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@ɪBᴜɢ no idea but gone

4:02 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): securing my product image that i am selling online by Mohammed J Kanji on graphicdesign.SE

4:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body (99): Wordpress issue relating to increasing the no of posts on a page by Team ElectionNewsBay on superuser.com

Shree

4:59 AM

cv-pls discussion off-topic Draw route between current location and a location fetched from server‭ - Adnan Ijaz‭ 2019-02-04 04:55:22Z

Shree

5:12 AM

cv-pls discussion off-topic how to use recursive with memo hash to solve the word break problem‭ - sln‭ 2019-02-04 05:10:18Z

5:54 AM

@ɪBᴜɢ Troll spam, yuck

I just prefer calf meat

Makyen

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog That 40 minute rate limit goes away if you have > 125 rep on the site. If you have the association bonus, then you are not subject to that 40 minute limit on your home site. Picking 125 rep on the current site appears to intentionally make it such that the association bonus gets you closer, but does not eliminate it. Getting an additional 24 rep on a site you're interested in isn't that difficult. You can always try a VPN/proxy.

6:10 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): Are unrelated high PR DO-FOLLOW Backlinks good for SEO? by Dan Earl on webmasters.SE

6:33 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ troll calf meat?

6:46 AM

@JourneymanGeek Arguably slightly more tolerable

7:00 AM

cv-pls one-more-close-vote-needed meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323413/…

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ isn't the leg the tough part?

7:21 AM

umm.... @Shog9 is this some internal joke? meta.stackexchange.com/users/134300/community Because at least for me, joke is missed. Obviously, SE staff changed the name from "user" to "Community" at some point, since suspended users can't change their name. Or can they?? Without the Community avatar it's not really misleading, but still, having that name, with 1 rep, is highly confusing, especially new users who have no idea what's going on. Can this be reset?

@ShadowWizard that user was unsuspended on other sites. I think this is how the name was changed.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user (69): What if there is no rebirth but karma is not eradicated by meditation and the path? by user12901 on buddhism.SE

7:38 AM

@MEEisJohannGambolputty... heh. Will start a bug report then.

I feel left out because I dunno who they are

@ShadowWizard that users can be unsuspended when they are suspended network-wide or that the name change propagates?

@MEEisJohannGambolputty... they can change name while suspended, that's a serious bug.

And like you see, can be easily abused.

Surprised he didn't choose some offensive name like he did before already.

Is that really a bug?

The name change should probably blocked from propagating as it does with migrations

7:44 AM

Morning btw.

@Tinkeringbell should suspended user be able to change their name?

Morning @Tinkeringbell

If they can, suspension is totally pointless.

at least in some cases.

@ShadowWizard I'm not sure, but I think if you're just suspended on 1 site, you can still change your name on others...

7:46 AM

I seem to remember a post where an employee states that you can't change profile infos during suspension.

@Tinkeringbell yes, but it shouldn't propagate to the site where you are suspended.

I must admit I never had a chance to try :P

But there's a 'copy this change to everywhere' button on profile edits, so I assumed that would do all profiles, and not exclude the ones you are suspended on.

@Tinkeringbell it could show a warning Oops, your profile couldn't be copied to all network sites: You are suspended on XY

@Tinkeringbell sure, but you shouldn't be able where suspended.

@MEEisJohannGambolputty... exactly :)

@MEEisJohannGambolputty... You are suspended on [list of 170+ suspended SE sites] -_-

@Bookends That sounds fun

7:52 AM

Maybe then You are suspended on X network sites @Bookends :)

Oh no, I don't wanna be suspended on 3D printing!

@ShadowWizard Okay, I'll see what happens to the bug report ;) I can't really find anything about not being supposed to be changing your name when suspended

Even after changing name on one site, if changing on other site and choosing Copy to All Sites, it's not changing where it was just changed, something Oded fixed few years ago.

(as result of someone heavily abusing it, changing their name like three times a day.)

Here is a related example for @Tinkeringbell meta.stackexchange.com/q/167171/364003

@Norm found a way around it, but well... that's Norm.

7:54 AM

Yeah, I know you're only supposed to be able to pick a new name once every 30 days

Smokey that's gotta be the dumbest plagiarism in the universe

@SmokeDetector K

@MEEisJohannGambolputty... Thanks, that makes sense, I guess. But it's not about names ;)

@Tinkeringbell same concept...

