Tavern on the Meta

14:03

!!/help

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

!!/addblu stackoverflow.com/users/5123026/donna-h-white

Halo @Smoke?

!!/addblu stackoverflow.com/users/5123026/donna-h-white

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy plz send teh coffee

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@SmokeDetector its kopi!

Weird

@Pro when I run a privileged command without the privileges, should it say anything?

Pandya

Hello everyone.

5 hours ago, by Pandya

@ShadowWizard I am thinking to start bounty on that question as second suggestion seems helpful. What do you think about? (any suggestion?)

5 hours ago, by Pandya

Can I expect the solution/feature (status-completed) after bounty?

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14:14

Hello @Pan

status-completed

:P

Pandya

What? @Unicorns

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

status-unicorn

Pandya

status-chat

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@Pandya [status-unicorns]

status-unicorn

Pandya

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy I've tried :chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3721206#3721206

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

14:22

@Pandya so you got it!

Pandya

yes

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Let's party!

Pandya

earlier I used [tag:tag] and now only [tag] when to apply between @Unicorns?

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@Pandya [tag:tag] gives clickable tags with links

[status-uni] gives non-clickable mod tags

status-uni

[not-working-tag]

Must start with status-

GnomeSlice

Today's Listening | Garage

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

14:25

@GnomeSlice Hello bot

Pandya

Exactly now I got it: It must start with [status-tag]

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

(right?)

GnomeSlice

I'm not a bot you clown.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@Pandya And no tag: in front

GnomeSlice

GnomeSlice, Ottawa, Canada

14.4k 16 67 161

Pandya

14:26

................[status-tag] ........... not working

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@Pandya Must be on a line by itself

Must not have other things

.. [status-test]

Pandya

ok. Thanks @Unicorns are really Very Very Yummy!

GnomeSlice

status-declined

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Hai @Uni again

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

I am new to hash maps. Can you store like a string with a boolean value for each player? — Sporech 3 mins ago

What the...

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy WTH? That pinged me but the @-mention didn't light up.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

14:28

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ wut

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

Can you do it again?

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@uni

/me got suspended the last time I did @Uni

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

See, it didn't light up but added to my mentions counter.

GnomeSlice

status-not-a-bot

bjb568

Here at the campus icecream shop. The ice cream machine is broken. I asked for a blue raspberry slurpy. The girl gave me a red "blue" "raspberry" slushy that tasted like cherry.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

14:30

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ Weird

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Is there any difference between “D'accord” and “Okay/OK”? by รัชชานนท์ on french.stackexchange.com

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

:3721261 That pings me but didn't get the color either.

bjb568

Weird

DD doesn't do that

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

You know, the entire point of changing my display name was so I don't get notifications for you people trying to ping another Uni.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ Me?

And what plugin are you using?

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

14:31

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Yeah, like people ping you. :P

bjb568

@uni @uni @uni

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

@bjb @bjb @bjb

GnomeSlice

@bjb568 ಠ_ಠ

bjb568

@bjb @bjb @bjb @bjb @bjb

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ArRrRgH! sO mAnY nOtIfIcAtIoNs!

@GnomeSlice your magic hamstare button?

Pandya

14:34

as long as you enter at least the first three characters of their name, and remove spaces; so @fre and @FredSimpson are both valid ways of mentioning a user called "Fred Simpson", but @f is not.

-from FAQ

GnomeSlice

Bonus Listening:

Inspir - Invisible [Simplify]

►

Pandya

Btw, I can't find in FAQ something like [status-attention] @UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy

Are there other things to know/trick about?

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@Pandya Oneboxing!

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

@Pandya Typing in grammatically correct English increases your charisma.

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Already mentioned in FAQ.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ It is?

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

14:39

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy I just told you.

Don't make me reiterate.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

wow

Pandya

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy I am talking about trick/options that are not provided in FAQ (like [status-attention])

bjb568

Pluralization bug

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@Pandya Puts it in MSE

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

*on

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

14:41

nukez-plz stackapps.com/questions/6486/…

@Pandya good use of tags ^^

GnomeSlice

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy That's hot

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@GnomeSlice ??

hichris123

@Pandya The [status-*] tags in chat are an easter egg for chat.mSE.

