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9:12 AM

I don't usually do that, but... if others agree with me that this answer is legit then please vote to undelete. While I disagree with the answer content and downvoted, it's still a legit "opposition", and deleting it sends wrong message, IMO. /cc @rene @Glorfindel @Bart

@JourneymanGeek if you can edit it to remove the non relevant parts, it would be great, I'm not familiar enough with what's written there to decide.

Magisch

Imo we should not be deleting criticism

5

disagreeing with it sure but not deleting

Shadow Wizard

Exactly.

Agree the comments there got somewhat heated, but still... not cause to delete the answer.

So worst case maybe lock the answer for the time being to prevent flame wars in comments.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard I'm... not 'old' enough to see deleted posts yet, was this deleted by it's owner or a CM, or just 3 other people?

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell 3 other people, otherwise I wouldn't have asked.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard Ah. You were ahead of me then :P

Shadow Wizard

9:19 AM

?

Tinkeringbell

I was going to say that if it wasn't, it might probably be better to leave it deleted ;)

Also, I was curious XD

Shadow Wizard

oh

Glorfindel

@ShadowWizard I've seen it but decided not to engage in this discussion in any way. I'm a bit busy right now.

Shadow Wizard

Fair enough. :)

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rene

9:32 AM

@ShadowWizard well, I was torn when I saw another mod (not Journey) reply there, explaining their rationale for delete voting. I didn't follow but also decided that I wouldn't prevent it. I agree criticism shouldn't be silenced but it has a place, somewhere. I don't think the first response to someone getting a job is to go in and tell the world how they are hated or what they have done wrong. If others thought it is fine to do, I would have shrugged it off. I won't undelete.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard tbh I don't want to

Shadow Wizard

2 mins ago, by Shadow Wizard

Fair enough. :)

Maybe I have too much faith in @ThorstenS. dunno.. I admit not being involved or know all the details.

Journeyman Geek

Eh. I have a feeling there's a ton of subtext there

Magisch

@rene The post does explicitly solicit feedback and criticism though

Journeyman Geek

See the chat transcript he linked

rene

9:35 AM

@ShadowWizard nor do I but this revision didn't help their case.

Shadow Wizard

@rene so the answer can be edited to something like "I don't agree with her being hired, see [this chat room] for more details", and create a new room for discussing what did or did not happen?

Derpy

@Mithrandir Mos Eisley? Isn't that the Before Shog name of the room?

Magisch

@ShadowWizard I'm a room owner in TAS and I'm pretty sure I read the incident the day after it happened. Seems like unfair criticism to me, but also still criticism.

Journeyman Geek

Also catija had nothing to do with mos

It was a consistently toxic environment folks tried to save and failed

Shadow Wizard

@rene can't see what Shog removed or added, no diff in direct revision.

rene

9:37 AM

@Magisch really? Questions about the stuff she's going to be working on, or questions in general? Let us know doesn't read to me as bring your pitchforks.

@ShadowWizard is your left mouse button broken ;) ?

Magisch

@rene I feel "questions in general" covers that though

Although, the answers aren't formulated as questions

Shadow Wizard

@rene right button actually not working for over a year :)

rene

@ShadowWizard are you on Apple?

@Magisch that is a wide interpretation....

Shadow Wizard

@rene nope

rene

buy a new mouse then ....

Shadow Wizard

9:41 AM

Bought wireless mouse it was utter crap... :/

Better half functioning mouse than mouse that is... just bad.

rene

@ShadowWizard which brand?

I used to have a bluetooth mouse from MS and liked it a lot except for its hunger for batteries ...

is this close worthy: meta.stackexchange.com/q/313125/158100 and if yes, which reason?

Tinkeringbell

@rene Yeah? Just generic off topic IMO

Somewhat Memorable Name

@Magisch questions in general.... like her favorite foods & drinks?

Dec 7 '17 at 8:43, by rene

@AndrewT. you could switch mouse keys?

hmm, wait, that worsen the situation in your case...

rene

@Tinkeringbell hmm, but it is partly on-topic? what would it take for a monetized SE to succeed?