Isn't it more like an FR than a bug though? It's not unexpected behavior, just unwanted

I understand ;)

7:56 AM

Therefore I am

Therefor I don't understand

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I don't really feel like being yet.

That needs more coffee and perhaps another paracetamol.

!!/paracetamol Tinker

@Bookends No such command 'paracetamol'.

:(

7:58 AM

@Bookends You're not allowed to just hand those to people unless you have proper certificates :P

!!/Boo @Book

@Tinkeringbell @M.A.R. can give him certificate

A: User is suspended network wide except not really

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323418/…

@Shadow It's possible for local moderators to unsuspend network-wide-suspended users on the site they moderate:

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He was unsuspended manually by a moderator on Lifehacks. This is... probably intentional? The fact that something like this is possible in the first place may or may not be harmful, depending on the user and the site in question. We may revisit network suspensions to lock them down further, but...

This has been marked by design, so if you want to make this impossible, you should file a feature request.

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog I know.

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog no no. I don't care about it, just want that if the user change name on a site where not suspended, that change won't affect sites where they are still suspended.

Speaking of which, that brings up an interesting topic...the site they were unsuspended on is a site where they're a former elected moderator who left under good terms. As the normal rules allow elected moderators to request their positions back if they so choose, is it possible for him to request his moderator privileges be reinstated on SO?

plz-delete PDF @Bart @rene

8:13 AM

Not sure, to be honest. I've never been suspended (: — Suvitruf 8 mins ago

"Madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push."

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog he can request, but there is strict rules that requires the user to be in "good standing" network wide, without being suspended at all in the last year, across the whole network.

I'm in good sitting

And if he'll be a mod on SO, I'll delete my account there.

Pretty comfy sofa

Oof ultimatum

Is that like a Samuel Jackson "I double dare you"?

nah

Just a fact. :)

8:15 AM

Ultimafactum

lol

They say Ultima is a pretty good car actually

@ShadowWizard Technically the rule says that one can't nominate themselves as a candidate in a moderator election if suspended in the past year anywhere on the network. Does requesting reinstatement of moderator privileges previously obtained by being elected count?

Another implication I just remembered is that if he does get his moderator privileges on SO reinstated, he'll become a chat mod and therefore unaffected by suspension on Chat.SE.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ not just a car:

oh you can't see

It's a cute monster.

From computer game.

@ShadowWizard Why is that?

8:17 AM

Named Ultima? Skeptical

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/…

@ShadowWizard Haha that's blocked too

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog no idea, only CM can answer for sure.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ buh... too bad.

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog Retesting an audio device glitch

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog I don't want to be part of a site allowing such a person to be moderator.

8:18 AM

I'll just imagine Cookie Monster with a Final Fantasy theme

Hmm...somehow the sound of the ping is coming out through my speakers despite the rest of my system sounds coming out through my headphones

Refreshed the page, now it comes out properly through my headphones

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog I reflexively read that "the sound of the ping is coming out of my nose"

2

He doesn't have a red nose, nor he is a reindeer

My mind immediately inserts a "of my nose" after "coming out"

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ you're like Jason's soul mate! He did the same with "ur face".

Feb 10 '17 at 22:00, by Jason C

edit ur face

8:25 AM

It still make senses though if the sound of the ping is coming out of ur face

Can anyone emit the ping sound??

That's impressive.

Feb 2017, man, that's before Thanos's snap

@ShadowWizard Everything is possible with a blocked nose

And it's winter, so

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ but no bash :(

i prefer cmd

8:51 AM

@Mrs.Robinson and he ends with...

> Literally try and stop me bro

Let me translate from Twitterish to English

?

"Try to stop me from coming on your site that you own and break your rules"

that's instead must be polite and welcoming I assume?

Telling the guys that provide you a service that they can "try and enforce their rule but you won't stop because you know better"

still thinking that many users should realize that they are here because SE gives us a service that they have no obligation to provide.

stop and try me

Oh well, hope Mrs. Robinson will know what you talk about, I surely don't. :)

(nothing new, so all is good. ;))

@ShadowWizard see the message I was replying to, and then read the Twitter message he linked

All about a Twitter user lamenting that SE is still stripping "Thanks" from messages and comments

9:06 AM

oh. Missed the reply icon. blush

If only I can opine that SE should have a "Wikipedia article"-level post etiquette...

