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animuson

21:00

Lol why does the "nominate yourself" link appear for moderators?

6

Bart

Maybe you can become a mod^2?

3ventic

With great power...

Ryan Carlson

@3ventic ...comes LOTS OF COOKIES.

That was slightly random

Bart

Wait what? Cookies? Nobody told me about cookies. /me is writing nomination

3ventic

Cookies?

spawns 2700 rep to nominate himself

Flexo

21:05

@TimStone probably late to the party on this one, but cool gravatar

Tim Stone

Hahah, thanks :)

animuson

Would go very nice with a moderator nomination.

Tim Stone

But then I'd actually have to do work.

Bart

That comment would make sense, if you weren't actually already doing their work @TimStone.

Tim Stone

Nah, I hardly do anything even remotely moderation-related on SO.

Now if these were just elections for Meta, then sure.

Bart

21:10

Ha, check back in 6-8 weeks I guess?

Flexo

@TimStone that's 6-8 weeks away in the MSO/SO split right?

Pëkka

@Bart Heh, thanks. :) I thought about it, but won't. No time and what Tim Stone said

Flexo

too slow

Pëkka

... work becomes work when you are expected to do it :)

Undo

Oh hi @Flexo!

Pëkka

21:11

@Bart You know, of course, that you would have my vote and endorsement.

As would others in this room!

Bart

Okay @Pëkka. Prepare to be poked again next election. I might even sharpen the stick ;)

Pëkka

The level-headed professionalism on display here would be exactly what the site needs.

@Bart haha, ok. :)

Bart

And if I were to ever consider being a moderator, I'd have to have considerably more main-site activity. (Though I guess that's largely self-imposed)

3ventic

Because of the links in this chat, I have 85 consecutive days on SO..

Undo

Yeesh, keeping on top of nomination comments is just about a full-time job :P

Ya know, I should probably put my age in my profile for the sake of transparency.

3ventic

21:17

Age shouldn't matter

Bart

Which is?

Undo

@Bart My age? 14

Bart

Prepare for teenage-mod-of-doom Meta post comment then @Undo. ;)

Undo

@Bart Yup. ;)

animuson

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Q: What does Meta really mean?

This website is meta stackoverflow but i thought its better to know what does it mean really meta ! . Just to give more knowledge about this website. Is it related to only stackoverflow ? or its general questions ?

resits temptation to post "MURDER" as answer

Bart

21:22

"Meta is just .... meta .... you know ... like wow that's so meta man"

hichris123

@Undo I am younger than you! :P

Undo

@hichris123 Really? Wow.

Ryan Carlson

You guys are making me feel old...

3ventic

Me too..

and I haven't even finished school!

Heck, I haven't even had a job

Tim Stone

Blog - Stack Exchange: Stack Exchange API V2.2 – and the demise of V1.x

Kevin Montrose on February 10, 2014

There’s been a lot of excitement lately here at Stack Exchange, what with the launch of our Android app and the start of our iOS app alpha. A few sharp-eyed users noticed, hidden deep within each app, a new version of the Stack Exchange API. After a few more weeks of testing I’m happy to say that V2.2 is now frozen, documented, and released.

Creating questions and answers

Voting

Editing, Deleting, and Flagging

Improved OAuth UI on mobile devices

…and lots more

Almost everything done by our own apps is using our public API, but there are a few notable exceptions: …

Yay

Undo

21:24

the Charcoal team had figured out a bunch of the methods before today :D

animuson

The center of that logo really makes me think of a Great Ball.

Undo

Is it normal to be getting 'ghost notifications' of nomination comments that... don't exist?

Tim Stone

Uh oh.

Bart

I think you're getting notified for actual comments, and for edits to those comments.

But I don't see the content of those comments

animuson

Awww the admin timeline doesn't work for nominations. :(

Tim Stone

21:31

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Q: LessPopMoreFizzPedia Brown and the Mystery of the Missing Mentions

There's a new Response to my Declaration! I should go see what it is so I can respond to the concerns of my would be constituents! Except, the newest response I see is my own. From over an hour ago, not a mere 6 minutes ago. Going to the "Responses" tab on my profile reveals not just one, ...

bug status-planned comments election

Undo

What the...

Good lord, you're right @TimStone!

The comments show up on my responses page!

Tim Stone

Argh.

Undo

Can anyone see them on the post itself?

3ventic

You need to start flagging the older ones as obsolete!

Undo

@3ventic My autoflag script works on nominations :D

hichris123

21:34

@Undo Cinder works too. :P null time.

Undo

status-planned

For a bug like this? D:

3ventic

It's not necessarily a bug...

