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S.L. Barth

6:00 PM

@ShadowWizard Looks like she has a different one on every SE site.

So maybe she forgot to create a custom avatar for these two... or only chooses one for graduated sites.

Seems to be the latter... she also uses her default icon for 3DPrintingSE... where she uses the name "2D Printing Grace Note".

Shadow Wizard

6:32 PM

@S.L.Barth hmm... but when associating accounts, everything should be copied, including avatar.

S.L. Barth

@ShadowWizard So.. her "primary" account should be the one with the default avatar?

Either that, or she deliberately sets these other accounts to this standard avatar.

Shadow Wizard

@S.L.Barth hmm... well, doesn't really matter. And what makes you say "she"? ;)

S.L. Barth

@ShadowWizard Just the profile pics, the profile text and the name... not much to base an assumption on, I'll admit :-)

Magisch

Grace note could change her name to "Graceful note" and put a written note as avatar for april fools

Shadow Wizard

@S.L.Barth hmm... interesting. FYI, Grace raised lots of assumptions regarding his/her gender over the years. Even SE itself either doesn't know the gender, or refuse to disclose it, as you can see in the Team page. (Look for Chris Jaeger ;))

Magisch

6:43 PM

I can respect people not wanting to disclose their gender

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch me too, in a way. And same respect goes to @Derpy by the way. :)

Magisch

There is much that I don't disclose about myself, too.

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch your weight? :D

Magisch

On the internet, nobody knows you're actually a floating smiley head

S.L. Barth

@ShadowWizard Never realized that Chris Jaeger was Grace Note...

Magisch

6:46 PM

@ShadowWizard like my full name or adress, although talented people looking hard enough could probably find it

Shadow Wizard

@S.L.Barth now you know... ;)

S.L. Barth

@Magisch More or less the same here... except I decided to use my real name when I signed up for SO, as a bit of "personal branding".

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch hmm... challenge accepted! ;)

Magisch

@ShadowWizard If you do, please don't plaster it publicly

I know I can't stop you, but please don't.

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch oh well... will do my best to hold myself. :)

Magisch

6:48 PM

I got doxxed before and it got ugly

Shadow Wizard

@rene will you help me hold myself?

@Magisch dox-what?

Magisch

@ShadowWizard When someone who hates you publishes your full name and adress and encourages people to order crap in your name, or mail you nasty things, or encourages writing your employer to get you fired.

Didn't get swatted yet, thank whatever.

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch oh my, that's nasty indeed! Since I don't hate you I won't doxx you. :)

(though I might send you a pizza..... ;))

Magisch

@ShadowWizard Swatting is even worse, and actually classified as attempted murder in some states

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch and what is swatting?

Magisch

6:52 PM

@ShadowWizard When someone calls an anonymous tip to police and reports you as having hostages you're planning to kill

Shadow Wizard

wow, never thought about that

Magisch

The idea is that a swat team breaks into your house and if someone is easily startled they can get shot dead before they can explain themselfes.

S.L. Barth

I've heard about it a few times... it must be highly illegal.

Magisch

nasty people do that to streamers sometimes

Shadow Wizard

Well, such thing is federal crime for sure, warranting years in jail for the one doing it.

Magisch

6:53 PM

Well, its nothing short of attempted (or completed) murder

S.L. Barth

I'm no expert, but I thought that in a hostage situation, the police would always try to negotiate first?

Magisch

not sure about the US, but here murderers generally don't get away with anything other then life

@S.L.Barth If someone claims that someone is about to execute hostages, the police kinda don't.

S.L. Barth

@Magisch Depending on how reliable the claim is... part of a police negotiator's work is judging that, I think.

Magisch

@S.L.Barth Yeah, they've gotten better at judging this kind of stuff

But still, thats like the lowest of low moves to do to someone

The internet is full of awful people unhinged by the perception of anonimity.

S.L. Barth

There are a lot of people on the net... so figure there's also a lot of nasty ones.

If only 1 in every 10000 is a jerk, that still makes for a lot of jerks.

Magisch

7:01 PM

@S.L.Barth Clearly you are not active in various gaming communities

Where you're lucky to find the occasional non-jerk. Maybe my perspective is just bitter and blinded by years of shoveling both metaphorical and literal dirt in minecraft

SE is a welcome respite because while we still do get jerks, they're a lot fewer and farther between here.

S.L. Barth

Moderation makes or breaks a community.

I love how, if you flag a bad post on SE, it's actually handled in a mature manner.

Magisch

what makes this thing here is the public accountability

If you don't have that conspiracy theories and clique mentalities will start to fester real quick

On here, the people who like to incite these have very few straws to grasp

rene

@ShadowWizard sure

S.L. Barth

@Magisch True.

Shadow Wizard

7:26 PM

@rene thanks, you're a true friend! :D

S.L. Barth

7:36 PM

@Magisch The public accountability helps a lot, but the flagging is secret... for good reason.

That's where moderators come in - at least for the custom flags. And where bad moderation would cause even SE to fall.

popctrl

Is this a good place to ask where I should ask a question?

hichris123

8:03 PM

@popctrl Probably. You can always ask a question on Meta too.

popctrl

Ok well my question is "Why do construction crews working on highways at night point their lights at traffic instead of away?" I'm thinking maybe it's a legal question since there are surely regulations involved? But I'm not sure

hichris123

Hmm, that's an interesting one. Maybe Travel? Looks like it wouldn't be on-topic for Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair.

Law might fit, but I think a question like this would be closed since it doesn't refer to any specific legal issue.

rene

Maybe Workplace.se @hichris123?

Maybe not

hichris123

@rene Workplace? What kind of a workplace issue is that? :P

popctrl

8:19 PM

Workplace isn't a bad idea. It's referring to the construction workers workplace...

rene

@popctrl No, it is off-topic there see: workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

popctrl

Ah ok

Sadly no advice on where to ask such a question in the explanation why it's off-topic

rene

I scanned over all sites but I don't think there is a site that will take it

You could try Quora.com or reddit

Quill

@Magisch That happened recently to one of the users on Arqade

popctrl

@rene alright I'll try reddit, thanks

Quill

8:25 PM

Additionally, somebody posted on the video game board of 4chan saying the first thirty people to add him on Steam and message him would get a game key

It was during the arqade election that this happened.... so he ended up dropping out :(

hichris123

To everyone voting to close this question, it's still an active bug which has not yet been fixed so voting to close as no longer reproducible makes little sense. This could easily pop up again. — bluefeet ♦ 30 mins ago

Some people on mSO seem to want to close a bunch of questions for no reason...

hichris123

9:08 PM

Random comment time: why are tool recs still off-topic on SO? Given Software Recommendations seems to have done a decent job, why not allow them on SO?

I suppose an argument could be that SR has much more moderation & curation of posts, which is probably valid.

Quill

9:26 PM

They covered this on the podcast before, IIRC

It wasn't that they were low quality, they just wanted to focus the questions on programming questions

hichris123

9:41 PM

But aren't those programming problems too? Especially considering you can reword a lot of tool recs from "What library does this?" to "I have problem X. How can I do this?"

Quill

9:59 PM

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Q: How to watch anime without wifi?

Is there any way to watch anime without wifi without downloading them first? I travel a lot and lots of times don't have access to the internet. I am currently watching the Prince of Tennis... This is why this question came to be.

prince-of-tennis

ewwwwww

SmokeDetector

10:39 PM

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hichris123

^ Spam, also wrong since posts are nofollow'ed.

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