Guess I'm too used to not understand the context, so automatically assumed there's none. :D

My rant was that while I can accept that the user disagree on the current police....

Taunting the staff to "Try and stop him" from breaking the policy doesn't seem so polite

Well doubt anyone was/will be suspended for posting "thank you" comments. They're just being deleted.

Perhaps I'll edit and add "Thanks!" on every useful Wikipedia article I've read

9:14 AM

@Bookends problem is: Wikipedia is lucky, users don't perceive it as a forum

@ShadowWizard It's possible but rare

continuing to break the rules - no matter what rule it is - after you've been warned is grounds for a suspension, it just doesn't happen very often for chatty comments (except, like, on IPS)

I don't think IPS has sent out suspensions, just mod-messages reminding people what comments are for. (At least, I never have).

Well, there were suspensions, though unrelated to chatty comments

@Tinkeringbell Wait, do you mean that the legends about bad users being feed to the ~~kraken~~ parrot aren't true?

@Derpy no. They get nibbled to death by cats.

9:21 AM

bjb!?

@JourneymanGeek Fetch!

⚾

release the ~~kraken~~ parrot

uhh... I'll have nightmare ._.

lol

Eat some @soup with @meatballs.

9:27 AM

@ShadowWizard .... you stopped at the first result?

there was a better one just below. Ye ar' a lazy fellow...

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog I'm aware of a lot of the story. In theory under exceptional circumstances anything is possible. Practically those circumstances would be extraordinary

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog That is between SO and the user and probably isn't our business to pry into.

I'm aware of the situation - and the folks involved, and frankly it seems like a reasonable and humane compromise

That said, it doesn't really matter since if they abuse the mod privileges, then it'll be stripped

And if the user in question proves themselves trustworthy enough to be a mod again... I think that's a great thing

9:31 AM

@Mithrandir And how we will fill the Monday daytime new episode of the StackExchange reality show?

@Derpy Fill with random unicorns ... and ponies

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@Derpy yup :(

@Derpy oh, but not red.

@JourneymanGeek trustworthy on one site, destructive and abusive on other site? Sorry, that can't work.

Evan somehow manage to be troll-ish on MSE while keeping a good stand on SO without hint of making trouble, but as far as I know he was never suspended on MSE.

So that's example for something that can work.

Well technically the user in question was mainly trouble here and one other site. And apparently focused on one user. And that user probably is ok, and knows how to handle himself ;p

@Derpy Oh, I eat bad users raw for breakfast, don't worry. Chatty comments just isn't bad enough for me :P

9:49 AM

@Tinkeringbell +1 I agree

@ShadowWizard Hmmm. Perhaps you can be an afternoon snack in case I get hungry :P

Yay!

I read "influencer" as "influenza" because I cannot differentiate "infuruensaa" and "infuruenza" in Japanese o_o;

and then, there comes "~~influenza~~ influencer production"...

I'm an influenza influencer? :P

@Tinkeringbell you still have flu?? :(

Influenza

Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus. Symptoms can be mild to severe. The most common symptoms include: high fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pains, headache, coughing, sneezing, and feeling tired. These symptoms typically begin two days after exposure to the virus and most last less than a week. The cough, however, may last for more than two weeks. In children, there may be diarrhea and vomiting, but these are not common in adults. Diarrhea and vomiting occur more commonly in gastroenteritis, which is an unrelated disease and sometimes...

9:59 AM

@ShadowWizard Nah, not anymore.

Still got a cold, but the flu is gone

Good!

achooo!

Fake cold!

@Magisch Bless you :)

(And go to the doctor on time, this time? :P )

I'm not actually sick

10:02 AM

Good :)

Thankfully too calling in sick rn would be pretty devastating

we're all in the middle of a giant project and part of my work is blocking

@Magisch Sick is sick.

well yeah

If it's blocking, someone else should take over.

massive delay then, I'm the 1 guy that had to work into the tech we use for that

10:12 AM

@Magisch ooohhhhh, so you are a fellow Mud Fender developer?

Latex based report templates

rene

@ShadowWizard our resident parrot got it ;)

10:38 AM

CV: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319928/…

cv-pls one-more-close-vote-needed meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323424/…

11:17 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer, blacklisted user (70): Is meditating when tired a waste of time? by user12901 on buddhism.SE

@SmokeDetector fp-

Shree

@ShadowWizard Are you sure for fp. Not mine but already 2 tp on that.

