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Sonic Wizard

2:12 AM

@SFTP Which user is a mod on the most sites (excluding employees)?

And might I suggest you join the Sonic crowd as well...

HTTPS

Jun 1 '17 at 19:50, by Gerry

@Elephant Rory Alsop

Catija

Rory's down one but he's still the mod of mods.

Journeyman Geek

yup

Sonic Wizard

@Catija Meaning?

Journeyman Geek

I think ChrisF is second?

@SonicWizard one of the sites he mods closed down

Sonic Wizard

2:21 AM

@JourneymanGeek Personal Productivity?

user202362

I might accidentally trolled Rory once but I am not sure ... I don't track my victims

Journeyman Geek

yup

Catija

stackexchange.com/about/moderators?by=users

HTTPS

Jun 1 '17 at 19:53, by Gerry

Monica Cellio is in the second place (5 diamonds), Rory has 7

Jun 1 '17 at 19:55, by Gerry

ChrisF is in the third place with 4. Quite a few people have 3.

(at the time asked)

Sonic Wizard

@Catija I saw that page but it's not in a format to query, and I was too lazy to write code to find it

Journeyman Geek

2:22 AM

hmm

Catija

HDE has four, too... I think there's a couple of people with four, actually...

Journeyman Geek

Most I've ever had was 2 ;p

Sonic Wizard

I think I saw Rory in the Aarthicast video linked in The Assembly?

(The main star is a former CM, Aarthi Devanathan)

Catija

AJ... also has four.

Journeyman Geek

Aarthi is kinda still vaguely famous in some circles

(probably cause her turning up would cause outbreaks of transliterated tamil in root access ;p)

HTTPS

2:25 AM

Updated:
6: Rory
5: Monica
4: AJ, HDE, ChrisF
3 : <many>

Sonic Wizard

Does being a mod on three sites mean that you get three mod hats?

Journeyman Geek

no

user202362

user202362

I know a ~~bot sock~~ imposter when I see one

Journeyman Geek

@SonicWizard practically speaking, mod hats are "on request"

and sometimes new mods think we're trolling them when we talk about literal mod hats ;p

Catija

2:28 AM

But they'll still only give you one... unless they accidentally send more than one.

Sonic Wizard

@Catija Were you sent multiple?

Catija

@SonicWizard No... I think Napoleon was.

Sonic Wizard

I think I saw an eBay listing for one of those hats...could that be from someone who had their mod privileges revoked?

Journeyman Geek

....

Catija

How would I know?

Journeyman Geek

2:29 AM

As far as I know, quite a few people quit

but mods getting defrocked is rare

Catija

... or it could have been lost...

I've only known of one... though I'm guessing it's happened more than once.

Sonic Wizard

@JourneymanGeek A Server Fault mod had their privileges taken away for abuse of historical locks

Journeyman Geek

@Catija though, the person would need to know what it was?

@SonicWizard I did say rare

Catija

@JourneymanGeek Yeah. Sure. Most mods don't even know what they are...

Sonic Wizard

Have there been any elections where more mods resigned than there were slots in the election?

e.g. election only had 2 slots, but 3 existing mods resigned

Journeyman Geek

2:31 AM

hmm

HTTPS

My memory is bad, but I think this has been discussed before with net loss of 1?

Journeyman Geek

We've probably had mods quit, and not had elections for a while

On mature sites, for now mod top ups are by request so I can see that happening as long as we have the minimum of 3

HTTPS

okay, not election, but pro-tem

Apr 10 at 21:40, by SFTP

@SonicWizard not resigned in masse... but Christianity had 5 pro tem mods before their 1st election, which became 4 after the election.

Catija

Possibly. Often times, they hold elections because there are too many "emeritus" mods who are only on the list for historical reasons... they've been trying to cut back on that a bit... so if mods stay inactive for more than a year, they'll reach out and ask if they want to retain the diamond... in that case, replacing the mod may be unnecessary if the site still has sufficient coverage...

so, similarly, if a site has two people asking to step down (say, out of five) and one emeritus mod who's stepping down due to inactivity... they may only replace two for the activity level of the site (leaving four).

Journeyman Geek

yup

and typically mods go quiet for a fair bit before they retire

Catija

2:34 AM

And, sadly, some never respond to attempts to reach them. I'm still not sure what happened to Aaron.