3

Pandya

ok. Now I understand @hichris123 thanks for clarification

Finally I've decided to start bounty for this. Any Suggestion for value from 50 to 400 (as enough I can)?

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Needs attention!

@hichris123 Thanks, and now that its starred, everyone knows it

Pandya

14:50

Got it! @ALL :

47

Q: What Easter Eggs do the chat sites have?

According to balpha, the SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post. Edit: Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)

discussion chat hidden-features

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d4

meh no work

bjb568

lol reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3dsj6l/…

Andrew T.

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. It's Andrew T.'s fault.

Andrew T.

good.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

14:54

@AndrewT. Its always your fault when you enter it

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy It's hichris123's fault.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

!!/lick

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy licks ice cream cone

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:3721348 Bridge only

rene

why are we flagging external links?

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

14:55

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/35/the-bridge

@rene since when?

GnomeSlice

@rene Guess somebody doesn't like religious jokes.

rene

OK

@bjb568 that got flagged. Obviously we need to take a little bit more care when posting links to threads that people might find offensive...

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@rene who flagged it?

rene

dunno, maybe someone here that want to remain silent about it, maybe from the transcript.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Look at this

stackoverflow.com/posts/1732454/revisions?page=1

bjb568

15:00

@rene Their problem. Not offensive.

GnomeSlice

@bjb568 Maybe not to you.

That's the thing about subjectivity.

Pandya

which should I user for that?

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@Pandya Draw attention

bjb568

If you have easily breakable opinions that you value, maybe clicking random reddit links isn't a good idea…

rene

@bjb568 I understand, just know that there are people around that have a different view on that. It is up to you to either keep that in mind or don't be bothered by it.

bjb568

15:03

Creationism is non-disprovable ∴ you can make all kinds of jokes about it

Shadow Wizard

@Pandya feel free to start a bounty, but chances it will lead to official attention are very low

GnomeSlice

@bjb568 I agree, but obviously somebody else in here doesn't.

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@bjb568 We're doing maths now?

Pandya

Done! : Started Bounty

11

Q: Don't force sync with my oldest account on my network profile

I tend to put information on my profiles that's relevant for that particular site. For example, my profile on Stack Overflow says what languages and technologies I'm familiar with and currently working in, my profiles on ELU and ELL say that I'm a native speaker of English and what dialects, my ...

feature-request network-profile profile-sync

Shadow Wizard

@Pandya cheers! 100 is very heroic, considering your low rep...

SmokeDetector

15:05

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ESTA VISA RENEWAL by Katrina Phillips on travel.stackexchange.com

Pandya

:D

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

@ShadowWizard When I had ~400 rep on SO, I gave 150 rep to an answer I considered exemplary. :P

Just throwing this out here.

rene

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ Very heroic

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

no it's nothing

bjb568

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy yaaaaas

Shadow Wizard

15:07

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ Very heroic

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

Sep 20 '14 at 14:42, by Infinite Recursion

I know you get that moment a lot @uni. It's obvious when a 3K rep user gives bounties to 22k rep users. I have even seen a 500 rep user give bounty to Skeet's answer which had 400 upvotes already. Those who rant for rep should meet you :)

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Hai @bummi

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

^ that message is still in my bookmarks folder :P

bjb568

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ Very heroic

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@bjb568 :(

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

15:08

stop fantasizing my actions

Shadow Wizard

lol

rene

I'm out, back later...

Shadow Wizard

One of my first badges on SO was Unsung Hero

Pandya

Good bye

Shadow Wizard

Good bye, @Pan

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

15:09

Bye @Pan

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

Farewell.

Shadow Wizard

and thanks for all the fish

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: BLANK PAGE WHEN I TRY TO READ INFO by Vern Burton on askubuntu.com

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

...

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@ShadowWizard bye!

