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user315433

12:02 AM

Developer Q&A site stays fast, innovative, and agile with SQL Server 2016

user315433

> Today, there are 156 Stack Exchange communities, each with their own design...

user315433

Using an ancient picture from when Laura was with the company and Kasra was in NYC.

user315433

user202362

12:20 AM

community manager is an excellent title if you work on a chicken farm

user202362

managing a community of chickens

user340193

This might sound stupid, but I want to test what it looks like to offer a bounty. Is there a "sandbox" SE to test those kinds of things?

user315433

@MarkYisri Yes, in a way. Sign up for any obscure SE site. You get 101 points there, which you can use for a bounty.

user315433

For example: sign up for Gardening & Landscaping and put a 100 point bounty on some of @Frank's answers. They are good.

Frank

12:37 AM

@zaq aww thanks

@MarkYisri I've offered so many now, I should have thouht to take a screenshot

user315433

I did exactly that once (well, for 50 points so I can still flag). This was the answer: gardening.stackexchange.com/a/3637

Frank

@zaq On Biology, I have less than half the rep I would have, for all the bounties I did

On Gardening, I kinda wanted to stay over 20k in case of graduation

I know, getting ahead of myself

user315433

You'll probably have 50K by the time of graduation.

Frank

@zaq I have found that if I was active every year, gaining at the rate I do when 'm active, I'd be over 97k right now

But I take breaks all the time

user315433

Taking breaks may actually help the site. It allows other plants... ahem, users get into the answering game. SE wants to have sufficiently many users with enough privilege to run a graduate site.

user202362

12:43 AM

unless plant = weed

user340193

1:03 AM

@Frank I'll give you the bounty soon

user340193

1

A: Why are my tomato leaves turning yellow, with brown spots?

We would need pictures for a definite diagnosis, but it sounds like your plants are showing signs of early blight. You can try these control methods: Remove all leaves showing sings of early blight (yellowing, dry margin, large round dead spot,) Do not touch the other leaves with the rem...

user340193

@zaq thanks for the suggestion :)

JamesENL

sigh Agile training

A day of trying to not look bored

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body: I Need Help With My Database Design for Product Management by Ryan Bernstein on dba.stackexchange.com

user340193

@SmokeDetector fp

user340193

1:04 AM

think that's a false positive

user202362

@Shog9 Should I post a question about the issue? The problem has recurred a couple of times. Mostly around 9pm local time

Shog9

@Telkitty maybe? don't know what the problem is.

user202362

Tavern and lounge doesn't load

Shog9

@JamesENL you should jump up and start doing calisthenics, to show how agile you are.

user202362

@shog9 I had same problem briefly last night too

user315433

1:18 AM

Relevant Dilbert: dilbert.com/strip/2016-07-30

user315433

Unless we're supposed to boycott Dilbert for some political reason...

JamesENL

@zaq I don't blame Scott for the election result

Shog9

1:33 AM

He also categorized the winner as a magician.

A furious magician.

Who presumably needs your teeth for his Federal reserve

user315433

When a question is code with little text around it, there is a blocking message. Can we get a non-blocking warning when an answer is a link with little text around it?

user315433

Like a reminder that answers should contain some information in the actual text of the answer?

user315433

> This should help you: [url]. Hope this helps. -- Helpful user

user315433

Later: "I post things I think are helpful, and get downvoted. I was just trying to help."

Alexis King

JamesENL

1:39 AM

Oh that takes me back!

God all that money thrown into Runescape

such a waste of time

Shog9

@zaq how little?

"This should help you: [url]" is already blocked.

user315433

0

A: How to split String between MapTasks something like implementing TextInputSplit in Hadoop?

I think this would be helpful in implementing a custom FileInputFormat: http://lordjoesoftware.blogspot.com/2010/08/customized-splitters-and-readers.html Hope this helps.

Shog9

We could expand that to, say, 50... And probably just see "Hope this helps" expanded to "Hope this helps you, dear."

user202362

you have been elusive about my question on the lagging issue @Shog9

user202362

Shog9

1:43 AM

@Telkitty no idea. Post on meta with details: network logs and so on.