Lying meditation is sleep.

11:32 AM

@Shree yes. This is not spam.

@ShadowWizard Well, they were blacklisted for some reason, no?

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ due to the tp, it auto black lists the user.

@ShadowWizard On previous posts

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ no, user black list is not per post.

No I mean they were blacklisted for a previous post

11:34 AM

Once black listed, user stays blacklisted until manually removed from the list.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ maybe... can't know. But if spammer start to post legit content, well...

That definitely happens

What's up with metasmoke disagreeing with my ~~stomach~~ browser?

D'oh whatever. It kept loading for five bloody minutes

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ yeah, it's down about 50% of the times when I want to check something there.

(or taking 5 minutes, I never bother more than 30 seconds or so, just close the tab and declare the site as down.)

That's because you're not on Iranian internet

hehe

Or too used to the super speed of SE, aka spoiled :D

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ How affected are you by the questionable interpretations wrt. sanctions from online platforms?

I heard a bunch of them have started down a dangerous path

12:00 PM

@Book what triggers your name changes these days? If anything? ;)

@ShadowWizard as always~

@M.A.R. is this answer giving dangerous advise? From quick look hydrogen peroxide isn't really meant for drinking...

@Bookends used to be Mr. Human for years, not sure what drives you since he left. ;)

A: What office equipment can I use to safely observe a solar eclipse?

Hi @ShadowWizard, welcome to Tavern on the Meta. The issue you are describing has been a meme for years now. Have you been living under a rock all the time? To help you getting up-to-date, here are some other sample of self-destroying suggestions from LH:

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Remember the floppy discs? We dug one out from our storage, opened it up and looked through the film sheet. Alternatively, a friend of mine took a lighter and a glass cup mat. He placed the glass mat above the lighter to get some soot onto it and watched it through the mat.

YEP, nothing works better than a floppy film sheet to protect your eyes.

12

A: How to light a candle without a lighter or a match

I did a Google search for "battery paperclip fire" finding many entries one of which is >> here Take an AA, AAA, C, or D size battery. With a knife cut the circumference of the battery at the negative terminal one-sixteenth of an inch from the end, remove the covering, and expose the terminal. W...

Yay! cutting a battery open with a knife! What could go wrong?

Knife can break?

A: What is a permanent solution for black mold?

3

Depending on the environment this is happening in (pets, children, food preparation, ...) this permanent solution might not apply. A bit of back-ground: Mould is one of the oldest life forms on Earth and thus pretty resistant to pretty much everything... You can temporarily stop growth, but ev...

Hydrogen cyanide: the best tool to remove any mold from any surface.

So good it removes you, too!

12:11 PM

@Derpy @Fabby is a good guy. He gave lots of warnings. ;)

@ShadowWizard until the next David Hahn comes -_-'

I heard Coke is good for cleaning

Coca Cola Rust Removal [HQ]

►

@Bookends I prefer diet for that

Actually does wonders

12:48 PM

Yay! First follower! :P

@ShadowWizard Yay, likes! :P

Stop stalking :P

Hmm... who is Ash, i.e. what's their SE identity?

Ash? :P

lol

Not in Tavern = Does not Exist!

:D

Oh wait, they are here! Unless the @Ash here isn't the Ash in above link?

Nope, that's the right Ash ;)

12:51 PM

:)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): "He did many mischiefs." vs. "He made much mischief." – How are these different? by user89306 on ell.SE

Followed by three mods.... :P

Ash (the dog) not to be confused with Ash (the SE mod) not to be confused with Ash (the byproduct of carbon abundant oxidation reactions)

lol

not to be confused with (pot)ash the class of salts rich in potassium, not to be confused with (m)ash (the mixture) or (b)ash (the act of hitting something or criticising it harshly)

1:09 PM

not to be confused with bash for unix...

@ShadowWizard arquade mod

@Magisch What questionable interpretations? There's so many assertions being thrown around you need to be clearer which you mean

(d)ash is also one

"dash" also has meaning in Hebrew, it means "regards", in a way. :D

@ShadowWizard Apparently "food grade" hydrogen peroxide seems to be a legit thing, and the concentrations don't seem enough to make a whole in the frigging stomach, but Jesus Christ, what's wrong with half a teaspoonful of salt? It does the same job.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ it makes the drink not tasty... lol

I used sugar in the past, working pretty well.

