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7:00 PM
!!/so2015
 
@rene Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Election voting ends in 0 days, 0 hours, 59 minutes and 57 seconds.
 
You missed the hour mark :P
 
I blame caching
 
^^
 
@rene I just resynced the time on the server, it was only off by -0.005967 seconds :P
It wasn't caching :P
 
7:02 PM
@Undo But. But. It's always caching.
 
:D I blame time.microsoft.com
 
@rene ... I used time.apple.com, but meh
 
Oh wait, I'm using the NTP servers from xs4all
I assume they don't round-robin to time.microsoft.com
 
Nobody uses nist?
 
21 Apr 19:06:52 ntpdate[1493]: adjust time server 128.138.141.172 offset -0.001775 sec
I'd say it's close enough
 
7:07 PM
Not me, I use these mentioned here
 
okay, OpenSTV running. Check.
 
Why does this have such low views?
1
Q: Markdown to HTML, yet again

bjb568String.prototype.replaceAll = function(find, replace) { if (typeof find == 'string') return this.split(find).join(replace); var t = this, i, j; while (typeof(i = find.shift()) == 'string' && typeof(j = replace.shift()) == 'string') t = t.replaceAll(i || '', j || ''); return t; }; ...

 
@Mooseman As in literally, it continually screams "AWESOME" if you touch the wrong part of the screen, and you have to triple-tap the ubuntu logo to make it stop. This is, obviously, a feature.
^ my view of Windows 8 atm, after being forced to work with it.
 
@bjb568 Non-descriptive title?
 
It makes markdown HTML.
What else is there to say?
 
7:17 PM
Try: "URGNT markdown HTML convert.PLEEEZ HALP my code might bE bAD."
That'll get you some views.
 
@bjb568 Start with a small intro text instead of a blob of code and as title How can I optimize the parsing of Markdown to Html
 
@Undo *plz
 
Oh, forgive my grammar. I am not yet a fluent speaker of bjbish.
There, how about that? I think it's the more formal version of the word.
 
@rene This isn't specific to optimization.
Question titles don't ask questions anyway, because it's not a title of a question.
CR has that nice special text
 
OK, then don't change anything, you'll be fine
 
7:20 PM
Ok.
lol, can't spell then
 
But people still use the title and the extract to decide whether they care to view a question. If you want views, give people a reason to click over.
 
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Q: Markdown to HTML, yet again (a character-by-character inline markdown parser and accompanying markdown validator function)

bjb568String.prototype.replaceAll = function(find, replace) { if (typeof find == 'string') return this.split(find).join(replace); var t = this, i, j; while (typeof(i = find.shift()) == 'string' && typeof(j = replace.shift()) == 'string') t = t.replaceAll(i || '', j || ''); return t; }; ...

Now my title's specific!
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Q: A character-by-character inline markdown parser

bjb568String.prototype.replaceAll = function(find, replace) { if (typeof find == 'string') return this.split(find).join(replace); var t = this, i, j; while (typeof(i = find.shift()) == 'string' && typeof(j = replace.shift()) == 'string') t = t.replaceAll(i || '', j || ''); return t; }; ...

Now my title's… wait
Must be a caching problem.
… reasonable, I was going to say
 
At least it changed
 
The novelty effect, in the context of human performance, is the tendency for performance to initially improve when new technology is instituted, not because of any actual improvement in learning or achievement, but in response to increased interest in the new technology. The Metropolitan Education and Research Consortium of the Virginia Commonwealth University states, "While it is possible that higher attention spans can be attributed to novelty effect, even after the initial novelty wears off, the level of interest in the automated workbook is still greater than that in the regular workbook. The...
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It's so much more interesting now!
 
7:25 PM
!!/so2015
 
@InfiniteRecursion Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Election voting ends in 0 days, 0 hours, 34 minutes and 2 seconds.
 
Oh yeah, that.
 
!!/so2014
 
I am excited to see the results.
 
