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A: Can anyone identify this locust / grasshopper in Florida, USA?

all over the world people eat grasshopper. my question is: can we eat this ones fried?let me know. thanks

user315433

[citation needed]

user315433

01:33

Did I say that it's good to see you active here once more? It's good that you're back in action. — Asaf Karagila Oct 12 at 11:22

user315433

This got 10 upvotes. I'm moved... like a streetcar can be.

Success

A HNQ question on Skeptics.SE just got nuked

granted it's about... measles virus denier

user315433

There is a mumps outbreak on campus here, with 20+ cases so far. No virus deniers yet, but a few vaccine refusals.

user315433

Measles, on the other hand ... appears to be eradicated in the Americas.

user202362

03:21

what is one of the things social animals are good for - spreading viruses

user202362

if each of us living 100km from each other and there is no car, how can there be an outbreak?

Journeyman Geek

Zombies.

Undead flying jet squirrels.

user315433

-5

A: Hide cursor in Chrome (and IE)

Even with all these things, your best friend is one of those people who already have merit just to wake you from adversity, comfort you when time is happy or on a hard day. So also means he, when you will not be able to see to look at your face again. There is a mother who never asks you to put t...

user315433

Comforting thoughts for those frustrated by the behaviour of the cursor in Chrome.

TylerH

Is there any 'helpful flag' weight given to the system that allows users to unilaterally delete certain comments (like +1 comments)? E.g. can a user casting their first flag unilaterally delete a comment that only says "thanks", or does the system only trust users with a Citizen Patrol/Deputy/Marshal badge? Or, does it give a sliding scale of trust? e.g. users with a Marshal badge can unilaterally delete comments with a lower weight/threshold?

Catija

03:35

There is a "secret" list of triggers that will make it so that a single flag can delete a comment. Starting with +1 is one of them.

Your flagging history is irrelevant, it just depends on whether the flag has one of the trigger items in it.

TylerH

@Catija Yes, I'm aware.

user202362

@JourneymanGeek migrating zombie birds?

Journeyman Geek

maybe

Catija

@TylerH I know this because I had a comment automatically deleted that met that and was flagged by a user who'd never flagged anything on one of the sites I mod before.

Journeyman Geek

@Catija "secret" - but probably on meta.

Catija

03:42

@JourneymanGeek There's a couple of meta posts with lists of known ones but the full list is secret... which is why I put it it in quotes :P

Journeyman Geek

ahh

Catija

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Q: flagged comments disappear instantly ... what's going on?

I've noticed this happening recently: when I flag useless comments, they seem to disappear get burninated immediately. My guesses: they only disappear for me each of my flags has coincidentally made the post hit the automatic deletion threshold they actually disappear get burninated because ...

31

Q: What is the SE version of Seven Dirty Words?

Caution: R-rated language Some words, when present in a comment, make it eligible for instant, automatic one-flag deletion. Out of the seven words you can never say on television, only appear to work this way. But then there are other, SE-specific dirty phrases: accept rate or accept-rate ...

support comments flags comment-deletion

Journeyman Geek

I guess it is secret

26

A: Who has the power to delete a comment?

Without giving too much away, there are certain heuristics that make some types of comments a bit, shall we say, easier to flag away than others. =8-D

Catija

Considering who wrote the answer, I'm going to assume that's a pretty old one.

TylerH

Yeah, I was cleaning up comments on a question and the thought popped into my head; I already had over a thousand helpful flags when they implemented the unilateral-delete feature, so I wasn't sure if it was a sliding scale or not.

Catija

03:46

Nope :D If it has one of the triggers and it's your first flag, away it goes.

Journeyman Geek

Now I feel old ;p

Catija

That's so weird... I looked at Jeff's activity and, for some reason he wrote one answer in 2016 but nothing before that for almost two years...

Journeyman Geek

@Catija wouldn't have been surprised if Joel had mentioned it - I think he was blogging about the presidency and the whole call to action mess.

Catija

Hmmm.