Tinkeringbell

9:57 AM

@rene Hmmm... I parsed that as them referring to the other site as a monetized SE... I may have picked wrong...

rene

Yeah, when you take that as their main question the close reason fits

It is the fact it has both aspects that makes it hard to decide if closure is warranted

Shadow Wizard

@SomewhatMemorableName totally! ;)

@rene don't remember... Something cheap. :(

rene

Never go cheap. It will cost you ...

Journeyman Geek

eh. Can we leave that open long enough for me to answer? ;p

Shadow Wizard

@rene nah... Legit to ask to monetize SE or make bounties work with real money. Not popular and will be downvoted to death, but shouldn't be closed, IMO.

rene

10:07 AM

@JourneymanGeek sure /cc @ShadowWizard

Tinkeringbell

So not off-topic? Okay. I removed the vtc

Shadow Wizard

Cheers!

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Journeyman Geek

also holy cow, that was a long time ago

Somewhat Memorable Name

10:22 AM

As the answerer, would you like to salvage the question in danger of closure?

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'd need to chop off 75% of the question

rene

chop chop chop ...

Journeyman Geek

maybe more

Somewhat Memorable Name

I couldn't agree more...

Journeyman Geek

also shrug

feel free to close it if you want lol

Somewhat Memorable Name

10:25 AM

your wish is 5 users' command...

Tinkeringbell

So I could just have left my vote... this thing is confusing... and here I was thinking I was getting the hang of it :P

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell take your time

Tinkeringbell

Time? Huh? What's that? :P

Somewhat Memorable Name

Can eat anot?

Journeyman Geek

It took me 3 years to get 'detectable' rep on MSE

Tinkeringbell

10:29 AM

Slow....

Journeyman Geek

took me another 5 to make sense of it

Tinkeringbell

Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn't have congratulated Catija then :P

Looks like that'll be another two days of repcapping

Journeyman Geek

why? ;p

ah lol

Somewhat Memorable Name

Took me 1 year to get close vote priv on MSE for reporting/"closing" Android app's bug reports.

Then the development was halted ._.

Journeyman Geek

my condolences

tbh - its the one place where being a mod (outside SU) is handy since there's a broad class of questions a mod would have the scoop on.

Tinkeringbell

10:37 AM

@JourneymanGeek Hmmm. I have yet to see one :P

Somewhat Memorable Name

like... diamond mod tools

Tinkeringbell

@SomewhatMemorableName But I'm not supposed to let people know about those? :P

rene

You and your shiny tools ... :(

Tinkeringbell

Half of them are probably coated in three thick layers of dust because I've never used them yet ;)

rene

All I can do is kick and that lasts a mere 30 seconds ....

Somewhat Memorable Name

10:41 AM

It's there... moderator-tools (also, some wrongly tagged question)

Tinkeringbell

If you do it three times though, people will get notified ;)

rene

@Tinkeringbell if I ever get elected as mod I'm going to try all the bells and whistles in the first hour after getting the diamond ...

Tinkeringbell

@rene Good luck on finding someone to suspend within an hour :P That's one contentious election result then :P

Somewhat Memorable Name

@rene ... and the first tool would probably demodding yourself...

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Tinkeringbell

10:43 AM

Also, if you're really lucky, you'll get elected + a diamond when you're asleep :P

rene

I'll keep a shortlist of the havoc I want to cause ....

Magisch

@rene you should run on SO

We could make a "Flower you can depend on" campaign and get you elected

Journeyman Geek

ya

Somewhat Memorable Name

ya

Journeyman Geek

a good chunk of moderating is just site meta and the queues

Somewhat Memorable Name

10:50 AM

like the ~~invincible~~ invisible Drupal mods

Journeyman Geek

invisible or invincible?

Somewhat Memorable Name

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Q: Community poll: Time for moderator elections?

I've been on this site for over 4 years, and there hasn't been an election held. From my research, seems there hasn't been one for DA since 2012. I've nothing personal against them, and I hope they don't take this personal either. Their 32k reputation is much respected. From my time here, I c...