Tim Stone

Yeah, that seems a bit silly. performs necessary harassment

Undo

Uh... teh commentz aren't there!!!

3ventic

Might just be bad design or unexpectedly many comments

animuson

21:35

I think I'm going to play Mafia II in Japanese...

3ventic

I think I'm going to take a warm shower and head to bed

Undo

@3ventic But why does it work fine on 'normal' posts?

hichris123

@Undo My recommend close flags don't show up in the helpful flag stat. :(

Undo

@hichris123 Oh?

;(

looks for @hichris123's nomination

Aha!

Tim Stone

@3ventic The comment stuff was refactored once upon a time and I think the election page just got totally looked over.

Ben Collins

21:38

@TimStone eh, the real problem is that it wasn't totally looked over

Undo

So... what do I do with the questions in the comments that only sorta-exist?

animuson

Answer them anyways and pretend you are psychic.

Ben Collins

I just pushed a fix that should bring the "show X more comments" link back on elections after the next build

Undo

@BenCollins But they don't even show up after a page reload...

Tim Stone

@BenCollins \o/

Ben Collins

21:40

@Undo link pls?

Tim Stone

Our hero

Undo

@BenCollins Bottom of my nomination after quite a few reloads:

Ben Collins

@TimStone do I get to be a hero if I make a mistake and then fix it after 6-8 weeks? ;-)

Undo

My responses page:

animuson

@BenCollins That's what Tim Stone does with the Data Explorer...

Undo

21:41

Tim Stone

@BenCollins Meh, why not?

@animuson Woah, woah, woah

Ben Collins

@Undo right. comments are limited to 15, and we do a rollup of what look like the best comments. What's supposed to happen is that if there are more than 15 (or the "top comments" rollup decides on some other limit based on scores), the link says "show X more comments / add comment" (or the reverse, actually)

Undo

@BenCollins Ooooh, okay.

Ben Collins

the bug was that the number of comments remaining wasn't counted correctly, so NO LINK FOR YOU

Undo

Aha. Makes sense.

Ben Collins

21:43

the comments exist, and if you add a comment, they will all expand, but adding a comment, reading, deleting your comment is pretty cumbersome UX :-)

if you look at the sources in dev tools, you'll see a data attribute on the comments table:

data-remaining-comments-count=0 on your nomination

Undo

Huh. What happens if I change it?

Ben Collins

you'd have to change it as the javascript is loading, so....good luck

Undo

Ah.

hatches plan to view nomination comments through the API

animuson

Nachos!

hichris123

@Undo To flag them? :P

Undo

21:48

@hichris123 Probably not. But to at least see them.

Flexo

Anyone else seeing problems with the IPv6 connectivity of sstatic.net.cdn?

cdn.sstatic.net even

Ben Collins

@Undo you're got 19 comments, so there are 4 that just don't show up. Should be back to normal after the next build.

Undo

doesn't know if he has IPv6

Ryan Carlson

I just realized that I won't be able to vote in the primaries, because I'm going to be in Allegheny State Park all of next week. At least I'll be able to vote in the final election!

rene

@Flexo I see timeouts on the tracert as well

Flexo

21:52

@rene I'm getting 50% packet loss (ICMP) and no HTTP successes

rene

@Flexo same here for the packet loss

Flexo

(and for reference ipv6.google.com is rock solid)

Undo

@BenCollins Wonderful, thanks!

michaelb958

The election post is mine. ALL MINE

rene

@Flexo confirmed as well

Undo

21:55

@michaelb958 Huh wha? Where?

hichris123

@michaelb958 I saw. :P

michaelb958

@Undo See link.

Undo

Ah

There must be something borked in the CW namecard-maker.

animuson

It's because they manually change the owner of the post to Community, but they didn't change the owner of the first revision to Community. So the algorithm probably thinks the first person who edits is the owner of 100% of the content.

Undo

ha!

animuson

22:02

Assuming that's what they did. I'm pretty sure the wiki username said Community before.

Jeroen Vannevel

Is anyone else's pages barely loading? SO seems very slow from here

Ryan Carlson

@JeroenVannevel It's fine for me.

rene

There seems to be a cdn.sstatic.net hickup/packet loss at least from western-europe

michaelb958

@animuson It did.

Mr. Abe

Wow, I have 100 rep now, all thanks to this silly answer

Jeroen Vannevel

22:05

Yeah I only have it on SO, started about 15 minutes ago.

rene

switch off ipv6 to get better results

:-)

Flexo

@rene I switched to another IPv6 enabled device that hasn't been on for a while and it's working fine so I'm wondering if it's got unlucky with a cached DNS record

rene

I'll try a flushdns

Jeroen Vannevel

seems to work out of its own just now

Yeah, it resolved itself here. No wait, I take that back.

