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John Dvorak

7:01 AM

how many upvotes on SE are fake?

Sonic Wizard

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308732/…

HTTPS

At least one, I bought it from John.

Shadow Wizard

@JohnDvorak for this we have to first decide what "fake" means, since it's not just a view. If you mean made by bots, I believe the number is very low, well below 1% of the overall votes. If you mean voting blindly or not based on content (e.g. just to get badges), well, the number might be pretty high.

John Dvorak

votes provided as a reward for a financial transaction

Shadow Wizard

hehe

We can't know this... but I want to believe that at least 50% of the overall SE votes are "real", and to the point. :)

Also there's HNQ which plays major role in non-SO sites.... so it's interesting question to ask if votes which are only the result of question being HNQ are "real" or not. I mean, if one would just stumble over the question they likely wouldn't bother to vote, but seeing it in HNQ, they say "hey, this is good!" and upvote.

rene

7:06 AM

dream on ...

John Dvorak

We can A/B test removing the HNQ

rene

Can't we ban avatars that depict food?

John Dvorak

I argue that your avatar depicts food as well :P

Shadow Wizard

@rene it's yummy food!

And brown

3

HTTPS

@JohnDvorak I don't want to be included in the non-HNQ group >:(

Shadow Wizard

7:07 AM

@jadarnel27 would love my new avatar!

buh bad typo day

HTTPS

yes, yummy brown food

Shadow Wizard

@HTTPS exactly

brown usually means chocolate... and chocolate is yummy.... :D

John Dvorak

FR: Add brown to the room tags.

HTTPS

browniesssssss

Unitato

Chocolate!

Shadow Wizard

7:09 AM

And @Uni is purple!

@Unitato yeah, on me for the time being!

Unitato

Ahh, my tail and horns are purple

Shadow Wizard

(until Passover is over in few days ;))

Unitato

And I am an albino potato

Shadow Wizard

@Unitato lol, I ate purple potato chips not long ago... was tasty!

Unitato

Your avatar looks like Nutella 😋

user202362

7:11 AM

Shadow's avatar reminds me of chocolate pizza, it was delicious ...

Shadow Wizard

For some reason it's called "blue" but it's actually pure purple. @Uni ^

:D

Unitato

That's fine, my dad (a potato) was an asshole, so I have no compassion for potatoes ;)

Maybe the manufacturer was colorblind

Maybe he is half-bull. Bulls cannot see the color red.

🤔

Shadow Wizard

@Unitato it might well be, dunno what chocolate spread was used... can take my own pic with real Nutella at home though. :D

@TelKitty blasphemy! Pizza is not Kosher (for Passover)!! ;)

@Mithrandir you eat מצות? ;)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard 0_0

cause leven?

Shadow Wizard

?

context? @Journeyman

And what's "leven"?

Journeyman Geek

7:15 AM

cause its yeasty risen dough?

I probably mispelled the hell out of it

Unitato

What are the various species that inhabit stackoverflow? I know unicorns, ponies, waffles, and some hoomans

HTTPS

only robots, including Skeet

Unitato

unicorns are robots??

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek oh, the pizza not being passover-kosher? Yeah, because it contains wheat flour.

@Unitato wizards

Journeyman Geek

ah ok

Shadow Wizard

7:17 AM

Now I'm in the phase of Matza Wizard, but still, a Wizard. :D

Unitato

Arent wizards hoomans technically?

They are a separate species?

Shadow Wizard

@Unitato nah, not really

Journeyman Geek

Matza Wizards. They are made of ~~meat~~ wheat...

rene

@Unitato flowers

Unitato

7:32 AM

Ahh

Yes, flowers too.

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ you've been caught here

Unitato

exposed

rene

exposed is fine with me

Albzi

Hi

Unitato

Not you haha

I meant @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ

Albzi

7:35 AM

Does anyone know why I still get issues with trying to get to chat.stackoverflow.com

but can access chat.stackexchange.com fine?

Unitato

What kind of issues?

Albzi

My proxy blocks it, more specifically

But I think they only use a blacklist of words from the url to stop a website

I can't access any 'game' related websites for example.

HTTPS

@rene I don't think it's possible? I believe any votes are anonymous, until they're revealed by the system?

Albzi

But I can access anything from stackoverflow fine, except chat.stackoverflow

I get "ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED"

rene

@HTTPS yeah, they are not in SEDE either

Albzi

7:37 AM

Oh well

rene

@Albzi you are using HTTPS right? is the certificate you got correct?

