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> I appreciate that question. I'm ambitious. Not everyone is ambitious. I'm sure if I don't win in this election, I'll be back at the next one running again. What drives my ambition is a desire to help people. I am not independently wealthy, but I do donate a lot of time and money to helping people.
> I'm not perfect, but I want it to be said that I did good work. Reputation points are one way we keep score here. Badges are another. They attempt to quantify the degree to which we have helped people. I believe I can help people as a moderator too. That's why I'm asking for your vote.
00:52
@zaq I hope I count towards a whole viable candidate?
01:29
@zaq If the US was SO, things would be at least more interesting.
01:50
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title: Furnace transfer switch nutral watt meter question by Andrew Fischer on diy.stackexchange.com
hoo boy. I have answered the Q&A: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/337593/541136 - please let me know if I've made any fatal mistakes. :)
user315433
02:29
Having Q&A collection ahead of elections is generally a good idea, but it has the potential to generate 30 answers, with 11 items in each. :-/
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@AaronHall Um, not really.
@AaronHall Meh, seems short. I'd explain myself more.
02:52
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: www.tenedonlineshop.com/pure-cambogia-ultra-pure-life-cleanse/ by Sharon Jhon on drupal.stackexchange.com
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03:05
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I love cats ... other people's well fed, nicely groomed, vaccinated cats ...
03:26
@bjb568 Any parts you think I should expand on?
03:41
I expanded my answer to question 10, after having some time to think about the possibilities.
03:52
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer: How exactly do cures affect future infection in Pandemic? by Joyce Benson on boardgames.stackexchange.com
 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Vacation at P.U.Z.Z.L.E by Christopher DeMarco on puzzling.stackexchange.com
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05:10
@ShadowWizard :D
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Iron Bull Edge If they are no longer functioning optimally? by KarinaManning on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com
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06:04
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3d too!
06:34
@zaq Do I count according to you?
06:45
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How long should I run my pool filter per day? by vehik on diy.stackexchange.com
@AniMenon glad I made you laugh! :D
@Magisch you're probably the 0.5... ;)
@Telkitty and edible! Yum...
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are you saying that unicorns are edible? :p
@Telkitty of course not, only their horns.... :D
07:03
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: It is made of common and top by balkotermler on apple.stackexchange.com
07:34
@ShadowWizard I'm interested in hearing the why/why not on that :P
07:51
@Magisch maybe what @rene said here? :)
Mhm, maybe
08:09
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Blender auto-closes when pressing shift+i on a bone by don't sohai delete my post on blender.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Blender auto-closes when pressing shift+i on a bone by don't sohai delete my post on blender.stackexchange.com
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@JNat if you're around, account needs a quick nuke... blender.stackexchange.com/users/32349/dont-sohai-delete-my-post (doesn't look like he intends to stop trolling any time soon)
08:41
@Derpy is this what you drink every morning?
@SmokeDetector f
@ShadowWizard Actually, I don't even drink coffee in the first place.
I prefer tea
@Derpy o/ Tea
@Derpy green tea?
08:50
@ShadowWizard ^ that said, most of the time it is just green tea bags
@Derpy hot, I assume? I love cold tea, we got many variations here. :)
I like peppermind and green tea
In fact, since I've gone cold turkey on pepsi light, I've been drinking inordinate amounts of peppermind tea
user202362
s/peppermind/peppermint/g
Too late to edit
grr
@ShadowWizard mostly
08:58
@Derpy Have you ever had pepsi light?
I used to drink it like water and stopping to drink it feels like what people describe withdrawal symptoms like
IMO all those light/zero are worse than the original. No sugar, right, but tons of harmful chemicals instead.
Sugar is natural.
Its even more insidious then that
The sugar replacement stuff tricks your body into believing it just got sugar, leading to an insulin spike without sugar to accomodate it
But anyway, I don't like mint, never did.... with one exception of mint chocolate. ;)
Means you get a fast, hard sugar crash when drinking that. You become super hungry, and super fatigued.
@Magisch really??? Never heard about that, hard to believe....
09:00
And it'll get you diabetes faster then normal soda will
I noticed just how infinitely less tired I was after cutting that stuff
and less hungry
@Magisch maybe it's not affecting everyone like that, keep in mind you got "special" body, with reactions to some kinds of food, no?
indeed
but I talked to a friend of mine who is in med school
And he said for dietary purposes and general well being it would be less harmful for me if I drank the same amount in sugary soda
I had my share of diet/light drinks, don't remember any bad effect, I just realized the original tastes better and I don't care for the sugar. :)
In any case, not drinking that stuff has generally made me feel better, be less hungry and less tired overall.
