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12:07 AM

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hichris123

12:23 AM

@gdoron Every year we do something fun for our users on April 1. That's about it. The cause is providing some lighthearted entertainment and (ideally) brightening someone's day. Taking millions of users out on a trip would be more expensive in the end. :) — Adam Lear ♦ 6 hours ago

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12:35 AM

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bjb568

12:54 AM

^ Design A, with dividers

^ Design B, without dividers

Which one is better?

JamesENL

A

user315433

I like dividers

user315433

Although multipliers are better.

bjb568

Bah!

bjb568

1:56 AM

Well, dividers it is!

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2:43 AM

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user315433

More theories for "peak SO" phenomenon:

user315433

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A: What Happened to Stack Overflow in 2014?

Shog suggests there is a natural equalibrium between askers and answerers. My gut reactions were: ~8k questions a day is pretty remarkable given the site's humble, even naive, beginnings. So much has been done to help the whole operation scale and yet sometimes the works get jammed up. Regular ...

Jon Ericson

3:02 AM

@404 My theory is that we won't know we hit "peak SO" until the replacement becomes obvious.

bjb568

@JonEricson Hooray for DevDoodle!

user315433

To those in the Tavern, the replacement is painfully obvious.

Jon Ericson

@bjb568 There you go. It's just a matter of time now.

bjb568

:D

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user202362

3:26 AM

DYP* spammer is back ... To help you guys breaking the bottle neck of peak traffic

Alexis King

4:22 AM

@404 I am uncomfortably angry about this.

hichris123

@AlexisKing Uncomfortably? :P

I think they were one-flag nukeable anyway, so it's not a huge change.

Alexis King

Haha, well, I probably shouldn’t be so upset about such a tiny change, but sometimes I seriously didn’t have very much to say, but I felt I could still contribute value. That workaround always felt like an open secret to me.

I can’t imagine abuse was actually all that common, but I don’t actually know anything. Maybe SE knows something I don’t.

hichris123

Pretty often it was used to say "Yes." to a "Can I do this?" question. Or just random other stuff.

I can't think of a comment I've seen under 15 characters that actually wasn't snarky and was constructive.

Maybe yours were the rare gems. :P

user315433

On MathJax-enabled sites it's still possible to cheat ${}{}{}{}$

Alexis King

Eh. Maybe I’m just overestimating the times I’ve wanted it.

hichris123

4:34 AM

You can also fill your comment with bananas. Though that's probably a poor solution.

Alexis King

@hichris123 For some definitions of “poor”...

Only tangentially related, how long has “What have you tried?” been banned? I tried saying that yesterday and was a little bit surprised to find that it wasn’t allowed.

user315433

141

A: "What have you tried" epidemic

I agree - these are getting old. If the question's really missing something, either down-vote / close / flag or take the time to explain what is missing. Starting now, comments that consist of nothing but "what have you tried" are blocked completely, and comments that consist of little more than...

user315433

March 2013

Alexis King

Jeez. Have I somehow never attempted to say that for three years? That seems hard to believe.

user315433

Took a long time, but I've more or less reached a dgaf state about what anyone has tried.

hichris123

4:41 AM

@AlexisKing You've been trying to say some quite naughty phrases over the past few days. :P

Alexis King

@404 What’s your usual response? Downvote and move on? Cast a close vote? Just give them working code? I clearly tend to have little patience for handholding, but the question was just good enough for me to want to actually help but not good enough for me to spend time thinking about a useful comment.

@hichris123 Oh, don’t worry, I only found out about the invisible characters change from the handy-dandy stars board. ;)

user315433

I answer if it looks like a useful thing. Ignore if it looks localized, no matter how hard they try (e.g., a schoolteacher struggling to manage records in Google spreadsheet... sorry, not useful). Downvote if localized and lazy.

Alexis King

I just get a lot of homework questions in the tags I am interested in, and the volume of questions is so low that sometimes I am just desperate for something to answer, even if it’s not a terribly good question.

Homework questions aren’t even always bad if they have valid confusion that I think I can help out with (rather than just being “do my homework for me” questions). I just kinda need to know what people have tried to understand where they’re getting stuck.

user315433

If it's a copy of HW with no actual question about HW, I vote to close as unclear what you're asking.

Alexis King

That is usually my approach, either that or “too broad”.

Of course, the number of eyeballs on those questions is so low that even the worst sometimes don’t get closed. SO is a whole different experience in low-traffic tags.

bjb568

4:59 AM

Night!

user315433

Speaking of tags, it seems some of SE devs are trying to use GPUs for tag filtering...