Unitato

ghostproxies.com/blog/2015/12/…

^^^ Does that help?

Albzi

I am @rene

Access to that website is restricted haha

rene

well, ~~curse~~ talk to the sysadmins of that proxy ...

I admit chat.so is a doomed, dark place ;)

@Albzi this is the thumbprint of the cert you should have for chat.stackoverflow.com 63fe7abfeb1456756505dbc6c6c370b21df72af9

Unitato

@Albzi

Also @rene why are you a blurry flower?

Derpy

7:42 AM

@HTTPS cross reference question votes and user rep with enough detail and you may even identify downvoters. At least on low traffic sites.

rene

@Unitato because I lost focus long time ago ...

Unitato

Yoga might help you restore it ;)

Albzi

Turning the proxy off does nothing

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body: Re-installing windows caused connection reset error. by dassy on superuser.com

Albzi

Ok

So

I'll just hang here instead

They won't unblock it

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

7:51 AM

@rene pfft

You can't touch me on chem

Albzi

And quite honestly if they found out this one was working it would get blocked too lol

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Unitato he doesn't want us to see his murderous face expressions

rene

@Albzi yeah, those enterprise sysadmins and their pet-peeves ...

Albzi

to sysadmin hell with them all!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@rene I just realized all flowers are nude

rene

7:52 AM

O_o

That are my new clothes

Albzi

So is this just a general chat. Like an off-topic, or is there an actual topic to this room?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Albzi the topic seems to be MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS AND CHICKEN!

Albzi

Yeah

Which is my fetish

So just wondering what's going on here

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

The topic is hence, mostly just starring @Bart's messages

Albzi

Nice

Unitato

7:55 AM

@Albzi Unicorns, Ponies, Waffles, and Jon Skeet are the most discussed here

Albzi

Nice

I can talk about at least one of those things.

Unitato

Sometimes unitatoes too

Albzi

I used to skip my unitato classes at school, so I don't know much about those.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Unitatoes are yuck

Unitato

To eat, yes.

While potatoes are delicious, my furry tail and horn are revolting to the tongue

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

7:57 AM

@Unitato but full of protein, so you can be turned into powder for astronauts

Unitato

But pulverising my horn and fur releases toxins.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Come here, I'm not gonna hurt you

Unitato

xD

@Albzi Oh, and looking at the tags, crickets are apparently discussed as well

Havent seen much talk about them tho

Shadow Wizard

@René oh, forgot to wish you Happy Birthday few days ago! So... Happy Birthday! How it feels like, to be 422 years old? :D

René Descartes

René Descartes (; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt]; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: "Cartesian"; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. A native of the Kingdom of France, he spent about 20 years (1629–49) of his life in the Dutch Republic after serving for a while in the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces. He is generally...

Unitato

Whoa

I never knew that coordinate systems were invented by a flower

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

8:01 AM

@ShadowWizard he looks like a dork

Shadow Wizard

@Albzi hey! Another familiar face from the past..... like @Unitato! Glad you still use my unicorn! :D

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I remember him to be cooler

Shadow Wizard

@Unitato of course!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Descartes not Floweres

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ nah, that's the common face back then. :D

@JourneymanGeek noooooo, that would turn me void.... the horror....

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

8:03 AM

So dorkery is ancient

Shadow Wizard

@rene with pants down?! :P

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard hey, you're not a celebrity without a real, juicy scandal

I'll give autographs in the end of the show

Shadow Wizard

ending show

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

doodling on @Sha's face enthusiastically

Yes, a mustache is my autograph

Albzi

I remember you Shadow

You're my idol when it comes to this chat room

Shadow Wizard

8:08 AM

@Albzi yeah, something is off with your SO chat profile, on SO side, not yours. For example your chat profile is not synchronized with your main profile, see the different avatar. Ask a mod to reset your chat profile, this should fix things for you.

Unitato

Everyone remembers Shadow

Albzi

I stupidly tried to click that link you put in there to see my profile.

