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12:04 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: STEVE JOBS AND DCIM APPLE IPHONE by FUCK YOU on apple.stackexchange.com

Jason C

Heh

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

user259867

@SmokeDetector gone

user259867

12:21 AM

> As an example, utilise the data , , and to construct a clamped spline that approximates . The required additional information is that since , so and . Illustrate graphically the curves of the two functions (real and approximated one) for the range .

user259867

^ an actual "question".

user259867

I don't think even read what they copy and paste.

user259867

An inspiration for chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3198259#3198259

bjb568

Situation in english: grades due last monday. A quiz for some reason was 0 (not graded, lost in stack), then blank. Now is blank and quarter grade is 89%. Teacher wasn't here today. I'll have A if I got 23/25 or better on quiz.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: At the end of the manga "Sundome", what happens to Kurumi Sahana? by Nobu Toriyama on anime.stackexchange.com

hichris123

12:29 AM

@bjb568 bah your English is probably easy anyway...

Jan Dvorak

^^could use an edit

hichris123

I could use an edit?!

Jan Dvorak

The answer could use having its last paragraph removed.

James

Morning

hichris123

12:50 AM

evening

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Is there idiom for "I'm not an expert when it comes to kinds of feces" by Gabbar Singh on english.stackexchange.com

James

1:46 AM

It's very quiet right now

even smokey is quiet

@bjb568 if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

hichris123

old

he's like 99

or maybe he rolled over and is now 0.

or maybe somewhere in between.

James

hmmm, so its a mystery

hichris123

No, it's very clear: he's $age years old.

user259867

Gah, I fixed my filter for interesting unanswered questions, and now have too many interesting questions to answer... not enough time.

hichris123

Wait, this doesn't have a PHP interpreter! :P

James

1:52 AM

feature-request NO PHP INTERPRETER FOR CHAT! EVER

hichris123

@Woodface By complaining about how you have no time you proved that you have enough time. Catch 22.

user259867

Meanwhile, @hichris123's most recent SO answer was Oct 19 '14 at 16:40.

hichris123

HOW MANY SECONDS, HMM?

Doorknob

Mine was this month! :P

James

Mine was yesterday

I really need to broaden my knowledge base outside of Java, Spring and Hibernate. I'm never going to get Great Answer badge otherwise

bjb568

1:55 AM

@hichris123 Spot on!

@James JS is bettah!

James

hmm yes

hichris123

@bjb568 obviously, my PHP is flawless.

Doorknob

JS is a messed up language

hichris123

Oh wait, that's not what you're talking about. :(

bjb568

:p

James

1:56 AM

Not as messed up as PHP

hichris123

@James PHP!

James

Yeah, I need to broaden my knowledge outside of languages that don't make me retch either

what the hell is the practical application of metaphone()

bjb568

s/t/g/

hichris123

Where's that PHP hammer?

bjb568

What are the conflicts in my town? I thot there are no conflicts in that style…

hichris123

1:59 AM

ah:

bjb568

Nobody does anything for the entire play…

hichris123

*day?

bjb568

Play.

Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Plays are performed at a variety of levels, from Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, to Community theatre, as well as University or school productions. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed or read. The term "play" can refer to both the written works of playwrights and to their complete theatrical performance. == Genres == ...

hichris123

Why are we talking about plays?

bjb568

2 mins ago, by bjb568

What are the conflicts in my town? I thot there are no conflicts in that style…

hichris123

2:01 AM

We were talking about your ~~town~~ play?

bjb568

Our town.

Not mine.

hichris123

town != play

bjb568

Same thing.

Our Town

Our Town is a 1938 three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. Throughout Wilder uses metatheatrical devices setting the play in the actual theatre where it is being performed. The main character is the stage manager of the theatre who directly addresses the audience, brings in guests lecturers, fields questions from the audience, and fills in playing some of the roles. The play is performed without a set and the actors mime their actions without...

hichris123

yes, I know.

I read it.

Our Town != my town though

bjb568

2 mins ago, by bjb568

Same thing.

hichris123

2:04 AM

yeah no.

