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user315433

12:00 AM

Correction: it's about 150+ rep users, not 3K users.

user315433

Let's compare those between, say, Mechanics, Law and Philosophy.

user315433

Users with 150+ rep, by site... Mechanics: 1065, Philosophy: 864, Law: 300.

Quill

Name shortcuts get me every time

user315433

That's "Mechanics" for me, because the URL and shorter.

user315433

Some part of those 1065 may be somewhat artificial, gaining rep because of a voting campaign after the aforementioned meta post...

user315433

12:10 AM

Law election is headed for double-digit turnout too, 72 voters so far and the election ends in 19 hours.

user315433

Will likely be the second-lowest turnout (Network Engineering Election #1 had 63 voters)

user315433

12:49 AM

We made it to McCall. The water is about as warm as it can be. https://t.co/GWwhIF0E49

Tweeted by jlericson on August 2, 2016 at 12:39 AM

user315433

You can imagine how much Jon wants to be pinged about site graduations right now.

Quill

They take holidays on shifts :p

Shog9

If I were in boiling water, I guess I'd welcome a distraction

user315433

It can go over 100 C under high pressure... hm.

user315433

> In water, the critical point occurs at around 647 K (374 °C; 705 °F) and 22.064 MPa (3200 PSIA or 218 atm).

user315433

12:52 AM

374 C and 218 atm aren't comfortable conditions.

Quill

comfortable? that's putting it mildly

I'm on a university network..... did the ip get blocked or something?

user315433

I sometimes feel like answering emails with that.

user315433

1:07 AM

> A day in which I wrote no code. #management #sadtrombone -- Kevin Montrose at 5:52 PM - 1 Aug 2016

Quill

also blocked on SO, but not SE, SF, SU or AU domains

user315433

The engineering team needs a Coding Enablement Manager.

user315433

@Quill Could be stacknews?

Quill

Huh?

user315433

Your project scraping metas. Just a guess.

Quill

1:08 AM

s/scraping/using the api like a normal user/

also it's run off a server, not my local machine

user315433

Okay, then it's probably someone at your university...

user315433

Can you get another IP from that network?

Quill

Yeah, I tried on my phone. Same result

user315433

Maybe use contact us form on another site, mentioning your IP and the UTC time of attempt...

user315433

If someone feels like digging the logs to find what happened.

Quill

1:12 AM

I don't know why a Varnish error would be occuring, given that SE doesn't run on Varnish

Unless HAProxy has identity issues?

Shog9

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs Fortunately, McCall Idaho is at about 5K feet, so water should be boiling at a comfortable 94-95C

hichris123

@Quill Maybe something on the Fastly side?

Quill

Maybe, I doubt they'd have such a horribly formatted error message

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs Stack Exchange contact us redirects to Stack Overflow, but MSE's will do

user315433

So much for my summer reading plans. ☹️ https://t.co/eSkPgA3m8i

Tweeted by jlericson on August 2, 2016 at 1:20 AM

user315433

What happened to his Kindle? Can't tell from the picture.

Quill

1:24 AM

LCD failure, either drop or minor water damage

user315433

I sat on mine recently, and expected something of the kind, but nothing happened...

user315433

Yay for being underweight, I guess.

user315433

A solution to Jon's problem: disregard Kindle, read meta.

user202362

benches usually have skeleton but no meat, chairs sometimes have both but really depends

Quill

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs s/meta/stacknews/

it's always better when you're reading something that has news in the title

adds to the prestige

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Q: Error 429 Too many requests on stackoverflow.com

I'm on a network that apparently makes too many requests to stackoverflow.com (I thought I was the only one) I get iterations of the following whenever I try to access the domain: Error 429 Too many requests Too many requests Guru Mediation: Details: cache-itm7422-ITM 1470099672 3300317948 ...

user315433

1:34 AM

And is mobile-friendly, unlike "filtered" page

user315433

Heads up: there will be a momentary Stack Exchange outage Wednesday night a little after 9pm EST for SQL. I’ll post to Stack Status tonight.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on August 1, 2016 at 10:08 PM

user315433

Time matches

Quill

> Stack Exchange

It's only applying to Stack Overflow so far

user315433

Separate SQL servers, upgraded one at a time.

