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Alvar

00:00

@Braiam he's getting really pissed by now...

RolandiXor

No, he's getting me pissed... not.

Alvar

@RolandiXor haha

Braiam

spam askubuntu.com/questions/397972/…

err... this is why I prefer closing by unclear rather than duplicated askubuntu.com/review/reopen/206785

and this is why I love when the user is active:

I had forgotten all about it. No, it doesn't happen anymore. I will check with my coworkers to see what's been changed on the local network to have fixed the issue. — That Brazilian Guy 1 min ago

GabrielF

00:28

For the mods, is the "make me a mod" guy posts spam or very low quality, for flagging? Or is no flagging needed?

Journeyman Geek

who is the make me a mod guy?

Lucio

@GabrielF is it on the main site or on meta?

minerz029

@JourneymanGeek This guy, apparently askubuntu.com/users/233399/sakkara

cprofitt

-4

Q: I want to be a mod please!

I don't know the terminal really good. Can someone help me? Suckers i'm not pissed easily :)

command-line

GabrielF

main site... yes, it's this guy, but he had other profiles, I guess... earlier today there were also this profile: user233386

cprofitt

00:30

-4

Q: I want to be a mod? What's the deal?

I'm not going to stop till you make me a mod ok?

13.04

Journeyman Geek

yeah, needs banhammering.

cprofitt

yes, he needs to get the ban hammer

minerz029

if you see here, he asked a legit question first, then started spamming

GabrielF

Yeh... but he's coming back, I guess... so spam, right?

Lucio

-5

Q: How can i stop the wifi from terminal programmatically?

I don't know the terminal really good. Can someone help me?

command-line

GabrielF

00:32

Yes, he did... but he wasn't really looking for an answer, I guess. If you see his comments on the answer.

And he's spamming on answers too.

minerz029

@GabrielF Is it possible that he was a 'normal' user then got hacked?

Question 20 mins ago, comments 12 mins ago

Lucio

@mod @mods Kill this user: askubuntu.com/users/233399/sakkara

Journeyman Geek

heh, funny thing is I thought it was the other guy who wanted to be a mod ;p

who I shall not name.

GabrielF

I couldn't know for sure, but I don't think so.

Journeyman Geek

at least that guy seems serious

RolandiXor

00:34

@cprofitt I am working on it

Journeyman Geek

its not

cprofitt

here is all his activity

RolandiXor

Destroying him is a waste of time.

cprofitt

stackexchange.com/users/3829595/sakkara?tab=activity

K7AAY

@Braiam - TY for the feedback on the incorrect dupe suggestions, I have found a better option for the gentleman with the dual GeForce cards and suggested it to him in lieu of a duplication flag.

Journeyman Geek

00:35

@RolandiXor: downvotage then?

RolandiXor

Getting someone higher upstream to look into this.

Journeyman Geek

let the cold hand of the system deal with it?

RolandiXor

Don't delete yet.

He will not be nuked from orbit, but from another planet.

Nathan Osman

I need some advice.

RolandiXor

@NathanOsman marry her!

Oh wait, not that kind of advice... sorry.

Lucio

00:36

lol

Nathan Osman

I am trying to get the highest possible quality video signal from a computer to a server over a connection that tops at 700 Kbps.

What is the best transport / codec to use?

The computer is running Windows, and the server is running Linux (Ubuntu 12.04).

Braiam

@K7AAY prefer the "unclear" whenever you don't have enough elements to make an concrete and concise answer

K7AAY

@Nathan, what is the content of the video? Static, or very dynamic, changing much in every frame?

Nathan Osman

@K7AAY A stage with musicians. Also sometimes individuals speaking (on the stage).

Braiam

@cprofitt @GabrielF @minerz029 @Lucio use the spam flag at will!

K7AAY

00:38

So, not very dynamic video, but partially dynamic audio, although smooth transitions without any KAPOW BLAM sound effecets?

Nathan Osman

Yes.

RolandiXor

@cprofitt seems he is using TOR :(

minerz029

@Braiam did that too, I'm raising 'spam' a lot more than I'd like...

Nathan Osman

And to be honest, it's not the end of the world if audio quality suffers a tad.

Braiam

@steeldriver @cprofitt @desgua @EricCarvalho @minerz029 please, don't waste close votes, just flag as spam

cprofitt

00:40

ah... well TOR would make it a bit more difficult to deal with

GabrielF

@RolandiXor Hmmm... he mentioned it... he said something like he had billions of computers at his hand.

RolandiXor

I am not sure what we can do except destroy him till he gets tired.

Lucio

@cprofitt more posts?

RolandiXor

Flag as spam and downvote. I'll just destroy his profiles every time I pop on.

Braiam

and babaji comes again!!!!!!!1 askubuntu.com/q/402518/169736

K7AAY

00:42

@Nathan, I would take a look at x264 Extended Profile (XP) and Xvid.

Lucio

> Page Not Found

I love it!

GabrielF

@RolandiXor Was he destroyed already? Does that automatically deletes all activity or should we make a hunt?

Nathan Osman

@K7AAY Okay, great. Thanks for the suggestion.

