Tavern on the Meta

8:01 PM

> Refused to display 'http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/tavern-on-the-meta' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'SAMEORIGIN'.

Who to blame when the Wheel of Blame is borked? ^

MARamezani

For the sake of sharing the crying with me:

46

Q: No more waffles?

waffles. Ordinary member? He's no longer in the Stack Exchange team page nor in the moderators list of any site. He was part of the team from almost the beginning, doesn't he deserve a big farewell party like Jeff had? Looks like he stepped down willingly couple of weeks ago - so goodbye, and t...

Lamart

Whats up with this xkcdBot?

MARamezani

@Lamart It doesn't crash.

If you crash it, Mooseman ~~dies~~ cheats.

Lamart

Who controls it? Whats its purpose?

MARamezani

@Lamart To not to crash.

@Lamart It's uncontrollable.

Shadow Wizard

8:04 PM

@Lamart try and see for yourself. ;)

Bart

@ShadowWizard nicael

Shadow Wizard

@Bart oh! But he.... vanished?

Bart

@ShadowWizard suspicious

Damkerng T.

I followed @MARamezani to this tavern.

Lamart

@DamkerngT. Hello

MARamezani

8:05 PM

@ShadowWizard Evaporated. Ahem, chemist nerd here.

Bart

LEAVE. LEAVE WHILE YOU STILL CAN

Damkerng T.

What a big room! Hello, everyone!

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Nah. It's still as big as my screen.

Shadow Wizard

@MARamezani you surely cry over spilled milk for looong time :D

MARamezani

@Bart Too late. My mouse [accidentally] favorited it.

Lamart

8:06 PM

!xkcd 343

xkcdBot

I once asked an NSA guy whether they'd broken RSA. And I know I can trust him, because I asked if he was lying to me and he said no.

MARamezani

@ShadowWizard Hmm, thinking Spilled milk + Waffles = ?

Bart

@MARamezani well, your life is pretty much over then.

Damkerng T.

Ah, xkcdBot!

MARamezani

@Bart MWAHAHHA. I NO CAN DIE. I'M IMMORTAL!

Shadow Wizard

8:07 PM

@MARamezani disintegrated by a beholder! :P

Lamart

@ShadowWizard Does the bot do anything else?

MARamezani

@ShadowWizard Wait a sec! Beholder isn't chemistry!

@Lamart Yes. Kills mooseman when we ask it.

Shadow Wizard

@Lamart sure. many things.

Undo

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@Undo It's MARamezani's fault.

Undo

8:08 PM

yay it still works.

Shadow Wizard

@Mooseman kill @Lamart

Mooseman

> @Lamart was killed by Col. Mustard with the Wrench in the Billiard Room.

MARamezani

@SmokeDetector TNXXXXXXXXX.

AstroCB

@JasonC Cool.

Shadow Wizard

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

8:08 PM

@ShadowWizard It's Conspicuous Compiler's fault.

Shadow Wizard

haha

AstroCB

!xkcd blame somebody

xkcdBot

It's somebody's fault.

Shadow Wizard

so many bots!

Damkerng T.

Poor somebody!

Shadow Wizard

8:09 PM

hmm....

Damkerng T.

!xkcd hello

Shadow Wizard

@DamkerngT. sure, needs lots of space for all the sleepers.

Lamart

@Mooseman kill @DamkerngT.

MARamezani

0

Q: Trimming user profile information ruins joke

My current user profile info is as such: #!/bin/sh echo $GREETING, I am $NAME, working at $WORKPLACE in $LANGUAGE. echo $WITTY_COMMENT; Complaints, rants, comments and/or fanmail? Contact Me The first bit #!/bin/sh is a Shebang line (the whole thing being metacommentary* on the typ...

bug profile-page

Mooseman

> @DamkerngT. was crushed to death by a cow that fell from the sky.

MARamezani

8:10 PM

@Undo Funny how I was blamed for being blamed in the first day.

