Tavern on the Meta

2:00 PM

I just hate upsetting regular users with the wrong questions.

Thanks Andrew

I missed the original site - are you looking to post on writers? (@AndrewT. I see you keep mentioning that.. I imagine that's the target.)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Did Gandhi call vaccination a barbarous practice? by Yord Addy on skeptics.stackexchange.com

Andrew T.

Erm... their chatroom is not-so-active though

Lynn Crumbling

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@LynnCrumbling Blacklisted user.

Lynn Crumbling

2:02 PM

@AndrewT. Maybe post on their meta?

SPArchaeologist

@balpha - already reported them, but you may want to know that there is a site that use SE data and copies profiles info too. The profiles seem to include birthday date info - which is hidden on SE. Also the dates seems to be faked out based on the ages of the users - I think they guessed months and days.... or the whole date when an age wasn't available.

user259867

@SmokeDetector offensive or spam? I went with spam because of the link at the end.

Lynn Crumbling

@FamousBlueRaincoat I went with offensive... but I could easily see spam.

Jan Dvorak

I'm torn. Both work and they stack.

user259867

Too bad we can't do both. :(

user259867

2:05 PM

Offensive spam is a thing now, it seems.

Jan Dvorak

That would allow a three-person nuke

Lynn Crumbling

[status-feature-request] spammy offensiveness.

Jan Dvorak

all spam is offensive, or at least abusive.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Lynn Crumbling

2:07 PM

...and now for the part of my day where I attempt to wake myself up with coffee.

Jan Dvorak

@LynnCrumbling great way to end up with addiction

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector vaccine gone to spam flag

Martijn Pieters

@MarcGravell: my rep is off again today; someone un-upvoted, then upvoted again.

Now I've hit the cap, and my /reputation audit and displayed rep differ by 10.

It'll right itself at midnight, but I thought you'd like to know about such events.

The vote undone was from yesterday, so presumably the cap for yesterday is recalculated.

Lynn Crumbling

@JanDvorak No worse than SO/SE :)

Martijn Pieters

@Oded: For you as well, ^

(not sure if you are tracking the rep calculation / caching code).

J. Steen

2:21 PM

Ah, the fun of adding identity to existing tables in sql server...

I hate useless ids.

Braiam

@J.Steen so you hate the id 199700?

J. Steen

Yes.

Lynn Crumbling

@J.Steen I've gone to using uniqueidentifiers nearly entirely.

Undo

2:41 PM

Repcap 12 away from 20k :(

user259867

> I spent the past weekend fixing the ignition system in a 30-year-old riding lawnmower.

user259867

This time Shog9 took far too long to get to the main part of the story. All that endless talk about closing. :/

Lynn Crumbling

@Undo That dog is so friggin cute.

Mooseman

2:57 PM

delete-vote-pls stackoverflow.com/q/756342/1234256

Marc Gravell

@MartijnPieters I forced a recalc for you; +10

bjb568

3:14 PM

@LynnCrumbling You mean kitteh, right? Right?

@SantaClaus next week

bummi

I flagged here as NAA electronics.stackexchange.com/a/156813/27928 I did not see the username :/ maybe some extra flags would be appropriate

J. Steen

Offensive! =D

bummi

@J.Steen Indeed :/

J. Steen

You flagged it, it entered the queue, that is a start. =D

Martijn Pieters

@MarcGravell thanks; did you want to be pinged for such small discrepancies still?

Patrick Hofman

3:18 PM

cv-pls recommendation stackoverflow.com/questions/28699460/…

Martijn Pieters

I don't mind, just that there might be small flaws in the rep code.

J. Steen

@PatrickHofman And link only answer, admittedly.

Patrick Hofman

@J.Steen True. Never mind, the question will be deleted soon.

GnomeSlice

Today's Listening | Synthwave / Electronic / Instrumental

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Mooseman): I had this: Numlock had been toggled on., by □ TLC, on apple.stackexchange.com.

J. Steen

3:24 PM

..too bad macbooks don't have numlock. >.>

Mooseman

@J.Steen I'm on Windows and my keyboard doesn't have numlock...

J. Steen

@Mooseman Mine does, if I stand on my head and sacrifice a goat to the UX gods.

Or, reach for the separate, wireless numpad.