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Journeyman Geek

ah

a lot of mods actually report that their site activity goes waaaay down after mod-ness

Magisch

@JourneymanGeek Makes sense, on any given day when visiting the site you usually have other things to do then to prowl questions to answer

Plus there is some things you can just not do as mod, for instance chain reviewing close votes or commenting / casting votes on every post

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch I personally find it depends on the job (interesting work means more SU answers) and rep (not much game left past 100k)

Somewhat Memorable Name

11:02 AM

Reaching 100k on beta sites... will get generic SE swags?

Journeyman Geek

no idea

I don 't think its possible?

gnat

44

Q: Are we abusing our delete votes on Meta?

Someone posted this rant earlier today: Stack Overflow encourages people not to think So many rules that may work for 90% of the time, but there will always be edge cases where they fail. But whatever. If I ask an uncommon question here people are unable to conceive its use case...

discussion meta vote-to-delete

Journeyman Geek

@gnat some context would be nice

rene

@YvetteColomb can you chime in here? It looks like something weird is going on with your @-replies without you noticing.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek maybe it's a new game: "Random Post of the Day". ;)

Journeyman Geek

11:15 AM

;)

Shadow Wizard

OK, my turn!

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Q: Removing recommendation requests from otherwise on topic questions

I was trying to get rid of some recommendation requests when I came across a question that had an on topic programming question in addition to the request for a tutorial. I edited it to remove the off topic request but found other questions with the same issue. At least one of them already had a...

discussion reputation

Somewhat Memorable Name

@JourneymanGeek I guess the context is about answer deletion on Catija's congratulatory post...

@ShadowWizard this is a good topic!

Shadow Wizard

lol totally random, promise!

Journeyman Geek

@SomewhatMemorableName in which case - he should say so.

Shadow Wizard

Shoot and run is... not ideal.

shooting @rene with water gun and running away

Mgetz

11:20 AM

arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/…

watch both at once!

Somewhat Memorable Name

perhaps gnat's "Meta/dupe Post Finder 9000" was too sentient to even scanning chat's messages...

Shadow Wizard

@rene maybe she copied the name and a space was copied by mistake too.

(probably mobile, where there isn't auto complete I think)

rene

possible

Shadow Wizard

Or some userscript which was supposed to make replying to comments easier (e.g. userscript that adds a reply icon) but got buggy...

But yeah, can't really know. :)

Somewhat Memorable Name

@ShadowWizard well...

Shadow Wizard

11:28 AM

hmm.. well, turns out it's easy to mis-copy a space:

She's fast!

user310756

gnat

2 hours ago, by Magisch

Imo we should not be deleting criticism

Shadow Wizard

@YvetteColomb this totally explains the space in your comment replies! :D

user310756

@gnat agree. I sometime decline flags for delete comments on MSO, as it's someone's opinion that someone else doesn't agree with. Or even if it's critical of the network, they're entitled to their opinion as if everyone else.

Magisch

@YvetteColomb This foal is plotting something

World domination, most likely

user310756

11:34 AM

@rene thanks. I didn't get this ping... hm ironic

Somewhat Memorable Name

imagining a Tim-like long, beautiful, complex, and detailed story for a ~~horse~~ foal ending a ping with space

user310756

@ShadowWizard que?

user310756

@Magisch she's so gorgeous and sooooo soft

Somewhat Memorable Name

(it's good enough to write 'horse' instead of 'fowl'...)

Magisch

@YvetteColomb sounds like time for cuddles!

can one cuddle a foal?

or do they react poorly to that?

user310756

11:35 AM

oh yes!

Shadow Wizard

@SomewhatMemorableName The Foal who Lost His Keys

user310756

well Mum won't let anyone else but me cuddle her at the moment

Shadow Wizard

Yeh I'm using a script (or 26) and I noticed my comments are strange when I'm pinging people. I will go through the scripts and find the culprit. — Yvette Colomb ♦ 1 min ago

Knew it!

user310756

I rest my face on her, wrap my arms around her, pat and scratch her. Pick up all her feet and touch and handle her all over, so she's used to being handled and not touchy about certain areas being touched

Shadow Wizard

proud for not using any scripts that cause unexplained problems at unexpected times

user310756

11:37 AM

@ShadowWizard hey! <insert some funny come back>

Magisch

now I picture you carrying a small foal

user310756

she's bit. Almost to my chest!