AstroCB

!xkcd latest

Hello?

Damkerng T.

@Mooseman got crushed!

!xkcd 1

:D

8:11 PM

This. Is the latest?!

Ah. Where's the latest?

xkcdBot

!xkcd latest

AstroCB

@xkcdBot delete

Shadow Wizard

@AstroCB you provoke Shog again? :D

MARamezani

Dang that thing doesn't crash

Undo

I like that command

AstroCB

8:12 PM

@ShadowWizard Provoking Shog isn't hard.

Shadow Wizard

@AstroCB yeah, isn't it awesome? :D

Undo

Eh, you have to put a little effort into it.

MARamezani

Shog!

SHOG!

Shadow Wizard

@Mooseman Shog!!!!

Mooseman

@ShadowWizard I. AM. ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE.

MARamezani

8:13 PM

(I think he's provoked now)

AstroCB

!xkcd commands

xkcdBot

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params( optional params)]

about – Get information about xkcdBot.
find [searchTerms] – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[comic ID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame( [user]) – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.
status – Get xkcdBot's status.

AstroCB

!ping Shog

xkcdBot

@AstroCB How dare you try to ping the mighty Shog?

2

Undo

(also, he descends out of the sky when someone speaks his name. Just thought I'd warn you.)

Shadow Wizard

8:13 PM

lol

!ping AstroCB

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @xkcdBot.

Shadow Wizard

!ping xkcdBot

xkcdBot

Prepare to be pinged, @xkcdBot.

MARamezani

@xkcdBot Misspelling: The almighty Shog

AstroCB

You can thank bjb for that little gem.

Shadow Wizard

8:14 PM

!ping xkcdBot !ping xkcdBot

AstroCB

!xkcd status

Bart

@Undo "It's raining Shog, hallelujah"

AstroCB

@xkcdBot remove

Lamart

!xkcd status

hichris123

I think if I ignore xkcdBot, the Tavern will be a lot less cluttered.

Shadow Wizard

8:16 PM

@hichris123 add @Mooseman and you'll have a beautiful blank screen :D

Lamart

@xkcdBot remove

AstroCB

@hichris123 You'll be missing out; bots are on-topic.

MARamezani

@hichris123 Good. I was scared when it went crazy here. I'm not alone.

Mooseman

!xkcd find pizza

hichris123

@AstroCB Wrong.

Mooseman

8:17 PM

@ShadowWizard :'(

hichris123

Look at the topic. :P

Damkerng T.

!xkcd help

xkcdBot

about – Get information about xkcdBot.
find [searchTerms] – Search for xkcd comics with Google (100 queries/day).
[comic ID] – Post oneboxed comic.
last – Onebox most recent xkcd.
blame( [user]) – Find out who's to blame for your maladies.
owner – Find out who owns xkcdBot.
status – Get xkcdBot's status.

Usage: !xkcd [command][ params( optional params)]

AstroCB

They used to be on-topic (@Inf).

Undo

ah, ignoring xkcdbot does help. Thanks for the tip @hichris

Damkerng T.

8:17 PM

Hey, help works!

hichris123

Now they're just annoying.

@Undo Life lesson #461.

AstroCB

!scores

Shadow Wizard

⁅SillyBot V0.1⁆ I am alive!

AstroCB

@Mooseman You're ahead of me by one vote.

Lamart

Whats this ? @AstroCB

Bart

8:18 PM

@hichris123 where have the times gone where we had regular people being the annoying ones?

Shadow Wizard

Enjoy my bot!

AstroCB

@Lamart Election stats.

Mooseman

@AstroCB Does it even matter after 20? :/

@ShadowWizard help

hichris123

20 hours ago, by hichris123

Back when the transcript was a page long

AstroCB

@Mooseman Nope.

@xkcdBot remove

Shadow Wizard

8:19 PM

@SillyBot say hi

bjb568

@SillyBot SAY HI DAMMIT!

