Tavern on the Meta

user315433

12:18 AM

Well, it's different for sites that were not in beta for a long period of time.

user315433

When moderation-active users quickly become mods, they can't get that badge.

user315433

Martin on Chemistry, Chris on Biology, and Keelan on Philosophy are examples of first-marshal -> mod.

user315433

Actually, Biology still has only two Marshals, and both are mods.

user315433

Paulster2 on Mechanics...

user315433

The only site where I am the first Marshal is Arduino but I somehow don't see myself moderating it...

Journeyman Geek

12:35 AM

yup

I probably have mine cause I missed an election due to exams

I nearly missed a second cause I was in india at the time, my granma had broken her hip, and my original nomination was a placeholder ;p

hichris123

2:12 AM

→ 62 messages moved to Chimney

user202362

3:21 AM

user202362

3:59 AM

so @gerry, if shog and balpha both fall into a river, who would you save first

user202362

can you swim to start with?

Jason C

5:29 AM

@ShadowWizard yeah...

Jason C

5:41 AM

@hichris123 62 might be a record

user315433

Feb 4 at 16:46, by hichris123

→ 97 messages moved to Chimney

Jason C

lol, damn

→ 4 messages moved to Chimney

/me struggles with feelings of inadequacy

user315433

Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It HQ [1994]

►

user315433

^ hichris irl

user202362

6:41 AM

watching 'how to fix lawn mower pull cord' on youtube

Shadow Wizard

nice error icon

does it onebox?

Journeyman Geek

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shadow Wizard

llooll

user202362

!0!

user202362

ioi

Shadow Wizard

6:47 AM

.|.

Journeyman Geek

?

Shadow Wizard

@Jason let's see if your scraper and skills got some real use.... can you find periods of inactivity for users? I posted in the Den almost every day from the very beginning, but think I had like two whole weeks without posting at all. Might be one week, but surely more than 5 days. Can you find this? If anything, that will be a nice challenge for you.... ;)

Journeyman Geek

Man, people are really quiet today. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/295068/… needs closevotes ;p

ah, never mind, nuked.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek by The Shog himself! :D

Journeyman Geek

yup ;p

M.A.R.

7:35 AM

@SmokeDetector K

Good noon peoples

Journeyman Geek

Afternoon...

M.A.R.

Whatever, semantics nazi

RPG election attracted more drama than your average election.

Shame on you, super users

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. You were complaining about that

lol

M.A.R.

Your election was so quiet, it even didn't wake up little birdies for spring

Journeyman Geek

yup

On one hand, it shows a certain maturity. On the other, it was a little boring.

M.A.R.

7:43 AM

A site that's merely the size of SU's fingernail attracted more election drama than SU.

This is an indication of a problem.

You should increase the quality of your trolls

Try pissing off more sock-puppets

Journeyman Geek

Maybe get recycle to stand for elections...

that would be fun

(more seriously, we have the opposite problem. We have a ton of mod caliber people who're unlikely to stand)

Anyway, our drama is a bit more spread out

Not just for election period.

M.A.R.

You get high quality spam though

Hard to detect

Journeyman Geek

Really?

Cause I'm pretty certain between spamram and smokey, I hardly see any spam now

M.A.R.

Well, the answers mostly. Not the questions

Journeyman Geek

Still hardly see em ;p

M.A.R.

7:48 AM

Don't slack off then

-11

Q: SevenSidedDie - problem with your moderation!

Okay, I have found your Meta site and as directed am writing directly to you concerning the question you put on hold. I am VERY displeased with your interference with my question and seem to think you just have some personal issue with me and completely unbeknownst to me. You said we could talk ...

@JourneymanGeek - problem with your moderation!

Journeyman Geek

Oh, I've had that sort of thing on meta before ;p

M.A.R.

Pic or it didn't happen

Journeyman Geek

i.stack.imgur.com/X9iva.png <--- see?

I'm also certain I've had harrymc mad at me a fair bit

12

A: When should a moderator not use his super-powers?

I'm the moderator who did it. It feels like the fair, and best course of action would be to treat these answers as I would any other answer from a user who I feel is inexperienced of the ways of the site. These answers don't exactly reflect the sort of quality one expects, and in this specific c...

at the end of the day though, I try to act, with good intentions towards what I think is best for the site as a whole ;)

M.A.R.

@JourneymanGeek Hah, the [bounty] tag is appropriate

Journeyman Geek

I quite literally did not notice he missed his bounty by a day

M.A.R.

7:54 AM

@JourneymanGeek YOU CAN'T FOOL ME DOGGY

We all know what you're here for

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. to eat your homework and steal your socks?