Shadow Wizard

15:10

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy not yet, not leaving yet

bummi

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Hi

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@ShadowWizard bye

@bummi hi

@SmokeDetector I CAN'T DOWNVOTEZ

user259867

16:17

@SmokeDetector fp-

SmokeDetector

17:18

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SELECTING FROM TWO TABLES AND COUNTING A THIRD by DaviesTobi alex on stackoverflow.com

bjb568

17:31

Tavern is die! :o

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

no

user259867

> Spanish, I used to be fluent. Almost 20 years later, I'm pretty much a first-grader. #useitorloseit -- Tim Post at 10:24 AM - 19 Jul 2015 via Twitter

user259867

@bjb568 should be able to use his recently acquired knowledge of Spanish to close questions there.

user259867

> Yes, #stackoverflow en Español is a thing. Expect it sometime in November. -- Tim Post at 10:27 AM - 19 Jul 2015 via Twitter

user259867

As for the lack of activity...

user259867

17:41

Too Darn Hot - Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Collection - (Remastered High Quality )

►

tchrist

@NormalHuman s/close/answer/

The goal of SE is not to close questions, but to answer them.

Braiam

17:58

@tchrist considering the passion spanish speakers have, I would sway towards closing more often than not

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Relax Brain And Improve Concentrate Power by neurofusepill brain on drupal.stackexchange.com

Braiam

> A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

bjb568

18:18

@NormalHuman I have an infant's worth of Spanish knowledge…

Braiam

> I, for one, have had enough of being implicitly abused by OP's who refuse to do even the simplest, smallest attempt at debugging or, worse, when called out on it say ' Oh, I've already done all that debugging, I just could not be bothered to tell you about it'. (source)

user259867

From today's edition of Why is SO so [adjective]?

Braiam

yeah

ProgramFOX

18:38

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy It doesn't say anything, it just ignores your commands if you aren't privileged.

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@SmokeDetector gone

@ProgramFOX can't it say something?

!!/test stackoverflow.com/users/5123026/donna-h-white

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Not blacklisted

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Someone blacklist that person

Just look at the about me

ProgramFOX

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy I can see this end in spaghetti code with if statements :P (That aside, do you want the privileges?)

!!/addblu stackoverflow.com/users/5123026/donna-h-white

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX User blacklisted (5123026 on stackoverflow.com).

ProgramFOX

18:41

!!/isblu stackoverflow.com/users/5123026/donna-h-white

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX User is blacklisted. (5123026 on stackoverflow.com).

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@ProgramFOX Err dunno?

You choose

!!/test stackoverflow.com/users/5123026/donna-h-white

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Not blacklisted

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wut

Braiam

@ProgramFOX mm? why no a case switch?

ProgramFOX

18:42

@Braiam Because most commands use .startswith, so both !!/rev and !!/revision work, for example.

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy !!/isblu for blacklisted users

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@ProgramFOX So !!/test won't find blacklisted users?

ProgramFOX

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Oh, I know we can trust you to hand them out, but I always ask it before giving because there have been users who didn't want them in the past.

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Nope. !!/test runs the regexes on a message.

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@ProgramFOX So it only finds spam words, not blacklisted users

ProgramFOX

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Exactly.

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!!/test brain supplement

SmokeDetector

18:44

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Not blacklisted

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

!!/test muscle building

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Not blacklisted

ProgramFOX

!!/test muscle building

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Not blacklisted

ProgramFOX

Hmm...

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

18:44

something broke?

ProgramFOX

!!/test baba ji

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted: Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in body

ProgramFOX

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy ^ apparently not

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@ProgramFOX So brain and muscle stuff gets away now?

ProgramFOX

I should check that in the regexes...

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

18:46

!!/test Handbook of cosmetic skin care

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Blacklisted: Bad keyword in body

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Ahh

!!/test cosmetic

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Not blacklisted

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

!!/test skin care

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Blacklisted: Bad keyword in body

ProgramFOX

18:46

!!/test muscle

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Not blacklisted

user259867

@ProgramFOX It's here: github.com/normalhuman/SmokeDetector/blob/master/…

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@ProgramFOX 'muscle' might come up in sports.SE

ProgramFOX

Yeah, I found it already. Weird that !!/test doesn't return it.

user259867

"muscle" is blacklisted with no word boundaries, but this excludes fitness/biology/health.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

18:47

!!/test Muscle Mass Building

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Not blacklisted

ProgramFOX

... and !!/test specifies an empty string as site, so...