Dell enabled RCE against their own customers in a shocking case of sheer, utter, reckless stupidity. http://tomforb.es/dell-system-detect-rce-vulnerability

Tweeted by SwiftOnSecurity on March 25, 2015 at 1:23 AM

user259867

Yep, @jekyllrb Pygments highlighting uses a frankenstein Python process launch on-post-compile that's a special brand of crazy on Windows.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on March 25, 2015 at 2:02 AM

James

wow

user259867

I've no idea what it means, and I appreciate this fact. Not having to know this, I mean.

bjb568

heheh, history textbook said "Stock Exchange", I read it as "Stack Exchange" :P

hichris123

Now I know @JasonC's email address!

user259867

2:21 AM

Uh oh. Good that I haven't gotten around to contributing spam keywords via pull requests.

user259867

That said, sourceforge.net/projects/pdftoexcelconverter/ has been spamming multiple sites and deserves to be there.

James

D'you reckon this should be flagged as spam or just not an answer?

0

A: animate the view on swiping android

One of my friend build an Awesome animation utility library. Here it is, https://github.com/daimajia/AndroidViewAnimations Check this out and let me know if it helps for you. it contains so many cool Animation which can be applied to any view with one line of code. eg: YoYo.with(Technique...

The one answer I mean

user259867

Well, considering that hichris moderates a site on which I have an account, the email wouldn't be news to him...

James

SPAM:stackoverflow.com/a/29245977/2357233

hichris123

@Woodface I don't click random people's emails. :)

Oh wait, your email is...

> (click to show)

user259867

2:28 AM

But... I'm not a random person. I'm kind of a big deal... at least in the downvote department.

user259867

#9 SE-wide currently. (Not adding votes over different sites.)

hichris123

even random is random.

Santa Claus

@bjb568 Maybe you actually got a 0/25...

bjb568

no

Santa Claus

@hichris123 changes email address in panic

@bjb568 I got a 0/25 on a quiz in 7th grade.

bjb568

2:33 AM

Umm… IDK about all of this! I'll try C all the way down!

there were no Cs

Santa Claus

@bjb568 It was more like "Fuck this, I'll just choose the answer I know its not"

bjb568

Oh, that too.

f'(x) starts at -1/2. d) f'(x) > 0 on the interval

(actual AP practice problem)

user259867

Weird. Maybe they meant f(x) "starts". Whatever "starts" means.

user259867

Possibly, f takes the value -1/2 at the left endpoint of said interval.

Santa Claus

@bjb568 That teacher made me retake the test that period (it was gradecam, so it was graded instantly), and I got out with an A.

bjb568

2:38 AM

@Woodface That. I simplified it.

Lynn Crumbling

@Frank around?

bjb568

It was f'(x) with an ordered pair on f' with a graph of f''.

@LynnCrumbling ya, him sock is heeaawr!

Lynn Crumbling

heh.

James

@bjb568 cv-plz unclear what you are asking

bjb568

Not asking.

James

2:49 AM

I was being facetious, but is this an exam question, and if so what was the entire question

bjb568

Don't have it.

James

lame

bjb568

heh reddit.com/r/science/comments/306d1k/…

James

urgh, when will these desperate idiots stop clutching at straws

Lynn Crumbling

@James That spam lives on... stackoverflow.com/a/29245977/656243

It's got to be getting close to -6.

James

2:58 AM

lame.....

Lynn Crumbling

gone! yay!

Frank

@LynnCrumbling for a short time now - gotta run then

Lynn Crumbling

k.. got those pics.

bjb568

> ATC control towers are equipped with light guns

s/light/kewl laser/

AstroCB

meta.stackoverflow.com/help/badges/88/…

bjb568

3:02 AM

6

A: Can planes still land during a regionally-diverse ATC malfunction?

Not all airport actually have a control tower, so it is very much possible to land without any tower assistance. On major airports however it would likely become chaos in very short time. In order to be able to communicate to aircraft in case of a radio failure, ATC control towers are equipped ...

AstroCB

Now the only Meta required tag I don't have a tag badge for is bug...

James

well done Astro

AstroCB

Goes searching for huge bug that puts SE in jeopardy

Lynn Crumbling

@Frank ok.. copying to dropbox.

bjb568

@AstroCB MSE footer contrast? :p

Lynn Crumbling

3:04 AM

@Frank dropbox.com/s/axyt48jjgbwf2jz/tree.zip?dl=0

@Frank Big zip of tree pics. They aren't great. But they're there.

@Frank Just grab the file.. we'll chat about them tomorrow.. no need to use up your time now.