Jan Dvorak

My keyboard has numLock as fn+insert

Granted, it's a windows machine

Santa Claus

@bjb568 welp I take it in 2 hours

Qantas 94 Heavy

3:40 PM

night everyone

bummi

night

Lynn Crumbling

@bjb568 Errmmm.. Yes! That kitten is so friggin cute.

bummi

4:06 PM

offensive askubuntu.com/a/589373/184892

Lynn Crumbling

^ yep

Unihedro

github.com/jhndaujga

What the. Holy mcnuggets.

also, 1cvplz stackoverflow.com/questions/28688867/…

61612

Done

Lynn Crumbling

@61612 YOU STOLE MY MOMENT. le sigh

Unihedro

Woohoo!

61612

4:09 PM

:D

Lynn Crumbling

:)

Unihedro

@LynnCrumbling You can use your flag/votes somewhere else :p

Lynn Crumbling

@bummi This is at -5.

Kevin Brown

@Unihedro that's unfortunate, they (awesomeplete) were featured in the GitHub newsletter this week

Unihedro

@LynnCrumbling What is? :) Gone

Kevin Brown

4:11 PM

@bummi gone

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MAGNITUDE, DIRECTION & PARALLELOGRAM LAW? by MITHILESH on physics.stackexchange.com

Lynn Crumbling

cheers .. GO TAVERN POWER!

@SmokeDetector WHAT is the actual question??

Flagging unclear.

danke.

GnomeSlice

@Unihedro soundcloud.com/xyce/la-cherie-xm

Bart

^^ who flagged that?

Thanks btw @GnomeSlice

GnomeSlice

@Bart Flagged what? My message?

Bart

4:24 PM

Yeah

GnomeSlice

I didn't even notice.

Wasn't approved so I wouldn't worry too much.

@Bart Not sure if you saw this:

1 hour ago, by GnomeSlice

Today's Listening | Synthwave / Electronic / Instrumental

Bart

It wasn't me who flagged it this time, because I was able to invalidate it :D

Ooh, missed that.

GnomeSlice

4:36 PM

Man I gotta get my hands on this release.

Unihedro

A similar answer by the same user was present previously. It's back now. Spam? lifehacks.stackexchange.com/posts/5580/revisions

Braiam

Then, what would be the difference between those "valid answers" and self-promotion/spam? — Braiam Feb 17 at 14:45

I saw this coming...

Lynn Crumbling

@Braiam Ugh. I agree.

user259867

Eh, it's lifehacks. I'm going to add it to my list of ignored sites along with islam and [language]-SO.

2

61612

And parenting

Lynn Crumbling

4:44 PM

@FamousBlueRaincoat HAHAHA. Star.

user259867

@61612 Parenting at least has those questions from @bjb568 and @Doorknob. (Kids these days)

61612

Oh

Jan Dvorak

Might be worth a separate meta question: "What counts as spam on LH?"

Unihedro

The golden rule: Don't get caught :)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, Phone number detected: ＄µƿr+＄†rǸＧ+919829866507iNtErCaSt LoVe MaRrIaGe LoVe BaCk SpEcIaLiSt MoLvIJI by lovegurujibaba on webapps.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

4:58 PM

inb4 "FR: disable the spam flag on answers if you're not willing to remove it"

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

@SmokeDetector gone

fp

@SmokeDetector fp

5:01 PM

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

bummi

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

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

Unihedro

Code understanding is in Commitment phase!!!

ProgramFOX

Hm, interesting!

committed ;)

Unihedro

:D

Welcome aboard!

user259867

5:12 PM

And then there is Code Recommendations which is somehow(?) different from Software Recommendations

user259867

Совсем скоро это произойдет! http://discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/q/19896/202

Tweeted by tinkertim on February 24, 2015 at 5:04 PM

user259867

Great, then I'll be downvoting in my native language.

user259867

Well, downvoting is my second language anyway.

Unihedro

..

user259867

They will import hashcode.ru into ru.SO...

Unihedro

5:16 PM

Oh no! My holiday is ending soon.

ProgramFOX

@FamousBlueRaincoat Do you... only have 10 upvotes on Math? :O

TGMCians

\o

ProgramFOX

o/

Unihedro

\o/

Wait, why is that backwards?!

user259867

@ProgramFOX I don't speak upvoting very well, so yes. The site needs downvotes more than it needs upvotes. And I have only 40 in total (well, 80 with the roomba trick), so I prioritize.

Unihedro

5:20 PM

Mathematics and Stack Overflow are places I can use up all my votes as downvotes and feel I've made the world better.

user259867

@Unihedro You don't have 125 on Math, though.

