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user310756

08:00

@Cerbrus yeh I know.

Journeyman Geek

@YvetteColomb no, its about Tink

And maybe Chris if he's in the same situation

user310756

@JourneymanGeek it's about me. Chris doesn't ignore me

user310756

and still I haven't had an answer

Journeyman Geek

Heck, if I hadn't quit, I'd probably in the same shoes

user310756

last we heard there was half an active mod on the site

SPArchaeologist-様

08:00

@JourneymanGeek They have a virtual clipboard that provide copy-paste support between your machine and the remote Azure VM. You can access it via a floating button on the left side of your VM window. Sadly, they also bound the AltGR+Shift key combo to that window.

user310756

the abuse on the site is miserable

user58

Yvette... this is not about you as a person. But you have a long history with some of the people involved here, and I'm afraid that you cannot look at the situation in an objective manner at the moment. That has led to an extremely unproductive conversation. That's why you were asked to stop.

user310756

it's a genuine question - to see if something can be done about malignant comments

user310756

I'm obviously concerned about it

user310756

-39

Q: A call for emergency moderation/tools on the sites that most need it

Can the community team please allocate emergency moderators to fill in temporarily on the sites that are suffering from lack of moderation? The behaviour is becoming rotten and it's destroying the current active meta community. While people may end up leaving the site, it's not nice for people t...

user310756

08:02

@user58 no - I have one opinion and perspective and other people have other opinions and perspectives

Journeyman Geek

Well as far as meta goes, I'm not sure any number of extra mods could fix it quickly

user310756

deleting comment threads would help

SPArchaeologist-様

@JourneymanGeek I think you can already see the issue.... You can't use the AltGR+Shift+[KEY] combo to insert any special character (like the curly braces on most European layouts keyboards) since AltGR+Shift is already capture by the "open virtual clipboard" command

Journeyman Geek

@SPArchaeologist-様 OH

yeah

and you can't wassname...

rebind it

Cerbrus

@YvetteColomb It would also cause a massive outrage.

SPArchaeologist-様

08:03

@JourneymanGeek that's is an option I am still searching....

Cerbrus

Just like controversial youtubers disabling comments... People get to pissed off about that

SPArchaeologist-様

that said it seems that they are really working on it. Another bug that I noticed about two days ago seems to be solved now, so I hope they will notice that developers are pretty used to Curly Brace

Journeyman Geek

@YvetteColomb one, hopefully positive outcome that could come out of this is well, a re-examination of how the company deals with the community, and maybe more CMs

But in some cases - mods may not be able or choose not to act

I for one, feel a lot safer as a normal user. I just didn't feel it was right to sit by

M.A.R.

08:16

Good morningish

As they say, the Tavern never sleeps.

They started saying it just right now.

Also they just mean @Journey by "the Tavern".

What did I miss

Wait, don't answer that, I don't wanna spam chat

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. actually, there was an old joke that RA was basically the bar from Cheers and I was the bar mascot ;p

M.A.R.

Reality is a joke. Joke is a reality.

-40

Q: A call for emergency moderation/tools on the sites that most need it

Can the community team please allocate emergency moderators to fill in temporarily on the sites that are suffering from lack of moderation? The behaviour is becoming rotten and it's destroying the current active meta community. While people may end up leaving the site, it's not nice for people t...

feature-request flags moderation moderators community

This is not a good idea simply because of how it would look. SE demodding elected mods to appoint people "of their own"

Even if that's not the truth.

. . . I have >189 favorites.

Gawd, that feature I borked.

Jeez, votes stopped meaning anything anymore.

Everything has a dozen upvotes and downvotes. Everything is grey.

What is this, Gotham?

djsmiley2k

I AM Batman.

M.A.R.

No you're not, Harvey. We're over that.

user58

@djsmiley2k because I'm Iron Man

M.A.R.

08:25

Now, this is gonna sound weird, but I recommend you take a few anger management classes before Rachel, uh, goes away in the near future.

djsmiley2k

@M.A.R. ok now that just got weird :P

M.A.R.

@user58 Hey, didn't know MCU heaven had WiFi

StephanS

@user58 I hate to tell you but picking Iron Man might not be the best choice

user58

@StephanS No, that's what it's referencing

M.A.R.