AstroCB

@bjb568 No; it needs to be something on this scale:

2

^ Look at how that one piece is off

Frank

@LynnCrumbling Cool! Thanks!

Lynn Crumbling

@Frank and thank you!

bjb568

@AstroCB :O

James

@AstroCB how.... how did you notice that?

at a practical level?

user259867

3:07 AM

wat Trying to put bounty on this question brings up non-existent page math.stackexchange.com/posts/bounty/start/186557

AstroCB

@James This guy has a sharp attention to detail.

Michael Rader, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

367 2 6

user259867

Anyone having problems with bounties lately?

James

Woweee

@Woodface never set a bounty never got a bounty so no

AstroCB

bjb568

user259867

3:10 AM

@AstroCB Yes, I get that far. And then?

user259867

(If you lose 50 rep, I'll refund) :)

AstroCB

@Woodface Oh; I thought the dialog just wasn't loading.

Reason?

Frank

@LynnCrumbling for some reason I can't open any of the files...

AstroCB

@Woodface I don't need any rep on Math.

user259867

Reason for 404? I don't know.

AstroCB

3:11 AM

What bounty reason do you want?

user259867

Draw attention.

AstroCB

@Woodface 404

Huh.

Lynn Crumbling

@Frank That's odd.

user259867

I'll try another question...

James

quick @AstroCB bug tag, bug tag

bjb568

3:12 AM

boop boop

user259867

It's the same on every post, it seems. I'll try it on meta.SE then...

user259867

404 on meta, too.

AstroCB

@Woodface Repro'd

I think I'll just go back to parsing the HTML inside of my XML with regex...

user259867

What surprises me is that nobody reported this on meta.SO yet.

AstroCB

status-closed

Hobo Sapiens

3:18 AM

@AstroCB ty

bjb568

Night!

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

user259867

3:52 AM

user259867

Heh, a telling collection of useful links.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, Bad keyword in body, Blacklisted website: Healthier and ideal to seem stunning? by spartywarny on drupal.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu BBB.

SmokeDetector

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

user259867

BBB = Bad, Bad, Blacklisted

AstroCB

4:00 AM

It's Drupal spam rush hour.

!!/help

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. Type !!/commands for a command list.

AstroCB

!!/commands

Andy

@SmokeDetector I dunno. It only hit body (twice) and a black listed site. It didn't hit the title...

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB addblu, rmblu, addwlu, rmwlu, wut, lick, hats, alive, rev, status, reboot, stappit, master, clearbl, block, unblock, errorlogs, pull, help, apiquota, queuestatus, commands

Andy

!!/wut

SmokeDetector

4:01 AM

@Andy Whaddya mean, 'wut'? Humans...

Andy

I'm somewhat satisfied with that response

!!/apiquota

@AstroCB 6474

!!/rev

@AstroCB 4c8886d (hichris1234: Merge branch 'pr/47')

James

4:02 AM

!!/hi

awww :(

AstroCB

!!/errorlogs

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB The !!/errorlogs command requires 1 argument.

user259867

(number of lines to fetch, it means)

Andy

!!/errorlogs 10

SmokeDetector

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/websocket/_core.py", line 308, in recv_header
    header = recv_fn(2)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/websocket/_core.py", line 961, in _recv_strict
    bytes = self._recv(shortage)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/websocket/_core.py", line 955, in _recv
    raise WebSocketConnectionClosedException()

user259867

4:03 AM

^ guru meditation

Jason C

Heh

user259867

Still Python 2.7. It's time to stop living in the past...

Jason C

3 lines per log message seems a bit sparse.

!!/lick

SmokeDetector

@JasonC licks ice cream cone

Infinite Recursion

seems like i was largely affected by this user, that he put 58 downvotes on my posts. did you people send a warning message to that user? — Avinash Raj 18 mins ago

Hobo Sapiens

4:21 AM

cv-pls Off-topic and argumentative stackoverflow.com/q/29247062/1864610

Lynn Crumbling

4:38 AM

@HoboSapiens cv'd.

'night all.

@HoboSapiens Removed by author.

James

what a pointless effort. A MySpace API

James

5:09 AM

@AstroCB meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288666/…

@Woodface too meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288666/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: For space mean that's not what we're going to see if that by sidhi sadhi on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: To you be interested by user287346 on meta.stackexchange.com

user259867

Yeah, fetching post bodies and compiling a blacklist of websites was a game changer in the spam hunt. +1 to Smokey developers.

