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01:14

If your rep suddenly jumps up for no discernible reason, stay tuned to the Stack Exchange blog

Journeyman Geek

lol

as opposed to cheer wildly?

Tom Wijsman

01:51

@random Woohoo! Rollercoaster, I like SE... :)

Blog bot

02:40

Blog - Stack Exchange: Reputation and Historical Archives

Shog9 on March 05, 2012

If you’ve been around Meta Stack Overflow the past few days, you’ve seen a fair bit of conversation sparked by the recent changes to how reputation is calculated:

To be clear: reputation values are not changing, every action in the system is still worth the same amount. Here’s what will be different:

Your reputation will be correct at all times

Deletions will have a much more immediate effect on reputation, not waiting on a recalc (but reputation sync takes up to 5 minutes on a delete/undelete action; as to not block the user’s response thread, it’s offloaded to a background queue) …

Journeyman Geek

nice

Tom Wijsman

03:11

I hope it doesn't cause rant about getting reputation... :D

-2

Q: I had reputation automagically appear on Programmers.SE

I have 130 unexplained reputation that just appeared this evening on Programmers.SE that I cannot account for. My reputation was at 444 prior to the change in reputation policy to do more frequent recalculations, and was at 398 yesterday prior to me deleting an answer with a +16 net rep score a...

Sathya

04:17

Does a different set of RAM sticks result in processor overheating? :|

sounds stupid, but ever since I swapped the RAM sticks, my laptop's been running hotter than ever. I can't even play ME3 for more than 15-20 minutes without the laptop shutting down :|

Tom Wijsman

@Sathya If you want an odd suggestion: "Update to the latest NVIDIA drivers"

If you have NVIDIA, they are fairly optimized for ME3.

But on the other hand, it sounds like you have done something wrong with inserting the RAM sticks. You might want to open up your laptop and double check your work. Perhaps get the fans cleaned out and all that...

@Sathya: If you have two RAM sticks, just make them change place might help. And a memory / stability test...

Sathya

04:52

@TomWijsman I don't have nvidia

@TomWijsman no stability issues, already tested them. Fan's fairly clean, cleared out some more, not much change

@TomWijsman perhaps.. I'll reinstall the sticks. Also got a can of compressed air heading my way

sidran32

05:24

Posted a blog idea in Trello. I want to do a "personal experience/review" type thing of Windows 8, complete with video of me writing it (so people can see it in action).

Of course this requires me using Windows 8 a bit more to get more comfortable using it. :P I am, but could be more :p

Journeyman Geek

05:41

yo

1

Q: How can I create a RW-Everything script to disable C-states in my Intel i5-2320 Processor?

My Intel i5-2320 Processor whines when it is in an idle state due to the Piezoelectric Effect. My OEM BIOS has locked me out from disabling this feature. Due to this, I need help creating a script in RW-Everything that can run when Windows loads to turn this feature off.

cpu

this question scares me in so many ways

sidran32

:o

Journeyman Geek

06:17

also, piezo effect dosen't happen with just anything

studiohack

06:51

Say, @SimonSheehan, have you seen the Canadian TV show, Endgame?

Daniel Beck

08:00

@OliverSalzburg If you're reporting bugs to MSO, freehand circles are mandatory.

"If there's a visual anomaly associated with the bug, then post a screenshot, circling the portion that offends you. Applying a tasteful drop-shadow to your screenshot is optional; drawing the circles freehand is mandatory."

Gigili

08:15

Thank you for the link @JourneymanGeek.

Daniel Beck

Nice. Questions list paging breaks when you enter page numbers in the URL instead of jumping between pages using the links at the bottom.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@DanielBeck I favour greying out everything thats not important ;p

also, freehand circles must be red

Sathya

this is the new ~~sketchy~~ beta theme

long live sketchy

Daniel Beck

08:30

@Sathya Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...........!!!

It doesn't even look beta-ish

Sathya

I know, I thought that it was the new-theme for the site

Daniel Beck

@Sathya It could be though. Poker's still sketchy.

RPG and Christianity as well.