Shadow Wizard

lol

MARamezani

@AstroCB Ah, so Martjin gets to be a mod?

Bart

@hichris123 good old times

AstroCB

@MARamezani Pretty much.

This is still primaries, though.

MARamezani

8:20 PM

3'll be chosen?

AstroCB

Yes, in the election phase.

hichris123

@Bart Back when jmac was a regular. I forgot about that.

AstroCB

The top ten in the primaries move onto the election.

MARamezani

Sheesh. I should do some SE laws reading. I'm active in two betas.

hichris123

I think you mean the good ol' days, @Bart. ;)

MARamezani

8:21 PM

(which means no elections)

Bart

@hichris123 yeah, jmac and Duncan and Lasz... no ... nonono

hichris123

ahaha

Undo

and Revious, for a short time.

hichris123

I remember.

MARamezani

@Bart Now these kids. Who is this MARamezani even? Sigh :P

Bart

8:22 PM

@Undo hah, haven't seen him in a while.

Lamart

I see many of you over here are in the elections. Good luck! @AstroCB @Undo @Mooseman

Shadow of the Shadow

@SillyBot what's up?

Bart

@MARamezani I'd say suspend him.

Undo

@Lamart Thanks!

bjb568

@Lamart :( not me?

Undo

8:22 PM

@Bart I think he gave up :P

hichris123

...

Bart

@bjb568 cough you're not in them any more cough

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani Is that a recursive question?

MARamezani

@Bart Yeah. And he won't be able to swear. He's so nice.

Bart

@Undo as has Ahmad apparently.

MARamezani

8:23 PM

@DamkerngT. Dunno. But I know I had committed a chat suicide.

Lamart

@bjb568 I couldn't see you in that page. Anyway good luck to you too :)

hichris123

Room for Revious and Vogel612's Shadow

Damkerng T.

:D

Mooseman

@Lamart Thanks, but I'm gonna die in 23 hours.

Undo

Well I take that back

MARamezani

8:24 PM

@bjb568 You're sticky. Everyone should avoid you.

Shadow Wizard

@Undo Revious became Sam

Undo

became Revious again, right?

Lamart

!scores

MARamezani

Suspend this MARamezani. He talks too much

xkcdBot

1. Martijn Pieters (40/40): 10413
2. meagar (40/40): 6959
3. Jon Clements (40/40): 5639
4. Matt (40/40): 5180
5. Second Rikudo (40/40): 4983
6. deceze (39/40): 3930
7. Raghav Sood (38/40): 3095
8. Paresh Mayani (38/40): 2981
9. Jeremy Banks (40/40): 2847
10. Jason C (36/40): 2487
11. Ed Cottrell (33/40): 2486
12. Undo (30/40): 2469
13. slugster (37/40): 2375
14. Qantas 94 Heavy (27/40): 1710
15. Andy (29/40): 1389
16. Sergey K. (34/40): 1319
17. vcsjones (39/40): 1133
18. rekire (37/40): 831
19. Thomas Owens (33/40): 774

Shadow Wizard

8:25 PM

@Undo oh, dunno.

Discussion with Sam about Meta site

Not for the weak of heart... please be patient and willing to ...

AstroCB

Bots stealing the words out of my mouth again.

@xkcdBot remove

yay bots

@Lamart Thanks!

@Lamart Having fun with the poor defenseless bot, are you?

AstroCB

8:26 PM

That's better.

Lamart

It didn't remove it!!

MARamezani

@Lamart Yes. The power of the divine did.

xkcdBot

@Lamart I removed post with ID 3321033.

AstroCB

@xkcdBot remove

Too old.

Lamart

@xkcdBot Remove yourself -_-

MARamezani

8:27 PM

@xkcdBot del

0.0

Lamart

@xkcdBot I am sure someone is controlling you.

