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1:00 PM
@ЯegDwight I’ve spent the last couple days burning through all my close and delete votes on SO (25 and 50, respectively), and it seems like most of my flags. This morning there are 429 flags.
Not sure what I am supposed to do about too many comments or excessively long.
I did chase down a couple of the vandalisms.
 
@tchrist see, I actually start having troubles burning even half of my flags. That's how careful I am. I err on the side of leaving rubbish up all the time. And they still manage to reject my stuff. shakes fist
 
Somebody was just stupid.
 
It's a conspiracy.
Must be Dick Cheney.
 
He got a new heart.
 
Are you suggesting he had one before?
 
1:04 PM
No.
He is really scary, isn’t he? Dr Strangelove come again.
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A: Are foreign keys really necessary in a database design?

Mark Harrison "Suppose a programmer is actually doing this in the right manner already..." See you on Daily WTF! :)

That has 2 "not an answer" flags on it.
And it is several years old, posted by someone with 31k rep.
 
It has three now.
 
Well, he’ll still get the rep because it’s old.
 
I'm not on a vengeance trip against a user I don't even know. I am on a vengeance trip against a not-an-answer I do know.
 
The vast majority of the not-an-answers are from rep=1 users asking new questions.
 
Some 20 of those are mine.
 
1:10 PM
Wow, here’s one with 6 flags on it.
I thought eventually our flags would be auto-acted on.
Maybe not.
 
Different reasons, then. If it's 6 times spam or 6 times offensive, it should get auto-deleted.
 
20? There are 51 not-an-answer flags, don’t know how many answers those are spread out on.
Ah, for spam or offensive then.
 
@ЯegDwight It has four now
 
0
A: Is there an R package or function that generate Levey-Jennings chart?

Aybek KhodievPaul, How I can make in ggplot2 my first lines in red and other 10 lines in blue based on your example? I try to use some kind of layer syntaxis, but it doesn't work.

Like that one.
 
"You have already flagged this post for moderator attention"
At 10:40 this morning.
 
1:12 PM
How are you finding these?
 
Via the old queues.
The new queues are all but useless for finding not-an-answers.
In the old queues, you are guaranteed to get at least one every single gorram time.
 
I see.
 
You also get to flag stuff from 2008, which is fun.
 
Quite.
0
A: Setting custom ringtone to contact

AndroidRajiHow u fixed.Show the code.I need the same thing

 
I saw that one, too.
 
1:14 PM
You’re right. Ours are much less bad.
 
Flagged at 11:03.
 
I just realized I should be protecting these.
 
0
A: converting MATLAB code to Fortran

KevinI do appreciate everyone's thoughts. I think I will take a middle road and track down a computer science student who needs a little cash and have him/her both help me to implement the mex file and tutor me a bit in getting back into basic Fortran. (I am a clinician primarily and do not have a co...

This has been slipping through everybody's fingers for three years.
It's the OP, with a different account.
 
31 minute old user.
This is what protection is for.
 
@tchrist I don't see it. Must've been deleted just now.
 
1:17 PM
Community just protected it.
Yes.
But it doesn’t say who deleted it.
I guess they have a Community protection trigger now. Good.
 
I got Archaelogist today. I wasn't even aware of its existence.
At last, a badge that's actually a nice surprise.
 
I got that other day on ELU.
Are you well on your way to Marshal?
 
163, 11 pending, and 30 pending on comments, but those never get looked at.
 
0
A: I can't see the files and folders created via code in my Google Drive

MicheleI've read that in the Service Account, in order to get the Access Token it's required a special JSON string called Json Web Token (JWT) composed by an header, a claim set and a signature (base64 string). The string is: {base64 formatted JWT header}.{base64 formatted JWT claimSet}.{base64 format...

You edited that.
And it’s not-an-answer, too.
 
I did.
 
1:21 PM
Did you flag it?
 
No.
I told you I was careful.
 
Two other people did.
If you flag, and then vote to close, it seems to get an unacted on flag. Says none. Sometimes, at least.
 
Oh wait! I did.
Then it was some other answer.
 
Course can’t vote to close an answer.
I still can’t figure out all these answers with two delete votes that have never been voted on.
 
Now that I got all the badges for editing, I usually only bother editing if a post might be flag-worthy but I don't know for sure. So I basically bump it to the front page.
 
1:23 PM
It’s always by high rep people, the other two votes.
It’s at 0 rep, but is in the delete queue. So I vote to -1, delete vote, it vanishes, I refresh, and I’m the third delete vote. But there is only my one vote on it.
 
At least I don't get the captcha anymore. Must be my flag weight.
> I had the same problem, I was reinstall Eclipse and be right for me.
 
