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Aaron Hall

00:41

> 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.

Aaron Hall

00:52

@zaq I hope I count towards a whole viable candidate?

bjb568

01:29

@zaq If the US was SO, things would be at least more interesting.

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Aaron Hall

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. :-/

user315433

@AaronHall Um, not really.

bjb568

@AaronHall Meh, seems short. I'd explain myself more.

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user202362

03:05

user202362

I love cats ... other people's well fed, nicely groomed, vaccinated cats ...

Aaron Hall

03:26

@bjb568 Any parts you think I should expand on?

Aaron Hall

03:41

I expanded my answer to question 10, after having some time to think about the possibilities.

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Ani Menon

05:10

@ShadowWizard :D

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user202362

06:04

user202362

3d too!

Magisch

06:34

@zaq Do I count according to you?

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Shadow Wizard

@AniMenon glad I made you laugh! :D

@Magisch you're probably the 0.5... ;)

@Telkitty and edible! Yum...

user202362

are you saying that unicorns are edible? :p

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty of course not, only their horns.... :D

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Magisch

07:34

@ShadowWizard I'm interested in hearing the why/why not on that :P

Shadow Wizard

07:51

@Magisch maybe what @rene said here? :)

Magisch

Mhm, maybe

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Shadow Wizard

@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)

Derpy

08:41

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy is this what you drink every morning?

Magisch

@SmokeDetector f

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Actually, I don't even drink coffee in the first place.

I prefer tea

Magisch

@Derpy o/ Tea

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy green tea?

Derpy

08:50

@ShadowWizard ^ that said, most of the time it is just green tea bags

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy hot, I assume? I love cold tea, we got many variations here. :)

Magisch

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

Magisch

Too late to edit

grr

Derpy

@ShadowWizard mostly

Magisch

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

Shadow Wizard

IMO all those light/zero are worse than the original. No sugar, right, but tons of harmful chemicals instead.

Sugar is natural.

Magisch

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

Shadow Wizard

But anyway, I don't like mint, never did.... with one exception of mint chocolate. ;)

Magisch

Means you get a fast, hard sugar crash when drinking that. You become super hungry, and super fatigued.

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch really??? Never heard about that, hard to believe....

Magisch

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

Shadow Wizard

@Magisch maybe it's not affecting everyone like that, keep in mind you got "special" body, with reactions to some kinds of food, no?

Magisch

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

Shadow Wizard

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. :)

Magisch

In any case, not drinking that stuff has generally made me feel better, be less hungry and less tired overall.

Shadow Wizard

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! ;)

Magisch

09:05

And after a few days of what felt like withdrawals drinking water instead is just fine

and tea

copious amounts of tea

Shadow Wizard

How long ago all that happened?

Magisch

3 some weeks

Shadow Wizard

oh, recently...

Magisch

Indeed

Bart

09:21

... did something change about SE access with Google login? It tells me it wants more permissions now?

Shadow Wizard

@Bart yeah, saw that as well. Dunno why though. Maybe @balpha can tell?

Derpy

@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?

rene

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?

Derpy

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

Jan Dvorak

I'm passively aggressively allergic to cats

Derpy

Awarded for pinging Jon with a cat image

(so he will need to do all the awards manually mwhahahahah)

Hat design:

rene

Just photoshop Jon into that picture ....

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Derpy

@rene tried, and trust me you don't want to see the result.

That come out very poorly.

Shadow Wizard

lol

Want to see! ;)

Bart

It's a bit of a shame all nomination comments are voteless. Late comments are hidden now.

Magisch

10:07

@Bart Indeed

I got an endorsement and nobody will see it

Ah well

Derpy

@ShadowWizard I don't want to get sued/banned :P

user202362

10:20

user202362

bacon taco?

balpha

@ShadowWizard @Bart this is what I'm getting:

what are you seeing?

Bart

Exactly

user202362

has been like this for ages ...

balpha

10:28

yep

Jan Dvorak

10:46

It's just that SE is really good at keeping you logged in

Magisch

Now that you mention it

I'm pretty sure I've been logged in at this computer for at least a whole year

Bart

11:03

@balpha so nothing changed? Why would it ask me again? I log in each and every day.

balpha

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?

Bart

Nope

balpha

no idea then

maybe google re-asks you once every so-long?

Bart

Perhaps, but I seem to understand that @ShadowWizard had the same thing appear? Anyway, not a huge deal, just surprising.

Shadow Wizard

@balpha might be, but maybe you changed something in the OAuth code on your side? Can you poke Adam? :)

balpha

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

Shadow Wizard

@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...)

