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user202362

00:19

user202362

best letter box ever

user202362

00:30

@Alex are you planning for retirement?

user315433

00:46

Not sure if I'd want to live somewhere where they can boot me out for not being active enough. It's unclear what their minimum activity requirement is.

user202362

01:00

Birds in snow are probably not very active - spending 60% or more of their day resting ...

Journeyman Geek

Well, you might die. And be very inactive.

user202362

01:26

 This is a regular event, happening every 7 days until 12/18/3000.

user202362

sweet

Journeyman Geek

01:52

until sweet?

What event?

user202362

02:09

happy hour in tavern :p

user315433

02:38

> To register a protest against being downvoted, press Ctrl-W (or whatever on a Mac).

user315433

02:59

Excluding the very successful and already graduated Ethereum site, the most active of all sites created in 2016-17 is the one that was nearly shut down for lack of activity: Sitecore

user202362

excluding all the infants that survived, all others are died

user202362

@Alex your statements getting more 'informative' everyday

user315433

03:31

The paper The climate mitigation gap has been making rounds in the news...

user315433

> We have identified four recommended actions which we believe to be especially effective in reducing an individual's greenhouse gas emissions: having one fewer child, living car-free, avoiding airplane travel, and eating a plant-based diet.

user315433

Missing an obvious one: drop dead already.

user315433

Looks like I'm going okay there, 3/4.

Inc.

03:44

Be like Robinson Crusoe?

user202362

@Inc. and live like a hobo?

Inc.

@Telkitty it reduces greenhouse gas emissions, why not! :)

Inc.

04:38

Could we have a silly season - again? - says the philosopher...

Reminded me of Purim Torah policy - Allowed, but regulated

ɥʇǝS

05:06

The Amish Go Green

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tripleee

06:30

@M.A.R. belatedly, hello

M.A.R.

@tripleee belatedly hello again

rene

08:17

→ 11 messages moved to Chimney

Shadow Wizard

08:39

plz-delete ve applied something something meta.stackexchange.com/questions/298617/… @rene @Bart @Trav

and another one from same user meta.stackexchange.com/questions/298616/…

@M.A.R. very belatedly hello again

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard very very belatedly hello again

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. very very very belatedly hello again

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard very very very very belatedly hello again

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. very very very very very belatedly hello again

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard very very very very very very belatedly hello again

rene

08:46

@ShadowWizard both now gone

Shadow Wizard

@rene whoa... yannis! Blast from the past.....

Reminds me of "hims"... remember him? :D

056 now for some reason

hims056, Mumbai, India

28.7k 6 73 135

> last message 1105d ago

:(

@M.A.R. belatedly very very hello very very again very very

Sagar V

@ShadowWizard belatedly very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very hello very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very again very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very

Bart

... why does it feel like the Den in here?

Shadow Wizard

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Now it feels like the Den.

running away

Sagar V

@ShadowWizard the pattern

Shadow Wizard

08:57

@SagarV the what?

Sagar V

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Shadow Wizard

yup

Nice, right?

Sagar V

hmm nice

Shadow Wizard

Made in <1s

Sagar V

hmm

wait

what

Bart

08:58

@ShadowWizard /me grabs smiting stick

Oded

Gonna be looking for mine too

Sagar V

@ShadowWizard's account hacked by Jon Skeet

Shadow Wizard

@SagarV jsfiddle.net/yahavbr/x2Lmd48c

Sagar V

is that you kid?

Shadow Wizard

breaking @Bart's stick to:

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Sagar V

09:00

Oded left immediately after seeing me

lol

afraid of ping

Bart

Oded isn't afraid. You may just notice at some point you are no longer able to chat, and your accounts have gone missing ... that's all

Shadow Wizard

@SagarV oh lol it's using Gravatar.... stopped using it ages ago so it still show old picture. It was 6 years ago or so, yes my eldest daughter. :)

Oded

@SagarV huh?

M.A.R.

Uhu?

Shadow Wizard

@Sag I believe we can ping @Oded if we need to report something urgent, or just want to ask him how he's doing.... but keep it low, and don't bomb him with questions that others can answer. ;)

Oded

09:03

this ^^^^

Bart

If you really need to ping someone, ping Shog. He likes those.

