Tavern on the Meta

user315433

00:03

@Feeds I can't find donuts in Tim Hortons? Come on!

user315433

Also, Bing image search?

user315433

00:16

> The C-Remover emits a puff of smoke and converts your clamp to a lamp

user315433

:)

user315433

00:30

@Feeds And +1 for Crowded House

user202362

00:43

The inside of rubber duckies are full of bacteria.

user202362

Bacteria, not virus ... otherwise it could be a TrojanDuckie

user202362

Still April 1st back in laggy land so ... :x

Journeyman Geek

01:34

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/q/308658/135565

user315433

02:00

Spam trends: Astronomy had 176 posts in February, 48 in March. Puzzling had 1 in February, 85 in March.

HTTPS

Abusive trends: Hinduism is over 9000, SO got an old friend.

Sonic Wizard

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308658/…

Journeyman Geek

02:20

Hinduism has been having trolls

but shrug

It actually can be good for a community if they start organising and curbstomping the worst of em ^^

Sonic Wizard

@Shog9 What do you think of cookie blocks, in addition to IP blocks? Wikipedia recently implemented them to supplement their autoblock system, which previously was based solely on IPs (and XFF headers).

@TelKitty The U.S.?

user202362

how did you guess >_<

Sonic Wizard

@TelKitty I'm American...it's just because of my weekend sleeping patterns that it can seem like I'm not.

And I used to travel on a regular basis to India

What...the heck? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308659/…

-1

Q: RFMC (Request For Meta Comment) 1 + i: Complex Reputation in Stack Exchange

Complex Reputation in Stack Exchange Abstract A user's reputation score is "a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you". A user may also accumulates badges, which "exist to reward and encourage the kind of positive behavior we want in our community". But such measures are inhere...

HTTPS

02:40

The duck is still there... it's ducking my sleep...

Catija

It's still April 1st in some places.

Sonic Wizard

According to Adam Lear, it's possible that it could stay for another day, because April Fool's Day fell on a Sunday. (He made this as a clear statement, but it could just be another joke.)

HTTPS

Heck, even it's still April 1st in the US

Journeyman Geek

one-final-delvote-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308658/…

Catija

I'm the first one.

user315433

02:52

16:51 in Hawaii

Journeyman Geek

Well, natch I threw in the second.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Resources on plotting mystery stories by Steve on writing.SE

Sonic Wizard

@Catija So while browsing the IPS site, I came across your post on your tendency to refer to people in real life by their Internet usernames...just out of curiosity, which username would you address me as?

Catija

@SonicWizard Ano

Catija

03:15

It's nice having animuson back :)

@SonicWizard That's just how I think of you... and it's easier to say. :P But if you have a preference, feel free to let me know.

Sonic Wizard

@Catija TBH I'd prefer "Sonic"...I never thought of myself as "Ano", the only reason I set my username to that was because @Shadow the Hedgehog kept calling me that

Journeyman Geek

@Catija he's on a retagging roll ;p

SmokeDetector

03:33

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Finding a stream in a radio.com URL by a deleted user on askubuntu.com

HTTPS

I just tested pressing "ask question" as an unregistered user and I got directly to the /ask page. Was surprised that the /tour is not shown... that might be a reason why unregistered users usually post off-topic questions?

Sonic Wizard

@HTTPS You mean /questions/ask/advice?

HTTPS

yes, either /tour or /advice

it's like there's nothing stopping them to post a question without reading any of the help center

Sonic Wizard

@HTTPS People won't read the page if they were "mistreated" by their local McDonald's and are looking for a Big Mac at the car wash.

HTTPS

03:51

Yes, I was the one who's usually being apathetic that new users don't read rules, but I dunno why this time I feel at least it's better to force show it...

Sonic Wizard

> Also, some users post their question here because they are dissatisfied with their experience on the correct site, and hope that they can get a better experience here. It's like this: someone wants a Big Mac, and there's only one McDonald's in the area and the employees don't treat you well. There's also a car wash in the area, with excellent service, but you can't go to the car wash to get a Big Mac.

user202362

too much political correctness for SE to grow

user202362

knowledge knows no political correctness

Journeyman Geek

heh

some people would argue otherwise ;p

user202362

knowledge only knows truth

Journeyman Geek

03:57

and we're this heartless souless wasteland with mean roaming male developers trying to put people down.