Sonic Wizard

@Catija I've never seen mods have their privileges taken away due to inactivity. I've just seen other mods appointed to fill for them, but if the old mod wants to start moderating, they can just immediately do so

Catija

26

Q: Thanks to Aaronut for his years of service!

Aaronut was appointed as a pro tem moderator in 2010, then elected as a moderator in 2011 in our very first moderator election. Unfortunately he hasn't been active on the site in the last year, and it's policy to remove inactive moderators, so his moderator status was removed today. Over the yea...

Sonic Wizard

@Catija How long was he inactive?

Catija

@SonicWizard If someone steps down voluntarily (from an elected post), they can request their moderator status back at any time and have it granted.

Journeyman Geek

yup, and I've seen it happen relatively recently.

Catija

2:37 AM

@SonicWizard As far as I know, his last seen date is still representative... so look at the date that was posted and compare it to the last seen date on his profile.

Jeremy did.

Sonic Wizard

@Catija One year later

Journeyman Geek

Oh, Jeremy is vaguely different

Catija

Eh... same concept.

Sonic Wizard

But I've seen other cases where privileges weren't revoked even much more than a year later...I think that was just an oversight.

Journeyman Geek

(though that you resign as moderator if you get hired by SE SO isn't compulsary - most do that)

Not really!

HTTPS

2:38 AM

@SonicWizard I know one on Hinduism.SE

Sonic Wizard

So, if animuson were to leave SE...would he still be an SO mod?

Journeyman Geek

He's be reinstated

Catija

@SonicWizard I think that they don't actively check activity levels of mods to find them... so unless their fellow mods have a reason for it, they may never bring it up.

Journeyman Geek

But practically there would be little difference other them acting in a modly fashion

Catija

@SonicWizard That'd be his choice. He wouldn't be by default, I think...

Sonic Wizard

2:40 AM

By the way, "procedural desysop due to inactivity" rules do exist on Wikipedia. Administrators automatically have their status removed after one year of inactivity. But there's one additional caveat: if the admin was inactive for more than three years in total, they can't just request their status back, they'd need to go through the same process they went through to get it in the first place (akin to a mod election here on SE).

Journeyman Geek

So...

HTTPS

@Catija welp, I did create a little program to ~~stalk~~ analyze mods' last activity. There's one whose last activity was 2015 (dunno if they is already demodded or not)

Sonic Wizard

@Catija jmac is no longer a mod on any sites he was a mod on before he got hired as an employee.

Journeyman Geek

before I was a moderator on SE... I basically was a moderator on a small battletech site that was mostly a bunch of guys from Virginia.

After a period of non activity, I ... offered to resign as moderator because it was the right thing.

If you're not able to give the time, it seems like a nice thing to go "hey, so... I'm not really pulling my weight. You guys might want to see if you could find someone else"

Sonic Wizard

@Catija What would you think if SE had a rule, that if a mod's been inactive for an exceptionally long time, they'd have to go through the election process again?

Journeyman Geek

2:43 AM

@SonicWizard I suspect elections are so much work they want to have as few as possible.

HTTPS

Dec 1 '17 at 1:22, by 6' white male

This also means that Nick Wilde♦, last seen August 2015, keeps his diamond until the bitter end.

Sonic Wizard

Now that I'm looking at it, it looks like Wikipedia's introduced a new rule: if an admin hasn't performed an admin action within the last five years (regardless of other activity), their admin status would be revoked and they'd need to go through the request/election process again.

Catija

@SonicWizard When you're only talking about ~700 people, I don't really think that it's the same level of concern... I would guess that the CMs would query the current mods in such a case and if there's some strong negative reaction to it, they might reconsider... but if they've been active on the site other than as a mod, I'm guessing it'd be no issue.

Sonic Wizard

@HTTPS According to a comment on the deleted site: they appointed another mod to replace him, but forgot to remove Nick's mod status.

I sure hope editing a fully-protected page counts as an admin action...

Catija

@dpollitt It's part of the job description for being a moderator that you lead the community and dedicate a couple hours a week to moderating the site. If you're not doing anything and haven't been seen in months, you're not doing that. We don't really need or want a publicly stated policy of "this happens at x activity" because it's not that straight forward, there are exceptions, and how much activity we expect can vary depending on the site. — animuson ♦ May 28 '16 at 16:48

For example: ell.stackexchange.com/users/289/wendikidd

Journeyman Geek

2:47 AM

I think the minimum suggested was half an hour a day

Depends on the site though

Sonic Wizard

@Catija Hmm...never seen that language before today, but I have seen that SO mods are expected to spend at least one hour per day just handling flags.