2

rene

that ^

grabs popcorn

Oded

The other ^^^^

Bart

It has been nice knowing you all

Shadow Wizard

@Bart why? You did not ping @Shog. He'll never see your message.

hides

Bart

09:08

dangit, too late to edit

Bhargav Rao

The only chat where I can't edit old messages. :(

Shadow Wizard

@BhargavRao you can only on SO

So can't in any SE chat

Unless being mod on SO also count?

e.g. are you mod here? @Bhargav

Bhargav Rao

@ShadowWizard I can on chat.se as well.

not on chat.mse

Shadow Wizard

huh, weird.

Bhargav Rao

Nopes, SO mods are chat mods on chat.se as well.

But, if the room is linked with a particular site, then many of mod-only actions are not possible.

I can edit my old messages, but I can't make the room private, etc. I can freeze/unfreeze/delete, etc.

rene

09:21

That sounds like a bug, I'll report on MSE to restrict these mod-powerz ....

Bhargav Rao

Sigh, can't kick rene, no powerz

M.A.R.

@BhargavRao actually, rene can kick you

Shadow Wizard

What @M.A.R. said ^

@rene is powerful flower

rene

whoahahahaha ha ha ...

Shadow Wizard

Owner of 4 active rooms, out of 10 rooms in total. (soon to be 9, @Jon's room is closing tomorrow.)

Bhargav Rao

09:26

@ShadowWizard yup, I'm afraid of flowers

renophobia

Shadow Wizard

@BhargavRao phobia.wikia.com/wiki/Anthophobia

Bhargav Rao

Okay, now we need the translation of rene in Greek to find out what phobia I have

Oh look, it's rene in greek as well babynamespedia.com/meaning/Rene/m, So yup, I've got renophobia

Shadow Wizard

> The baby boy name Rene is sometimes used as a girl name.

lol

I think many people consider @rene as a female until they're told otherwise..... :D

M.A.R.

@rene is a good woman. I trust her.

Shadow Wizard

Woman with some extra parts.

M.A.R.

09:33

Accessories, I might say

Oh wait, this is not Den

Bart

Get all your Den nonsense out of here. This be the Tavern!

M.A.R.

*Totem

cazc_941

Brains (feat. Kings High) | (Official Video) | Klaypex

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Today's thing

M.A.R.

@cazc_941 TBH I now have no idea whether you're a bot or a legit nonbot thanks to SOBotics

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Sagar V

@ShadowWizard 6 years old?

cazc_941

09:38

I'm 80% bot

Sagar V

@ShadowWizard mod's chat main account will be their account on the site where they are mod I think

Bart

@cazc_941 I like your th... no no, let me rephrase that. Thank you for that contribution ...

Sagar V

@ShadowWizard anyone ping bombed on Jeff ~~here~~ any MSE chat?

Bart

Probably at some point. But I'm sure Jeff handled that just fine when he was still around.

Shadow Wizard

@SagarV 7 in 20 days

@SagarV even better, pinged both Jeff and Shog in one message...

Mar 1 '12 at 13:47, by amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Shog9 see my comment to @JeffAtwood.

And I bet Shog just LOVE those:

Mar 1 '12 at 14:20, by amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@Shog9 ?

Like WhatsApp nagging ? messages when you fail to reply

Sagar V

09:55

@ShadowWizard that's just a meaningful ping. Is anyone bombed on Jeff

Shadow Wizard

@SagarV if someone did, it's wiped clean from history. Along with that user. :D

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Sagar V

it's highly unacceptable behaviour that the officials post off topic questions in MSO

1644

Q: Time to take a stand

I am extremely upset by President Trump’s executive order on immigration. It is immoral, unconstitutional, and fundamentally un-American. The community on Stack Overflow is made up of users from all over the world. At least 100,000 posts on Stack Overflow were written by users from the seven cou...

discussion

It belongs to MSE as it related to the company rather than SO

Inc.

We.. don't really want to talk about that again though...

Shadow Wizard

@SagarV SO is the company

SE is just the network of sites.

Sagar V

but MSO is not the place for it

Shadow Wizard

09:58

@SagarV yes it is

@Inc. you're out of popcorn?

How... how... @amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA you have trigger?! :D

Inc.

@ShadowWizard the popcorn tasted weird on that show

Shadow Wizard

I didn't ping you, just digged up old message you posted.... and here you are!

@Inc. sure, it took a stand.

It wanted to rebel.

Bart

@SagarV we kinda had that discussion ... and it didn't end in a very satisfying manner ... let's not rehash that whole drama

Inc.

