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Rebecca Chernoff

7:00 PM

This sounds eerily like a PEBKAC to me. q:

mootinator

Mubarak uninstalled. Egypt updated. Democracy downloaded. Freedom transmitted. Meme exhausted. 0%██████████████100%

Tweeted by ALL_CAPS on February 11, 2011 at 6:53 PM

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff I don't use my iPhone when I'm sitting here with chat open ;)

Rebecca Chernoff

details schmetails

Tim Stone

Acronym: UNSUPPORTED

checks WwF

George Marian

That difference between a real recruiter and the paper-pushers is like night and day.

I reposted my resume on dice.com recently. Three days ago, I received two emails from the same paper-pusher, one through Dice's interface and one a direct email. Neither of them was an actual communication, just the job requirements in an email. They didn't even address me by name, despite that being available in my Dice profile.

Today, I received a short, well-worded email from a real recruiter, like it's supposed to work

Seriously, who thought it'd be a good idea to outsource recruiting?

Zypher

7:10 PM

@GeorgeMarian google apparently

:)

George Marian

lol

Zypher

I got an email about 5 months back for a 6 month contract

with a "foutune 500 client in Mountain View, CA"

hmm WHO could that be

George Marian

Fair enough.

Zypher

and ti was the same thing

just basically reposting the job req with "we think you might be a good fit" in front

George Marian

I think some of it recruiters finding the postings and looking for people they could represent. That's probably why a lot of the ads on craigslist state they don't want to be contacted by recruiters.

balpha

7:13 PM

4

A: What should I name my cat

Schrödinger At least that's what tv shows usually expect geeks to call their cat.

George Marian

Lately, I've started looking for the direct posting by searching for some of the requirements on google. If I can find the original posting, I'd much rather go to them directly then through a paper-pusher.

Earlz

Hmm. I think I could get addicted to chat on my phone. Only bad thing is sometimes when you do something else on your phone it'll take a feww seconds to reload the page

Trufa

@balpha holy potatoes

hehe

Fantastic question

Moshe

@TimStone Since you've indicated that you have an iPhone, I'd like to take the opportunity to direct you to my new app. itunes.apple.com/us/app/nippon/id415518235?mt=8&ls=1

"Just a spoonful of peanut butter help nothing go down, nothing go down, in the most uncomfortable way" </Mary-Poppins>

yum!

</lunch>

ircmaxell

ummm... o... k...

Earlz

7:25 PM

@moshe oy

Other problem with chat on android is no ability to star

Moshe

@Earlz Same thing on iPhone, it's a single mobile view for all mobile devices, AFAIK.

@Earlz What would you like to star?

Earlz

Pb and j wrap lol

Rebecca Chernoff

7:42 PM

-12

Q: I need to create a program.This is our assignment I need it by 10:00

Question 1# (3 marks total) Modularization is an important concept in programming. Make sure you start your program automatically from a main method (2 marks). Print "Welcome to the program" to the console or terminal (depending on your development environment) (1 mark). Question 2# (6 marks) ...

Earlz

I hate when people rip questions out of a book and expect people to answer it for you

Tim Stone

@Earlz Even more when they give you a time frame to answer in shakes head :P

ircmaxell

New badge: first delete vote submitted: cleaner (Albiet do the people who are eligible for that really need more badges)...

Trufa

@RebeccaChernoff "Make sure you start your program automatically from a main method " is he talking to me?

The Renamed Exception

Oh noes, 9 minutes until the end of the primary and I am still stuck on a conference call!!! I need to pull a @TimStone and pretend to be listening

Tim Stone

7:52 PM

I'm on a conference call too, hahah. What appropriate timing :P

The Renamed Exception

Town hall digest nearly completed, only 6 questions remain!

@TimStone Maybe we're on the same conference call, is your real name Adam or Chris? :-p

Trufa

I appologize ive missed the last 4 classes since I have been in the hospital with a broken colar-bone and this is worth 50% of my year – Liam Yorkville

That is fantastic

Tim Stone

@TheRenamedException We were talking about someone named Chris, does that count?