Thew funny thing is as designed, its all about the post.

user202362

@JourneymanGeek when people are mean to you, you tend to be mean towards the next person, then it becomes culture

Journeyman Geek

Blah

Even my dog knows better than that

The way to deal with mean people is to be bloody awesome

HTTPS

Pavlov's humans

or "5 Humans and a Ladder" experiment

user202362

so you kick your dog and it loves you more?

HTTPS

no, the dog kicks me back

user202362

04:01

that's hot

user315433

@HTTPS Can be enabled in site settings: Show "how to ask" advice before a new user asks a question

Journeyman Geek

When another dog lunges at my dog, he dosen't snap back

user202362

he just tries to escape?

Journeyman Geek

He dodges, walks away, and makes friends with the humans ;p

user202362

that's because humans are nice to your dog to start with

user315433

04:05

TIL Unix & Linux has a footer under its footer. Is it called a sub-footer?

user315433

Like AU has a topbar above its topbar.

user315433

> Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
This site is not affiliated with Linus Torvalds or The Open Group in any way.

Journeyman Geek

@TelKitty yup

HTTPS

> The Android robot logo is a trademark of Google Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc.

Doesn't say if it's not affiliated with Google or not :)

SmokeDetector

04:18

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Minecraft looks like a bad texture pack by Allex3 on gaming.SE

user315433

Interesting. Apple site does:

user315433

> Apple is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the US and other countries. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. in any way.

user315433

Meta question: what SE sites have disclaimers below the footer?

user315433

I never noticed because I don't scroll that far.

user315433

WordPress, Bricks, Salesforce, AU...

user315433

04:22

But not Blender or Drupal

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Where is the line for solo mining? by Andrew on monero.SE

user315433

04:41

Does Geographic Information Systems have the smallest voting buttons of any SE site?

Sonic Wizard

04:59

@TelKitty I always try to act compassionate in my meta answers, i.e. act like the "good cop".

Sonic Wizard

06:12

@JourneymanGeek Please remember to escape < and > as < and > to prevent the system from stripping things out as unsupported HTML.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer, blacklisted user: Is it possible to learn Martial Arts (Kung Fu in my case) effectively without sparring? by Fists of Mystery and Truth on martialarts.SE

user315433

@SmokeDetector I think it's just a forum signature habit, suggested edits.

Sonic Wizard

06:43

approve-pls meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/57151

Sonic Wizard

07:01

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308666/…

Journeyman Geek

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308666/…

Sonic Wizard

@JourneymanGeek I was first

HTTPS

07:19

the duck... it's gone....

RIP The Duck™

Sonic Wizard

ok sir sorry for inconvenience — Waseem 14 mins ago

HTTPS

o wait, apparently it's not gone yet. blame my snail internet connection

Sonic Wizard

@HTTPS April Fool's!

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308666/…

Gaurang Tandon

08:28

hello! Where do I ask for a request for a new userscript on StackApps? I know there are "placeholder" posts on StackApps, but those seem to be made by people who're going to create the userscript themselves, not by those who're going to ask others to make it for the general public

rene

In general SE sites are not a job board or work order system. So I would say you can't ask that without any attempt on your own.

Gaurang Tandon

okay. "ask that" which site do I ask for this?

HTTPS

@GaurangTandon could you clarify more on what userscript you want? Usually the correct way is to just ask the problem (perhaps on Meta SE, or any appropriate child-meta site), and the answer might be a userscript (if it's possible)

... or just use script-request on StackApps shrug

Gaurang Tandon

ah, perfect

will check it out, thanks @HTTPS!

rene

@GaurangTandon I said you can't ask that. You do know you have a tendency to formulate your responses in such a way that the burden of doing the work is on others?

Gaurang Tandon

08:38

@rene well I do try to do the thing on my own first, but at the end of the day, I don't know SQL, so it never really works out :( Though you're right, I've realized this myself, that's why I've stopped posting SEDE requests on meta.se, and have postponed them all till I actually learn some SQL myself.

rene

Okay, fair enough

HTTPS

08:52

TIL German Excel uses German formula name...

Shadow Wizard

@SFTP probably, hard to check, need to go over all the sprites of all sites.