This is a face you can trust

M.A.R.

@JourneymanGeek since we all know it, I won't tell

Journeyman Geek

lol

go ahead, tell me ;p

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. popcorn, of course.

stealing popcorn from @Bart

M.A.R.

@JourneymanGeek That's the point of the plot. It shouldn't be revealed

Journeyman Geek

7:57 AM

@ShadowWizard or cheese. I like cheese. The good stuff ... ;p

M.A.R.

Like the the stuff in that bag in Pulp Fiction

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek cheese is too cheesy

Journeyman Geek

ooh, the glowy box?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. what bag? Z's bag?

M.A.R.

Oh, it was a suitcase

It was a bag in another film

Journeyman Geek

7:58 AM

It contained a McGuffin.

M.A.R.

Yeah

Shadow Wizard

McWhat?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard since I don't completely hate you, I will not link you to TVthropes...

MacGuffin

In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation. The specific nature of a MacGuffin is typically unimportant to the overall plot. The most common type of MacGuffin is a person, place, or thing (such as money or an object of value). Other more abstract types include victory, glory, survival, power, love, or some unexplained driving force. The MacGuffin technique is common in films, especially thrillers. Usually the MacGuffin is the central...

@M.A.R. why do you think I'm here? ;p

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek lol!

73

Q: What has the greatest chance of being in Marcellus Wallace's briefcase?

In Pulp Fiction, there is a briefcase which has contents that are kept very secret. What item is most likely to be in the briefcase?

analysis pulp-fiction

Who is more cute? ^

M.A.R.

The sofa

Shadow Wizard

8:10 AM

@M.A.R. which?

M.A.R.

The one which isn't colored blue

Shadow Wizard

I'm sure @Bart will say the glasses are more cute

M.A.R.

I'm sure @Bart will say the cutes are more glasses

Shadow Wizard

I'm sure @Bart will smite us both for pinging him

Journeyman Geek

Looking at the starwalll

now I wonder why Nick needs a bigass fan

(I've seen a few at metro stations. They are in fact bigass fans, as opposed to fans of big large donkeys)

Shadow Wizard

8:25 AM

@JourneymanGeek is bigass considered swear word?

finger hovering over flag button

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard ehhh. Could I get a pass here?

Shadow Wizard

;)

Journeyman Geek

Its literally the brand name

Shadow Wizard

lol

Journeyman Geek

bigassfans.com

oddly I see no https

Shadow Wizard

8:26 AM

Well, "ass" itself actually got totally innocent meaning, a donkey.... it's bad people who misused that word for slang who ruined it. :P

Bad, bad people.

Journeyman Geek

I think in this case though the ambiguity is intentional

rene

It becomes flagable if you say You have a bigass

Shadow Wizard

hehe

rene

See you in 30 minutes ...

Shadow Wizard

resisting temptation

Quick way to get chat banned: tell that to Shog. :D

rene

8:28 AM

Tavern on the Temptation

Shadow Wizard

Or to rage quit...

Journeyman Geek

naw

I never rage quit

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty used to do that a lot when she was.... younger.

But she always came back....

rene

@ShadowWizard I think she is still in the middle of it ...

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry also deleted tons of accounts, though not out of rage. Reason remains a mystery to this day.

@rene middle of being young? ;)

Journeyman Geek

8:34 AM

lol

M.A.R.

-12

Q: This sites methode of doing it's rating is so hostile should i bother to stay with it?

This sites methode of doing it's ratins is so hostile shoild i bother to stay with it? Down-grading for minor spelling,grammer errors.These questions and answers that are posted here are first drafts.A author would consider them first drafts!.And a author does at least one draft before the final ...

discussion tools

Journeyman Geek

.... twitch

rene

@M.A.R. that's a Dutch user I guess

M.A.R.

ChooChoo.Theuser's methode of not using any space makes it look like a train.I like it.

@rene Because of ''methode''?

It reminds me of ''cathode''

rene

@M.A.R. yes ... though their profile claims something else

Journeyman Geek

8:36 AM

Tempted to answer "No"

M.A.R.

@rene Well, it seems Asians make all sort of weird spelling mistakes

Shadow Wizard

Why dig old drama? There is brand new drama there.

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. oi ;p

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard There is?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. ...

Elephant

8:37 AM

Let's make our drama

M.A.R.

No, I mean I know there is

Shadow Wizard

no popcorn for @M.A.R.

M.A.R.