The Renamed Exception

HAHAHA

@RebeccaChernoff I WILL NOT FAIL YOU!!!!

Rebecca Chernoff

Good, hurry up and finish because then I have a question for you.

q:

Tim Stone

7:56 PM

:o

Rebecca Chernoff

Damn, battery basically dead. wanders around hoping to find a table with a power outlet within reach

The Renamed Exception

Oh no, out of time! :-(

damn conference call

Tim Stone

Damn work! shakes fist

The Renamed Exception

lol

this is an unpleasant call too :-(

Tim Stone

Oh, that's not cool.

My call is yesterday's call that was moved because Tuesday's call was moved to Wednesday on account of someone being sick.

R. Bemrose

8:12 PM

@TimStone Yeah, I was wondering why you'd have a conference call on a Friday.

Oh wait, I thought The Renamed said that

Chris Jester-Young

@RebeccaChernoff Ruh roh. I guess your computer died, then.

drachenstern

I can haz diamond?

drachenstern ♦, Shreveport, LA

1.1k 2 12

mysql sql-server sql oracle sql-server-2008 oracle-11g-r2 sqlplus

badp

@TimStone Man, you sure exercise your arms.

Tim Stone

@drachenstern I knew it!

@badp Gotta stay in shape.

R. Bemrose

That's a star, not a diamond! Silly chatters.

Nyuszika7H

8:17 PM

@drachenstern You're a mod… on a beta site?

Tim Stone

@ChrisJesterYoung That's what she gets for wandering around.

Chris Jester-Young

@Nyuszika7H Pro tempore moderators are appointed during the public beta.

@TimStone Nomadic computing. ;-) Or maybe it's gypsy computing. :-P

Rebecca Chernoff

ahem

Tim Stone

Hah :P

Uh oh, she's back. Run!

Chris Jester-Young

/me decides to squish instead. Peace, not fear. :-)

That's the lesson from Egypt today. :-)

Nyuszika7H

8:20 PM

I thought I've got 137633 viruses… but not. :) Scanned files: 137633.

Rebecca Chernoff

laptop plugged in, back to work!

R. Bemrose

@RebeccaChernoff Yes, work...

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff I don't think harassing poor Josh is part of your job ;)

R. Bemrose

@TimStone Wait... what in the world do you think a Community Manager does?

Tim Stone

@RBemrose Hmm, this is a good point. Very well, continue as you were @RebeccaChernoff.

Rebecca Chernoff

8:38 PM

I meant I am getting back to work.

R. Bemrose

@RebeccaChernoff and I was trying to imply that you were goofing off chatting with us. ;)

Rebecca Chernoff

@RBemrose shhhhh don't say that - my boss might see! q:

Tim Stone

He is lurking..

Ólafur Waage

Hello strange people

3

Popular Demand

@ÓlafurWaage !

Tim Stone

8:47 PM

'Ello

Ólafur Waage

What are thou upto

Popular Demand

@ÓlafurWaage Still waiting for an answer to meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/47596/its-friday-in-iceland

It's been, like, nine months!

Ólafur Waage

whuuuut

Popular Demand

Actually, I'm looking for a good XPath reference.

Ólafur Waage

the camera almost did not survive: a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2311/137/60/597324615/…

Nyuszika7H

8:51 PM

Hi! :)

2

A: How do I delete files that do not match a wildcard?

There's no direct way, here's one scriptless way to do it: Create a subdirectory. Copy all *.exe* files to the subdirectory. Delete all files (*.*) in the current directory. Copy all files in the subdirectory to the current directory. Delete all files in the subdirectory. Remove (rmdir) the s...

Please, someone with 2k+ rep, change /f /s to /f /q!

Popular Demand

@ÓlafurWaage Incredible.

Ólafur Waage

on it

done

badp

@ÓlafurWaage er... what's going on there?

