Charcoal HQ

SmokeDetector

17:01

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Java : get the y-value for any x-point on a bezier curve by Geert on stackoverflow.com

fp- by JAD on Java : get the y-value for any x-point on a bezier curve [MS]

fp- by ArtOfCode

ArtOfCode

dammit people

JAD

what

DavidPostill

lol

Magisch

@ArtOfCode kek

JAD

am I looking at?

ArtOfCode

17:05

@JAD a moderator's flag-handling interface

Magisch

>Community autoflag raised on our "many memes of charcoal" question

JAD

ah lol

ArtOfCode

I can't even handle it for some reason -_-

Magisch

@ArtOfCode can't handle all the memes

ArtOfCode

welp, guess I'm sending a bug report in...

Jake Symons

17:09

This is exactly me when I first joined :)

NobodyNada

!!/isblu stackoverflow.com/users/9438887/geert

SmokeDetector

@NobodyNada User is blacklisted (9438887 on stackoverflow.com).

NobodyNada

!!/rmblu stackoverflow.com/users/9438887/geert

SmokeDetector

@NobodyNada User removed from blacklist (9438887 on stackoverflow.com).

DavidPostill

@JakeSymons We did notice :)

WELZ

17:13

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@WELZ That's not a report.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Is there an archive for older versions of Chrome Extensions? by fak on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by Bugs

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector K

WELZ

@SmokeDetector 😠

Suraj Rao

@SmokeDetector 🤔

ArtOfCode

O.o

Thing you may not know exists: support.stackenterprise.co

Jake Symons

17:19

@ArtOfCode What is it

WELZ

@ArtOfCode It looks so 2013

ArtOfCode

that's actually where reports to teams-support@ end up

Jake Symons

@ArtOfCode Has that just been set up for the channels, or has it been around longer

CalvT븃

@JakeSymons I'd guess longer - enterprise is not new

Jake Symons

@CalvT븃 What is it used for, I thought help requests and stuff went on meta

CalvT븃

17:22

@JakeSymons SO goes on SO meta

SO enterprise goes there

SO enterprise is a whitelabel private version of SO for big companies

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

So SO nominations STARTS IN TWO HOURS

stackoverflow.com/election/10

and no, that was not intended to be "so-so"........

Anyone use the Election Assistant Userscript?

Jake Symons

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@JakeSymons That's not a report.

Andy

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs 404

WELZ

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs what's that?

Fixed link ^^ github.com/BrockA/SE-Election-Assistant/raw/master/…

13

Q: Stack Exchange, Election Assistant

For moderator elections, this script greatly helps vet and compare candidates. Features: Lists candidates in sorted order. Find him/her in a repeatable, predictable, location every page visit. Click on a jump-table row to instantly scroll to that candidate. Save a bookmark that opens the ...

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

17:28

@WELZ Thanks :)

WELZ

@Glorfindel you gonna nominate yourself?

Jake Symons

@WELZ There's a script for everything on this site :)

stackoverflow.com/c/charcoal/questions/181/192#192 @DavidPostill in case it didn't ping you from the answer, the last paragraph :)

DavidPostill

17:46

@JakeSymons :)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in body, potentially bad keyword in body: During installtion getting error and gamil not work by apple tech support on askubuntu.com

tpu- by CalvT븃

Glorfindel

@WELZ no. I have a social life and want to keep it that way :P

6

Andy

I think I've been insulted...

M.A.R.

Teehee

stackoverflow.com/c/charcoal/a/191/12

Oh come on.

Glorfindel

@Andy that was not my intention. I fear (seriously) that I would put so much time in moderating SO that it's not going to be healthy for me.

SmokeDetector

17:54

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: sparklyr failing with java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded by Gatchan00 on stackoverflow.com

Glorfindel

@SmokeDetector f

M.A.R.

@Glorfindel you're not putting so much time in Charcoal that it's not going to be healthy for you, right?

