leriks

@FamousBlueRaincoat :O

@FamousBlueRaincoat … did you try to make a pouty face?

I think you meant >:)

user259867

5:45 PM

Q: "So, what do you really want your profile page on #stackoverflow to feel like?" A: This, and they did just that. http://t.co/kuHu7RAtXT

Tweeted by tinkertim on February 20, 2015 at 5:43 PM

user259867

Jan Dvorak

Dat title skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/26447/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Is Dave Skylark's line containing "Mangia. We're the people. Give us the sh-t." a reference to something? by jim12345 on movies.stackexchange.com

Lynn Crumbling

^ what is that?

lots of "shit" .. but content?

Alexis King

I'm baffled, too

Lynn Crumbling

5:56 PM

@AlexisKing The problem is, that it appears to be a line from the movie.

user259867

@SmokeDetector I'll say it's an answer. Maybe downvotable, but

Pham

Spam A (TPA'd by Mooseman): Efstevens, I myself am also in California however my C Corp. and Series ..., by □ Joel Glenn Wright, on startups.stackexchange.com.

Mooseman

SPAM lifehacks.stackexchange.com/a/5515/15

user259867

LH spam gone. I don't know about startups, the site's nature is such...

Mooseman

6:12 PM

@FamousBlueRaincoat The other answer appears much less biased.

Lynn Crumbling

6:22 PM

Ugh. Another impersonator.

sprugman

5k 14 69 129

javascript php drupal jquery html dojo drupal-6

link-only stackoverflow.com/a/6712176/656243

Shadow Wizard

@Anna @Oded @balpha anyone here? We can no longer edit our profiles, think it can be called a critical bug

Anna Lear

@ShadowWizard yeah, I'm looking

Shadow Wizard

@AnnaLear cheers! :)

Lynn Crumbling

Wow.. nearly network-wide?

"All your profile belong to us?"

TGMCians

@LynnCrumbling yup

SmokeDetector

6:51 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Why did John Brittle have Bible pages sewed into his shirt? by John Brittle on movies.stackexchange.com

Bart

7:05 PM

@LynnCrumbling ceci n'est pas un Lynn

Lynn Crumbling

@Bart No.. it isn't ;)

user259867

7:18 PM

user259867

^ leaked piece of the new Activity page

user259867

7:32 PM

cv-plz finished Javascript course on Code Academy, what should I do now? (noob alert)

user259867

cv-plz The future of hybrid apps

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Ist „von wegen“ unhöflich? by Terminello on german.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore, vulgarity is the subject there

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PARA QUE SERVE A CLASS NO PYTHON by Erick on pt.stackoverflow.com

jadarnel27

8:01 PM

Do you guys remember that time that I broke the build server?

(today was that time)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: awk pattern matching and display delimited values section wise from HTML log by itsavy on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector edited

Lynn Crumbling

@jadarnel27 I remember that!!

.... good times .... le sigh

jadarnel27

It was, indeed, good times.

bjb568

8:21 PM

Is it "My feedback and direction was pretty minimal" or "My feedback and direction were pretty minimal"?

user259867

@bjb568 "were". And consider dropping "pretty",

bjb568

Ok, copy editing some stupid parent's answer.

user259867

The feedback and guidance I received were minimal / terse / insufficient...

bjb568

I mean it's a great answer, but all parents are automatically stupid.

user259867

Parents are the worst. Never deal with them.

6

rene

8:25 PM

Just imagine a world without parents...

Santa Claus

@rene Well I'm initially seeing some problems with that scenario...

hey @bjb, were you supposed to take the PARCC tests this week or next?

bjb568

Next, I think.

Santa Claus

@bjb568 Me too...I think my school was going to do more test prep this week but that didn't exactly happen...

bjb568

parenting.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/7486

Santa Claus

8:45 PM

@bjb568 Are you doing one section of a test each day, like we are?

hichris123

Hmm, can I have a volunteer?

...

@FamousBlueRaincoat?

user259867

@hichris123 I have ~7 minutes right now.

user259867

Meaning I'm free but not for long.

hichris123

@FamousBlueRaincoat This won't take long. Can you just pin chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/18632244#18632244?

user259867

@hichris123 pinned

hichris123

8:53 PM

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 25 secs ago, by hichris123

Thanks @Famous!

back

Hi!

howdy

@SantaClaus IDK

Going to techolympics

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Numbers-only title: 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1++1+1+1+1++1+1+1+1+1++1+1+1 by user218015 on math.stackexchange.com

rene

9:06 PM

I misclicked: anyone for cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28458076/…

Frank

yaaaawn

SmokeDetector

9:32 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Why do most Muslims believe in Adam's Apple while it is never mentioned to be an Apple? by miky mike on islam.stackexchange.com

Frank

9:49 PM

I should just stop flagging vlq on slam.se...

bjb568

Interesting place here.

Frank

why?

bjb568

In the party area thing.

Frank

meh

bjb568

Kinda noisy.

Wifi has nontrivial password.

Frank

9:50 PM

ha

long as you have something to do...

bjb568

Chatting with you!

:P

Yeah, there's stuff.

Frank

kewl

I like air hockey

bjb568

I like observation.

Frank

cats make good birdwatchers

when they're hungry

bjb568

10:07 PM

Me no like teh lighting.

Undo

@bjb568 u speledd 'like' ryght, noe starr 4 u.

bjb568

:O

DevDoodle is blocked on their computers because untrusted.

How long do edits take to get thru on small sites like parenting?

no votes yet here parenting.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/7486

Frank

10:27 PM

Waffles!

(for real)

bjb568

Yum

Frank

or pizza.

My choice

bjb568

Me gonna eat teh dinner, IDK quality

buffet thing

Smells pizza

good sign

Shadow Wizard

> You have already reviewed this item. It needs more reviews from other users to be completed

Frank

I like buffets with a fixed rate. I totally rip them off :P

bjb568

10:58 PM

Ate pizza

kinda weird, rate 7/12

annoying lights

Frank

y, no cheese?

yeah I hate pizza with lights in it

bjb568

note to self: get napkins

Frank

pink?

that is weird lighting

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