Sathya

@DanielBeck Robert mentioned it's for Jewish Life and Learning only for now

17

Q: Your New Beta Theme

Your site looks a bit different today. The design changes are a "sneak peek" at the new Stack Exchange Beta theme. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta. We chose Judaism SE to premiere this new theme because we ...

discussion featured design

Daniel Beck

@Sathya So ... I need to register at Judaism.SE to downvote a network wide theme change? Nice.

Journeyman Geek

lol

slhck

08:39

I don't think it's too bad.

Didn't like the sketchy theme.

Daniel Beck

@slhck Nobody complained when it was gone though. Site graduation was also visually an important milestone. I can already see people complaining that they liked this beta theme better than the final one.

slhck

@DanielBeck Heh .. probably.

The Long Path Tool spam is becoming obnoxious again.

Must've flagged at least five of them until now.

Journeyman Geek

got an example?

(so i can keep an eye out)

slhck

08:54

-1

A: How to prevent long file name error copying from an external drive?

I have been suffering from accessing, managing and even renaming files that have more than 255 characters over a long time. I have tried various ways but failed. Then I have searched this problem in internet. Then I have found a solution. This software is very easy to use. Named Long path Tool. ...

http://superuser.com/questions/129995/access-denied-using-takeown-exe/397148#397148
http://superuser.com/questions/320801/alternative-to-windows-explorer-for-long-path-names/395249#395249
http://superuser.com/questions/229563/how-to-delete-files-and-folders-that-cannot-be-deleted/395061#395061

etc :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

noted ;p

slhck

@TomWijsman What are you saying by this?

2

A: "$" is silently removed from links used in comments

In links, $ should be replaced by %24. The intent should be to make the link conform to all RFCs, not break the link because of a single RFC.

That the SE engine should escape links with $ properly?

That I shouldn't be able to take the URL that's displayed in my browser and add it to a link the way it is?

Because, frankly, I don't see why users not familiar with the term RFC should check if the links they post are 100% conform. Especially if the browser shows them just fine, and even Wikipedia uses them.

Daniel Beck

09:26

This 3D printer for $350 looks pretty interesting.

Journeyman Geek

09:38

won't seem to load for me

slhck

0

Q: Flagging posts that answer the question with something the OP has already dismissed

Note: This is a follow-up on Is “Y” really a valid answer to “I want X, and tried to do Y, but it doesn't work”? — because I don't think this is sufficiently answered, or at least doesn't seem too consistent in its approach. Also, we can't add bounties here. Furthermore, I asked this on Ask ...

discussion flagging

I felt that wasn't sufficiently discussed

Daniel Beck

@slhck +1

More if I could.

slhck

@DanielBeck Heh. Thanks.

Journeyman Geek

09:53

ooh

new varient of old spam superuser.com/questions/397433/forgot-windows-8-password

Daniel Beck

What was the rule on editing out spam text? Not doing it to enable database searches?

slhck

@DanielBeck Not doing it, yeah

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck sadly for actual production, it would probably have to be bigger and a lot faster, though I think we've already made massive improvements in the past few years

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse For actual production, you're buying 5-plus-digit-priced printers.

Ivo Flipse

As for you flag @slhck I agree, I would have deleted it, but I'd prefer the original mod to respond first. Besides, it would ruin you're whole point ;)

@DanielBeck I knew, though I'd prefer if those 5 were like 10.000 instead of 99.999

Daniel Beck

10:06

@IvoFlipse This needs to be consistently applied. There's no flag weight anymore, but it's still annoying that these useless posts survive.

Ivo Flipse

I've worked on a project where they wanted to 3D print orthotics, designed using pressure measurements and 3D surface scans

@DanielBeck I deleted 350 posts yesterday, I think you don't have to convince me :)

Sadly, raising our accepted percentage by even 1% would mean deleting over 1000 questions...

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse It's just that equally useless-for-production devices are often in the $2-4k range. I want to print chess pieces or something like that, not prototype for business.

Ivo Flipse

I'm tempted to propose deleting any unanswered (as in no answers at all) questions older than 12 months

If you didn't get an answer, then either we don't know, don't care or you didn't take the trouble to make us care

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse Not sure this is a good idea. There should be a question score in the rules somewhere.