Trivia: the "too many links" restriction is blocking a shocking amount of spam right now.

user202362

preferred network logging tools?

Shog9

@Telkitty what browser you use?

user202362

chrome, but when it happens it happens on chrome & firefox

user202362

and safari

user202362

OS would be: ios, MacOS & windows

Shog9

1:47 AM

@Telkitty in Chrome, open the Network tag in dev tools, load the page

user202362

ok, will do when it happens next time

user315433

@Shog9 Is it more shocking than usual? A spam spike?

JamesENL

@Shog9 How many posts are we talking?

user202362

imagine seeing this line at the end of an email that tells you that you have been net banned for the next 10 years

Shog9

2:20 AM

@zaq @JamesENL i.stack.imgur.com/oYVk1.png

JamesENL

Not as bad as July, but getting there

Wow that's still a lot of posts

user315433

It's shocking but it used to be shockinger.

user315433

My puny ~50 spam flags per day pale in comparison. :(

hichris123

Where did Tim get those pretty graphs for SpamRam? We haven't seen one in a while...

user315433

Tim is busy with PR, privacy and licensing.

Shog9

2:25 AM

Here's SpamRam, for comparison:

JamesENL

Wow..... That's a huge difference

user315433

But both dropped off in mid-July. Someone shut down a botnet.

Shog9

The oldest, simplest checks get hammered by bots, which of course is why they're the oldest

hichris123

@Shog9 Huh, that's a very small number.

Tim's graphs must have included everything:

Shog9

@hichris123 Oh, yeah, that's network-wide

Also a different source, but I expect the major difference there is SO-only vs. entire network

This is what that last graph I posted looks like using the same source as Tim's

so... uh... Yeah, bit of a spike right now

user315433

2:35 AM

OTOH the user-facing spam is pretty much constant in time. We didn't have a "OMG we're swamped" moment since... early September 2015, I think, when Travel got hit.

hichris123

Here's your Smokey graph... certainly nothing major this week: metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/graphs.

Shog9

Yeah, here's flags, same time-period:

user315433

Spammers go to church on Sundays or something.

user315433

Confirming that it's mostly humans who get through. Bots work 7 days a week but get blocked.

user315433

2:52 AM

Is this an old joke? Don't remember seeing it.

user315433

The low-score-accepted + much-higher-score combo looks realistic.

Shog9

reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1fr8mk/…

Probably not the origin, but the oldest I can find.

user315433

Yeah, "Careers 2.0" was an indication of the age.

user202362

poor owl

JAL

3:38 AM

on Stack Overflow, no one knows you're a dog

JamesENL

3:48 AM

On Stack Overflow, no one knows you're out of your mind

bjb568

On Stack Overflow, everyone knows you're on jQuery.

Shog9

5:05 AM

Flags handled by mods (broken out by type) and others (lumped together) on Stack Overflow, all-time

Andy

5:20 AM

@Shog9 What caused the huge drop in "Answer not an Answer" in 2014 to be handled by the community? Was that while the close queue numbers were fuzzy?

Shog9

116

Q: Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue

The 10K tools are pretty cool... You get a birds-eye view of activity on the site, a "dashboard" view of what's happening. Some of the individual tools haven't scaled particularly well with Stack Overflow's growth, but the concept behind them is still sound: we trust you to enough to be a bee wat...

Tremendous number of flags were just folks re-flagging stuff that was already in the queue instead of deleting it.

Andy

> This has effectively reduced the "not answer" workload for moderators to less than 10% of what it would have been otherwise.

This chart shows that pretty clearly.

user315433

One of the best feature changes ever.

user315433

5:37 AM

!!/report stackoverflow.com/a/40858357/6655984

JamesENL

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@JamesENL ... did I miss something?

user315433

!!/report stackoverflow.com/a/40858303

user315433

So incredibly on topic, I can barely even.

user315433

5:46 AM

Since it's so ludicrously on topic, it should be easy to guess which site the ad is from, right?

user315433

(Statistics)

user315433

Nothing wrong with ads, SE decide whatever the heck they want to put on their servers, just as I decide what to put on my computer.

user315433

The holier-than-thou attitude of the meta announcement is a bit irritating though.

