was there a post-mortem review for the town hall event?

not yet

what was your take on it, @Shog9?

it was interesting

we're - well, I am - horribly out of practice doing these things

but, that'll improve with time

chat seems like a tough medium for that sort of event

I felt like we managed to get folks talking, and hopefully share some of our own thoughts and struggles, which was the point.

@canon as opposed to...?

don't say comments. Just... don't.

LOL

I don't know... something a little more formal

such that any one community member would be given the proverbial conch

and nobody else could post to chat during that time apart from team members or the moderator

it's asking for pretty specific functionality that doesn't exist at the moment, I know

but it just seemed like messages were flying by

eh, we can probably achieve a bit more structure

Again though, a big part of the problem is simply that we haven't done anything like this in ages

you get out of practice

it was great, though

you forget basic social conventions

I finally got a response to an issue near and dear to my heart

I'd suffer a lot for similar gains in the future

@Shog9 such as?

@canon "don't all talk at once" is a big one

lol

I mean it though. You wouldn't get 40 people in a room, an actual physical room, and expect everyone to be able to talk at once.

Folks figure this out after a bit.

They slow down

discussion improves

a bit of moderation can aid this, but folks need to internalize it before it works

yeah, we used to do very similar "chat-cast" things in the mod-only room too, years ago now... They were hectic, but folks got used to 'em.

Then we ran out of stuff to talk about.

Announcing the topic in advance is good; we were still kinda hashing things out

It was certainly interesting... and nice to have an opportunity to snag Haney's attention for like... two minutes. :P

regarding something which wasn't even on the docket

yeah, weird how you managed to sneak that in... ;-P

Yeah, well... I didn't think I'd make any progress on getting comments promoted to first class citizens...

So, I went another route

anyhow, I hope this becomes a recurring event

nice to get feedback

yeah

Any word on the SSL progress/nightmare?

what's the likelihood of getting some type of town hall meeting surrounding a site-specific feature, e.g.: Stack-Snippets™

I know there are quite a few feature requests out there for it and we could raise some interest for sure... but it's pretty much scoped to SO (and programmers?) and may not be a great fit for meta.SE. Any shot at doing this from meta.SO?

@canon there's not an issue or problem with it, it's just people asking for more

It's better to spend that time talking about issues and problems instead of feature requests

Opposite for DevDoodle since we don't have issues or problems.

I don't think you can tl;dr a comment

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Ah, the other Tim. Good, good

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Happy Hour... time to put the kettle on

Gin & tonic time!

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if the position is new, perhaps it brings change

@bjb568 Things that make you wish you’d studied harder.

@Meta You could say that about all that magic-word comments.

@Meta so... This is what I've been debating, ever since trying the +/-1 block on SO. Better to block outright? Or make easy to delete.

Fourth path: delete all comments and global inbox anyone who's ever made a comment with the message "This ain't Reddit"

Happy quering.

@Meta Closed before they became mods.

@Meta Ok, so... there's another option. Not sure if this qualifies, but... Interesting in its own right:

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/83748/…

oh, right, deleted.

Similar:

@Shog9 Regex blacklisting is stupid. Regex deletion-enabling is less stupid.

Violations of the least-surprise principle can take a lot of explaining?

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