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user202362

12:01 AM

wise ...

user315433

12:26 AM

Spam or simply weirdness?

user315433

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A: How long does it take for memory to disperse after death?

You know, Dr. Brain, I woke up this morning after a particularly good dream & forgot it... Immediately, Love Only, Always, Uncle Kevin PS Does this EVER happen to thee? It happens to all after our deaths. PPS My point is why punish a man for things all forgotten? Not a dog. NOTE: Even when ...

user202362

12:45 AM

user315433

2008: Jon Skeet
2009: Jon Skeet
2010: Nick Craver
2011: Jon Skeet
2012: Jon Skeet
2013: Martijn Pieters
2014: Gordon Linoff
2015: Gordon Linoff
2016: Gordon Linoff

user315433

^ Stack Overflow Champions for each year.

user315433

(Meaning earning most rep in that year)

user315433

Totally didn't expect to see Nick there.

user315433

Since the beginning of 2014, Gordon Linoff is gaining 348.5 rep/day on average, while Jon Skeet is gaining 259. Linear extrapolation predicts that Gordon will overtake Jon in about 13 years.

user202362

12:49 AM

Aaron Hall

2:23 AM

Ok, Tavern denizens, I'm new to this moderation thing. Teach me! :D

user315433

Don't mess things up more than they already are.

user315433

Shouldn't be too hard.

user315433

Don't post mod-only information on meta, unless it's about the user who asks a question and is necessary to answer it.

user315433

E.g., if User A is curious about the way User B votes or flags, that's not a reason to post User B's private info in public. If there's something wrong, suspend or warn User B privately.

bjb568

2:54 AM

@AaronHall Post all the kewl UI here for us to see. Delete everything. Find the socks!

Aaron Hall

I'll get right on it, as soon as I can remember how to take screenshots... man the older I get, the less I remember...

Cleaning up feeds. Maybe they're more trouble than they're worth. But I did get some good answers in because of them. So IDK.

user315433

4:42 AM

sigh Let's block URL-only titles with an extremely vague message.

hichris123

5:08 AM

→ 10 messages moved to Chimney

user202362

6:47 AM

rene

7:46 AM

1337

It will be hard to do the next review ...

delv-pls programming meta.stackexchange.com/questions/287385/… cc @Bart @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

8:24 AM

@rene heh @Bart beat me to it... :D

rene

I expect you get another chance ...

user202362

9:00 AM

i=1336; i++;

user202362

10:52 AM

user202362

11:03 AM

user202362

princess riding a horny pony

M.A.R.

12:07 PM

@Telkitty That looks like a queen, not a princess. She looks 30-something

user202362

She-Ra

She-Ra is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Filmation cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power, debuting in 1985. Also, a series of toys under her name were produced by Mattel. She is the alter ego of Princess Adora and the twin sister of Prince Adam/He-Man. She-Ra was intended to appeal to young girls in the same way that He-Man appealed to young boys. Filmation writer Larry DiTillio created the backstory for the property. She-Ra is introduced in the animated movie The Secret of the Sword as Force Captain Adora, a member of the Evil Horde that rules the planet Etheria. Princess Ado...

user340193

I think I've just identified a bug in SE migration.

user340193

I upvoted this question

user340193

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Q: Account in window 10 disabled after installing ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I installed ubuntu 16.4.01 LTS recently. I did it directly from my windows 10 account as you install any program. I used Ubuntu only for a few days, when I swithced back to W10 on boot, I couldn't log in on my W10 account. I get the "we can't sign into your account right now" error and re-direct...

user340193

before migration

user340193

12:14 PM

Once it was migrated, I could upvote again!

user340193

That gives me 2 upvotes!

M.A.R.

12:25 PM

@MarkYisri Oh. And you affected the score by 2, or did the score go back after the migration?

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A: Newbie "forgiveness"

Think of the newblets on this site as feral kittens that occasionally come to your premise. You want to adopt them and let them inside but at first they need to be house trained, because if you don't you would end up with shit all over your place. Not all kittens are okay with that, some run away...

Awesome answer @Tel

user340193

@M.A.R. I affected it by 2.

user340193

and I've been a member on both sites for quite a while

user340193

(Ask Ubuntu and Super User)

M.A.R.

