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Q: why cant Oreki refuse Chitanda?

Dimitri mxOreki is a ussualy lazy and energy saving kinda guy. After meeting Chitanda Oreki is unable to refuse her requests. Why cant he refuse it ? Is this because he is in love with her or is it a form of hypnosis?

 
 
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1:48 AM
"Please remove the glow around the yellow areas, underneath the transparent part."

*Removes all glow, leaving the solid areas intact*

"Worse. I meant to remove the yellow parts entirely."

*Removes them, leaving only the transparent part*

"Yeah, like that, but not so... solid."
 
 
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3:14 AM
 
@iKlsR Yup.
 
After looking through and on meta, It seems someone is actively downvoting these type of questions.
it's like being Spiderman! — Krazer Apr 23 at 19:05
... damn turtle. :3
 
@iKlsR Turtle.
 
3:31 AM
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Q: What Noble Phantasm was the Head of the Ainsworth Family about to use on Tanaka?

KrazerIn chapter 11 of Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya Drei!, having pinned down the main cast with his "conceptual interference," the Head of the Ainsworth Family readies a Noble Phantasm to take Tanaka out of the picture... What Noble Phantasm does he use? Who did it originally belong to?

 
3:52 AM
op op
 
@iKlsR I can understand why someone would do that. They're usually pretty low quality questions which are only useful to the OP. I wouldn't go around downvoting them, but I'm certainly not upvoting most of them either.
 
@LoganM Second largest tag so I would say it has accounted for quite a bit on this site. It's a localized problem that we can't fix.
 
@iKlsR I think there's a decent argument to be made for a similar policy to Arqade's, which allows ID questions based on images but not based solely on what you remember.
We don't need to do that at the moment, as we're doing fine answering them, but I'm also not seeing a whole lot of long-term benefit of allowing these questions.
At the very least it would eliminate some of the really bad questions that aren't really helping distribute knowledge to anyone but the OP.
Anyway I don't care enough either way on this, but I could see reasons to adopt such a policy.
 
4:35 AM
@iKlsR Ping?
 
5:32 AM
New multicollider doesn't seem to have hot questions list at all.
All things considered I think this will be a great improvement for a few sites, in particular Math (but also some other ones), to avoid snowballing questions that are only getting upvotes because they're interesting to the broader network crowd while being rather trivial for the site itself.
However it will probably make it harder for us to get those kinds of questions which potentially bring in lots of new users across the network.
 
They said near the bottom that they haven't considered hot questions or mod-messages yet. But implied that they will remain a part of the dropdown.
If you're looking for a troll to laugh at: christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/19380/… :)
I have screenies of all those so if you miss it... :D
 
@Mysticial hahahahaha
@Mysticial I didn't see that, but in any case I think if hot questions isn't the default it will do a lot to curb the random snowballing on rather poor questions that seems to happen a lot with the questions that top the collider.
 
@LoganM There's a lot of momentum among meta users to tweak the multicollider algorithm to stop favoring shitty questions.
But I have no idea how long it will be before any staff member even recognizes the existence of that effort.
 
@Mysticial I think it's impossible. The extreme amount of attention from those external to the community is precisely what makes multicollider questions end up terrible.
@Mysticial BTW this user has a bunch of other spammy posts.
 
@LoganM Well, it might not solve it, but there's a very simple way to make it a lot harder for the shitty stuff to get that much attention.
The method is to simply drop the # of answers multiplier from the equation.
The vast majority of the stuff that tops the multicollider are either easy questions where 10 people rush to answer, or open-ended non-constructive stuff.
 
5:44 AM
any of you guys play league of legends?
 
@Mysticial Yes I agree that this would do quite a bit.
 
Killing off the # answers multiplier will likely solve that.
 
Still wouldn't solve the snowballing of extremely basic posts on e.g. MSE though.
 
@LoganM But at least it's a step in the right direction if SE actually implements it.
It'll solve a big part of the problem on SO at least.
 
