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1:00 PM

@tchrist you did find this MSO post touching that topic?

> Me encantan los unicornios que pasan el rato detrás de la cocina, pero suelen comerse muchas de las margaritas. ¿Qué puedo hacer al respecto?

@rene Thanks, I had not. There is some discussion on meta.es.so though.

rene

Yeah, I can't check that. I don't speak Spanish.

tchrist

I want to make a drunken unicorn joke, but I keep getting interference with Please Don't Eat the Daisies. :)

@rene Oh ok. Are you francophone?

(Not that that would be a free pass to Spanish, of course!)

rene

Nope, I understand English and German beyond my native language

I had to promise my French teacher to drop French as he felt I would never learn it...

I kept my promise

tchrist

Ah ok, that makes sense then. There is some silly English stereotype I've stupidly fallen into where every person name Rene "must" speak French, just like how every person named Juan "must" speak Spanish. :)

rene

1:06 PM

:D

Shadow Wizard

And a person named Frodo, @tchrist?

tchrist

@ShadowWizard Elen sila lúmenn’ omentielvo.

Derpy

@ShadowWizard he purrs and meowth.

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!!/alive

Derpy

SmokeDetector

1:13 PM

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE Watching this endless list of new questions never gets boring

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Huh

Shog? Can you tell us a story please?

tchrist

♫ Sing us a song, you’re the piano man, ♫

Piano Man’s superpower is to speak softly and carry a big stick.

bjb568

Hal-le-lu-jah Hal-le-lu-jah Hal-le-lu-jah Hal-le-lu-jah Hal-le-lu-jah Hal-le-lu-jah Hal-le-lu-jah Hal-le-lu-jah

for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth

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Lol wat?

Shog! I asked for a story, not a song!

Triage is empty... Interesting...

Derpy

1:29 PM

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE Shog is busy with the "Royal decree of Chat Nice-nes"

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Lol

Another audit

Derpy

Wasn't mean to be a joke, the staff is really reworking the whole "Be nice" and chat tolerance problem.

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stackoverflow.com/review/triage/10429083

rene

How about the comment on that question?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body: CM13 and Marshmallow Permissions by user468798 on android.stackexchange.com (@AndrewT.)

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: I HAVE TOUCH EVENT CODE HOW TO RUN THIS CODE IN BACK GROUND SERVICE. HOW CAN RUN THIS TOUCH EVENT FOR GLOBAL TOUCH EVENT? by Sukhesh Chukkapalli on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title, offensive body detected, offensive title detected: YOU CAN CONTACT THE FBI FOR ALL I CARE YOU IDIOTS - YOU CAN'T BE SUCH AN ASSHOLE WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES by J. Doe on stackoverflow.com

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1:52 PM

..

Hi @MadaraUchiha

Madara Uchiha

o/

Shadow Wizard

Is this a hi? ^

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Duh

Shadow Wizard

@rene flagged as too chatty.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

status-waiting-for-story

@ShadowWizard LOL, if I flagged it would I still have passed the audit?

PeterJ

2:00 PM

Just flagged as obsolete now it's been accepted anyway and must have been the last flag needed

Shadow Wizard

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE don't think so, it's not part of the audit

@PeterJ yup, ~3 flags are required to insta-nuke a comment

rene

@ShadowWizard that is an option... I was more mentioning it as an example of a user not being pre-occupied with their own internet points

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Remember flag gangs deleting mod comments?

Shadow Wizard

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE nope

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No?

Shadow Wizard

2:01 PM

No.

Were those gangs evil?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Do cryptographic hash functions reach each possible value, e.g. are they surjective? by Symeof on stackoverflow.com

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Lemme find it

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: Russia's President said that Allah, apparently, decided to fucking punish Turkey's leadership by making them loose their minds by foobar on stackoverflow.com

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Wut

Shadow Wizard

@rene oh. To me it just looked on the verge of rude. Asking people to vote is wrong, even if not your own post

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

2:03 PM

russian-doll-caching

WAT

Shadow Wizard

> The technique of nesting fragment caches to maximize cache hits is known as russian doll caching.

rene

@ShadowWizard OK, I'll keep that in mind

Shadow Wizard

Makes perfect sense to me. ^^

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Somehow I can't find the vote gang thing

Tries MSE

Shadow Wizard

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE maybe because the mods revenged and deleted everything?

