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user315433

1:16 AM

> Current status: using SO Documentation to learn how to script Google Sheets for the next step in shutting down SO Documentation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- Adam Lear at 3:45 PM - 7 Sep 2017

user315433

Documentation should have been a shared Google Drive folder.

rene

5:59 AM

→ 21 messages moved to Chimney

Elias

7:04 AM

With such great world conflict & surprising natural disaster nowadays, can we survive until 2020?

AFK sleep

Feeds

7:59 AM

The third row will probably have to wait until 2034, and maybe longer. If I see a daytime supernova, I'll replace the meteor storm with that and consider it 3/3.

Elias

@Feeds Googling "Aurora 2017" doesn't help... hmm...

user315433

11:33 AM

Embroidery spam...

user315433

11:46 AM

English Language Learners graduated two years ago today (time flies). Most viewed post-graduation question: What does “Nailed it” mean?

user315433

@Elias I think Randall means this: newsweek.com/aurora-northern-lights-how-watch-660159

user315433

And the checklist is of his personal experience, it doesn't mean there weren't auroras in the last decade.

user315433

12:08 PM

Metasmoke now collects domain stats, neat. Example: This domain has been seen in 1007 posts, 1007 TP

user315433

I have a hunch that the 1008th appearance of that domain in a post by a new user will be spam as well.

Aaron Hall

2:38 PM

ALERT - BRILLIANT IDEA OF THE MORNING: Reward flagging with 1 rep every 10 accepted flags, up to 100 points for the account.

Magisch

@AaronHall yawn

Looks at his 6300 helpful flags and sighs

1 every 10 flags may as well be none at all - these flags took me forever to reasonably fill

Better off being no rep for flagging

Keeps the rep hunters out of nitpicking every single flaggable post

Elias

There are many flaggable comments, good idea (doesn't really improve post quality)

Aaron Hall

3:01 PM

@Elias thank you. (what doesn't improve post quality?)

imagines a mod queue with lots of custom flags "I got the important info into the answer and these comments are now all no-longer-needed."

of course that's overly optimistic isn't it.

Magisch

3:32 PM

@AaronHall Aren'T you a mod on SO

Do you really want to motivate people to flag more?

Seeing as you have to clean it up

a mod campaigning for more flags is ... rare

Aaron Hall

I think it would be... long pause ... good.

Magisch

Your inner university professor is coming out :p

rene

fills mod queue with custom flags "Because @AaronHall told me so"

user315433

Eh, 100 points for 1000 helpful flags? If you are that motivated to earn rep, you already have so much that extra 100 doesn't matter.

Aaron Hall

3:48 PM

Yeah, it was an impulsive suggestion...

@rene If the comments read "I got the important info into the answer and these comments are now all no-longer-needed." and you actually do it - I don't think anyone will complain.

user315433

I have a better one: -1 rep to a mod for declining a flag, like for downvoting an answer. :P

Aaron Hall

lets the mod queue pile up with pocket veto'd flags...

rene

@AaronHall I have that option in my comment flag script and used it before, so I'm good I think.

rene

4:22 PM

not sure Smokey if spam

user315433

I think it's spam. The site is not where you look up jQuery errors, it's about paying someone for web development.

user315433

So saying "you can find the solution on $site _name" is nothing but misleading promotion.

rene

yeah, you're right. That site is about other things, now flagged

user315433

4:42 PM

I have to stop clicking these links from my managed office computer that probably stores all URLs somewhere for admins' entertainment.

user315433

The solstice is over, extra traffic to Astronomy is gone, but spam remains... 6 spam flags there today, versus 3 actual questions posted today (UTC).

user315433

2:1 spam:notspam ratio is likely network record.

user315433

Averaging over a month (August): 153 spam-nuked posts (all or nearly all questions), versus 141 non-deleted questions

user315433

tl;dr if you flag every new question on Astronomy as spam, you'll be right most of the time.

rene

Maybe that site can act as SPAM honeypot ...

rene

5:04 PM

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Oded

Would you consider those numbers... astronomical?