Time to pop a corn

Shadow Wizard

The corn will resist.

Sagar V

10:06

anyway this is the valid answer for the post

299

A: Time to take a stand

I'm very uncomfortable with this post. I see three four main issues. This doesn't belong here. SO is NOT a political platform. Once you wrote one political post, what is preventing you from writing another one tomorrow? The day after? You just opened the Pandora's box. What if I wrote the same ...

M.A.R.

@Sagar why are you bringing this up again?

Shadow Wizard

Time to change subject!

My Cup of Shekels is slowly filling up...

user202362

Seriously, looking back at most of my serious, no-trolling, heavily downvoted posts. I still think I am correct on all of these.

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard let's talk about changing the subject

Or changing the subject change

Oded

@ShadowWizard needz moar cockroaches

Shadow Wizard

10:14

@M.A.R. any suggestion what to do with the Shekels when the cup fills up? :D

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard um, empty the cup?

Inc.

buy moar repz to get another cup

M.A.R.

Mr Google is telling me Shekel is a way of measuring weight. @Sha what's a shekel?

@Inc. gee, what's wrong with you? Not everything is rep.

There's also badges

Inc.

But do you get cup from badges?

M.A.R.

@Inc. sure

One steward badge is 3 cups at least

Depends on the bargain

Inc.

10:19

Ha

Sagar V

@Inc. more than that

Inc.

But no SO cups :(

M.A.R.

@Inc. Chem has cups

Hahaha buuuuuurn

Inc.

🔥

Oded

@M.A.R. in ancient times (biblical) it was a unit of weight. The modern Shekel is the Israeli currency (NiSh - New Israeli Shekel, which replaced the Shekel after a period of inflation).

In that cup - a collection of 1 Shekel coins.

Shadow Wizard

10:31

@Oded aka ג'וקים /cc @M.A.R.

(yeah go Google that! ;))

Sagar V

google.co.in/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9D

Shadow Wizard

:D

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard Hebrew looks like clean Chinese

Sagar V

@M.A.R. It is Scots Gaelic

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. yup, less lines

e.g. י such a small and cute letter

(it's not a single quote, it's an actual Hebrew letter)

SmokeDetector

10:39

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Love towards non-Muslim family? by Jehovah on islam.SE

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R. sure, but it's NAA. What to do with what I take out? ;)

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizard put it in another cup

Oded

There's an English font that uses Hebrew characters - sometimes bastardised versions of them. Or tries to look like stylized versions of Hebrew: 1001fonts.com/sholom-font.html

Shadow Wizard

@Oded heh, so weird.... wonder if anyone is really using it.

@M.A.R. buh..... no other cup. :(

Oded

@ShadowWizard t-shirt sellers in Jerusalem and other tourist traps in Israel... and English sites that have a lot to do with Israel/Hebrew (though usually only on some graphics, trying to be cute).

Shadow Wizard

10:43

huh

@Inc. didn't get the cup for repz.... think it was for the story. :D

I asked for unicorn plush, got that cup instead. :P

oh wait, I asked for unicorn bucks, lol

7

A: Choose your own swag - the craziest contest idea ever! What were we thinking?

100 Unicorn Bucks 100 Unicorn Bucks in my pocket, 100 Unicorn Bucks. Taking 10 out and buying a beer, 90 Unicorn Bucks in my pocket. 90 Unicorn Bucks in my pocket, 90 Unicorn Bucks. Taking 10 out and buying a deer, 80 Unicorn Bucks in my pocket. 80 Unicorn Bucks in my pocket, 80 Unicorn Bucks....

And that's how I got the Cup. :D

The plush was actual story, which got less votes. :/

Sagar V

@ShadowWizard waiting for the next challenge

I need a real unicorn

Shadow Wizard

11:09

@SagarV maybe towards December

Derpy

11:21

@SagarV nope, they aren't going to give out copies of the Ladycorn. So your next best bet would be this one

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy or @Sag can become a developer on SE and get real unicorn mask:

@Oded you wear that in turns? ^

If so, who is washing it? :D

Oded

No. We each have one and wear it during work hours.

Shadow Wizard

whoa, coooool!

And when you quit the job, you return it to Shog?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: How To choose A Website Designing Company? by Deepak Ahirwar on startups.SE

Shadow Wizard

@SmokeDetector gone

actually...