Popular Demand

Anyone have an opinion on Selenium?

badp

I don't have the slightest clue

Ólafur Waage

8:55 PM

@badp whatever you think

Moshe

Any web developers here might appreciate this:

joshduck.com/periodic-table.html

drachenstern

@JeffAtwood why r u lurking? You normally discuss topics or leave right away ... as is you've been lurking now for like a half hour or more ... ;)

Ólafur Waage

Yea jeff, stop lurking and join us moonlanguage people

Popular Demand

@drachenstern Are you sure he's here? I don't see his avatar in the list.

drachenstern

grrr, I do :(

Moshe

8:57 PM

@PopularDemand Ditto, no repro.

drachenstern

I probably just need a hard refresh ... but it's normally so good about updating

Moshe

@drachenstern is hallucinating.

ircmaxell

Anyone have the chat userscript link handy?

Tim Stone

He's right there, next to George Marian. I refuse to refresh. :P

Ólafur Waage

no jeff here

Popular Demand

8:59 PM

Okay, yinz keep seeing what you want to see....

Tim Stone

@ircmaxell github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts/raw/master/…

ircmaxell

Thanks!

Popular Demand

@TimStone I approve.

drachenstern

@TimStone you too then?

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Yep

Moshe

9:00 PM

Well, @drachenstern and @TimStone - Get well soon. I hope it's not contagious, I don't want to see @JeffAtwood everywhere I go.

backs away slowly

Tim Stone

@drachenstern Actually I think I remember this being an issue, where the server doesn't issue an event on user timeout to remove them from the room.

drachenstern

@TimStone sounds like we both need to hard refresh then :(

I'll go first ... SEPpuukuuuuuu

Tim Stone

Never!

WEET?! Darn you Jin :P

Ólafur Waage

everyone should just program in assembly, much simpler

R. Bemrose

@ÓlafurWaage You did NOT just use the words "assembly" and "simpler" in the same sentence (without a connecting "not")

drachenstern

9:07 PM

@RebeccaChernoff I has a question

Ólafur Waage

@RBemrose Assembly is just simpler

mootinator

Especially when it comes to coding simple felines.

Ólafur Waage

there

drachenstern

partially RE: an email I received, should I reply to that or ask here? (specifically about a chat.SE room)

I'm gonna presume the other way is faster than asking here here :p

mootinator

hear hear!

R. Bemrose

9:09 PM

Make it so. Wait, this isn't The Bridge.

Wil

To anyone who doesn't know/missed the chat earlier - Tomorrow at about 6:00PM GMT, we are going to try and hold a SE wide game - HL2:DM (free for most people). If you are interested, the official room is:

Popular Demand

@ÓlafurWaage Yes, it is simpler; that's why it's so complex.

Wil

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/271/se-game-on

Tim Stone

:o

mootinator

Bah, I'll be at a wedding at 6GMT D:

Moshe

9:14 PM

@drachenstern - I'm trying to design a db for my apps.

I've got it down to eight fields.

Wil

Not sure on best way to announce/let people know - but so far there should be a good few people.... I will try to announce tomorrow a few hours before hand and then just before start.

@mootinator Take a laptop! (unless it's your wedding!)... if it is popular, we hope to make it a regular event, weekly/monthly and more games in the future.

R. Bemrose

@Wil Hey, did you adjust the event time in the Game On chat room?

mootinator

@Wil Heheh

Wil

@RBemrose No - I set it when I first created the room - I thought if I don't have a target, I will never organise/get it done...

Moshe

App Id, Name, version, description, image, link, update date , oh that's seven, but yea

Wil

9:16 PM

No way to edit time/date :( I will delete the other one and create a new one.

Moshe

@drachenstern - What SQL types would you use?

mootinator

int, int, tin, int, int, int, int

Moshe

@mootinator Huh?

You want me to normalize my table? I want to keep it simple for now, just one table.

mootinator

varchar(max), varchar(max), varchar(max)

@Moshe I'm being unhelpful.

Moshe

@mootinator Noted.

(and starred.)