Of course it's blocked ha

HTTPS

@Unitato you don't discuss about "crickets", you wait until you hear "crickets" here ;)

Shadow Wizard

your rep there is also "stuck" on 11k, while you have 13k now, @Albzi

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Albzi shedding light on @Sha, killing him

Albzi

8:09 AM

But thank you I will get in contact with a mod :)

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ hey leave my face alone! :D

@Albzi lol! blushing

Unitato

@Albzi half of the sites are blocked. Some kind of a browser you got there.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Ur so slow @Sha

HTTPS

@Unitato ...or sysadmin

Albzi

It's not my browser lol

It's the proxy settings I think

I can access it on my phone

Because I'm not using the work proxy there

Unitato

8:11 AM

Too slow? Says the one who took 17 minutes to respond to the ping here XD

Shadow Wizard

That's me blushing:

Albzi

I just went on my phone to 'update' maybe?

HTTPS

MAR just needs his daily dose of ping..

Unitato

Thats not a blush

Albzi

It looks updated now

Unitato

8:12 AM

That looks you had a cyanide overdose

Shadow Wizard

@Unitato and @M.A.R. sometimes vanish for weeks!!

Albzi

But can't access the site still on laptop

Unitato

I know where he vanishes tho ;) @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

@Unitato tell me! :D

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard it goes without saying that I'm so cool, I should be addressed with a plural verb

@Unitato don't think you need an overdose to be killed by cyanide

Shadow Wizard

8:15 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ because unlike humans, they got nothing to hide! :P

Unitato

You need an overdose to kill @ShadowWizard

HTTPS

killed by a laughter

Shadow Wizard

lol

worst laughing can do to me is wet my pants :D

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard funny, if you think about it, their dick is on top of their head

Unitato

I have detected @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ 's presence here

This is where he sneaks away XD

Shadow Wizard

8:16 AM

@Unitato huh, will keep that in mind!

Derpy

Shall I?

HTTPS

While Gaurang is still curious what reason did MAR chose to close...

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy maybe @M.A.R. want some time off, so yeah, don't hold yourself...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Derpy post it, I dare ya

Shadow Wizard

Think he means the other button. ;)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

8:18 AM

@HTTPS um . . . Rise against the flow?

@ShadowWizard pants?

Unitato

Later guys (and gals) gotta eat lunch.

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ now that one deserves the button you thought of originally!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Unitato Guys and gals would starve if they didn't

Even later ones

Shadow Wizard

Late guys and gals don't have to eat

Unless they become vampires.

Journeyman Geek

spamflags-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308735/…

Shadow Wizard

8:20 AM

Watches vampires movie yesterday, with my kids. :D

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308735/…

Why didn't you just report it? @Journeyman

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard oddly enough, I don't use smokey.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Why didn't you just report it? @Journeyman ಠ_ಠ

Journeyman Geek

ಠ_ಠ

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek you.... what?!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@JourneymanGeek ಠ_ಠ

Shadow Wizard

8:22 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ

ಠ_ಠ

ಠ_ಠ

ಠ_ಠ

ಠ_ಠ

ಠ_ಠ

8:23 AM

ಠ_

Derpy

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Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I don't actually get involved in smoke detector much

It quite literally isn't how I prefer to work

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy what... is.. that?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

It looks like a hipster from 1980s

One with a burned face

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek I'm also not involved "much", but still use it to report spam and flag across the network sometimes. :)

That said, I don't like the auto-flag scripts.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

8:26 AM

You people are so conservative

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard Well, more or less

Shadow Wizard

Even if they 99.99999999% accurate, even if it help to reduce spam time, I just prefer to not have bots flag spam.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Automation is the future

So is the apocalypse

Shadow Wizard

Report spam is OK, but not do actions with actual consequence.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard I'm convinced faster TTD is worth it

Shadow Wizard

8:28 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ takes lots of imagination to see that, kudos!

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Turbo Tea Delivery?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Ur face is kudos

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ not yet, they're still flat with brown smears

hehe, you just reminded me of Jason... he would say "ur mom is kudos" :D

little bit of priceless history...‌.. :P

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard Time To Dance

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC first mom reference! You still alive?? :D

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Dance Dance Authentication?? That's so 2017

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard sometimes we might need a little old-fashioned

Derpy

8:42 AM

@ShadowWizard ^ assuming the formatting of the original one went wrong on your monitor because reasons.

if it already looked as the above picture, then .... you must be blind :P

Shadow Wizard

Well, I'll add this to the "things that @Derpy says, that I'll never understand" list. It's ever growing.... :D

(unlike other things, can't Google this in any way, so it's really a dead end :))

@Derpy oh, it's a pic. Well, 100% the same as what I saw originally. No idea what it is, it looks like some random ASCII art without any shape or meaning.

Derpy

@ShadowWizard weird. You say that you didn't notice that is an ascii version of Pinkie Pie face?

