But the question really is, what is cheesecake - cake or pie?
Given the intense interest in my marital debates, I have decided to share the most intense knock-down, drag-out argument my spouse and I have had in our 16-year relationship.
Is cheesecake a “cake” or a “pie”?
@Catija Just a quick question: how do you pronounce your username? I've been thinking of it as "ca-tee-ha", but is that correct? (If that "j" sound is unfamiliar to you or anyone else reading this, it comes from Spanish, and I think that way because of my San Diegan background.)
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog My head by way of... something? I don't actually remember... I tend to attribute it to Russian but it's probably not. My name is "Catherine"... and "Catja" is a variant of it in various European countries... adding the i in the middle made it unique enough that I could get it as a username most anywhere.
@Catija If the plan materializes, when do you expect stickers to be distributed? Because if it's after May I will need them shipped to a different address, in San Diego
Hopefully sooner than that... but you can ping me or Art at some point if you need to change your address between when we collect it and when they get shipped.
@Catija And I believe I said in the form that if I'm here in Austin, it's more convenient for me to just pick them up than have them mailed, to reduce cost and because traditional mail service is slow where I live
I think that if Art keeps moving forward, we're looking at about 2 weeks to get the forms out and back from people, 2 weeks to order the stickers/wait for printing... a week for shipping here... so maybe in time for Spring Break... and, somewhat amusingly, SX... But Art's in charge of the timeline, I'm just a shipping agent.
But I guess according to their mods, it's still under control. The question has been protected (well, I guess because of HNQ)... and Shadow has mentioned this user too before
This is by-design.
If you want to delete posts (remember, a delete is considered a vote) then you have to use a registered account.
Cookie-based accounts don't support voting, therefore they don't support deletion.
So if you want to nag the user to register so he or she can delete their own st...
The tag character limit was supposedly increased from 25 to 35 characters "on all sites". However, here on MSE, the tag length increase was not actually implemented.
As would be expected, you get an error message when you try to create a tag that is longer than 35 characters:
That example was...
Nice hole in the system... You can pretty much say anything in a revision comment and it cannot be removed or cleaned up by a mod. See https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/3405175/4 for an example.
Mods need the ability to at least remove the comment, if not the ability to edit the text of it.
Choose one: a) I have started a free muffin giveout for anyone willing to switch to "Balpha" in order to annoy you b) it is a sophisticate trap to get your attention: you will answer the call to correct their spelling... and they get to ask you whatever was on their mind. c) search isn't case sensitive, so if searching for "balpha" gives the same results of searching for "Balpha", this means that the spelling is irrelevant. Ergo, either you fix the search or you would look hypocrite by complaining... which means someone outside there wants you to fix the search.
wait, forgot one option:
e) naming convention requires employee names to be Pascal Case
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog but the real question is, why are you pinging anyone? It's not an emergency and by pinging devs/staff about items that aren't urgent you could be pulling away from other things that need their attention.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog yeah, you did, but I'm saying you should probably reconsider that behavior after you've been told to not ping everyone about things
@bluefeet Adam Lear once said, I should report even trivial issues, because they are "super easy and trivial to fix". Thus, I don't believe I'm taking away so much time
(Advance disclaimer: people like me tend to speak their minds fully, in a very brutally honest matter.)
The question is: should I do something that is tried-and-true in my mind, which works to get bugs fixed faster and without much question from those involved, or should I follow the advice of someone who wasn't involved in any of that stuff tell me I'm doing something wrong, when I have clear examples that tell me otherwise?
I've been told several times IRL that that person isn't telling me because it's considered "impolite" to do so, but I prefer that they tell me, otherwise I keep doing it.
(I personally like to speak out my thoughts. A lot of people mistake that as me trying to prove some point, even though I'm not.)
Look - from the prior cases, I formed the pattern - unfixed bug? ping an employee about it, it will be fixed in 6-8 hours - and I kept applying that pattern. At no point at the time was I ever told that it's a bad idea, and discouraged - so I incorporated that into my answer, and kept doing so.
You don't always need to ping a CM for everything. Use the actual proper channels or else you're likely to annoy them... and you really don't want an annoyed Shog looking your way.
I would be really hesitant to mention the active stalking of SE devs as a valid option. I mean, we know it works for the few that are active in a specific chat room but in general ... I dunno ... nothing gets done, every bug will jump the queue .... — rene2 days ago
I'd note that pinging employees for stuff other than utter emergencies is kinda discouraged for mods - Its entirely possible employees might hang out on chat to, I donno, actually socialise. I'd do it if possible, if I ended up working at SE ;p — Journeyman Geek2 days ago
Then stop pinging me about every little thing that happens. There's meta. One opens bugs there. That should be enough - unless there's something urgent (which non of the things you have pinged me about are).
@JourneymanGeek In my mind, that was just another person telling me on how they think someone would feel if I did something. I did it again, and he (apparently) wasn't annoyed, so I thought she was wrong and formed another basis for that pattern.
@JourneymanGeek "at the time" was before I posted that answer.
@SensibleAlexander I wasn't even here at that time, just editing anonymously...plus he said he prefers not to be pinged about it. He didn't mention anything about anyone else.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Pinging employees takes their attention away from what they were working on, at that time. I liken it to The Boy Cried Wolf, at some point your pings will be noise and won't get attention. If you find a bug, report it on Meta - that's the proper place to get attention to an issue.