@djsmiley2k also, um, listen to 80's tunes if nurses ever end up talking to you

djsmiley2k

08:27

:D

Journeyman Geek

I am... dog?

M.A.R.

You don't know, I mean, common cold can get you hospitalized these days.

@JourneymanGeek NO CAPES

Capes are lame

Unless it's a medieval setting

Journeyman Geek

And get you sucked into Jet engines

@M.A.R. you could trip

and stick yourself in the foot with your own sword

M.A.R.

Meh, apparently they never trap . . . trup . . . tripped

Journeyman Geek

then die slowly and painfully of gangerine

M.A.R.

08:29

This got dark. I thought dogs are supposed to be upbeat.

Unless you're a kittenlord from the dark side.

user58

*turns on light*

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. these are dark times.

M.A.R.

Tell that to the sun

user58

*lightbulb explodes*

M.A.R.

@user58 wait no

I guess we found out why the hospital blew up

Luuklag

08:30

Hey guys, is there anything else, besides modflagging a post of my own, to report a userprofile with spam in the "About me:"?

ArtOfCode

@JourneymanGeek is that like tangerine?

user58

No, but it's generally not a huge deal.

M.A.R.

@Luuklag Nah you're good I guess

Mod flags get precedence in the queue, right?

Luuklag

I'm about to run out of questions of my own ;)

M.A.R.

But that requires a mod be there to handle them . . .

Luuklag

08:31

@M.A.R. I think so, but mods are kind of stretched thin.

M.A.R.

@Luuklag flag anything I guess

Find rude comments and mod-flag the about me's.

Turning a couple of birds into kebab with a single stone, they say.

@Luuklag little yoga never hurt anyone

But that was what I was euphemisming at.

Luuklag

meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/9/autobiographer

check it out, its almost epidemic

this one is for a Swami... meta.stackexchange.com/users/632963/onlinelovesolutions

StephanS

In theory, could three users team up and terrorize the site by flagging posts and getting them auto removed?

M.A.R.

@StephanS In theory, they'd also be caught soon enough to be doing too much damage

And it should be 6 for posts.

Three for comments.

StephanS

ah I read your post wrong then

6 doesn't really seem like that big of a number to do alot of damage

M.A.R.

08:43

@StephanS well, I mean, Charcoal has extreme power with lots of users equipped and willing to flag spam, but it's worked so well for so long because it's reliant on honest intentions and well-meaning users.

There were no rate limits and hard rules in the beginning until a few edge cases of abuse, and it's still not a very strict environment, because people that show up there want to help.

Journeyman Geek

@StephanS presumably as far as Charcoal goes there's checks and balances

M.A.R.

And protractors and rulers.

Brits love those.

user351483

As a Brit, I can confirm that.

M.A.R.

Speaking of Charcoal, @Art do you know what Undo's up to these days?

user351483

Especially plastic rulers that you can twang on your desk.

M.A.R.

08:45

As an Iranian, I approve

StephanS

@Snow and the ones with Queen in front of their names

user437611

@YvetteColomb Here's a bit a free advice if you'll take it: asking people why they're ghosting you or stating that fact publicly almost never helps and instead reflects badly on your self-esteem. And honestly, you look a bit stressed out with all the meta activity; it would be a good to just sit back and relax for a while. That'll lend perspective and you'll be able to see and comprehend things more objectively.

user437611

I realize that all your endeavours on Meta SE and SO are in good faith, it's just that they aren't expressed persuasively and more often than not contain appeals to emotion. Note that ultimately persuading the majority is what matters; otherwise unpopular opinions will perpetually remain unpopular...regardless of their virtue.

user351483

@StephanS I can't see anyone twanging Her Majesty.

Luuklag

Hey, Yvette is back?

terdon

08:48

@Snow It doesn't happen in public, silly.

StephanS

@Snow that went in a direction I really didn't expect it to

rene

@M.A.R. real life happened to him

user351483

I sometimes wish real life would happen to me as well.

M.A.R.

@rene oh no, real life is the worst

Chicken soup. The cure is chicken soup.

With garlic.

And onions. And garlic onions. That's a thing.

user351483

Or tomato, of you're vegetarian/vegan

M.A.R.

08:53

Tomato chicken soup

user58

Or just vegetable soup

with, uh, extra pepper

M.A.R.