Journeyman Geek

and I do suspect he's been pretty busy with discourse

user315433

03:58

@Catija On Meta.SE. He posted on Meta.SO and elsewhere in the meantime. stackexchange.com/users/1/jeff-atwood?tab=activity

user315433

And what may be his last post on SE happened to be an answer on SU.

Journeyman Geek

hah. Oddly I'm not surprised ;p

(Jeff's always struck me as a PC enthusiast)

user315433

04:25

"What can we put in a question template to help people ask better questions?" A salary calculator, obviously.

ɥʇǝS

@Desire actually it was on AU.. but it was NAA and deleted xD

oh. Read the date wrong. That SU one is a couple months newer.

Okay, going to bed before I mess another thing up lol

Journeyman Geek

04:39

@Desire hah

@OptimusPrime the thing about giant S duties was a joke ;p

(I didn't DL that.)

I was about to say "We need someone beat someone to death with a giant S(not really) for pluralisation bug reports"

Optimus Prime

I need some idea. Since It is downvoted these much, shall I really keep that question alive or make it deleted? (I didn't worried about rep. But if the community didn't agree with me, then there is no reason for me to keep that alive)

Journeyman Geek

@OptimusPrime I suppose the big question is "is this a useful use of dev time?"

Does it make life any better?

Optimus Prime

it make S better. but for life, idk. and for dev time not sure. but writing a simple condition won't cost that much time

But I suggest the wording. The users who voted to close can be Those who voted to close

Journeyman Geek

hm

I didn't DV it ;p

(I did mock it. SLIGHTLY!)

Optimus Prime

DV is not a problem but if the community didn't agree with me, then there is no reason for me to keep the Q alive to waste the time of devs

@SmokeDetector tp. but don't have account on that site.

I see this and I'm picturing those arms belonging to @Nick_Craver ... https://i.redd.it/pleixiypu7tz.jpg

Tweeted by marcgravell on October 22, 2017 at 1:32 AM

Journeyman Geek

05:43

→ 11 messages moved to Chimney

Optimus Prime

← 11 messages moved from Chimney

Journeyman Geek

05:56

sends @OptimusPrime to hell

robot hell.

In a handbasket.

Optimus Prime

hiding

TheLittleNaruto

06:42

Yo o/

Journeyman Geek

Hi!

user202362

user202362

:p

Journeyman Geek

The video is pretty darned funny

Real Dog Meets Boston Dynamics Robot Dog for First Time

►

Success

I'm currently stuck in a place without internet

Journeyman Geek

06:54

@Success how are you chatting? notes and trained pigeons?

carefully using magnets to tap signals directly onto phone lines?

Fibre optic cables, a laser pointer and a VERY steady hand?

Success

Probably worth an answer on WorldBuilding... Or LifeHacks.SE

user202362

@JourneymanGeek that needs to be connected to internet too

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: Are Tamil and Malayalam mutually intelligible? by Madhava Gopal on linguistics.SE

user202362

@JourneymanGeek the dog must be like 'wth is this headless moving thing?'

Journeyman Geek

Yup

user202362

07:04

I would be scared by a headless human looking like robot

TheLittleNaruto

i.sstatic.net/lhmn8.jpg ...

rene

07:46

@JNat your Community Team answer has been edited by our anonymous friend. I'm not 100% sure if what is edited in reflects your view on the reality. Can you verify/confirm that?

!!/report stackoverflow.com/a/46871727/578411

Success

08:19

Honestly I'm curious of our anonymous editor friend on MSE. The knowledge about meta and the style looks similar to someone...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Think its another experiment?

those edits do look kinda substancial

TheLittleNaruto

09:21

Is it ok if someone is able to star his message ?

Success

While not really the same, is it okay if someone is able to upvote his comment?

TheLittleNaruto

:O

Shadow Wizard

@Desire in Israel all children get mumps vaccine for free at young age, as long as for few other nasty stuff.

> responseText: ""You cannot star your own messages""

server side validation

TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard It's possible. Lemme show you how.

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto by pinning, yeah

Still, not the same.

