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user315433

6:06 PM

A recent question on the site, which otherwise uncontroversial, on-topic and interesting (and which has already got two in-depth answers), starts off with an attempt at humour which has resulted in a rollback war: I work with a really old DBA who says a lot of weird stuff. Dude has an O'Reill...

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user315433

Political Correctness Overflow

user194636

and I thought we'd be safe on our little local meta

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user315433

> For example, if we had an sexist ageist anti-jew slur that targeted those loving in Australia, "That bloody ancient dreidel-spinning tallywacker can't even write a SELECT."
Would become after the neural network was trained, "That neckbeard can't even write a SELECT."

user194636

chat markdown eh

user194636

6:12 PM

gotta love it

John Dvorak

I love "dreidel-spinning tallywacker"

user315433

Markdown is okay, not having it in multi-line messages, though...

user315433

I like the typo in "loving in Australia"

yagmoth555

I would say watch out even if you paste from the main site, from what I seen some word can get you direct banned in chat, not on the main site

user194636

Evan Carroll is a lot of fun.

user194636

6:15 PM

For certain values of "fun".

user315433

@yagmoth555 I'm not particularly concerned about that now...

user315433

user315433

The lack of margin (on mobile) is annoying though.

John Dvorak

There's no margin for error when it comes to deleting accounts. That's pretty intentional.

user315433

Especially when doing it yesterday.

user315433

6:22 PM

The queue is backed up or something.

yagmoth555

oh ok

user315433

So, what non-welcoming thing should I say to speed up the process?

John Dvorak

Getting a chat ban doesn't actually speed up deletion

also, I believe you meant "unwelcoming"

user315433

@JohnDvorak According to our new boss being not-welcoming is a reason for deletion.

user315433

When Wensel says jump, SE "leadership" asks how high.

John Dvorak

6:28 PM

Let's make no more mention of her, please

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Gawd, it's like I'm a curse

Whenever I open the tab, the discussion is about her, but transcript of previous hours about something else

user194636

At least we now know who to blame

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

!!/blame

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@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ It's hey's fault.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I knew it! That sneaky bast@rd

Secretly a Palpatine

Palpatine is the head of the good guys who's actually the head of the bad guys, right?

This stuff only seems less ridiculous in context

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Q: There seems to be a flock of people who's mission is to close questions

I understand that we need to keep things clean and not have a bunch of repeat questions but people seem like all they want to do is close a question when there really are good opportunities for discussion. Here is an example. I'm the only person actually trying to talk about the question and ...

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CV birdies. @rene is secretly a cute pigeon

Or dove

user194636

6:40 PM

flockers

bjb568

birbs.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Haha I will no longer be able to take anything @rene says seriously

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ \o

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

He's just playing tough

@rene awwww

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John Dvorak

6:43 PM

hOOt

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@bjb568 no cat business in this chat

These birds are NOT edible

bjb568

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Now that I think about it, SOCVR does seem like a flock of pigeons (or doves if you're a dove person) that seem confused about seeds on the ground, but really, they're maximizing seed consumption efficacy

@bjb568 how many did you eat?

Tell the truth

John Dvorak

I do dove me some bread every once in a while

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@JohnDvorak how many degrees can your head turn? Just checking how owl you are

John Dvorak

6:54 PM

450

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@JohnDvorak it'd probably do

Less than 720 are impure though

You look suspiciously from a human background

hey

rolling on the bed for 30 minutes trying to sleep... woke up to check the clock, continued with checking a new question on SE... finally lost in time writing an answer for 1 hour...

rene

7:09 PM

@hey need some relaxing to listen to? Try this

hey

I thought I'd get an earworm, but thankfully not after the second half... and now I don't want to sleep ._.

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user194636

fully expected that to be a rickroll

rene

I'm a bad flower but not that bad ...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@SmokeDetector K that seems like on-topic spam

@rene awww, you're just so cute lil flockie

Whoa, I hope I'm not being birdist

@SmokeDetector K

@SmokeDetector del

Del. I SAID DEL

@SmokeDetector gone

SmokeDetector

7:33 PM

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user315433

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Turkey vultures feeding on dead or nearly dead questions.

user315433

Speaking of which, I reworked my high-speed low-drag review webapp, so that the most closable questions are near the top.

user315433

Opening it at a random moment of the day pretty much guarantees 10-20 closevotes will be spent.

user315433

Three times, at the intervals of 1 hour or more (to get fresh questions; it looks at the 200 newest) => done with 50 CVs for the day.

user315433

8:11 PM

PSA: avoid typing "Meta.SO" on Twitter: it becomes a link to meta.SO which on top of that attaches someone's mugshot to the tweet.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

9:08 PM

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Q: How can Stack Overflow be more welcoming?

I have been on Stack Overflow for a little over a year now, and while I've had many of my questions resolved by kind and well-meaning people, I for some reason have never totally felt welcome here. The "why" of that is something I can't quite put my finger on (and that's honestly too subjective ...

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Wait a second, does this have something to do with the recent Avengers: Meta Wars movie?

I mean, was that removed user not just a random person from the internet?

user315433

All this need to be welcomed.

user315433

Can't people just go visit their family or friends when they have that need?

user315433

Stack Overflow is neither.

user315433

9:47 PM

Not "Oh sorry, you can tell us what we can or can't talk about". It's unacceptable to dictate what people can talk about. It's just pure bigotry and I can't in all my heart support it. That said, we can make an effort not to offend, but it can't be mandatory not to offend or to pamper to unreasonable requests. Obvious trolls get more support from SE than useful contributors, and this is what is making this place unwelcoming. — Sklivvz 9 hours ago

user315433

And Tim, we both know perfectly well that it is true. We talked about it many times, I gave you tons of examples. Mods get insulted by trolls on twitter about their SE work? We don't do anything here. Why? And this is a perfect example of someone putting up an incredible shitstorm to be "right" in a stupid, irrelevant, idiotic chat conversation which was not problematic. — Sklivvz 9 hours ago

bjb568

10:09 PM