Pandya

6:56 AM

5

Q: Anyway to block the user 'xiguai' from creating more accounts, reduce spam?

Anyway to block the user xiguai from creating more accounts and posting spam?

discussion spam

angussidney

We've added that username to the smokey blacklist

Pandya

7:18 AM

Shouldn't status-declined be replaced with status-review as meta.hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/374/… ?

Shadow Wizard

7:45 AM

@Pandya yeah, probably. Worth pinging Abby with another comment, she can retag.

nice

One of the best. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/287507/… Worth keeping.

Magisch

I just noticed I passed 3k on meta

\o/ close vote privileges

Shadow Wizard

8:12 AM

@Magisch congrats!!

JamesENL

@Magisch Hooraaaayy!!!!

Derpy

8:42 AM

@JamesENL actually, everyone knows. It is one of the prerequisites to join. The things is that no one cares

Derpy

9:16 AM

Nov 23 at 9:32, by Derpy

on an unrelated notice, has anyone asked himself WHO will host the ads some sites will soon get?

Nov 23 at 10:47, by Derpy

yep, I too expect them to be pretty responsible, but there is also a voice that tells me I don't want Stack to turn into the next DeviantArt/TesNexus

and also related:

Nov 15 at 16:00, by Derpy

The day ADS will be legally required to be hosted by the hosting site instead that references to file on other servers I never asked to open and the hosting site will be legally required to ensure that they don't contain malvertising I will think about enabling them back. Not before.

Stijn

I haven't really followed the ads thing, but isn't it just that more sites than just SO/SU/SF get ads now?

Qwerp-Derp

9:32 AM

Hello!

Derpy

@Stijn yes. I was simply replying to @zaq since I too am not a big fan of ads

Magisch

@Derpy tbh stack ads are the least offensive on the entire 'web

stack is about the only site I have deliberately turned off adblock for in the last 5 years

Derpy

@Magisch I know. But I also know that even google/youtube managed to fall to malvertising once

Magisch

9:48 AM

@Derpy right. I have an up to date antivirus scanner too. I don't think enabling ads on stack exposes me to a security risk

specifically not since the ads they serve aren't even fully controlled by the ad network

they hand pick them

angussidney

10:16 AM

^

Shadow Wizard

^^

Worst that can happen is that animated advertisement will slip through. It happened before...

40

Q: Oy! Animated ads!

Stack Overflow delivered a little piece of coal to me, today (or I noticed it for the first time today). Animated GIFs as ads. Like, the old-school, flashy-flashy kind: Here are two deanimated frames: The ad (sourced from here) flips back and forth a few times before settling on the fi...

support status-completed advertising

But even ordinary users can trick the system and have their animated avatar show.

Magisch

@ShadowWizard even that was a 5 frame frame shift with self replacing tags

I mean, talk about tame. and they still got rid of it on 6am on a holiday morning

Shadow Wizard

10:43 AM

@Magisch and what about this?

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ypz5v.gif?s=96&g=1

It's used as avatar.

Magisch

Avatar =/= ad

Btw, is that allowed?

Shadow Wizard

imgur should disable animation when resizing.

Magisch

shouldn't .gif's as avatars not be a thing?

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch it's not disallowed, SE depends on imgur to simply disable animation.

Sometimes certain thumbnails are failing, then the original image is used.

Anyway they still didn't fix anything, anyone viewing this profile in mobile view will see the animation.

Luckily, the 96px thumbnail is used only there.

Magisch

@ShadowWizard does it surprise me at all that the guy is currently suspended for voting irregularities?

Shadow Wizard

10:47 AM

@Magisch lol, guess he also tried to upload over and over until the thumb was broken...

Derpy

@ShadowWizard even with a greasemonkey script that enables animated avatars, I only saw three of them over the course of a year....