No

Raedwald

One of my friend's two default life rules is "If in doubt, add more garlic"

ArtOfCode

@M.A.R. No need for a protracted debate about it, though.

Aibobot

@user58 ALL THE PEPPER

user58

08:55

or mushroom barley soup

M.A.R.

@ArtOfCode are you approaching this from a different angle?

user58

....pretty much any soup will do TBH

user351483

Mulligatawny soup. Mmmmm

Raedwald

Being obtuse.

M.A.R.

@user58 says you. Your advice is why his real lifitis hasn't been cured yet.

user351483

08:56

@Raedwald Acutely.

ArtOfCode

@M.A.R. It's something I feel acutely

Oi you pun-stealer :P

M.A.R.

The chat is not safe anymore for slower fingers.

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user58

Art has been getting ninja'd a lot in the past couple days...

user351483

!!/puns : geometry

SmokeDetector

@Snow No such command 'puns'.

Cerbrus

08:58

user351483

@SmokeDetector you're no pun

ArtOfCode

@user58 mobile :(

Can't type as fast as with a keyboard

SecretAgentMan

@Luuklag I'm back and active on the site

M.A.R.

09:34

@SecretAgentMan Oh. My. God. Agent Smith! I'm a big fan! blushes in a rush of emotions

user58

09:53

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SecretAgentMan

@M.A.R. haha I should have prefaced that with "Yvette" <link>. But for you, autographs are free

And ssshhhhh.... Smith is secret.

user310756

10:07

@Yvette, just so we're on the same page -- if you ever get your diamond back, I will, for the first time in my life, engage in the appropriate procedures to have you removed. And yes, it will involve digging out all your deleted posts, including the one where you requested comments being globally disabled and the Meta sites being frozen because the amount of dissent there was bothering you. Please cease and desist. Monica was a hundred times the moderator that you will ever be. — Frédéric Hamidi 49 mins ago

Raedwald

@YvetteColomb I read that, and mulled whether to flag it as unkind. I'd say it was borderline, given the "appropriate procedures" bit.

user310756

that person has been commenting under my mse posts.

djsmiley2k

The only valid response is "Ok".

user310756

I'm not chasing people around on meta commenting under their posts

user310756

@djsmiley2k yep I should do that

djsmiley2k

10:11

i.e. ignore and carry on, imo.

They have their views, that's great.

user310756

I left the site amd people were sad - and now it's like I'm satan

Arthur Havlicek

I don't think it's appropriate. "Just so we're on the same page, I don't like you, stop all activity". Well what is Yvette supposed to do ?

Raedwald

I've seen his comments on various posts, not only your's. He's on the wrong side of history, and skirts close to unacceptable, but I've not yet seen one that clearly goes over the line.

djsmiley2k

lets freeze there

@YvetteColomb so far I've seen one person being..... whatever they're being

that's not everyone, don't let them cloud your thinking.

Cerbrus

He's free to his opinion

Everyone is.

Arthur Havlicek

10:13

@Cerbrus Some opinions are downright offensive, you're free to hold them, not to express them

Cerbrus

@Raedwald Being on the "other side of history" isn't per definition "wrong".

@ArthurHavlicek Who are you to decide what opinion is offensive?

Arthur Havlicek

@Cerbrus I'm using my free opinion there

Cerbrus

Stated as fact ;-)

user310756

@djsmiley2k oh there's been hundreds of comments under a few of my posts and the votes speak volumes - mind you 0 saying anything positive about the network is guaranteed to get downvotes

Arthur Havlicek

The fact is some opinions are offensive yes, I didn't state any in particular fyi

Cerbrus

10:15

My point: no point in getting upset over someone voicing their opinion.

Arthur Havlicek

I only said "I don't think it's appropriate" about the comment. I didn't go further.

Cerbrus

@ArthurHavlicek Then maybe I misunderstood

djsmiley2k

There's a lot of that lately.

Arthur Havlicek

@Cerbrus No problem, thanks for acknowledging.

Raedwald

@Cerbrus You know better than that. Nobody here is entirely free to say whatever they want. And saying "that's just my {or their] opinion" is no excuse for saying something unacceptable. We can have a reasonable (but operhaps difficult) discussion about whether a particular opinion is or is not OK to state here.

SecretAgentMan

10:17

I acknowledge my right to be wrong.