That said, I cut my sugar consumption in coffee: used to have 2 teaspoons of sugar in every cup, now it's only 0.5 - lots of calories saved! ;)
09:05
And after a few days of what felt like withdrawals drinking water instead is just fine
and tea
copious amounts of tea
How long ago all that happened?
3 some weeks
oh, recently...
Indeed
09:21
... did something change about SE access with Google login? It tells me it wants more permissions now?
@Bart yeah, saw that as well. Dunno why though. Maybe @balpha can tell?
@Magisch ? Uh? I used to drink some Cola, but lately I prefer fruit juice
Were you testing my addiction to sugar because Shadow got you into thinking I am Ryuzaki?
Is it expected that the number of times a question was protected differ much if you take deleted posts into account?
Assuming protection is used to keep valuable questions around?
09:37
Time for the "Derpy's Idea of the Day"
11 hours ago, by Jon Ericson
I'm violently allergic to cats.
New Winterbash Hat: The Cat
I'm passively aggressively allergic to cats
Awarded for pinging Jon with a cat image
(so he will need to do all the awards manually mwhahahahah)
Hat design:
Just photoshop Jon into that picture ....
09:52
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: copying files in ubuntu from downloads dir to computer dir by user616709 on askubuntu.com
@rene tried, and trust me you don't want to see the result.
That come out very poorly.
lol
Want to see! ;)
It's a bit of a shame all nomination comments are voteless. Late comments are hidden now.
10:07
@Bart Indeed
I got an endorsement and nobody will see it
Ah well
@ShadowWizard I don't want to get sued/banned :P
user202362
10:20
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bacon taco?
@ShadowWizard @Bart this is what I'm getting:
what are you seeing?
Exactly
user202362
has been like this for ages ...
10:28
yep
10:46
It's just that SE is really good at keeping you logged in
Now that you mention it
I'm pretty sure I've been logged in at this computer for at least a whole year
11:03
@balpha so nothing changed? Why would it ask me again? I log in each and every day.
I don't know, usually Google doesn't ask you again once you've given permission. Did you clean up your connected apps recently or something like that?
Nope
no idea then
maybe google re-asks you once every so-long?
Perhaps, but I seem to understand that @ShadowWizard had the same thing appear? Anyway, not a huge deal, just surprising.
@balpha might be, but maybe you changed something in the OAuth code on your side? Can you poke Adam? :)
11:06
I just logged in with google and I wasn't asked (and I never log in with google, so it's been ages)
I had to revoke permissions to even get that ^ screenshot
@Bart true, though I'm not 100% where I saw it, I don't log out. Maybe when creating account on a new site.
(but it was recent, no more than a week ago...)
@balpha okay, nevermind then.
And thanks of course :)
Make it two thanks :)
@Telkitty sorry, can't find one with cats, so you will have to go with dogs instead.
Knu
Knu
11:49
Is there an admin who could migrate some questions?
I dunno why but a lot of my questions that were on MSO ended up on MSO.
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@Knu community admins here are mostly asleep right now
Knu
Knu
http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/94957/145495
http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/130646/145495
http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/92431/145495
http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/92641/145495
http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/92077/145495
http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/130646/145495
All of these were wrongly migrated from MSO.
They were perfectly on topic there BTW.
They belong there.
@Knu umm... no. None of them has been migrated. What make you think that??
MSE was MSO until few years ago.
Knu
Knu
now that makes sense
12:00
If anything, you can request migration from MSE to MSO but it won't be of any real use for such old questions.
Knu
Knu
but closing these questions as off topic make it seems you did something wrong
yeah that's what I am requesting
if an admin comes by
@Knu nothing wrong, it's just a sign for others, to post such questions in MSO.
@Knu you can flag, but good chance it will be declined.
@Telkitty that was from that old movie, "Godzilla VS @bjb568", right?
AAH! You've summoned it!
user202362
alear and alear's alter ego :p
12:06
If Adam Lear needs a sock, he could do Adam Bear or Adam Near or Adam Pear
:D
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Adam's ear
Knu
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What's the difference between the tag bug-tracker and bug-tracking? meta.stackexchange.com/q/92431/145495
Adam Near and Adam Far
@Telkitty Adam Clear
@JanDvorak Adam Near and Adam Mello?