HTTPS

@Delpy

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy ohhh... wait.... the contrast is really too bad.. but looking really hard yeah, this could be.

Derpy

9:05 AM

@ShadowWizard ... I blame your monitor ^_^

HTTPS

oops. too big

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ugh, bad choice, I think...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@HTTPS knight with a sword?

Really short knight. Like a dwarf

@HTTPS answer

@Derpy no

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ yes

9:13 AM

@ShadowWizard nes

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ tea

@ShadowWizard ice

@HTTPS metroid

@Derpy zero

@HTTPS Ground :(

9:18 AM

@ShadowWizard Sky :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@HTTPS Mountain top :|

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ snake

@Derpy Nokia

@ShadowWizard N900

@rene T-1000

9:30 AM

@Derpy I'll be back

@rene Beatles

@Derpy Bugs

@rene Hugs

@ShadowWizard Kisses

@rene 1,000,000,000

9:47 AM

@ShadowWizard Macross Missile Barrage

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy Humongous Mecha

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: How to help a postgraduate student to write a book? by a deleted user on quantumcomputing.SE

Shadow Wizard

!!/lastword

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard No such command 'lastword'.

Shadow Wizard

buh useless WAG bot :D

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

9:58 AM

Post manually reported by user *Glorfindel* in room *Charcoal HQ*.

This post would have also been caught for: Bad keyword in title
Title - Position 1-52: How to help a postgraduate student to write a book?

Shadow Wizard

postgraduate is now a bad word? ....

think someone is bit... overly eager with spam filters.

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Registered question as false positive.

Shadow Wizard

@Glorfindel how exactly is this spam or offensive??

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

should be big enough, galaxy level at least :P

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy 52.8 billion light years (tall)

Mithrandir

10:04 AM

@ShadowWizard of course

@ShadowWizard @JourneymanGeek *leaven

@ShadowWizard That's a known troll.

They've been posting that question on different sites verbatim for years now.

They also troll bounties on Literature.SE.

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir can't know that, account deleted by now... even so, if a post is not spam or offensive in any way, we must not flag just based on who wrote it.

Mithrandir

@ShadowWizard the account deletion is part of their troll attempts. It hinders the IP block. Anyway, I'm very confident flagging that as R/A, as it's that exact same content and MO repeated for years.

There are like a dozen deleted copies of that on Literature.SE.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard that rule has exceptions

There's no way you could assume an honest mistake

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I'm not, this is probably a troll, but still... that's a matter for custom flag, not spam or offensive.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Discrete you just let yourself be trolled

Shadow Wizard

10:18 AM

Probably best course of action is network IP ban, CM can do it.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard if he doesn't see it removed, nothing's stopping him from filling the site with it

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ suspension will. and also stop them from deleting their accounts.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Every other option other than RA flag will take a long time

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ not if someone notify a CM, explain, and ask for network wide suspension.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Mods aren't ever present on most sites, which are quiet betas.

CMs hate pings

Shadow Wizard

10:21 AM

Not sure how it works, but maybe they can do it for deleted account as well, based on the IP or user credentials, making it to be auto-suspended the next time they create an account, anywhere in SE.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ only those with blue feet.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Just flag the damn thing as RA, would you

Shadow Wizard

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Grrr, I thought shadows were supposed to follow wherever you go

Shadow Wizard

I'm a rebel Shadow!

HTTPS

> NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

Glorfindel

10:26 AM

@ShadowWizard we have a string of questions and the same user(name) posted this plagiarized answer on a bountied question which is another indication of this troll.

HTTPS

a bounty troller, like the one on Anime.SE before

Glorfindel

Or a copycat, but a troll nonetheless.

HTTPS

the comment requesting the bounty is their trademark

Unitato

Bounty troller?

Shadow Wizard

@Glorfindel yeah, @Mithrandir told me already, but like I said before, this better be explained to a CM who can then put network wide suspension over the troll, stopping them once and for all.

Which makes me wonder... @Shog9 can a network wide suspension be put over a deleted account, based on the IP/email it used? To block trolls like the one discussed above?

(See @M.A.R., now I risk the wrath of Shog, just to make a point :))

In case Shog appears, here is the question that started the discussion: quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/1574/…

(saving him scrolling too much ;))

@SmokeDetector k

Unitato

10:36 AM

Tbh that answer's link has pretty elaborate details.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

TBH it's like, classickest spam ever

Shadow Wizard

@Unitato so are all the "skin care" spam... they can be useful to some. They're still spam. :)

Unitato

Agree

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard useful to vandals for dissolving statues?