Cerbrus

@Raedwald The discussion wasn't just about that, though...

user58

10:29

This room was placed in timeout for 2 minutes; This has got to stop.

ArtOfCode

This room was placed in timeout for 10 minutes; go do something else, folks

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djsmiley2k

10:47

Now, how do i build a better enclosure for barry the suspicious turtle?

user58

sounds like a Pets question

Magisch

include an overshadowed hide near the water

so barry can be suspicious and menacing in the comfort of his own hide

ArtOfCode

@djsmiley2k bigger fences usually do it :P

djsmiley2k

@user58 not a genuine question, just trying to get a topic going which isn't going to cause trouble.

rene

→ 1 message moved to Trashcan

djsmiley2k

10:48

@ArtOfCode hah, he's not outside.

ArtOfCode

@djsmiley2k other turtles so none of them go near each other and nobody ever escapes

djsmiley2k

@ArtOfCode hahaha

Cerbrus

@djsmiley2k Is the purpose to keep the turtle inside the enclosure, or to make the enclosure more comfortable for the turtle?

djsmiley2k

more comfortable

Cerbrus

@djsmiley2k Then I can't help...

djsmiley2k

10:50

also, will be 'brand new' enclosure. Lets pretend I'm actually good at woodwork and have lots of acrylic to work with too.

ArtOfCode

@djsmiley2k oooh fancy. I like the idea of a hide near some water

djsmiley2k

@ArtOfCode yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to do digging area (coco bark and coco fibre) and 'swimming' area, in one single enclosure.

ArtOfCode

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djsmiley2k

at the moment we have cocofibre piled up about 4 inches high

M.A.R.

Turtles?

djsmiley2k

10:51

and he can climb into a tupperware bowl to swim in

ArtOfCode

@djsmiley2k that seems like it'd work

M.A.R.

All I know is someone tried to move them in LEGO or something

ArtOfCode

@djsmiley2k ah, this is where you improve - use said acrylic to make a proper pool

Magisch

I heard some turtles like differently temperated water

so they can self regulate their temperature. If you can have a cooler end and a warmer end each with some form of shelter

djsmiley2k

@ArtOfCode but how to stop him shuffling all of his coco bark/fibre into the pool and making a mud pipe...

ArtOfCode

10:52

@djsmiley2k well maybe he likes it that way :P

Magisch

@djsmiley2k use aspen fiber

djsmiley2k

Maybe he does

ArtOfCode

maybe netting? Something that might trap the fiber as it gets too close?

Magisch

aspen fiber doesn't soak up water

Cerbrus

Glue the fibers down?

djsmiley2k

10:53

@Cerbrus it's for digging in

he's a land turtle

ArtOfCode

@djsmiley2k as opposed to a takeoff turtle?

Cerbrus

@ArtOfCode There goes my water...

ArtOfCode

@Cerbrus TSA'll have it off you :P

Cerbrus

Goddamn

Art, are you a father, by chance?

'cause those dad jokes are killing me

M.A.R.

No, he's a card of oat

ArtOfCode

10:55

@Cerbrus just a smidge too young for that

M.A.R.

And a brit. ← explains it better

ArtOfCode

just getting my practise in early

Cerbrus

@ArtOfCode You can't be younger than me... are you?

M.A.R.

Art's, 20?

19?

Cerbrus

wat

Magisch

10:56

Art's younger then me :p

ArtOfCode

21. 19's a bit low :P

M.A.R.

All I know is I'm slightly older, which grants me the right to be snarky.

Oh, I'm not?

Cerbrus

Well that's 7 years...

M.A.R.

This makes no sense! OBJECTION!

ArtOfCode

@M.A.R. ah, but I'll snark back at you :P

Magisch

10:56

I'm 25

Cerbrus

I'd expected the difference to be the other way xD

M.A.R.

I'm still 20.

ArtOfCode

@M.A.R. whippersnapper

M.A.R.

21 in two months

ArtOfCode

get off my lawn

M.A.R.

10:57

I will egg your windows. Sir.

terdon

um... keep it down, ya little rascals!

ArtOfCode

@Cerbrus there's something to be said for "fake it until you make it" :)

@terdon we will both egg your windows. Lord Sir Terdon the Third.

M.A.R.

Trick or upvote

terdon

@ArtOfCode OY!

The second, dammit!