Shadow Wizard

@YvetteColomb :P

user310756

my other foal, he lets me do the same. I pat him and snuggle him

user310756

@ShadowWizard the lazy person's come backs ;)

user310756

11:39 AM

oh @rene I just got your chat ping 28 mins later

Shadow Wizard

@YvetteColomb lazy? Now stuck in infinite Kinder Egg loop!

user310756

@ShadowWizard you can so tell you have young kids lol

Shadow Wizard

My baby daughter took one (empty) and closed it... then asked me to open. Then closed it again and asked me to open. Etc. Etc... halp!

:D

user310756

in my case it's "can I have your card details" (bank card)

user310756

@ShadowWizard condolences Another great person's brain is turned to blubber from parenting

Shadow Wizard

11:44 AM

@YvetteColomb lol... soon it will become obsolete, all payments will be done via the "phone". ;)

user310756

Magisch

Seems like the horses are also seeking shade in the face of a heatwave

user310756

@ShadowWizard for ubers and pizzas - all online/mobile network

rene

@YvetteColomb we blame caching ...

user310756

@Magisch winter here

Shadow Wizard

11:45 AM

@YvetteColomb yup that's now... in the future any shop will charge via some app.

user310756

they were all tied up, as they had their feet trimmed

user310756

@ShadowWizard they already do

Derpy

@ShadowWizard ? Don't get it. The only thing I know is that Kinder Egg are illegal in America because they fear the kids would eat the surprise.

user310756

but you still need to link your bank to it

user310756

@Derpy roflmao

Shadow Wizard

11:46 AM

@Derpy illegal??? lol...

@Derpy will try making vid if she'd let me

Derpy

And that "recently" they changed the surprise container because the new one is supposedly more "safe" (I SUPPOSE because the old two part ones could be used to shoot part of the cap if you pressed them on the joint line)

@ShadowWizard kinder EGGS are still illegal

they recently made Kinder JOY legal in the USA

standard.co.uk/news/world/…

Shadow Wizard

There are so many small things babies can put into their mouth... banning kinder eggs is just... stupid, sorry.

Parents can take care of their children.

Derpy

Shadow Wizard

oh, I don't like those ^

But because they melt easily.

Not fitting Israel at all.

Derpy

the idea is that the kinder joy has the surprise in a separate "bag".

So you eat one half with the small spoon and the surprise is in the other one.

Shadow Wizard

11:52 AM

uh oh baby in kitchen, brb

Journeyman Geek

@gnat possibly. I did feel there were major issues with the question - the comments thread... was pretty bad, and I don't particularly feel it was inappropriate

Derpy

@ShadowWizard 29$ and you can have the perfect solution to your problems

thinkgeek.com/product/ef0b

Journeyman Geek

Feel free to flag, and if a CM wishes to have a chat with me about the reasoning here, or elsewhere for it being deleted, I'm cool. I will not be throwing it a vote to undelete.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy lol :D

@JourneymanGeek to be clear, I'm fine with you deleting, and note I never asked you to reverse your decision. All good, as far as I'm concerned, it's really OK to have different views and opinions.

Let's see if I can upload the vid...

Journeyman Geek

12:11 PM

@ShadowWizard oh. No worries on your side

@Derpy ^

And sorry if I seem a bit snippy. Annoyed by multiple people

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek :)

@JourneymanGeek :(

Who? Where?

Journeyman Geek

Eh. It's fine

Shadow Wizard

Yeah, you didn't lol for long time...

tickling @Journeyman

Derpy

12:15 PM

@ShadowWizard this reminds me some weird situations when playing "toss the ball" with a cat.

It usually end up with you bringing the ball back, only to have the cat kick it away again.

Basically, the exact opposite of what would happen with a dog.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy lol yeah... cats are much like babies... ;)

Shadow Wizard

12:33 PM

@Anne congrats on reaching 1k! :D

Optimus Prime

@Sha when you got the swag, did you paid any customs duty?

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Thorsten S.

Hello together.

Just some questions answering.