1:13 PM

Also hydrogen peroxide is hydrogen peroxide so if you drink enough "food grade" H2O2, it's probably still a nice way to painfully commit suicide

Or just shaked it like crazy. :P

@ShadowWizard You can counter with some sugar if it's salty, but that much salt actually makes it better sometimes

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Sites like slack outright deleting accounts which ever had iranian IPs associated with them citing the need to do so due to sanctions

user168476

@ShadowWizard nope, tis me

@Ash yeah, figured it out with help of others here. ;)

1:23 PM

Congrats on your first Tweet, @Sha ...

@Mithrandir Thanks!

Wait... you are on Twitter too? checking

Guess that's not you?

@JakeAlanPerry, Accrington, Lancashire, UK

9.4k tweets, 170 followers, following 487 users

lol

oh wait... face palm

He's in your followers already :P

Who names himself "Wiki"?! rofl

I saw that as suggested account to follow, thought it's just some automated/sponsored link. lol

it's not really my account... I just hijacked it

@Magisch They do? Nice, my slack account is probably gone then. Eh, people among us that use these services often enough have gotten used to these things. They've only amplified a bit during Trump's great America, and they were always there

There's absolutely no one to shout to, so I don't bother

1:32 PM

@Mithrandir you... what?! lol

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer (92): How do I add value to an erc20 token already deployed? by Mahmoud Gamal on ethereum.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url in title (96): Difference between force.com vs. site.com, etc ✏️ by k.s.mahes prabakar on salesforce.SE

I hijack my own accounts all the time

@SmokeDetector ignore-

@ShadowWizard payattention-

paying -100 dollars to @attention

1:50 PM

Literally I do not have time to google. I thought stack exchange would be a good option to get doubts clear. Moreover I have got few more doubts like processors related to i4 or i5 or 4ghz or 5ghz. So it doesn't seem invalid question. Ultimately I need to know Where to ask this my question but you ended up telling something else. Thank you — Arvindraja 3 hours ago

That is the most sarcastic "thank you" I've seen in a LONG time

"I do not have time to google"

Then you most certainly dont have time to condescendingly snark at volunteers in a Q/A site

No no no, we have time for that

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body (64): What is the point of SPAM-Mails containing nothing but random letters? by B. Raabe on security.SE

2:30 PM

heh. Joe last comment is.... weird.

Hey stranger, we finally bump into one another on SO. We haven't considered anything tag specific, but are going to be running a variety of experiments in the coming months all related to helping new users ask better questions. — Joe Friend Nov 26 '18 at 18:21

Since then no activity on SE.

So he knows the OP of that question IRL?

@ShadowWizard or online

@JourneymanGeek hmm.... yeah

user437611

Hiya! Would setting up a feed prevent a chat room from getting frozen (assuming the frequency of the feed is sufficient)?

no

user437611

Okay, thanks. :)

John Dvorak

2:45 PM

You could write a bot.

John Dvorak

3:26 PM

(removed)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer (85): Are there biocompatible materials available to the general public? ✏️ by Thiago Felipe Navarro on 3dprinting.SE

4:27 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): Does the universe loose weigth? by monok on physics.SE

The universe does not have a digestive system probably and hence cannot loose.

@Blue there is an active bot in the Den (Shadow's Den chat room) which post automatically every few hours in case there is no activity. It's open source, written in node.js, @rene wrote it and probably can help you adapt it to your needs, e.g. taking only the part which auto post messages.

It's a trap!

lol

runs away

user437611

4:58 PM

@ShadowWizard Thanks, I'll ask rene when I need it. :)

user437611

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh rly? Tell me about it. :P

user437611

::suspects scam::

Feeds

5:16 PM

Don't worry--you're less likely to die from a space launch than from a shark attack. The survival rate is pretty high for both!

user302202

@Feeds Substantially higher than the lunch risk

user302202

Has Stephenie Meyer ever written a YA novel mentioning Stack Overflow? Because that would explain some things.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, username similar to website in answer (55): Auto Add Clipping Mask When Adding Adjustment Layers by Clipping Path Team on graphicdesign.SE

ɪBᴜɢ

5:40 PM

when will @Glorfindel become a mod on MSE? :)

his activity has surely been the top 1 for some time, judging by rep change

@ɪBᴜɢ especially as the number 2 in the monthly/yearly rep league has moderator status already

@ɪBᴜɢ Get to flagging and overwhelm the current team

6:27 PM

H... how is this article not an Onion article? dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6664843/amp/…

@Mithrandir Don't worry, daily mail is just a sliver above the Onion ;)

Also, TIL I'm anti-natalist :P

I finally have some kind of political label!

well... that's some fresh insanity there

I think I'm the sane kind, that just sticks with 'no procreating'. :P Sueing my parents sounds too insane and like a waste of money.

only counts if your rationale is, "I don't want to get sued by my ungrateful offspring"

Not wanting kids is fine. It's the comparing having children to kidnapping and the thing about having a kid without "consent" from the child.