WELZ

@M.A.R. @Glorfindel That's what I was thinking

Andy

@Glorfindel My sarcasm is still traveling the internet. I hear that the internet gremlins love to eat sarcasm though, so it doesn't always show up. I know you weren't insulting me.

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector ugh, someone fix the unclosed parenthesis

Glorfindel

17:56

It's rather easy to Charcoal while doing other things. Moderating requires full concentration.

M.A.R.

@Glorfindel oh, that sounds like an extremely productive way to work

You should spam "PRODUCTIVITY XTREME 9000 PACK"

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body, +1 more: Things you should do to get quicker results by Fittleand 19 on superuser.com

tpu- by Jake Symons

CalvT븃

sd - k

Jake Symons

I've just noticed that the description is 87,500. I thought it was only changed every 1k?

ArtOfCode

[status-standards-undefined]

CalvT븃

18:08

!!/blame᠎ ‌⁠⁠‍᠎‍

SmokeDetector

@CalvT븃 It's Jake Symons's fault.

CalvT븃

Smokey says it's your fault @Jake...

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Glorfindel

@JakeSymons I thought it would be fun to use a multiple of 2.5k for once.

ArtOfCode

Heh. From today's commit logs on my group coursework:

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating characters in body, repeating characters in title: sdf tfdkenashx ettgvklssndx wsxasfffffffffffdv vgmc? by joaovictorpac on stackoverflow.com

Glorfindel

18:18

@SmokeDetector v

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Jake Symons

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: How to position virtual objects in specific places in a scene without a marker? by joaovictorpac on stackoverflow.com

Glorfindel

@SmokeDetector f

Christopher

@SmokeDetector f

@Glorfindel did that i thinkity

DJMcMayhem

→ 28 messages moved to Trash

Good lord smokey

Glorfindel

@Christopher should be good now, thanks

SmokeDetector

18:25

Conflicting feedback on How to position virtual objects in specific places in a scene without a marker?.

Jake Symons

@DJMcMayhem who is the room owner of the trash?

SmokeDetector

Conflicting feedback across revisions: current, #1

Christopher

@JakeSymons SmokeDetector is

DJMcMayhem

@JakeSymons This guy for some reason

SmokeDetector

Conflicting feedback on How to position virtual objects in specific places in a scene without a marker?.

Christopher

18:26

@DJMcMayhem dun dun dun!

DJMcMayhem

!!/location

SmokeDetector

Conflicting feedback across revisions: current, #1

CalvT븃

Do we move Smokeys messages to trash? I know he clutters up the chat, but I thought the point of charcoal hq was to have a complete history?

ArtOfCode

meh

Christopher

he was broken

ArtOfCode

18:27

not overly concerned about conflicting feedback messages

in general you're right, though

SmokeDetector

@DJMcMayhem teward/Solar Flare

CalvT븃

Not pointing fingers @DJ - proper question :)

Christopher

I am sure @DJMcMayhem would never make any mistakes

DJMcMayhem

@ArtOfCode If smokey freaks out and starts spamming CHQ, should I not trash in the future?

ArtOfCode

1 min ago, by ArtOfCode

not overly concerned about conflicting feedback messages

Christopher

18:29

@ArtOfCode Good idea

Error: wrong

ArtOfCode

In general we tend to keep stuff, but for inconsequential messages like that... eh. It still leaves a record of where it went, so we can still get it if necessary.

DJMcMayhem

@Christopher I'm not

Christopher

@DJMcMayhem welp

@DJMcMayhem can you edit messages sent by others?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, +2 more: Nutralu Slim organic extract by Fittleand 19 on workplace.SE

Christopher

or like revert edits?

DJMcMayhem

18:30

Yes

Christopher

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

tpu- by DJMcMayhem

Glorfindel

@Christopher no, that's a tpu- ...

Christopher

@SmokeDetector tpu-

@Glorfindel ill get it one day

SmokeDetector

@Christopher Registered question as true positive. If you want to blacklist the poster, use trueu or tpu.

Glorfindel

18:31

sure!