!!/report startups.stackexchange.com/questions/13035/…

99% sure it's a spam seed ^

SmokeDetector

11:34

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: How To choose A Website Designing Company? by romarin1 on startups.SE

Bart

11:46

@ShadowWizard no one quits Stack Overflow ... you hear that ... no one.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: CLA Safflower Oil Evaluation – Right For by Ronies on apple.SE

user202362

12:36

no one == no body?

jadarnel27

That made me cringe a little while doing this Pluralsight survey.

Shadow Wizard

@jadarnel27 why? Not brown enough?

@Telkitty no one == #1

@Bart meant that #1 quits Stack Overflow and he's right, @Jeff indeed quit.

jadarnel27

@ShadowWizard That, and calling Stack Overflow a message board.

Shadow Wizard

Let's hope #2 won't leave...

jadarnel27

That dark orange is sort of close to brown, so I could potentially let that slide.

Shadow Wizard

12:45

@jadarnel27 well, better than forum..... :D

Bart

@jadarnel27 I keep confusing this place with Craigslist

jadarnel27

@ShadowWizard Is it?

Inc.

Message board ( ﾟдﾟ)

Shadow Wizard

@jadarnel27 yup, "forum" has social scent to it. "Message board" sounds more dry and official. ;)

Inc.

Does it look like.... message board though?

jadarnel27

12:47

@Bart LOL. That reminds of this xkcd.

Shadow Wizard

Dunno how message board should look like, but yeah, it can be one.

Anyway what's this "Pluralsight" you all talk about?

jadarnel27

I've always thought of a message board and a forum being the same thing.

Shadow Wizard

You work there? @jad

finger ready to flag as spam

@jadarnel27 might be, but wording is important! :D

jadarnel27

@ShadowWizard Haha no. It's an online training resource. My employer provides a subscription as an employment benefit.

Inc.

GameFAQs' Message Board looks like forum though (or alternatively, BBS aka Bulletin Board System)

Shadow Wizard

12:50

Oh BTW @jad did you spread the good news here already? Or only in @JSONBog's room? ;)

jadarnel27

So I use Pluralsight quite a bit to learn about technology that I'm interested, or things that I'll need for an upcoming project, or to study for MS exams, etc.

@ShadowWizard I have not, no.

Shadow Wizard

@jadarnel27 huh, nice.... what you train at in there?

jadarnel27

Good news, mostly people that don't know me: jadarnel28 approaches. He / she shall arrive in December.

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Shadow Wizard

@Inc. yeah yeah, message board is actually a forum..... the term is misleading.... :D

@jadarnel27 needz to pin that! /cc @rene @JasonC ;)

Inc.

how about shog10? ;)

Shadow Wizard

12:53

@Inc. hmm... think I asked him about it, he stayed quiet... maybe there are already Shog10 and even Shog11.... ;)

(whom he secretly train to replace him when the time comes)

jadarnel27

@ShadowWizard Recently I've been watching some really great stuff on unit testing in .NET. A few courses from the amazing Mark Seemann.

Shadow Wizard

@jadarnel27 nice.... and of course he's active user on SO... lol

So you ticked that option and got a bonus? ;)

Journeyman Geek

13:07

@ShadowWizard I love my mug. Its kinda .... gigantic tho

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek true. I tried using it for its original purpose at first but found it's just too big. So I found its real purpose. :D

funny, the single quote you always miss in your posts just popped into my message ^

cazc_941

13:29

indiegogo.com/projects/…

Gimme

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I use it instead of a tall glass

user202362

13:53

user202362

wtf

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty what about it?

@JourneymanGeek but it's not made of glass, it feels wrong to use it like that.

It's like eating cornflakes in a soup bowl.

Wrong. :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

Mostly OJ. Or stuff that needs water

or water

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek OJ? Simpson?

Journeyman Geek

no, orange juice, not mr if it does not fit....

Shadow Wizard

14:02

Maybe he also needs water.

Winning a case like that can make one really thirsty. :D

user315433

Down to 11 again, MZaragoza withdrew.

jadarnel27

14:28

Just found this (old) screenshot on my computer.

Shadow Wizard

SQL Server 2005 in 2015. boo

:D

jadarnel27

Exactly!

The last time I saw that little popup was January of this year. Hopefully I'll never see it again.