6:35 PM

@Shog9 It's on the list, though I must admit it's pretty low ;)

ArtOfCode

why are people so dumb

3

@Mithrandir Yeah, that stuff is pretty nuts ;)

@Mithrandir the slavery comparison is legit though. Honestly, best argument for having kids: free labor!

@ArtOfCode Product of their time and culture?

ArtOfCode

probably

6:37 PM

time and culture get too much blame, I think

@Shog9 Unfortunately, as someone living in their parents home, I will grudgingly say that this may in some form be true.

@Shog9 Parents then?

let's be straight with ourselves: most of us are pretty dumb, in some areas, some of the time

assuming that's true universally, then for any given topic at any given time there'll be LOTS of dumb people

Oh, like that.

other kind of dumb :)

well... either one works

> Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

6:40 PM

usually dumb over here carries a meaning of 'incapable of ever learning'. So yeah, you can not know about something, doesn't make you dumb...

Holding your tongue is a great way to get a dry mouth.

keeps it from wagging though

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): Brother HL-1202 prints blank pages by wo pe on askubuntu.com

@SmokeDetector fp

@Shog9 Registered answer as false positive.

Q: I NEED TO EXTRACT A TABLE FROM A WEBPAGE INTO EXCEL USING VBA

7:47 PM

Gah. Slogging through vba yields maybe one question per page worth answering.

Maybe.

And then you get gems like this:

-5

I NEED TO EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM A CERTAIN WEBSITE. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/indicators THAT IS THE WEBSITE I NEED TO EXTRACT INFO FROM. THE ONLY THING I COULD GATHER WAS THE HTML CODE BELOW. <div class="table-responsive panel panel-default"> ...

7:59 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): PET space arcade game with surprisingly good graphics by MilaSoft Commodore on retrocomputing.SE

user302202

> Based on revisiting feedback from our interest check and from the attendance of this question collection, we've opted to switch to a 1 slot election.

Android election?

user302202

Good/bad news for @Bookends - Android election is now more likely to happen.

user302202

The bad part, they'll be the only one handling flags and whatnot

Is android that busy?

user302202

8:05 PM

First posts and non answers all the time.

Ugh, yeah, those can be hard if there's a lot.

user302202

Like, all the time. Everyone is new. Posts once, disappears. Repeat daily dozens of times.

:(

user302202

Then again, Bookends is plural so they can split the tasks at least in two.

That happens a lot for Minecraft questions on Arqade, too; tons of new users wanting to do something, and never coming back.

user302202

8:09 PM

I call those Q&R sites: questions and reviews.

user302202

Or called, before I stopped bothering with reviews.

user302202

Currently, Android has 270 tasks in FP queue.

Ouch.

Arqade doesn't get anywhere near that high. Maybe a dozen at most?

user302202

That may be network record as of now. Compare to 46 FP on SO (+56 in Triage)

user302202

Two other essentially un-reviewed sites are Tor (78 FP, 64 LA) and elementary OS (44 FP, 4 LA).

user302202

8:15 PM

The LA number is not high for eOS because nobody's answering anyhow.

We were getting so many crappy Minecraft questions that we just eventually banned all modded tech support for them.

Now we just get complaints about people needing help and not knowing where to get it if we don't help them.

user302202

> Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing (up to) 10 questions in total.

user302202

Wonder if anyone ever considered the optimality of 10 as a number here

user302202

Someone who actually read those mini-novels in 10 chapters... which are quite derivative

user302202

8:41 PM

Top tag on Tezos site is baking

8:54 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected (79): How to prevent fountain pen to evaporate ink during winter months? by Lebron James on writing.SE

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@Mrs.Robinson Is there pie, or do they only work with fractions?

I won't forgive myself for that pun