Captchas when?
I don’t ever remember seeing one on SO.
 
When editing.
 
Just on ELU when I edit too fast.
I wonder what TPTB think about the SO cesspool.
 
They fixed it a while ago, so it appears way more often now, and is unreadable to boot. When I was working on those badges for editing, I would get it every frigging time, and every frigging time it would take 3+ tries to solve.
 
1:28 PM
It’s going to take more work to clean up than people are putting into it. It's barrelshooting fish right now.
I think they may cut me some slack due to rep on SO.
Gods, and now there are lots of disputed flags.
I suppose I should look at those.
Not from me, just things flaggers have voted as disagreeing with.
It looks like some people are disputing that one-line just-a-link answers are not-an-answers.
 
See, I don't touch those. I just leave a comment every time.
I was bitching about it earlier today.
Because sometimes I get asinine answers.
Well, every time someone answers at all, it's asinine.
 
Of course.
What is with all the dup answers?
We have people posting the same thing again and again all over the place.
 
Like "I not understand what grammer", or "Thanks I will keep that in mind".
You tell them, "please fix the answer, it's in danger of getting deleted" and they will say "I'll keep that in mind" and do nothing.
 
Yesterday I went muck-raking.
Did a google query for variants on "fuck you" or "fuck off".
 
@tchrist yeah saw a bunch of those earlier today. People trying to jump start their rep.
In fact I did similar things when I was still new.
 
1:33 PM
Flagged as offensive only the ones that were actually clearly so.
 
Think of an answer, and then go searching for questions to match it.
 
I haven't actioned any of those.
They aren't in an area I claim expertise in.
There are a lot of users with "fuck" in their descriptions.
And some in their usernames.
 
I actually googled for "fuck site:stackoverflow.com" last week, but got nothing.
 
I tried the same on ours, and couldn't come up with anything I thought merited a flag.
@ЯegDwight That can't be right.
Because that's what I did.
Just a sec and I'll repro.
 
Well I dunno. Perhaps I used cuil again.
 
1:36 PM
-site:meta.stackoverflow.com -site:chat.meta.stackoverflow.com site:stackoverflow.com -site:chat.stackoverflow.com fucking
2300 hits.
 
Yes, but I clicked on a bunch of them and all of them have been fixed by now.
 
-site:meta.stackoverflow.com -site:chat.meta.stackoverflow.com site:stackoverflow.com -site:chat.stackoverflow.com fuck
3350 hits.
 
-2
Q: C# LINQ in the Select

Stav AlfiEnumerable.Range(1, 999).Select((n,i) =>{ return n*i;}) what does the "i" get in every time? Enumerable.Range(1, 999).Select((n,i,j) =>{ return n*i*j;}) why cant I add "j"?

According to Google, this is titled "C# LINQ-the Fuck in the Select".
 
There were a few I found that were fixed.
 
According to Google, this user's name is "Fuck All Stackoverflow Mods"
 
1:37 PM
 
Well how to flag that?
No posts.
 
Yes, exactly what I was trying to figure out.
I guess I should post to MSO asking.
 
Knock yourself out.
 
@ЯegDwight I think it's a perfectly charming sentiment. And just right for SO.
 
Though I guess it will be a dupe of .
@Robusto which is precisely the reason I want to flag it for mod attention, so as to they be encharmed.
 
1:39 PM
I never flag use-cases of "fuck", nor even people using it as an intensifier.
 
Jez
why the fuck not?
 
These days, variations of "fuck" on the web aren't so much intensifiers as they are proof you're not a bot.
 
Feb 18 '11 at 17:31, by Michael Myers
Let's make things more clear: Don't use such words here unless you're actually discussing language. Same policy as on the main site.
Good thing we're discussing language most of the time. And C# LINQ-the Fuck.
 
People use it here all the time. I never see it flagged, nor do I believe it should be.
 
It depends. Some instances do get deleted or obfuscated.
 
1:42 PM
In chat?
 
Yes.
 
I didn't know that.
 
Well, F to the U to the C to the K me.
 
There are scripts going around that call it to all kind of people's attention. Don't wanna piss those folks off.
So on more than one occasion I found myself going back through the transcript and turning stuff into fcks. After we had had our fun and moved on.
 
There are scripts? WTF?
 
1:44 PM
Yeah who'd thunk.
 
Yeah I can't be donkeyed to edit that.
 
It’s a use-case.
 
Tell that to the script cuz the face ain't listening.
 
Not good.
 
1:47 PM
Wow my shite is at 16 upvotes by now.
And I didn't even mean it. I just vented frustration.
 
You are belovèd.
 
I mean, the poor sod can't do anything about it anyway.
 
@ЯegDwight I get, like, 6% credit for that.
 