Christopher

whatever

@Glorfindel sounds sarcastic :P

sure! you will get it! (quick remove him from the users)

Glorfindel

I wasn't, but it's hard to convey that in a chat message.

Christopher

i figured mods wouldn't be insulting people

Glorfindel

Doing that repeatedly is a sure way to lose your diamond.

SmokeDetector

19:15

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in body: Unable to open resident evil 7 on windows 10 by Asad Ali on gaming.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Can't connect to Wi-Fi on Ubuntu 17.10 by Asad Ali on askubuntu.com

Jake Symons

Now I'm suspicious, spam?

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Glorfindel

tpu- by Glorfindel on Unable to open resident evil 7 on windows 10 [MS]

Glorfindel

@JakeSymons yep.

!!/watch howtogethelpinwindows10\.co

SmokeDetector

@Glorfindel Added howtogethelpinwindows10\.co to watchlist

Glorfindel

Here is another hit from three weeks ago: metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/107675

SmokeDetector

19:22

CI on e169074 succeeded. Message contains 'autopull', pulling...

[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started at rev e169074 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of howtogethelpinwindows10\.co by Glorfindel --autopull) (running on teward/Solar Flare)

Restart: API quota is 11617.

Jake Symons

@Glorfindel Thanks, I should really use MS a bit more, especially now I have the data explorer

I should use my core privs while they last :)

SmokeDetector

19:47

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, mostly dots in answer: ImageMapster - dim image by fronkiejr on stackoverflow.com

naa- by Glorfindel

SmokeDetector

20:03

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Should a Muslim believe in Dinosaurs? by pakihater911 on islam.SE

tpu- by Glorfindel

Processed Meat

38

Q: Received emailed survey

I received the following email: Subject: Dear Stack Overflow user, we sincerely invite you to participate_in_an_anonymous_ survey_about_the_incentive_mechanisms_on_Stack_Overflow [sic] Thanks so much for your contributions to the Stack Overflow community~ To better under...

discussion spam email scraping

Andy

Wow. Processed meat...that post is 7 hours old.

Glorfindel

but the [spam] tag has been added 10 minutes ago

SmokeDetector

20:29

Conflicting feedback across revisions: current, #1

SmokeDetector

20:41

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body: Chrome 65 creates issues for html2canvas by eCandidus on stackoverflow.com

tpu- by Jake Symons

fp- by NobodyNada

Conflicting feedback on Chrome 65 creates issues for html2canvas.

NobodyNada

@SmokeDetector It seems someone thinks we're Chrome's bug reporter (cc @JakeSymons)

SmokeDetector

Conflicting feedback on Chrome 65 creates issues for html2canvas.

Jake Symons

@NobodyNada Ah yes, let me just fix that

@SmokeDetector fp-

Undo

@ArtOfCode \o/

ArtOfCode

Right-o. This is a terrible idea.

Glorfindel

20:49

define This?

ArtOfCode

This

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body: Troubleshooting problem by Support Numbers on askubuntu.com

Henders

\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Glorfindel

Henders

Great for the community! :)

Catija

20:51

@ArtOfCode WHOOOOO!!!! :D I can't vote but good luck :D

Glorfindel

!!/test-a supportnumbers.net

SmokeDetector

> Blacklisted website in answer, pattern-matching website in answer
----------
Body - Position 1-19: supportnumbers.net
Body - Position 1-19: supportnumbers.net

ArtOfCode

I have yet to be convinced this is much other than a terrible idea, but we'll see :)

Glorfindel

Good luck @ArtOfCode and @Floern!

terdon

@ArtOfCode OK, that decides it. You're bonkers.

:P

ArtOfCode

20:54

Was that ever in doubt?

Henders

Fair point... :P

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

Ohhhh... @ArtOfCode and @Floern on the mod list??

Jake Symons

I see we have more diamonds in production from Charcoal :)

Henders

Does the smokey account flag spam?

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

@Henders no

Henders

20:58

Why not?