Though I would expect size of buttons to be the same across sites, just color/look different.

rene

@HTTPS yes ... back in the days there even was a localized Basic. It is highly confusing, specially if you're used to the en-US version of the formulas and can't come up with any logical translation. I always end-up using the illogical ones, sometimes that leads to success.

Shadow Wizard

@rene leads back to @HTTPS? (Success is one of his many former names ;))

rene

:D

Shadow Wizard

e.g.

Nov 1 '17 at 14:14, by rene

@Success I searched all over the Internet for weeks! Unfair!

:D

Too bad avatar isn't archived, only name.

could have been cool to see past avatars as well...

Sonic Wizard

09:07

@GaurangTandon I've done precisely that - use discussion script-request [insert-related-feature-here] etc.

Martin

Hi @SonicWizard. I wanted to say thank you for your comment on my feature request about retags byt the tag creator.

Shadow Wizard

curious will the SE developer who wrote Quack Overflow put it in their resume? Will this help them find a better job in the future? :D

Sonic Wizard

@Martin You're welcome...how did you like my post that I linked?

Martin

I have read the post you linked to. Even though the bounty is unlikely to help with getting some kind of official response, I hoped it can at least attract more attention from other users and maybe some additional feedback.

Sonic Wizard

@Martin Yeah, bounties usually do that, but not very many people check the featured list on the homepage because there just aren't as many bounties.

Bounties on bug reports tend to be a bit of a waste, yes, but bounties on feature requests can result in new input or alternate ideas from the community that ultimately leads to something getting implemented. I've seen quite a few feature requests follow such a path in my time. — animuson ♦ Jan 30 at 15:03

Martin

09:11

Well, still it was probably at least worth trying.

Sonic Wizard

Yep

Shadow Wizard

@SonicWizard some people are still hunting for rep even in MSE, so bounty can lure them... but not SE employees, so in case of bug report or feature request, bounty is indeed usually pointless.

It can be useful for discussions or support questions though.

Sonic Wizard

@ShadowWizard I said that in my original post.

Shadow Wizard

Or just make a point as @Jermey is doing these days. (huh? Where's @Jeremy??)

looking for Mr. Banks under the table

Sonic Wizard

> Finally, a little controversial, but purely my opinion: don't put a bounty on it. While this is a great way to get attention for questions on main Q&A sites, from what I've seen, it isn't a good way to get official attention for bug reports and feature requests, which means the bounty rep you spend would be wasted.

@ShadowWizard @READandSee-It'sNotaDupe

Shadow Wizard

09:13

@READ hey!! That's my avatar!!! :P

Sonic Wizard

Nope. It's the duck's.

Shadow Wizard

bold move, changing to silly name when you can't revert back.... unless using the private beta hack... :D

Sonic Wizard

@ShadowWizard What's that?

I see you lurking, Rouge

Shadow Wizard

Mar 20 at 19:40, by Shadow Wizard

@SFTP so you say changing on private beta and saving on all sites bypass the 30 days limit?

Martin

The workaround with adding new account - and then being able to change username - no longer works?

Shadow Wizard

09:16

@Martin only if the new account is on private beta it still works

(didn't try it myself yet, but it makes sense, since @SFTP changed a lot, and this can indeed explain how. :))

Sonic Wizard

@ShadowWizard Ah, but the truth is, I'd prefer that my username on other sites be "gparyani" only, so that trick is only useful for me if I wanted to set my name back to "gparyani" before 30 days expire.

And remain "damryfbfnetsi" on Area 51

Shadow Wizard

@SonicWizard indeed, it's not useful for those with different names on different sites

Sonic Wizard

(Anyone want to solve that puzzle?)

Shadow Wizard

@SonicWizard this will forever remain, changing on "all sites" doesn't affect Area 51

(it's not Q&A site)

Sonic Wizard

@ShadowWizard Evidence?

Shadow Wizard

09:19

@SonicWizard try and see ;)

Sonic Wizard

It's not been reported. Please, no one report it.

Also, I don't want to change any names now.

I'm a hedgehog, not a duck.

Shadow Wizard

Nothing to report, since Area51 is not Q&A site it's expected its profile will be different and not linked to the other profiles. If anything, the other way around would be a bug. :)

HTTPS

Area 51 is disconnected. Discussion Zone is connected.

Shadow Wizard

@HTTPS true

HTTPS

Because my prof pic is still a generic identicon on Area 51, unlike on most of the sites

Shadow Wizard

09:24

@HTTPS yup, Area 51 supports only Gravatar, like in the good old days of SE.

