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user202362
12:19 AM
user202362
best letter box ever
user202362
12:30 AM
@Alex are you planning for retirement?
user315433
12:46 AM
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
1:00 AM
Birds in snow are probably not very active - spending 60% or more of their day resting ...
Well, you might die. And be very inactive.
user202362
1:26 AM
 This is a regular event, happening every 7 days until 12/18/3000.
user202362
sweet
1:52 AM
until sweet?
What event?
user202362
2:09 AM
happy hour in tavern :p
user315433
2:38 AM
> To register a protest against being downvoted, press Ctrl-W (or whatever on a Mac).
user315433
2:59 AM
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
3:31 AM
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.
3:44 AM
Be like Robinson Crusoe?
user202362
@Inc. and live like a hobo?
@Telkitty it reduces greenhouse gas emissions, why not! :)
 
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6:30 AM
@M.A.R. belatedly, hello
@tripleee belatedly hello again
 
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8:17 AM
11 messages moved to Chimney
8:39 AM
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
@ShadowWizard very very belatedly hello again
@M.A.R. very very very belatedly hello again
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@ShadowWizard very very very very very very belatedly hello again
8:46 AM
@ShadowWizard both now gone
@rene whoa... yannis! Blast from the past.....
Reminds me of "hims"... remember him? :D
056 now for some reason
> last message 1105d ago
:(
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Now it feels like the Den.
running away
@ShadowWizard the pattern
8:57 AM
@SagarV the what?
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yup
Nice, right?
hmm nice
Made in <1s
hmm
wait
what
8:58 AM
@ShadowWizard /me grabs smiting stick
Gonna be looking for mine too
@ShadowWizard's account hacked by Jon Skeet
is that you kid?
breaking @Bart's stick to:
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9:00 AM
Oded left immediately after seeing me
lol
afraid of ping
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
@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. :)
@SagarV huh?
Uhu?
@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. ;)
9:03 AM
this ^^^^
If you really need to ping someone, ping Shog. He likes those.
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that ^
grabs popcorn
The other ^^^^
It has been nice knowing you all
@Bart why? You did not ping @Shog. He'll never see your message.
hides
9:08 AM
dangit, too late to edit
The only chat where I can't edit old messages. :(
@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
@ShadowWizard I can on chat.se as well.
not on chat.mse
huh, weird.
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.
9:21 AM
That sounds like a bug, I'll report on MSE to restrict these mod-powerz ....
Sigh, can't kick rene, no powerz
@BhargavRao actually, rene can kick you
What @M.A.R. said ^
@rene is powerful flower
whoahahahaha ha ha ...
Owner of 4 active rooms, out of 10 rooms in total. (soon to be 9, @Jon's room is closing tomorrow.)
9:26 AM
@ShadowWizard yup, I'm afraid of flowers
renophobia
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
> 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
@rene is a good woman. I trust her.
Woman with some extra parts.
9:33 AM
Accessories, I might say
Oh wait, this is not Den
Get all your Den nonsense out of here. This be the Tavern!
*Totem
@cazc_941 TBH I now have no idea whether you're a bot or a legit nonbot thanks to SOBotics
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@ShadowWizard 6 years old?
9:38 AM
I'm 80% bot
@ShadowWizard mod's chat main account will be their account on the site where they are mod I think
@cazc_941 I like your th... no no, let me rephrase that. Thank you for that contribution ...
@ShadowWizard anyone ping bombed on Jeff here any MSE chat?
Probably at some point. But I'm sure Jeff handled that just fine when he was still around.
@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
9:55 AM
@ShadowWizard that's just a meaningful ping. Is anyone bombed on Jeff
@SagarV if someone did, it's wiped clean from history. Along with that user. :D
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it's highly unacceptable behaviour that the officials post off topic questions in MSO
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Q: Time to take a stand

Joel SpolskyI 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...