Journeyman Geek

but there's a lot of stuff that's fairly quick

Catija

@SonicWizard ... half hour.

Sonic Wizard

@Catija Stack Overflow moderators. They get 2,000+ flags per day

Journeyman Geek

@SonicWizard SO's a special case

I actually suspect @Catija's site is just as bad in terms of moderator workload

I can literally handle most basic SU flags in time I do other things

Catija

2:49 AM

@SonicWizard I'm capable of reading... but if it's an hour, then at least one of the candidates in the last election under-promised their time... so don't look at me.

I've never actually seen anything that states a specific amount of time per day...

Sonic Wizard

In one way, SO mods are like light bulbs in light strings in one way: if one light burns out, a shunt device in the light just directs current through it to allow the remaining lights to work. But the voltage supplied to the other lights is ever so slightly increased, which means that they have to work harder. Eventually, if left unchecked, the set will experience a cascading failure of all the lights and cause a short-circuit.

HTTPS

They can reset it daily...

Also, as long as there's 1 active mod, the most exceptional case can still be handled...

There's no need to handle low-priority comment flags as soon as possible...

Journeyman Geek

@HTTPS I personally tend to clear those fast ;p

HTTPS

on SU, not SO ;p

Sonic Wizard

> "if one light goes out" = if one mod becomes inactive
> "a shunt...allows the remaining lights to work" = there is not much of a visible effect on the site initially
> "the voltage supplied to the other lights is increased" = the workload on the remaining mods rises
> "they have to work harder" = same
> "the set will experience a cascading failure" = mods will quit with the increased workload
> "cause a short-circuit" = the site gets closed

Journeyman Geek

2:56 AM

@HTTPS true but they're obvious and simple to clear

in small numbers

Sonic Wizard

And that is why you should always replace a burnt-out bulb in a string of lights as soon as possible.

Journeyman Geek

if you tried to clear your flag allocation at once...

Sonic Wizard

*SE mods (earlier)

Journeyman Geek

(and someone did that :( )

HTTPS

DISMISS ALL THE FLAGZ!!1!

Sonic Wizard

2:57 AM

@JourneymanGeek Used their maximum 100 flags in a day?

Journeyman Geek

I think 50

Catija

Just edited into a question on IPS:

> Now he's starting to make kissing noises while chatting.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Even more amusingly he was right to flag those but did it the wrong way.

meta.superuser.com/questions/12243/… (related ranty meta post)

Sonic Wizard

@JourneymanGeek Don't forget SO mod Andy's old bot to auto-flag comments

HTTPS

@Catija without context, I'm guessing of... doing face-2-face erotic chat (and that's okay :/

Journeyman Geek

3:00 AM

@SonicWizard least with what @HTTPS does, a good compromise would be to add "thank you" to the one flag autodelete list ;p

Catija

3

Q: How to get housemates to be quieter when video-chatting?

I live in a large shared house with international people. I noticed it’s natural to speak a bit louder than a normal voice when video-chatting (because the microphone isn’t right beside your face). I find my roommates use Skype video-chat a lot and this is affecting my sleep and ability to do wor...

roommates requests personal-space

Journeyman Geek

@Catija ....

HTTPS

ah, just as I thought >_<

Journeyman Geek

HE SHOULD JUST WALK OVER, SAY HI AND SAY WHAT HE THINKS.

._.

do people have no ability to act independently of the internet telling them what to do? ._.

Catija

"Let me know if you need some help with tactile responsiveness"?

HTTPS

3:02 AM

In Japan, it's called eroype ._.

Journeyman Geek

"Hi hi! Couldn't help but overhearing and well..... Its getting a bit distracting dude"

@Catija is that a 2 dollar word for punch?

Catija

There's this assumption that everyone is going to take everything you do negatively... and that no one is a reasonable person any more.

HTTPS

"Hi! Can I join you? :)"

Journeyman Geek

@Catija which is sad

Catija

@JourneymanGeek Actaully, my intent was to imply offering yourself up as "stand-in" lips for kissing their SO...

Journeyman Geek

3:03 AM

oh

Sonic Wizard

There's a setting called microphone level...just have them turn it up

Journeyman Geek

I think people just tend to talk louder with headphones

Catija

@SonicWizard That's not an IPS solution.