Unihedro

Wait, really?

Oh... ;(

Frank

lol

bummi

@ProgramFOX can we add "50 shades of gray" to the bots, I did see 2 two spam posts today

ProgramFOX

@bummi No, because currently there is this contest on PPCG, which is totally valid: codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/45736/9275

Jan Dvorak

5:31 PM

@bummi Was it on LifeHacks?

ProgramFOX

I think that'd generate many FPs.

Also, I don't think there can be more legitimate questions about it, without being spam.

Andrew T.

@bummi Are there any keywords that are more specific than "50 shades of gray"?

bummi

mhhmm, since it are hint's the question would be what's worse false positives or not caught spam ....

Andrew T.

Movies & TV would be mad if it's blacklisted (well, not really, but..)

bummi

@AndrewT. they are gone, I don't know, will report the next

user259867

5:35 PM

Yesterday on Math we had a user posting extended quotes from there. Was caught by Smokey normally.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Can no longer boot after a restart by ayy Boi on askubuntu.com

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector ignore, but maybe need formatting...

SmokeDetector

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

ProgramFOX

NAA codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/24134/…

ugh, another crap answer from that user: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/47042/9275

user259867

5:53 PM

~~Borderline~~ spam. Irrelevant promotion of own instagram account => spam

Undo

@ProgramFOX flagged as abusive

ProgramFOX

I like that I have 4k now on PPCG, now I can delvote answers :D

Unihedro

:O

ProgramFOX

!!/addblu codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/38154/maddylin

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX User blacklisted (38154 on codegolf.stackexchange.com).

Unihedro

5:55 PM

...... instagram?

user259867

Yep, apparently that's still a thing.

ProgramFOX

> deleted by ProgramFOX, Community ♦ 7 secs ago

One of the "answers" is gone, other one still around.

Unihedro

Instagram is the source of weird cats. Facebook is the source of casual cats. Twitter is the source of random cats, and Stack Exchange is the source of professional cats.

4

Mooseman

@ProgramFOX SPAM codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/47041/38155

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Create a simple 2048 game clone by Maddylin on codegolf.stackexchange.com

Unihedro

5:57 PM

The twitter and facebook part may be messed up because I don't use Facebook.

Andrew T.

Either I'm not instagram-savvy, or the username (Maddylin1016) is not valid there

Unihedro

I suddenly want to hear a variation for the Roses are Red poem. Can someone recite one?

Mooseman

Stack Overflow is red
Super User is blue
The tavern is funny
No thanks to you

8

user259867

Music Fans is in private beta now.

Unihedro

I'm user #26.

Mooseman

6:04 PM

Notifications are red
Stack Exchange is blue
Reputation is green
And makes people mean

14

Unihedro

Rep...u...ta...tion

user259867

The second line could be "Mod flags are blue". If written from a mod's perspective.

Mooseman

Fire is red
Fire is blue
Burnination is good
When we burninate you

In honor of foo

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector gone

Jan Dvorak

aaand protected

Mooseman

6:09 PM

No stars for the burnination poem :(

Unihedro

As the room owner and one of the founders of the tag burnination room, I approve of the poem.

ProgramFOX

Stars are red
Stars are blue
A star for me
And a star for you

user259867

@Unihedro I think you mean distinguish. "distinct" is an adjective.

Unihedro

... where?

user259867

@Unihedro Your Music Fans question.

Unihedro

6:12 PM

Oh.

Well, someone edited it.

Oh, someone suggested an edit, then it was approved.

user259867

By Robert Cartaino himself.

Unihedro

:O

I feel privileged to have a post reviewed by him!

I'm currently just asking questions to create tags. xD

bummi

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/28702717/1699210

TGMCians

@bummi gone

bummi

@TGMCians I did the :) Bill ...

TGMCians

6:19 PM

yeah..

bummi

some tried even to migrate :/

TGMCians

aah

bjb568

6:35 PM

Rep u ta tion cahn be red...

ProgramFOX

Gram mar a nd spell ing cahn be hard...

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp, edit suggested

SmokeDetector

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

user259867

6:53 PM

0

Q: The search parameter isanswered ignores acceptances

The SE definition of "answered" question is: has an answer that is either accepted or has positive score. But the search parameter isanswered appears to ignore the "accepted" clause: when set to "no" it still returns questions with an accepted answer, as long as it has 0 score. Sample query to ...

nicael

0

A: Let's name our chat room

Gamma Maybe? Could be also "Major gamma" or... "Ascending gamma".

