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11:02 PM

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Q: Star Trek and Star Wars

I always get mixed up between Star Trek and Star Wars. In conversation I'm forever saying one when I mean the other. Do any of you sci-fi experts have any good suggestions for easy to remember triggers to help me with my confusion? Does anyone else out there suffer this way or am I alone?

star-trek star-wars

errr how?

I tried to nominate myself on SO and got the "something bad happened" cat. Sounds like a sign to me

if(userid == 309308 ) {error("ABSOLUTELY NOT");}

ok, revision one posted. My mind wasn't going to shutup

I see they have no problem letting @drachenstern through

@MichaelMrozek yep, saw yours as I posted that

wait, did mine go in?

Oh, is it up? I'm still getting the angry cat

11:04 PM

@drachenstern No

Yeah I didn't think so

I don't see yours or mine

Me either

I just hit submit and flicked tabs

then saw your message and got the same thing

Well, we'll go be mods on a new, better SO. With blackjack, and hookers. On second thought, forget the new SO and the blackjack

lol

11:07 PM

There are multiple meta reports, so apparently it's not just @RebeccaChernoff out to get me

Or it is and you're all collateral damage

meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/moderator-nomination/synonyms

wait, um, no, it ought to be the other way round

Probably, and I don't think I have sufficient rep either way

sigh, thanks @waffles :P

@MichaelMrozek After the Lego man incident, she probably figured it was safer to have all the bases covered.

@MichaelMrozek sufficient rep for what?

11:09 PM

Voting on the synonym

Ahhh

@TimStone They were REAL. They told me so

...they spoke to you all too, right?

looks around shiftily ...Yes, yes they did.

The lego minifigs? .... ummm, they said not to mention it so ... I won't

@MarcGravell what gives? What did we break?

Did you come to personally tell me to not bother submitting a nomination? :(

Yeah, @MarcGravell, what did @drachenstern break?

11:14 PM

@MichaelMrozek lol, I see what you did there

very slick ;)

Don't worry; I've got everything worked out so @RebeccaChernoff takes the fall for this

I can see I need to keep working on my app ... I'll just leave that tab open till someone on the core team (@balpha perchance?) comes in here to tell us what broke

Rebecca Chernoff

NOT MY FAULT

@RebeccaChernoff Good luck with that strategy

Or maybe we can get @JeffAtwood to slide in here and 'splain?

11:15 PM

@drachenstern They're probably too busy fixing it to bother with 'splaining

one would hope

@drachenstern you what now? Give me a clue here...

I think this is the first time there's been more than like 5 nominations in an election

@MarcGravell the mod elections on SO

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Q: Getting a cat (error page) when trying to nominate myself.

Was it because I mentioned the hyphened site?

bug moderator-nomination

11:16 PM

gah, thanks chrome

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Q: Unfortunately, I cannot nominate myself

Possible Duplicate: Getting a cat when I tried to nominate myself. I tried to nominate myself in SOF for moderator post, but I was taken to an error page. Is this my karma ?

Rebecca Chernoff

I HAZ AN IDEA

@RebeccaChernoff :O!

@RebeccaChernoff AND THAT IDEA IZ SMILE

@RebeccaChernoff (: We're all ears

Let's all talk like lolcats until this is fixed or the devs kill themselves

11:17 PM

@MichaelMrozek That seems kind of extreme

@MichaelMrozek I think what will happen is we'll end up killing ourselves first

Rebecca Chernoff

Let's wait patiently and calmly and perhaps something about the elections will appear on the blog.

why did I just get kicked out?

Raised internally - looking

@MichaelMrozek did you just get logged off SO?

@MarcGravell yes we assumed that rather quickly

11:19 PM

@RebeccaChernoff You assume that we're capable of operating in such a fashion.

Rebecca Chernoff

I know, I am asking a lot.

@RebeccaChernoff Calmly? The Moderator-o-Matic is serious buziness

especially for MSO

@badp those 7 days might go by too quickly!!!

so much rep

so little cap

@drachenstern No

11:20 PM

we have done a deployment or several in the last while; possibly the lolcat was hit by them. Try again?

weirddddddd

(possibly not; still looking)

@RebeccaChernoff The blog should know better and preempt our rambling! :P

@MarcGravell Oops! Something Bad Happened!

@MarcGravell Still fails

11:20 PM

http://stackoverflow.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/election/nomination-edit/1/109749

in case that helps

rabble rabble rabble </South Park>

@drachenstern I'm guessing no :)

@MichaelMrozek probably not, just double checking

something about the routes makes me raise my eyebrow

Let's all turn our attention to the changes to edits instead.

Next time maybe they'll just skip the farce and appoint me mod. So much easier

11:22 PM

saves time I guess, but...

By the way there's an elections dedicated room

Geoff is fixing it, apparently

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/221/the-situation-room

@MichaelMrozek that saves room for me

Michael Petrotta

Ok, I'm confused.
I'm looking at the nominations page. I see no indications of edits made. I see no voting controls. I *do* see greyed-out entries (similar to that seen in downvoted answers).

11:24 PM

@MichaelPetrotta Voting is so next week.

@MichaelPetrotta check those gray's reps ... well under 3k

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Q: Community Moderator Election Format and Design

Thanks for all your feedback on this format and design document. The 2010 Mathematics Community Moderator Election is now underway. We're preparing the election page now. Here is how we think it will work, based on our existing moderator elections to date. Our general criteria for moderator...

discussion moderators election

Michael Petrotta

@badp: right. So what are these edits and deletions that folks speak of?