Martijn, Jeremy, Matt, and meager seem most likely.
 
7:27 PM
My first vote was for deceze. I hope he wins.
 
My votes ^
 
The newly elected mods get a free ticket for the SO Close vote reviewers event and the event ends when the queue is empty.
 
@InfiniteRecursion U WOT?!?! HE ONLY HAS 243 REVIEWS!
Why did he even run?
 
@bjb568 HE HAZ PATIENCE ON META. I DIDN'T VOTE ON REVIEW STATS. I VOTED ON THEIR BEHAVIOUR ON MSO.
Same for Martijn, I voted for him because of his exemplary behaviour on Meta, I have not seen his review stats.
 
Are there stats for the total number of active users who meet the minimum requirements to self nominate for moderator elections?
 
Anonymous
7:36 PM
@bjb568 Your faith shall be rewarded.
 
@InfiniteRecursion Moderators aren't just figureheads for meta.
@JeremyBanks :D
Fish?
Salmon?
 
Anonymous
Fresh lake trout.
 
:D
 
Anonymous
Which I prefer to saltwater salmon.
 
Both are yum!
 
7:42 PM
Oh my, a cat with an appetite
 
@bjb568 Numbers can be gamed, behaviour can't.
 
So?
That doesn't make it less important.
 
Er okay.
 
@bjb568 So I vote on behaviour.
@bjb568 It does. I voted for a mod to handle exceptions, not to do reviews.
 
@hichris123 two free points because moderator election ends
 
7:45 PM
@rene Apparently. Oh, I know what it was! Must have downvoted two posts that were deleted?
yep.
 
WAT! You downvote posts!
 
@rene I'm not sure, lemme go check. :P
 
@InfiniteRecursion Moderation is just another step up from the privileges that already exist. Experience using those – flagging, voting, closing, deleting, reviewing – is important in a moderator's ability to do their job.
 
Well, @hichris123 whatever you do or did, don't downvote. People are complaining on meta, you know...
 
7:48 PM
>:(
 
They have that "experience". I didn't vote for folks who never reviewed. But I don't vote based on the highest number of any kind: rep, reviews, or flag counts. Those can be gamed.
 
Well, I certainly hope they don't get downvoted for complaining. That would totally justify their indignance.
 
Anonymous
I voted by Reddit karma score.
 
No, complaints go directly into the mod queue
 
Finally, we know that @Downvoter refers to hichris123.
 
7:50 PM
@rene where they are promptly ignored in the order received
 
@InfiniteRecursion ... you sure it's not @pizza?
 
@rene where there are two buttons: "lol" and "wut?"
 
:D
 
@SmokeDetector fp
 
@hichris123 Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
7:52 PM
No time for that @SmokeDetector. We have an election to watch!
 
@hichris123 Yes. It's YOU!
 
@hichris123 well, technically it should have been example.com, right?
 
@mmyers Welllllll... yeah... but it's pt.SO. I leave foreign language sites alone. :P
@InfiniteRecursion Yay? ;)
 
I made a suggested edit on a foreign language site once!
IIRC it even got approved.
 
7:54 PM
@Undo I did and succeeded: pt.stackoverflow.com/users/20178/…
 
I bow before your superior 107 rep number.
 
I might try to get 3K there and then close vote all questions as unclear
3
 
if you can figure out which reason is unclear.
 
that ^^^^
 
Post an unclear question on their site. When they close it as unclear, you will know which reason is unclear.
 
7:59 PM
I like your practical approach to problems...
 
I like you approach to close stuff.
Become a SO mod and close BJB's account as "unclear".
2
 
There we go
 
> 272,611 voters were eligible, 149,240 visited the site during the election, 78,870 visited the election page, and 27,019 voted
2
 
!!/so2015
 
Anonymous
:D
 
8:02 PM
:(
 
Welcome to the team, @JeremyBanks
 
@InfiniteRecursion 243 is absurdly low. Especially when coupled with hundreds of thousands of rep.
 
in Stack Overflow 2015 Moderator Election Chat on Stack Overflow Chat, 2 mins ago, by Undo
> Winners are meagar, Martijn Pieters, and Jeremy Banks.
 