Join Music Fans!

user259867

Does anyone know about isanswered operator in search? It's not listed on the search help page

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PLANT KINGDOM CBSE by user14627 on biology.stackexchange.com

Frank

@nicael upvotes

Jan Dvorak

answers:1?

user259867

6:58 PM

@JanDvorak No, if all answers have zero score it's still unanswered by SE definition.

user259867

(And if none are accepted)

user259867

My point is, the [undocumented] operator exists but behaves a little oddly.

Frank

naa gardening.stackexchange.com/a/17421/419

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PLANT PHOTOSYNTHESIS by user14627 on biology.stackexchange.com

Kevin Brown

Arguing about a test question ^

Frank

7:10 PM

ik

NoviceSEMetaGeek

Right now when you wish to Post anything on Stack Exchange Meta or any other Meta site, You click on the "Ask Question" button on the top right of every SE page. For SE Meta I believe the wording is a bit confusing.

When you are posting on any Meta site you aren't always asking a question, you could be reporting a bug or making a proposal like I am. You are not always "asking" on Meta. I think It would make a bit more sense if the wording was something like "Post on Meta" or just simply "Post" or "Post on this Meta".

Kevin Brown

You could look at it as "asking if a bug report is accurate" or "asking for a new feature"

Jan Dvorak

@KevinBrown The bug one is a bit far-fetched

user259867

"When are you going to fix this?" "Do you even test your code?" :-)

Kevin Brown

@JanDvorak Yeah, that one doesn't work as well.

Jan Dvorak

7:19 PM

"What punishment will the responsible dev receive?"

NoviceSEMetaGeek

@KevinBrown OK. Maybe... But I tend to look at it as a report that there is a bug that needs fixing.

@JanDvorak Very far feched

@FamousBlueRaincoat Its their website they had better fix it

user259867

> Meta is a chimera, a terrifying abomination - you gotta just make the most of it. (from the bottom of this post

Hobo Sapiens

cv-pls Homework dump stackoverflow.com/q/28703696/1864610

jadarnel27

cv-because-i-said-so stackoverflow.com/questions/28695249/…

user259867

On SO, it seems that closing of such things [I mean HW dumps] is almost unnecessary. What is the chance that anyone will answer? Downvoted and without an answer, it gets deleted anyway.

user259867

7:25 PM

(On Math it's different, since the folks there cheerfully do others' copy-pasted homework.)

NoviceSEMetaGeek

@FamousBlueRaincoat I like Meta, Its just anoying sometimes

bummi

Strange post here: stackoverflow.com/questions/28617250/… , looks if at least 2 account point to one user, maybe all three. The pending edit is from a deleted answer of Why Foo

Hobo Sapiens

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/28677284/1864610 Originally off-topic, but now it's been self-vandalised

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp edit suggested

SmokeDetector

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

Hobo Sapiens

7:33 PM

@FamousBlueRaincoat Whilst that's true, the downvotes and rapid close send a message to the OP that he clearly didn't get from the help centre.

NoviceSEMetaGeek

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/186668/… I flaged it as offensive but O DEAR!

user259867

@NoviceSEMetaGeek It's not offensive. It's an expression of frustration, which I now edited out.

NoviceSEMetaGeek

I guess we will agree to disagree

Frank

wow...

NoviceSEMetaGeek

@Frank wow what?

Frank

7:37 PM

@NoviceSEMetaGeek Don't get why you disagree with what Famous said.

NoviceSEMetaGeek

@Frank all of that foul language and cussing was VERY offensive.

Frank

He edited.

Undo

@NoviceSEMetaGeek sure, but it's been edited out now.

Let me dig up reference on when to use that flag

Frank

@Novice, Keep in mind you can edit out offensive things from otherwise decent posts yourself. It's better than flagging.

Undo

can't find it right now

user259867

7:41 PM

I found something: "When you decide to flag a post Offensive, you will get a warning dialog. Take this time to decide if the post is really offensive." source

user259867

There is no such warning dialog, is there?

Undo

Anyway: Abusive flags carry pretty substantial penalties designed for people we don't want coming back, ever. If someone's contributing real content, but they're swearing occasionally/often, that's something for a moderator to handle with a message/suspension, not for users to handle with -100 rep penalties and IP blocks.