12:14
?
@Knu no idea, better asked in MSO... :)
@JanDvorak Near & Mello
@Derpy heh, was just going to post same link about Mello... so glad I understood what you meant! :D
@ShadowWizard yep, sorry, wasn't obscure enough. I am pretty busy with the 3843652372373 business logic / dal rework after #YetAnotherDBStructureChange
If you remember that old Twily face I used to post time ago.... that is my face now.
So, if you hear a distant scream, you will know I live in that direction.
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@JanDvorak I keep on thinking it's a headcrab on your face:
12:30
Oct 19 at 13:23, by Derpy
@Telkitty Jan and The Owl haven't been existing as separate entities for many years now. Now, only Jan D'Vorak, O̥̣̲͎̜͉̮v̤̥͔̗͔̟ę̲̳̘r̡̞̪̟͎͍ͅs̹̫̼̠̹̳ͅe͏ẹ̀r̜͕͓̹̬ ̴̱͖̥̮O̲̪͓͉͓f̦ ̮̯̹̫͞T̝͈̻̕h͙ẹ̲̩͎̯͇ ̷̼͙̼̩Ó̘̠̺w̩̙̙l̶̺͇̻̞̗̯̭ are.
Oct 19 at 13:29, by Derpy
As Abdul Alhazred recorded in his writing, Jan is now just a puppet in the claws of The Owl, who is one of the many physical manifestations of the Great Unspeakable One, Gram'mnarh Nazgoth
@Telkitty Already forgot ^? I explained you the truth about @JanDvorak before
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relax, rest your eyes on this fur ball:
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Is the cat alive in this shot?
@Telkitty this is only for the camera. When away from camera, they don't stop fighting... :D
user202362
12:35
dog & cat <3 each other :p
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@Derpy oh my... so this is your scream here? theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/03/…
@ShadowWizard Seems you finally discovered my true identity.
Here, have a photo as a prize.
It is a little old...
Hoorray to @Nem! :P
wait... did you just confess for being male, Nemo? ;)
Yep, because I am totally Nemo. Yep. So true.
But you know, I will admit that I could have trolled you better.
12:42
(:
should have sent you this instead.
That's more indeterminate, are you happy now @ShadowWizard?
12:59
Good morning
Morning Aaron
Morning Aaron
@bjb568 I have further elaborated, and even compared my answer to Andy's - I don't know if I need to add anything further, but if people ask questions that cause me to clarify my responses, I'll be glad to get them: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/337571/…
13:27
Is Sergey serious about his nomination, or is he just trolling?
@Bart why trolling?
Barely any nomination text. Weird answers to the questions asked, circumventing them completely in some cases. Given that he has done this whole thing 3 times now (I think), I'd expect something different.
user202362
maybe he thinks that election is like lottery, the more entries you make, higher chance you get to win
Hah, perhaps. I'm just surprised.
@Bart I see it as "I don't really care if I'll be elected or not, just want to try" - he's serious about it, but unlike all others, don't really care. He'll make fine moderator as far as I can see, it's just that he's not really... keen about it.
13:37
Okay, fair enough
I did a grammar and spelling pass on my answers to the questions, and changed some formulations
13:53
@Telkitty Wait, wasn't "lottery" defined as "game where the chances of winning don't change if you decide to take part in the game or not"?
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?
@Derpy probably means that the chances of winning in lottery are zero, so it doesn't really matter if you actually take part or not, you'll never win. ;)
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: cisco ipsec vpn not working by mohammed haneef on networkengineering.stackexchange.com
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: What are the common fonts used in music? by user79814 on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com
@ShadowWizard precisely.
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer, link at end of answer: Is it possible to find an apartment for rent in Germany before coming there and looking for a job/contract? by Ali Demir on expatriates.stackexchange.com
15:31
@ShadowWizard Gone, thanks ;)
@JNat cheers! :)
user315433
15:58
> ...and cannot have been suspended during the past year.
user315433
This line wasn't on the election page yesterday...
user315433
And now it retroactively appears on all elections dating back to 2011.
user315433
The early start of Q&A collection changed the dynamics of nominations: we got a bunch from those who thought about it during the "preview" week, and now there's a lull.
user315433
One of the current candidates, only two ran before - Andy and Sergey K., both twice.