But there isn't an enjoyable meta post

Or maybe there is

JUST LINK IT ALREADY

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. probably they're being deleted before we can see them

Elephant

post "Users are digging old controversial meta posts on chat to make fun of it" on MSE

rene

8:39 AM

@M.A.R. everybody makes mistakes, specially if you consider that English originated from that island near mainland Europe. Now see how the Americans ruined that...

M.A.R.

@Elephant You can't touch me

I am above everything

Shadow Wizard

touching @M.A.R.

M.A.R.

Which could mean I'm below everything if it's a sphere

Oh boy

Shadow Wizard

boy Oh

M.A.R.

It occurred to me that maybe West is just far too East

Shadow Wizard

8:41 AM

West is East Overflow

M.A.R.

And North is just far too south

Shadow Wizard

East is West Overflow

M.A.R.

Wow, life makes so much more sense now

BRB

Shadow Wizard

BBB

Elephant

AFK

Shadow Wizard

8:42 AM

There's also "Burgus", it's white

burgus.co.il good place, tasty burgers. Not cheap though. :/

@Mithrandir you eat in BBB? ^

Elephant

I need 3k rep more on android.se to get mod-tools, but I already lost interest in finding interesting questions... hhh....

Journeyman Geek

lol

I know the feeling

M.A.R.

@Elephant Welcome to my world

Journeyman Geek

I need to try to hit 3k on AU so people would stop bugging me about it ;p

and I'd like to hit 10K on SF... just cause.

Mithrandir

9:04 AM

@ShadowWizard nah

rene

WUT? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/348315/…

hm. that guy.

big chance q-banned

yeah ...

@rene Thanks for free halpful flag

rene

9:09 AM

yw, you need those helpful flags, right? Specially on MSO ..

user202362

fixed part of lawn mower problem

user202362

stuck somewhere else

Elephant

that's just like programming

Journeyman Geek

I don't get the logic there. Especially for a user with some experience with "the way we do things"

rene

@JourneymanGeek either desperate or simply refusal to accept that there are rules.

Journeyman Geek

9:19 AM

@rene and the realisation that people would close it

M.A.R.

Journeyman Geek

Also, I realised... That guy is the worst thing I can say about anyone on chat ;p

rene

@M.A.R. I dunno ....

M.A.R.

@JourneymanGeek Flagging.

Please revisit Be Nice

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R. THAT GUYYYYYYY! HE BE FLAGGIN!

Elephant

9:22 AM

Be Flag

M.A.R.

SUCH RUDE

WHY META SO MEAN TO NWE USER

Journeyman Geek

HELP HELP I R BEING OPPRESSED!

M.A.R.

UR NOT GOOD @ ALL-CAPS RANT TAKL

Journeyman Geek

Was shouting ._.

πάντα ῥεῖ

The whole SE network is spilled up with mean people!

M.A.R.

9:25 AM

@JourneymanGeek iT TAEKS MOAR DAN DAT 2 B TRUE RANTAR

Journeyman Geek

lol. It hurts my ~~ears~~ eyes.

;p

rene

@πάνταῥεῖ look who is talking ;)

M.A.R.

@rene A talking Dutch flower!

rene

10:34 AM

@JourneymanGeek if you feel for it, any (job) advice for this

Journeyman Geek

@rene I'm having trouble finding work here

Would not hurt to apply tho ;p

Its a good market for coders

rene

OK, feel free to let them know.

user202362

I wonder ... how many here have fixed a lawn mower before?

Elephant

Definitely not me, 'coz we don't have lawn here...

Journeyman Geek

11:02 AM

@rene eh, its not very useful advice ;p

Fawad

11:23 AM

Someone can help me finding text like an eyebrow?

I have image of it but I want in text to copy

user202362

that sure is a weird eyebrow

Fawad

@Telkitty yes. Iam looking on internet for an hour,no success :/

Here is how it looks like i.stack.imgur.com/7otH6.jpg

Journeyman Geek

shapecatcher.com

have fun

rene

11:50 AM

not sure ^

user202362

the free hand chicken I have drawn

rene

... and it is recognized as a clock?

Journeyman Geek

12:13 PM

lol

user202362

1:37 PM

I feel incompetent, ~sob~, lawn mower repair: failed

Jason C

donate.fightforthefuture.org/campaigns/…

@rene You mean... a CLUCK? HA HA HA HA HA!

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC that was better than the joke I was going to make.

Jason C

Don't hold back. We won't judge.

Journeyman Geek

"Cock, clock. Small difference"

Jason C

It's almost 10 o'cluck.

@JourneymanGeek That joke sucks clock.