Quill

it's strange that it's network specific

user315433

1:36 AM

One for SO, one for everyone else.

Quill

no like wifi network specific, not domain or server specific

user315433

Yes, a mystery

Quill

A wild StrongBad has appeared!

to make matters even worse my copy of Triffids is covered in water

user315433

The sum of scores of all posts by month query is interesting. (Source: meta.superuser.com/a/11675)

user315433

Math peaked in May 2013 (?) and quite sharply.

user315433

1:47 AM

I think average score is better than sum here...

Shog9

to be clear, I'm not sure that's a good measure of... Anything. It was just the measure that the asker there happened to be using, for reasons which are his own.

user315433

No, the average isn't so good, being dominated by early beta months

user315433

June 2016 was the first month with negative average question score on SO.

Quill

Code Review has pretty weird trends by that query

Shog9

As opposed to...?

Quill

1:54 AM

Math, I guess?

Shog9

@Quill no, I mean those trends match up pretty well with Posts, Votes, most other forms of activity

(ignore the stuff before the site's launch date - I was lazy)

user315433

On Math, the total score has been in decline for years, as activity grows.

Quill

In relation to SQL, I just got out of an oracle sql lab where they taught us how to select * queries

I think my life is complete

user202362

only if maths are as new as computer science, growth on SE related sites can lasts much longer ...

Quill

I don't think that's how that works

user315433

2:03 AM

select * from Life where Name = 'Quill'

Quill

There's probably some obscure web comic where they access life with sql

user315433

drop table Life

user202362

move on with out lives

user202362

s/ut/ur/

user315433

StackOverflow/Meta were unreachable - Error 429 Too many requests by Fred -ii- on meta.stackoverflow.com

user202362

2:14 AM

data mining works on intuition

user202362

not the other way around

hichris123

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs But Wednesday.

Portal

2:34 AM

Time leap, as usual.

user202362

Data analysis could be built on a pile of sand - can you really shrink a 3 dimensional world that changes along time into 1 dimension data? If so, what's the purpose of other dimensions?

JamesENL

3:40 AM

quiet today

Shog9

too quiet...

user202362

Shog9

...wait, no, exactly the right amount of quiet.

user202362

stand up, look bigger ... way to win ...

Quill

4:14 AM

@Quill I (and others) were left in the dark as to him saying he'd post a Stack Status. twitter.com/stackstatus I checked that for over an hour and even as I typed this; nothing was posted. — Fred -ii- 2 hours ago

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4:32 AM

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hichris123

4:56 AM

3 hours ago, by hichris123

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs But Wednesday.

JamesENL

sd 5k

SmokeDetector

5:11 AM

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JamesENL

sd k

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JamesENL

5:33 AM

sd k

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JamesENL

sd 2k

SmokeDetector

5:49 AM

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[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: Como converter ES6 para ES5 no Cordova através de um hook? by Fernando Falcão on pt.stackoverflow.com …

Jan Dvorak

nah, the last one just kinda sucks

SmokeDetector

6:12 AM

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Jan Dvorak

7:12 AM

undetected spam workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72499/…

initially written without links, which were then edited in

spam drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/209128/…

!!alive

the bot is dead and I'm busy. So...

ok, it's just slow

I mean, five minutes kind of slow

ProgramFOX

it's !!/alive, not !!alive

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX plz send teh coffee

Jan Dvorak

pours coffee into SmokeDetector, then detects smoke coming out of it.

rene

7:30 AM

@JanDvorak yeah, it posts in CHQ first and if it still exists after 5 minutes, it posts here

Jan Dvorak

oh.

rene

because it was effective this room filled up with spam reports instead of occasional chatter

Jan Dvorak

Is there any other purpose for this room?