Give email, get avatar.

Sonic Wizard

09:40

If Quack Overflow lasts for 48 hours, it should be removed in 20 minutes.

Shadow Wizard

@SonicWizard might be, they said something about extending it for 24 hours since it was Sunday yesterday

Sonic Wizard

@ShadowWizard That could itself be an April Fool's Day prank

Shadow Wizard

lol, no

@Adam was serious here:

This time it’s set to run until April 3 UTC because April Fools itself falls on a Sunday this year. This might change once Monday actually rolls around, but at the moment that’s the plan. — Adam Lear ♦ yesterday

Sonic Wizard

But if it doesn't last for 48 hours, it won't be removed in, now, 18 minutes.

Shadow Wizard

oh wait, it's far from 20 minutes

April 3rd UTC

That duck got a long life, that's for sure. :D

Sonic Wizard

09:43

So it should run for 15 hours and 17 minutes from now, unless that comment itself is a joke

@AdamLear How do I know whether or not what you said about the date, is not an April Fool's joke? — Sonic Wizard yesterday

@SonicWizard There’s only one way to find out. — Adam Lear ♦ yesterday

Shadow Wizard

Nah, when it comes to replying to serious questions I don't think the devs joke. Usually. ;)

HTTPS

On April 3 UTC, it will turn into a chicken...

Sonic Wizard

@ShadowWizard "usually"

7 hours ago, by Sonic Wizard

According to Adam Lear, it's possible that it could stay for another day, because April Fool's Day fell on a Sunday. (He made this as a clear statement, but it could just be another joke.)

John Dvorak

Worst case Adam forgot his credentials and he can't disable the duck.

Sonic Wizard

@JohnDvorak Or lost his keys

Just sayin'...

HTTPS

09:53

Or credential... key!

sitting in the corner feeling ashamed

John Dvorak

Perhaps he forgot his car keys at home ... while being in the car. In videogames we call that "unwinnable by mistake" and reload the last autosave.

Shadow Wizard

@JohnDvorak more common is being stuck inside a rock. Well, at least for me.

Think I managed to do that in all Witcher games.

I just love to jump and climb all over the place.

Once did it during battle, that was a slow and painful death. lol

John Dvorak

Pro-tip: you don't suffocate in TNT, but it still counts as solid and provides X-ray vision.

Shadow Wizard

@JohnDvorak what game? o_O

John Dvorak

Minecraft

Shadow Wizard

10:04

You don't have anything on Arqade!

John Dvorak

101 1 4

Just some badges.

John Dvorak

"thousands of hours of watching let's plays" doesn't really count as expertise, unfortunately.

Shadow Wizard

I think all the games I played in recent years are listed as tags on my Arqade profile. :)

@Sonic duck still there, looks like Adam wasn't joking after all. :)

HTTPS

Ha, I'm an expert at watching Let's Plays!

Sonic Wizard

@ShadowWizard Yep

Gaurang Tandon

@SonicWizard yep, alright

Princess Luna

11:23

@JohnDvorak do you use pistons to get inside it?

John Dvorak

yes

Sonic Wizard

11:41

delv-pls 20k+, rant: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308677/…

Sonic Wizard

13:42

@rene @ShadowWizard chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56153/…

user315433

Still needs flags, reported long ago. monero.stackexchange.com/a/7927/76

user315433

That wasn't the worst possible mistyping of "flags"

Journeyman Geek

There, gone.

Princess Luna

status-burninated

Sonic Wizard

13:58

Since when was it fashionable to mass-edit old posts?

Princess Luna

@SonicWizard when a tag gets burninated? /shrug

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Has there been instances of rivalry between Brahmins and Kshatriyas? by Supravat on hinduism.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: What is the story of Hiranyakashipu's son Mandara? by Rajesh on hinduism.SE

nicael

14:36

Just curious, why has Jeff Atwood lost the diamond? Personally I would think the diamond should be left locked because of historical significance, what was the point in removing it?

Princess Luna

//shrug

user359686

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Journeyman Geek

@nicael I think he literally just didn't want it any more and asked for it to be removed since he's got no involvement with the day to day running of the site

πάντα ῥεῖ

^@princess @alisha Do you both even know who @nicael is talking about?

user359686

@πάνταῥεῖ How can I //help?