Sonic Wizard

@Catija This room isn't the IPS site.

Catija

... I sort of get stuck in IPS mode sometime... I think I need help.

Journeyman Geek

3:05 AM

I misread "self deletion" as self delusion

Sonic Wizard

@Catija @HTTPS Did you respond to the Charcoal poll?

12 hours ago, by HTTPS

The Charcoal project wants feedback about SmokeDetector's behavior in the Tavern on self-deletion after FP feedback

HTTPS

well, can't help inside the room. ask them to do that on a coffee shop

@SonicWizard yeah.

Sonic Wizard

@HTTPS Noticed it's time for Norm's customary username change

Catija

@SonicWizard No... but I think it's something the ROs should decide... they're the ones who will be stuck picking up the slack when fewer of the messages are deleted automatically.

Journeyman Geek

We need to clean them out anyway so \o/

Dosen't really matter?

Sonic Wizard

3:07 AM

@Catija Angus said in a comment in the linked GitHub issue that they want the overall perspective of Taverners.

Catija

If I stop pinging you, will you stop pinging me?... I make an effort to ping you but you seem to not get that I don't like being pinged.

Sonic Wizard

There's always someone else's message after yours

Catija

I'm a smart person.

HTTPS

chillax please...

Sonic Wizard

@Catija It's just muscle memory...I always just reach for the reply button whenever I want to reply to someone's message

Catija

3:10 AM

...

Journeyman Geek

@SonicWizard was not a reply

Pinging people for attention to $things when they don't want to be is not cool.

Catija

@SonicWizard So... because it's muscle memory, I have to put up with it, but because you're on the A spectrum, I have to ping you... so you win either way? Why do I have to respect you and you can ignore me because you have muscle memory?

Sonic Wizard

Hmm...scrolling up, there are at least two messages where I would have pinged you but didn't after remembering...

But it's true...sometimes I do lose sight of theory of mind.

Sometimes I see my own perspective as the world's perspective

Journeyman Geek

3:35 AM

@ShadowWizard and that's a key reason there's friction with others

HTTPS

... shadow!?

user202362

3:53 AM

Did someone revealed the intention to visit prostitute and gay bar today? (visit does not imply bodily contact). We are not here to judge of course, misfits don't judge others ...

Journeyman Geek

Wait what?

....

user202362

Also, Facebook track no users

Journeyman Geek

ugh YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR EXCESSIVELY SIMILAR USERNAMES.

@SonicWizard and that's a key reason there's friction with others

@ShadowWizard ignore the ping before this. I dun goofed. SORRY!

user202362

@JourneymanGeek I know, right? What if people write bots to impost as others and ruin their reputation on the internet?

Journeyman Geek

@TelKitty Words would be had.

SmokeDetector

4:06 AM

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HTTPS

@SmokeDetector bounty troller

SmokeDetector

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Shadow Wizard

4:21 AM

@JourneymanGeek even worse in case of @Mithrandir and @Mithrandir24601 ;-)

Sonic Wizard

4:32 AM

@ShadowWizard You pinged him twice

(First one pinged both of them simultaneously, while the second pings the latter user exclusively)

Perhaps it's time to stop allowing users to immediately delete their accounts if they've posted only once?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I have a FR for that

Sonic Wizard

(That had some utility back when all other deletions required an employee to perform the deletion, but makes little sense now that it doesn't)

Journeyman Geek

29

Q: How do I ping the right bob?

We have two bobs at the moment. Bob (with the fox avatar) is a long time user, and bob, with the green avatar. I'd like to ping Bob, without bothering bob with my pings. I see two ways to do this - It's trivial for me to get the username - so could we have a way to ping a user by user id numbe...

feature-request support chat ping

Mithrandir

@SonicWizard nope

Journeyman Geek

@Mithrandir both ping both?

Mithrandir

4:38 AM

24601 doesn't get pinged by "Mithrandir"

Journeyman Geek

0_0

So exact matches only unless you do the partial nick ping?

