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1:31 AM
get a hecking load of the four different dup target suggestion comments in stackoverflow.com/q/22163730/11107541. what a time to be alive
I think we have a more recent, more authoritative version of this? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/261667
@starball The C and C++ tag people are still rather resistant to the idea, hmm?
@KarlKnechtel unfortunately it's on MSE
1:48 AM
ah. The original network split was so horribly executed. :(
Agreed, though that specific one I think did originate on MSE.
I do wish we could close per-site meta questions as dupes of MSE questions
Cross-site duplication is otherwise a bad idea, I think, but for this one specific case...
or even just migrate them, and let MSE hammer them... ?
but actually a cross-site dupe would be much more useful, because it would be a signpost for others who search the per-site meta.
Yeah, and they aren't off-topic here...
2:29 AM
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Q: Add a My Discussions entry for Discussions LABS

SageJustusAs the title says, I didn't find the Discussions I proposed. I think the best place to do this is to create a new entry under Activity.

2:52 AM
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Q: Is a post like 'assdddsssafffwq' spam?

Remi GuanFor example, this post: I think posts like this should be deleted immediately. These posts don't help anybody. So the question is, is that spam? I did flag a post like that spam, now here is that flag: Okay, disputed. So if it's not spam, what can I do? A mod flag? Or just vote to close ...

 
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4:47 AM
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Q: Why is this question bad? And why are my comments asking for feedback deleted?

OokerI asked How to have a fragment to both fade-in and highlight-red? and got a couple downvotes in just minutes. I asked why was that the case and the comment got deleted. I asked again and the new one was deleted as well. Why is that?

 
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7:11 AM
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Q: Is it punishable to vote for re-opening own question?

U. WindlI had a question that was closed due to "lacking focus" when I thought it actually had focus (just one issue to solve). Because I thought the question is fine as is (lacking any more detailed comment), I voted to "re-open" the question, but also decoded to edit it. Then while I was editing the qu...

7:47 AM
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Q: Being harassed by a user who keeps editing all my questions and answers

Jesse NicklesIt would be really nice to be able to block users, but sans that feature, it would be nice for moderators to have the courage to suspend high reputation users just as much as they suspend low reputation users. Prevent WordPress.org from overriding Git Updater for new versions? https://stackoverfl...

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Q: Why is my question about open source Git Updater being down-voted?

Jesse NicklesIs there any valid reason that multiple high reputation users are down-voting this question? Prevent WordPress.org from overriding Git Updater for new versions?

8:17 AM
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Q: Is the "Meta effect" justification for good questions being down-voted?

Jesse NicklesFor years, many people have said here on Meta that the so-called "Meta effect" is the reason why otherwise good questions and answers might be down-voted. Does anyone think this is a good thing? Does this encourage new users or low rep users to get involved or ask questions? I would suggest that ...

8:35 AM
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Q: Is every question that high reputation users don't like a "duplicate" question?

Jesse NicklesIs it possible that down-votes, close votes, and duplicate flags are being abused by high reputation users against lower reputation users as petty revenge? For example, these are not duplicates: Is the "Meta effect" justification for good questions being down-voted? Why is my question about open ...

Hmm, what's happening.
User dislikes edits to their question posts a question on Meta, they get a downvote on their main site question and post another question asking about it, rinse and repeat for anything they dislike happening
8:50 AM
We've seen this before.
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Q: Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Steve Jobs would be banned from StackOverflow

Jesse NicklesThe thought crossed my mind today about how many of the most brilliant and talented programmers in history would have almost surely been censored, down-voted, and banned from StackOverflow for their quirky and independent personalities and "abrasive" communication style as many high reputation us...