Bart

@balpha okay, nevermind then.

And thanks of course :)

Shadow Wizard

Make it two thanks :)

Derpy

@Telkitty sorry, can't find one with cats, so you will have to go with dogs instead.

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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.

user202362

@Knu community admins here are mostly asleep right now

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.

Shadow Wizard

@Knu umm... no. None of them has been migrated. What make you think that??

MSE was MSO until few years ago.

Knu

now that makes sense

Shadow Wizard

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

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

Shadow Wizard

@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.

Derpy

@Telkitty that was from that old movie, "Godzilla VS @bjb568", right?

Jan Dvorak

AAH! You've summoned it!

user202362

alear and alear's alter ego :p

Magisch

12:06

If Adam Lear needs a sock, he could do Adam Bear or Adam Near or Adam Pear

:D

user202362

Adam's ear

Knu

What's the difference between the tag bug-tracker and bug-tracking? meta.stackexchange.com/q/92431/145495

Jan Dvorak

Adam Near and Adam Far

Magisch

@Telkitty Adam Clear

Derpy

@JanDvorak Adam Near and Adam Mello?

Jan Dvorak

12:14

?

Shadow Wizard

@Knu no idea, better asked in MSO... :)

Derpy

@JanDvorak Near & Mello

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy heh, was just going to post same link about Mello... so glad I understood what you meant! :D

Derpy

@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.

user202362

@JanDvorak I keep on thinking it's a headcrab on your face:

Derpy

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

user202362

relax, rest your eyes on this fur ball:

user202362

Jan Dvorak

Is the cat alive in this shot?

user202362

eww ... not fur ball

Shadow Wizard

@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

user202362

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy oh my... so this is your scream here? theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/03/…

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Seems you finally discovered my true identity.

Here, have a photo as a prize.

It is a little old...

Shadow Wizard

Hoorray to @Nem! :P

wait... did you just confess for being male, Nemo? ;)

Derpy

Yep, because I am totally Nemo. Yep. So true.

But you know, I will admit that I could have trolled you better.

Shadow Wizard

12:42

(:

Derpy

should have sent you this instead.

That's more indeterminate, are you happy now @ShadowWizard?

Shadow Wizard

happy

Aaron Hall

12:59

Good morning

Magisch

Morning Aaron

Shadow Wizard

Morning Aaron

Aaron Hall

@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/…

Bart

13:27

Is Sergey serious about his nomination, or is he just trolling?

Shadow Wizard

@Bart why trolling?

Bart

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

Bart

Hah, perhaps. I'm just surprised.

Shadow Wizard

@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.

Bart

13:37

Okay, fair enough

Magisch

I did a grammar and spelling pass on my answers to the questions, and changed some formulations

Derpy

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"?

user202362

?

Shadow Wizard

@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. ;)

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Derpy

@ShadowWizard precisely.

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JNat

15:31

@ShadowWizard Gone, thanks ;)

Shadow Wizard

@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.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

16:11

Hmm . Think anyone would vote for me in the SO elections?

user315433

So far, 149 distinct users ran for SO mod. Their alphabetized list begins with @AaronHall and ends with Zaheer Ahmed.

Aaron Hall

:)

Bart

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA why not

user315433

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.

Magisch

16:17

Mhm

user315433

17 people ran three times, and 8 of them were elected on the third try.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Bart I am not a good writer, but I believe I can do good.

Bart

You ran before, right?

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

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.

Bart

So if you feel like running again, look at the responses for those times and see how you can improve your nomination.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

Ahh three. forgot about one of them. Where do you get that info @zaq ?

@Bart where do I see that?

Bart

The old election pages

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

and how do I get there?

:-(

user315433

/election/x where x is in 1...8

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Anonymous

Use 0 for the index while an election is active.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

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.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

And now?

user315433

I suppose it can be either way, unless Grace has a policy of deleting responses from anyone who's not nominated...

Derpy

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?

bluefeet

@zaq took me two times

user315433

Yes. One of eight mods elected on 2nd try: animuson, bluefeet, casperOne, Ed Cottrell, Gordon, jjnguy, Matt, meagar.

user315433

Seven were elected on 3rd try: Andrew Barber, Brad Larson, Flexo, George Stocker, Jeremy Banks, Jon Clements, Ryan.

Anonymous

Interesting.

user315433

And Madara Uchiha is the only one elected on the 4th try.

Aaron Hall

16:35

Interesting stats. I wonder how it will play out.