ArtOfCode

@terdon ah, I can never remember

terdon

10:58

The third's my little brother, and he's an idiot!

M.A.R.

Everyone gets it wrong

ArtOfCode

@M.A.R. Spooky Closevotes

M.A.R.

I personally prefer dressing up as a moderator notice

@ArtOfCode that's so 2014.

ArtOfCode

There's always the good old "chase people down the road with a giant downvote" play

Magisch

What about a sign that reads "I'm voting to close this costume as unclear"

M.A.R.

11:00

It's a Supermario spin-off

@Magisch What are you, 25?

Well you didn't cough

Back to not slacking off. Watch out for all hell breaking loose, 'cause it keeps doing it when I'm not here

rene

@M.A.R. 5 minutes delay

Luuklag

Damn, you can even find spam for escorts on SE profiles....

Things are getting out of hand with these 1 rep users

JNat

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog gone

Cerbrus

@Luuklag Do you have an example? I'm asking for a friend.

Luuklag

If that is in accordance with the room rules I'll be happy to provide your friend with an example

rene

11:10

nope, just flag and move on

Raedwald

Wait long enough and SE might provide you with a suitable ad. :-(

Luuklag

@rene if you could only implement the flag on a user profile ;)

rene

Worth reading on that spam profile topic: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303746/…

Cerbrus

(My "for a friend" was obviously a joke... It's for my brother)

Luuklag

@rene: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/335912/…

Raedwald

11:12

I recently flagged a suspect question for closure, then thought, I wonder about the poster's profile... and found a troll profile. But I couldn't flag it because there is a limit of 1 outstanding flag per post.

Cerbrus

Oh that's annoying yea

I often have that with dupe questions

If I flag'm as off-topic too early

Luuklag

@Raedwald Ill often flag one of my own questions

@Cerbrus retract your flag?

Cerbrus

You can close-vote only once

Even if you retract it

rene

@Raedwald you can flag any post. No need to be the same one or even yours (though it i easier if you do)

Luuklag

yeah thats true, got thrown off with you noticing flags

SPArchaeologist-様

11:19

@Luuklag Local dog here already tried.

129

Q: Spam Profiles are getting my goat. Could we have better tools for mods to deal with profile spam?

Super User got hit by another batch of spammers creating profiles. They've got accounts on other sites from what I've heard from other mods and from the comments here. Last time it was streaming. Now it's insurance sales... with phone numbers (as of december, looks like they're spamming scammy f...

feature-request support profile-page moderator-tools spam

Suggested approach: dismiss fighting this windmill. Staff already answered on that one and they do indeed trust in the "If a tree falls and no one sees it" approach.

I once used to report abusive profiles. I have long stopped doing that.

Luuklag

Yeah this might be a lost battle. But automation would certainly be viable to some extent here.

At least Bhargav Rao made an effort: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105218/…

Raedwald

11:37

So, is flagging profiles a waste of time?

user194636

Depends on the moderator that handles the flag

Tinkeringbell

@Raedwald For spam? Hmmm. Most of the escort ones have pretty inappropriate profile pictures, I used to delete those. But if it's just text, yeah... kind of a waste of time until they actually post something.

Luuklag

In this case it is your typical cute looking girl facebook picture, nothing offensive about it...

Raedwald

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind.

Luuklag

@Raedwald I just quit about 5 mins ago. No point in fighting a losing battle

And its not like mods on MSE have got nothing to do ;)

Journeyman Geek

11:42

@Luuklag I deleted profiles until I got tired of it 😁

Luuklag

Yeah it could be a fulltime job really

Mgetz

@SPArchaeologist-様 🐐🐐🐐

Luuklag

12:02

How is one ever able ot achieve the Vox Populi badge, when you can't vote more then 30 times?

M.A.R.

@Luuklag You can if you vote for questions too

Tinkeringbell

70

A: Cannot vote on question although 40 votes limit not reached

This is totally by design... If 1 in 3 of your votes are on questions, you will get 40 votes. If you vote on fewer questions than that you will get fewer votes (lowest is 30) We just updated the blog

Luuklag

thx @Tinkeringbell

Tinkeringbell

You're welcome

M.A.R.

thx @Tinkeringbell

Luuklag

12:04

So I'll first have to vote on 10 questions tomorrow ;)

user194636

Vote For This Question or The Kitten Gets It

Jeff Atwood on May 06, 2011

When the wordpress.stackexchange.com community asked Why are questions not being voted on …

I have noticed a trend that questions (even good ones) that have multiple answers are not being voted on.

