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Braiam

7:00 PM

my votes depends more on my mood and votes left than anything...

animuson

Oprah mode! You get a downvote, and you get a downvote, and you get a downvote!

jadarnel27

The downvote arrow says "this answer is not useful." If someone types "Hey how's it going how did you do that?" into the answer box, flag it and it'll be deleted. The downvote tooltip doesn't really apply, since it's not an answer =)

Bart

haha

Undo

I swear the UPS trucks are taunting me. They stop right in front of my house and give stuff to my neighbors :P

2 hours ago, by Undo

The Tavern: A practical alternative to CM'ing.

^ Who pinned that?!?

animuson

@Undo Expecting something? I have four packages all scheduled for tomorrow.

@Undo Shhhhhhh :-$

Undo

7:03 PM

@animuson Yeah, a box full of swag :P

Laszlo Papp

@jadarnel27: you are proposing s/answer/post/ ? :)

animuson

Oh, swag usually comes via USPS though.

At least all of mine has.

Undo

I've never seen USPS deliver a package.

They do that?

animuson

Yes...

Braiam

yes...

Undo

7:04 PM

How do they fit packages in those little stubby trucks?

animuson

Well they mostly only deliver smaller packages, I think they even have a size limit.

Undo

Oh, ok

jadarnel27

@Laszlo Haha, that seems like one way to resolve that dissonance =)

Undo

That makes more sense.

animuson

Once you get to a certain size, it's almost always cheaper to use UPS anyways.

jadarnel27

7:05 PM

There are too many opportunities for "that's what she said" jokes in this conversation.

Undo

Now that I think about it, I've sent a bunch of packages through USPS. I just never made the connection :P

jadarnel27

And really any conversation about delivery services.

It's almost as bad as playing pool.

animuson

I don't think she is saying anything about brown.

Undo

sigh

BROWN!

jadarnel27

She might be. You don't know.

Pops

7:07 PM

Someone fire the marketing team behind the "if it fits, it ships" campaign.

Undo

Bombs fit!

jadarnel27

> You don't understand! You all understand!!! Er...don't understand...

@Pops Haha, why? That's excellent marketing.

=P

Undo

@jadarnel27 What's the official SE brown?

(in RGB)

or hex, whatever

Pops

Because Undo didn't remember that USPS handled packages, even after sending some himself.

Bart

The brown kind @Undo

Undo

7:10 PM

One shouldn't grade marketing campaigns on whether I remember them :P

animuson

Didn't you see all the annoying holiday commercials where they're singing about packages?

Undo

Nope.

jadarnel27

I love singing.

Pops

Oh, so the campaign is fine, and you're defective. Understood. Sorry for the confusion. Committing that to memory.

jadarnel27

Though I don't recall ever singing much about packages.

Bart

7:13 PM

I always sing about my package

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jadarnel27

@Undo I don't think SE officially endorses my personal and strange obsession with that color.

Undo

@jadarnel27 D:

I do.

erwaysoftware.com/brown

So nothing official.

@jadarnel27 I could change the "no nominees" text to say that "No one is brown enough to have nominated themselves yet!"...

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jadarnel27

7:15 PM

@Pops Can you confirm or deny the SE stance on randomly talking about one color more than any other color?

Hahaha, @TimStone. Do that. Totally do that.

Pops

I haven't consulted with upper management on the topic, but I'm confident that we have no such stance.

Andrew Barber

What about purposefully?

animuson

I imagine that consultation would result in "What the hell are you talking about now?"

jadarnel27

Yeah, what Andrew said.

Undo

wordpress.stackexchange.com/election/3#post-129698

^ Really? I have no idea why I should vote for you.

animuson

7:17 PM

@Undo Chrome doesn't render that font very well.

Undo

@animuson How does it look?

jadarnel27

And also: what about when discussion of color seems completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, and yet brown is brought into the conversation anyway?

Andrew Barber

So @Pops, SE's updating on Facebook now?

jadarnel27

Does SE support that at least?

Pops

News to me. I remember talk on Meta (from before I was hired) about us not actually owning the Stack Overflow profile on Facebook.

Bart

7:18 PM

@Undo ouch .... just .... ouch

Pops

Source/link?

@Undo Why? Because three slots, one candidate, that's why.

Undo

@Pops Oh, forgot :P

jadarnel27

Awesome that you have a /brown route on your website, @Undo. That made me laugh.

Undo

@jadarnel27 Yay!

@Pops So if no one else nominated, could he gather all the downvotes in the world and still get elected?

Tim Stone

@Pops What happens if everyone refuses to vote?

Undo

7:21 PM

Then brown, @TimStone

Andrew Barber

@pops I didn't think so, either. But there's a recent post by someone in UK who posted their stackexchange.com email. Maybe just deciding to piggyback on it. But it also suggests legitimacy.

Pops

Then we have a serious problem with user engagement on the site.