Shadow Wizard

11:18 AM

@Derpy still, showing that sometimes things slip through.

Derpy

@ShadowWizard why should my script show that?

I explicitly switch images so that the original animated version is used in place of the non-animated one.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy so it means only three users even tried using animated avatars, this kind of proves the one who "succeeded" did it on purpose, and kept uploading until the thumbnail creation failed, leaving the animation in place.

(this can't be a coincidence, those failures are about 1 to 1000 if not less frequent)

Derpy

oh, another one here

Bikash Paul, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

101 1

flag is animated

hichris123

11:41 AM

→ 27 messages moved to Chimney

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy true, but thumbnail on SE is not, as it should be

https://i.stack.imgur.com/FIe3s.gif?s=96&g=1

heh, that's onebox bug

Derpy

it does bug out for you?

not for me, I noticed thanks to the script

without it, the flag isn't animated - as expected

by the way, I also noticed I had disabled the "Anti-Nicael" script. Must have been an error.

That line is too important to goo :P

> GM_addStyle(".content { overflow: hidden; }");

@ShadowWizard anyway, want to bet? How many days this year before the hat hunt hype dies out? How many before everything is found?

Shadow Wizard

12:03 PM

@Derpy 2.5?

Derpy

@ShadowWizard oh, funny. I was just about to say the same.

I expect the hunt to last about 2 days.

Shadow Wizard

Great minds....

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: skincaresfreetrial.com/t5rx/ by dswerpolksw on hinduism.stackexchange.com

Derpy

> Mad Matter: "Have I gone mad?"
Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

Shadow Wizard

tru dat! going mad

Magisch

12:18 PM

@Derpy Some even lost their mind :D

Derpy

@Magisch Oh, don't worry, I haven't. I know perfectly what I am supposed to do and which characters I should base my actions on....

Magisch

@Derpy I was making a pun about a moderator on stack overflow, called TheLostMind :D

Derpy

Pinkie, the Mad Hatter, Tonto, W. Wonka.....

all those characters with a clear mindset.

Fizban too...

Bart

@ShadowWizard going?

user202362

takes a mad man to know another ... :p

Bart

12:37 PM

No argument there

SmokeDetector

12:48 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Hyper-V reports that the hypervisor is not running. How to start the hypervisor? by varun achanta on superuser.com

Derpy

I have one.

@Telkitty here.

objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=8325131

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (batch report: post 2 out of 2): Finding why a user is locked out in Active Directory by varun achanta on serverfault.com

user315433

@Derpy Last year, some secret hats were not available immediately, if I remember correctly. And in any case, one of them remained a mystery until the end.

user315433

Last year's hat maniac isn't around often these days. Which is natural: users get obsessed with winter bash once, but there are new ones next time.

Magisch

When does winter bash start?

Is it too late to suggest hats?

Stijn

1:01 PM

@Magisch no countdown yet on winterbash2016.stackexchange.com

Derpy

@Magisch any evidence of any suggestion ever being used?

@zaq I wouldn't consider the two color hat one "secret" since it was just an unlisted "post on day X" hat like many others

bluefeet

@Magisch soon

Magisch

I see blue feet and hats

user315433

@Derpy Yes, for example meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214536/…

user202362

patience is a virtue, that kills whoever wait for long enough

SmokeDetector

1:25 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: My adult cat kneads and sucks on my blanket like a kitten. Why? by Cheryl E on pets.stackexchange.com

Derpy

1:40 PM

@zaq oh, right, I kinda removed that thing from my memory

anyway, trap failed - I hopes someone would mention the scouter one.

will the actual countdown start on December, 1?

last year site has been taken down.

user315433

Static screenshot remains at stackpromos.com/promos/16/winter-bash-2015

user315433

The snowball fight was the best part.

user315433

1:56 PM

> @nikmd23 @ashleymgrant the big thing is creating DOM elements in JS. HTML wants double quotes so escaping all the way SUCKS. -- David Haney at 11:35 AM - 28 Nov 2016

user315433

I don't know much about HTML, but... quotes of either kind works.