Ólafur Waage

9:19 PM

I just use TEXT for all my database fields :P

Wil

@RebeccaChernoff or any mod.... I don't suppose you can create a event? ... It's a community thing!

mootinator

int, char(8), uuid, varchar(max), depends if it's the actual image or a reference, char(4), DateTime

There are no glaring flaws in my suggestion.

Honest.

Moshe

@mootinator Thanks, what's uuid? Also, it's a link to the image.

And is char 4 a bit short for a link?

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff unplesant conference call just finished, need to meet with my boss to decide how to handle the outcome, I will be back soon...

Tim Stone

@TheRenamedException Do you need us to go kick some shins?

mootinator

9:24 PM

@Moshe It's a unique identifier. Some sort of string is probably better :)

I have to go be unhelpful somewhere else now unfortunately :(

Moshe

@mootinator ok, thanks.

@mootinator version is a number 1.x etc.

mootinator

I'd probably use an nvarchar(255) for relatively short things. Because that's what Fluent NHibernate would do.

Moshe

x.y.z potentially.

R. Bemrose

Oh wow, apparently Nokia vanished and the Bizarro World version of Nokia took its place.

mootinator

@Moshe Doesn't need to be stored as one though.

Moshe

9:25 PM

@mootinator True.

R. Bemrose

In a single day, Nokia has killed both Symbian and Qt.

balpha

why do supposedly technical Microsoft articles always have to sound like advertisements?

Internet Explorer provides rich, interoperable capabilities to web developers. The Internet Explorer Team knows you don’t want to rewrite and retest your websites again and again; standards adoption by browser vendors is a good way to reach that objective.

With Internet Explorer 8, the Internet Explorer team delivered a highly interoperable implementation of CSS 2.1, and concurrently contributed a test suite with over 7200 tests to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This is important. Without validation tests, standards are more challenging to implement consistently, thereby making them …

The Renamed Exception

@TimStone haha, Will post details shortly

badp

@RBemrose Now, now, Qt can't be killed so easily

Symbian already was becoming increasingly irrelevant

R. Bemrose

@badp True, and I wouldn't be surprised if KDE immediately forked it.

Tim Stone

9:28 PM

@balpha To appeal to all of those standards-lusty developers, of course.

Also, probably because they don't pay particularly technical people to write them.

balpha

Yes, please stop giving me useful features! I hate useful features if they aren't standardized by ECMA, ISO, and at least three others!

drachenstern

@balpha because they're written by sales groups?

Moshe

In SQL, does the length of a Decimal include the decimal points?

balpha

well, there's some technical content in there... So I guess it was written by a couple of engineers, and then "prettified" by sales guys

R. Bemrose

@Moshe As I recall, it depends on the DB server you're using.

Wil

9:31 PM

@badp It is such a shame... I loved my P910 years ago... wanted it for so long, looked good... then when I got it, it was a little disappointment... but I did like Symbian... just not sure what really happened :S

drachenstern

@Moshe tsqltutorials.com/datatypes.php

Moshe

@RBemrose MySQL 5

@drachenstern Thank you.

R. Bemrose

@Moshe For MySQL, the Decimal length includes the part to the right of the decimal place. So... DECIMAL(9,2) is 1234567.89

Moshe

@RBemrose Cool, thanks. Is that appropriate for version numbers? (1.0.1, for example)

mootinator

Most version numbers aren't like decimals at all.

drachenstern

9:42 PM

@Moshe no, four fields (or three if you want three) are more appropriate

and then a unique from there to other records that are version dependent

Moshe

@drachenstern I'm storing info about my iOS apps.

drachenstern

@Moshe yeah, I gathered

alternately store it as a string

it's not really a number, just like an IP address isn't really a number

mootinator

major, minor, build, for instance...

Moshe

I want to convert this page to a PHP page with a backend.

yetanotheriphoneapp.com/apps.html

@drachenstern I was thinking of that.

drachenstern

Store it as a string.

or drop two major/minor and store it as an decimal

Moshe

9:45 PM

@drachenstern String it is.