AstroCB

You can ping xkcdBot with that and it will delete the last message by default, or you can reply to a specific message and it will delete that. You can also do @xkcdBot (delete|remove) postID if you prefer.

!xkcd owner

xkcdBot

@AstroCB My owner is AstroCB, but you needn't worry about that because I am sentient.

Bart

@hichris123 man, you've got me reading through past chat now. As if my life wasn't already pointless enough.

Shadow Wizard

@xkcdBot delete 3321070

borked :D

Jason C

8:29 PM

Marking bugs as wontfix is so much fun.

Bart

@JasonC Won't fixes your bugs? How did you get him to do that?

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC ah? Won't is now a dev?

:D

Bart

@ShadowWizard lol

Jason C

...

Lamart

@AstroCB So you are controlling two accounts? How does this work?

Bart

8:30 PM

HAX

Jason C

17 hours ago, by Alexis King

AstroCB

@ShadowWizard Unfortunately, due to cross-domain restrictions, xkcdBot cannot delete my messages.

Shadow of the Shadow

@Lamart like this!

and I am a sock

hichris123

@Bart At least you're not jadarnel. :P

Shadow Wizard

@AstroCB lol, would be hilarious if it could ;)

Lamart

8:31 PM

@xkcdBot remove

Bart

@hichris123 :D

Lamart

@xkcdBot You are AstroCB :)

MARamezani

A Q: Are welcoming new user messages common on where do you live? (SO, SU, SF)

AstroCB

!xkcd blame bjb

xkcdBot

It's bjb's fault.

Lamart

8:32 PM

@ShadowoftheShadow like what?

Bart

Sep 23 '13 at 12:14, by S Nash

I fine. Wonder how many questions you and your "Group" downvoted today?

Shadow of the Shadow

@Lamart like I'm second account of @Sha

Good old S Nash :D

!xkcd blame me

It's me's fault.

8:33 PM

lol

Shadow Wizard

Hey my rude sock pinged me!

Lamart

@MARamezani Two accounts of @ShadowWizard.

!xkcd blame AstroCB

xkcdBot

It's AstroCB's fault.

MARamezani

O.O

Now that's rude.

Shadow Wizard

talking about brown, I was in Brown Hotel - for real!

browntlv.com

MARamezani

8:35 PM

!xkcd blame xkcdbot

xkcdBot

It's xkcdbot's fault.

AstroCB

!xckd blame

MARamezani

Hmm,

AstroCB

I broke that one; that's right.

Shadow Wizard

!xkcd blame !xkcdbot blame

xkcdBot

8:35 PM

It's !xkcdbot blame's fault.

hichris123

@Bart Looks like I came to the Tavern too late. :( I started chatting Dec 2013.

MARamezani

!xkcd blame yourself

Shadow Wizard

@hichris123 I started chatting to get a hat

you too?

hichris123

@ShadowWizard No, I started chatting to complain about Spam Review. :P

MARamezani

@hichris123 I came sooner, so it seems.

YOU NEWBIE!

Undo

8:37 PM

I came to say this:

Jun 19 '13 at 4:33, by Undo

Soo... We all know that minitech hates meta reputation, now that he's a Diamond mod. Because of this, we should all bounty him more rep than he knows what to do with. Imagine 50 people giving 100 rep - it would take him several weeks to get rid of all of it.

Bart

Oh man. Lix. He has been gone for a while. He was the first person I chatted with in here apparently.

MARamezani

Where the heck is xkcdbot?

!xkcd blame yourself

hichris123

@MARamezani lol

AstroCB

!xkcd blame

No?

Lamart

!xkcd blame me

MARamezani

8:38 PM

Haha. I broke it.

Usually kids shouldn't be happy when they say that.

AstroCB

To relieve the Tavern: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/815/botlings-practice-room

Lamart

Thats it Captain! We did it!

MARamezani

Good job soldier.

Now where's my money?

rene

@AstroCB I see I'm still room owner there...

bjb568

BTW, since the votes are public, we can now engage in strategic voting toward the end.