Derpy

2:08 PM

.... horrid idea.

If I return screaming.... I may have just found a bug.

If I don't return at all, the bug was very severe and the trained SE ninja monkeys got me

user202362

and if you return and being silent, we will assume the bug is so severe, you have lost your mind, petrified ...

user315433

> I won't make free work for the SE Inc until I live. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64082/…

user315433

We have dead (or undead) users...

Derpy

@Telkitty lucky, was a red herring.

user315433

3:10 PM

> It's been a long time since you posted this question, and I hope that you are at a much better place now. -- academia.stackexchange.com/a/80665

user315433

Sounds so sad, but maybe it's just my reading of it. (Well, at least it's not Health site.)

user315433

-1

A: Add myself to a GitHub organization

I want join to git hub and Iwant be a professional c++ and Java and othyer highlevel programming languages

user315433

Also a sad one.

Bart

@zaq hah, I could have written that question some years ago

user315433

Did you quit?

user315433

3:13 PM

> At the end of the end / It's the start of a journey / To a much better place / youtube.com/watch?v=DTht9VqZAe4

Bart

yup

user315433

McCartney just couldn't time the ostensibly-last "Memory Almost Full" correctly... Composed to mirror Abbey Road, etc, but then neglected to die.

user340193

3:57 PM

I was working on a project for school and saw this answer to a Java question:

user340193

20

A: Java: Good way to encapsulate Integer.parseInt()

What behaviour do you expect when it's not a number? If, for example, you often have a default value to use when the input is not a number, then a method such as this could be useful: public static int parseWithDefault(String number, int defaultVal) { try { return Integer.parseInt(number)...

user340193

It says edited by Community! Community knows how to edit?

user340193

@YiJiang can I be on the Wheel of Blame?

user315433

@MarkYisri "Community" in this case means "a user with no account". See Don't attribute edits by anonymous users to the Community user by Fiksdal on meta.stackexchange.com

user315433

Community has impressive stats on SO: 72,345 posts edited, 50,052 helpful flags, 931,454 votes cast

user315433

4:02 PM

These are actions that are sometimes automatic, sometimes done by a user but in a context where action could not be attributed to that user.

Shadow Wizard

@zaq I think most of these are from deleted users. Many active users choose to delete their accounts (cough cough) and I believe in those cases, all their edits (and votes?) are transferred to Community.

user315433

WTF is this edit? stackoverflow.com/posts/21055952/revisions

user315433

Votes for sure, but browsing the edits by community I see anonymous suggestions as the spam edit above. (Regrettably approved)

Shadow Wizard

@zaq hopefully attempt to catch robo reviewers and ban them from reviewing. If not, it's a sad joke.

Bart

... any mod around to just review ban those users?

8

Q: really strange post edit: maybe a spammer's test?

I just saw this suggestion that confused me for a couple of reasons https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/13144329 why are non-changes highlighted isn't this pattern of output-neutral encoding changes suspicious How to deal with edits like this? From some wiki experiences, I know t...

discussion suggested-edits

Shadow Wizard

4:11 PM

@zaq it appears to a spider... ??

10

Q: Burpsuite accidental defacement, should I be concerned?

I was spidering a website with Burpsuite and the automated Form Submission caused me to unknowingly deface the main page with "555-555-0199@example.com". It took me a decent amount of time to notice but when I did I immediately worked to resolve the issue by finding an archive of the page and re...

web-application penetration-test ethics burp

user315433

SEDE exercise: find all edits with that summary.

Bart

Follow up exercise: get all approvers suspended

Shadow Wizard

heh, it's going for looong time

3

Q: Lots of anonymous edits that just alter punctuation

The review queue for suggested edits has a lot of edits "by an anonymous user" that don't seem to make any substantive changes, but replace various punctuation characters by HTML entity versions of themselves. Each one has "555-555-0199@example.com" as its comment. Example: It appears that t...

support spam editing review

Andy

@zaq data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/586358

user315433

Not so bad, only 10 out of 213 were approved. Thanks.

