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Moshe

12:28 AM

Hi

Anyone here?

animuson

Just that unicorn over in the corner that keeps staring at me. O.O

Moshe

What theme were you referring to before?

animuson

The new SE Grainy theme?

Moshe

Where is that?

animuson

That's the theme they use on SE.com

Moshe

12:33 AM

Ah, I see it.

animuson

:o Why did I not receive an email about The Workplace?

Moshe

12:47 AM

What is that?

animuson

Why can't you suggest edits on questions in beta?

Tim Stone

1:03 AM

@animuson Suggested edits in private beta seem problematic since there's unlikely to be anyone to approve them...

That said, you can certainly suggest edits on public betas.

Shog9

1:14 AM

@animuson You can

Unless someone already suggested an edit

In which case, you can't.

Manishearth

3:03 AM

Hey where'd all the chat links go?

Oh, looks like the blog thingy kills chat links :/

reopen-pls meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/128854/…

animuson

yeah, I believe there was a meta post about that somewhere

Manishearth

Its not really a dupe

There's always a metapost on it

animuson

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Q: Eeeek! Where did the chat top navigation link go?

The chat link in the top navigation bar is gone. Instead there is a shiny blog link. Where did the chat link go?

animuson

4:09 AM

Why does the association bonus always show at the top of the list for that day's reputation changes?

Shouldn't it be ordered by time like the rest of the changes?

Manishearth

4:25 AM

@Shog9 Is there any possibility of having a temporary "minor-edit" button (to avoid bumping) on Physics.SE for the duration of a tag cleanup we're going to carry out?

Maybe restrict it to questions that have been retagged but not edited.

Though as a general policy, while carrying out tag cleanup, I tent to try to improve the post as well:/

Otherwise, we have to do something like this: meta.physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1166/tag-cleanup-light

ie, compile a list and slowly plod through it, retagging them five at a time to avoid flooding

Moshe

6:02 AM

I agave found something interesting...

Manishearth

@Moshe agave?

What did you find?

Moshe

I'm poking around Draw Something's application data.

I'm interested in how they store it. Very telling, some of it.

Manishearth

Ooh nice

@balpha do you think this would be possible for you devs? chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/934821#934821

And will it be OK to be done?

balpha

that has been declined a million times

Manishearth

Just need an opinion before I MSO-post it

balpha

6:15 AM

with two exceptions

Manishearth

@balpha Just for a little while

animuson

Do suggested edits rejected for "vandalism" get flagged for moderators in some way?

Manishearth

For a retagging spree

Ooh exceptions

@balpha Which exceptions?

balpha

1) for the CHAOS title cleanup, bumping was disabled for them only. There was much discussion around that, since "no bumping" is not something we want, ever.

2) moderators merging tag synonyms. You could call that a retag on all the posts the doesn't bump

Manishearth

@balpha So is there any other way to carry out large tag cleanups?

throw new NinjaEditException() plz?

While doing this cleanup I've had to do it bit by bit because of the bumping

balpha

6:21 AM

It's not going to change. Bumping is extremely important so that every edit can be peer-reviewed. Even temporarily disabling it for employees of the company only happened after lots of discussion.

That's how strongly we feel about it.

Manishearth

Ok, I see

:/

Moshe

Hrm... Ideas floating in my head.

Is there a user script to put me to bed?

animuson

@Moshe: NyQuil?

Moshe

lol

Nyquil.js

Manishearth

7:00 AM

Another bounty going to waste: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/128068/…

jtbandes

7:57 AM

Why was this deleted...

stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/…

...while this remains?

stackoverflow.com/questions/218123/…

True, neither are constructive. But it's clear that lots of people like them.

Blog - Stack Exchange: Stack Overflow: Where We Hate Fun

Jeff Atwood on January 04, 2010

I noticed that the Stack Overflow question Strangest language feature has been closed and reopened several times now. The text of the question is brief:

What is in your opinion the most surprising, weird, strange or really “WTF” language feature you have encountered?

I agree this is not exactly an ideal question for Stack Overflow, per the FAQ:

Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered! …

Lix

8:28 AM

@thi - all that rep only from editing huh? :P

Lix

12:20 PM

Why was this migrated to meta?

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Q: What is the website where you can build a demo database for stackoverflow questions

I've seen some people use a website when asking and answering questions on SQL which allows them to build a sample database schema and populate data. A Link is then provided that users can post in questions, comments or answers in order to demonstrate what they are trying to say. I've searched fo...

discussion stackoverflow sql

It is clearly off topic on both SO and MSO...

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