@MichaelPetrotta The greyed out posts are effectively locked. I guess they've been disqualified for whatever reason.

@MarcGravell Hooray

11:25 PM

@MichaelPetrotta there were several nearly empty (or completely empty) nominations, and some nominations by users that don't meet the criteria

Michael Petrotta

@badp: hmm. Ok. Any idea what those criteria are?

@MichaelPetrotta Do I look like Jeff Atwood?

Michael Petrotta

@badp: Yes, a little. You might try moving your webcam against the wall.

@badp I've never seen Jeff in ninja mask and yellow face paint, so it's hard to tell.

This feels like when a Unix mod asked me how to turn answers into comments :P

11:26 PM

@MichaelPetrotta SO? 3k min IIRC

(the bad part is, now I know how)

@MarcGravell 300 really, I guess it's being fixed

Michael Petrotta

@Marc: I see at least one 9k user greyed.

user image

Michael Petrotta

for what it's worth.

@badp maybe I misread

11:28 PM

@MarcGravell it's well possible that you (the team) intended 3,000, but it's really 300 :)

what the?

Hmm?

CCCCCCCOMBO BREAKER!

oh god please let this half our be over fast

TWSS

@badp Indeed, I'm so close to the most bestest of all the SE badges.

11:32 PM

@TimStone Hacker?

@TimStone Little Blue Mod Girl?

@badp @RebeccaChernoff is a badge?

No, Fanatic on Gaming.

Which is clearly better than all other Fanatic badges, because it's on Gaming.

@TimStone oh, yeah, that's so good it was completely out of scale.

Michael Petrotta

is that like "aspie" on SO?

@TimStone (wonders what happens if I delete yesterdays "visit" record)

@MichaelMrozek just nominated. Stack Overflow earns the tag "doomed." (See your profile.)

11:34 PM

@MarcGravell We'd probably blame you, inundate you with bug reports, and then rant about it for a while. That's definitely not a road you want to go down.

Rebecca Chernoff

I really do not want to know what is going on in here. But it is like a train wreck you can't help but look at.

Michael Petrotta

I don't know what "Closed Loop Prevention" is, but please admins, stop sending me emails about seminars on the topic.

@RebeccaChernoff It's @TimStone's magnetic gravatar. If I were in your shoes, I'd change it.

......... shakes head

@badp, you need to edit and correct the last part of your sentence there.

Thank you.

@badp I admittedly do want that badge

11:35 PM

(I blame Italian)

(I'll also blame Italian)

Michael Petrotta

I'm Italian. I blame America.

Me too. (What are we blaming Italian for?)

I blame Canada

@MichaelPetrotta I'm Italian too, so?

Michael Petrotta

11:36 PM

@badp: so, let's eat.

@MichaelPetrotta At 0037?

Michael Petrotta

@badp: huh?

Okay, okay, start cleaning some garlic, I've got the chilli.

@badp My gravatar is quite mesmerizing, yes (returning from that slight tangent).

Puts some water to boil and weighs some linguine.

Michael Petrotta

11:38 PM

Anything in oil and garlic. Though my ancestors were more southern piles of pasta in red sauce people.

grabs some cold red

The comment on @MichaelMrozek's nomination is priceless.

Michael Petrotta

@Tim: huh? Sounds dead-on to me.

@MichaelMrozek "If I were in your shoes I'd do X" translates to "Se fossi in te farei X", which directly translates back into "If I were in you I'd do X"

Michael Petrotta

But then, I'm pretty OCD myself.

Translation party doesn't just work with Japanese.

11:42 PM

@TimStone I don't know how anything in my nomination gave anyone the impression I'm masochistic or OCD. Not that I argue with either of those

The fact that he was able to so easily draw those conclusions was what I was driving at, I suppose.

ok well that was a wasted twenty minutes. Also, I'm self-nominated too! :D

I've set a goal for the year of becoming active enough on SE to consider myself mod-nominee quality. :P

@TimStone I don't figure I stand a snowballs chance in hell, but I figure I am worth it enough to ask others to tell me where I stand on the issue ;)

@TimStone Waiting for "mod-nominee quality" didn't stop the rest of us

11:46 PM

Also, by the time dba.SE jumps out of the gate I intend on being a mod there if I can :\

@MichaelMrozek Bah, I'd vote you for mod, even though it'll bring about the end of days.

Michael Petrotta

@drachenstern: Just call out the chat mafia on your behalf.

Just dropped my iPhone 4. Heh, yay Otterbox.

Michael Petrotta

(I kid! I kid!)

Vote ring power...ACTIVATE!

Wind! Water! HEART!

11:47 PM

@MichaelPetrotta lol, I wish I could ;)

@MichaelMrozek I so went wondertwins on that one ...

@drachenstern I switched between lines :)

@drachenstern I did too, due to a lingering Family Guy reference.

I've a friend (single mom) who calls her "oldest children" her WonderTwins ... and they are indeed a wonder. The pair of them. And surprisingly pert for three kids.

So anytime I hear someone mention (or I mention) wondertwins ... --> :D

Wow, I really got distracted by chat.

Forgot I was running test cases..

@TimStone you??? imagine my own distaste to discover three hours dead to my code :\

11:56 PM

Hmm..

calls shenanigans on Java

Yup. @snoopdogg is giving us a preview of his new album. http://gdzl.la/9bmzNP

Tweeted by tyip on January 18, 2011 at 11:58 PM

This tweet is half awesome and half sad.

So many people are too busy tweeting to actually listen to the album...

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