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@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I would appreciate that, but on the other hand, we can't really fix the scripts until we know how the change is going to look like under the hood. But even knowing when and in what area changes are to be expected would already be nice.

@Catija I would appreciate if somebody from CM team takes a look into serial upvotes coming to my Stack Overflow account. I flagged it for mod attention few months ago and got flag handled as helpful thinking it means that it was passed to CM for further check. Before, I didn't mind waiting in line for my case to be handled but recent discussion at MSO made me worry that these upvotes could be used to cover some voting ring

@gnat You think it'll break the records for reputation lost from last May? ;)

@Tinkeringbell Gnat didn't lose too badly last May, but in 2014 there was a bit of a hit: stackoverflow.com/users/839601/gnat?tab=reputation

Where the wallop comes is when a bunch of these Rings upvote you consistently for years, giving you 1000s of Rep; then a CM comes along and declares all those accounts fraudulent, reversing all ups and downs prior to account deletion - leaving huge holes in many innocent accounts. --- Don't count your chickens even after they've hatched.

@gnat did gain much, and in event of a reversal can't possibly loose much.

Look at this unfortunate fortunate, see the tons of Rep - if that gets reversed they are sunk!

That unidentified user (who appears in this chat from time to time) did get a few reversals recently, more than Gnat has to worry about.

Correction didn't, not did.

> If not, here's your chance

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I still haven't organically seen the survey popup

it's been what, 6 months?

Remember, poop is also an organically chosen group

naw it's been more than a year, feb last year i hadn't seen one either

@user400654 what popup?

The survey popup. Darnit man, read!

@JohnDvorak it has no rights

@Gimby who is darn?

:P

Does darn have a yarn?

the popup that only shows up on question pages

it's what is being called the site satisfaction survey

i've seen the survey itself by taking links from questions related to it, but i've never been offered to take it organically. Why does such a survey need to be trimmed down to x responses a month anyway? wouldn't more data be more useful? you're gonna trim it down after the fact anyway

No idea what it is so guess I'll just back away slowly. :)

@user400654 you're registered as dissatisfied and we leave it at that ...

Maybe you closed whatever it is, and the setting is permanent?

I also haven't seen it yet, there may be selection criteria to when you get it or not. Maybe you need to actually ask questions, for example.

Many other systems i interface with occasionally seem to have it pop up every time i visit in an easy to use/dismiss inline popup at the bottom

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Dar'n isIn's brother, init.

@user400654 you mean SO survey popup showing on other sites?? So it's probably not related to SO, just some malware.

I'm 100% sure SE/SO doesn't and can't control other sites.

Hackers aren't stupid, it's likely they choose to show "Click here to fill a wonderful Stack Overflow survey and win awesome prizes and 1M rep".

then ask for your SO credentials, and.... they got another victim in their hands. :)

@Rob t-rue

@user400654 I think you get those occasionally if you turn this on in your SO profile settings:

@Rob isn't it only for emails?

It is for emails but I think it enables additional nags 'cuz you're inclined to accept them.

yeah, it's on

i have received one of those emails

One of the emails sent allows you to chose to get onboard.

it was the "pick a date for a 1:1 meeting" one

and... i'd rather not

If I was almost never here I'd subscribe to emails and get (hopefully) one every few months (or per year), but since I'm active enough, and receive sufficient pings, I don't need to get double notified by both the inbox here and emails. --- The quarantine hasn't made me that lonely, yet. 🤞

Quarantine is the best thing evah. Except for all the pings online.

There's a lot of positive things to say. It's quiet when you go out, the air is clean, pollution is dissipating. The only thing bad is we can't say it's great.

I just did. It's great.

it's been looking great outside this past week, but it's been too cold to enjoy it

But no one would flame you.

It's no-jacket weather here :D

that and the pollen

Ah. Yes. Pollen.

But you have Netherlands pollen, which is better than most other's.

Duh. Everything here is better ;)

Nederwiet!, translation everything2.com/title/nederwiet

Pollen is a year-round problem even during winter.

@Tinkeringbell Doe Maar!

I'm mostly affected by pine and pecan pallen

which... are trees that are very common around here

pine pollen seems to have stopped, put the pecan trees are about to start

@Tinkeringbell A very fast Internet search reveals that North America has managed over 23%, I've seen higher claims (and Certificates) but can't find one (with 5 minutes effort).