Lamart

8:40 PM

Its with @xkcdBot :)

MARamezani

Bow down to the almighty owner!

rene

@bjb568 to achieve what?

MARamezani

@rene The end. O.0

Bart

@rene a maximum of wasted time

bjb568

To get who we want in the top 10.

ie maximise voting power by upvoting and downvoting independently of how much you like a candidate.

Shadow Wizard

8:41 PM

@Bart really?? that's cool.... guess :D

Conspicuous Compiler

I don't think there's any significant number of people interested in gaming the votes such that that matters.

rene

@Bart you are already wasted

Bart

@rene true that

Conspicuous Compiler

Anyhow, only the top 5 have any likelihood of being elected.

MARamezani

Darn. I want now thoze shainy electinos in our Beta!

Bart

8:43 PM

@MARamezani ah yes. Electinos. The next fundamental element to be discovered at CERN

Undo

Sounds more like a tribe of people in Africa

Shadow Wizard

@Bart sure, bit after a tiny Black Hole will suck the whole galaxy into it :D

rene

That sucks

Shadow Wizard

big time

Conspicuous Compiler

I hear that campaign contributions spontaneously create an equal number of electinos and anti-electinos.

MARamezani

8:44 PM

@Bart That's Electionuum.

Way more boring than Electinos.

Shadow Wizard

⁅SillyBot V0.1⁆ Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish

Lamart

Btw who is @Sillybot ?

MARamezani

"Will someone with rep reopen my question?" No, they won't. — McCannot Jul 23 '11 at 18:36

Speaking of Won't...

Does he come to chat?

Doorknob

@ShadowWizard So long*

MARamezani

Think I should sleep. Cuz I ain't got no coffee. Later guys!

user259867

8:48 PM

> @jc4p @jzy there are two kinds of companies: the ones people bitch about, and the ones that no one uses. -- Matt Sherman at 1:33 PM - 16 Apr 2015 via Twitter

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani Laters!

Bart

cya

user259867

In response to a critical blog post, SE is trying hard to leave the first category.

Shadow Wizard

@Doorknob lol! I did not shut it down!

my poor silly bot is truly silly

R.I.P

Lamart

Until the the next time guys!!

Shadow Wizard

8:50 PM

@Lamart test bot I made long ago, didn't really work here today :(

Alexis King

> It is very common for people to say — or at least think — something like this:

> > The x86 ADD instruction is used to implement C’s signed add operation, and it has two’s complement behavior when the result overflows. I’m developing for an x86 platform, so I should be able to expect two’s complement semantics when 32-bit signed integers overflow.

> THIS IS WRONG. You are saying something like this:

> > Somebody once told me that in basketball you can’t hold the ball and run. I got a basketball and tried it and it worked just fine. He obviously didn’t understand basketball.

hichris123

@pizza huh?

user259867

^ Soup Nazi.

Jason C

Ah, that moment when the smell of what's cooking in the oven finally starts to drift through the air.

hichris123

@pizza oh that one. Well, it's kinda true...

bummi

8:58 PM

free flags superuser.com/a/902530/172747

user259867

@bummi spam (I wish you were more specific)

bjb568

boom

user259867

I remember people referring to random NAAs as "free flags"; those are rarely worth opening the site.

bummi

@pizza my way of being specific (sometimes sorry :()

@pizza I would never report NAA's

user259867

@bummi OK I'll keep that in mind. :)

user259867

9:01 PM

Script: bummi report -> flag as spam.

user259867

Well, not really.

bummi

??

hichris123

0

A: New profile pages are out - bugs and feedback master list

Allow us to default to the Activity page rather than the Profile page A lot of times, when I'm going to someone's profile, I don't about their website, location, age, profile description, etc. I care about their posts, their edits, their activities. This now takes another click to get to the "go...