And a fond farewell to Bill the Lizard
 
Anonymous
@mmyers Thanks! Wow!
 
8:03 PM
Congrats @JeremyBanks
 
11
Q: 2015 Community Moderator Election Results

Shog9Stack Overflow's 6th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes! For details on ...

 
Congratulations @JeremyBanks
 
Congratulations @JeremyBanks!
 
I'm amazed that @MartijnPieters won ...
2
 
Me too.
 
8:05 PM
Cheers @meagar
 
@rene Thanks :)
 
@meagar \o/
 
Congrats @meagar, @MartijnPieters and @JeremyBanks :)
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🎂
 
Anonymous
Thanks! :D
 
8:08 PM
Half a MILLION flags? zomg. — enderland 37 secs ago
It's public: Bill handled close to half a million flags.
 
@InfiniteRecursion pin...
 
8:25 PM
@rene must have narrowly edged out someone for 3rd I guess.
OpaVote always makes me chuckle (cc @rene)
 
Congratulations, @MartijnPieters, @meagar, and @JeremyBanks. Richly deserved, all of you.
And to anyone who voted for me: wow. Thank you.
 
@Bart Yeah, let's not tell the rest what VOC mentaliteit really means...
 
I just got my driver's license.
 
@rene :D
@AstroCB yay. Congrats
 
Thanks.
 
8:28 PM
@AstroCB welcome to the club... ;)
 
If there were ever a place that a diamond should be...
 
@MartijnPieters Lookin good! ^
 
user image
3
 
user259867
New private beta: Gamification
 
8:44 PM
Ugh it actually made it to beta, huh
 
You're surprised they knew how to work the Area 51 numbers?
3
 
@JasonC again
 
eww
 
@JasonC Close everything.
@xkcdBot delete
 
How does Community decide which edits get approved or rejected? I was editing some posts when I saw Community voted on my edit.
 
8:56 PM
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Q: Can gamification be used for posting in a way that doesn't cause negative behavior?

bjb568Rewarding a user for making a post can cause more low-quality posts to be posted. Rewarding only posts which meet some automated quality standard will make people want to exploit it and create noise while they do that. With a voting system, people are commonly averse to downvotes, even if they ca...

Siiigh, may as well post something.
 
@ASCIIThenANSI doesn't it do that if a user with edit privileges edits the post from the queue.
 
Anonymous
No Stack Overflow diamond power in here, right?
 
@JeremyBanks Nobody gets to be blue in here except for employees.
 
@ASCIIThenANSI edit conflict caused by somebody else editing outside of queue (reject) or in the queue: Edit (accept) or Reject and Edit (reject).
 
I'm blue in here all the time
 
9:01 PM
@bjb568 But what about approving?
 
@Bart Consider stop drinking?
 
@Bart Wash the paint off.
 
Turn that frown up... eh, forget it.
 
ping
 
pong
 
9:03 PM
Hmm, so is down for me
 
Did SO died?
 
Yep
I blame @JeremyBanks.
 
Sigh. @MartijnPieters use your power for good, not for evil
 
Or is this where we find out how essential Bill is as a moderator?
 
Anonymous
@Bart Uhh... it probably wasn't me?
 
9:05 PM
That's what all mods say
 
Bill is gone for a few hours, the whole site goes down
 
SO's fine for me...
 
It's the apocalypse! Everyone, grab your upvotes and run!
 
fine here
 
Yeah, it came back. Only a glitch in the Matrix
 
9:05 PM
returned here, and all my flags got declined :(
 
@jurgemaister It means they changed something. Quickly! Check if @bjb is a moderator now!
 
Thanks everyone!
 