James

If y'all want a wretched hive of scum and villainy filled with crap questions: stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/managment

look no further than a misspelled tag created to get around a flag blacklisting

god this tag is awful

Alexis King

5:29 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Jason C

@James Wow these all suck. Personally, I'm leaving the tag on them for now just because it's a good list of questions to close.

user259867

in CoGro Musings, 9 hours ago, by Shog9

The cobbler's children go barefoot

user259867

Fascinating. Should be developed into a series of meta posts.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Exercise With Ripped Muscle X by Edith Sica on webmasters.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Exercise With Ripped Muscle X by Edith Sica on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Exercise With Ripped Muscle X by Edith Sica on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Natural Ways to Build Muscle by Linda Blades on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: The times he came from a member generation-ally by brookebladin on drupal.stackexchange.com

Jason C

5:59 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Jason C

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Jason C

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Jason C

6:01 AM

Damn, wasn't paying attention and missed 4 good spam flags. At least I got the drupal one.

user259867

6:17 AM

Userscript for spam-autoping in chat...

J. Steen

Morning!

user259867

Morning! Here's a simplified version of mine

J. Steen

cv-pls debugging stackoverflow.com/questions/29248319/…

user259867

(The version I actually use also has desktop notification and whatnot, and works only in Chrome.)

J. Steen

Argh, sneezing.

user259867

6:24 AM

Backs away from the screen not at me...

Jason C

@Woodface That's a good idea. For now I got an RSS feed reader with system tray popups and added chat.meta.stackexchange.com/feeds/search/….

James

I just installed Wordpress on my Dev Mac

Complex!

I feel it screaming

@James I'm sorry.

6:30 AM

But I set the poll interval to 15 seconds so... we'll see if I get rate limited.

Oh looks like the RSS feeds lag a bit behind chat.

[ SmokeDetector ]

Unihedro

kill-plz stackoverflow.com/q/29216677/3622940

With fire, ideally.

James

@Unihedro would a bucket of lava be acceptable

Unihedro

More than one ;D

What? I don't understand. — comdude2 yesterday

^ cv-plz teh qz too

J. Steen

Closed.

Unihedro

Awesome!

The second one still needs one more, but i'm confident it's on its way to eventual doom.

J. Steen

6:45 AM

I really should go to work.

=D

Yes, I help moderate SO's quality before work. I'm sick that way.

user259867

@J.Steen For best results, do it instead.

J. Steen

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29249117/…

"I found it can be done using soap"... ... ...

@Woodface If I could get paid for this, that'd be awesome. But I'd be even more bitter than I am now if it was my job to handle the deluge of mostly-faeces that is SO's new-questions feed.

user259867

@J.Steen reviewers are too soft :(

J. Steen

They just don't understand what "should be improved" means.

Unihedro

@Woodface Stab the reviewers

J. Steen

6:49 AM

I like the feature request where, if you click "should be improved", you're also forced to help improve it.

Unihedro

We need a "Help & Improvement & Triage Education" room.

Anyone?

J. Steen

Noone will ever click "should be improved" again.

@Unihedro That room would consist of me with a large baseball bat.

Unihedro

@J.Steen If I get a bulldozer, I'm totally game.

2

James

^ YES

Unihedro

Help & Improvement & Triage School

Everyone is invited to gather together and learn the dark arts...

J. Steen

6:52 AM

moar cvs!

Unihedro

Why doesn't it onebox? xD

J. Steen

@Unihedro It does. Very slowly.

@Unihedro You'd think we wouldn't need the chatroom. If they add audits to the triage-queue I foresee a lot of review bans though.

James

Should be improved because the OP need to add extra information?

J. Steen

Also.

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29205193/…

@James That's what you'd think. But "should be improved" posts end up in the help & improvement queue, adding MORE work for reviewers, not the OP. They're not even notified.

Unihedro

in Help & Improvement & Triage School on Stack Overflow Chat, 35 secs ago, by Unihedro

Everyone is welcome to help catch users who doesn't seem to be reviewing the Help and Improvement and the Triage queues in optimal fashions. Users often rate posts as "Looks OK" or "Should Be Improved" on closeworthy posts which causes review tasks to be dismissed prematurely. This room strives to provide a medium for communication.

user259867

6:55 AM

@J.Steen There are audits there, but they are obvious spam posts.