It belongs to MSE as it related to the company rather than SO
We.. don't really want to talk about that again though...
@SagarV SO is the company
SE is just the network of sites.
but MSO is not the place for it
9:58 AM
@SagarV yes it is
@Inc. you're out of popcorn?
How... how... @amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA you have trigger?! :D
@ShadowWizard the popcorn tasted weird on that show
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.
@SagarV we kinda had that discussion ... and it didn't end in a very satisfying manner ... let's not rehash that whole drama
Time to pop a corn
The corn will resist.
10:06 AM
anyway this is the valid answer for the post
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A: Time to take a stand

ken2kI'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 ...

@Sagar why are you bringing this up again?
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.
@ShadowWizard let's talk about changing the subject
Or changing the subject change
@ShadowWizard needz moar cockroaches
10:14 AM
@M.A.R. any suggestion what to do with the Shekels when the cup fills up? :D
@ShadowWizard um, empty the cup?
buy moar repz to get another cup
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
But do you get cup from badges?
@Inc. sure
One steward badge is 3 cups at least
Depends on the bargain
10:19 AM
Ha
@Inc. more than that
But no SO cups :(
@Inc. Chem has cups
Hahaha buuuuuurn
🔥
@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.
10:31 AM
@Oded aka ג'וקים /cc @M.A.R.
(yeah go Google that! ;))
@ShadowWizard Hebrew looks like clean Chinese
@M.A.R. It is Scots Gaelic
@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)
10:39 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Love towards non-Muslim family? by Jehovah on islam.SE
@M.A.R. sure, but it's NAA. What to do with what I take out? ;)
@ShadowWizard put it in another cup
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
@Oded heh, so weird.... wonder if anyone is really using it.
@M.A.R. buh..... no other cup. :(
@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).
10:43 AM
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
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A: Choose your own swag - the craziest contest idea ever! What were we thinking?