Bart

OMG, It's a wild @JanDvorak

rene

yes, proof ^

Now that you are finally here please delete vote this @Bart

Bart

7:35 AM

Done

rene

thx

Bart

Now Jan is back, all I need is for Gnomeslice to give me daily listenings again and I'm good.

rene

7:56 AM

@Bart Today's listening ... vette track ...

Bart

/ignore rene

De Staat - Witch Doctor (official video)

►

^ those guys need more exposure

rene

\o/

Bart

/me runs in circles around the office

rene

:D

Jan Dvorak

8:31 AM

> Do you want java.com to run Java?

Shadow Wizard

9:21 AM

@Bart why not squares?

Quill

in The Bridge on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Jul 28 at 21:44, by Grace Note

Parents are naming their children after Pokemon Go characters

Shadow Wizard

@JanDvorak of course, discussing important things with SE authoritie. ;-)

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard It's Jan Dvorak's fault.

Derpy

9:37 AM

@Quill Start getting worried when someone will name his/her daughter Fluttershy.

Quill

<_<"

Jan Dvorak

That's even worse than Deuteronomy

Derpy

You just have to chose one from the nerd list of children names: Zelda, Roll, Aerith, Etna, Fluttershy...

Jan Dvorak

Aerith and Bob

Or rather, go for Bob first in case the other child is a girl.

Bart

@ShadowWizard watch the video ;)

Derpy

10:13 AM

@JanDvorak Why should one do that? The kid should obviously be called Bowser.

Or Ganondorf

SmokeDetector

10:26 AM

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SmokeDetector

10:42 AM

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Portal

11:00 AM

@SmokeDetector oh... so much MathJax, so much to render..

user315433

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs That was a stupid remark... of course, the short-lived questions get mostly downvotes, but then they stop acquiring them, being deleted or forgotten. Those that remain relevant will accumulate upvotes over time.

user315433

If it was the net sum of all votes cast during a month... hm.

user202362

this reminds me of a movie about a murderer with multi-personalities, each and every personality interacts with the other personalities

Jan Dvorak

@Derpy Oh boy. You are one of today's lucky 10000. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AerithAndBob

SmokeDetector

11:29 AM

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Jan Dvorak

@Derpy The boy/girl combo would, of course, be Alice and Bob

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Unihedron

12:01 PM

Why didn't I earn http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/5851/creditor ?

I added a cite here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11052125/convert-comma-separated-values-to-listlong/26598871#26598871

Bart

Maybe that awarding process runs at an interval?

Derpy

12:14 PM

@JanDvorak I know, but why should one waste an opportunity and give out a normal name? I say they all need to be weird, that shall be the first step on the road of extravagance freedom.

Next one begin able to go to work dressed as the standard Tales of Something character.

(or any one from Samurai Warriors / Dynasty Legends)

Jan Dvorak

Charles IV?

... and don't you dare to drop the number

Derpy

@JanDvorak I am not a bat, not even a bat pony, so I don't see why I should name someone like he was son of this guy...

Jan Dvorak

Not that Charles IV, the real one

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV (Czech: Karel IV., German: Karl IV., Latin: Carolus IV; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378), born Wenceslaus, was the second King of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first King of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor. He was the eldest son and heir of King John of Bohemia, who died at the Battle of Crécy on 26 August 1346. Charles inherited the County of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of Bohemia from his father. On 2 September 1347, Charles was crowned King of Bohemia. On 11 July 1346, prince-elector selected him King of the Romans (rex Romanorum) in opposition to Emperor Louis...

@Derpy who the hell is even this thing?

Derpy

12:34 PM

@JanDvorak viewtifuljoe.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_The_Third

bjb568

@hichris Not only did Chrome 54 break DevDoodle, it also broke NYT layout.

How did this get past QA?

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Derpy

ooooohhhhh, nice, an actual female-voice version?

【Jenny】» Battle Against A True Hero • Orchestra ver. w/ FanLyrics «

►

A bit lacking on the determination side, but still pretty good.

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user202362

Andy

12:53 PM

Is there a way to see what documentation topics I have provided a dismiss vote on?

Or even which ones I've commented on?