9:12 AM
@E_net4 Just came in and was going to ask the same
Oh, I see. That user again. The one that kept posting about their own forum with extremely little to no relevance. Also who was obsessed with complaining about some supposed stalker.
@NewPosts Ah yes, everything is better after the edit
9:41 AM
@NewPosts actually, several regular some to mind when I think of "abrasive" communication style :P myself included sometimes.
So I went back to work, took a peek here, and I could never guess what happened next.
@starball *gasp* I should have known! It's so obvious in hindsight: strbaall - you're Richard Stallman
> If StackOverflow was a nation state it would have a stagnant economy and negative birth rate.
@E_net4 Well, not totally unexpected. It's a bit like a train crash - you may know to expect chaos. But I agree that the actual degree of derailment was unanticipated.
@VLAZ who the hell is richard stallman
9:47 AM
Pretty much.
Who the hell is Edgar?
in seriousness though, I do not know who richard stallman is, though I've heard the name
oh wow this guy made a lot of stuff
':)
Like many who did lots of stuff, he also bears quite an amount of controversy.
@starball Old School GNU developer. He's also into online activism, he's part of the Free Software Foundation. Overall, the guy has strong opinions. He's fairly well-known for those. Also, an oddball all around. One of his known pet peeves is somebody talking about "linux" around him. He'd be quick to point out it's GNU Linux.
Also has strong opinions on free software. He does do good work in FSF. He's, for example, fighting against patent trolling.
Look up his requirements for visiting and giving talks. It's an... interesting list.
oh wait I've read about him before and some of the controversy
sort of coming back now
excuse my unculturedness
It's fine. He's fairly well-known but also old school-ish. Probably not that well-known nowadays.
He did come to my university to do a talk once. It was interesting. TBH, that's why I know most of the things about him. If I had never seen him in person, I'd probably have the same recollection as you - maybe heard the name but I'd need to look him up.
9:56 AM
in basically unrelated news, I spent most of today trying and failing to figure out why nanobind stub generation + GCC/Clang + Asan/UBSan don't want to play together... and then giving up and commenting out stub generation
and now I should go to bed
ciao
10:35 AM
Aand suspension.
10:53 AM
@E_net4 :surprised_face: Again? Who'd've thunk it?!
 
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2:17 PM
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Q: Possible bug with the table markdown

Mauricio Arias OlaveI've posted this question on Stack Overflow and I've added a table - using the markdown notation. While in edit mode, the table is rendered correctly, once pressed the save button, the table misses its rendering. Edit mode: Public view: Does someone has this same behaviour?

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Q: Error Exception in HostFunction: Malformed calls from JS: field sizes are different

Abhishek DeshmukhError Exception in HostFunction: Malformed calls from JS: field sizes are different. [[4,4,4,4,4,42,42,42,42,21], [0,2,0,2,0,12,13,16,39,0], [["rnfb_auth_state_changed"], ["auth_id_token_changed"], ["rnfb_auth_id_token_changed"], ["phone_auth_state_changed"], ["rnfb_phone_auth_state_chang ed"],["...

3:05 PM
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Q: Staging Ground post-launch insights and understanding question quality

tanj92TL;DR: In this post, we will recap the launch of Staging Ground and share updates, bug fixes, and early metrics. We will also discuss the topic of question quality, where we want to head, and how you can help. Several weeks ago, we launched Staging Ground, the second generation of our sheltered ...

3:29 PM
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Q: Are questions about preventing LLM halucinations on topic?

gunr2171I've seen a few questions on this topic and I'd like the community's opinion. Here's my analysis of a recent question that asks about LLM hallucinations interfering with their program behavior: The C# code is not relevant The C# code in the post only serves to make an HTTP call, read the respons...

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Q: Synonymize [aad-b2c] to [azure-ad-b2c]

TylerHAt some point the tag aad-b2c popped up, but it's an (undefined/undescribed, other than to say that it's a duplicate/synonym) exact synonym of the much more-used, better-named, and better-defined tag azure-ad-b2c. In fact, all but 4 questions tagged with aad-b2c are also tagged with azure-ad-b2c....