@Mysticial Yeah agreed. I'm not sure exactly what the point of having a "hot questions" list on SE is in the first place though.
 
5:47 AM
One of the reasons why you don't see more questions like the branch-predictor where there are few answers but with one or two massively upvoted is because the current multicolider algorithm buries them.
@LoganM I enjoy looking at it. To see what's hot on SO and other interesting sites.
brb
 
@Mysticial But that's not really the point of SE at all. It's the point of sites like Reddit or Hacker News or 4chan or the various chatrooms or other places like that. When you put it as the first thing in the top left on every page in the network, all it does is bring a lot of mostly non-expert attention to questions on what are nominally supposed to expert Q&A sites.
That's honestly exactly why the sorts of questions from MSE that make it to the top of the collider do. It's not because MSE people vote a lot for really basic questions, but because those are the sorts of questions that most of the SO crowd understand and will vote on. It creates a positive feedback loop.
On the other hand, there's no similar feedback loop for expert questions that get a lot of votes, even if they're really good, because the rest of the network crowd just doesn't understand them.
Christianity troll guy is still going at it. So far 8 questions and one answer. Two have been deleted via spam flags but 6 are still there.
It's times like this where temporarily auto-suspending a user with more than one or two posts deleted via spam flags would be a good idea. Doesn't seem like any of their mods (or even many of their users) are online, and this guy can presumably keep going as long as that continues.
 
6:11 AM
@LoganM I read somewhere on meta that the reason why the hot questions list exists is because people wanted it - to see what were the best questions at the time. But I won't argue whether it's for or against what SE's goal is.
But yes, I agree that the problem is out of hand on MSE.
 
I've actually been compiling a list of questions which hit the top of the collider from MSE. It's at about 10 right now, mostly because I only check once every few days, but there's a clear trend of terribleness.
 
 
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10:03 AM
Seems like the spammer at Cristianity got bored, and all the posts have since been deleted. I screencapped 10 of them, though there could have been more. Rather than posting them all separately, I just combined them into one image to save space.
For anyone who wants to see the posts, click here. Warning: the image is pretty big, so don't try it on a low bandwidth connection.
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1:04 PM
@Eric Pong
@Mysticial Missed it, :(
@JonLin I do
 
@iKlsR See my post right above your posts. I have all of them there.
 
@LoganM ah, gratz
XD
 
My favorite one is probably the gigantic 10th one which is longer than the rest of them combined.
 
1:48 PM
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Q: What manga/animes would you recommend me based on the following?

Mr.HappyIt seems it's very hard to find decent recommendations for anime, manga and comics based on given favoured and disfavoured examples when I attempt it irl. I'm hoping on finding people here who are very wise on this subject/interest and would have seen a broader amount of works than the people I g...

 
2:21 PM
@iKlsR Too late, the LoL worlds semi finals is already over
but if you want to keep a tab open for the next round: twitch.tv/riotgames
 
 
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3:40 PM
Indie Animu x2 ~
 
4:38 PM
% Answered is down to 90%. Still in Excellent category for the moment, but we only need to drop 0.5% to go down to "Okay"
 
5:14 PM
Hahaha this guy is back:
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Q: Christianity is for assholes only

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new account?
 
@LoganM lol, nice tag
 
@Mysticial Looks like the same one. Gravatar and number are the same.
 
lol
Sounds like they need more mods.
At least enough to cover every hour in the day.
 
Actually it's definitely the same account. It's linked to MSO, and I remember his MSO account was suspended. Probably for spamming given that he's suspended for 1 month from today.
This time one of their people did the really annoying thing of editing the spam to something less spammy. Makes my work more than double if I want to save these for posterity.
I don't think I'm going to bother screencapping these unless someone really wants them. The other ones above should be enough.
 