Jake Symons

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, no whitespace in answer: How to change default error messages from rails response? by Keon Choi on stackoverflow.com

Floern

@Glorfindel thanks :)

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Makyen

Jake Symons

That's from SO ^^

Henders

20:59

Nice

Jake Symons

Its missing a big freehand circle but oh well :)

Glorfindel

@JakeSymons the edits were performed by some of our users, to get Smokey above the threshold for the association bonus. That was necessary to use Smokey's account for autoflagging tests, which explains the helpful flags.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer: Webmin Linux Email configuration by Support Numbers on superuser.com

tpu- by K.Dᴀᴠɪs

Andy

21:20

Woot

Catija

YAY!

ArtOfCode

\o/

Catija

Finally. I was getting to feeling like I'd failed somehow. :D

ArtOfCode

in which we prove that not only can we delete spam in 10 seconds, but we can send stickers twenty thousand kilometers just to show off

Andy

@Catija My mailman was probably confused. It wasn't junk mail and it wasn't a bill.

WELZ

21:23

@Andy You also in America?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, potentially bad keyword in title: Are all the holocaust witnesses jews or nazis? by user29747 on history.SE

Catija

@Andy I like fun mail :D

Andy

@WELZ yes

SmokeDetector

tpu- by Glorfindel

Andy

@Catija I don't get nearly enough of it. It's always nice to get fun mail though

WELZ

21:24

@Andy well I haven't gotten mine yet o.O

Catija

@WELZ Has your mail come today?

WELZ

nope, Imma chase down the mailman when I see him 3 blocks over and tackle him and grab my envelope!

M.A.R.

@WELZ that's Undo's job

WELZ

@Henders (can be) considered sockpuppeting

Glorfindel

@Henders not anymore, the first tests with autoflagging were using Smokey's account.

M.A.R.

21:28

@Glorfindel Glorbot dates and full details pls

I think @Glor knows who assassinated JFK

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly non-Latin answer: What does one call a group of similar courses where only one can be taken for credit? by user88836 on academia.SE

naa- by Jake Symons

Jake Symons

@SmokeDetector tpu-

SmokeDetector

tpu- by JAD

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector @Glor don't forget adding it to the troll post thingy

@SmokeDetector K

NobodyNada

@M.A.R. ? It's already there

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

21:30

@JakeSymons Did you translate that page? It's definitely NSFW

M.A.R.

@NobodyNada oh OK

Haven't seen the update

Andy

@ArtOfCode Good luck

JAD

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs also appeared to contain some sort of link

micsthepick

!!/blame᠎ ‌‌᠎⁣᠎‌

SmokeDetector

@micsthepick It's micsthepick's fault.

M.A.R.

21:31

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs wow, you flag with caution?

micsthepick

!!/blame᠎ ‌‌᠎⁣᠎‌᠎⁣᠎‌

SmokeDetector

@micsthepick I hit an error while trying to run that command; run !!/errorlogs for details.

micsthepick

!!/errorlogs

SmokeDetector

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/chatexchange/browser.py", line 255, in join_room
'msgCount': 100

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/chatexchange/browser.py", line 131, in post_fkeyed
data['fkey'] = self.chat_fkey

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/chatexchange/_utils.py", line 104, in __get__
method()

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/chatexchange/browser.py", line 243, in _update_chat_fkey_and_user
self._load_user(favorite_soup)

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/chatexchange/browser.py", line 225, in _load_user

M.A.R.

Hey everyone, K Davis flags with caution. Let's point at him and laugh

micsthepick

21:32

I commend your self control

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

@M.A.R. Yes laugh at me. Also laugh at my comparatively very low invalidation rates :)

micsthepick

:)

Jake Symons

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs I went naa originally and then went for tpu when i caught the link snuck in there :)

M.A.R.

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs what percent?

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

@M.A.R. 0.34%

I've seen some over 1%

SmokeDetector

21:34

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, blacklisted user: Use windows touchpad driver in ubuntu by Asad Ali on askubuntu.com

tpu- by Glorfindel

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector K

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs you youngsters aren't from the golden age of invalidation

ArtOfCode

@Andy cheers :)

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

@M.A.R. I'm older than half the people here

M.A.R.