@jurgemaister So I don't legally get to use my SO apocalypse kits? Aw...
 
So much info to ingest right now.
 
9:06 PM
What's the direction of that room where close voters hang out again?
 
@MartijnPieters I still have a pending flag from April 1st, so get on that. >:D
 
@MartijnPieters just close all the things, suspend all the accounts, and then figure out what few things you'll have to reinstate.
 
@rene thanks
 
@Bart check!
 
9:08 PM
@Bart You... What have you done?
 
@MartijnPieters You probably hear it all the time, but thanks for being awesome
 
@ASCIIThenANSI provided you with a whole lot of free time. Cause there is no chance you're coming back from that.
 
@Bart You're right!
I hope suddenly I don't leave mid-post!
Well, I guess it's all O
 
I, for one, am glad @JeremyBanks won. He seems to hang out in the Tavern a lot, so he might be easier to manipulate.
(sshhh, nobody tell the other mods I said that)
 
Hey, in chat, my reputation says 636. My parent user is Code Golf, but I only have 416 reputation there. What happened?
 
9:13 PM
inb4 caching
 
such loop
 
@ASCIIThenANSI SE chat uses network reputation, or some semblance of it
 
@mmyers So it adds up total reputation across all sites?
@bjb568 many gif
wow
 
@ASCIIThenANSI I think that should be many.
 
@ASCIIThenANSI Yes, although I don't know offhand whether it includes 101-rep accounts
 
9:18 PM
@mmyers OK, I just did the numbers and it only counts sites with 200+ rep (like a lot of things do). The ~200 increase was because I got to over 200 rep on SO.
 
Makes sense
 
@mmyers It's probably because my chat account is on SE itself, and SE doesn't track your accounts under 200 rep for most things
 
@jurgemaister Thanks, that's much appreciated! I don't hear that often at all, and by all accounts with a blue diamond you have a target on your back so won't be that common.
 
9:39 PM
is my rep in chat not supposed to be 101? I have more than 101 rep elsewhere
and does rep make any difference in chat, other than displaying under your name?
 
Meta SE chat shows only Meta SE rep
 
I thought you said something else earlier, but I guess not
 
There are three chat sites: SE, SO, and Meta SE
 
so many chat sites
 
SO and MSE use only rep and moderators from their associated sites. SE chat combines every site (including SO and MSE)
 
user259867
 
@pizza Martijn closed and reopened it himself? drunk on power already!
 
@pizza "Unclear what you're asking"? TWICE?!
 
0
Q: Bounty autoawarded to answer I downvoted

bjb568Here, I started a bounty to try to get the bug fixed. Answers were added, and one that I disagreed with and downvoted got the bounty. This is wrong. Don't assign bounties to answers I've downvoted.

WTH, why is it by design?
250 rep just randomly awarded like that to the wrong person?
 
It isn't random. You know the rules.
 
@mmyers Then why do the rules state 'if I downvote an answer, a sign that the answer is usually bad, it gets whatever bounty is on it'?
 
9:54 PM
@ASCIIThenANSI The rule is that the highest-voted answer that was posted after the bounty started wins. No more, no less
 
@mmyers Highest voted. Downvotes would cause the votes to go down, which makes no sense.
@mmyers Unless it was the only answer.
 
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A: Do not implicitly award bounty to an answer that has been downvoted by the investor

Shog9The rules for auto-awarding bounties are well-documented. If you want more control over the process, then award the bounty yourself. If you give up responsibility for your bounty and let a machine make decisions for you, then you've no one but yourself to blame for the results...

 
@ASCIIThenANSI bjb downvoted it but five other people upvoted
 
My bounty.
 
Trivia: it used to be possible to "spoil" bounties, to ensure by various means that they weren't awarded to anyone. Folks abused this. So it is no longer possible without overtly fraudulent behavior.
(behavior that will likely not only lose the reputation but also get you suspended)
 
9:57 PM
OK. Let's say I want to become a moderator on any SE site. I have all the requirements. What's going to be expected of me if I do become one, and what makes being a mod any different than just being a person with high reputation?
 