What's a good length for a link? I'm thinking 300, because the max name for an iOS app is like 200.

drachenstern

4k

The Renamed Exception

OK @RebeccaChernoff, I am back now

mootinator

over 9000

Nyuszika7H

night

Moshe

Okay, Shabbat is shortly, I'm logging off. Thanks @drachenstern (I noticed a higher high score from someone ;-) - nice.)

drachenstern

9:51 PM

@Moshe yep, ciao

Jin

10:16 PM

greetings stackers

Tim Stone

'Ello @Jin!

(And @MarcGravell and @mmyers who snuck in :P)

mmyers

I just came in because I saw @ÓlafurWaage was here, but he's gone now.

I guess that's a really bad greeting. Let me try again: Hi Tim!

Tim Stone

It's OK, I was just going to turn around and blame you for ever having left anyway, so. ;)

mmyers

I just had a great idea: I need to buy a yardstick and attach a small whiteboard to it. Then I can put messages on it and hold it up so the people who always hold conversations by my cubicle can see.

Or I could actually talk to them, but that seems hard.

Tim Stone

I was just on the phone for three hours. Talking is overrated.

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The Renamed Exception

10:27 PM

@TimStone hear hear!

mmyers

@TheRenamedException Sure beats "talk talk".

The Renamed Exception

@mmyers aye, aye

mmyers

> Bad joke quota exceeded for the day. Come back in 2 hours.

DRAT!

Shouldn't have used all of them in the mod room.

drachenstern

10:51 PM

> Well considering I managed 2 deaths whilst being the only one on the server...

5

Q: Stack Exchange wide gaming night!

Hi everyone! By posting this, I feel like this will become one of those Facebook parties where the entire house gets trashed... Crossing my fingers that it will not be like that! Just for the fun of it, a few of us are trying to hold a gaming night - So far it looks like there are going to be q...

discussion stackexchange fun games till-someone-loses-an-eye

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Wil

11:01 PM

@drachenstern ... Well, I was messing around... Rocket launcher in a confined space! - second was a oil/orange barrel!

drachenstern

@Wil haha!

sorry to hear that

sounds like me when I play FPSs

Wil

And... I suck at games! no lie... just thought it would be good to do a few things a bit further out of SE than chat!

drachenstern

Hence, I will not be joining the game. I'm just a fragtarget

Wil

Well... I am there! and, it is just for fun! if you are bored and have a spare 5 minutes, join in!

drachenstern

I don't think I have th game, I know I can't do it tonight (plans) and I might on another time

Yi Jiang

11:04 PM

@drachenstern till-someone-loses-an-eye Ahem?

drachenstern

Indeed sir

mmyers

/blame @Pollyanna

2

drachenstern

Why would you blame Adam?

mmyers

Because he put the tag on?

Rebecca Chernoff

Look at the new app gallery! stackapps.com

Tim Stone

11:07 PM

:o

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff AWESOME

Wil

Nice!

Rebecca Chernoff

Stack Overflow Blog: Stack Exchange API 1.1 and Improved App Gallery

Posted by Jeff Atwood on February 11th, 2011

We just rolled out version 1.1 of the Stack Exchange API. To see what’s new, browse the revised documentation at:

Rebecca took an informal survey of the API developer community at Stack Apps, and determined that what everyone wanted most (beyond v2 of the API, yes, I know) was an improved application gallery. So we’ve made the default page on the site the application gallery, and spruced it up to be more visually friendly to average users.

This should make it easier for Stack Exchange users to find your app and start using it! …

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Is the fact that the /usage route's console and other thingadongdongs not working a bug?

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff you had a question for me?

Rebecca Chernoff

11:08 PM

Hmm, console worked for me on /privileges

@TheRenamedException I did?

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff That's what I tried too, but in Firefox Firebug simply shows two errors instead

The Renamed Exception

3 hours ago, by Rebecca Chernoff

Good, hurry up and finish because then I have a question for you.