TheLittleNaruto

09:35

Yes that

@ShadowWizard Why not ?

Shadow Wizard

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Q: Chatroom owners can star their own messages

I was able to star my own message by pinning it and unpinning it. Pinning a message adds a star, even to your own messages, but when the pin is removed, the star remains.

support chat chat-stars

TheLittleNaruto

yep

that;'s what

Ok

Shadow Wizard

I tend to agree with what @balpha said, that it's just another power granted to RO and it's fine.

It's not an upvote. It gives no rep, no badge.

And if one is abusing it, mod/CM can take the RO from the user.

TheLittleNaruto

CM ?

Chief Minister ?

Shadow Wizard

More serious abuse of pinned messages is that we can move them between rooms and they'll still be pinned.

TheLittleNaruto

09:39

That I didn't know

Interesting

Shadow Wizard

So any room owner in any room can "pin" anything in any other room.

Try with Den/sandbox

TheLittleNaruto

I can't

I am not an RO

Shadow Wizard

in Shadow's Den, 11 secs ago, by Feeds

Shadow Wizard has added TheLittleNaruto to the list of this room's owners.

Now go pin a message in the sandbox :D

TheLittleNaruto

Thanks :)

Journeyman Geek

@TheLittleNaruto community manager

TheLittleNaruto

09:48

I see

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard but if someone did that they'd be somewhat likely to tee off the local RO/Mod

TheLittleNaruto

So there are community managers too

user202362

I got sour arms - I bought 20kg bag of carrots then I tried to drag it into my car (for someone else horses) and underestimated distance. Horses only saw a small part of those carrots though because afterwards I could only carry 5kg of it.

Shadow Wizard

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Q: Stars and pins are retained when chat messages are moved!

In the chat system, stars and pins are retained when moved to another room. This is probably a bug. Here a picture: When a room owner pins a message, they can move it to another room, and they cannot unpin it. However when a starred message is moved to another room, the user can unstar it in t...

bug chat chat-stars chat-pins

Journeyman Geek

@TheLittleNaruto aka, the pointy end of the powers that be.

Shadow Wizard

09:48

@JourneymanGeek of course, it's easily detected, but still... can cause real mess.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard probably more in terms of drama

Shadow Wizard

Fitting rage quit

Journeyman Geek

if someone tried that on say, root access, chances are I'd remove their RO-ness ;p

Success

ha.

Shadow Wizard

.ah

Success

09:50

Incoming CM?

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto yeah, Shog is one. Or maybe more fitting... The one. ;)

user202362

I wonder whether there is rage fit - like you rage, then you run 20km because of it ... and you rage a lot, then you get fit

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty heh, I carry 12kg water twice a week. From market to car, from car to home.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard Shog is CM

Journeyman Geek

09:51

@TheLittleNaruto Shog's kinda the 9th among the shogs ;p

Success

@Telkitty isn't that what you... liked to do?

Shadow Wizard

This:

TheLittleNaruto

@JourneymanGeek Ok

Journeyman Geek

that's special.

@TheLittleNaruto there's about 15 or so

TheLittleNaruto

@JourneymanGeek Oh

Woah

Shadow Wizard

09:52

@TheLittleNaruto indeed, that's what I said. Giving him as example for CM

Journeyman Geek

but we tend to see, I think animuson and Jnat the most. Unless there's trouble ;p

(and Jon here, I suppose...)

booooot, Devs also have diamonds in many places.

TheLittleNaruto

Jnat is the one who took care of delivering swag goodies 😛to me.

Journeyman Geek

iirc yeah

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek 13

109

A: Who are the Community Team, and what do they do?

Who is on the Community Team? Robert Cartaino Shog9 hairboat Grace Note Tim Post Jon Ericson Pops Ana Nicolas Chabanovsky bluefeet Juan M animuson JNat What do they do? They help you out. No, really. But yeah, that's about the most generic non-answer ever....