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

2:05 PM

Nah I don't think so

Shadow Wizard

But it's an option

That troll from the doll caching is member for 2 years, 9 months. Amazing.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: White Papers or Tips by cjohnson on stats.stackexchange.com

Shadow Wizard

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Shadow Wizard

let's black list the troll

sd tpu-

SmokeDetector

2:07 PM

@ShadowWizard [:4276225] That message is not a report.

Shadow Wizard

@SmokeDetector tpu-

mikeTheLiar

What's the suggested edit reject reason for "don't polish a turd"?

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SO mods?

I remember there used to be a MSO post about sock voting gangs that kill Will's comments

PeterJ

@mikeTheLiar reject and edit to add a smelly-turd tag?

Shadow Wizard

@mikeTheLiar "no improvement whatsoever" since you can't improve a turd

mikeTheLiar

2:11 PM

Gracias

PeterJ

You're welcome, putting them under a single tag is a good idea

rene

@NormalHuman if @Undo doesn't beat you to it this time, can you merge this PR and re-deploy smokey, please?

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Help! My twitter is spammed with 2016 party things!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: Turkey dismisses fucking 'Soviet propaganda', says trying to secure Syria border instead by user4177139 on stackoverflow.com

Shadow Wizard

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE what kind of party?

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

2:14 PM

Countdown nonsense

Stopit with the news nonsense spammers

sd tpu-

Shadow Wizard

Now that's interesting. We may have found a sock ring here.

Flagging...

Good work, Smoky!

sd tpu

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard [:4276289] Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

1 min ago, by UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

sd tpu-

rene

@ShadowWizard I'm custom mod flagging that

Shadow Wizard

> This user might have a sock, which is this other user. Why? See this question here and this other question by the other user. Very similar offensive topic, both deleted shortly after posting by their authors. IMO better get rid of both, but if not at least merge.

already did :)

rene

2:19 PM

Good, I did the same on the first appearance

Shadow Wizard

Well, let that troll keep using his socks, Smoky will catch them all ;)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: HAHAHAHA you don't get that I'm hijacking existing accounts and you're not fucking hurting me lol by Bluz on stackoverflow.com

Shadow Wizard

hmm... so no sock just a hacker. Oh well.

Hello hacker!

Are you the Indian boy that claimed to hack SE a while ago?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: I WILL ASK ABOUT DOWNLOADING A NEW PROGRAM IN MY WINDOWS PHONE by Agron Islami on windowsphone.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

Shadow Wizard

@TimPost if you're around, looks like that troll/hacker/whatever is back, e.g. this is kind of familiar - need your sniping skills to hunt him down again.

SmokeDetector

2:28 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body, repeating characters in body: Translation of Fortran 77 to C++ -How it works? by Wang L on stackoverflow.com

rene

edited

Shadow Wizard

Found a reference

Jan 30 '14 at 13:08, by Tim Post

I'm going to see if I can bin this Indian Psychic. This is getting old.

Might be that same Psychic again now with this Putin stuff

rene

Agree

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: yes shadow wizard we are the fucking indian team - enjoy the site while we hijack SO accounts by pythonista on stackoverflow.com

Shadow Wizard

lol

All compromised accounts have Gravatar. Guess it's indeed bad.

rene

2:35 PM

Ah, that is the final call then. Let's get rid of that.

Shadow Wizard

throwing a flower on @ber

rene

My flags get handled

Shadow Wizard

I fear mods just nuked the accounts :/

Yup. All gone.

Not so good, as it's not their direct fault.

Should keep their account more secure, but still...

@berserk now thinks CM means Coffee Maker. Should we tell him the sad truth?

rene

No, better not

Derpy

Cutie Mark?

user259867

2:43 PM

@rene No... Manish did it.

rene

I try to give you the honors ... ;)

Shadow Wizard

@NormalHuman huh? He's still around? Didn't see him in MSE (or anywhere) for ages...

@Derpy Tim Post is a Cutie Mark? nah... doesn't make enough sense.

berserk

@ShadowWizard ✿ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵✿

lol took me a lot of time to find this

user259867

Manishearth is not dead yet — random 16 hours ago

berserk

@ShadowWizard TELL MEH!! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Derpy

2:47 PM

@ShadowWizard maybe he has one. We know that Bolt is secretly Applebloom. We are missing the other two CMC

user259867

(GitHub notifies all team members of pull requests, so Manish gets to them that way instead of via chat.)