J. Steen

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29194952/… ...

@Woodface Probably because they realise the entire review corp would get banned if there were actual difficult audits...

bummi

spam drupal.stackexchange.com/q/152760/20140

Unihedro

@bummi Weird formatting O_o

bummi

@Unihedro art of spam :/

J. Steen

Wow. Of that user's 7 questions, 2 were even mildly worth leaving open.

Unihedro

6:57 AM

Dark arts indeed.

James

I love (hate with the burning fury of 1000 suns) that new users seem to think that all programmers ever are just happy to vomit up reams and reams of code for the benefit of people who can't even bother to formulate a decent question

J. Steen

Nah. It's the >>>>>>>>> to "point" to the url.

They're just too stupid to account for markdown.

user259867

Blacklist candidate hipslimgarcinia.com

Unihedro

Twitter needs a downvote button.

Tweeted by shog9 on March 25, 2015 at 6:13 AM

I agree with Shog.

J. Steen

Twitter needs automatic bans.

James

6:59 AM

then upvote

rene

@bummi gone

James

But I remember when this was facebook

user259867

Or just blacklist "garcinia" with no word boundaries. No legitimate uses

J. Steen

Anyway. o/

bummi

\o

Unihedro

7:00 AM

@Woodface Agreed.

Jason C

@Unihedro Twitter is a downvote button.

user259867

@Unihedro I suppose this was in response to

user259867

> That @shog9 guy doesn't get enough mentions on twitter. You should tell him about something interesting you did today. -- Tim Post at 10:52 PM - 24 Mar 2015 via Twitter

James

ouch! that's gotta hurt

Unihedro

:O

user259867

7:02 AM

And... embedding this tweet added another ping.

user259867

runs away

2

Jason C

Haha

Unexpected side effect.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: I need help finding this shoujo manga name by San on anime.stackexchange.com

Jason C

I've never seen anybody make a typo on "srsly" before.

James

neither

Jason C

7:08 AM

I wonder if an edit to change it to "srsly" but not "seriously" would be approved. "Fix spelling / grammar."

Unihedro

not 6 char

bummi

7:29 AM

something to flag, at least 2 posts apple.stackexchange.com/a/178185/55266

J. Steen

7:53 AM

Oooh, found a bug.

If you open the flag-dialog on a muted question, it's also muted and ends up BEHIND a lot of the site content.

As can be tried here: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/162045/…

I wonder if that's apple.se-only.

Nope.

1

Q: Dialogs on muted answers end up also muted, and otherwise screwed

So, I was flagging this answer and noticed something definitely... odd.

bug

bummi

@J.Steen experienced the same, but I have the feeling your question could be a (partial) dupe ... there has been something a view days ago ....

J. Steen

I tried to find dupes. >.<

People have their own terminology.

Fooooound it.

Also a dupe of meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251757/…

Which is five days old.

I searched "muted dialog" in the search bar and got 0 results. The search on SE really really sucks.

Should I just delete my question?

bummi

8:08 AM

It's up to you

J. Steen

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29250145/…

I don't need no rep.

Too harsh?

Classes don't magically appear. You have to write or generate them. So, what have you done already to solve this challenge and where did you get stuck? If your answer to that is "I haven't tried anything yet" then you need to go away, try, and come back when you have a real problem. — J. Steen 1 min ago

destroy stackoverflow.com/questions/29250381/i-just-wana-test-something

bummi

the first sentence perhaps?

J. Steen

@bummi Perhaps, yeah. But it's factual. They don't. =D

Alexis King

@J.Steen But if I reject spontaneous generation of classes, how can I reconcile this? github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Nutrients following the meal by Sana sana on meta.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

8:13 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

J. Steen

@AlexisKing Someone wrote code to write code. It's not spontaneous. =D

The sprinkling of code-formatting in this question is not quite enough to frustrate me, but... seriously. Why do people do that? =) stackoverflow.com/questions/29250465/…

They've even code-formatted "cyrillic".

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Muscles Building it for weight loss by sunny prince on drupal.stackexchange.com

bummi

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

bummi

8:24 AM

spam askubuntu.com/q/601011/184892

J. Steen

cv-pls too broad stackoverflow.com/questions/29250258/…