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard oh, I forgot the 2 we 'lost' recently

Shadow Wizard

09:54

yup

Journeyman Geek

Also, IIRC Juan and Nicolas mostly act on the language SOs

TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard Woah Tim and bluefeet are CM too

Journeyman Geek

@TheLittleNaruto they are.

Shadow Wizard

Maybe because network is not really growing anymore

user202362

@ShadowWizard there is a lot of difference between 12kg and 20kg ... :p

Journeyman Geek

09:54

Actually I think we've seen most of the non international CMs here at various times

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto sure, what you thought they are?

Journeyman Geek

(so do behave ;p)

TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard Just Mod

Shadow Wizard

Officially, Tim Post is the CM leader, afaik

TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard He is nice person

user202362

09:55

@Success I want to get fit, yes. Unfortunately, I only do the other half.

Journeyman Geek

@TheLittleNaruto out here, there's no mods, nor kings. Only CMs ;p

Success

Aug 26 at 3:42, by Telkitty

Is jogging the best solution for all sadness?

user202362

sadness != rage

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek hey, and devs! @Oded won't be happy to know you don't count him. :D

TheLittleNaruto

@JourneymanGeek Yeah you had mentioned about it earlier. Now I understood.

Success

09:56

Yeah, apparently I misremembered :(

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard Devs are kinda not moddy? They handle the non pokey end of things.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek they remove off topic crap from MSE.... a lot. That's purely mod stuff. ;)

Journeyman Geek

true ;p

Shadow Wizard

Though only Oded and Adam do it...

TheLittleNaruto

If I may ask, Being a mod do you get paid ? I doubt it though.

Shadow Wizard

09:57

@Telkitty but you carry 20kg only once in long time, I carry 12 many times. ;)

during army I ran with 45kg shell in my hand, for like 100m. Fun.

user202362

@ShadowWizard You probably end up with muscles, then it becomes easier to carry 12kg later ...

Success

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A: Why do people want to become moderators?

Disclaimer: There are three general types of moderators, pro-tempore (temporary) moderators, elected ones and SE-employees. Elected moderators have the moderator status only for the site they were elected on, whilst SE-employees have a network-wide moderator status. Pro-Tempore moderators are c...

TheLittleNaruto

@Success Thanks.. Checking...

12kg-20kg? What's going on ?

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty not really... I'm really far from being strong. Such things tend to just break the muscles, not build them.

I can do those things of course, but those who really build their muscles can do x10 more without sweating a bit. lol

TheLittleNaruto

Ok You guys are talking about gymming

Shadow Wizard

10:03

@TheLittleNaruto water vs. carrots

@TheLittleNaruto nope, the things we carry

TheLittleNaruto

Last time I wanted to hit gym, I got admitted in hospital

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto rofl.... lol... sorry... can't help it. Wow... how did that happen?

TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard ikr It was just an accident in which my ankle got dislocated and I had to undergo for a surgery

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto oh you mentioned it before... sorry to hear!

Oct 18 at 8:24, by TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard But now it is health condition which last at least for 2-3 months. Because of ankle surgery I had to undergo last month.

TheLittleNaruto

It's ok now

rods and plates are removed

I'll start exercising very soon.

After 2-3 months or so...

Shadow Wizard

10:06

Good! @JasonC told about a friend of his who broke his whole face...

(the friend's, not Jason's)

TheLittleNaruto

Ohh That's bad

Shadow Wizard

Yeah, fell from a porch

After some time Jason found out it was due to the friend being really high (from drugs)

TheLittleNaruto

Oh

Shadow Wizard

Yeah it's all here, somewhere... buried in transcript of Tavern.

TheLittleNaruto

One must not take drugs

Shadow Wizard

10:09

@Telkitty why didn't you just put the carrots in your travel bag?

May 23 at 14:00, by Telkitty

I actually walked home with a 3kg bag potato a few hours ago - if I could go hiking for 105km with 15kg bag back, I can carry a 3KG of potatoes and walk 20 minutes :p

15kg, almost 20. Better than 5... :)

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard It's Telkitty's fault.

