@TomV-trytopanswers.xyz I was wondering about that, too!
We left with 1.5 hours delay. The departure boards were broken and airline employees were running around the place looking for passengers for other delayed flights.
Apparently the storm hit computers and communications first.
Good part, the Germans are better at handling weather, so my connection flight in Frankfurt was on time. Not so good that I had to run through the huge terminal as there was only 25 min between the late arrival and departure of the 2nd flight.
After 2018: a year in closing and 2018: a year in spam it seems natural to look at the questions and answers. What trends do we find there?
2019 vs 2018
2018 vs 2017
@Johnakahot2use I think you took it apart very effectively, although there are a couple of arguments in your post that don't appear very strong to me.
In particular, when you are saying that the OP should take the issue with the person who started the doxxing. I think that's separate to the OP's issue. They have an issue with Paul as a moderator, because they believe that as a moderator Paul shouldn't be helping with what the OP believes to be the doxxing.
And the other time is when you are providing the definition of doxxing where it says that doxxing is typically done with malicious intent and you are pointing out there's no malicious intent. Well, going by that definition, malicious intent is typically there but doesn't have to be in order to consider the act to be doxxing.
Other than that, I completely agree, especially with the conclusion at the end that we are the friendliest place on SE :)
"dox /dɒks/ verb INFORMAL gerund or present participle: doxxing search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent." -- Sorry, but nothing of the sort has happened
I actually agree that there was no doxxing whatsoever in that instance. I'm merely pointing out that absence of malicious intent doesn't automatically stop it from being doxxing.
It's not even doxxing if you take away the malicious intent. All information that is on the site that the user himself appears to have an issue with. All a bit daft really
@AndriyM I could possibly emphasise that. As the OP was seemingly trying to get others to find out what they could about him. But that may just be an opinion.
@Philᵀᴹ You can dox someone accidentally and I think it's valid to call that doxxing. But I completely agree, the network itself is too public for doxxing to be applicable here.
As it says there in the snapshot in Paul's answer, hiding your communities doesn't mean your activity is private. No privacy means no possibility of violation of privacy, and that means no doxxing.
nope, he came back to the well several times and several people (myself included) were very gracious in trying to smooth things over. he's acting like a troll and actively looking to take offense. fair game i say
i can see why he might have an had an unpleasant realisation that his accounts aren't segregated in the way he understood them to be. absent everything else, i think that'd be an interesting conversation to have. but he's highjacked the room for a few days and is being actively toxic. dude needs the timeout he's in
@McNets I think I remember him justifying his question's being too broad by saying he was curious about the topic and wanted to learn more, or something like that. Would be better if he offered a meta discussion about why his question was too broad.
@AndriyM I cannot believe that a user with 183K on SO doesn't know what a broad question is and how to focus it. And I would bet that all of this has been done intentionally, obviously I don't know why but...it's my impression.
@Johnakahot2use I've only just noticed that you updated your answer almost 2 hours ago. But are you aware that the question is on the brink of being deleted?
Thank you to the participants for your tireless efforts in answering the users questions. I should have been more supportive in my free time and should have told my family that I would have to stay at home to answer all these questions on chat.stackexchange.com. Instead I let you alone and opted to eat cake and drink beer on Sunday. That was totally inconsiderate and selfish. I deeply apologise to those involved.
I'm not 100% sure but I think it's the kind where you need a card not to be a member. Tim must have been handled one somehow and that apparently annoys him
After thorough reflection and examination, I agree Tim. It's time we unite.
If you will accept my apology, I'll run in the next moderator election. If I can count on your vote I'll make one of the first 10 things I do a two-week suspension for the entire mod team here for their past infractions....
EVUN coming in at the buzzer to defend his position as Top Troll
So ... I'm off to Apple. Which thanks to the East Texas Court trolls means I have to go an additional 20 minutes down the road cos they closed all the ones in Plano and Frisco. Pretty brilliant to go "we don't do business in the East Texas district so you can't sue us there anymore for patents.
My phone absolutely refuses to turn on properly or restore and I'm afraid I've screwed it partway myself. Stupid firmware error 4103. I'm hoping that means like water damage or improperly repaired screen or something, altho that means I'm probably paying for a replacement phone, if so. Stupid warran…
@TomV-trytopanswers.xyz Yeah, meta is a different place everywhere :D
I have tasted the forbidden fruit of knowledge, and asked for @Tim's forgiveness. Now Tim and I are going to cross streams and unite. Together we will Make StackExchange Great For The First Time MSEGFTFT! — Evan Carroll1 min ago
@Philᵀᴹ nah, StackExchange for arming terrorists with a ban hammer.
Before SE created this horrible oppressive shitshow we were all living happily in the forest, swinging from trees and eating kiwi fruits with nothing more than our loincloths on.
This is how I have been doing searches for my own use:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE lower(textfield) ~ ('***=' || lower($1)) ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 100
That is, it case-insensitively finds any EXACT instance of "test string" inside the textfield column and sorts by the timestamp column. Th...
@Tim I think you should invest in a dictionary; your usage of various terms is unconventional, to say the least. As an example, "discrimination" implies that there exist a characteristic that separates you from other people, and people treat you differently based on that particular characteristic. Since we don't know anything about you, except your handle and your attitude, we can't possibly discriminate against you.
Yeah, that's the only thing I've read about it on wikipedia. There's a company I'm looking up that still uses it. Wondering how outdated their software stack might be.
How much did they continue dev on the original fork ? Is it completely outdated rubbish or it's basically a sqlserver version with a lesser plan optimizer and less pre-built nice-to-haves such as CTEs, JSON, string_agg, that kind of thing
@Tim what are you, 12? c'mon man. you're lighting up this place with your temper tantrums and now you've told someone to back off. i'm just asking what that idiom means. i dont assume that everyone's a native english speaker. i'm just here to learn
he needs to take his apprenticeship seriously though, he can't walk up in this mug with a dull axe. They've been sharpening it for years in battle with me.
but for right now, @Tim, just trying to figure out what's got you so bent out of shape. someone didnt like your question and you lost your common sense over it?
@A_V good luck. it's generally pretty easy to bounce back-and-forth between sql server and sybase. some of the deeper things are different, but attainable with a bit of reading
disclaimer: i stopped enjoying SE well before the mod-drama went down. seems it is legitimately mos eisley now. i'd say migrate away and let the underbelly take over and let it follow the natural life-cycle of things like this
I mean, his questions are really basic but he didn't get a straight answer. I've had interns that asked me much more vague questions. I don't have enough time to read into how long it took him to get angry but he seemed reasonable up front ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It does require a lot of patience when explaining stuff from the very beginning when you're fairly well versed into a subject. I guess I'm too nice to get angry when I don't get answers though, I would have just given up asking and started reading a book.
@Tim legitimately curious about what's got you so angry. you're verbally abusive and calling folks names. i've not actually seen anyone initiate that with you. you've done this to yourself. if you call names and verbally abuse other, there're sure to be follow-up questions
After 2018: a year in closing and 2018: a year in spam it seems natural to look at the questions and answers. What trends do we find there?
2019 vs 2018
2018 vs 2017
This is how I have been doing searches for my own use:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE lower(textfield) ~ ('***=' || lower($1)) ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 100
That is, it case-insensitively finds any EXACT instance of "test string" inside the textfield column and sorts by the timestamp column. Th...