@NewPosts you say "quirky and independent personalities and "abrasive" communication style", I say "asshole"
When I ran an international mod project for TES3 Morrowind, there was a contributor who was pretty good with developing a lot of the necessary lore, moreso than most others, but they also a right dick all the time, to the point where they got a temporary and then permanent ban for their behavior.
Nobody's so important to a community that they get to be an asshole in spite of their contributes and expect to stick around (except maybe on 4chan, I dunno)
well, except the CEO
see twitter
4:00 PM
@KevinB That is another case scenario: of not only being an a-hole, but also contributing negatively to the community, and yet having no way to kick him out.
> I'm really tired of getting inbox notifications about this post. Could yall just let it go?
Another day, another user regretting coming to Meta.
> How you can help and thank you in advance
And tanks in a dance!
Oooh, interpretive dance
 
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5:22 PM
stackoverflow.com/posts/78718058/timeline my brain almost had a riot looking at rev1 before I saw that edit summary
@Makyen thanks for the hammering
@KarlKnechtel np. Thanks for finding it, so it could be closed with the canonical duplicate. I also took the opportunity to update the answer on the duplicate. While it was personal opinion when posted, it's, effectively, become policy, so is better stated as such, IMO.
I think I just happened to stumble upon it and get suspicious.
5:39 PM
> and it is pretty serious for me as my life depends on this
@starball Well, that's pretty concerning. Are they being held at gunpoint? Working on a cure for their cancer?
5:57 PM
>jokingly
@Zoe O_O
@starball reminds me of that user who translated and reposted on different language sites of Stack Overflow.
> In response to questions about why they chose to hack INL, they commented on social media: “We are cats, intricacies such as ‘why’ do not concern us,” according to PC Gamer.
Sounds about right
Zoe
Zoe
"We are cats, we owned all of it already anyway"
@aynber reminds me of the cat emotions in the mind of the cat at the end of the first Inside Out movie (which I just saw for the first time this weekend)
7:06 PM
I'm sorry, what: i.sstatic.net/MS6kknpB.png
Me, looking to see if a tag existed...
Adults are needed in the Perl aisle
Zoe
Zoe
how do you do, fellow adult?
Also, facepalm
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Q: Displaying an observable collection on a templated control

Nick SpringI have an Avalonia Templated control that has a Styled Property of "Value" that is a string. It's purpose is to accept a series of tags that are separated by spaces. I would like to split that string and show the individual tags in an item control (or item repeater). So - I wrote code to catch ...

OP edits the question to include an answer. Then they post an answer saying "I added the answer to the question"
So... close...
7:20 PM
@TylerH Next up - the lemon party operator...
7:48 PM
@TylerH lmao
@TylerH I went ahead and moved it. why'd you roll back their question edit but not move the answer portion into their answer post?
finally
though it's missing 🚽
@starball because OP had literally just taken those actions so they're still 'around'. I want to give them an opportunity to see my comment and make the fix themselves
since they really ought to be the one to have done it in the first place
Generally I will post the solution as a CW answer myself if the author has not been around for a while and/or if the question is rather old/has no recent activity
but when the author does it right in front of my eyes... I wanna catch 'em and turn it into a learning experience for them
@TylerH ah okay. I wasn't aware that this had just happened and you are/were actively observing. I had thought you were done with interacting there. agree that it's a good teaching moment.
8:40 PM
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Q: Synonymize [taskscheduler] with [windows-task-scheduler]

TylerHThere are two tags whose wiki/excerpt say they are about the Windows Task Scheduler OS-level utility, taskscheduler (currently some ~270 questions) and windows-task-scheduler (currently ~940 questions). I've gone through the former and retagged questions about R-taskscheduler or other similar uti...

 
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10:04 PM
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Q: How can I improve this answer to a regex question?

Andrew YimI recently provided this this answer to a question about a regex, and it received a downvote fairly quickly. I'd rather get ahead of bad posting habits if I can, so I was curious as to how I could've done better. I had a couple thoughts on what might have gone wrong, but I'm not too sure about an...


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