Journeyman Geek

we have enough people to do spam-flags that the babaji gets nuked the moment he gets mentioned here

Lucio

yep

minerz029

00:43

that's definitely a good thing

RolandiXor

@GabrielF keep an eye out. I destroyed him which will knock out everything from that account.

But he will keep trying till he gets tired.

GabrielF

Ok, thanks.

Nathan Osman

@RolandiXor Are we talking about the "make me a mod" dude?

Lucio

yes

RolandiXor

@NathanOsman yes

I called on a higher power for him now :)

Nathan Osman

00:46

O_o

You mean...

^--- him?

RolandiXor

LOL

Nope ;)

Nathan Osman

I still want that for my kids though.

RolandiXor

You and I would know who that higher power is :)

Nathan Osman

Who wants a stuffed teddy bear? Give me a bacon plush toy any day!

RolandiXor

LOL

So THAT's what it is :D

Nathan Osman

00:48

@RolandiXor Oh, okay. I actually thought you meant SE staff.

RolandiXor

@NathanOsman oh they couldn't stop him :/

He uses TOR

Nathan Osman

SE bans TOR access in 3...2...1...

Braiam

oh god...

Nathan Osman

There is no need to ever use TOR outside of Communist / Islamist countries.

There, was that political enough?

Journeyman Geek

lol

Its people like that who ruin tor for everyone.

Braiam

01:01

wow

Journeyman Geek

@nixveloper: look at the votes ;p

actually thats a textbook example of a borderline bad question getting some epic answers IMO

>_>

to the left of the question?

nope

Also, you mean the comments? ;p

you don't necessarily need email providers

In theory you can constantly just use non-registered accounts until you get IP banned

and these sort of trolls are obviously mentally ill

(no offence, it just takes a certain amount of being mentally unstable to dedicate so much time to trolling. Or bordom, I guess)

minerz029

01:21

'make me mod' is back: askubuntu.com/users/233410/user233410

Avinash Raj

too many spams nowadays

also this stupid had came askubuntu.com/questions/402532/…

minerz029

if you see here, an actual question was vandalised into 'make me a mod'

Avinash Raj

we can't do anything may be mod can

RolandiXor

Did.

Ping me when they show up.

minerz029

Just wondering, when a question is bumped by 'Community' does that mean something was deleted?

Avinash Raj

01:36

how to revert back a close vote

hbdgaf

@minerz029 nice catch.

Braiam

@AvinashRaj that's why I said don't waste close votes

@minerz029 is the same as this meta.askubuntu.com/questions/7218/…

minerz029

@hbdgaf I'm just wondering if actual users are being hacked by him...

hbdgaf

i missed the edit vandalism, but the counterpoint is the OP if not an anonymous user could have said something on meta about it and got the question reopened.

Avinash Raj

@Braiam close vote on this askubuntu.com/questions/402200/…

Braiam

01:38

@AvinashRaj ah, that. press "close" then press "retract close vote" ;)

hbdgaf

@minerz029 I doubt it. It's a traipse to get to 2k, and the latter edit was a rollback by the OP. The rollback makes me think it's someone minimally obfuscating the fact that they're two people.

@minerz029 wow - it got hard nuked.

i can see deleted and even i can't see it...

minerz029

@hbdgaf Yeah, it did. 'Page not found' I couldn't see it anymore. I did roll it back to the original (actual) question, then the OP rolled back to the spam one.

hbdgaf

that was what i was trying to express.

id:1 - op
id:2 - the editor

mitigator - you

OP rolling back to bad makes me not sad i voted to close, but glad you caught it

Avinash Raj

@Braiam do you want my answer to be deleted in this askubuntu.com/questions/402026/…

hbdgaf

bug in stackexchange? even if a question is hard nuked and you can't see it any more the revisions page is still available? or is it my ISP cache-ing? askubuntu.com/posts/402522/revisions

Avinash Raj

01:46

page not found

minerz029

@hbdgaf I think it's you. I'm getting Page not found too

hbdgaf

so it's cache-ing. kthx. that's why i asked

Braiam

@AvinashRaj is up to you ;)

Avinash Raj

ok

Braiam

@hbdgaf err, what? askubuntu.com/q/402522/169736

I can see it... but I'm 10k... so... you know...

hbdgaf

01:47

@Braiam i can see it too. can you see that revisions page?

and yeah, i think someone is going to see an ip ban soon

Braiam

@hbdgaf yeah, everything

hbdgaf

that's interesting. probably not the desired behavior

MSO or no?

Braiam

IMO that's the desired behavior for 10kers

hbdgaf

even if the original goes to page not found?

it's inconsistent.

Seth

What's up?

hbdgaf

01:50

@who?

Braiam

wait, you get 404???

Seth

Is someone spamming/trolling again?

Avinash Raj

plz provide expansion for IMO and MSO

Braiam

yeh, new attack vector, copy someone else post and then vandalize it @Seth

Avinash Raj

i don't know about that

minerz029

01:52

@AvinashRaj In my opinion ; meta stack overflow

JohnMerlino

I was looking at the answers here:

hbdgaf

@Braiam
look at these two links and tell me what you see please:
http://askubuntu.com/posts/402522
http://askubuntu.com/posts/402522/revisions

then tell me if you think it's a consistent behavior

JohnMerlino

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