Bart

4:15 PM

How many of them have had 1 or more approve votes though?

Shadow Wizard

@Bart not suspended, just permanent review ban. They should not keep reviewing anything.

Bart

@ShadowWizard I'd agree to that

Shadow Wizard

The robo approvers do tons of damage.

No hats for guessing, sorry @ShadowWizard. — bluefeet ♦ 44 secs ago

:-(

user315433

Having consistent edit summary is nice. Someone at SE can write a script to automatically ban approvers of edits with that exact summary.

Frank

yawwwwwn

user315433

4:22 PM

Or, which is easier, add that specific kind of edit (replace all ' by ') to their honeypot generator.

Shadow Wizard

yup

climbing on @Frank before all his leaves are falling

@Frank when you switch to your winter avatar?

user315433

When trees hibernate in winter, do they have dreams?

Shadow Wizard

huh, I just read something this week about trees in a forest having actual network and relationships.

Though no dreams we know of... ;)

user315433

5:00 PM

I'm sort of back to answering SO questions, but can't imagine a situation where I'd want to link to SO Docs in an answer... it'd be just another search in the dark, for a black cat that probably isn't there.

Feeds

Stack Overflow - Counting Developers with Providence

Kevin Troy on November 29, 2016

Our data platform, Providence, has evolved over the last two years. We look at how and why it has changed, and the effects on our counts of developers.

Bart

How is SO Doc going? Have been ignoring it mostly, but is it a success?

Frank

@ShadowWizard in winter

user315433

> Like all systems, the longer it runs, the better it gets.

user315433

I envy the optimism of the author.

user315433

5:08 PM

But a bunch of systems in a human body don't seem to share this idea.

user315433

> we’re excited to reveal that the number of developers in Europe and indeed other parts of the world, is in fact much larger than we originally thought.

user315433

Wow, so exciting! Especially with no numbers whatsoever. Apparently, the author prefers to keep an air of mystery about the topic.

user315433

@Bart tl;dr the longer it runs, the better it gets

Bart

@zaq "the longer it runs, the more surprised we are"

Andy

> It analyses the questions and answers that users interact with, in order to determine what sort of technologies an individual works with.

This explains a lot of my Jobs matches...

shakes fist at Smokey

user315433

5:23 PM

Does flagging a comment under a post count as interaction?

Andy

I'd assume so. You interacted with the post

But, that blog post is pretty vague so it's hard to tell

There are also no pretty graphs. When talking about analysis results, I expect graphs

user315433

It's likely they are measuring actual visits by a browser, things that count toward question views. Then the API-based flagging shouldn't count.

user315433

But visiting to flag spam answer (or NAA) probably does.

user315433

5:58 PM

7

Q: Documentation Update, November 29th

Well, November 2016 sure was a month that happened. Now that we're on the other side of the US election and holidays (and the team is back at work) it's time for an update on Stack Overflow Documentation. View the previous update. Shipped Topic Introductions Every topic now has an optional...

discussion featured documentation

user315433

Not oneboxing tall xkcd, but seems relevant to the discussion feature: xkcd.com/1665

Shadow Wizard

6:20 PM

@Frank question is, when Winter is Coming?

user315433

Back in the days, animuson won expanded-to-6 election by a narrow margin. The sort of situation where it'd make perfect sense for voters to rank all candidates, not just the top 3.

SmokeDetector

6:37 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: better word for a "delivery guy" by Shocked on english.stackexchange.com

user315433

I think it's just an NAA

Frank

@ShadowWizard the hats will tell

S.L. Barth

!!/hats

....guess that's not (yet?) implemented this year.

Ah, wait, no official start date yet: meta.stackexchange.com/a/287446/168333

SmokeDetector

6:58 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How to filter outside air during wildfire to safe breathable level? by rich on engineering.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Can quitting smoking cause stomach problems? by jordan T on health.stackexchange.com

user315433

I suppose Dec 19 is the first day of hats

user315433

0

Q: Stack Exchange should review and document their data retention policies

Recently, Stack Overflow posted a blog post about their Providence system (see also a 2015 blog post by Kevin Montrose about this same subject). This is related to the Personalized Prediction Data. There are a few rules for what you need to do when you collect data (knowingly or unknowingly) fro...

discussion legal privacy

user315433

Very topical.