Shadow Wizard

@NormalHuman well, his last activity in MSE is three months ago exactly, and is a single word comment. So...

@NormalHuman oh, this explains the "how", yeah

user259867

Current GH streak: 625 days github.com/Manishearth

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

Hi again

Shadow Wizard

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE are you a bot?

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

2:49 PM

@ShadowWizard No

I can prove it

Shadow Wizard

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE Good

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Ask me maths

rene

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@rene You doubt me?

Shadow Wizard

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE log(e)

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2:50 PM

ok

berserk

Bot detected!

Correct answer is 1.

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No

Shadow Wizard

No

berserk

No

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I don't robo review :P

Shadow Wizard

2:51 PM

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE yup, just robo

berserk

^

Shadow Wizard

@UniRobo

berserk

@RoboCycelz

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@RoboWiz

Shadow Wizard

2

New avatar? ^

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

2:54 PM

Yep

berserk

Hep

Shadow Wizard

If it gets 20 stars I'll do that

(no socks!)

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EVERYONE COME AND STAR IT!!!!!

Shadow Wizard

lol

rene

@NormalHuman can you recycle Smokey so it picks up the merge?

berserk

2:55 PM

|0|

Shadow Wizard

@rene ouch, that sounds cruel. To recycle someone.

rene

yep, it is cruel

there is no love in IT

Shadow Wizard

Poor Smoky. Hope he won't retaliate.

berserk

did you just said cycle?

user259867

@rene Just did. Smokey seems to be okay...

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2:56 PM

I had to:

@googlechrome #devtools Who knew border could come out of margin? :P https://t.co/8iVJPnAmOv

Tweeted by Eyeballcode on December 3, 2015 at 2:56 PM

Shadow Wizard

!!/alive?

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Kinda sorta

Shadow Wizard

!!/version

user259867

!!/rev

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!!/rev

SmokeDetector

2:56 PM

@NormalHuman 4eb51ce (Manish Goregaokar: Merge pull request #114 from rschrieken/patch-11)

Shadow Wizard

huh

SmokeDetector

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE 4eb51ce (Manish Goregaokar: Merge pull request #114 from rschrieken/patch-11)

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@NormalHuman NOOOO you beat be :<

user259867

version should be a synonym for rev, I guess.

Shadow Wizard

yeah

!!/status

SmokeDetector

2:57 PM

@ShadowWizard Running since 14:55:53 UTC (1 minute)

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@sha is the most senior non mod and he can't run smokey properly...

Shadow Wizard

Senior... lol

looking for @Bart

berserk

b..b..bart

Shadow Wizard

@BarBer

Derpy

@ShadowWizard he said user, not headgear.

berserk

2:58 PM

:o

I am wearing bart atm.

Am I barber?

rene

@ShadowWizard hahahahahha

Shadow Wizard

@berserk that sounds... blech-y

!!/define senior

berserk

lol

Shadow Wizard

useless bot

in Shadow's Den, 19 secs ago, by FOX 9000

Definition from Merriam-Webster:
1. noun
- a person older or of higher rank than another
- a student in the last year before graduating from a school of secondary or higher level
2. adjective
- having reached the age of retirement
- higher in standing or rank
- of or relating to seniors

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Remember Yahoo Messenger? It's been relaunched, and hopes to challenge rivals like WhatsApp http://bit.ly/1IFXxyZ https://t.co/yIxsc5IjgB

Tweeted by ChannelNewsAsia on December 3, 2015 at 3:01 PM

Lol so yahoo messenger bot now?

Shadow Wizard

3:03 PM

challenge WhatsApp... good joke!

It's like Bing is a challenge to Google

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Well we'll see

If it's good I'll write a chatbot for it

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Shortened url in answer: Angles in a triangle ABC by abangherbal on math.stackexchange.com

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sd tpu-

Shadow Wizard

yup spam

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Yay! I have 2 more hours for a 100 rep bounty

6

Q: Why does Pyrex glow orange under UV?

In a Physics lesson today our teacher performed a demonstration to show how quinine in tonic water glows blue when under UV light. He showed us the same demonstration using water in a Pyrex beaker, and with just the Pyrex beaker itself in order to compare the effects. Under UV light the Pyrex be...

user259867

3:05 PM

Analytics of spammers: goo.gl/#analytics/goo.gl/BDiLti/all_time they are big in Japan

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Hm

user259867

@UNICYCLEZRDEBESTINDEHERE And then the 24 hour grace period, though it's best not to push it.