Shadow Wizard100 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. :/
@ShadowWizard waiting for the next challenge
I need a real unicorn
11:09 AM
@SagarV maybe towards December
11:21 AM
@SagarV nope, they aren't going to give out copies of the Ladycorn. So your next best bet would be this one
@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
No. We each have one and wear it during work hours.
whoa, coooool!
And when you quit the job, you return it to Shog?
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: How To choose A Website Designing Company? by Deepak Ahirwar on startups.SE
@SmokeDetector gone
actually...
99% sure it's a spam seed ^
11:34 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: How To choose A Website Designing Company? by romarin1 on startups.SE
11:46 AM
@ShadowWizard no one quits Stack Overflow ... you hear that ... no one.
[ 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 PM
no one == no body?
That made me cringe a little while doing this Pluralsight survey.
@jadarnel27 why? Not brown enough?
@Telkitty no one == #1
@Bart meant that #1 quits Stack Overflow and he's right, @Jeff indeed quit.
@ShadowWizard That, and calling Stack Overflow a message board.
Let's hope #2 won't leave...
That dark orange is sort of close to brown, so I could potentially let that slide.
12:45 PM
@jadarnel27 well, better than forum..... :D
@jadarnel27 I keep confusing this place with Craigslist
@ShadowWizard Is it?
Message board ( ゚д゚)
@jadarnel27 yup, "forum" has social scent to it. "Message board" sounds more dry and official. ;)
Does it look like.... message board though?
12:47 PM
@Bart LOL. That reminds of this xkcd.
Dunno how message board should look like, but yeah, it can be one.
Anyway what's this "Pluralsight" you all talk about?
I've always thought of a message board and a forum being the same thing.
You work there? @jad
finger ready to flag as spam
@jadarnel27 might be, but wording is important! :D
@ShadowWizard Haha no. It's an online training resource. My employer provides a subscription as an employment benefit.
GameFAQs' Message Board looks like forum though (or alternatively, BBS aka Bulletin Board System)
12:50 PM
Oh BTW @jad did you spread the good news here already? Or only in @JSONBog's room? ;)
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.
@jadarnel27 huh, nice.... what you train at in there?
Good news, mostly people that don't know me: jadarnel28 approaches. He / she shall arrive in December.
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@Inc. yeah yeah, message board is actually a forum..... the term is misleading.... :D
@jadarnel27 needz to pin that! /cc @rene @JasonC ;)
how about shog10? ;)
12:53 PM
@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)
@ShadowWizard Recently I've been watching some really great stuff on unit testing in .NET. A few courses from the amazing Mark Seemann.
@jadarnel27 nice.... and of course he's active user on SO... lol
So you ticked that option and got a bonus? ;)
1:07 PM
@ShadowWizard I love my mug. Its kinda .... gigantic tho
@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 ^
@ShadowWizard I use it instead of a tall glass
user202362
1:53 PM
user202362
wtf
@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
lol
Mostly OJ. Or stuff that needs water
or water
@JourneymanGeek OJ? Simpson?
no, orange juice, not mr if it does not fit....
2:02 PM
Maybe he also needs water.
Winning a case like that can make one really thirsty. :D
user315433
Down to 11 again, MZaragoza withdrew.
2:28 PM
Just found this (old) screenshot on my computer.
SQL Server 2005 in 2015. boo
:D
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?
heh, and I found old screenshot of Mine Sweeper.....
@jadarnel27 lol!
@ShadowWizard Man, you are way better than me at Minesweeper.
@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. :(
2:38 PM
My pre-installed Windows game obsession in college was Space Cadet pinball on XP.
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.
@ShadowWizard lol
I am wasting time on Coundition zero Counter Strike only
sometimes on GTA SA (Copland)
@ShadowWizard I loved DOS games too. Command Keen was my favorite, I think. Or maybe one of the older King's Quest games.
@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...
am I the only one saw this?
user315433
2:54 PM
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!
@Alex Thanks!
Hallo!
hello
@SagarV no, it's normal
user315433
2:57 PM
@Alex reopened
Rap battle incoming?
I'm doing speaking drills at debate camp :D
speaking drills.. with rap
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
3:05 PM
Are cat brains different in that regard?
"Cats have no brains" - dog
@Inc. 9k is normal
but 10k is abnormal
@Derpy my cat is cute
@Derpy my cute is cat
@Derpy my cute cat is
user315433
3:22 PM
> 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.
@Alex Interesting idea for an app.
There's data dump. Close enough...
3:24 PM
@Alex better grab an archive
user315433
@Inc. See above re: search
user315433
Data dump is Library of Babel with no catalog or search function.
Omg crazy hype
Whoops wrong tab
@cazc_941 crazy indeed ...
3:45 PM
Soon I will see 11K. lol
3:55 PM
How is that even possible?
@Jackson1442 it once was over 120K: socvr.azurewebsites.net
@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.
@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.
4:13 PM
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--
@Oded Garbage in, garbage out stays there forever.
It does, if no one ever looks at it and helps clear it out.
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.
4:22 PM
Yeah, glance at Alex. Not me.
user315433
What's the % of review tasks that are completed (as opposed to aged)?
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.
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A: Make “how to tag” actually helpful for new users

Brian NickelThe 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"?
@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
@Alex I'm not sure if invalidated includes aging but data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/698981 it looks like a third or so?
user315433
4:34 PM
@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.
@bluefeet so next sprint all the other devs will help with the backlog of the mobile apps?
@bluefeet no backlog on the devs own list?
@rene exactly
@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.
@Alex yeah, but I recall that shog9 did have the breakdown on invalidated tasks.
@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
4:39 PM
@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.
@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).
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.
@Alex the number of unfinished ones would be interesting to know.
user315433
4:43 PM
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.
@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?
4:59 PM
@ShadowWizard A true classic!
user315433
5:17 PM
@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.
@Alex query looks fine and re-opens are indeed low in comparison.
user315433
5:24 PM
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
5:50 PM
Got a monthly chart now, but grouping by CreationDate seems wrong for this purpose.
user315433
Yes, grouping by deletiondate is more informative.
user315433
The peak prior to that must be the massive burn attempt, I guess some tasks were deleted and recreated to fuzzy the queue?
user315433
For comparison, Math only had aged review at times, during peak homework months like April 2017.
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