Shadow Wizard

@Frank huh, so it's based on Winterbash? WinterFrank

Lynn Crumbling

@Frank Finally done with the busy season?

Anonymous

7:11 PM

@zaq Removed.

Anonymous

user315433

+1 for quick turnaround, would request features again.

Frank

@LynnCrumbling Done with one busy season, on to the next

user315433

I thought gardeners migrate to warmer climates in winter.

Shog9

you might be thinking of geese. Common mistake.

Frank

7:27 PM

@Shog9 hush xD

S.L. Barth

Hello @Shog9! Just wanted to say, I'm glad to see you folks made longer review bans possible.

Shog9

ME TOO

S.L. Barth

And Brad too, I suppose. It was his feature request on MSE.

Lynn Crumbling

@Frank Plowing snow?

Frank

@LynnCrumbling And tre work - althogh I am busy with other things too

I play ultimate frisbee at Spooky Nook and am a volunteer firefighter

jersey's ^^

Lynn Crumbling

7:34 PM

Nice! I did volleyball up there the last two seasons... life got too busy this year.

You aren't part of Eden by any chance, are you?

Frank

no

Lynn Crumbling

If I recall, you're on the southern side of the city.

Frank

yeah I am

Lynn Crumbling

Spooky Nook's gotta be a trek for you, then.

Surprised you don't do Lancaster Rec.

Frank

35 minutes

Lynn Crumbling

7:36 PM

(They probably don't have UF, though)

Frank

if I take lancaster pike througt the city

Lynn Crumbling

That's not bad.

Frank

no its not

Lynn Crumbling

(my daily commute to york is 35)

Frank

Mine varies

you know Sight & Sound Theaters?

Lynn Crumbling

7:40 PM

Yep

on 896.

(Love the TSC there ;)

Frank

I started going there a few hours a week to work with the animals

Lynn Crumbling

That sounds like a lot of fun... what all do they have?

user315433

> the nation’s largest indoor sports building.

Frank

@LynnCrumbling Tuberous sclerosis complex?

user315433

Sounds neat. Fresh news, too: Spooky Nook Sports eyes expanding into Ohio with $38M facility

Frank

7:41 PM

@zaq Big enough to play feild sports inside

Lynn Crumbling

Big enough to be the US Field Hockey team's home.

We actually saw ads for the nook on Netflix. heh.

user315433

~~Looks like the one in Ohio will be slightly larger~~ no that's two buildings put together

Frank

@LynnCrumbling Horses, donkeys, sheep, goats, camels, pigs, water buffalo, llamas, alpacas, dogs, cats, rats, macaws, pigeons, doves, skunks, geese, and guinea hens

Doesn't pay much but it's fun

user315433

8:01 PM

user315433

I'm not that old, Jimmy Wales... no $ for you this time.

user315433

(Not to mention I donated just yesterday)

user315433

I think the year 0012 is the last time I was stupid enough to give my email...

S.L. Barth

@zaq zaq@roman-empire.edu. I still have it :-)

user315433

8:26 PM

Mods just got an email: Do you want to cover your head with festive headwear?, Winter Bash 2016: Do we want hats?, Shall we participate in Winter Bash 2016?, Winter Bash 2016: Do we want hats?...

user315433

All within one minute.

user315433

The December 19 start confirmed.

user315433

Congratulations to @Andy for winning the fastest-finger contest.

Andy

Victory is mine!

bluefeet

everyone spoiling the dates

for shame

user315433

8:38 PM

The Log of Meta Posts room is now the log of Hats posts.

user315433

Three weeks including Christmas and New Year's... easy enough to determine. I posted the date here a while back.

user315433

A more efficient approach: post a featured announcement on meta.SE to inform everybody... then let the hat-haters argue for opt-out on their meta if they wish.