Undo

starts campaign to influence everyone to not vote

animuson

Undo

@animuson Yeah, what's wrong with it?

animuson

7:23 PM

You can't sell all the horrible edges on that?

Undo

It's a simple font-family:sans-serif, so I don't know what to tell you :P

jadarnel27

Huh, mobile Chrome doesn't have those artifacts.

Pops

Whoa, there's a photo of the server room on there.

Tim Stone

in The Bridge on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 1 hour ago, by Tim Stone

By the way, that was a thing that happened today.

jadarnel27

Hahaha

Undo

7:25 PM

What can they look for? Eggs?

> Eggs were found in the suspect's home. Therefore, he threw eggs at this house.

Andrew Barber

@pops from Kristian Bright, second post down here m.facebook.com/…

GnomeSlice

@TimStone Apparently he's quiet the delinquent in his community.

Pops

Apparently facebook.com/stackexchange is run by us, unlike whatever page I was thinking of from the past.

Tim Stone

@GnomeSlice I'm just still shocked that was the best CNN could do for breaking news.

Pops

@Undo Come on, it's a big city, they have a crime lab. Egg DNA comparisons!

GnomeSlice

7:26 PM

@TimStone He's a pop culture icon. That's what 'news' is.

Pops

@TimStone Heh. "Breaking" news. Heh.

Andrew Barber

Also, the page itself is using wording that suggests they are official.

jadarnel27

@TimStone Are you saying there might be more important things going on than Justin Bieber being investigated for egging his middle school?

GnomeSlice

@jadarnel27 Preposterous!

Tim Stone

@jadarnel27 It's possible I ended up on @animuson's customized CNN front page, I guess.

animuson

7:28 PM

Not possible. I don't ever visit CNN.

Undo

You still might have a customized CNN page

Courtesy the NSA

jadarnel27

This will be remembered as that time animuson didn't get the joke about him being a Belieber.

animuson

I didn't read the entire conversation.

playing Assassin's Creed Liberation HD

Undo

bad animuson! get back in the queue!

jadarnel27

"Preposterous hypothesis" is a fun thing to say.

Oh sweet. I get to upgrade one of my app servers from Server 2003 to Server 2008!

Undo

7:36 PM

Yay!

jadarnel27

This is bleeding edge stuff right here.

They haven't done anymore Windows Server releases after that, right?

Undo

Urrr....

rene

No, they're stuck in the design of WinFS

jadarnel27

8:14 PM

I'm selling something via Craigslist for the first time ever today. So if you all don't hear from me, make sure and avenge my death.

Shog9

@Undo kinda, but not really.

Undo

Oh?

Shog9

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Q: Is "recommend deletion" secretly a vote to delete?

There's a rumor (attributed to Shog9 but not verifiable by me) that If six users without the ability to delete "recommend deletion", the post will also be automatically deleted. If this is true, I find it worrisome. It creates a parallel vote-to-delete that users between 2000 and 20,000 rep...

Undo

@Shog It does contribute tangibly to the deletion of a post, right?

animuson

@jadarnel27 It was good knowing you.

Undo

8:17 PM

Ooooh!

Shog9

@Undo It can. In one specific scenario. Overall, they're much weaker than actual delete votes though - 6 delete "recommendations" is not really the same as 3 delete votes.

Undo

Ok, thanks

Make sense

jadarnel27

Thanks, @animuson.

I've never looked at my suggested edit reviewer stats before.

Tim Stone

8:52 PM

@jadarnel27 If we suspect anything's up I'll call the boys in brown.

Not that the New Castle County police would do you much good.

jadarnel27

Haha, that does seem rather outside their jurisdiction.

Pops

washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/14/…

Great funny picture for a not-so-funny story.

jadarnel27

That is a funny picture.

I want to do that in my house.

I skimmed the article, and I don't really understand what's going on. I think because I don't know the context.

Or maybe because I was just reading too quickly.

Or maybe because I don't know things.

qwertynl

9:09 PM

Hi @Pops :-)

Pops

@jadarnel27 The rules that say that ISPs have to treat all content equally were suspended on appeal. So now, in theory, your cable company could slow down traffic that consists of ads for or positive reviews of its competitors.

@qwertynl Hey there.

qwertynl

@Pops How are you?

Pops

Fine, pretty average day, you?

qwertynl

@Pops Good good. I have a user here claiming that I have been downvoting him twice with my sock puppet. Can you or any other mod set him straight?

Again noone knows the identity of my puppet

SomeKittens

You did lead him along the path to assuming that.

qwertynl

9:14 PM

@SomeKittens ehhh. He was asking for it... I have been a user on this site for a loooong time.... I know what I can and cannot do.

Pops

I didn't read most of that, but I saw that the guy you're arguing with already asked ThiefMaster to have a look, so... I'll let him do that.

qwertynl

@Pops Haha. ok I am fine with that. It just seems that user gets upset at every little downvote that he gets. He does not seem to understand how they work lol

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