16:11
Hmm . Think anyone would vote for me in the SO elections?
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So far, 149 distinct users ran for SO mod. Their alphabetized list begins with @AaronHall and ends with Zaheer Ahmed.
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA why not
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slugster holds the record with 7 attempts, that is, every election except this one (so far).
user315433
Only two other candidates tried more than 3 times: Madara Uchiha and Moshe.
16:17
Mhm
user315433
17 people ran three times, and 8 of them were elected on the third try.
@Bart I am not a good writer, but I believe I can do good.
You ran before, right?
Yes. and was shut down both times.
So I gave up.
user315433
I see three attempts: elections 2, 3, 4.
user315433
16:20
Unless it was some other Neal.
So if you feel like running again, look at the responses for those times and see how you can improve your nomination.
Ahh three. forgot about one of them. Where do you get that info @zaq ?
@Bart where do I see that?
The old election pages
and how do I get there?
:-(
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/election/x where x is in 1...8
16:23
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: "that a big deal" or "that big a deal"? by MovieLover on ell.stackexchange.com
Anonymous
Use 0 for the index while an election is active.
fancy
Do I answer questions first or do the nomination first?
This is confusing
user315433
Normally, nomination first. This is how it had to be done in the past, when Q&A was posted after nominations were closed.
user315433
I suppose it can be either way, unless Grace has a policy of deleting responses from anyone who's not nominated...
16:31
@ShadowWizard To be fair, I blame the writers for not having a famous female submarine captain too, and you for assuming I was the one with the beard.
What if I meant I am the submarine in the background?
@zaq took me two times
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Yes. One of eight mods elected on 2nd try: animuson, bluefeet, casperOne, Ed Cottrell, Gordon, jjnguy, Matt, meagar.
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Seven were elected on 3rd try: Andrew Barber, Brad Larson, Flexo, George Stocker, Jeremy Banks, Jon Clements, Ryan.
Anonymous
Interesting.
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And Madara Uchiha is the only one elected on the 4th try.
16:35
Interesting stats. I wonder how it will play out.
notices @zaq somehow looks like a creeper, wonders if @bjb568 somehow looking like an ocelot would be enough to keep him from exploding
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@zaq Correction: eight were elected on the 3rd try, I forgot Undo.
How can you forget the Tavern's favorite dog? @Undo
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16:53
The probability of being elected is 14% on the first try, 38% on the second, 47% on the third, 50% on the fourth, and then it drops down to 0%. (If we think that probability = frequency of happening in the past, which we shouldn't.)
blah 65 charaters over the limit.
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A: 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

NealI am Neal aka Naftali and here are my answers to your questions: A 10k+ user regularly has their comments flagged as "rude or offensive" or "not constructive", to the tune of 4-5 flags a day. No comment by itself is particularly offensive, but their general tone causes them to be flagged b...

Done.
17:08
woof?
meow?
@zaq Confounded by, I assume, a relatively strong correlation between folks who try multiple times and folks who would tend to improve year to year.
@Undo Hopefully...
i am on try #4
I think some people misunderstand how moderation works.
17:29
s/some/most/
Yea...
They think this is like some presidentail vote and we would get some aww inspiring powers that we will have no control over and the world will implode into darkness.
"-tail", "aww"... :3
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA The last part is mostly accurate.
18:14
@AaronHall You don't have to disclose your employer if you're not comfortable.
@AaronHall I commented to Benjamin, feel free to remove your comments about where you work.
You might ask Benjamin if that is used for personal interest or somehow related to being/becoming a mod?
You can't be a mod if you teach at Harvard
Thanks
yw
@rene Pity. I was totally going to subscribe to "Harvard Moderator Review". :-D
And thank you, whoever deleted my comment - I remembered to not anthropomorphize and identify with it this time.
18:25
@S.L.Barth :)
@AaronHall no worries, there is no requirement for your employment details to be public
@AaronHall if you become a mod consider using words I don't have to lookup in a dictionary ...
Yeah, I know we can be totally anonymous but I went the other way - which can be kinda tricky.
I do recall that Brad Larson got phone calls to his workplace from angry users ...
@AaronHall It has one advantage for a moderator candidate. You've already posted everything in the full knowledge that it can come back to you professionally.
@rene There was an entire MSE post, quite recently, about the harassment that moderators receive.