Yi Jiang

setting a property that has only a getter
api.stackoverflow.com/Content/Js/console.js?v=2
Line 1

Rebecca Chernoff

@YiJiang No errors in chrome 10, hrm.

drachenstern

> Find result - 202578 hits

Yi Jiang

11:11 PM

Hmmm, I think it's... no, it's a weird error

Rebecca Chernoff

@TheRenamedException ooooh, right. Is Gaming's THCD done?

Yi Jiang

It's conflicting with Firebug I guess

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff ... I am posting the last 3 answers now...

Yi Jiang

var console = {
  hello: 'world'
};

Rebecca Chernoff

@TheRenamedException NO QUESTION FOR YOU THEN!

Yi Jiang

11:11 PM

For example won't run

The Renamed Exception

I had to calm down an unruly client, LOL

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff Is the question "Where do we send your t-shirt for all your hard work?"

Yi Jiang

Well that's odd, another error. It worked the first time round, but the second time I tried it the error console gave this error:

Error: invalid label
Source File: api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/privileges
Line: 1, Column: 2
Source Code:
  "privileges": [

Which is odd, because that looks like valid JSON to me, hrm...

The Renamed Exception

@TimStone \o/

Yi Jiang

Anyway, idea: don't show the console for routes which take no parameters

drachenstern

11:16 PM

@YiJiang does it have the braces?

Yi Jiang

Having to click on the button and having nothing show up is confusing.

The Renamed Exception

Ok last question @RebeccaChernoff and then your followup!

Yi Jiang

@drachenstern Definitely not, I think - arrays are supported in json

drachenstern

@YiJiang no I meant before the "priv part

Yi Jiang

@drachenstern Not sure, not using Firebug is really annoying

drachenstern

11:17 PM

@YiJiang ah

Dan Grossman

:returns from the casino:

Nope, dream wasn't a sign, I didn't hit a jackpot.

drachenstern

@DanGrossman did you win?

Also, I had @'ed you on something earlier @DanGrossman ... did you see it?

Dan Grossman

Yeah, I'll take a look

drachenstern

idk if you know something special, but you do seem to have a specialty in that area ;)

Dan Grossman

MongoDB capped collections come to mind, but IDK

> Capped collections are fixed sized collections that have a very high performance auto-FIFO age-out feature (age out is based on insertion order). They are a bit like the "RRD" concept if you are familiar with that. In addition, capped collections automatically, with high performance, maintain insertion order for the objects in the collection; this is very powerful for certain use cases such as logging.

drachenstern

11:20 PM

yeah that's sort of what I was thinking, didn't know about the capped being a for real option tho

also, he needs the ability to roll it like a paper reel tho :\ so he can live migrate it out

The Renamed Exception

OK @RebeccaChernoff, posting the summary now, YEY!

Tim Stone

\o/

drachenstern

@TheRenamedException yatta!

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff I am going to combine all final thoughts from bith town halls into a single answer, do you approve?

She is sleeping again...

Dan Grossman

> New tags: 2147483647

Yi Jiang

11:28 PM

@DanGrossman wtf? Grrr...

drachenstern

@DanGrossman isn't that the highest positive int on a signed int system?

assuming int is 4 bytes

Dan Grossman

:nods: Remember the "most common phone number" stuff a few days ago?

drachenstern

Also supposedly a dallas telephone #

I thought so

Dan Grossman

Apparently some people also think it's a useful tag.

Rebecca Chernoff

@TheRenamedException sure.

The Renamed Exception

11:30 PM

Cool. Posting now

Rebecca Chernoff

wonders what part of "run with it" was unclear. (;

Tim Stone

He just wanted to make sure he wasn't running with scissors. :P

Yi Jiang

@TheRenamedException LIES!! She never sleeps

Dan Grossman

What's so dangerous about running with scissors anyway?

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff wonders which part of "wants feedback from respected members of the community" was unclear (;

Rebecca Chernoff

11:32 PM

The part where you addressed me specifically!

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff You speak for the community, which was too lazy to respond on its own. ;)

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Can you bur-ni-nate that new tag there?