Journeyman Geek

14:40

IN FACT

32

Q: Why does Jeff Atwood no longer have the diamond?

I noticed Jeff Atwood's accounts no longer use the diamond symbol. Why does Jeff Atwood no longer have the diamond? Is this a bug? According to jeff-atwood's tag excerpt and some posts on Meta (e.g. Why does Jeff Atwood still have the diamond symbol? ), Jeff Atwood will always retain the honor...

discussion jeff-atwood

@πάνταῥεῖ When SE's at its darkest hour... it is prophesied the ATWOOD will return....

πάντα ῥεῖ

^:-D

Princess Luna

@πάνταῥεῖ Yes

Alisha, probably not

But she's a bot.

Journeyman Geek

@nicael see above

πάντα ῥεῖ

@PrincessLuna I noticed now :-/ ...

Sterling Archer

Mornin

Princess Luna

14:43

Gm

user359686

@PrincessLuna Something bad happened while processing. Do //logs to see the logs

nicael

I haven't done anything useful for the whole day
This is so annoying

Princess Luna

@Alisha That shouldn't even happen >.>

Sterling Archer

Hope everybody had a nice holiday weekend

HTTPS

At least I had a quack

Princess Luna

14:47

@HTTPS Quack is wack.

Journeyman Geek

whacky quack?

delvote-plz meta.stackexchange.com/a/308689/135565

Princess Luna

Whacky quack? Quack. Quack quack quack QUack quacK quaCK. quack quack QUack

Sterling Archer

Did somebody say quack?

Princess Luna

lol

Journeyman Geek

AHH THE DUCKS ARE INVADING!

Sterling Archer

14:53

there's a backup duck in my car

Journeyman Geek

you you keep one in your sock?

Princess Luna

Sock puppets are really DUCK puppets?!

Sterling Archer

No but my socks are really colorful

I might have the best sock game is the biz

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Does any Hindu scripture say anything to the effect "all men (and women) are created equal"? by Rakesh on hinduism.SE

Sterling Archer

Jesus

SmokeDetector

15:00

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Hard to click on links for featured meta posts by مالك ابو الضبعات on meta.SE

πάντα ῥεῖ

@SterlingArcher "Holy mother Ganga" might be more appropriate ;-)

Sterling Archer

But I'm jewish

πάντα ῥεῖ

LOL

@SterlingArcher פסח שמח

Sterling Archer

Oh sorry I'm not that jewish

πάντα ῥεῖ

It just means "Happy Pessach" :-)

Sterling Archer

15:07

It took me longer than I'd ever admit to my grandmother to realize that means Passover lol

haha thank you!

nicael

An example of "produce quality content" thing not working since the network is growing and the questions lose attention very fast ducking down the list while such an answer is written xD

(the fact which also "helps" here is that any topic mentioned in answer has been covered by tons of the posts from the past and this can be said of 99% new questions on SO)

Sterling Archer

As a representative of the JS room, we don't endorse the use of ~~ over Math.floor

user315433

@nicael The author of that post is ~10 years late with an intro to JS tutorial.

user315433

All this was already said, many times in many places.

user315433

That it wasn't pre-chewed and placed in that particular OP's mouth is another issue.

nicael

15:16

I believe that's right, @SFTP. as I mentioned, "any topic mentioned in answer has been covered by tons of the posts from the past". The new questions are flowing at the greater rates, while having their value dropping to 0 since the topics has been discussed already not once and not 100 times.

I've haven't been active on SO for about two years and after coming back found that it's even more difficult to find a question to answer than before, taking into account the fact that two years ago it was already difficult to find a normal question to answer.

user315433

I see. I misunderstood initially, thinking it was your post.

Sterling Archer

That's why we have to focus on closing the crap out before the rep farmers can answer it

user315433

Somewhat related

user315433

But there are plenty of questions to answer on specialized topics, e.g., focusing on a particular library that isn't in GitHub's top 100.

nicael

The rare topics are hardly monitored and in fact users end up with the same output that you do if answering high-traffic crap and hence prefer the high-traffic questions for faster rep gain (i.e., reputation-reward-good-posts system is flawed). Maybe I'm wrong though.

user315433

15:28

Well, if rep "reward" is the goal... the best move is not to play.

user315433

Also related

Travis J

19:22

Is it possible to be able to review more than 20 edits in a row?