Unitato

Just saying, he had the chance to post a great answer. He missed it

Can Smoke detecter be modified for per site use?

Shadow Wizard

10:39 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ no mainly to people with skin problems, which are desprate enough to try anything. :P

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Unitato elaborate

You could run your own Smokey instance

Shadow Wizard

@Unitato it already is, e.g. it doesn't report SO spam here

Unitato

Wow

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Unitato unclear what you're asking

Unitato

Chemistry.SE doesnt have Smoke Detector post in The Periodic Table tho

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

10:40 AM

@Unitato not many rooms do

Shadow Wizard

@Unitato as easy as adding a line somewhere in its code, just ask someone from Smokey's dev team to add it

(probably need others in that room to agree first)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard I'm probably all it takes to get to agree

Unitato

Yeah, I have been slacking in ChemSE tbh, just reviewing and answering some questions.

Havent looked at the meta aspects at all

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

The others are more like . . . Puppets

Shadow Wizard

lol

Unitato

10:42 AM

but of course, I'm allergic to meta, and downvotes

Shadow Wizard

downvoting @Uni posts until he sneeze

Unitato

brings out a lead-coated blanket to block from the harmful effects of downvote allergy

wraps blanket tightly

Sonic Wizard

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308738/…

Unitato

10:57 AM

Thanks for a free flag tho :)

Sonic Wizard

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308738/…

Derpy

11:16 AM

wondering.

Once upon a time there was a thing called "flag weight".

Many legends surrounded that, but most agree on its "shadow ban" effects - reach 0 weight and you flags would be dropped without notice.

now the weight is no more.

And with it should be gone the automated effect of declined flags.

Is this really true?

I did notice that the system does indeed point out when your latest flags were declined and advise you to review them before raising a new one....

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

11:49 AM

@Derpy legends say there are mystical creatures that can ban you from flagging

Journeyman Geek

You can still get flag banned

Derpy

oh, I was just wondering. I was discussing my "What is NAA" recent meta post with the users in the rpg chat room.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Derpy Narcotic Astronaut Angels, obviously

Derpy

As I said there, I am still a tad unsure about the "flag it, let the mod decide" approach. Especially if it can end up with someone receiving free ban points

Glorfindel

delv-pls 20k meta.stackexchange.com/q/308738 and meta.stackexchange.com/q/308739/295232 (both blatantly off-topic)

user315433

12:04 PM

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A: Allow recovery from flag hellban

Update: Kevin Montrose makes it happen The hell-ban is no more! Long live the verbose, obnoxiously evident ban! Kevin has implemented (more or less) the system described below. Flaggers with a recent (past 7 days) flagging history consisting of at least 10 handled flags where >= 10% of flags we...

user202362

You skin grows thick pretty quickly ... I mean, I have seen plenty of thick skinned people. But from crispy thin to elephant thick, you sir, are the first.

user202362

would you like to enlighten us with your skin care method(s)?

user315433

0

Q: Exit strategy: where would people go without Chess.SE?

Just discovered that a good SE got shutdown recently due to "poor business": http://productivity.stackexchange.com I expect it is only a matter of time before Chess.SE suffers the same fate. So, this is the place for remaining users to share their thoughts on this matter.

Derpy

12:23 PM

if this ever enters public beta, I hereby nominate baba as mod-ad-honorem

rene

@Derpy good to see that a huge percentage also follows darknet ...

user315433

@READ Personal Productivity is nowhere on your list of collapsed stacks

Derpy

@rene and weapons too

Shadow Wizard

12:40 PM

@JourneymanGeek yeah but the ban came out of the shadows

@TelKitty why you talk to your skin?

Does it help to keep it shiny and healthy? ;)

user202362

meh, my skin is always durable

user202362

quality hide :p

Shadow Wizard

lol

Sonic Wizard

12:51 PM

@SmokeDetector tpu-

rene

→ 4 messages moved to Chimney

jadarnel27

1:14 PM

@ShadowWizard I approve!

HTTPS

I guess my face grows thick then...

user202362

it's not because you two are conjoined twins, is it?

Derpy

1:31 PM

@ShadowWizard That's violet, not purple. Twily is purple.

SmokeDetector

1:54 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer: How to lose weight faster through running by DouglasStacy on fitness.SE

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