@Cupcake that one is very serious

The second one is just pretty poorly tagged. I couldn't think of better tags for it, but I don't really think it falls into the category of fun.

I was just removing the facts tag because it was newly created and probably the worst one out of them all.

data-analysis perhaps?

Is git replace not a nightmare for configuration management. You rewrite history, right?

cya

bye @TGMCians

@TGMCians "Programmers code in their own batcave." They get batcaves?!

Hi to any mods -- I think meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/266407/… this post needs some intervention. The JavaScript chat room muted a troll, and he hasn't left the chat, saying we're ganging up on him (via meta comments) and we're conspiring to get the mods on our side. A simple moderator post would help a lot (whether he's right or wrong) (and I'm partly to blame here has well) as the question is just a mess

@SterlingArcher well, a lifetime mute isn't particularly nice, even despite prior offenses

@JanDvorak agreed there

I didn't mute, and I tried so hard not to get involved, but every 5 minutes it's something else. So I'm just trying to end it

Which is basically me feeding the troll (dumb move) so now I'm hoping a blue person will help end it.

@SterlingArcher holy comment shitstorm Batman

Yeah, you said it.

conspiracies, and reputation authority... I just want this done so that I can stop seeing it in the JS chat D:

Icing on the cake: a mafia reference!

"And most of you are related, the same way people are related in criminal organizations?"

Mods, please handle him, or handle us, or whoever is in the wrong. I just wanna go back to not having somebody ping us from other rooms all day

Thanks for your time. Bye!

<3

@SterlingArcher No Godwin yet though. This conversation can keep going. No one has won yet.

Sigh, okay @Andy, let me go in and finish it then.

lol

... okay, who's playing with the notification bar?

A developer is trolling us...

hardi-har.

The wheel of blame points at Jeff ....

I don't know, balpha has been working on chat things today...

Don't blame me for this

Too late

Blaming you so hard

It's settled. Balpha it is.

Who is Balpha, @barT? I only see balpha.

Let's just say I regret telling a certain someone how to announce chat downtime

@ShadowWizard the new and improved balpha bot

@MarcGravell FWIW, he already knew how it worked :)

It would be awesome to be a Stack developer

@balpha "Unexpectedly," huh? Like this wasn't your plan all along.

@MarcGravell like giving a shiny toy to an eager child. In case of my son it usually ends with a broken toy.

Hoping chat notifications automatically go away after X period of time.

That would rock

reopen-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/22360444/… based on this mso question

Does this room have a chatbot?

Yes...

There's still a bot running @rene? Manishbot?

Err, could you elaborate?

We had several bots to notify us of network-wide spam at some point @SterlingArcher

Now we have @JanDvorak

@Bart oh, sorry my mind was on a different kind of bot (like the JavaScript room runs)

The bot here is very smart. It constantly tries to point at others for being a bot.

@rene is a bot for example.

Somehow a lot of the bot messages get starred...

I shall change my username to Starbot

But no, we do all our "welcoming" ourselves @SterlingArcher.

And morning trains...

Only the evil survive

Ah true, morning trains

@Bart but how do you google things?! In a new tab? That's so caveman age.

:P

People need to know what you're googling.

I don't Google. I know.

There you go

Well played, sir.

A long time ago before Single Page Applications become popular you could have tabs. Some of the Mammoths in this room still use tabs and multiple windows....

So they Google in another tab...or do other stuff in other windows...very old-fashioned..

If you give that an "epic tone" in your head, you could start a good saga off with that post.

@SterlingArcher there was my hello bot, I can always put it back :D

Well, I don't want to bother the regulars :P But I'd love so see the source if it's open source?

Geez, stop bothering the regulars.

Success!!! Made my first step toward a wonderful script

I call it a day...

Cya @rene

@SterlingArcher my hello bot? It's pure JavaScript

I love javascript.

:O

@ShadowWizard Does it do evil?

@Bart evil is its second name

First name, Dr.

maybe @rene could find a bug, and have a new question to ask on meta!!! FTW!

let's see first if it's still working...

Hmm, it's getting dark in here all of a sudden

oops, it was before split. let me fix...

Hello Shadow of the Shadow!

yup working

Just copy and paste the following code to the JS console and it's active

var previousUser = "";
var myself = $("#active-user").find("img").first().attr("title");
var userMapping = {};
var timer = window.setInterval(function() {
    var recentUser = $(".sidebar-widget .present-user").first().find(".avatar").find("img").attr("title");
    if (recentUser != myself) {
        if (previousUser != recentUser) {
            if (userMapping[recentUser]) {
                console.log("first seen in " + userMapping[recentUser]);
            } else {
                console.log(recentUser + " joined in " + (new Date()).toString());

@SterlingArcher ;( What, you mean our bots aren't anywhere near annoying and intrusive enough?

Hello bjb568!

Hi.

@bjb568 intrusive?

Hello Sterling Archer!

@SterlingArcher Caprica? Yeah.

I might have a different definition of intrusive. Mind explaining?

Well, it's not asking or suggesting anything just greeting

if 10 users will have it active in the same time it can create nice hello trains ;)

@ShadowWizard I might try and convert your bot into native JS, if that's ok with you?

I do love running trains on things...

@SterlingArcher sure, do whatever you want with it :-)

@SterlingArcher Railroad tracks, groups of small children, kittens, ...

@SterlingArcher chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/17855607#17855607 chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/17855629#17855629 chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/17855666#17855666 ... just no point in it

@bjb568 eh, that's user prompted.

@SterlingArcher So either remove the user, the prompt, or the bot.

(personally I think the JS room is crappy, so all 3)

Or... not?

@ShadowWizard thanks!

@Bart mostly kittens, but yes.

:O

Hello Doorknob!

No need to greet everyone...

What's wrong with this answer? meta.stackoverflow.com/a/261161/2888561

@bjb568 wall of screenshots without explanation, from quick look

^

Hello Jan Dvorak!

Hello Dr. Dvorak!

Hello Vote to Close!

hello

Hello Meta!

Hello Master Wizard!

@ShadowWizard Meh, other people said what I said. Deleted it.

Hello Kitty!

@VotetoClose umm, your bot is misbehaving ;)

@ShadowWizard no, you need to program your bots to handle the kinks in my bot

Hello jadarnel27!

@ShadowWizard Haha, are we doing this scripted greeting thing again? =)

I mean, hello!

@jadarnel27 someone asked about bots here so I brought it back from the dead ;)

that said, shutting it down now

Nice.

CRAP meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236958/…

i flagged some asnwer (don't remember what it is now) as "not an answer" but it was declined, however later that answer was actually deleted, why? stackoverflow.com/questions/157463/…

It was converted to a comment by a different mod.

ah i remmeber this one