And Brad has handed out a lot of review suspensions. Which is why he's one of my favorite moderators.
18:31
yeah, awfull, needs thick skin and plenty of alcohol to cope with
review suspensions? for robo-reviewers?
@AaronHall Yes.
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Q: Make moderator messages anonymous

meagarCurrently, when a moderator messages a user, the user sees which moderator is messaging them. This includes when a moderator issues a timed suspension. Generally, I have no problem with this. Sometimes a user needs to be gently reminded to be nicer in comments, or to disclose when they're advert...

@bluefeet Ah yes, that one! And maybe one linked by it, also.
In retrospect, we should have added that to the questionnaire... "Are you prepared to deal with off-site harassment and doxxing?"
Maybe phrased a bit different, as "harassment" may imply physical violence... which AFAIK hasn't happened yet. But we should not understate the off-site problems a moderator may get.
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"Are you prepared to..." questions aren't that useful if nobody is answering "Nope, totally not ready for that."
18:39
@zaq Fair point. Might want to phrase it differently.
The underlying question is "are you aware that you can get a lot of off-site nastiness from vengeful users".
But that would be a bit of a yes/no question.
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A: "Now I am, having read the question."
Mission accomplished. Also, nomination revoked....
@S.L.Barth revoked? Why?
@ShadowWizard It was in response to the hypothetical situation. AFAIK there are no revoked nominations yet.
Oh, hey @Pro why won't you run for moderator on SO? ;)
@S.L.Barth oh. lol
18:45
@S.L.Barth There was:
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A: 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

ConduitThe opportunity to interact with your fellow SO users in a greater capacity is undeniably attractive, but it doesn't come without cost. As a moderator you would have an incredibly high level of visibility. This post shows that such visibility - coupled with a disagreement with the wrong user - ca...

@ShadowWizard I've hardly been active over the past few months. That aside, I don't think I could spend a lot of time moderating SO.
@Andy I meant in the current election.
that was a proposed question. it just didn't get enough votes to be selected
@ProgramFOX yeah, at least you're honest about it. :)
@Andy Ah, you meant the question was there. I thought you meant there were nomination revocations. I see.
18:48
If one revokes their nomination, can they nominate themselves again?
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@ShadowWizard Indecision is not a good look for a mod candidate.
@JonEricson So... the system allows it, but it's discouraged?
I have no idea. My guess is that re-nominations are blocked so that when we revoke one, the user doesn't come back. But that's a WAG of the first order.
@JonEricson I can totally imagine @nicael abusing it.... ;)
@JonEricson WAG?
18:55
Scientific wild-ass guess (SWAG) is American slang meaning a rough estimate made by an expert in the field, based on experience and intuition. It is similar to the slang word guesstimate, a portmanteau of guess and estimate. == History == The slang term "SWAG" is generally thought to have originated in the US military, either the Army or the Air Force. Journalist Melvin J. Lasky wrote that it was first used casually by US Army General William Westmoreland during the Vietnam War. Westmoreland would sometimes reply "SWAG" to reporters' questions about American failure to neutralize the enem...
My SWAG: I would expect them to be implemented like answers, which are deletable and undeletable, and permanently deletable by mods.
@JonEricson Thanks! Google gave me "Wives And Girlfriends", which didn't make sense in the context.
My WAG: Word Association Game :D (@Bart just love it ;))
We have a mod-candidate with a sock-puppet?
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@JonEricson A number of times, when Shog revoked a non-serious nomination, he left a comment encouraging the user to re-nominate.
18:56
@rene many good users have sock puppet, I have two.. maybe three... think I lost one.
@zaq Ah. That's true and he knows better than I do.
@ShadowWizard but now we have one that tells me to look at his sock puppet for his meta-participation ...
@rene huh? Who?
user315433
@ShadowWizard Neal aka @amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA
user315433
Sorry, meant to reply to SW
18:58
confusing ...
@zaq you can still edit
leaN isn't a sock, just a different name
user315433
but there is a sock involved, too
which sock?
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Q: Experimented with an alternate account to see the new user experience through veteran habits, eyes

qwertynlOn November 2013 I created this "secret" persona in which I went all out: New email address New JSFiddle account New GitHub account Permission from the Stack Exchange team to run my experiment ... And so much more. Why did I do this? This was an experiment if people can treat a new user any...

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