These days you can just change feedback

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

AFAIK

M.A.R.

21:35

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs you are probably twice as old as me

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

Probably

M.A.R.

prolly loL

ftw

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

idk I've seen some 12 yo's here

M.A.R.

ftl

Glorfindel

@M.A.R. autoflagging (dry runs) started here, at the end of the previous day we were talking about reaching the association bonus.

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

21:36

so over twice that... yes

micsthepick

@ArtOfCode I want to fix the !!/blame code, with a try catch, which falls back to the random user selection, would that be integrated?

M.A.R.

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs well, I'm 19

And aging!

I promise I'll add to my year rep

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

Okay, well I'm not quite twice your age

Glorfindel

@M.A.R. from here on we started using real accounts

M.A.R.

I get trusted user at 20

@Glorfindel you're totally retaliating for pings, aren't you?

Catija

21:40

Darn... I can't add everyone's cities to a google map for directions, so I don't know how long of a road trip it would be to have hand-delivered them all.

Glorfindel

@M.A.R. I just assumed you're interested in the answers :)

micsthepick

so how do I create a PR with a local repository

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

@M.A.R. 26

M.A.R.

@Glorfindel yeah right

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs nice to meet you, subject 26

WELZ

@ArtOfCode you'd do an excellent job!

M.A.R.

21:42

@ArtOfCode OMG OMG OMG

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

Wow you guys are late to the party

WELZ

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs or rather, missed the party!

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

yeah that's probably true

M.A.R.

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs a party where we sacrifice candidates' sanity?

Who wouldn't wanna be late for that

K.Dᴀᴠɪs

ahh he hasn't been sane in a minute

M.A.R.

21:45

What the . . . WTH is that comment under Floern's nomination

@K.Dᴀᴠɪs well, he is ayephillic but I hope the situation gets better

WELZ

@M.A.R. which one?

M.A.R.

@Art if you get elected, will you promise not to use "aye" too often?

@WELZ Now deleted, seems

WELZ

Aye, Cheers, Oi, Mate and anything else deemed (by Charcoal) as too British...

ArtOfCode

@M.A.R. nay

M.A.R.

@ArtOfCode tsk tsk tsk this guy's not up for a mod position

SmokeDetector

21:49

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: How to enable WebGL on Chrome on XP? by user881733 on superuser.com

tpu- by Glorfindel

WELZ

@SmokeDetector Lol

we should have an additional (chat only) feedback

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector K sucksGoogle

WELZ

for funny posts caught that are worthy of looking at again.

Lol or Funny or even Remember

M.A.R.

And harhar

WELZ

And then a special area in MS with noteworthy posts. (that can be sorted by amount of votes or time etc.)

M.A.R.

21:52

@WELZ you used backticks for use-mention distinction. I will not forgive you.

WELZ

@M.A.R. `I will ```` the ````` out of the `````

I dose notz caer

M.A.R.

Can someone kick this abomination?

Glorfindel

kick

WELZ

@Glorfindel ouch!

I call for a violent user to be banned!

M.A.R.

@Glorfindel you're my favorite bot

@WELZ oh yeah, let's bring this out on meta

I must be right because you're wrong!

SmokeDetector

21:57

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body: How to install it? by Ravi Kumar on askubuntu.com

M.A.R.

> Do we need Welz's'z backticks on our chat? I mean, he's not an active poster of our italicize community

SmokeDetector

tpu- by K.Dᴀᴠɪs

M.A.R.

@SmokeDetector K really, how to install customer service?

WELZ

@M.A.R. it's actually "Welz'z'z'z'z's'z" if you're gonna do it, do it right!

ArtOfCode

Questionnaire responses take so long to write

but there we go

M.A.R.

21:59

@ArtOfCode u suck. Your answers suck. I'm not convinced you're mod material until you give up your ayephillic habits

ArtOfCode

:P

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