!!/test body building

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Not blacklisted

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!!/test black magic

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Blacklisted: Bad keyword in body

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

18:48

:P

!!/test join the illuminati

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Blacklisted: Bad keyword in body

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

!!/test clash of clans

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Not blacklisted

ProgramFOX

Aha!

... nevermind, I thought I found the problem but I didn't

Eh, so the actual thing here is body: False which makes that it doesn't say anything.

Dronehinge

!!/test this is a spam post by me the spammer

SmokeDetector

18:50

@Dronehinge Not blacklisted

rene

Don't worry, I have a backlog of Aha's that needs to be processed into neverminds....

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Thinks of legit ways to break regex

!!/test So, based on what you have told me, you may need to send yahoo password recovery team an email for help

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Not blacklisted

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

:(

Dronehinge

!!/test work from home

SmokeDetector

18:52

@Dronehinge Not blacklisted

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Oh wait I didn't read

Dronehinge

!!/test 1800buystuf

SmokeDetector

@Dronehinge Not blacklisted

user259867

@ProgramFOX Oh, I never realized that. But this is the correct setting; "muscle" can appear in body of many posts, related to 3D modeling for instance.

Dronehinge

!!/test 18009394838

SmokeDetector

18:53

@Dronehinge Not blacklisted

rene

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy you might check if you can make it catastrophic backtrack

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

Super User

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!!/test shopping cart

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Not blacklisted

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

[meta.su]

user259867

18:53

I guess we do need something like muscle[ -]?building for body on all non-fitness/bio/health sites

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

How do you get SU meta??

[su.meta]

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ what about?

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

what's the magic link

thing

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Done!

Magix Link

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

no - like [so] == Stack Overflow

Dronehinge

18:54

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

[su] == Super User

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@rene :o

Dronehinge

user259867

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ There isn't one, afaik. You use Meta Stack Exchange when on meta of that site, that's all.

Dronehinge

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

18:55

@NormalHuman oh :( ok.

thanks tho!

user259867

I meant [meta] of course...

Dronehinge

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

yeah lol

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

^^ skincare stuff

!!/test In drupal.SE, there is alot of skin care spam. Let's find a way to combat it

SmokeDetector

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Blacklisted: Bad keyword in body

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

18:56

Haha

(Will post in meta.drupal.SE)

@Pro Regex broke now

Dronehinge

area51.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

Metas are not checked anyway.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@ProgramFOX they are not?

Noooo

ProgramFOX

Nope, they are not on /realtime.

user259867

Security primary begins tomorrow: 11 candidates so far. Going from 11 to 10 and then from 10 to 1...

Dronehinge

18:58

meta.se is but no other metas

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Wow

security.stackexchange.com/election/3#post-94007

(no onebox?)

Dronehinge

security.stackexchange.com/election/3#post-93941

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

So now we find people with only 1 score!

user259867

Nominations are pretty special posts; they do not one-box (afaik they are not available through the API).

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

Can't break regex

@NormalHuman then it needs to be

user259867

19:01

Yes, it's unfortunate they the whole 4-day primary round will be spent on getting rid of one 1/40 candidate.

user259867

Although the public display of primary scores does influence the final round, both via voters decisions and by candidates withdrawing.

rene

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy +1 for trying ....

user259867

(I'm inclined to think this influence is for the better.)

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@rene Flags as spam comment

rene

:D

user259867

19:04

Oops, I got distracted and edited 26 InfoSec posts instead of 25 required to vote in an election.

rene

You are going to vote for Martin?

user259867

There is also Romeo with 1/40 score. Now the primary makes perfect sense: it's a deathmatch between two 1-score candidates.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Achemso installing problems, Windows by Thomas on tex.stackexchange.com

hichris123

@NormalHuman The irony... is Juliet there to save him?

rene

@SmokeDetector ignore-

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

19:17

@SmokeDetector wut was that supposed to be?

Bye!

rene

Bye?

user259867

Needs a Tybalt for a historically accurate duel.

