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Jan Dvorak

10:00 PM

Yes. Some mods don't get the "spam = abusive" thing.

Cerbrus

Oh, that's disappointing...

Jan Dvorak

What should the meta question be? "I got a declined flag because of a userscript we use. Should I stop using it until the two flags are finally officially merged"?

Undo

That one I can answer. There isn't complete agreement on SO even over whether gibberish is red-flaggable.

@JanDvorak "So seriously guys, what red flags can be used where?"

Jan Dvorak

@Undo Well, the wording was changed several times so that gibberish would fit, and Shog said it fits

Undo

I wouldn't bring the userscript into it at all. Distracts from the point

Cerbrus

10:03 PM

Might wana mention Pops' Coke vs Pepsi / Pepsi vs Pepsi message

Undo

@JanDvorak Not everyone's seen that, though.

Jan Dvorak

@Undo then I expect "it's not spam, so flag as abusive" while flagging as abusive is not an option.

Undo

As would I

Whenever you've got 20+ people of varying levels of activity, you're gonna have weird little disagreements like this

Jan Dvorak

Ideally mods would catch up with the official ruling using their secret room.

Undo

Ideally

Jan Dvorak

10:06 PM

At least I'd like there to be such a thing as official ruling.

Undo

Indeed

Glorfindel

@Undo meh

That means: you're right, but we're slowly getting where we need to be.

SmokeDetector

10:25 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, no whitespace in body: Historical drift estimator by Nahu on quant.SE

Glorfindel

@SmokeDetector v

(grace period)

Undo

and we flagged it

Jan Dvorak

What is the best way to flag gibberish, abuse and vandalism (respectively) now?

Glorfindel

Rude/abusive, according to the help center

Wait, that was the wrong link.

Undo

What the heck?

Glorfindel

10:28 PM

Q: What if I see someone doing something bad?

... like messing up the Help Center? What if I see someone doing something bad? I have a log file being written by another process which I want to watch for changes. Each time a change occurrs I'd like to read the new data in to do some processing on it. What's the best way to do th...

stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/flag-posts

I really like CakePHP. Similar to Rails and pretty lightweight

Jan Dvorak

@Glorfindel What the heck?

Undo

Bahahaha

Glorfindel

Did Stack Exchange hire a GitLabs employee to manage the databases?

Undo

Jan Dvorak

is it still bad if it's Jeff doing it? (semi-tongue-in-cheek)

J F

10:31 PM

ArtOfCode

@Cerb re SE API auth: enable client side auth flow, and there's a redirect URI on SE.com that you can use

Cerbrus

I've figured out a redirect back to the chat. It then checks for the key in the hash, saves it, and closes the new window

Basically: got it to work :-)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: Is the idiom "as neat as a pin" an American phrase? by Pee Hole on english.SE

J F

Be nice:

> If you do db:schema:load you will loose all your data!

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Gothdo

Glorfindel

10:35 PM

At least the Stack Overflow help links are on topic. This one on Chess SE seems to be taken from Graphic Design SE ....

Jan Dvorak

TL;DR: the topicality rules across StackExchange are even muddier today than usual.

Cerbrus

Yay! Token works, each authenticated user now has their own API quota :D

In case loading all SE sites once per week becomes an issue ;-)

(Authentication is optional)

Jan Dvorak

Good. Now make flagging abuse safer by using the correct flag type :-)

Cerbrus

Meaning I'd have to add a separate button :-/

Cerbrus

11:06 PM

@JanDvorak ^

Someone requested a "this is edited" icon? :P

J F

2 days ago, by J F

The Autoflagging wiki should probably be updated with the current flag count.

Jan Dvorak

... oh. I didn't notice the pencil icon.

ArtOfCode

@Cerbrus can you put the why block above the post text, so I don't think it's part of the post?

@JF can you not do that yourself?

or did someone protect it

Jan Dvorak

The question is more interesting than the why block and should be above

Cerbrus

@ArtOfCode It's on my todo, this was easier :P The why block is hidden by default, opens when you click the "Question:" text

J F

11:08 PM

@ArtOfCode I can do it. Should I just delete the quote box?

ArtOfCode

@JF whatever's appropriate, I haven't seen it in some time

J F

Done

Cerbrus

FIRE has been updated to add some SE API features. (For now, only post edit status). You can also authorize FIRE with your SE account now, for a rather massive API quota :D

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Text Summarization Tool by user15136 on linguistics.SE

Cerbrus

I just noticed the button still says write token, but I removed "write access" from the requested roles, for now.

SmokeDetector

11:20 PM

tpu- by Cerbrus

Cerbrus

i've also gotta get to bed :P Nite!

SmokeDetector

11:37 PM

Restart: API quota is 8650.