@Robusto you take roubles?
 
You misspelled troubles. And, no, I don't take those.
 
1:49 PM
Then put it on the bingo. Is that how you say it in English, put it on the bingo?
 
Done.
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Q: How to flag users with f-bombs in their usernames and no posts?

tchristLately I’ve been finding users with offensive usernames but no way to flag this because they have no posts, like this one. Should we flag those, and if so, how? Some like this one do at least include posts or comments that can be flagged. Yet given that there is no profanity filter in usernam...

 
@ЯegDwight "No, we just say 'bingo'."
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Q: Are "money" and "mind" cognates?

archenooWiktionary gives me these informations. money From Middle English moneie, moneye, from Old French moneie (“money”), from Latin monēta, from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. Displaced native Middle English schat (“money, treasure”) (from Old English sceatt (“mon...

Umm, yes. I mean no. Yes or no. Yes and no. Yes and/or no.
I wish bitwise operators worked on ELU questions.
 
2:08 PM
@Robusto ah thanks. Then put it on bingo.
@tchrist ah, and someone's already dupe-commented.
 
Apparently.
I bet they won’t do anything about the users.
Too narrow focused to get questions closed, not acted on.
 
Haha a question for @tch:
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A: Regex for matching any number between 0 to 100?

protisti tested my regex on the following list...it found each one individually without error: 111,1,100,99,80,45.42,42 the regex is below: /(1?[0-9]?[0-9](\.[0-9]*)?)/

With solid answers, too.
 
I saw that.
 
God, and it's even a dupe.
 
Most of the answers match 100.000000000000001 too.
It’s a stupid question.
You shouldn’t use regexes for that.
 
2:16 PM
Actually now that I think about it, with all your filters in place, you must be seeing nothing but this question, over and over again, fortytwelve times a day.
 
Just do: while (/($real_num_rx)/g) { next if $1 < 0 || $1 > 100.00; ... }
 
Wrong site. SO is over there ---->
Though for all we know it's a homework assignment from a teacher who doesn't know better.
I can think of no other reason for someone to do this.
 
It will be well worth the effort to answer. The OP has a 0% accept rate.
 
Yes! Go for it! You can be the one to turn it into -1%!
 
Must be homework.
When you see the same question more than once.
I was wrong!
In my prediction.
They deleted the unreachable user altogether.
And scrubbed the screen name of the other one.
 
2:22 PM
I just love the questions where someone asks you, essentially, to create an entire working Web 2.0 site for a Fortune 500 company because he "is new at HTML and Javascript."
 
I figured they’d just close it and then not get around to fixing the issue.
@Robusto GR.
 
@tchrist And for all I know, not necessarily because of your question. As I was saying, quite some cleanup seems to be going on behind the scenes if Google is to be believed.
 
Perhaps.
Bill the Lizard answered.
He did it.
I took care of the two you linked to. Thanks for bringing them to our attention. — Bill the Lizard 1 min ago
 
@tchrist Don't tease me with that shit. I was the sole vote to close that other tl;dr question as Gen Ref. Would have been epic. But everyone here weenied out.
 
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A: link domain with an external site

burberrybagGives Up All, Becomes Homeless and Hungry for Spiritual LifeInette LifeInette Burberry Ballerina LifeInette Miller Writes of Being Homeless, Hungry in Book, 'Grandmothers

So. Tell me. Spam or not?
 
2:24 PM
4
Q: Most Common Parses of the English language?

demongolemI hope I've got the right forum. I want to know about English specifically, although this is a linguistics question. A common task in NLP and Computational Linguistics is to generate parse trees for various sentences. How these sentences are parsed, for one, depends upon POS tagging which itsel...

 
Yes, SPAM.
@Robusto sad face
 
@Robusto I didn't want to touch that one cause I was genuinely interested in seeing what kind of answers it would produce.
So far... well.
 
@ЯegDwight Nothing could match the majesty of closing that question as gen ref.
 
Very true.
 
stupefies
 
2:27 PM
It's probably too late now. The moment for that joke has passed. The ELU community has failed.
 
Which is precisely where a mod steps in.
 
@Robusto Name a counterexample.
 
@tchrist To what, the joke?
 
No, an ELU non-failure.
Of late.
I have been looking at old questions lately.
I find many that are good.
I find few new ones that are so.
But this is a time thing.
Compare 400 days of questions with 4, and you will get the wrong skimmings.
Maybe.
 
Yeah.
We used to get questions such as "what does 'spouse' mean" in the early days of beta. And back then a single question like that was like 16% of all questions you got per day.
When you look at the past, you don't see what you don't see. When you look at the present, you see everything.
 
2:32 PM
@ЯegDwight Unpossible.
 