Also, I doubt the sincerity of the message. Are you still making SQL Server 2005 better, Microsoft?

Shadow Wizard

heh, and I found old screenshot of Mine Sweeper.....

@jadarnel27 lol!

jadarnel27

@ShadowWizard Man, you are way better than me at Minesweeper.

Shadow Wizard

@jadarnel27 was. I didn't play for.... years.

i would probably really suck if I played now...

Anyway, I blame a friend of mine from my first years in university, he dragged me into this. And was better than me. :(

jadarnel27

14:38

My pre-installed Windows game obsession in college was Space Cadet pinball on XP.

Shadow Wizard

After we lost touch I also stopped playing, lol.

@jadarnel27 heh, think I played it too a bit.

Also spent long hours on Icy Tower... man how I wasted my time. :P

but the best games were before that, on the DOS... Xonix... Digger.... Alleycat.

Sagar V

@ShadowWizard lol

I am wasting time on Coundition zero Counter Strike only

sometimes on GTA SA (Copland)

jadarnel27

@ShadowWizard I loved DOS games too. Command Keen was my favorite, I think. Or maybe one of the older King's Quest games.

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Minesweeper had a cheat code that would allow you to know where mines were placed, so you could set all the flags before even starting the game...

Sagar V

am I the only one saw this?

user315433

14:54

Does a meta-post about a question become off-topic/no-repro as soon as the question is deleted? I didn't think so. How was this spam question upvoted three times? Do we have fake users?

user315433

Welcome back @Jon!

Jon Ericson

@Alex Thanks!

bjb568

Hallo!

Sagar V

hello

Inc.

@SagarV no, it's normal

user315433

14:57

@Alex reopened

Derpy

Rap battle incoming?

bjb568

I'm doing speaking drills at debate camp :D

Inc.

speaking drills.. with rap

bjb568

:3

user315433

> The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. quotery.com/quotes/…

user315433

15:05

Are cat brains different in that regard?

Bart

"Cats have no brains" - dog

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: Can I use a SanDisk 64GB microSDHC Extreme Plus Memory on a Canon 70D DSLR? by Specced on photo.SE

Sagar V

@Inc. 9k is normal

but 10k is abnormal

@Derpy my cat is cute

@Derpy my cute is cat

@Derpy my cute cat is

user315433

15:22

> I never need a copy of Wikipedia, but an offline copy of StackOverflow would be pretty sweet while flying. -- Eric Nakagawa at 1:20 AM - 20 Jul 2017

user315433

Yeah, but how do you search that?

user315433

If it came with elasticsearch, tag engine, and basically the entire SO interface...

user315433

Then you would almost have your own SO Enterprise, in read-only.

Bhargav Rao

@Alex Interesting idea for an app.

Inc.

There's data dump. Close enough...

Sagar V

15:24

@Alex better grab an archive

user315433

@Inc. See above re: search

user315433

Data dump is Library of Babel with no catalog or search function.

cazc_941

Omg crazy hype

Whoops wrong tab

rene

@cazc_941 crazy indeed ...

Sagar V

15:45

Soon I will see 11K. lol

Jackson1442

15:55

How is that even possible?

rene

@Jackson1442 it once was over 120K: socvr.azurewebsites.net

Oded

@Jackson1442 so... the number of items going into the queue is larger than the number of items going out of it.

So the queue grows.

Bart

@rene also known as "the good old days".

user315433

I think SO outgrew Close queue model long ago (which would be even more obvious without SOCVR patch). I'll stick to LQRQ and Edits for the foreseeable future; these are two queues that look like something gets done there.

Bhargav Rao

16:13

The race to the 3rd place on the questionnaire is getting heated up. Baum and Flo swapped twice already.

user315433

Yay ShareLaTeX got acquired by Overleaf. WeirdPoorlyChosenNames--

jadarnel27

@Oded Garbage in, garbage ~~out~~ stays there forever.

Oded

It does, if no one ever looks at it and helps clear it out.

jadarnel27

glances at Alex

user315433

Stuff does leave the queue by way of aging out, which I think may happen more often than exiting by review completion.

Bart

16:22

Yeah, glance at Alex. Not me.

user315433

What's the % of review tasks that are completed (as opposed to aged)?

jadarnel27

I wasn't really complaining about the queue, by the way. I was just being pithy. Or maybe trying to be funny. Probably a little of both.