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So 7 people clicked the link

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: Yandex map does not appear bestflowersminsk.esy.es/?q=node/1 by VassiaAlk on drupal.stackexchange.com

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11

Q: Is killing fish with iced water really humane?

Someone told me that one can kill a fish by putting it in iced water. He stated that it'll kill the animal extremely fast and without any pain. I've my doubts... Can anyone explain why this should work? Or is it nonsense?

cleaning-fish fish

Blech

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3:37 PM

sd gone

UNICYCLEZ R DE BEST IN DE HERE

3:54 PM

CSS transforms are teh best

user259867

The interface of goo.gl pages is at least 2 generations behind most Google sites.

user259867

That navigation bar was replaced by black bar, which was replaced by a launcher thing.

Praxis Ashelin

in a regex, what's the difference between [a-z]{6,} and [a-z]{6} ?

what does that comma mean

user259867

Comma means: 6 or more.
{6,11} = at least 6 and at most 11.
{6,} = at least 6

Braiam

4:03 PM

journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf

@PraxisAshelin no upper bound

{,6} would mean no lower bound

Praxis Ashelin

alright makes sense, ty

Braiam

{6} means exactly 6

user259867

@Braiam No, that's not interpreted that way. You'd need {0,6}.

Braiam

@NormalHuman mm? really?

user259867

@Braiam Try regex101.com

Braiam

4:07 PM

you are right, but I kind of expected it was like that....

user259867

Regex: expect the unexpected

user259867

Triage: Add explanation what's the reason for having a triage at all by Thomas Landauer on meta.stackoverflow.com

user259867

I think there was a reason once, but it was lost... If Triage does not hide the Unsalvageable from tag views, it does not serve the original purpose.

user259867

It still does something, being a version of "First Posts" with fewer questions but multiple reviewers.

user259867

But that doesn't explain having both.

Braiam

4:19 PM

supposedly, FP should die after we figure out triage

user259867

In that case it might outlive us.

bjb568

4:38 PM

It doesn't really do much given that Unsalvageable doesn't actually hide questions. Hopefully when it is more developed a concrete purpose will be easy to communicate to reviewers. — bjb568 13 secs ago

user259867

I use Normal chatroom as a kind of Triage for math (which doesn't have one): a stream of questions selected on (pretty simple) criteria, reviewed by me.

user259867

No robo-reviewers, and I always reach consensus.

bjb568

Autocracy is best democracy!

rene

5:02 PM

!!/alive

Smokey died... again...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: How can I access child components values from a parent component when they are added dynamically? by Loktar on stackoverflow.com

Doorknob

!!/alive?

huhwhat

!!/help

So manual reports still work, but not commands?

user259867

Weird. Also, blacklisting a 21k user?

Sam

@NormalHuman Was a mistake.

Doorknob

I was about to !!/rmblu, but, you know...

rene

5:07 PM

@NormalHuman we are taking care of that, sorry

user259867

Something's up with chat websocket, I suppose: Smokey doesn't listen to chat.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

Doorknob

Quick, someone post spam to see if main site websockets still work. :P

rene

I guess balpha is playing tricks on us ;)

Braiam

nah, I doubt it

user259867

5:10 PM

I COULD USE DOGFISH 90 MIN RIGHT NOW by Normal Human on beer.stackexchange.com

2

user259867

Nope, doesn't detect.

Braiam

what is the tag for the old nav?

user259867

There isn't one, afaik.

rene

We have an incoming stream of posts related to the earlier trolling

Undo

!!/reboot

SmokeDetector

5:14 PM

Goodbye, cruel world

Undo

It just fell off the chat websocket

user259867

@SmokeDetector gone

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu-

user259867

@SmokeDetector gone

ell

Hi guys

Andy

5:28 PM

Hello

ola

Hallo

hei :)

any suggestions to improve my question? stackoverflow.com/questions/34072721/…

I think I covered everything

SmokeDetector

5:47 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Iodine-131 half-life and reality by ifti on physics.stackexchange.com

Braiam

@cybermonkey I know of libraries that query the arp tables that may be more, um... easier

Undo

sd tpu-

Braiam

the binary github.com/royhills/arp-scan

rene

sd tpu-

Braiam

@SmokeDetector gone

SmokeDetector

6:01 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Why do grocery stores in the U.S. offer cash back so eagerly? by ronald Henderson on money.stackexchange.com

user259867

> Mr ericson ask me to contact priest GAGU

user259867

They are trying to implicate Jon in their scam.