@ЯegDwight And the example question would be: "Whut am i spouse to do now?"
 
100 / 16 is not an integral.
 
@Cerberus you drunk again?
 
@ЯegDwight Stop harshing my funny with your tepid reality.
 
2:33 PM
No, just woke up.
 
How is that a no?
 
@Cerberus So you're drunk still, not again.
 
It is for me.
@Robusto Not even.
 
That's odd!
 
Oh, yeah?
 
2:35 PM
It might be zero.
 
@ЯegDwight You're odd.
@Robusto I'm sure zero isn't odd.
Or it would have to be an integral number.
Wow, I thought I knew what punctilio meant before I read the definition. Now I have no idea. — intuited 1 hour ago
 
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A: Apache/PHP: error_log per Virtual Host?

Michael StumI will check. I just wonder if it is possible to still have apache and php error log separate when we want to give developers a chance to debug their code without giving them the apache error log which might contain other sensitive data.

 
@Cerberus It would have been odd to the Romans. They didn't have a letter for it.
 
I've never heard of tegral numbers, much less integral ones.
 
That is an answer? By someone with 51.3k? To his own question?
Wow.
 
2:37 PM
@Robusto True, but do you see any Romans here?
 
Mar 7 '11 at 13:18, by Robusto
Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum! Romani ite domum!
 
And he’s done it before, too.
 
@Cerberus You don't thanks to Robusto!
 
Wrong case.
 
He destroyed the Empire? I knew he was old, but...
 
2:37 PM
@Cerberus Cerberus isn't a Roman creature?
 
I'm Greek, d'oh.
 
@Cerberus If you were Greek, why would you spell your name in Latin?
 
@tchrist not the first time I see that. I remember a question where a 30k user would have an actual conversation with everyone by means of "answers".
 
So that you laymen may be able to read it.
 
@Cerberus What about lay women? Oh, right ... you aren't into that.
 
2:39 PM
You're not spelling your name in PIE characters, are you?
You may lay the women.
 
@Cerberus Blueberry, cherry, apple, peach, rhubarb.
 
It should be domi, not domum.
 
Not sure those count.
@tchrist Excuse me?
 
@tchrist Tell it to John Cleese.
 
You want motion-toward accusative, not at-locative?
 
2:40 PM
Of course.
 
@Cerberus Is that a punishment or a reward?
 
You cannot ire domi, or it would be like that bad dream where you run but you cannot move.
 
Worth seeing again.
 
@tchrist that reminds me. There was a question on MSO last [sic!] Thursday, about something unrelated IIRC, but one of the comments struck a note with me. It went something like, why would you expect high-rep users, above all things, not to post tons of half-assed stuff? How do you think they got so much rep in the first place, by sitting on their hands?
 
@tchrist Depends on the women.
@Robusto Yes, it's great.
@ЯegDwight That's great. And true.
 
2:43 PM
I’m going to run out of flags today.
And I’m a Deputy.
Can’t believe it.
SO is an insane mess.
 
Yeah it's Monday.
The weekend was slow.
 
Kind of a Monday.
Kind of not.
 
Just got three "I also has error not related to this. Help! [no code posted]" answers in a row.
 
You’re getting those through the review queue?
The old one?
 
Review Lists (old), Late Answers.
 
2:46 PM
Ah.
 
Or First Answers.
Late Answers says it's 31k, but when I click it's like 12. Not k, just twelve. So I go and check First Answers then.
There we go. Maxed out.
Now if they get acted upon, I'll get a couple more. But still not enough.
I'm a bit hooked, I must admit. So much so that I have been on the lookout for other SE sites to review on, but I don't have the reps on those.
 
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Q: flexgrid in vb.net

renuhow to store data from flexgrid in vb.net to oracle database?

Closevoted, didn’t flag.
 
And the answer is a Google link.
 
Although somebody else did.
GR.
No GR on SO, so lots of just-link answers.
I flagged one as not-an-answer and was declined, so I learned.
But linkrot sucks.
 
Yeah that's stupid. You have to jump through hoops.
 
2:54 PM
So I don’t think those should be answers.
 
In the new queue, you specifically have a reason to recommend deletion just because it's a link.
But God forbid you flag it outright.
 
So weird.
 
Anyway, he got a downvote from me. Let's see how fast he notices.
 
I also find it utterly bizarre that superuser questions go to serverfault.SE, not to superuser.SE. So dumb!
 
I've been a member of SO for 43 months, and for all intents and purposes it's safe to say that I have no idea what the difference between SF and SU is. — RegDwight АΑA Aug 23 at 10:10
 
2:59 PM
I don’t know either.
 
But but...
Superuser is SUPER!
 

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