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bjb568

@Derpy Wow, that was quite good.

I can hear a few audio editing errors tho.

Derpy

@bjb568 the original is probably the best one, but it has that little problem.

Male voice.

bjb568

Meh, it's ok, but the voice sounds a bit strained on the high end.

I like the parts with a countermelody, it'd be good if it was like that the whole way thru. Even better if it was a full chamber group thing like TTTTBaBaBB or something.

Derpy

Not saying either is bad. It is just that I am still searching for a female version (since you know... not like Undyne is male) with a voice that sounds still "epic" like the original.

Portal

1:08 PM

NGAHHH

rene

1:46 PM

@Andy if it isn't here you can't ...

tchrist

@bjb568 Four tenors, four basses, and two altos counts as a full chamber group? :)

Andy

@rene That's what I thought too. I asked about it just in case I'm missing it.

bjb568

2:04 PM

@tchrist It's like element names. Lowercase letters are part of the former thing. token: [A-Z][a-z]*

tchrist

Don't you mean TTLL?

bjb568

2 higher tenors, 2 lower tenor, 2 baritones, 2 bases

tchrist

L=Lead=Second Tenor

bjb568

whatever

such complicate

many terminology

tchrist

Well, if you like homovocal tenors, fine. But color is nice.

bjb568

2:06 PM

Mi likey the colores

tchrist

De Colores

►

Forgive them their accent.

bjb568

I think what's more unforgivable is how the onomatopoeia aren't written the same number of times as sung.

SNAFU

2:23 PM

We will be upgrading SQL Server 2016 to CU1 tomorrow night at 9PM EST for Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange clusters http://stackstatus.net/post/148349544819/brief-outage-for-sql-2016-cu1-august-3-2016

Tweeted by StackStatus on August 2, 2016 at 2:19 PM

tchrist

Uh ho.

Surely that's wrong.

I bet they are upgrading it at 8pm EST not at 9pm as they have written.

Because I bet they booked it for 9pm EDT, which is 8pm EST.

Tsk.

bjb568

Tsk tsk.

Bart

2:44 PM

@tchrist if so, it's only fitting that SNAFU posts it

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Portal

sd f

SmokeDetector

4:03 PM

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Andy

4:14 PM

24

Q: The Un-shipping of Teams

For almost the past year, we've had Teams in private beta and while we believe in its potential value, after a lot of consideration we've decided to un-ship the idea for the time being. Teams will shut down in about a week, meaning you will no longer be able to access, join, or create ne...

discussion teams

hichris123

Can't say I'm all too surprised...

user315433

+1 to the team for making the decision, instead of maintaining the awkward status quo.

user315433

Can't expect to bat 1.000

user315433

The same sort of reasoning could be applied to some beta sites...

user315433

Speaking of beta sites, behold the 3rd coming of Artificial Intelligence

hichris123

4:38 PM

@Pekka웃 We simply felt it was time to find new and better ways to test our tolerance for grief from the community. — Ana ♦ 37 mins ago

user315433

I misclicked and flagged a spam post NAA. And can't retract the flag because that feature is still only on MSE...

user315433

I think it got tested enough to be rolled out, isn't it?

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bluefeet

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs which feature?

user315433

Being able to retract flags

Magisch

4:48 PM

@bluefeet retracting flags

user315433

49

A: Cancel misclicked flags

This is now completed and (for now) enabled on meta.stackexchange.com and meta.stackoverflow.com. If there are no issues, it'll go live network-wide soon. Note that if you're a moderator (and thus your flags are authoritative), there's no retracting. Also, close flags get converted into close vo...

user315433

> If there are no issues, it'll go live network-wide soon.

user315433

Was written July 7

bluefeet

let me find when it's going network-wide

user315433

Thanks!