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck Some of the ZCorp printers would be sufficient for that, though I believe their printed objects are rather brittle

@DanielBeck My problem is: say you come from google thinking we have the solution and there's a year old question, still absolutely no hint of an answer, what good does that do?

Its nothing to be ashamed of if your question can't be answered

Daniel Beck

10:10

@IvoFlipse Sufficient for what? Chess pieces? They don't actually mention their prices on the web site.

Ivo Flipse

Off course, if SE stopped indexing these, that would probably be enough

I think those are also in the 12k range, so I guess its a bit overkill :P

If you were to give a 3D printer to a skilled graphical designer, I think you could simply open up a shop to sell small statues, like book holders and what not or D&D figures

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse I rather like answering old questions. I've done it a few times. Good, actually rather easy questions for rather niche topics that needed someone to use search or the Community bump to get enough attention.

Ivo Flipse

Well then you'll be pleased to hear I did use a question vote filter (for now)

but questions from 2009 or early 2010 are essentially dead, especially if the OP hasn't been active for over a year

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse I think that'd be rather cool from a "uniqueness" POV. Having something nobody else has. I think many people would be willing to pay a lot more for exclusivity like that.

slhck

@IvoFlipse Okay, cheers ;)

Ivo Flipse

10:13

If you can come up with some simple 3D scanning, like this one I did with Kinect, then people can even personalize things to some degree

having Ogre's walking around with your face for instance :P

Oliver Salzburg

I don't think I've fully understood the whole daily rep cap. I went to sleep with 3454 and having hit 200 daily rep. Now I wake up with 3494 and my log tells me I've gained 10 rep today.

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse The "extended family chess board".

Ivo Flipse

The sky is the limit :)

Daniel Beck

There's a reason I want one.

Ivo Flipse

In the States I watched a TV show where a chef made insane cakes (Cake Boss I believe), his job would also be easier if he could 3D print molds in whatever shape he needed

Daniel Beck

10:16

Not willing to pay €1500+ though, and I kind of have two left hands, so I'd rather not get a Reprap kit that takes weeks to assemble.

Ivo Flipse

> Suppose that each of 400 people is equally likely to vote yes or no on a school funding election. What's the size of a standard deviation for the total number of yes votes?

@DanielBeck Seconded, that's one reason for not doing it (yet)

I feel stupid for asking, but I have no idea how to come up with the standard deviation :S

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse It's a coin toss. This should help.

Ivo Flipse

200 would vote 0, 200 would vote 1, mean is 0.5 then take (value-mean)^2 for all 400 and sum that and take the average?

Oliver Salzburg

@IvoFlipse Questions like that always sound as if they had a psychological component to it.

Like "Oh, you didn't factor in that people are 3.42% more likely to vote "yes" in general!!!"

Ivo Flipse

@OliverSalzburg I suck at economics, simply because I couldn't parse their questions. Given I had no trouble with Physics or Chemistry, you'd expect it has something to do with their questions

sigma_x=\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{n}

Hmmm so just 0.5 * sqrt(400)

Daniel Beck

10:24

@IvoFlipse Looks reasonable with smaller sample counts as well.

Ivo Flipse

yeah the post above it does: sqrt ( n * p * (1-p) )

which ends up being the same as the second post

> How many possible preference ORDERINGS (i.e. preferences that satisfy transitivity) exist for four alternatives?

Daniel Beck

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A: How to set Mac OS X's Default Compression Format?

If you know Objective-C, you could try using SIMBL to inject your code into the Finder. To find out what you exactly need you can use F-Script, which allows inspection of running applications and injection of code in run time. After you install and configure it, attach to the Finder process (as r...

Ivo Flipse

That's another one that's just awkward :S

Daniel Beck

I always hated those "looks like an answer, but is missing the step right before 'profit!'" answers.

Ivo Flipse

I would assume 4!, which is 24, but if they need to satisfy transitivity, then I have no clue

Daniel Beck

10:28

@IvoFlipse It's 4! and the transitivity bit is just redundant.