5:28 PM
Yeah, that's probably enough. :)
 
5:39 PM
I'm gonna keep taking screenshots for a while longer, but I think the posted ones are sufficient as a sample for anyone who comes late. If someone really wants them for some good reason though then I'll post them.
This is really bad. I almost feel bad enough to make an account and go flag this guy, but that would wreck the experiment.
I'm not sure why this guy isn't suspended (or even destroyed) yet. They've had a mod on since he started spamming for the second time, and two since the first time he was spamming.
And he just got destroyed.
And recreated his account. I'm getting bored of this.
 
5:57 PM
lol
 
Apparently destroying doesn't stop them from making a new account with the same OpenID. I definitely saw his old user page deleted and he now has a new one.
 
Well, I'm Bach. I'm afraid that this is an opinion based question. "And you mother fuckers?" is a confusing question and, at best, will recieve merely a guess, rather than a researched answer. Thereby I'm flagging it. If you wish to ask a genuine Christianity question, we are all ears. — Thomas Jennings 1 min ago
^^ lol
 
yeah I found that one moderately amusing too
All things considered this is a pretty pathetic way to spend a Saturday afternoon, refreshing a troll's user page hoping he's posted more spam.
 
6:25 PM
When does SnK air today?
mahou.org/Showtime/Planner doesn't give much info
Are they on a break this week?
 
@MadaraUchiha Means it already aired
It was the last one, so they took it off from the chart
 
Huh
So raw should come out any minute now :P
 
@MadaraUchiha There's one raw available at nyaa already
 
@JNat link?
 
6:35 PM
destroyed again
 
6:56 PM
lol back again. This guy is ridiculous.
 
7:29 PM
@LoganM He's a well known, very long running spammer named Sumer
Don't mind him, he comes and goes regularly.
 
@MadaraUchiha Oh is it the same person as this one?
 
@LoganM 99.9% sure
Same religious spam, same language style
 
Did he start off as some ticked off Q-banned user who just lost it?
 
@Mysticial Don't know, really
I only learned of him after I became a mod
 
I heard about him from this MSO post. Maybe others but that's the one I remember.
 
7:37 PM
Oh, he's the same person as the Python troll?
 
Yeah it seems so
at least if Madara is right
Can either of you check these questions and see if any of them are by him? http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/198520/ http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/198519/
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/198516/ http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/198515/
 
Nah, those are just users confusing meta.SO with SO.
Or are Q-banned SO users trying to repost on meta.SO.
 
@LoganM Don't think so, no
 
@Mysticial All 4 of them? It's pretty strange to have 4 removed posts almost sequentially if it's not spam.
 
@LoganM MSO gets questions like these a lot
 
7:45 PM
It happens all the time on MSO.
 
People see the "We don't accept answers from this account anymore, see this meta question for more details"
And think "Ohhh! Another site! I should probably ask there since this old site won't let me!"
 
In any case, then I don't know why he was suspended on MSO at around that time. I guess he could have been suspended for longer but the timing is pretty suspicious given that his suspension ends a month from today.
 
I'm quite surprised they haven't re-hosted the Q-ban message in SO help rather than MSO.
 
@LoganM The last two is the same account as the first account that hit chritianity.SE yesterday night.
 
@Mysticial okay that must be it.
 
That's how I found them on chritianity.SE in the first place. I wouldn't go there unless something linked me there.
 
oic
Those posts must be why he was suspended on MSO with that account.
 
@Mysticial I'm not sure they didn't.
I don't have a Q-banned sock on Stack Overflow.
 
8:09 PM
@Mysticial is there anything interesting in those MSO posts?
 
8:38 PM
@MadaraUchiha The meta post about the Q-ban is on meta.
 
@Mysticial But it's also there on the help center as well
 
@MadaraUchiha But the error message links to MSO. (unless they changed that recently)
 
It wasn't replaced then yet :P
Maybe you should post a meta about it
 
It's a dupe a million times. Multiple people have suggested moving it off of meta.
It fell on deaf ears if I recall.
Apparently, the OT programming question problem on MSO isn't big enough for the higher ups to take any action.
Or at least normal users like us deal with them efficiently enough.
 
9:04 PM
@LoganM Did you take a screen of this?
 

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