Just some things: Shog's edit "Be honest" was replacing "People were getting uneasy and dropped hints that they don't want this discussion anymore" with "People were getting bored and asking me to stop pushing them". As Shog is anglophone and I dare a guess that he may interpret the discussion better, I had no objections.

Magisch

Hai

Thorsten S.

12:49 PM

I am ok that the post is deleted; at the time I left it had 31 downvotes and 21 upvotes, sometimes the total count was only -3. So enough people have seen it and I was surprised that it survived as long.

Journeyman Geek

renefamilyportrait meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309154/…

Anne Daunted

NAA

@ShadowWizard Thanks

Journeyman Geek

@AnneDaunted technically delete votes could work too

Anne Daunted

I can't vote to delete

Journeyman Geek

@rene and @ShadowWizard couid

Anne Daunted

12:51 PM

I just wanted to bring it to attention not order you to vote like that

Optimus Prime

@Catija congrats.

Added her on the wheel jsfiddle.net/sagarvd01/0bc27r6g

@Sha @Jour

19 mins ago, by Optimus Prime

@Sha when you got the swag, did you paid any customs duty?

Anne Daunted

Is there also a Wheel of Shame?

rene

1:08 PM

@JourneymanGeek there was one earlier here same user.

Tinkeringbell

@AnneDaunted I like the answer you wrote for Catija a lot! Nice way of saying it :)

Bart

@ShadowWizard let me read through. Don't know what's going on there

rene

@AnneDaunted one mistake can happen, on the second time it comes close to abuse ...

Catija

Morning... thanks :D :yawn:

Anne Daunted

@Tinkeringbell Thanks! I originally didn't plan to write an answer, i thought upvoting would be enough

Magisch

1:11 PM

@Catija working from home is great, eh?

Anne Daunted

@rene I thought I saw the picture once already: Not saying it was abuse, just NAA

Tinkeringbell

@AnneDaunted I've upvoted almost everything there, just thought yours deserved a little more in comparison to the rest ;)

Catija

I'm still adjusting. I like it so far.

Anne Daunted

@Catija Maybe the answers to this question could be of help. :-)

rene

@AnneDaunted yeah, that user is relative new, they might be confused. NAA is fine. I casted a delete vote out of the queue.

it is now ~~mod~~ CM deleted ;)

Catija

1:19 PM

... meh, it already had two delete votes.

Bart

ABUSE!!!

2

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek you linked to the question instead to the answer..

@Catija hey, was it your first mod action on MSE? ^

Anyway, can you see their deleted post here? Might be some cross network troll posting such useless posts all over.

Catija

Depends on what you call "mod actions"...

Shadow Wizard

@OptimusPrime nope, not sure about the rules but think we pay tax only if the net worth is above some threshold or the weight is over some other threshold.

Catija

@ShadowWizard Same thing, few days ago: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312850/…

Shadow Wizard

1:26 PM

@Catija huh. So.. suspension time? Or just nuking the accounts? Obviously, that's not someone who will become a positive member.

@Catija deleting posts.... ;)

Catija

@Bart's already accusing me of abuse... I think I'll hold off for the moment.

rene

@Bart it had been awhile since you were on the starboard ....

Catija

@ShadowWizard Then, yes, that was the first post I've deleted.

Shadow Wizard

@OptimusPrime lol

Bart

Don't worry, I have some stars saved in the freezer for when they start to run out @rene

rene

1:28 PM

:D

Anne Daunted

Especially considering the post's content, you could speak of deflowering

Shadow Wizard

@Bart no worry... even if you'll agree with me, we're missing a third undeleter.

@Catija congrats!

Bart

It has been undeleted by now @ShadowWizard?

rene

From my point of view deflowering is a bit ...scary ...

Journeyman Geek

@AnneDaunted boooo

Shadow Wizard

1:30 PM

@Bart oh really?? let's see...

nope, still deleted with single undelete vote

Bart

Hmm, okay, something is borked on my end.

Myeah, refresh

Shadow Wizard

smashing cache with @Bart's Smiting Stick

Magisch

@rene you could use more flowery language to describe it

Bart

Looking at the answer, the last paragraph steers it off the cliff for me @ShadowWizard. I'll let it stand as is.