Ivo Flipse

Ah

Daniel Beck

It just means an ordering is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and not like Rock-Paper-Scissors

Ivo Flipse

> About which of the following attributes of a computer would someone likely have SPATIAL preferences?

You got to pick: processing speed, screen size, special keys on keyboard and battery life

He said: Screen Size would probably be spatial. You'd have an ideal size for the computer. Speed would probably not be -- more speed is better. Battery life would not be -- more battery life is better. Number of special keys would probably be spatial as well -- we all like some, but no one would want eighty more

That's BS, pick a higher Processing speed and you'll have less battery life. You can't have both, hence you have to make trade offs, isn't that like the whole point :P

Ah well, I scored 8.25/12 Good enough for me :P

In case you're interested, this is for Coursera's Model Thinking course

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse What's a SPATIAL preference?

Ivo Flipse

Hot |---1---2-----------3--| Cold

Say you like cold drinks, you prefer 3 over the rest, because its closer to your preference

Daniel Beck

10:36

Ah I get it.

Your example's off though

Ivo Flipse

That explains why I didn't get the question right ;)

Daniel Beck

You like cold drinks, but shouldn't be below 2 degrees Celsius or so.

Ivo Flipse

Hehe, perhaps

Daniel Beck

The computer answers are consistent with "I want some, but not the extremes".

Ivo Flipse

Would anyone be interested in getting a Raspberry Pi? If possible at all?

Or something similar

Daniel Beck

10:39

@IvoFlipse Sure.

Ivo Flipse

Any idea if we can even order them somewhere, I reckon their first batch is already sold out

Daniel Beck

And I wondered this morning where those 50 or so rep came from.

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck What a butthurt that whole situation is

Daniel Beck

Are they serious though? Awarding 1000 rep for the "Firefox" answer to important programs?

Should only apply to topics with less than 8 or so answers. Otherwise it's just about polling.

Oliver Salzburg

@IvoFlipse They are going to sell through major resellers

So, no badges

Ivo Flipse

10:44

@DanielBeck Please, don't start a counter argument, its bad as it is :P

@OliverSalzburg Like which?

Oliver Salzburg

@IvoFlipse Element14 to my knowledge

And another one, there was a small announcement.

They also said that that would allow them to supply continously.

Instead of their batch model they wanted to deploy earlier.

hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/28/2347222/…

Ivo Flipse

Interesting, it would be nice if we could hand out a couple

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse The "Historical lock" sounds a lot like what I once suggested on MSU, allowing posts to be marked obsolete.

Unfortunately, it's only entire topics, not answers as well.

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck Perhaps we should be more pro-active about moving some of our golden oldies to the blog

But its unfair, I couldn't log in the first day until after work, so all the easy answers were already taken :(

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse Why? (It's a serious question)

Ivo Flipse

10:50

@DanielBeck So we can delete them

Sathya

> And since it’s Women’s day, we’re all going to wear ethnic attire. Colours for the day are pink and purple

ugh

Daniel Beck

@Sathya ethnic attire?

Sathya

@DanielBeck yeah

Daniel Beck

It seems I need to look up the definition of ethnic.

Sathya

we generally wear what's um, western wear to work

western wear == formal suits/ shirts/pants

Journeyman Geek

10:57

lol

Indian Ethnic...Dhoti+shirt or jibba kurta... i don't see it working in pink and purple

Sathya

I know.. T_T

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek Weird, pink and purple usually goes with everything.

Journeyman Geek

If you can't see colour

Though

I am native geek

Oliver Salzburg

11:34

New silver badge \o/

Daniel Beck

@OliverSalzburg Which one?

Oliver Salzburg

Enlightened

First time, so I'm extra-proud ;)

Daniel Beck

Nice answer.

Oliver Salzburg

Thanks. Incidentally, I also got that badge for that answer :D

Daniel Beck

@OliverSalzburg I was sure a comment about that would come.

Oliver Salzburg

11:43

@DanielBeck Felt kind of mandatory.

Daniel Beck

Preparing taxes, or looking at cat pictures with funny captions... hmmm...