SmokeDetector

19:45

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ARDUINO-UNO ANALOG CIRCUIT SIMULATOR by Νίκος-Μάριος Κοκολάκης on electronics.stackexchange.com

Braiam

> Symptom: A dwarf picks up the minecart and carries it to its destination instead of just hauling it.

hichris123

We are not here to help OP. If anything, it's the other way around. We are trying to build a library of answers for people to find via a search engine, OP should be asking the question for this purpose, not for selfish reasons. We don't need to facilitate the use of SO as a debugging tool, SE doesn't work well for that purpose. — bjb568 1 hour ago

No, we are here to help others via helping the OP.

Braiam

@hichris123 actually, we don't give a crap about OP, the question is the only thing that counts

hichris123

You help the OP by answering the question...

Braiam

that's a side effect of answering a good question, not because is my main motivation

rene

20:00

we don't care about users. We are the anti-social-network

4

hichris123

20:12

@Braiam Not for all of us.

32

A: The problem with extrinsic motivation

Apparently, I'm now officially involved in Stack Exchange again. How did that happen? You might remember that about a year ago I planned to participate on Philosophy and Gardening. It turns out that I don't have many questions about gardening as I only have a couple of windowsills, a balcony a...

Braiam

@hichris123 well, buddy, I can't help you with that because now I have two problems

user259867

bjb568

:3

user259867

Google is getting suspicious about SmokeDetector

bjb568

@hichris123 why that answer?

hichris123

20:18

> On the other hand, it's at this point that truly selfless behavior is possible. "I care about the community" is often the same thing as "I care about somebody else's well-being as much as I do my own". That's powerful. It touches something far deeper than any of the individual topics represented on Stack Exchange. In some ways, an extrinsic motivation becomes an intrinsic motivation.

The motivation is to help the OP, and as a side effect help those who come after.

Or you could want to help those who come after, and not care about the OP.

Or you could just care about your Imaginary Internet Points™.

bjb568

Doesn't seem really relevant, the whole answer is a bit wishywashy for me. OP is one idiot, googlers are many more, which should outweigh OP.

hichris123

... bjb on motivation: THERE IS NO MOTIVATION.

Ironic coming from a cat.

bjb568

The motivation is that you feel good knowing you helped he googlers.

Braiam

@hichris123 using that paragraph as summary of Jon, isn't fair. The motivations Jon points at are more far from helping someone than the interest on doing something they are interested in, ie, points, the topic itself, the site, the community around that site....

bjb568

Answer good questions, edit posts, vote, point out wrong things in comments. It all helps the googlers.

Braiam

20:22

btw, my motivation is "money"

hichris123

@Braiam Hmm?

user259867

Sep 24 '14 at 2:19, by Shog9

@Braiam right. You get to think. Not just about the problem you're solving, but about how to explain it to others. Answering can be more of an education than asking...

Braiam

@hichris123 your paragraph alone taken out of context isn't representative of what Jon thinks

@NormalHuman yeah, kind of a mind teaser

hichris123

@Braiam No, but it's the paragraph I was referencing.

bjb568

… who said anything about Jon? We're just talking about motivation here…

Braiam

20:24

@bjb568 s/motivation/money/ FTFY

bjb568

:p

Braiam

20:35

> dfs

so, quoting works with replies, but code formatting doesn't...

user259867

20:51

Back in March, when four Math users totaling about 400,000 rep were suspended for 6-12 months, that was probably the record long-term suspension anywhere on SE... Too bad three of them are coming back in two months.

user259867

I mean, YCS had under 100,000 rep.

Braiam

@NormalHuman they were on which camp? The no-nonsense or anyone else?

user259867

BalusC had more, but that was very short-term.

user259867

@Braiam The "do trivial homework and upvote each other" camp.

Braiam

I presume after suspension they had less rep?

user259867

20:54

Not that there is a shortage of others willing to do at least the first part of that.

user259867

@Braiam No, from the reputation graph on activity it looks like nothing got revoked.

user259867

I do notice that it became easier to dispose of closed HW crap: the answers tend to stay at 0 because nobody cares. As it should be.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

Braiam

considering the other answer, I'm not sure gaming.stackexchange.com/a/107335/58982

user259867

Yes, a weird case where a one-character answer can be a valid answer.

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