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1:22 PM

Can a serial tag question downvote be worth of a suspension?

I think I have seen related meta post on MSO recently...

I noticed that someone seems to have downvoted every question for a specific tag on Science&Fiction two days ago, at about the same time.

... or maybe somewhere else, not MSO

A: What should I do in cases where someone blindly upvotes all posts in a tag?

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If a user votes on something else than the content of a post, it is an invalid reason to vote on all questions in a tag. It is serial voting, but then in another way. I hope the automated script will revert those votes, but if it doesn't, you should really get those votes reverted and the user w...

this one?

yep, related.

Seems to be about serial upvoting, but in the end it is the same problem.

Anyway... suggested action? Flag?

Optimus Prime

flag one post to mod and describe it

1:34 PM

@Derpy @OptimusPrime that's not easy to detect tho

chances are you flag it, and we end up passing it up to a CM to take a look

@JourneymanGeek ok, will flag

@Derpy would probably recommend a custom flag, and linking that

1:46 PM

winterbash site down, are they tweaking something related to the Chicken?

chicken conspiracy intensifies

user315433

Ru.SO became the third site, after SO and Math, to get "interesting" sort as default on the homepage. Makes sense since they are 3rd in questions per day.

user315433

2:01 PM

I'm not really happy with two out of the three answers to what is the difference between MEAN stack and Full stack linking to Vakula Cherry posts...

user315433

Ah, ChrisF got to it while I was posting.

is there a hint hidden on the chicken emoji posting? surely hard to tell...

nope

mumble. Actually.....

balpha just fixed the spelling of his name I thiiiiiink

2:07 PM

❓🐔 this could indicate that the story is missing a "page"

so maybe we need to find the missing link

I think we actually need a chicken tag @Glorfindel @Derpy ;p

@Glorfindel how ye dare removing the [chicken] tag?

@JourneymanGeek not yet

(grr... my evil plot to taggize the chicken was fowled)

I understand it as the missing chicken being hidden in a hat

So probably the /chicken page will work once you have earned the hat

2:09 PM

🎁🐔

@JourneymanGeek indeed, saying Balpha is infuriating him. ;)

@Chicken for a moment I thought you were the chicken

maybe it found the hat in a present?

Hen will we learn the truth?

@ShadowWizard maybe we need to ~~torture~~ annoy him into revealing the chicken? ;p

@JohnDvorak well played sir. A low window this time :)

2:10 PM

Dec 6 at 11:05, by Shadow Wizard

Sep 13 at 18:43, by balpha

Now, people uppercasing the "b", I'll never get used to.

@JourneymanGeek heh, sorry :p

go ahead, say Balpha out loud! @Journeyman :D

i'd recommend to pin only 🎩🐔, chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/89?m=6548504#6548504, and chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/6554988#6554988

I also recommend upvoting the Chicken related meta post. That may or may not be so that I reach the cap, get the medal and the hats.

lol

I'm at 156 today

2:14 PM

well crap

> Display name may only be changed once every 30 days; you may change again on Jan 12 '18 at 12:00

(and I think I'll hit 25k before winterbash ends)

lol

@Derpy Are you still seeing the winterbash site as down?

@Chicken I was actually thinking of using aibobot for that ;p

@MarkHenderson randomly, yep

@Derpy Can you tell me what IP address your browser is attempting to connect to?

We're seeing sporadic reports but we can't nail it down to anything in particular

Shadow of the Chicken

2:17 PM

Who said chicken? :D

actually, seems that a couple ctrl+F5 fixed that for now.

@Chicken If I'm not mistaken... change your name from other site where you haven't changed your name, and select "apply to all sites"

@ShadowoftheChicken fake

Shadow of the Chicken

lol

@AndrewT. I don't think that's how it works

@Chicken once you embrace the Chicken, you stay a Chicken. Foreverrrrrrrrrrr

2:18 PM

@Derpy Can you tell me anyway? Because we're still seeing ~ 5,000 people getting those errors (if you're in Chrome, hitting F12 and going to the Network tab and refreshing should be able to tell you the IP address)

@AndrewT. doesn't work, just tried it. Apparently the devs are smarter than that :p

@MarkHenderson 151.101.1.69:443 - or at least Firefox reports that IP

@Derpy Thankyou!

@Chicken some people do... silly stuff to get around things

and after a ctrl+f5, working again -> 198.252.206.26:443

2:20 PM

In theory you could ask a mod very nicely. but...

Huh 198.252.206.26:443 here too

easier on regular sites? ;p

@Chicken I see. It has been fixed since it has been abused recently

Winterbash site works for me

@Derpy Yeah that's what we suspected. For some reason, some users are seeing a really, really, really old DNS entry (like literally almost a month old)

2:21 PM

@MarkHenderson could it be caused by too-few-free-chicken-hats-given-out?