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Q: Migrated question's answers can be upvoted twice by the same user

This question was created on Server Fault, answered on Server Fault, I upvoted some of those answers on Server Fault, and then moved by consensus to Super User. Now that the question is on Super User, I can upvote the same answers I previously upvoted on Server Fault.

bug status-bydesign voting migration up-votes

@Mark so you've re-found the bug after 7 years

user202362

12:31 PM

poor feral kittens waiting to be accepted into SE community :p

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. not a bug, according to Mr. Atwood

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A: Migrated question's answers can be upvoted twice by the same user

How is this a bug? You're voting on a completely different website. There is no cross-site voting "protection".

M.A.R.

Well it's a non-bug bug

A bug that exists but we pretend doesn't exist

Shadow Wizard

If Jeff says it's not raining, it's not raining. Even if you get wet from water dropping from the sky. :D

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard That's not rain if it's yellow.

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. I wasn't on an airplane for long time so it can't be yellow :P

M.A.R.

12:43 PM

@ShadowWizard But you seem to be contagious. These days I feel like peeing a lot

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. well, I can give you some TIPS. First, keep your pants dry. Otherwise you can get cold.

M.A.R.

I do have a cold

Shadow Wizard

Oh my... so it's too late. Next time, keep it until you reach toilets. :D

user315433

1:00 PM

0

Q: Is this site going to die?

With the fail of Windows Phone in general, won't this site follow in it's footsteps? Unless, that is, this site also has information on hacking Windows Phones. Then it will likely stay.

discussion

user315433

A little weekend trolling...

user202362

limbo.stackexchange.com // 4 sites that never made out of infancy

M.A.R.

@zaq Is there anyone around to be trolled though?

user315433

Probably not on meta... on main, there are people posting things like this.

user315433

Still don't understand why they do that, seems a recent trend.

user315433

1:10 PM

Nice shirt.

user315433

11-post spammer on Parenting: parenting.stackexchange.com/users/25389/charles?tab=topactivity

rene

I'm out of flags there now

user202362

I wish I could give you mine ...

rene

store.stackexchange.com: sell or buy flags, reviews and reputation

delv-pls programming meta.stackexchange.com/questions/287397/… @Bart @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

1:32 PM

@rene OP was faster this time... :(

@zaq lol, dunno how to flag it, if to flag at all...

please delete, selfie?

user315433

It's NAA, I think.

Shadow Wizard

@zaq TaUNAA if anything

!!/hats

...

Probably won't be count down this year. Oh well.

Winterbash will come as a pleasant surprise! :D

user315433

We don't know what to count down to. My guess is December 19, but there has been nothing official.

user315433

But I think they will launch countdown eventually, it's just taking longer with a new dev in charge.

Shadow Wizard

Maybe Hat Dash will be back instead? stackpromos.com/promos/2/hat-dash

hmm.. wonder what Jeff's former employees will do when seeing the auto flag for this.

oh wait... completed - no auto flag. Lucky!

user202362

2:32 PM

@zaq let's playing a role play game - imagine I am a big chicken and you are a little grey mouse, I have just spotted you across the lawn ...

Pandya

3:18 PM

Meta of beta sites are not available while creating new chat-rooms right? /cc @rene

rene

@Pandya nope and I believe meta sites shouldn't be available at all but a couple are for some odd reason. There is an MSE post about that

Pandya

can you link that post?

user315433

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Q: Which per-site-metas are offered in the chat-room creation dialogue?

Chat rooms can be associated with meta sites, as discussed, for example, here: Why can meta sites be parents of chatrooms? (In this post you can notice that there were some recent changes concerning where the rooms associated with metas are displayed.) So I wanted to test whether it is possible ...

support chat per-site-meta

rene

that ^

:)

user315433

It's also weird that one can have a chat.SE room associated with Meta.SE; the result being that the room isn't present in any site's sidebar.

Pandya

3:30 PM

@zaq OK. Thanks. /cc @rene

user315433

There are other oddities like an alternative AU room which is automatically created with site host "chat.askubuntu.com" (instead of "askubuntu.com", as for regular AU rooms).

user315433

And that (associating with chat.* site) is something one can't do manually.

Shadow Wizard

> This question was voluntarily removed by its author.

heh

Rare that spam/trolling/offensive stuff gets self deleted

And the "f word" is all over the 404 page... :/

user315433

3:46 PM

U&L dead compared to SF? I doubt that.

Shadow Wizard

Maybe for the relevant subject/tag? Doesn't really matter, guess this chick knows what he/she is doing... :)

user315433

4:07 PM

Checking the predictions in xkcd.com/887 - so, world population reached 7B, and New Horizons reached Pluto. And baby boomers turn whatever age they are supposed to be, I don't suppose there can be surprises there.

user315433

Android has beaten both of those market share predictions. As for Windows Phones overtaking iOS, not yet...