Shadow Wizard

status-eating-cookie

Success

@SmokeDetector What did she do...

user202362

Journeyman Geek

Shirley you Kid.

user202362

10:57

@ShadowWizard Do you how much space do 20kg carrots occupy? :p Besides, I bought it without giving too much thinking so it's not like I planned it ahead ...

Journeyman Geek

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302395/… cv please!

Shadow Wizard

11:11

@Telkitty bought 20kg carrots out of spite.... Why?? Lol

user202362

coz I was going to visit the horses ...

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek guess who closed and deleted it? ;)

user202362

most of the things, I don't plan too much ahead, I just do things >_<

Shadow Wizard

Is it working well?

Journeyman Geek

@TheLittleNaruto they send you some swag if you're an elected, not pro-tem mod. No pay

oh and stickers.

user202362

11:19

@ShadowWizard yep, I have embarrased myself so many times, I don't feel much ashamed anymore ... besides you get more accomplished this way - just do it!

Journeyman Geek

But you get the T shirt and stickers on a freshly graduated site with a design anyway, if you're in the first 2 pages of the userlist

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty lol... so no long term plans for you? :)

user202362

long term plans never worked for me - too much variables that's outside of my control

user202362

so only short and median terms

user202362

I do make strategical moves, but that's more like betting than a concrete 'plan' because I don't have control over market

Shadow Wizard

11:25

Wonder where starting a family fall? :)

e.g. meeting a possible partner is short term after all...

but planning kids isn't...

Though you can always skip several stages and adopt... even as single.

user202362

I only want kids because everyone else wants me to get kids

Shadow Wizard

That's.... interesting. lol

Good response to someone pressing you to have kids, e.g. mother: "Fine, so go and bring me a kid!" :P

@Yve got few kids, maybe she can share with you? ;-)

user202362

You don't get it, if I want kids it's because I might miss out if I don't have them in certain time frame. But I never really craved for kids.

Shadow Wizard

ohh

user202362

Baby sitting would be pretty much at bottom of preferred job category

Shadow Wizard

11:33

Being a parent is so much more than baby sitting...

user202362

I like to design of build useful things. I know I am weird

user202362

although I must admit, I am not as brutal as some of my female friends - who scream 'shut up' at other people's kids because the kids were too loud, lol

Shadow Wizard

lol

@Telkitty well, kids are useful. They grow and might make awesome things you never dreamed about. ;)

and you also build them, from scratch.

user202362

every one on the face of earth is/has been a kid once & I don't see whole lots of amazing things made

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty you're now using something amazing, no?

:D

user202362

11:39

I am pretty dumb and useless ... but ... I have high standards :p

Shadow Wizard

Many kids follow their parents' lead, so maybe yours will also build apps, maybe better than you....

user202362

I am not thinking of building more new apps myself :p

user202362

13 mins ago, by Telkitty

I only want kids because everyone else wants me to get kids

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty isn't that what you do for living?

user202362

now you know what I meant :p

user202362

11:41

@ShadowWizard no, $ more from property

Shadow Wizard

isConfused

ohh... so kind of real estate business.

user202362

yes ... and I have a couple of apps that I have made myself :p

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty yeah, like this? i.sstatic.net/bVSzB.jpg ;)

user202362

:') ... yes ...

Shadow Wizard

why sad?

oh

user202362

11:52

Also, I am a very realistic person. Long term plannings are for dreamers :p

Shadow Wizard

So all of this explains why you saw carrots being sold and decided "Hey, let's buy some for my horses"? ;)

user202362

1) not my horses 2) I planned to buy carrots, but I didn't plan to buy 20kg of it. It's my miscalculation to underestimated the distance to my car

Shadow Wizard

I see. What happened to the 15kg you didn't take then? You just left it there?

Next time just ask for help, I'll come over. ;)

user202362

thanks :p the rest carrots are sitting in the kitchen right now :p

user202362

12:08

also I bought 20kg because it's cheaper to buy bulk

user202362

and horse goes through food quickly

Shadow Wizard

Yup they probably eat a lot...