Mithrandir

I think so

Journeyman Geek

hah I'll probably want to confirm with the other one, then update/bump my FR ;p

or maybe rename aibobot to journeymangeek12345 to test ;p

user202362

Troll..ey

Journeyman Geek

4:45 AM

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309105/…

Journeyman Geek

5:14 AM

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309106/…

Sonic Wizard

5:47 AM

@JourneymanGeek Voluntarily deleted

Journeyman Geek

Wasn't when I posted

Sonic Wizard

@JourneymanGeek It is now

Journeyman Geek

Not sure what value I get from being told something I can and do look up

since one of the reasons I post them here is so I can find them to delete

Sonic Wizard

It's for the transcript, to more easily note what happened to them should someone search for these requests. The fact that a reply pinged you in this case was an unintended side effect.

Journeyman Geek

"Unintended side effect" is also me getting a notification and needing to check.

Sonic Wizard

5:54 AM

If you dismiss it in time by clicking on the number, it won't show up in your inbox.

Journeyman Geek

"in time"

but but

I shouldn't have to

I'd rather just throw a closevote request and forget about it

You don't need to actually weigh in on everything.

Sonic Wizard

@Shadow chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309100/…

Journeyman Geek

Now I want to throw yet another CV request and I do not want to be pinged for this

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309112/…

Sonic Wizard

You know what would be nice? A setting to turn on and off notifications for replies. You can turn it off, I can turn it on, and we'll both go about with our day.

Journeyman Geek

Well in theory I could just ignore you...

Sonic Wizard

6:03 AM

May I ask, why do you hate pings? Why does everyone hate pings? I like them. I don't see a problem with them. I don't see why others have a problem with them. Am I weird?

Journeyman Geek

Yes

Sonic Wizard

Now, if someone were to tell me why pings are problematic, then I'd understand and be less likely to ping, whereas if users consciously refuse to tell me why, I won't understand and such an incident is more likely to happen later.

@JourneymanGeek I am weird?

Journeyman Geek

@SonicWizard having to explain every single thing is...

something I usually hope people grow up from at 3

Sonic Wizard

You aren't willing to ward such incidents off? I tell you how you can ward it off, and you refuse.

Journeyman Geek

If its important, or if you know they need to know it - and your sense of what's critical and what's not can be flawed at times or its needed to follow through on a conversation.... its useful

Sonic Wizard

6:07 AM

@JourneymanGeek How demeaning.

Journeyman Geek

@SonicWizard see, you're expecting multiple people to adjust to your needs. You can adjust your behaviour too

Sonic Wizard

You overlook the considerable adjustments I made. I used to ping Shog for everything. Questions about how the system worked, with [del-pls] requests, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Do you ever see me irrationally pinging employees these days?

Journeyman Geek

After a ton of complaints.

On the other hand "Hey, I don't need you to do that" is good enough for most people

Sonic Wizard

@JourneymanGeek Even @Shadow complains about this behavior of yours, refusing to explain things.

HTTPS

@SonicWizard I hate ping because it pulls my attention directly to the asterisk on the title bar and pink circle on the avatar. My vision is kinda sensitive to trivial changes like that. If it's important/related to what I've mentioned, I'm okay with it, but not to sudden unrelated topic coming out of nowhere.

Journeyman Geek

6:10 AM

@SonicWizard I'm fine with explaining things when they need explaining.

Sonic Wizard

My common sense is full of bugs. So when I ask for an explanation, it means I genuinely need help understanding something.

Journeyman Geek

@SonicWizard but people only have a limited amount of patience to explain.

Sonic Wizard

Yours seems to be more limited than most people's.

So much more limited that I'm not the only one complaining about it.

Journeyman Geek

shrug You get what you get.

Spending 15 minutes explaining a simple request gets tiring after a while. And after a few times, I figure I'd rather be doing something else.

HTTPS

And another reason why I really reserved pings: I can infer the flow of a conversation without ping. If I don't, I will re-read it again many times. If I can't, then I'll ping the poster, or just move on...

(and yes, I'm the opposite of Shadow who loves pings)

Journeyman Geek

6:23 AM

Which is also fine

HTTPS

okay, now I'm feeling stupid because I don't know how to checkout/fetch someone's remote branch despite following most answers on SO...

Journeyman Geek

ah lol

I used to know how to do this...

git checkout branchname to switch?

HTTPS

Done that, but probably I realized the problem is not that... hmm, I used --depth that limits the branch... I'll try other approaches...

Journeyman Geek

Good news! You didn't miss something trivial. Bad news, down the rabbit hole you go.

Magisch

morning

Shadow Wizard

7:20 AM

@SonicWizard not really complaining

HTTPS

"curious" doesn't mean "complain"...