Journeyman Geek

12:03

lol

@DanielBeck: Cat pictures, naturally

slhck

@DanielBeck Cat pictures are so 2009

Plus, you probably get money out of preparing taxes.

haha, always makes me chuckle

Journeyman Geek

12:22

article.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel/14518

this is pretty cool - one of the dragonfly bsd programmes found a bug in some amd processors

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck In case it's new to you: ifconfig.me/ip

Replaced whatsmyip for me ;D

slhck

@OliverSalzburg I know that service, yeah :) – the other one's easier to remember I guess

@JourneymanGeek That's too high for me

Journeyman Geek

high?

Oliver Salzburg

@JourneymanGeek advanced

Daniel Beck

@slhck AirPort is connected to Supersaurus?

@slhck Well, I'll have to pay less, but it's not like I get money back.

So there's still time.

Journeyman Geek

12:49

...

i was just about to link that ;p

slhck

@DanielBeck Yeah, WiFi names … :P

Journeyman Geek

lol. its a good hostname-theme-system

slhck

@JourneymanGeek Hm, my machines are all named after mythological characters :P

Iain

G'day

would you like serverfault.com/questions/366212/… ?

Daniel Beck

13:05

@Iain Not really.

HackToHell

13:17

@Iain blogger has low latency (i think)

yes, it is lower

Iain

@DanielBeck @HackToHell thanks

and what about this serverfault.com/questions/366804/… ?

Oliver Salzburg

@DanielBeck Ok, got it. You can remove your comment now if you like ;) superuser.com/questions/397444/…

Daniel Beck

@OliverSalzburg It proves that I am so S-M-R-T, so I keep it.

Journeyman Geek

13:49

@Iain: Neither are SU The caching one is more pro webmasters or something and the question on ethernet adaptors involves a set top box

IMO

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek Home networking is on topic

Despite involving "electronic devices"

Journeyman Geek

@DanielBeck: well, my concern is, the set top box isn't quite standard, so there may not be a right answer

And there's not really much information in the question

Oliver Salzburg

It was such a stupid idea to enable sound on all these VMs...

Daniel Beck

It's a Linux.

Journeyman Geek

I'd grant that.

slhck

13:59

approve, reject? superuser.com/suggested-edits/9370

Daniel Beck

@slhck Rejected

slhck

Diogo's been copy/pasting Tag Wikis again. Can't see where this is copied from, but it sounds like an advertisement

Daniel Beck

@slhck From the websites. The same with the other edit.

slhck

Rejected those two anyway, superuser.com/suggested-edits/9371, superuser.com/suggested-edits/9372

Daniel Beck

Looking forward to the next meta topic.

Journeyman Geek

14:01

@slhck: from the websites of the things in question

slhck

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, pretty cheap …

Journeyman Geek

he's also question necromancing in links o0

slhck

@JourneymanGeek what?

Ah, saw it

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Q: How to disable MonoDevelop automatic update checks from command line?

I'm maintaining a lab of workstations, on which I've installed MonoDevelop. How can I (via a shell script that runs when the user logs in) prevent MonoDevelop from checking for updates and notifying the user? (In this situation, individual users do not have permission to install updates, so the...

command-line monodevelop

left a comment

Daniel Beck

@JourneymanGeek Necromancer is a badge for answering late.

What you mean is Archaeologist.

slhck

Okay, he's been doing it five times at least

Meh

Daniel Beck

14:11

@slhck Hahahaha

"Why unnecessarily??? Based on what are you affirming that? What would be a necessarily edit to bump old and unansweared posts?"

Journeyman Geek

@DanielBeck: I mean it in the "STOP RAISING THE DEAD, YOU MADMAN" kind of necromancy

slhck

@DanielBeck Ugh …

Daniel Beck

Could someone support me in that comment thread?

slhck

@DanielBeck Done

Journeyman Geek

Done

Oliver Salzburg

14:24

Oh boy how I love these. I install an English Windows 7, run updates and, of course, get the Browser Selection because I'm located in Germany. Of course I don't care about the browser, so I click Internet Explorer. Only to be told "You can't install this version of Internet Explorer because your operating systems language is not supported".