Wow. This is a Firefox bug

Everyone who is hitting the old old cache is on Firefox

This is a Chicken bug!

Firefox here

Foxes are known to have strong cache

call Telkitty

2:24 PM

0_0

@AndrewT. tried it with my sock, it copy everything except the name. @CrazyIvan knows of a workaround, probably something with account deletion, creating new account, then merging. Or something crazy like that. ;)

@MarkHenderson Law of unintended concequences much? ;p

@MarkHenderson it's not respecting the TTL?

@Chicken It would appear so. We have a wildcard DNS entry for *.stackexchange.com with a 5-minute TTL. But weeks ago we added an A record for winterbash2017.stackexchange.com

However some FireFox users are still seeing the old wildcard when visiting the winterbash site

Whoever came up IDENTIFICATION DIVISION is bloody geeky

2:33 PM

@MarkHenderson actually, the hat icon on the Meta site just disappeared too, so probably the "bug" is spreading to that too.

@Derpy when you go to about:config and filter on network.dnsCacheExpiration, what does it say? It's the internal cache TTL in seconds.

I did have a 404 earlier on some CSS sprite I think, the winterbash menu would open but no hats were visible.

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@Chicken Sprite 404s are entirely possible that was our fault. We had some bad data in the fastly cache

It's.. not been the smoothest morning

@MarkHenderson and that cache is hard to kick. o_O

2:49 PM

We have built in cache breaking mechanims that we just had to trigger

bool breakCache = true; .... and deploy ....

And it's caching...

@MarkHenderson massive knife switch and flashing lights?

oh and sirens. "Cache Breaking Cache Breaking, please stand clear"

@AndrewT. use one of the other two settings: false / FileNotFound

trolling worked

even @ShadowWizard stepped into my trap ...

But there is Visual Studio for French :)

2:58 PM

took me a while to notice the date, I thought a bunch of high reps collectively decided to give up and start trolling instead

> African variants of French are out because they are too poor to afford a C++ compiler, however you could use C instead.

0_0

3:11 PM

@rene !@(&%##@@$%*()^~@$

who knew the "Oh, Shinny" hat could be used like Bowser air pod.

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bites @Derpy's shin

Its shiny

What's next? pretending it is "wizard" and not "Wizzard"?

naw, that's Rincewind.

3:16 PM

Shadow Lizard

raw IDz

@ShadowWizard yw

the asteroids easter egg still works. Seems to not unlock any hat, as usual

3:41 PM

Word of the day: Verschlimmbesserung

Chicken of the day: 🐔

Catija

Have there been no more chickens?

Maybe that's the end of the Chicken... it became a hat.

I got chicken fever...

Catija

Chicken Pox, all around.

3:46 PM

@Chicken can I now get a hat please?

@ShadowWizard no.

1 hour ago, by Derpy

@Chicken :(

@Derpy chicken looking tired

Just invited Chicken to the Tavern. Let's see what happens.

I'm reading some old .NET documentation, and it has J# code samples. Haven't seen that in a long time :p

Move it to here instead

Chicken Coop on the Meta

Because someone said that "it's like a tavern" (ref: chat.meta...

3:54 PM

Plot twist: @Telkitty has been secretly hired by SE, and now operates Chicken.

@ShadowWizard That is most plausible.

It could also be an elaborate scheme to troll the Tavern users.

@ShadowWizard Shog is here. You should ping him to see if you get an hat.

either you'll get 🐔 or 👞

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also, post random chickens emoji. Maybe he is here to manually awards the Chicken hats to the believers.

3:59 PM

@Derpy ban hat? No thanks. ;)

🎄🎁🐔

How to be a chicken?

it takes many years of training

How to be a Chicken

►

Oh my.... @Shog has 0 hats on MSE. What a shame.

:)

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4:26 PM

I was thinking about creating a community wiki for the different English sites as I know that there is a lot of overlap and I get confused as well as many other people.

would that be okay to do or would it be downvoted or flagged

@JakeSymons What sites do you mean? english.SE and ell.SE ?

Yes and lit and sific and fantasy

I can understand the confusion between englisn and ell, but the others you mention have very different topics, no?

But perhaps users of those sites are able to give you a better answer. Each site has its own chat room normally, one more active than the other.

@Chicken yeah but scifi and fantasy is lit so there could be an overlap there. There is differnet between the lit and language sites but there are overlaps there

4:55 PM

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5:06 PM

@JakeSymons keep in mind that (some) overlap between SE sites is allowed. The topics per site are not modelled/shaped to be a hard/distinct border.

@rene I know that there is some overlap, I was wondering if a breakdown of the main things to go on each site where to make it easier for users to know what English site to use.

I thought i'd ask on here in case it was a terrible suggestion and got immidatly downvoted.

Where would you post this, by the way? On Meta Stack Exchange?

If anything I don't believe this can be settled on MSE