@Bart I know you better, so I'm comfortable glaring at you menacingly. Alex just gets a glance.

Of course, I'd have to look up to glare at you. Which probably causes it to lose the menacing effect.

Shadow Wizard

0

A: Make “how to tag” actually helpful for new users

The following is live incorporating copy from both answers. How to Tag A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Choose one or more (up to 5) tags that will help answerers to find and interpret your question. complete the senten...

The sole iOS dev works on... non iOS stuff. So, this is the end of the apps?

/cc @Alex

Or did he get orders "since nobody works on the android app, stop working on the iOS app"?

bluefeet

@ShadowWizard No, it's called the devs are pitching in to help out with the backlog of items in the queue from the community team.

you and your conspiracy theories

rene

@Alex I'm not sure if invalidated includes aging but data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/698981 it looks like a third or so?

user315433

16:34

@rene I was looking at the same thing, I guess the majority of invalidated close review should be aged ones. I don't see any other state that would apply to aged reviews.

rene

@bluefeet so next sprint all the other devs will help with the backlog of the mobile apps?

Shadow Wizard

@bluefeet no backlog on the devs own list?

@rene exactly

bluefeet

@rene Nope, not saying that at all. Since we didn't have a PM for quite a while, a lot of requests from the community team got pushed, so they are trying to clear the backlog of items.

rene

@Alex yeah, but I recall that shog9 did have the breakdown on invalidated tasks.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy @Sag is a halved cat, so not fair play.

@bluefeet @Brian is the fastest dev I've ever seen, but still...

@jadarnel27 played only King Quest III fully... I think. CGA or EGA screen. Awesome. :D

rene

16:39

@bluefeet No worries, I'm well aware of how hard it sometimes is to juggle resources to match the ever growing backlog. Specially in mixed products settings. I understand what happens. Say Hi to the team from me. Cheers.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy nah, never used cheats for Minesweeper. Think the only old game I used cheats for was Doom.

user315433

37.59% of SO close flag/votes age away (bluefeet posted network stats on WorldBuilding Meta).

Shadow Wizard

These days I consider searching for how to do things as cheating (e.g. how to solve a puzzle in a FF game) so I cheat a lot. :/

user315433

However, this includes perfectly normal and desirable aging of votes/flags after the post was reviewed and deemed ok. I didn't see any stats on review tasks that were aged unfinished.

rene

@Alex the number of unfinished ones would be interesting to know.

user315433

16:43

Meta Question, maybe? Looks like SEDE can't tell us why a review task got "invalidated" - was it because the question got OP-deleted, or closed directly from the site, or the task aged. (Then again, it's possible CMs are in about the same position regarding the data.)

user315433

I guess the number of invalidated close review regarding the posts that stayed open and non-deleted would be a good indicator.

rene

@Alex That sounds as a good number to have. You write a question or do we poke a CM first to see if the request is viable?

jadarnel27

16:59

@ShadowWizard A true classic!

SmokeDetector

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user315433

17:17

@rene I think this is something we can find. With this query I got 222279 invalidated close reviews where question stays open, since 2017-01-01. Compared to total close reviews (276812, second query result), this is 80%.

user315433

80% sounds like a lot. Any bugs in the query?

user315433

It does overcount a bit by including the tasks that resulted in question closure that was later overturned by reopening; but those are small in number.

user315433

If starting with 2016-01-01, I get 584790/726631, still 80%.

user315433

My take-away is that most close votes are sporadic and fall on questions that don't really, absolutely, have to be closed for the love of all that is good. Let 'em age.

rene

@Alex query looks fine and re-opens are indeed low in comparison.

user315433

17:24

Tried the same query on Math, since 2016-01-01: got 1575/36153, under 5%. That looks like reopens.

user315433

AU is another site with close review clogged. It has 6111/20760 = 29%

user315433

What's the "model" site with perfectly functioning close review queue?

user315433

My guess: Unix. It has 70/4923 = 1.4%. Or TeX, 44/4917 is under 1%

user315433

17:50

Got a monthly chart now, but grouping by CreationDate seems wrong for this purpose.

user315433

Yes, grouping by deletiondate is more informative.

user315433

May 2014 is when mass-aging began

user315433

The peak prior to that must be the massive burn attempt, I guess some tasks were deleted and recreated to fuzzy the queue?

Bart

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user315433

For comparison, Math only had aged review at times, during peak homework months like April 2017.

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