M.A.R.

5:03 PM

@zaq ''Gillette introduces a 14-bladed razor'' LOL

hichris123

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rene

5:51 PM

Is it me or is this the first SO election where after the results are in voters seem unhappy about the outcome and now call for a change in the system?

triggered by this and couple of other noises

hichris123

@rene 2016...

rene

The year is key?

Never organize elections in 2016?

hichris123

Yep.

rene

Okay, that is helpful. Any other years we should watch out for?

I mean, 2017 has elections over here ...

hichris123

I guess we'll see. ;)

rene

5:56 PM

Yes, I will see ...

hichris123

6:25 PM

Maybe I do need that auto-moving bot...

user315433

I support that request, actually. Let users rank as many candidates as they wish, up to 10. Nobody wins from votes gong to waste.

user315433

It could have been phrased better, though. And posted on Meta SE.

user315433

8:03 PM

Especially considering that on SO, we sometimes end up electing 5 moderators instead of 3 advertised.

user315433

8:37 PM

Hm, SO isn't kidding about sabbaticals for long-term employees...

user315433

^ from Jason Punyon, twitter.com/JasonPunyon/status/802539791464206338

user315433

9:35 PM

My NAA flag was declined on stackoverflow.com/a/40820726 am I missing some value in this post?

rene

@zaq probably needed a custom reason. A plain NAA flag gets declined as there seems value in that answer

user315433

Probably the case of not considering what the question was...
Q: "Why do some sites use www2 etc, while others don't?"
A: "I don't know why, but some sites use www2 and others don't".

rene

Yeah, for some flags you need context

@zaq I guess you know this already but just to be complete for the transcript: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/305479/578411

or variants of that

bjb568

10:21 PM

The strangest question so far in apply to college:

> [ ] Jewish orphan studying aeronautical engineering

Like, really, what is that even for?

user315433

Someone bequested a few thousand dollars for the aforementioned category of students.

bjb568

Well, then one student in maybe a decade will get that money.

user315433

Yes, but perhaps that's how much money is in the fund. Super-specific scholarships are a waste of effort for everyone involved, especially those in charge of awarding them.

user315433

PSA: mark your donations to universities as unrestricted contributions to zaq's Fund.

bjb568

Good idea. I do have a jar of pennies… that'll keep a secretary busy for a while.

hichris123

10:37 PM

→ 1 message moved to Chimney

user315433

Yay, @rene was right about feed's reason for oneboxing. I fixed it by ending the URL with two slashes: this prevents onebox but the link resolves the same. Example:

user315433

in zaqwert on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 6 mins ago, by Stack Exchange

Comment: We're enabling display ads on select Stack Exchange sites

posted on November 26, 2016 by Jeremy Banks

Jeremy Banks: @E.P. "Display ad" is the industry term for banner-ey ads around content, used to distinguish from things like search ads (like in Google or App Store results), in-stream ads (like on Facebook or Twitter), native ads (sponsored articles hosted on the same platform as non-sponsored articles), etc. (More or less. The terminology is a bit vague and I'm not precisely clear on it.)

user315433

I wish the "title" font was less humongous.

hichris123

Random thought: would people want the transcript to be free of Smokey messages? i.e. for the olden days where Smokey would post 50+ a night

user315433

I don't care, really. A bunch of Smokey reports beats 3 hours later…

hichris123

10:42 PM

I mean like a year ago though. For those transcripts.

bjb568

What we say isn't that valuable.

hichris123

Like starting here: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4243207#4243207

user315433

I'd rather not rewrite the history. Some of other messages refer to reports.

hichris123

True. Which is why you'd kinda have to move those messages too if it wasn't a long conversation...

(or an actual conversation I guess and not just a command)

user315433

And it's unclear what would be achieved...

bjb568

10:52 PM

FSM, the University of California app is really bad. Like there's a bunch of unknown lingo and descriptions elsewhere and no options for dual enrollment classes and such. It's also really long.

user315433

Apply to private universities, less bureaucracy

bjb568

Bah, but I need to apply to a bunch of universities.

CS is listed under math :'(

user315433

? cs.berkeley.edu is in the College of Engineering.

user315433

As are pretty much all CS programs in this country. (Sadly)

bjb568