@JourneymanGeek You told me you didn't want to be pinged for requests to use your Chaos Emeralds, so I stopped, and only ping rene and Shadow, who told me I could. At no point at that time did they themselves tell me they didn't want to be pinged for bugs.
@JourneymanGeek Because @Shadow's avatar shows him holding one, and he was a frequent duplicate closer at the time
Okay, you guys told me, and I won't do it. I just wanted to explain my behavior and my thoughts at the time, which led to my putting that into my answer. I wasn't trying to prove that it's a good idea, let alone anything.
I had... oh, couple of thousand spammers on my site and others. Most of the initial interaction with TPTB was over meta. I think shog updated me a few times, and I did sort of get pinged by other mods.
@bluefeet I genuinely believed it to be critical. It's a blatant contradiction between an employee's official post and the actual system behavior. That needs to be fixed immediately.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I've worked tech support. The best place I've worked in had a very very strict policy of tickets - if someone calls you, there's no trail of what's been done, and who did it, and no way to pass it on
Pings work the same way. By posting on meta, you have space to give troubleshooting steps, we're told the devs/cm team monitors the site, and its probably got a ticket somewhere that's being worked on.
@bluefeet Shog now is just like Shog in my previous incarnation.
These types of contradictions have always bothered me. These were present in FAQs, which had long since been updated and whatnot. That's why I spent so much time overhauling the FAQs as Ano.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog well, taking into account my experiences with your previous incarnation, I get the feeling its more about attention then importance.
I guess I have to step back from the conversation for now, because if I speak out my thoughts, I'd probably get into a really bad mood before sleeping...
@JourneymanGeek I'm not quite the attention seeker I was before...if I was, I would have reported a bug regarding a page that very little people see. (A different such bug I reported at the time, which led to Adam Lear's comment about trivial issues.)
@JourneymanGeek I'm not looking for attention. I just wanted the bugs fixed whenever I pinged. In fact, some of my pings were to other users' questions, not only mine.
In any case, I don't want to go on and on about this - I guess the broad strokes of what I intended to say. You seem skeptical about this, but eh, its worth considering what everyone has said so far.
Okay, you guys told me, and I won't do it. I just wanted to explain my behavior and my thoughts at the time, which led to my putting that into my answer. I wasn't trying to prove that it's a good idea, let alone anything.
By the way @Catija in case you happen to be wondering about my rather...odd sleep patterns for an Austinite, I sleep during the afternoon and awaken during evenings and throughout the night. This stems partially from a trip to India last winter.
My rating: "... this also means that there is no settings menu jump into as per developer's request ..." Developer response (about a year later): "... From your game go to the Settings Menu and select the Support Button. We look forward to speaking with you."
That's either a really slow robot, or a really inattentive developer.
@ShadowtheHedgehogWizard I've seen him active on Twitter on and off, I think he's probably always going to be more reserved when it comes to public engagement after that kerfuffle (I mean, who wouldn't be?) but as far as I know he's back to his normal routine. But we're talking about Jeff here, 'normal' for him probably means hanging upside down in a cave.
new marketing idea. Starting from the next update, Windows will use idle cpu time to mine bitcoins. All the profit will go to Microsoft but the end user will get a free app-store game for every (insert number) mined coins.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I doubt he would choose to get it back, but we'd give it back to him if he asked for it. The reason he wanted to have it removed was so that he wouldn't have to worry about logging in as frequently and such.
JEFF WILL ALWAYS BE OUR #1 RAMEN TELETUBBY. That is all.
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I have no idea what I just said, but go* **mmit, I meant every word of it.
They want some way for under 10 rep users to post answers that would be invisible to everyone other than the OP of the question... so that no one has to worry about moderating them.
@AaronHall That's the thing... the question is sitting at +60 or something... it's probably protected due to having hit the HNQ and attracting problematic answers... But they won't accept that just asking a moderator to remove the protection is going to be OK, despite there being a similar request on the Politics meta right now.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is, as far as I know, a fully government-subsidized British TV channel. Does that not make it an arm of the British government? While some may point to its independence, the same is claimed for the US judiciary system. Yet no one claims that its indep...
Shog once commented about a user who emailed him a great answer to a protected question. According to him, they were an expert, but a totally new user, and thus unable to answer, but the intended answer was high-quality.
Yeah, that's why I've been looking for an easy way to unprotect stuff... but the UI for the protected questions page and the sorting therein is crappy and there's no way to search for protected questions on site... @rene made me a script but I've (sadly) not really employed it as of yet to see how it works.... but on IPS a lot of things get protected probably too soon and possibly unnecessarily...
This is by-design.
If you want to delete posts (remember, a delete is considered a vote) then you have to use a registered account.
Cookie-based accounts don't support voting, therefore they don't support deletion.
So if you want to nag the user to register so he or she can delete their own st...
The tag character limit was supposedly increased from 25 to 35 characters "on all sites". However, here on MSE, the tag length increase was not actually implemented.
As would be expected, you get an error message when you try to create a tag that is longer than 35 characters:
That example was...
Nice hole in the system... You can pretty much say anything in a revision comment and it cannot be removed or cleaned up by a mod. See https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/3405175/4 for an example.
Mods need the ability to at least remove the comment, if not the ability to edit the text of it.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is, as far as I know, a fully government-subsidized British TV channel. Does that not make it an arm of the British government? While some may point to its independence, the same is claimed for the US judiciary system. Yet no one claims that its indep...