Shog9

yes

Travis J

Am I doing it wrong? System tells me to come back in 4 hours.

user315433

@TravisJ Yes, if the queue has enough items.

user315433

11

A: Why does Top Reviewers of First Post alway have a score of 20?

Users are limited to reviewing 20 posts per queue each UTC day, unless the queue has more than 1,000 items in it, in which case the limit bumps up to 40.

user315433

No if it doesn't.

Travis J

19:25

Ah

Okay, thanks

Shadow Wizard

19:44

@balpha hey, you still work on this? (just curious, it's being used in Den. :))

Sterling Archer

19:57

@SFTP @TravisJ did not know that. I always thought the closing queue was 40 because it was just always the worst queue

in terms of length obvi

Travis J

20:16

Is there any way to get real-time notifications in the questions list while using any search other than single tag names?

user315433

No. Newest for a tag, or active for a tag.

user315433

55

A: How do the Stack Exchange WebSockets work? What are all the options you can send to them?

Websocket-endpoints (You can play with these on http://www.websocket.org/echo.html if you don't want to do it in JS) (wss://qa.sockets.stackexchange.com) <userid>-topbar: User topbar. <userid>-inbox: User inbox/achievements <siteid>-<userid>-reputation: User's rep on a site <siteid>-home-...

Travis J

(up to 25 tags) I wanted to get some filtering in though :P Okay, no worries.

SmokeDetector

20:55

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Which scriptures describe the 22nd Jain Tirthankara Neminath? by Ayushman on hinduism.SE

Travis J

yup, that's a bad one

Sterling Archer

As PC as I can try to be on this one... does that site usually contain that much... hatred?

Catija

They're being hit really hard right now by that... several dozen posts a day.

Sterling Archer

Does... does pimp mean something different?

Catija

21:24

@SterlingArcher Someone who manages "ladies of the night"?

Sterling Archer

Just uh, just making sure.

Catija

If that's the part you're bothered by...

Sterling Archer

Man those words are hella different when actually used not as a joke. Some people are just so angry :(

Princess Luna

21:46

@SterlingArcher yeah... The world is filled with a lot of hate :/

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

22:32

@PrincessLuna without hate, there's no love

Haha I love this argument ^

Without @Journeyman, there are no good dogs

Hmm, seems to work the opposite with life

user315433

Wilco - Comment (If All Men are Truly Brothers)

►

user315433

... TIL it's a cover.

user315433

Well it'd have to be more gender-neutral now.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

22:50

-21

Q: FATFQ (First Answer the Fine Question)

This question is not a duplicate, it is not about right and wrong answers and questions, is about whether an acronym for sloppy answers to good questions would be useful, and I propose one that seems reasonably polite, more than some well known acronym for the opposite case (RTFM for sloppy quesi...

discussion not-an-answer argumentative

I can't pronounce that acronym in a way that's not inappropriate

Adam Lear

that reminds me of this oldie from ProgSE:

8

Q: What is the point with the tag [bestestes]?

Peter Turner is retagging a hole lot of questions and adding the tag [bestestes]. I can't understand the meaning of the tag or how it is useful. What's the point of the tag [bestestes]? and is it useful?

discussion support tags

It reads to me as "best testes". Seriously. — Jeff Atwood Oct 6 '10 at 20:50

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@SFTP if all men/women/gender unspecified are truly brothers/sisters/unspecified

The genderless "he" is still pretty weird

I can deal with "themself", but not that

Catija

@AdamLear Yeah, that's what I was trying [not] to parse...

Catija

23:28

I don't suppose anyone knows why badges have different numbers on different sites?

Journeyman Geek

23:39

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ i'll bite your ankles

user315433

@Catija I think it happens when a badge is added after a site already exists, and it used some of the ids for tag badges.

user315433

For example, Socratic is 89 on all relatively new sites, but it will have higher numbers on sites that predate the introduction of that badge.

Catija

@SFTP Yeah, I'm pretty sure Steward has been around longer than many and it's all over the map.

user315433

Okay, what's the newest site on which Steward is not Id 83?

Catija

Not sure how to easily find that... it's 81 on codegolf.

Catija

23:54

It's 88 on M&TV... which was one I checked earlier... that's relatively new-ish... in the grand scheme of things.

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