SmokeDetector

4:56 PM

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user315433

This sort of thing has become annoyingly common in Gmail:

user315433

> Why is this message in Spam? It has a from address in X but has failed X's required tests for authentication.

user315433

In most cases, false positives: the email is actually genuine.

user315433

I feel the tests were unfairly hard, and a grade appeal is in order.

bluefeet

5:23 PM

@redredwine should be available everywhere

hichris123

New new name I guess...

user315433

\o/ Too late to test it on that spam post...

user315433

But tested elsewhere, it works.

rene

5:39 PM

I guess we have a UB40 fan in the room ...

user315433

5:57 PM

It's technically a Neil Diamond song, but yes.

bluefeet

there is only one Neil Diamond song that matters

Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline High Quality neildiamond

►

rene

Oh... I hit the sentimental mood ... sorry ...

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user315433

6:13 PM

I guess I'll edit out that link, the post isn't clear cut spam.

user315433

4

Q: Your vote matters!

For a few months now I've been collecting specific data on the metrics of all SE sites throughout the network, and there's a disturbing fact that has arisen. This data isn't yet public on my end, but it's almost there. In light of that I wanted to bring a certain concern to the communities atten...

discussion voting

user315433

Some interesting stats there.

user315433

My very limited experience with CR is that reviews take longer to write than SO answers, and the broader impact is questionable. Add to that the scarcity of votes, and why bother?

SmokeDetector

6:33 PM

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rene

7:21 PM

sorry for the down vote and the Dutch-style comment on the un-shipping of teams @bluefeet

bluefeet

You're entitled to vote as you want

TIPS

@rene Dutch-style? I'd like to see how this looks like

Linky?

user315433

+35/-0? I know voting on meta is different but are we all that happy that it get removed? Have a down vote, to compensate. :( — rene 5 mins ago

rene

~~Meh, you do the work ...~~ have someone else do the work

TIPS

Frankly, I was expecting something more interesting.

rene

7:28 PM

I don't want to get suspended and I don't want to be disrespectful to people, specially not towards Bluefeet

TIPS

But you could've been more creative and funnier without being disrespectful. I mean look at me.

rene

I'm not a mood to be funnier than this

TIPS

I'm this ball of sparkling fun.

@rene Oh, right. The sun's down.

rene

also true

user315433

I'm happy that some developer time might be going back from fancy expansions to working on things that are somewhere on Shog's list of lists.

user315433

7:33 PM

I imagine some Q&A users share this feeling, hence +35 on the post.

hichris123

Also that I don't think anyone really ever figured out what to use it for.

Also that I won't have to worry about the Charcoal team page anymore.

rene

Sure, all true, I already recognized I'm alone in my view

hichris123

That... you liked teams? Or your downvote + reasons thereof?

rene

I even didn't manage to move our team to socvr.org. The other RO's object.

@hichris123 I think it had its place, yes. And didn't seen immediate reason to get rid of it.

hichris123

Object to... ?

Shog9

7:37 PM

I think rene is objectifying that domain

rene

@hichris123 to move the team-list to our room website

hichris123

@rene Well, the way SOCVR used it was "Hey, you joined our room! Now visit our team page (which has a link to our rules)" - which wasn't too helpful.

TIPS

@hichris123 Making a site named "SOCVR".

hichris123

(also, is it a Team page? a Teams page? a team page? a teams page?)

rene

@hichris123 true, I hoped (and waited) for those pages to be a bit more useful in markup and content management ;)

Shog9

7:39 PM

@hichris123 a Teams Team page, teaming with Teams team-members

hichris123

Who are Teaming Up to make Teams better.

TIPS

OK stahpit

hichris123

@rene Yeah, I never really touched the markdown side of that. No real reason with Charcoal - we never really used it. :P

TIPS

I got a headache

rene

@hichris123 it was also used to give a bit of recognition to users that dared to stay longer with us then just a few days ...

Shog9

7:41 PM

rene

That ^ makes my day better ;)

TIPS

@hichris123 I feel you feel slightly superior to SOCVR now.

You should. :P

user315433

What should be the next feature to retire? There are so many feature-requests but few unfeature-requests...

Andy

Down voting without comments, obviously.

rene

@redredwine let's create the tag and start re-tagging? We will soon find out which ones do matter ...

hichris123

7:44 PM

@redredwine Name change limits?