Journeyman Geek

12:29

@Telkitty this is why we have pushcarts ;p

TheLittleNaruto

13:51

@JourneymanGeek nice

Shadow Wizard

14:10

@Narusan hey, how's Medical Sciences doing? You think it got a chance? (I did my "part", upvoted 5 questions and Following it :))

Success

!!/report anime.stackexchange.com/a/42929/2516

TheLittleNaruto

As a CM of SE, Do they write code as well ?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Why does the color of the Kazekage's garb change? by jumpyditsz on anime.SE

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto not really, though @Shog is JavaScript expert so he's writing stuff for self use, and also knows some SQL.

e.g.

Sep 22 at 23:08, by Shog9

I have my own tools for pulling query results into JavaScript, analyzing votes, flags, etc.

TheLittleNaruto

Nice

Shadow Wizard

14:21

While not writing code for SE directly, they can write code to make their life easier and get some results faster. I think some other CM knows R

TheLittleNaruto

So As a CM you dont have to write code but will have to moderate the site.

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto nope, they don't moderate any site.

If anything, they moderate the moderators, in a way.

TheLittleNaruto

Then what are they for ?

I see

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto they're the link between SE the company and the users.

TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard That's good. We can ask about any opening :P

Shadow Wizard

14:23

They also monitor all sites, as far as I know, and in case of really serious problem which is beyond the reach of moderators, they give a hand.

(or at least beta sites)

TheLittleNaruto

Okay.

Thanks for the info

Shadow Wizard

np

TheLittleNaruto

Ever since I joined tavern, I learnt a lot about SE community

Shadow Wizard

That's the purpose of Tavern: Drink, Learn, Share. :D

TheLittleNaruto

It's been almost 1 and half years since I drunk last time.

Journeyman Geek

14:25

@TheLittleNaruto though I seem to get the impression being a dev's not really compulsary.

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto too bad... why? Own choice? Or some medical issue yet again?

Journeyman Geek

Dosen't necessarily need to be alcoholic ;p

Shadow Wizard

:)

TheLittleNaruto

@JourneymanGeek That's good for people who doesn't want to write code but just want to do management stuffs

@ShadowWizard I stay with my Mom

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto but don't you hang out with friends sometimes? I also don't drink at home.

TheLittleNaruto

14:27

My mom will beat my ass if she will find out that I drink. @JourneymanGeek will understand. :P

Journeyman Geek

@TheLittleNaruto well I suppose the idea is you pick up what you need

and there's a pretty diverse background for the current and past CMs

Shadow Wizard

@TheLittleNaruto oh it's forbidden in the religion or something??

Journeyman Geek

@TheLittleNaruto hah. We tend to make fun of the non observant ones. And back

I'm very much thayir saadam TYVM

TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard I don't get a chance tbh. Even Dro was here with me, He used to visit his friends house while I used stay with my Mom,

@ShadowWizard It's just Indian parents thing. They don't want to see their child as spoiled kid.

@JourneymanGeek haha Ikr

Journeyman Geek

(Seriously, I don't judge. Unless you're pretending to be observant, and arn't. )

Shadow Wizard

14:30

@TheLittleNaruto hmm...

TheLittleNaruto

@ShadowWizard But hey I am grown up

I know what's wrong or right

Wish I could make my parents understand that :/

Shadow Wizard

Well I don't talk about crazy drink contests like Dro is doing where you end up totally drunk... just couple of glasses to make you feel better. :)

Journeyman Geek

Who is Dro?

Shadow Wizard

hehe, @DroidDev

Journeyman Geek

ahh

TheLittleNaruto

14:32

@ShadowWizard Same thing goes with me, I always say this,

"Drink as long as you're drinking, Stop drinking the time drink starts drinking you." -TheLittleNaruto

Journeyman Geek

You must be drunk to say that

Shadow Wizard

lol

Relevant post...

TheLittleNaruto

:D

Shadow Wizard

in Shadow's Den, Mar 20 at 11:54, by Shadow Wizard

@Dro you're hereby granted the title Drinker - use it wisely!