Journeyman Geek

I actually do edit in links, bit only in current questions

Oliver Salzburg

Someone needs to suffer for that browser selection. And it seems to be me

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg: "Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"

;p

(As an anglophile geek in denial, i utterly have to quote monty python occationally ;p)

Oliver Salzburg

Heheh

Journeyman Geek

also, i seem to think IE is already installed

it just forces you to pick a default

slhck

14:27

@DanielBeck superuser.com/questions/268411/…

Daniel Beck

@slhck @JourneymanGeek Thanks.

slhck

haha, oh dear, it's starting again

I should have never said something

he always misses the point entirely

Daniel Beck

@slhck Wow.

Journeyman Geek

And. he called it a forum

slhck

… and that!

Also what part of chat or Meta didn't he understand?

Oliver Salzburg

14:29

@JourneymanGeek It is, but if you click IE in that dialog, it tries to download the latest version (which is automatically picked as German). And that installer fails cause of the language incompatibility.

Journeyman Geek

and, i rejected another tag wiki edit

@slhck: all of it? ;p

slhck

"I think this question's interesting – I'ma bump it"

> call a oficial moderator and ask him to make an oficial handout to me, I will not discuss this with any of you

okay, cool

HackToHell

lol

stop fighting people ;p ;p

Journeyman Geek

@slhck: He also misses the point of community moderation ;p

slhck

@HackToHell No one's up for fighting. There is a sort of etiquette here, and he's trying to ignore it.

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, it's not like we have … 85k rep combined…

Journeyman Geek

14:35

lol

precisely

slhck

@HackToHell I'm the last person who wants to fight over such trivial things, but unless the system allows others to monitor and (constructively) criticize such behavior other than writing a comment, then I feel I have to do that.

He can do whatever he want, but he's trusted to make his own (editing) decisions and be open to criticism.

Journeyman Geek

And writing a comment is better than flagging

HackToHell

@slhck I did not mean that, it's just funny :D and it's kinda interesting how different people behave.

@slhck Oh no he takes it seriously :(

Journeyman Geek

hmm, with respect to the tips and tricks tag..

HackToHell

people do not understand my jokes :'(

slhck

14:37

@HackToHell Yeah … I mean, could've taken one minute to come to chat, we would've explained rationally.

@HackToHell Haha, sorry :D

@JourneymanGeek What about it?

Journeyman Geek

gonna take a look at it, does anyone think that creating seperate posts so we can organise (and edit) closed, closable and things that will do ok sans the tag and so on is a good idea

any edits can be done by other users with sufficient rep, or via comment

HackToHell

@slhck :) That's just sooo human, maybe he's pissed or drunk o_0 or just he does not like listening to anyone.

slhck

@HackToHell It'd bet on the latter.

There was another meta discussion once where he ragequit.

Journeyman Geek

lol. Lost in translation as well

and maybe cultural things

Daniel Beck

@slhck Not permanently though.

slhck

14:42

@DanielBeck True that.

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, like make a list of stuff to close / delete, that'd be good

Then just retag those that need retagging / fixing anyway

and leave the rest for tag burnination

@DanielBeck Have you seen this and this? :)

Daniel Beck

@slhck ...no?

slhck

@DanielBeck Okay, thought you might have seen it at some point based on the number of revisions.

Daniel Beck

I had upvoted the original answer though. Interesting posts.

@slhck Wow. He's been writing his answer for two days? He's crazier than any of us.

slhck

@DanielBeck Haha.. He's even giving away all his rep by editing too often.

Journeyman Geek

lol

@slhck: pastebin.com/1Zs86twY

done

slhck

14:51

@JourneymanGeek haha, not bad – post it on meta!

what the superuser.com/questions/397314/…

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck Hahaha

Priceless

slhck

let's see how many flags it takes to automatically disappear

one from me

Daniel Beck

I don't know whether I got in, it disappeared when I submitted the flag.

slhck

@DanielBeck Yeah, it automatically disappears then when the threshold is reached.

I once flagged a comment and – poof – it was gone. Something old about "wrong site, ask there!"

Journeyman Geek

done

flags?

@slhck: done

Its a LOT of questions, and so, if i made any errors, feel free to ~~kill all the witnesses and hide the bodies~~ correct them

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