TIPS

@redredwine "Ask Question"

rene

@Andy maybe comments all together. That solves a lot of problems in one go.

user315433

@TIPS I like that, actually. A reason for departing SO & Math was the persistent feeling that I'm answering questions that shouldn't have been asked.

TIPS

I'm a mind reader.

I should award myself some ice cream.

@rene please find a reason to disagree.

user315433

They ask because they didn't search... which means their next incarnation will not search either, so my answer is useless.

rene

7:48 PM

@TIPS I agree to disagree

TIPS

@redredwine Your answer isn't useless if their device has a copy and paste function.

user315433

Un-feature request: don't block the authors of accepted answers from deleting them.

user315433

A typical reason to delete such an answer is that it's obsolete, and should get out of the way of newer, better answers.

user315433

This is something the system should encourage.

user315433

If rage-quitting is a concern, there are checks for that already.

TIPS

7:57 PM

@redredwine This I'd advocate

user315433

The First Posts queue on Android is 447 posts... because pretty much every question is a first post.

user315433

Law election just ended: feetwet and jimsug are obviously among the winners, the 3rd place requires STV analysis.

user315433

> Winners are feetwet, jimsug, and cnst.

TIPS

How can I pronounce "cnst" beside starting with a cee?

user315433

I'm confused. The output of OpenSTV I see is nothing like opavote.com/results/6313932880871424/0

hichris123

8:07 PM

@redredwine Did you use Meek?

user315433

I ran python2 runElection.py MeekSTV file.blt

user315433

 R|feetwet           |jimsug            |cnst              |WBT
  |------------------+------------------+------------------+------------------
  |Zizouz212         |Exhausted         |Surplus           |Threshold
==============================================================================
 1|         36.000000|         20.000000|          8.000000|          5.000000
  |          4.000000|          0.000000|         19.499998|         18.250001
  |---------------------------------------------------------------------------

hichris123

Oooh. Whoever ran the election on OpaVote didn't use Meek.

> Counting votes using Instant Runoff Voting.

user315433

^ @Shog9

Shog9

what. Dammit.

hichris123

8:09 PM

Doesn't seem to change the results, but...

Shog9

it doesn't, but...

The website changes the method back to IRV after you upload ballots :-/

TIPS

I enthusiastically went over to Law's chatrooms to make some boring jokes about election and stuff, and . . .

user315433

pt.SO election wasn't close at all: Winners are rray and bigown.

TIPS

Is this Law's main room?

@redredwine How "close"?

hichris123

Yes, the Tavern is for sure.

user315433

8:11 PM

Gabe used Meek: opavote.com/results/6318281803694080/0

hichris123

What happened to the nice graphics on OpaVote?

user315433

? I don't see anything different from previous elections.

hichris123

Ah, finally it loaded. Apparently Google Visualization wasn't loading.

user315433

So, Law officially set the 2nd lowest voter turnout all-time, with 73.

user315433

cnst didn't even fill out the questionnaire...

user315433

8:21 PM

and had 8 first-place votes

TIPS

@redredwine I guess Chem is the lowest?

user315433

Oops, forgot about Chem and Bio. It's Bio: 55, Chem: 61, Network Engr: 63, Law: 73.

user315433

I'm going to need a scraper for these.

TIPS

Dammit. Those Biologists beat us to it.

Quill

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Yoda quote in job title.....

"Artificial Intelligence has entered Private Beta"

rene

8:36 PM

Does that site need users?

Quill

I notice the usual private beta suspects as well...

user315433

@rene Chatbots should be enough. Smokey can be their mod.

Quill

@redredwine ehh.... SO answers take time, why bother with them

Why bother with anything for that matter.... Like even this messa

user315433

That too, see below in the transcript.

hichris123

4

Q: Where is the documentation for documentation pinning?

Where is its documentation? If there is only one pin per page, then there would be constant pinning wars. Who takes authorship of that page? What is it's general use-case? Why does it have to go through reviewing? Is it used to pin the most commonly used example? How would that counter the high...