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2:06 AM

Happy morning?

2:20 AM

@Mazura eh. Any new mechanic needs some time

Because some hate ID questions

user302202

If you want to say LOL and SOS at the same time, would that be LOS or SOL?

both work for Souls-like game

2:39 AM

@Mazura the ability to kick something off hnq is something we asked for specifically as mods. Both the ability to track and the ability to remove questions from hnq gives us control and lets us deal with situations like the Twitter drama better

It's a scapel not a hammer ;p

HDE 226868

Yeah, hammers make poor scalpels.

Pro-tip. ^

Shog9

3:14 AM

> Sorry but Meta Stack Exchange isn't the place to ask questions about eating humans.

@Shog9 we don't serve man?

Shog9

whatever it might be that we do, we certainly don't answer questions about it

(also daaaaaang, that's an odd one)

suggests WorldBuilding.SE, maybe SciFi.SE also works

HDE 226868

I was going to say Seasoned Advice, honestly. . .

Q: How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?

3:22 AM

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I am a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse? I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested in "how can I figure out whether this is edible," rather than whether any particular monster is edible. L...

nethack

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

6:08 AM

@JourneymanGeek To be fair, some posts do give me the feeling that I'm being eaten

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Q: How can I remind better the English fruit name in not native english country?

Everytime I want to start learning English coherently fruit name is one of big challenges that I have to take Ielts exam!

bug languages testing

Ha

For me it's vegetables

I can't tell them apart in my native tongue either actually

Dang, how do people do it? How do they characterize them further other than bitter-tasting green things?

Well, descriptive title is descriptive

rene

7:47 AM

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8:40 AM

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rene

9:42 AM

Uggh: stackoverflow.com/q/55194734 ... your question shouldn't be an image ...

10:39 AM

@rene but but rfhc!!

11:02 AM

@MSOGA For a short time during this site's early life, MSE did in fact have a set of dedicated volunteer moderators (either they previously moderated the UserVoice site or they operated external "meta" sites). What happened to them?

Did they all resign? Did SE revoke their privileges during the MSO era, choosing to only give privileges to Trilogy mods? Did they hold on to their privileges until just before the MSO-MSE split, when SE decided to only give access to employees?

It may not be the last, because I interacted with one of those users back in 2013 with my old account, but they may have just resigned early.

Wait, never mind; I never actually interacted with them. I thought I did because I was involved in the deletion of this answer but I've never looked at it with 10k-vision before.

11:32 AM

@SonictheWizardWerehog I vaguely remember one or more of them working at SE

user302202

@SonictheWizardWerehog My recollection is that they stopped being mods at the time of the split. Meta SO inherits mods from the main site, and they were mostly SO prior anyway.

@MSOGA Well, those four users were dedicated meta-only mods. Also, one of them (Tom Ritter) wasn't a mod in 2013, but it's possible they just resigned.

user302202

> Just ask Super User moderators random and Ivo Flipse, and the Stack Overflow moderators, who up until four days ago could quickly and swiftly take care of exceptional circumstances on Meta Stack Exchange. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230038/…

user302202

So, only two remained at the time of the split. I suppose the rest left through the normal attrition process.

@MSOGA Er, I don't think you're looking correctly. The two users you mention held mod privileges on MSE by virtue of being SU mods. If you clicked on the link, it mentioned four users who were mods only on MSE (and not on a Trilogy site): Joel Coehoorn, EndangeredMassa, Kyle Cronin, and Tom Ritter.

The former two were previously moderators of UserVoice, and the latter two operated external "meta" sites, so Jeff decided to give them mod privileges.

ɪBᴜɢ

11:53 AM

Is it recommended that an FAQ has only one answer? Is it advocated to merge other answers into the accepted answer on FAQ?

12:14 PM

@ɪBᴜɢ not sure where you got the idea that mods can merge accounts. They can’t. If it says that somewhere, it’s wrong.

I have a moust-ache...

user302202

12:28 PM

Mods used to merge accounts back in the days, until enough of them got it wrong.

user302202

12:46 PM

> Have you ever posted a (in your opinion) very good answer at #stackoverflow but never got much attention/upvotes? How about we use this thread to share those answers? I would be happy to support well explained and helpful answers w/ an upvote! #shareKnowledge #upvoteGoodAnswers -- Andreas 🙌 ⌨️ at 5:19 AM - 16 Mar 2019

user302202

What could possibly go wrong.

user302202

> . @StackOverflow is having a moderator election and for the first time I made a conscious read out not at the skills and presentations, but at the username. Holy crap so many white dudes! Looking at the list of current 26 mods - only one is non-male (probably). -- Eimantas at 12:19 AM - 16 Mar 2019

user302202

Not the first such tweet during the election. A few supported Zoe with the sole reason given being the gender.

@ɪBᴜɢ Yes; it's preferred. I've often seen them merged.

user302202

Voting for mods solely on demographic basis is such a cool and progressive thing to do.

12:50 PM

@Catija Er...that's not what he was referring to.

@MSOGA Tell me about it. I got called out on Twitter for volunteering at an all-girls school.

> They can merge user accounts.

No, they can't.

Sorry, thought that was a reply to the most recent message by him rather than his recent edit.

@MSOGA Read my reply there

ɪBᴜɢ

@Catija It's all that possible that I read or misread that information from somewhere...

@ɪBᴜɢ Old posts. This was possible in the past, but it was removed because the network expanded and allowing it would result in weird oddities (with network accounts, etc.)

user302202

The reason for the change stated back in the day was that if a merge is made in mistake, one user's PII is given to another.

user302202

1:02 PM

Of course, a couple of tweets aren't going to affect an election of this scale. The real factor is Evan Carroll's endorsement.

ɪBᴜɢ

I recall seeing a MSO post complaining mods merging their account with their colleague's, but I can't find it now.

Q: Dark hacking? My account name got changed from "Randolf Richardson" to "Complicated see bio"

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My account name is "Randolf Richardson" but somehow my account name was changed to "Complicated see bio." The description was also changed (it used to begin with "I am a spam-fighter ... I'm also anti-RIAA ...") to "This account is a chimera of several user accounts following a stackexchange mix...

support status-completed user-accounts user-interface user-profiles

Now, there's a CM contact default message about it but any user can request it themselves and we generally discourage merging (or requesting merging) unless the user specifically wants it or is abusing it but deleting the account is somehow inappropriate.

> This account is a chimera of several user accounts following a stackexchange mix-up.

And if the user wants it, they should fill out the contact form themselves.

1:04 PM

SECURITY NOTICE: I didn't post that comment that begins with "For the other ..." -- someone else is using my account now. This is rather worrisome! — Randolf Richardson Nov 7 '11 at 15:43

user302202

@ɪBᴜɢ for example this post refers to it meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155583/… (and I'm sure others do).

user302202

@Catija Oh, then this FAQ answer really needs an edit... it says the opposite.

also Privacy concerns when merging accounts

user302202

> I'd say that doing it yourself cuts out the "middle man" and arguably makes the experience all that much more seamless for a new user.

1:31 PM

@MSOGA Ah... hmmm I'll review it when I have a chance. Busy weekend for me this week.