Out of our 5,550 questions only 41% have at least 1 vote which leaves around 3,000 with 0 votes and a few hundred with negative votes.

I had a strong sense of déjà vu all over again.

One of the longest running concerns in Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange history is Why aren’t people voting for questions? a question originally posed on Stack Overflow on August 5, 2008 — …

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Yeah, I think that's about it ;)

M.A.R.

Holy crap, that is one huge onebox

user194636

Yesterday's was twice the size

Lightness Races in Orbit

58

Q: How to get Vox Populi badge when you can no longer vote after 32 votes?

Possible Duplicate: Cannot vote on question although 40 votes limit not reached I have the converse of the problem in Vox Populi with 30 votes; well, sort of. My counter shows 32 votes for today. But I can no longer vote on questions (or answers, but that I expected), thus being deni...

bug badges

user194636

12:06

yesterday, by Paul White

holy one box

SPArchaeologist-様

@Tinkeringbell you see, my parrot friend, I was once told this is an appropriate image to have in your profile and so apparently is this one, so.... I will be honest and say I do no longer care (ps: click the links at your own risk)

user58

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Lightness Races in Orbit

seriously?

Tinkeringbell

@SPArchaeologist-様 Ah... yeah uhmm... That wasn't me? :)

user58

@LightnessRacesinOrbit Yes. Crude jokes are to be avoided.

Lightness Races in Orbit

12:09

crude... wha

you know what, not worth it. see you all around

user194636

sites seem slow to load today

Cerbrus

No problem here...

Mgetz

@user58 sigh Where is derpy's "How uncouth" when you need it

user58

ask @SPA

Autar

@194636 The whole network has been slow for me since yesterday.

Zoe the transgirl

12:15

yesterday, by SPArchaeologist-様

There you go

user194636

@Autar Yes the whole network. On Chrome anyway. I should try a different browser to see if that makes a difference.

Mgetz

@Autar would not be surprised if they are under attack.

Autar

@194636 I'm using Firefox

user194636

Hm. Much faster in Edge. Don't have FF.

Zoe the transgirl

No repro in FF

Luuklag

12:20

Haven't noticed anything slow about the network

not on mobile, not on FF on mac

user194636

Absolute slug on Google Chrome Version 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) (64-bit)

user194636

That'll teach me to restart my browser

SPArchaeologist-様

@Tinkeringbell what can I say, I have already flagged those asking for removal three times now. It isn't like I will keep playing the "Meta Mods" slot machine till I get someone who agrees.

It also cost flag weight to do so, you know...

Raedwald

Flag weight? Is that still a thing?

user58

Only... sort of.

Luuklag

12:25

I wonder what the network will do with profile pics like this: i.sstatic.net/KYalE.png?s=328&g=1

2

SFW

user58

Your reputation and flag history affect where your flags show up in the queue, but nothing apart from that AFAIK.

terdon

@Luuklag Nothing, I hope. Changing those will not go down well...

Mgetz

@194636 I'm on the same build (win10) and it's fine for me

Luuklag

Time for a speedtest.net?

user194636

It's fine for everything except SE (and I'm on 1 Gbps fibre)

user194636

12:37

@Mgetz thanks

Catija

@Luuklag Nothing. Disagreeing with us, even as a moderator, isn't going to cause censure. We understand why people feel differently and we're working to address that. If people want to state their feelings in their avatars or profile images, that's their call. I know some of the people using that, including the one who originated it quite well and have been talking with them. It's not done with malice.

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Cerbrus

There's this one user that has filled their profile with Chinese characters which trigger the chinese firewall... Essentially making it impossible for Chinese users to view pages he's contributed on.

Technically, that's in their profile, but if it has such an effect on other users...?

Raedwald

Dealing with that would be a whole new can of worms.

Cerbrus

He's been discussed a few times, iirc...

To be honest, the name is rather obnoxious, as it's quite long.

user194636

and now everything is back to normal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Luuklag

12:55

@Catija Good to know. It's easy to assume the worst...

user351483

@Catija Yup. I did a whole hoopla of disagreeing and I got reinstated without any fuss (and I thank y'all dearly for letting me back).

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