Frank

@FamousBlueRaincoat nope, not here

user259867

I'll edit it then.

user259867

That's an interesting case: it's also frustration rather than abuse, but also the post is worthless. Hm.

Frank

7:47 PM

@SmokeDetector gone

Wow, vote surge on the LH pro tem nom. thread

Mine's now at +31/-3

... and the next open nomination is at +15/-9

Mooseman

I still want to know what I've done to be given -9 :/

Frank

So you can take revenge? >:]

jk

Mooseman

lol But really I just want to know if I really did something wrong so I don't do it again. I think some of those downvotes are close vote revenge though.

Hiya @bjb

bjb568

hiya

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: R RBIND TXT FILES WITH DIFFERENT LENGTH OF ROWS by pshls on stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

7:56 PM

POB? stackoverflow.com/questions/28584669/…

Mooseman

@JanDvorak I'd say no. If anything, I'd say it would've been too localized.

I concur

@Mooseman when?

@Frank ???

sorry was being dumb

You said, "I'd say ..."

so I was asking when you were going to say it

Mooseman

8:00 PM

lol

Hobo Sapiens

@JanDvorak The help centre is at pains to point out that not all opinion-based questions need be off-topic. This looks pretty good to me. I'd upvote it if I had any votes left :(

Jan Dvorak

@HoboSapiens It certainly doesn't make a good audit, does it?

Hobo Sapiens

@JanDvorak There I have to agree with you

Mooseman

@JanDvorak Most audits aren't good audits...

Jan Dvorak

@Mooseman The devs would certainly like to disagree

... even more so for suggested edits, but I assume you aren't talking about these

Mooseman

8:04 PM

@JanDvorak I'm aware of that. It's the votes on which the logic is based that cause the bad audits. Unless somebody from SE was to actually review the audits manually...

Jan Dvorak

unlikely.

If you create a queue for that, who's going to watch the watchers?

rene

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28705157/… or a translator...

61612

Closed

Mooseman

My fastest popular question badge ever :) meta.stackoverflow.com/q/286670/1234256

nicael

1

A: Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.)

Currently it's kinda difficult to explore profile pages using mobile web (click "mobile" link in the bottom and check the profile page) , please don't forget to fix it :) E.g.: Summary: Questions:

nicael

9:07 PM

0

A: Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.)

As you are modifying profile editor anyway, can "About me" preview be added please?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Who shovels shit in full communism? by Victor Koukin on politics.stackexchange.com

Bart

Not really, strangely enough

Hobo Sapiens

opinion-please There's something odd here: stackoverflow.com/q/28706368/1864610 It could be genuine, or it might be spam. the link returns a 404 error. Thoughts?

Jan Dvorak

closeworthy

Bart

Seems like a legit site that the OP just happens to be using @HoboSapiens. Looks fishy, but probably isn't

rene

9:20 PM

I had a similar one earlier last week that I just cv-ed

Hobo Sapiens

Ok - thanks. I won't flag. it. Out of votes, though :(

user259867

@HoboSapiens I think he got the URL wrong: the documentation of that system has silent/embedded/pay not silent/pay

user259867

Or something else could be wrong. But not spam.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Gmail app duplicate notifications - one for Inbox and again for Custom Label by Rick on android.stackexchange.com

Hobo Sapiens

@FamousBlueRaincoat Your revised link also returns a 404...

user259867

9:23 PM

Okay, maybe it's just POST endpoint and HTTP GET requests are denied.

Bart

Oh sure, that site is all take take take, but no give ... bastard site

rene

Maybe Icelandic or Greece owners?

Bart

@rene high fives Dijsselbloem

rene

9:38 PM

:D

gunr2171

9:52 PM

is @PatrickHofman here?

If not, then I'll just leave this message. It seems the devs made the flag count public, however I noticed a problem where if you view another person's profile there will be no space between the number and the "helpful flags".

bjb568

lel

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website, Blacklisted user: Having trouble flashing a custom recovery onto my HTC one m8 by user95630 on android.stackexchange.com

gunr2171

@gunr2171 I was planning on editing your post to include that unless the mods get my comment.

bjb568

@SmokeDetector tp

it no leik muuuuuu

gunr2171

Roses are red
Here's something new
Violets are violet
Not f-ing blue!

2

bjb568

9:58 PM

s/roses/reds

gunr2171

?

you young people and your abbreviated edit syntax.

Bart

10:11 PM

Santa Claus

10:27 PM

I took the first section of the 9th Grade PARCC english test today.