Derpy

notices @zaq somehow looks like a creeper, wonders if @bjb568 somehow looking like an ocelot would be enough to keep him from exploding

bjb568

:3

user315433

@zaq Correction: eight were elected on the 3rd try, I forgot Undo.

bjb568

How can you forget the Tavern's favorite dog? @Undo

user315433

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.)

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

blah 65 charaters over the limit.

0

A: 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

I 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.

stackoverflow.com/election/8#post-40492439

Undo

17:08

woof?

bjb568

meow?

Undo

@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.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Undo Hopefully...

i am on try #4

I think some people misunderstand how moderation works.

bjb568

17:29

s/some/most/

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

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.

Aaron Hall

"-tail", "aww"... :3

bjb568

:3

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Undo

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA The last part is mostly accurate.

bluefeet

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.

rene

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

Aaron Hall

Thanks

rene

yw

S.L. Barth

@rene Pity. I was totally going to subscribe to "Harvard Moderator Review". :-D

Aaron Hall

And thank you, whoever deleted my comment - I remembered to not anthropomorphize and identify with it this time.

rene

18:25

@S.L.Barth :)

bluefeet

@AaronHall no worries, there is no requirement for your employment details to be public

rene

@AaronHall if you become a mod consider using words I don't have to lookup in a dictionary ...

Aaron Hall

Yeah, I know we can be totally anonymous but I went the other way - which can be kinda tricky.

rene

I do recall that Brad Larson got phone calls to his workplace from angry users ...

S.L. Barth

@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.

rene

18:31

yeah, awfull, needs thick skin and plenty of alcohol to cope with

Aaron Hall

review suspensions? for robo-reviewers?

S.L. Barth

@AaronHall Yes.

bluefeet

225

Q: Make moderator messages anonymous

Currently, 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...

S.L. Barth

@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.

user315433

"Are you prepared to..." questions aren't that useful if nobody is answering "Nope, totally not ready for that."

S.L. Barth

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.

user315433

A: "Now I am, having read the question."

S.L. Barth

Mission accomplished. Also, nomination revoked....

Shadow Wizard

@S.L.Barth revoked? Why?

S.L. Barth

@ShadowWizard It was in response to the hypothetical situation. AFAIK there are no revoked nominations yet.

Shadow Wizard

Oh, hey @Pro why won't you run for moderator on SO? ;)

@S.L.Barth oh. lol

Andy

18:45

@S.L.Barth There was:

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A: 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

The 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...

ProgramFOX

@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.

S.L. Barth

@Andy I meant in the current election.

Andy

that was a proposed question. it just didn't get enough votes to be selected

Shadow Wizard

@ProgramFOX yeah, at least you're honest about it. :)

S.L. Barth

@Andy Ah, you meant the question was there. I thought you meant there were nomination revocations. I see.

Shadow Wizard

18:48

If one revokes their nomination, can they nominate themselves again?

2

Jon Ericson

@ShadowWizard Indecision is not a good look for a mod candidate.

S.L. Barth

@JonEricson So... the system allows it, but it's discouraged?

Jon Ericson

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.

Shadow Wizard

@JonEricson I can totally imagine @nicael abusing it.... ;)

S.L. Barth

@JonEricson WAG?

Jon Ericson

18:55

Scientific wild-ass guess

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...

Aaron Hall

My SWAG: I would expect them to be implemented like answers, which are deletable and undeletable, and permanently deletable by mods.

S.L. Barth

@JonEricson Thanks! Google gave me "Wives And Girlfriends", which didn't make sense in the context.

Shadow Wizard

My WAG: Word Association Game :D (@Bart just love it ;))

rene

We have a mod-candidate with a sock-puppet?

user315433

@JonEricson A number of times, when Shog revoked a non-serious nomination, he left a comment encouraging the user to re-nominate.

Shadow Wizard

18:56

@rene many good users have sock puppet, I have two.. maybe three... think I lost one.

Jon Ericson

@zaq Ah. That's true and he knows better than I do.

rene

@ShadowWizard but now we have one that tells me to look at his sock puppet for his meta-participation ...

Shadow Wizard

@rene huh? Who?

user315433

@ShadowWizard Neal aka @amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA

user315433

Sorry, meant to reply to SW

rene

18:58

confusing ...

Shadow Wizard

@zaq you can still edit

Aaron Hall

leaN isn't a sock, just a different name

user315433

but there is a sock involved, too

Aaron Hall

which sock?

user315433

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Q: Experimented with an alternate account to see the new user experience through veteran habits, eyes

On 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...

discussion new-users user-accounts behavior

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