Journeyman Geek

@HTTPS - heh, @ShadowWizard prefers I thread conversations. Sometimes I forget, he asks for context. Kinda works?

While I prefer that threads happen when needed only

HTTPS

Too few mixed content warnings...

FR: When there are 2 overlapping conversations, add feature to move each conversation to... chat?

Journeyman Geek

@HTTPS moving chat conversations to chat?

HTTPS

._.

Shadow Wizard

7:33 AM

true

You mean ability to group chat messages

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I hope he does!

HTTPS

Okay.. from now on, let's use #hashtag or [tag] to group chat messages! #YesWeCan

Mithrandir24601

7:45 AM

@SonicWizard Nope - @Mith (e.g.) will ping both of us, @Mithrandir will only ping Mithrandir, @Mithrandir24601 will only ping me

@Mithrandir Then I spot this bit of the conversion. Of course

Journeyman Geek

@Mithrandir24601 ah hah!

Magisch

8:00 AM

@Mithrandir24601 You've become annoying to distinguish from the other mith since you both have blue names on chat.se now

Mental crutch I was using no longer works

HTTPS

soon, everyone will become annoying...

Magisch

@HTTPS ??

HTTPS

it started from here...

user202362

1337 troll seeking next prey, apply within xxx

user202362

8:11 AM

interconnected pizza boxes?

Magisch

>name's telkitty
>not even a cat ava
>3/5

Mithrandir24601

@Magisch :P

user202362

@telkitty that's it, it's a self pilot drone making and delivery pizza!!!

HTTPS

@TelKitty fund it!!

user202362

@Magisch what's ava?

Magisch

8:14 AM

avatar

user202362

that's a cat, look closer :p

Magisch

That's some weird lizard thing

With a smug look of self satisfaction, but not a cat

user202362

@HTTPS I will fund the pizza, you make the drone, deal?

HTTPS

@TelKitty uhh...

SmokeDetector

8:41 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Need to change the owner of an existing SharePoint group using Powershell by Irene Hynes on sharepoint.SE

Magisch

morning other mith

Mithrandir

@Magisch you should have seen last night :)

Magisch

@Mithrandir You could change your name to Mithrandir24600

Mithrandir

Actually, I ended up temporarily changing it to Isabella Garcia-Shapiro to escape the TL madness, further details of which will not be provided

Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir change to Dan. Best results.

No @Dan here!

Magisch

8:45 AM

Next level Mith trolling: Change name to Mithrandir 24600, change ava to be the same, hide same communities, edit chat blurb to be the same

Bonus points: try to become mods on the same sites eventually

Mithrandir24601

@Magisch Morning!

HTTPS

changed name to Mithrandir Wizard

Mithrandir

2

Mithrandir24601

@Magisch Hehehe... There's a small chance that... Nevermind ;)

Princess Luna

Lol

SmokeDetector

9:09 AM

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Shadow Wizard

9:21 AM

@SonicWizard nope, single chat message can't ping more than once. @Sonic @Sonic

More bonus points: make both be hired by SE. #HTTPS

HTTPS

I'm trying... #HTTPS

Shadow Wizard

channel created: #HTTPS

Journeyman Geek

They'll rename it to chat teams

Shadow Wizard

#HTTPS channel description added: anything related to, or meant to, @HTTPS without pinging him

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard could use search there - so @HTTPS can find whatever's in #https

Shadow Wizard

9:27 AM

How's the weather? #HTTPS

HTTPS

It's hot outside, but I'm sneezing inside #HTTPS

Shadow Wizard

Me too!! #meToo #HTTPS

HTTPS

this is... weird...

Journeyman Geek

Yes it is #HTTPS #Hashtagabuse

Shadow Wizard

See? I can live without pinging! It's hard, but I manage. #hardLife #HTTPS #pings

HTTPS

9:33 AM

#I #think #this #is #not #a #good #idea #...

user202362

ITT we call ppl by the wrong name ...

user202362

@turtle I don't see how you could live without pinging

HTTPS

@teledog my thought exactly

Journeyman Geek

Excellent Idea @udp

user202362

@FTPS are you talking to me??

Journeyman Geek

9:36 AM

Maybe @IPV6

Magisch

@Apprentice Geek I think you have the wrong version of that protocol

Shadow Wizard

@Glasses where are you?