Half of us got an excerpt from <redacted>, and the other half got an excerpt from <redacted>.

So much for standardized testing.

Doorknob

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Doorknob Blacklisted user.

Doorknob

sh.st spam android.stackexchange.com/a/100795/39808

Santa Claus

Don't look at the chat history on that one @bjb568

Bart

If you both got an excerpt from <redacted> then what is the problem?

Santa Claus

10:30 PM

@Bart <redacted> is incredibly more difficult to read than <redacted>

@KevinBrown I've taken standardized tests for the last 9 years and haven't once gotten different passages than everybody else.

I'd much rather have gotten <redacted> than <redacted>.

Kevin Brown

Right, I've never run into a situation where one version was considerably more difficult than the other

Though one year we all were taught how to make grilled cheese for a question

Bart

Absolutely. Those brothers write tricky stuff.

Doorknob

Off-topic: Am I the only one who sees a striking resemblance of Benjamin from Animal Farm to Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide?

Mr. Bultitude

10:50 PM

Under what circumstances are closed questions automatically added to the reopen queue after an edit? Always?

Frank

@Doorknob lel

Benjamin was more awesome tho

such a great 'guy'

Doorknob

@Mr.Bultitude Yes, always. (If the edit was yours, of course you won't see it.)

Mr. Bultitude

@Doorknob Thanks.

Santa Claus

@Bart I might argue that an excerpt from a relatively well-known fairytale is easier and less intimidating than a random excerpt from the middle of a poem originally written more than 1000 years ago.

Frank

flat tires are awesome. :/

Santa Claus

10:59 PM

And @bjb568 You are damn lucky you are taking the paper version. It would have been a nightmare to have to click/scroll through the passages as much as I had to.

Actually, it might have been easier on the computer, but I'm not sure how the computer testing works...

Frank

Old mechanics never die, they just sometimes lose their bearings.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: How do I take a screenshot? by Emily028 on askubuntu.com

Doorknob

Why is screenshot.net blacklisted?

Jan Dvorak

^

Santa Claus

^

Frank

11:09 PM

^

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How can I tell premium cars apart from standard ones? by Dirtymunter on gaming.stackexchange.com

Doorknob

@SmokeDetector tp, naa

SmokeDetector

@Doorknob true/tp cannot be used for answers because their job is to add the title of the question to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'. If you want to blacklist the poster of the answer, use trueu or tpu.

Jan Dvorak

The site seems legit to me even though the link use is semi-useless.

Doorknob

@SmokeDetector tpu, fine, he's unlikely to make any positive contributions anyway

SmokeDetector

11:10 PM

@Doorknob Blacklisted user.

Kevin Brown

in Ask a Super User Moderator on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Feb 14 at 2:43, by DragonLord

Apowersoft (including screenshot.net and downloadavideo.net) seriously needs to be blacklisted.

Jan Dvorak

still... why?

Frank

coming up...

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Jan Dvorak

If you insist on using the american date format... can't you at least use dashes so that it doesn't look like the other, saner format?

user259867

@Mr.Bultitude Not always. It has to be a recently closed question, the edit has to change the body of the question, and some users are excluded. Details here

Jan Dvorak

11:21 PM

I mean... mixed-endian, because... why?

user259867

But if you use dashes, then 3-14 does not look quite like 3.1415926...

Jan Dvorak

How about 13*28 days per year, plus one non-month day or two?

Then a double leap year would make this possible.

bjb568

@Frank tau is better, but dates are arbitrary

Also, what timezone?

Frank

@bjb568 doesn't matter

bjb568

The whole thing is just meh.

user259867

11:34 PM

Seeing my name as #7 on SO top downvoters list (by %) was a bit of surprise... currently trying to mend my ways by upvoting good 0-score answers. Going thru(?) no, through! intags:mine answers:1 isanswered:0

Mr. Bultitude

@FamousBlueRaincoat Ah! Thanks a million.

user259867

offensive history.stackexchange.com/questions/20596/…

user259867

Actually, everything by that user should be nuked. history.stackexchange.com/users/11463/bilalmunim32

bummi

one is left history.stackexchange.com/a/20594/2921

SmokeDetector

11:54 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: What's the Best Items to Upgrade in FF Four Heroes of Light? by Clinton on gaming.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector LQ answer. "Hero crown" may be an actual answer, and ffffff added to pad the length.

Frank

very lq

Jan Dvorak

I'm offended by their choice of filler

Frank

ha

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