@Rob um... what kind of pollen are we talking about?

Indoor beats outdoor, except for price.

^ Image above.

Ah, the type I was thinking of. Phew, it's not just me. Carry on! :)

I'm thinking about pecan pie now that pecans have been mentioned!

that plant has had me thinking about an other sort of growables that is sometimes compared as outdoors vs indoors

also, long time no see y'all. o/

o/

any of y'all have kickstarted a chips delivery service yet? I'd pay good money for ketchup chips to my door right now.

@FélixGagnon-Grenier I have one but it automatically shadowbans any account that dares order ketchup chips!

@FélixGagnon-Grenier How about these links?

@Tinkeringbell :O but muh ketchup!!!

@Rob hmmmm. chips gettin' real 😍

To be fair, mustard is worse... But why not pick something sensible, like sourcream and onion?

With extra salt!

I can compromise on pickle

<3

nah I'm in the sourcream onion camp also

@FélixGagnon-Grenier I don't think we have pickle over here...

We have patatje joppie?

they are fairly rare, but a good change from time to time :)

maybe I like them sometimes because they are harder to binge

Ah. I eat very spicy coated peanuts for that reason :P

boredpanda.com/unusual-potato-chips-flavors

Could do worse than pickles, I guess

surprinsingly, there is no universal hated flavour, such as pineapple is for pizza

Apparently a lot of pizza is eaten with fruit, so I don't see what's so bad about pineapple

Pineapple is a better fruit than tomato by far

good question, right? I wonder how it started to be such a widespread hatred.

Pineapple is literally my favorite ingredient on pizza after tomatoes and cheese very closely followed by peppers (also technically by some considered a fruit).

bold position <3

If I eat pizza, I either order one without a tomato sauce or add so many toppings I won't taste the tomato sauce.

:O

Mostly that's meat, cheese or indeed pineapple

There sure is take-away food that doesn't have tomato sauce on it ....

TOMATO SAUCE ON EVERYTHING™

Fries with ketchup are nice from time to time.

@Tinkeringbell My wife is actually the same way. I don't get it because I love tomato sauce, but to each their own.

Pineapple is best from a can, in small bits, together with other canned fruits, mixed in a big bowl with some alcohol.

@Tinkeringbell I can definitely agree with the last bit at least lol

:D

There's actually this amazing rum we can get here (Plantation Pineapple) which is so delicious. It's not flavored rum in the sense of additives I think (or at least it is still the proper strength), but the flavor is just amazing.

A quick google search says it's ripened for three months with pineapple peels? (So, basically, garbage from the pineapple that you find in the cans? :P)

@Tinkeringbell hah! Sounds like some smart value adding there to industrial waste :)

You make it sound pretty! :P

Maybe I have a future in rum sales if my current industry goes pear-shaped lol

Nothing wrong with pear shapes!

:)

@FélixGagnon-Grenier No universally hated flavor?, pickle / pear ... How about soda pop:

wait there is a soda flavoured chips?

lol

things are amazing

@FélixGagnon-Grenier There's pepsi ones on the boredpanda link I shared a while back...

well. folks gotta be folks and enjoy their chips vOv

Being at work at 9pm is surreal

and now that my office has been moved I'm one of 3 people in the whole building, each in a different corner

@Magisch It's kinda a disconcerting feeling for it to be night somewhere you're often only present in daylight

I'm suddenly acutely aware of the shadows

It feels like a bad dream

they make you work from the office?

that sounds... at odds with the current.

@Magisch At least you have your Jagermeister:

@Rob 😍

@FélixGagnon-Grenier Hadn't you heard? Mag is an essential hero.

Go Magisch!

@FélixGagnon-Grenier I'm part of the hardware support

10-20% of my job is hardware

👍

@FélixGagnon-Grenier To spread the people out we've been split into early and late shift, and each shift needs some hardware support, so I'm stuck in rotating shift work until at least 2 weeks from now

@Magisch that's good! ;)

@Tinkeringbell peach is more cheeky. :D

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance 🍑🍑

Two is just two much

You're right, they aren't practicing proper distancing

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Also I blame MSFT's emoji interface lol

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance How about three?

or just one.

Enters the room

Slowly backs away

@M.A.R. toilets are <---- that way

@Rob actually need four

@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance Which color?