bummi

@hichris123 yep

spam askubuntu.com/a/610199/184892 (free flags)

user259867

@hichris123 Of course. Also on meta.so: Can we have a way to see a users activity page by default?

hichris123

9:06 PM

@pizza gah

I searched mSE for a dupe, but not mSO.

sigh

user259867

@hichris123 That's fine. It's a consequence of both things existing.

hichris123

Yeah... :/

Well, I get more meta rep to get rid of. :P

user259867

I don't understand why meta.SO users decided that profile page is off-topic

user259867

To my understanding, a user of an SE site should be able to post whatever concerns that site on the meta of that site. They need not know or care about SE network or its meta.

Ixrec

I guess the only correct answer to that question is "it's an SE-wide thing, here's a link to the MSE thread"

Jason C

9:10 PM

To my understanding, my baby back ribs still have 2 hours left in the oven and it's driving me insane.

hichris123

@pizza Yeah... reopen time!

@MichaelIrigoyen No, they're perfectly on-topic. Users Can Report Bugs On Whatever Child Meta Site Suits Them. — hichris123 5 secs ago

user259867

@hichris123 Or to use to close/reopen meta.se posts.

hichris123

@pizza nah nah nah there's no fun in that!

xkcdBot

xkcdBot terminated.

Mooseman

runscope.com/free-tshirt-offer

^^ Free shirt (Yet to receive it though)

user259867

9:16 PM

@JasonC If that's enough to drive you insane... moderating SO might not be for you. :p

Ixrec

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@Ixrec Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

xkcdBot

xkcdBot initialized.

user259867

This user may be a distant relative, but I'm not sure.

user259867

pizzabutt

1

wallpaper

Mooseman

9:29 PM

THE TRIANGLES GAH

Frank

@pizza meh eh eh eh

bummi

I don't love these :( askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/403221

Ed Cottrell

!xkcd 380

xkcdBot

U+FDD0 is actually Unicode for the eye of the basilisk, though for safety reasons no font actually renders it.

Conspicuous Compiler

Holy butts, the reddit thread on the soup nazi blog is brutal. Many people who are angry also sound like generally disagreeable characters, but that much angst can't all just be shit-stirrers.

user259867

9:51 PM

user259867

Congrats to Android Enthusiasts on reaching a round number of posts!

user259867

BTW reading sites via /search?tab=newest&q=is: is a typical Soup Nazi move.

Jason C

10:06 PM

@pizza Waiting on delicious flags to make their way to the front of the queue... nom nom nom

hichris123

meta.stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/4899 sigh

Santa Claus

10:20 PM

The new profile page (on SO) says my progress towards the "Curious" badge is 10/5. Why haven't I earned it?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: RTL8190 UNCLAIMED? by Sheldon on askubuntu.com

bummi

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/11899792/1699210

Doorknob

@SantaClaus You need a "good asking record" or whatever.

Santa Claus

@Doorknob I have an amazing asking record.

user259867

@SantaClaus ... by SE definition, not by your own.

Santa Claus

10:24 PM

@pizza Based on public data its way above 0.5, and I have only one or two deleted questions.

user259867

@SantaClaus if a question is downvoted, closed, and deleted, it counts three times against you.

Santa Claus

@pizza I can only think of one such question, and its not in my recently deleted questions list. I deleted it myself before it was closed, however.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: How do I remove hacked money? by user108524 on gaming.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu spam

SmokeDetector

@pizza Blacklisted user.

user259867

10:29 PM

> Have you been having low grades in college; want to spy on ur wife, girlfriend or employer; delete bad comments about you from your employers; hack text messages, facebook, whatsapp, bbm, wechat, twitter or listen to other people' phone calls directly on your phone or any other hacking business???

user259867

Let's count how many of these apply...

user259867

None, it seems.

hichris123

Are you sure?

bjb568

@pizza s/college/highschool/?

user259867

@hichris123 "Stalking SE users and employees" isn't on the list.

hichris123

10:38 PM