Journeyman Geek

1:41 PM

Yeah, it was quite fowl.

Jason C

That's OK, you were clearly winging it.

GOD HELP US

This room is for the birds.

3

dies

Journeyman Geek

I was actually looking for something you could uload an image to..

Fawad

@JasonC and cats :3

Is there any way to know at what time I got upvote? (Without using chrome web extensions)

@JourneymanGeek thanks but there wasn't that text I was looking for.

Jason C

2:03 PM

@Fawad Sort of. You can go to your profile page → Reputation tab → click "by time"

You can also visit the post timeline although votes are rounded to the nearest day, @Fawad

E.g. stackoverflow.com/posts/43134776/timeline, substituting the number for the question/answer ID.

Fawad

@JasonC it works

Jason C

2:17 PM

In review audit results (e.g. stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/15867535) what's the difference between "No Action Needed" and "Reviewed"?

Is "Reviewed" if you vote on it or something then click "I'm Done"?

Journeyman Geek

2:30 PM

errrrr

I have no idea ;p

and it dosen't seem to be on meta?

I do think reviewed would indicate some action being taken tho

user202362

I am reading this useless questions list and I think about you, let's try a few questions on you, so ...

user202362

If you had a sock stuffed in your mouth, do you think you could get it out without using your hands or feet? @gerry

user202362

and

user202362

@Gerry Would you rather be a crouching cat or a hidden snake?

rene

@JasonC yes, that is it. There is no difference between that text on normal reviews or audits.

Jason C

2:44 PM

Oh word

@Telkitty I'd rather be a catsnake.

rene

You can quickly find audits with my userscript meta.stackexchange.com/questions/248338/… it shows audits by adding an A in the outcome column

Elephant

i thought it was crouching tiger or hidden dragon?

but probably a new sequel is fine too...

user202362

also @gerry if would you rather choose to be locked in the same room as Jason for 3 days or forced to consume 3kg cookies + 3kg chips and nothing else in 3 days

Jason C

@Elephant I guess Crouching Cat, Hidden Snake is the public domain knock-off version.

You know, huge cult following.

user202362

I am the only one who gerry pretends to ignore in this room

Jason C

2:48 PM

@Telkitty I hope you are not surprised. :P

user202362

I am more surprised at the fact that I wasn't able to fix the lawn mower today

Jason C

3:05 PM

huh...

How do I view all questions sorted by top voted on SO? I'm using the new nav.

Am I stupid?

Journeyman Geek

probably

user202362

depends ... who are you comparing yourself to

Journeyman Geek

dosen't the voted tag do it automatically?

Jason C

What's the voted tag?

Journeyman Geek

ooh

ok

try the "where's my tabs" link

Shadow Wizard

3:08 PM

ditch the "new nav" it's dead and buggy.

Anyway, plain search should still work @Jason

Jason C

Oh i have that link disabled but i found it, under "new tab" i can add a tab then switch the sort order to "votes"

@ShadowWizard It doesn't seem buggy to me, I really like it.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC good for you.... but if you find a bug, don't expect any fix, the one developer who worked on that project no longer works for Stack Exchange.

Jason C

Good for your mom.

Shadow Wizard

(and of course they never bothered to assign any other developer, same way they don't hire anyone to work on the android app)

@JasonC I'll tell her you told that! ;)

Jason C

Well they have Kasra, although I'm presuming he still hasn't recovered from his grandmother's tragic flight non-delay.

Shadow Wizard

3:13 PM

@JasonC he didn't work long time before the grandmother ordeal as far as I remember. I don't blame/judge him, it's really nice and heroic of SE to keep hiring him and paying him, but as a user of the app I'm sad they chose to sacrifice the app for this.

Journeyman Geek

heh. Despite feeling for the guy, Id dump the app if not for notifications

(I can't do mod stuff from it, and open from browser is broken)

Jason C

I both blame him and mercilessly judge him.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek which are starting to crumble recently:

4

Q: Not receiving any notifications on the Android app

So this has been going on for about a week. I'm not receiving notifications of comments directed at me on the Android app. Sometimes the red square over the notification counter does appear on the app, sometimes it doesn't, but I never receive a system notification, so it doesn't make my phone vi...

bug android-app notifications

I won't be surprised a bit if they stop working for everyone soon. (and of course nobody in SE cares.)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard if that breaks, I'm uninstalling it.

Then I have other issues...

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek sure, me too.