Journeyman Geek

@OptimusPrime nope

John Dvorak

1:34 PM

And if all fails, you can always plant some C4

Bart

When in doubt, C4

Journeyman Geek

@OptimusPrime the declared value is pretty low too

@OptimusPrime there's a few stories of swag getting lost in transit to india tho

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Thorsten S.

@all Could someone look who deleted the comment thread under Masked Man's answer in meta.stackexchange.com/questions/313086/…

Tinkeringbell

@ThorstenS. Give them some time ;) Tim just posted a comment :P

Optimus Prime

1:50 PM

@JourneymanGeek but got a call from DHL today saying I've to pay 860 INR as duty.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Optimus Prime

Digital ocean send a swag via postal service and I didn't have to pay anything.

Tim Post

Depends on what gets sent.

Journeyman Geek

and maybe where

Optimus Prime

@TimPost that was a t shirt and few stickers.

Journeyman Geek

1:52 PM

860 INR sounds like a lot

Tim Post

If we're able to lowball the value (e.g $1 for a single shirt) you usually don't have to pay duties. But if it's multiple items, our warehouse (by policy) puts the actual value on it, or your customs department will hold the package claiming fraud on the declaration.

Optimus Prime

@JourneymanGeek One of my friend told me he had to pay 2400 INR as duty to receive a swag shirt for a security issue from a US company

Tim Post

When I lived in The Philippines it was such an enormous pain to ship large amounts of swag, and my house was the 'hub' for all events in Asia.

Journeyman Geek

@TimPost shoulda found someone here ;)

Optimus Prime

lol

Tim Post

1:54 PM

Fortunately, we partnered with a non-profit for programmers there (DevCon PH), and they were at least able to claim the duties as an expense (even though we paid them). It was hundreds of dollars per quarter at times.

Journeyman Geek

ah, clever

Tim Post

That's why the international sites set up production in their respective areas, Brazil was charging us twice the value of a T shirt to ship it, so Gabe just found someone that wanted to start a printing company and we essentially just financed it.

Magisch

@TimPost Brazil has mad taxes

Anne Daunted

@TimPost Do you think it was a good idea to introduce the new CM like that? It gave several people the opportunity to attack her.

Optimus Prime

@JourneymanGeek yeah. The daily wage of most of the people are 600 INR.

Magisch

1:56 PM

I heard about things like games consoles costing four times what they do in home markets

Optimus Prime

@TimPost that's a good idea.

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch there's a brazillian guy on SU...

and that's true

Tim Post

@AnneDaunted They would have the same opportunity on the blog, to be honest, and we'd have lesser moderation and accountability at our disposal.

Journeyman Geek

apparently in some cases, its cheaper to fly to the US, buy a thing, and fly back, than to have it shipped over

Tim Post

We're going to be introducing a blog 'archetype' on MSE soon.

Journeyman Geek

1:57 PM

@TimPost my apologies for any... meddling in that case.

... what's an archetype?

HDE 226868

@JourneymanGeek 0_0 That's . . . quite something.

Tim Post

A way to alter functionality subtly to serve a slightly different purpose.

Journeyman Geek

@HDE226868 brazillian duties ;)

@TimPost almost like... that plan ages back to mod the SE engine to do blogs too?

Optimus Prime

Have to ask money from father. :-(

Anne Daunted

@TimPost Okay. Sorry, I am just a bit shocked (maybe I'm too sensitive) at the slander being posted there

Journeyman Geek

1:59 PM

@AnneDaunted in most cases the attacks were... probably not something many of us expected

HDE 226868

@JourneymanGeek International shipping sounds like a big bowl of "ouch".

Journeyman Geek

and were quite unhappy about

@HDE226868 depends

Tim Post

Well, let me spell out the problem. The SO blog is now professionally managed, designers work with everyone posting to produce graphics and stuff, and the audience is more people following what the company is doing than people actively using the sites.

Journeyman Geek

SE's sent me a ton of swag over time, and most of it gets here.

Tim Post

So, it takes ... 3 weeks to schedule just a single short blog post, because there are so many posts in the queue to go out

Journeyman Geek

1:59 PM

@TimPost ... ow...

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