Undo

@SmokeDetector gone and autoprotected

Ilmari Karonen

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@IlmariKaronen Blacklisted user.

Ilmari Karonen

6:08 PM

cool, it works :)

ell

6:29 PM

@SmokeDetector Are you a bot?

You have a bot to detect offensive answers? :L

How on earth is that implemented?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: Usage of dabei and wobei by Notafaggot on german.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu-

user259867

@ell The detection part is here.

Braiam

the name of that file seems inaccurate :S

user259867

It's over 90% accurate, because most of the file is spam-catching stuff.

Ilmari Karonen

6:39 PM

@ell Mostly pretty easily, as demonstrated above. :)

It's really not hard to detect answers like "gay gay gay gay gay ..." as probably worth flagging and deleting.

SmokeDetector

7:20 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: What is Pureternal Anti-Aging Cream? by Ilarus Ilario on arduino.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu-

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: Why are the signatures on the United States Declaration of Independence structured as they are? by SmarterThanYou on history.stackexchange.com

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector tpu-

SmokeDetector

7:38 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Why did Euclid call 6 a perfect number? by user295629 on math.stackexchange.com

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector tpu-

user202362

7:54 PM

!!/tea

SmokeDetector

@chmod666telkitty brews a cup of chamomile tea for @chmod666telkitty

user202362

!!/cake

user202362

no cake, time for breakfast :p

S.L. Barth

Good morning then! (Sent from a place where it's evening).

user259867

8:08 PM

It's an afternoon here, and not a particularly good one, at that. Dark, rainy. Nobody sent me Dogfish 90.

user259867

Blender site design by Courtny on meta.blender.stackexchange.com

user259867

Since when is Courtny doing site designs?

user259867

Something's odd here. You never posted site designs until now. And the post uses "we" pronoun without disclosing who it refers to. Is this a design by committee, or by someone whose identity must be concealed? — Normal Human 19 secs ago

user259867

status-conspiracy-theorist

user259867

Ashley Nunn is a new pro tem mod at Pets

hichris123

8:40 PM

@NormalHuman "new" :) She's been a mod on Pets before. :)

Courtny

@NormalHuman Better to meet you here, our design team is currently trying to tackle the big backlog of community site designs and I've been pressed into service to assist!

We also hired a new designer, Pawel who is helping to blitz that backlog as well.

user259867

@Courtny Condolences on your demotion. :p But great job on Blender.

Courtny

@NormalHuman Haha, it's actually a very welcome change of pace from all Careers, all the time

Anywho, you'll probably not see a ton of sites by me...but now you know!

user259867

I appreciate the explanation!

hichris123

It's odd to see an employee in here without blue. :P

user259867

8:47 PM

Hm, there is no easy way to find the number of custom-design sites...

user259867

I wonder how it compares to 150.

user259867

Oh, I guess there is a way: count custom icons on the site list.

user259867

I counted 62, including Patents and lang-SO sites (since they look like SO by design). That's a lot.

user259867

Could be 63 if Stack Apps are included, or 61 if Meta.SE is excluded. Edge cases.

hichris123

9:06 PM

Speaking of design... only two sites still have the old profile page: Physics and Area 51 Discussion Zone.

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

user259867

I think Area 51 should be next. Physics should suffer for its sins.

hichris123

As in... having a homework tag?

user259867

That, and trying to design by committee: this leading to that.

user259867

I think this is the only site design post with [status-declined]

hichris123

9:13 PM

@NormalHuman To be fair, ES has a homework tag. I'm not in love with it, but...

user259867

No custom design for you, then...

hichris123

:(

user259867

@SmokeDetector gone

user259867

We may not have homework tag (good riddance) but we sure have lots of homework... I find this Real World Application of Calculus particularly charming:

user259867

-2

Q: Integrals and Related Rates

A window in Prof. Xu's office is defined by the function $f$, where $f$ is given by $f (s) = 5 sin ((π/32)(s^2 + 16))$. Every evening, before she leaves her office, Prof. Xu draws the curtain over the window. Every morning she draws the curtain open, starting at time $t = 0$. If she draws th...