Wait, sorry, I'm very Apple-ignorant... if you pay for an Apple e-mail address, you get to have the whole contents of all your Apple products accessible from the cloud?
@Diago Seems like an odd thing to tie to your e-mail. Or am I getting it backwards and the e-mail address is a side benefit you get when you pay for that cloud hookup?
@badp Oh, for mod. That would be rude, and possibly gauche. And even if I really wanted a diamond, isn't asking how to become a mod the quickest way to get removed from consideration?
@Diago Heh. That reminds me of the scene near the end of Bruce Almighty.
When he's getting a divine message while standing in front of the OMNI Presents Company building.
Well this is disappointing... the closest google result to what I'm seeing on one of my servers is a mailing list thread where the last message is, "I spent a while trying to fix this problem and didn't have any success. I ended up reformatting the hard drive and reinstalled from scratch. Everything is working fine now"
@PopularDemand It that a rationale for not proposing yourself? I don't think you need to be an expert in the topic to be a mod, particularly on the trilogy sites where you're not worrying about defining on-topicness and that sort of thing
@PopularDemand One way to look at it is, if you're spending all your time moderating you're not posting questions/answers, so it might be better to not have the really knowledgeable people switch to moderating since you'll lose some of the posting activity
@balpha, there's probably some clever algorithm to work out, but I'd like to know how many users are chatting right now in a my favourite rooms, (where 'right now' has a suitably fuzzy definition)
@MichaelMrozek Perhaps. I remember hearing certain beta mods complaining about having small rep next to their diamonds though, I think people weren't taking them seriously?
OK. I finally fixed this damn server. There were a lot of error messages upon boot, but none of them were actually relevant in any way to what the real issue was!
(In addition to barely using facebook and never even signing up for twitter, I've never used an RSS feed beyond the minimal testing I once had to do for one I wrote.)
@Chacha102 I have a list for the former; it's part of a Gmail draft e-mail that never gets sent. (And has my own e-mail in the "To" field in case it gets sent accidentally.) The list for the latter is the Programmers SE question, for now.
@Diago Considering your prominence on SO relative to your prominence on SU, I'm not certain we can use you as an example of breaking the stereotype. (waffles and fried rice)
My self-censoring attempt ended up highlighting for the whole room.
Apparently, most combinations of three or more non-letters after the @ symbol will work, including the original @#$£ or less imaginative @###, @$$$, @£££. @@@@ also works.
@Josh Isn't that always the problem? Once The Tavern exists, everyone else's challenge is getting people to visit "some other" room, never mind what it is. Once the iPhone was invented, everyone was trying to invent "an iPhone killer," not just "a great phone."
My self-censoring attempt ended up highlighting for the whole room.
Apparently, most combinations of three or more non-letters after the @ symbol will work, including the original @#$£ or less imaginative @###, @$$$, @£££. @@@@ also works.