Ryan Carlson

@Mr.Abe I saw that yesterday. I think that post is starting to get derailed from all the answers like that, though.

rene

22:11

It is on and off for me

It looks like I'm stuck somewhere in the ams-ix

Jeroen Vannevel

I have a little slowdown after gru1.gblx but I assume it's just crossing the ocean at that point since the next one is pnap.net. Works again now though, it's on and off indeed

Flyk

night all!

hichris123

@Flyk Night!

hichris123

22:44

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/21671859/…

Undo

voted

hichris123

I'm out... :(

Undo

:(

hichris123

Why you limit me to 50/day, SE?

Undo

Because otherwise the close vote queue would be empty. We can't have that.

hichris123

22:47

I guess that's one of the reasons. If it was empty, @animuson wouldn't have anything to do and couldn't get cookies!

Undo

D;

Doorknob

ooooh election

might as well nominate myself :P

Undo

@Doorknob Yes yes yes

Prediction: I get pushed off the top 30 by people with more reputation and none of this matters anyway :P

hichris123

@Undo You did get endorsed by the Lizard...

Undo

@hichris123 Yes, but only the top 30 by rep even have a chance.

Lizard endorsement or not

hichris123

23:02

True...

animuson

Why are the visitor stats all in the past tense?

And why is there a semicolon at the end of them all?;

Doorknob

> too long by 47 characters

:/

Undo

:(

animuson

And why is my room so cold?

Undo

Window open?

hichris123

23:08

@animuson You didn't put the fire on?

Undo

^ Yeah. Find a box of matches and some old pieces of carpeting.

hichris123

You... don't have a heater?

Undo

Your heater is broken?

hichris123

You... left your cookie outside?

animuson

And what the hell are these little metal balls on my floor?

Undo

23:09

@animuson Pics or it didn't happen.

animuson

Seriously, where did these come from? I'm extremely curious.

Doorknob

> too long by 3 characters

gah!

Undo

@Doorknob Blasphemy!

Doorknob

I somehow managed to use exactly the limit :P

stackoverflow.com/election/5#post-21689830

Undo

yay!

animuson

23:13

Doorknob

@animuson lolwat?

hichris123

> •I'm very active on meta. I am also active in its chatroom, the Tavern.

Doorknob

I don't even...

hichris123

We're the only chatroom on meta? :P

Doorknob

@hichris123 :D

@hichris123 it used to be "main chatroom" but I had to save characters. :P

animuson

23:14

@Doorknob I noticed something shiny on my floor and was curious what it was. So I picked it up, and then i aw two more, and I have no flipping idea what they're from or how they got there.

Doorknob

@animuson haha

hichris123

Probably bits of your heater @animuson...

> "I've played a major part in the recent spam waves" sounds ever so slightly like you were the one sending it. A guilty concence perhaps?

@Doorknob ^ :D

Doorknob

@hichris123 I know :P I'm editing, and now I'm 2 chars over!

I feel like I'm code-golfing

nomination-golf?

hichris123

Hinty hinty, abreviations help.

> An error occured while flagging

^ Why can't I flag comments as obsolete on nominations? :P

Doorknob

@hichris123 "flaggin"? Quite a casual message! :P

it's deleted now anyway

actually I think that's why you got the error - because it was already deleted

hichris123

23:21

@Doorknob Couldn't copy and paste it. :P

@Doorknob I flagged it before it was deleted, did it once, got the error, did it again, and the comment was still there.

Doorknob

I need to flag 3 more posts so that I get to 700 helpful flags so that it looks like more :P

Lightness Races in Orbit

23:49

Deliberate that I can't click on the timestamp of a comment on the election page, to grab a link? I could earlier tonight! Useful for sharing in chat

Doorknob

@LightnessRacesinOrbit I just realized that as well :/

Lightness Races in Orbit

Oh I love the notification sound in this chat. Nice. In the SO Lounge we get an almighty ding.

Doorknob

stackoverflow.com/election#comment-32791530

I managed to get a direct link to a comment, but it doesn't onebox :/

(I used inspect element in Chrome, and found the comment ID :P)

Lightness Races in Orbit

Heh, and that's the comment I was going to share ;)

Good luck with your nomination

Doorknob

thanks :)

heh :P

animuson

23:58

I ordered Adobe products. I couldn't resist. I miss Adobe so much. :(

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