Journeyman Geek

3:15 PM

lol. I'd happily run something that just takes my notifications and passes it on to something else

I've got a pretty decent homebrew notification setup off matrix now.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek can be done via plain API, pretty sure there are 3rd party apps doing that.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I can't really code my way out of a paper bag ;p

Shadow Wizard

Well, there is this:

4

Q: Get our Stack Exchange inbox as native notification on Chrome

About I'm new to the Stack Exchange sites. So I was looking for Chrome Extensions get make my experience better. I searched for a simple and good looking Notification app. I found nothing so I make mine. Screenshot Download Here you can download it from the Chrome Webstore To report a bug...

app inbox notifications

Journeyman Geek

actually. erf. dosen't seem that complicated

Shadow Wizard

Think it also works on mobile, when you have Chrome there

Journeyman Geek

3:20 PM

I'll give it a shot tommorrow

Elephant

I'm still waiting for Windows 10 (or whatever) Action Center integration...

4

Q: Stack Exchange notification app for Windows 10 (integration with Action Center)

Is there a Stack Exchange notification app (particularly, the inbox) for Windows 10 that has integration with Action Center? There are notification apps for Windows 7 that I am currently using, but I'd prefer if they don't take space on the taskbar.

support app-request notifier

Journeyman Geek

lol

yeah, that probably would be nice

Fawad

Random quote :P

hichris123

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alexolut

4:05 PM

@ShadowWizard can't find: what is FHRC?

M.A.R.

@alexolut Free-Hand Red Circle

alexolut

@M.A.R. oh ... so easy ... thanks :)

M.A.R.

@alexolut Do you expect @Sha's abbreviations to be smart?

alexolut

@M.A.R. Why not?

M.A.R.

@alexolut I'm just successfully teasing him

alexolut

4:10 PM

@M.A.R. :)

user315433

4:30 PM

A flurry of activity on CogSci meta within two hours: Cognitive Sciences Reboot 2017: Call for action, How should we attract new users in 2017?, What is the current status for the site name change proposal?

M.A.R.

Not particularly delightful.

Oh heck

user315433

> rebooting CogSci to try and finally get us out of Beta.

M.A.R.

Someone go reject the [ios] removal edits I mistakenly approved

Although, the removal is apt in some cases

@Gerry Tell them to try Alt-F4 so the shutdown thingy appears first

Do philosophers get time to understand computers?

Isn't the world complicated enough?

rene

@Gerry In 2017 do they use a different calendar in CogSci? IIRC 2017 is almost 4 months old....

M.A.R.

@rene You programmers are always moving too fast

rene

4:40 PM

thanks

Wasn't a compliment

thanks

Rebooting @rene

delv-pls 20K flask meta.stackexchange.com/questions/295073/… /cc @Bart @sha

user315433

4:53 PM

@M.A.R. They are not philosophers, those are at Philosophy

user315433

CogSci is more of a psychology thing.

user315433

Although the scope of the site is exactly what's being debated there.

user315433

Sneak preview of Nick's upcoming blog post (draft)

bjb568

5:38 PM

Is it acceptable to use the word homogenous as homogeneous?

user315433

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Q: Homogenous versus Homogeneous

I've always used the word (spelling) homogenous to describe things of similar nature. However, when I started university I heard everyone use the word homogeneous (pronounced "homo genius" or "homo jean us"). This article suggests that homogenous has evolved from having a specific meaning in bi...

usage homophones

user315433

@bjb568 I would find it strange. One is a biological term with a specific meaning, the other is an abstract concept.

bjb568

Hmph, ok, will rewire my brain.

user315433

6:55 PM

I'd like to burninate the burninate-request tag on Meta, but don't know how to tag the proposal...

M.A.R.

burninate-burninate

user315433

-1

Q: Running javascript in visual studio 2017?

How to code javascript in visual studio 2017? What IDE is your favorite for javascript coding?

javascript visual-studio ide visual-studio-2017

tchrist

kill-it-with-fire

user315433

How many close reasons does this qualify for?

M.A.R.

@Gerry If you're not kidding, that's an indication it's a useful tag . . .

@Gerry 7,438

7,439, if you include 'Unclear'

> I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because I don't know what close reason to include

tchrist

7:38 PM

Sigh. I do hate to bother people with work-stuff on Sunday afternoon.

@Shog9 or @JonEricson I could really use some private advice or maybe a kick in the pants if either of you guys could pay us a visit elsewhere. Ignore this with my apologies if you're not up for being bugged on Sunday.

Shog9

@tchrist in a salvage yard pulling parts; should be back in a couple hours if it can wait

tchrist

@Shog9 Sure, it can certainly wait, thanks. I'll go dig up the garden. Stop by our chat room later if you're around.

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