78
Q: Who are the diamond moderators, and what is their role?

Brad MaceSome people have a diamond after their username (ex: Jeff Atwood♦) What special privileges do diamond moderators have? How can I become a diamond moderator? Who are the diamond moderators? How many are there? For more information, see Who are the site moderators, and what is their role h...

 
@ASCIIThenANSI ULTIMATE POWER. Mwahahahaha
 
@ASCIIThenANSI You'll be expected to spend an hour a day doing mod things.
 
@ASCIIThenANSI You get to be called a Nazi more often. :P
 
Mods have unilateral votes and an official-looking voice.
They also get more access to private data and can process individual flags.
 
9:59 PM
@bjb568 Most sites don't have an hour's worth of mod things in a week
 
For SO, anyway.
 
They also get an official-sounding face
 
ur mom's face is official-sounding
 
Wait, when was that issued? I missed it
 
@mmyers yeah, that was a late addition, I think. You just got the official-sounding voice and official-looking carrot.
 
10:01 PM
The tomatocarrot is only for unofficial use
 
Rumor has it that Jeff heard you singing The Major-General Song after the election and said, "That's it - no more official-sounding voices"
 
OK. So how do I view when my site's next election is?
 
you'll find out when it happens
 
@ASCIIThenANSI There's not a schedule.
 
@Doorknob So it just happens each year, and I just nominate myself then?
 
10:03 PM
@ASCIIThenANSI We schedule them when a site needs one. Beta sites have moderators appointed early on and as people step down.
 
@ASCIIThenANSI They're not yearly. Again, there is no schedule.
 
@Doorknob So the next election is, in the scheduler's words, "WHENEVER I SAY IT IS!"
 
@ASCIIThenANSI It's whenever the team decides more moderators are needed.
 
@Doorknob So it's less of the scheduler shouting at me and more of the team shouting at me.
I like it.
 
Shouting at everyone, yes. :)
 
10:06 PM
@Doorknob Absolutely beautiful.
 
@bjb568 how can I tell from your name whether bjb is lowercase now?
 
It's still lowercase…
 
it was more clear when it said bjb is lowercase
 
@SmokeDetector fp
 
10:21 PM
@Ixrec Registered answer as false positive.
 
@SmokeDetector fp
 
@Ixrec Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
11:08 PM
@SmokeDetector fp
 
@Ixrec Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
Anonymous
Apr 15 at 0:30, by Jeremy Banks
Y'all gonna be shocked when the real election's over and I land in second.
 
Anonymous
Called it.
 
@JeremyBanks You can mod hammer some of my close vote requests now. :D
 
11:33 PM
Ohh, the election results are tallied.
 
I got two out of my three votes right.
 
cky
@jadarnel27 There is no dishonour in voting for someone who didn't get in. This is STV, no votes are wasted.
 
Actually, you only get one vote anyway.
 
cky
@Unihedro What?
Oh, only one of the three votes ultimately counts, right.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Why is Petyr Baelish called "Littlefinger"? by kddjmekwnrdvfl on scifi.stackexchange.com
 
@bjb568 ?
 
@cky I don't need your excuses.
=)
 
cky
@jadarnel27 They're not excuses. If you're trying to vote only for "top players", you're doing it wrong.
 
@Unihedro your score in the primaries
 
I wouldn't know :p
 
11:49 PM
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@hichris123 Blacklisted user.
 
Blind voters prob
2
 
@cky … except the ones that are since it's capped 3 votes.
 
cky
@bjb568 True, but, details. ;-)
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: What section of an airplane offers the smoothest ride? by bob on travel.stackexchange.com
 
11:51 PM
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@hichris123 Blacklisted user.
 
@cky That was the point of my first chat message - I was going for irony there, though apparently not very successfully haha.
 
cky
:-)
 

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