The Renamed Exception

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A: 2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest

Rebecca Chernoff asked in the first town hall: Pseudo-question: final thoughts from the candidates. (: And again in the second: So, pseudo-question: final thoughts? (: Ivo Flipse answered: @RebeccaChernoff I hope that by becoming a moderator here, I can help the community as I can at Supe...

Rebecca Chernoff

Why can't you?

The Renamed Exception

Done! \o/

@RebeccaChernoff it was your question! Plus you're very respected :-)

badp

11:34 PM

@RebeccaChernoff is the stackapps app list cached?

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Won't it be easier for a mod to do this, then to have me edit 13 questions, and risk that guy come around and complaining about it?

badp

I've added some metadata to SO Live, but the app list seems unimpressed

Rebecca Chernoff

Hm? I thought it was just on one question.

@badp I would assume so, but I am not certain. You could post on the site.

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff That guy who created the tag went around and tagged it on 12 questions

badp

yeah, the app list updated now.

Yi Jiang

11:36 PM

Alternatively, synonym it to integer overflow or something

Yup, integer-overflow exists, just synonym it to that

Rebecca Chernoff

@YiJiang flag for mod attention? I haven't looked but it sounds like bad behavior the mods may be interested in.

So propose a synonym.

drachenstern

@YiJiang This is what I would do.

Dan Grossman

Is someone really going to subscribe to questions about integer-overflow? Neither of those are good tags.

The Renamed Exception

OK @RebeccaChernoff, done!

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Q: 2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest

The following is a "digest" version of the 2011 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town Hall, containing all the candidate's answers to that question. This digest will contain the quest...

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Rebecca Chernoff

Actually you probably can't, but you could post on meta requesting it I guess. shrugs meh. If the user is causing a problem I'd go mod flag.

Tim Stone

11:39 PM

You mean you can't solve all of our problems and we'll have to go through the normal channels instead? Oh no! ;)

drachenstern

@TheRenamedException here's a softball for the up and coming 10ker serverfault.com/questions/234584/btrfs-crashhhh

Rebecca Chernoff

Can or can't isn't the issue. I'm not here to override the working channels.

Fosco

She's gone corporate already! (:

Tim Stone

@RebeccaChernoff That was kind of my point, but :P

@Fosco Hahah

Yi Jiang

@RebeccaChernoff Won't the mods exercising their discretion and do these sort of things directly be a lot quicker? It's not like asking a mod on chat isn't a valid support channel

Rebecca Chernoff

11:43 PM

@TheRenamedException Ok, so now that you've done that - is there any feedback you have for me on running the actual THC that would help? (If you want to continue doing the THCDs that is.)

Tim Stone

You could have flagged it and someone may have already taken care of it by now. ;)

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Should I? She suggested a new Meta question

Tim Stone

Either or, I don't think there's much need for debate on this one, it just needs addressing.

Rebecca Chernoff

Asking a mod is great, that's why I suggested a mod flag. My point though is that my name is not on the moderator list stackoverflow.com/about#moderators (;

drachenstern

hahahahaha

Yi Jiang

11:47 PM

@RebeccaChernoff Lil' blue mod girl - you'll always be a mod in my mind

Although you should really be lil' blue dev girl

The Renamed Exception

@RebeccaChernoff hmmm, I don't think so. The biggest thing is making sure people use the reply function, and stars for questions. I found today that searching for :<message id> to find answers was much easier

The gaming town hall got really confusing at points because people were asking questions all willy-nilly, but, I don't see any way around that. The format is good. The point of the digests is to compensate for that, so, I don't think that should be restricted

Yi Jiang

@TheRenamedException Woodchuck chuck wood?

The Renamed Exception

Yes, that

@RebeccaChernoff I do want to keep doing Town Hall Digests, if they're helping people. I like helping. I don't like wasting time, and I do not want to make things worse. From what I can tell, it's somewhat helpful, so I am happy to continue

Rebecca Chernoff

@yi, oy

The Renamed Exception

lol

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