Pops' Pet Peeve of the Day: starring images in chat. "i.stack.imgur..." entries in the starred list are so uninformative.

@PopularDemand But what's the actual issue? Is it that the starred list entries are just not as good as they could be, or is it that images don't deserve stars?

(Bonus Peeve: I don't like the term "pet peeve," although it's alliterative and accurate. Replacement suggestions are welcome.)

@cdeszaq The former.

@PopularDemand Agreed. A "micro-onebox" would be better than just the img url

Or perhaps a "tooltip" that shows the image in question on hover

@Pop personal preferred peeve?

or possibly making those img links a "lightbox" sort of thing when clicked

@DanielFischer aka P3 ?

yup

I would have liked a fourth, but I'm not so good with words

@DanielFischer Perhaps a "Personal Preferred Pedantic Problem" ?

"Peeve" bothers me much more than "pet" does. @cdeszaq's entry is the current front-runner.

@cdeszaq Nice, but won't survive the title filter

Personal Perturbance

Very nice

Special Vexation / Precious Vexation

Darling Irritant

Personal Preferred Pestersome Pedantic Perturbance (or Perturbation)

PPPPP?

Mix and match the words as you see fit :)

"Pernicious" and "Persnickety" also can be used when added fluff is desired

As can "Perverse"

Pet Peeve => Persnickety Personal Perversely Preferred Perniciously Pestersome Pedantic Perturbation

Presented as a potential partial proxy for your profligate pleasure

(Ok, I'm done now, I swear)

hi

@Neysor Howdy

i didn't know that there is an extra chat for meta

there is always a new thing in this community for me to achieve :D

@Neysor Yup. I think just about every SE site has a set of Chat rooms (I'm not sure if the per-site metas do)

Per-site metas don't. Stack Overflow has its own, Meta Stack Overflow has its own and the rest of the sites share one chat site with different window dressing.

@cdeszaq i really got the idea of meta chats, but thought that every chat has to be in the main site "chat list" listed... so that is my fault thinking on that

@Neysor It may be the case that MSO is the only meta with it's own set of chat rooms. MSO is rather special

:)

We. are. family~!

Also, this chat system lets you edit your own recently posted messages (just press the up key).

Oh cool, I did not know that shortcut. :o

@animuson All my moderators and me

What was I doing?

@animuson Singing?

If the keyboard shortcut doesn't work for some reason, there's also the long way:

i have to admit that it is hard to get all the special "rules" and commands out of this community

@PopularDemand: Confusing. 1 usually comes before 2 :P You should have put the 1 to the left and the 2 to the right. Much more understandable.

this site is so special. I know it for a long time, but thought it is like yahoo answers for programmers :) but it is different! :)

Oy...

@Neysor The "commands" are really just easier ways to do things that either don't need to be done or can be done a different way.

Yeah... it's a lot easier for people who have been around for a while and learned most of the features one by one as they were rolled out.

@PopularDemand there is always a historical component in every community :D

Oh right! I was going to eat this peanut butter and jelly sandwich... Sitting right in front of me...

@Neysor The only real "rules" are the ones in the FAQ, but in general, if you ask on-topic questions and are nice and open to new ideas, there's not too much to it.

Meta is it's own little world though

@cdeszaq yeah did see that. But it is sometimes hard with this "do please code that for me" questions here :)

I am a lil confused X_x

@cdeszaq e.g.?

@Neysor Yeah, those sorts of questions are generally frowned upon

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA And how is that different from normal? ;-)

@cdeszaq lol see my latest meta post

@Neysor Well, most of the people that "hang out" on Meta have been around for quite a while and, in general, care as much (or possibly more) about the site itself than about the content on the site.

And diamond mods in here with a couple minutes to help me investigate/test something?

@cdeszaq ok... so that is my new home :P

*Any?

@Jim @balpha ?

@Neysor And having "known" each other for so long and the meta "community" being relatively smaller, there's lots of inside jokes, heated "debates", etc.

@balpha Could you temporarily delete a question of mine for me? (I can't delete it since there are answers)

@Neysor Every community is different, but if you decide you like it here, then welcome! (fair warning: we're all rather strange in our own special way. Much like snowflakes)

Thanks @amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA

@cdeszaq yeah there is always some kind of marginalize people :D

@Jim did you flag it at all?

Why do you want to delete?

To see if my edits on the answers will still appear in my edit count towards Copy Editor while the posts are deleted

To answer meta.stackoverflow.com/q/125380/167443

@Jim i think, if you have a question, which others see a value to answer, it shouldn't be deleted. some other people could think that it has a value for them too :)

@Neysor temporary deletion, just long enough to see how this works

@Jim sry didn't read the temporary :)

I don't think it should be permanently deleted, but I needed a question that had answers, so I could edit the answers to (temporarily) artificially inflate my edit count to check if it would go back down once they are deleted

so it is nearly 23pm @ my place. so i have to go sleeping! wish you a nice night :) see you !

@Jim If you wait a little while, that question will eventually get an answer from one of the devs who will answer it definitively

(Didn't realize I can't delete my own question once it has been answered)

@cdeszaq Was my original course of action, but it's been up for two weeks without a definitive answer (and now I'm down to having most of it answered, except for edits)

@PopularDemand ...and, eventually, fake Josh.

I am finding that trying to outwit the StackExchange developers is easier said than done...

@TheUnhandledException You just need to have a Birthday not on a leap year, and you're good for some lulz, right?

@mootinator lol

I'm trying to do this:

SO Frame Busting code has me... busted :-(

:(

IT department who insists I use OWA for some reason has me... missing e-mail people want me to read.

LOL My dad just sent me his "index.htm" file which is this massive block of JavaScript which from the looks of it shows some media file, with the following message: "Jay built this and I uploaded it but it doesn't work. Can you tell what is wrong with it?"

And... of course it uses a relative file path for it so I can't even test to see if it's actually working and they're not just being morons.

I bet if I ask him "Did you upload the SWF file too?" he'll look at me funny and go "oh yeah..."

@animuson You might want to send index.htm back to him soon. I don't think anyone can use his website without that.

Hey they sent me a voter registration card in the mail! Even though I registered to vote like, you know, almost three years ago when I turned 18...

HA! I was right! He didn't upload the SWF file! :P