Trivial with @bluefeet, or just @blue

dang, my schitzels are small

2

lol

user202362

@shadowlizard

Derpy

@TelKitty ^ are you comparing @ShadowWizard to this one?

Shadow Wizard

9:53 AM

too many teeth

tail too short

hands too small

no shadow

Derpy

@ShadowWizard what can I say, FFXI wikia had this one.

ffxiclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Lizard

Shadow Wizard

huh, I skipped FFXI

Jumped right to 12

Don't remember why

And recently finished FFXV

HTTPS

because XI is online?

Shadow Wizard

oh, might be

I don't like online games very much, and for me FF shouldn't be one

Derpy

@ShadowWizard what about this one instead? yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Kagetokage

Shadow Wizard

9:59 AM

I love to take my time, not being dependant on others, etc.

@Derpy that's shadow Bill!

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard dosen't going the other way for the logos dupes make more sense?

HTTPS

@Derpy heh, nice name :) (kage = shadow, tokage = lizard)

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek not sure, I didn't check deep though, just saw high enough score and same request.

Journeyman Geek

(the original one says "no" - the dupe has links to SVGs)

HTTPS

Possible duplicate of /dev/null.

Journeyman Geek

10:04 AM

hmm

actually not dupeish at all

shrug

JNat

@ShadowWizard taken care of! :)

Journeyman Geek

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Shadow Wizard

@JNat cheers!

Nog Shine

10:19 AM

Hello everyone!!

Shadow Wizard

sd gone

ns hello

Nog Shine

sw-hello

Hinduism Meta got a question about its site specific feature. Any developer is free to answer? Shog?? hinduism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1262/5212

Derpy

@JourneymanGeek C hashtag?

Next MS language?

Sonic Wizard

11:26 AM

one-more-close-vote-needed meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309098/…

Derpy

..... Linux Mint (Cinnamon) documentation reports that Brasero should be pre-installed as the default dvd burner tool.

and yet, seems it isn't. At least it explains why I wasn't able to find it anywhere.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy maybe for the best

> the other commonly used burning app Brasero, is rather unreliable and regularly spoils your DVD's

Derpy

@ShadowWizard taken from?

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/mint-mate-first

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Xfburn is for xfce based environment, while brasero is for gnome based ones.

The site is about linux mint - MATE edition, which afaik is a xfce based version of mint. This could explain why brasero is working badly for them

But I assume that the same would happen if I tried xfburn on Cinnamon

Shadow Wizard

11:38 AM

hmm

Sonic Wizard

← 1 message moved from Shadow's Den

DroidDev

12:56 PM

1 hour later...

HTTPS

1:15 PM

6-8 hours later...

Nog Shine

1:29 PM

6-8 weeks later...

Derpy

Suddenly, TROMBE!

Derpy

2:22 PM

Possible account burination winner here. Please purify with fire.

Feeds

2:51 PM

Want to feel old? The 'want to feel old?' factoid meme dates back to around 2011, closer to the Bush/Kerry election than to today.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body: Health issues with several Fruits/Grains/Legumes by hawrdstrack on health.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Hold'em help playing online? by user81199 on poker.SE

Derpy

3:15 PM

:6863966 BUG! Classified info disclosure! You removed your message, but by hovering above it, I can see it was a reply to Feeds.

HTTPS

deja vu

user388584

Hi. Is it possible to delete my chat.stackexchange.com account? I don't see any "contact" option there.

Derpy

3:31 PM

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Q: How does one delete a chat profile?

The process of deleting a site profile is explained in Help Center and elsewhere. But I don't see any instructions for requesting the deletion of one's chat profile. (Why delete it? To disassociate self from chat content, for example. The chat profile may contain information that identifies the a...

support deleted-accounts chat-profile

> So for merge cases, deletion of only chat profiles, all account deletions prior to August 16th of 2016, and all other activities that caused chat account weirdness... you'll have to contact us if you want something done. The link at the bottom of every page should suffice; just select "other".

Anonymous

@SonicWizard I am not sure of the context for your message (it's not replying to anything that I can see?), but my thoughts: the primary mission of the site is to provide the best information to people arriving to Google. Noising up the front page for a couple minutes is an acceptable cost, if it means we're directing future visitors to a better post. The close vote info is still in the post history for what it's worth.

Derpy

just use the "contact us" option from the main site, use "other" as the topic and be ready to give out a valid reason.

user388584

@Derpy Thanks, I wrote to them.

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