Elias

Why inputting email in the title textbox?

user315433

5:23 PM

So people know where to send the ~~codez~~ homework solution.

user315433

7:10 PM

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Q: Removing Documentation: Reputation, Archive, and Links

Last time I promised we’d release a JSON archive, preserve reputation earned on Documentation, issue replacement badges, organize a link-cleanup posse and finalize an attribution policy. However, as Nick Craver tweeted: Stack Overflow reputation is really hard to calculate. Adam Lear and Ni...

user315433

Adam and Nick said more than a few words on Twitter about rep calculation recently...

user315433

Also, unpingable @JasonC got his wish finally:

user315433

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A: Question flags, queues, edits, roomba, community♦, how does this actually work?

Phew, this was a really long request. It took a long time to work through all of this, but I'm going to try. As you've mentioned a lot of this has been documented in multiple places - MSE, MSO, help center, etc. While I'm going to go over most of this, I will also be linking to many of the canoni...

Shog9

@TimStone, merge this please: github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts/pull/78

user315433

I thought that outside of SO, all new questions got full visibility on homepage immediately.

user315433

7:14 PM

Or if they didn't, I missed the memo on that change.

user315433

Then again, I don't recall the last time I saw the homepage of an SE site. It could be cat pictures for all I know.

Tim Stone

@Shog9 Heh, I didn't get the ping noise for this until I switch to this tab

But thanks again!

Shog9

@TimStone np

that shit had me going crazy this morning

ctrl+up worked fine in the tabs I always keep open... Didn't work in new ones.

Tim Stone

7:29 PM

Yeah, someone pinged me about it earlier and I was like "Oh no", since that method is obviously a major hack

Shog9

and it still is, but... I didn't feel like spending the rest of the day re-writing that script only to break some other bit that I never use

worked well enough for the past N years, should be fine for the next little while

user202362

7:44 PM

Going to be in Utah today

user315433

An all text answer would be ok, but I'd really like to see a flow chart image. — CRABOLO Mar 26 '15 at 0:53

user315433

Hey @CRABOLO there's a flow chart for you now. :)

Magisch

Hey shog

Shog9

8:01 PM

what's up?

bjb568

8:33 PM

Happy hour!

Aaron Hall

8:44 PM

@bjb568 Yay! Sings Pharrell's Happy

user315433

8:58 PM

> Re-indexing the entire Stack Exchange network for an Elasticsearch upgrade now. Current theme music: -- Nick Craver at 5:32 AM - 8 Sep 2017

user315433

Immigrant Song

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user315433

So this is what reindexing sounds like. Never knew

user315433

Search upgrade sounds interesting.

user315433

> I'll never lose anger at Stack Overflow for removing the scorebaitey culture posts from the late aughts out of purity -- (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ PABLO ! at 12:32 PM - 8 Sep 2017

user315433

(a thread there)

Shog9

9:06 PM

Gonna guess "earn 10K!" is not going to be an appreciated response there

user315433

Doesn't make them Google-able.

user315433

It's rare that someone would go to SO search box for anything like that, knowing full well they are off topic there.

Adam Lear

The family continued to chat "data dumps!" for no one in particular...

Arrested Development - Speech

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user315433

If it's not indexed by Google, it doesn't exist.

Adam Lear

Yeah, but I'm just saying that if someone really cared strongly about keeping it available online, someone could re-host it all.

canon

9:23 PM

holy crap... stackoverflow.com/questions/46124691/strip-case-off-strings

@Michelle shouldn't it be "Communication Breakdown" instead?

robocopy to our DR site is sloooow....

user345817

9:38 PM

@Shog9 Still trying to earn 10k :P

user345817

Ofc not on SO since SO is a picky beast

Sha Wiz Dow Ard

10:45 PM

> Database Administrator

aka Not a Programmer

So those usually have no clue in programming.

They pick bits of programming here and there, but don't know basic things unless someone showed it to them at some point.

going back to sleep

@bjb568 were you happy during Happy Hour?

@JasonC @Michelle claims you're unpingable, but you are.

4 hours ago, by Michelle

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A: Question flags, queues, edits, roomba, community♦, how does this actually work?

Phew, this was a really long request. It took a long time to work through all of this, but I'm going to try. As you've mentioned a lot of this has been documented in multiple places - MSE, MSO, help center, etc. While I'm going to go over most of this, I will also be linking to many of the canoni...

going back to sleep

user315433

11:27 PM

SE job titles shared by 10+ people... Developer: 32, Senior Account Executive: 26, Account Executive: 22, Associate Sales Representative: 14, Sales Representative: 14, Strategic Account Manager: 11, Product Manager: 10.

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