TheLittleNaruto

haha

But I am not drunk Man, Remember this: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/6436190#6436190

Shadow Wizard

14:34

@TheLittleNaruto yeah we know, your mom is reading what we write here. Your secret is safe...

oops

:D

TheLittleNaruto

Haha She doesn't understand English that much, Only greetings words and numbers

Shadow Wizard

Lucky you...

TheLittleNaruto

What do you mean ? Is there someone who keep watching you ? :P

Journeyman Geek

TheLittleNaruto

@JourneymanGeek lol lucky you @ShadowWizard

I am only child of my parents

Shadow Wizard

14:41

:)

pokes @Yve and running away

user310756

@ShadowWizard I don't share my kids with anyone - I'm possessive :D

user310756

@ShadowWizard slaps sha and vanishes into the night

Shadow Wizard

@YvetteColomb yeah well turns out @Telkitty doesn't want it either so it's all good :P

@YvetteColomb happy dance

Optimus Prime

@TheLittleNaruto mee too

TheLittleNaruto

@OptimusPrime O/\o

Optimus Prime

14:54

._.

quid

Hello. I believe to recall there is on some sites an extra page between registration and asking a question giving some instruction. Is this true or am I imagining it? If so what would be the name for it and is there some info on it somewhere?

Optimus Prime

@SmokeDetector np

TheLittleNaruto

@quid Do you mean FAQ ?

Optimus Prime

@TheLittleNaruto no

TheLittleNaruto

ok

Optimus Prime

15:01

there is another page which include an I understood and a button to proceed

for first time askers on some sites

Shog9

@quid /questions/ask/advice

Optimus Prime

@TheLittleNaruto ^^

quid

@Shog9 thanks that's what I was after.

TylerH

I have the first button of a new user question wizard working jsfiddle.net/TylerH/z1ah9q1b/10 hope to get a more or less complete demo/mockup to post on meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357951/… soon

TheLittleNaruto

@OptimusPrime :)

TylerH

15:04

suggestions/comments welcome

Optimus Prime

@TylerH clicking on the rest of the buttons should say the user it is off topic to the site

may be a popover or an alert

TylerH

@OptimusPrime that's what the "Something Else" button will do

will take them to the help center page on what questions to avoid asking or something

Optimus Prime

But looking for an algorithm is off topic. right?

TylerH

The first four buttons' text is just a rough example; I built it at 2AM last night so I'm aware they're not the most topically-accurate

@OptimusPrime If you ask meta, it's not, but if you ask people who frequent the algorithm tag, it is (those two groups seem to be mutually exclusive)

from what I've seen the mods seem to give leeway to insular communities that have totally different interpretations of on-topic, like haskell or algorithm

but if you have replacement suggestions for some of the choices, I'm all ears

if you dig into my classnames, you'll see I lovingly refer to that button as gtk... gimme teh kodes :-)

Optimus Prime

anyway good work. The step by step wizard is a good idea

TylerH

15:14

Thanks, hope to get some more work done on it tonight, just hope it doesn't get drowned by the other gazillion suggestions on that meta.so thread that are already there

On second thought that meta question is asking about a template for the freeform Ask page, and @JonEricson has said they'll be looking at a wizard regardless; I may just post it in a separate discussion question or something.

Optimus Prime

@Shog9 just curious are you still a part time CM? the blog post stackoverflow.blog/2011/03/25/… says that you've started as a part time cm

@TylerH I think make an answer. there are similar answers are posted already

user315433

@OptimusPrime Part-time status didn't last long; see chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5196480#5196480

Optimus Prime

in CoGro Musings, Jul 6 '16 at 22:14, by Jon Ericson

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Q: What was "static electricity" known as before the discovery of electricity?

People must have dealt with static electrical discharge for thousands of years; well before they began to understand the principles of electricity. What would a static discharge be called in early modern English and old-English?

american-english early-modern-english old-english

static undefined

Jon Ericson