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jcolebrand

12:52 AM

What would you monitor to monitor what your IT department is doing? Besides RSoP. Assume a Windows network.

Sonic Wizard

1:46 AM

Welcome back @Jeremy

Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers

Wikipedia articles are improved through the hard work of both regular editors and newcomers. Remember: all of us were new editors at Wikipedia once, and in some ways (such as when editing an article on a topic outside our usual scope) even the most experienced among us are still newcomers. New members are prospective contributors and are therefore Wikipedia's most valuable resource. We must treat newcomers with kindness and patience—nothing scares potentially valuable contributors away faster than hostility. It is very unlikely for a newcomer to be completely familiar with Wikipedia's markup language...

Anonymous

2:07 AM

@SonicWizard Turns out mod powers can be used to modify your own name network-wide despite the cooldown. :)

Catija

That's what I thought... you just had to change it on SO, right?

Sonic Wizard

@JeremyBanks Not useful if you want to use a different name on one site vs. all other sites

Anonymous

@Catija yeah. I didn’t realize that would still apply to cooldowned sites, but gave it a shot.

Catija

@SonicWizard It's fine as long as you have mod powers on the sites you want to have different usernames on... Like Rory does. :D

Sonic Wizard

I can't get mod powers here on MSE without becoming employed at Stack Exchange...so it's still not helpful

@Catija By the way, I forgot to ask: how did Bennett like the airport's viewing area?

Catija

2:22 AM

@SonicWizard Fine, I guess? He doesn't talk about things yet, so I've no idea if he liked it or even remembers it.

Sonic Wizard

By the way, in case you wanted to start a flight log for Bennett...I'd be happy to send you (or anyone) the templates I use for my log

Journeyman Geek

2:37 AM

@SonicWizard I donno. Mod powers on SE arn't that different from a 30ker

least other than flags

and that's achievable

Sonic Wizard

@JourneymanGeek Wait, what are you talking about?

Journeyman Geek

sorry - fixed the reply. I've not really had enough sleep this week.

Sonic Wizard

That was in reference to early username changes...pretty sure you need to have mod privileges to do that.

Journeyman Geek

"early"?

Oh, sub 30 days?

Sonic Wizard

32 mins ago, by Jeremy Banks

@SonicWizard Turns out mod powers can be used to modify your own name network-wide despite the cooldown. :)

Journeyman Geek

2:40 AM

ah yeah, that.

HTTPS

@JourneymanGeek Me neither... when I thought I could rest my eyes at 10pm, turned out I was awaken until 1am...

Journeyman Geek

I've literally changed my nickname only twice in all the time I've been there

lol

been working nights 4 days this week, and will be doing a fifth

Sonic Wizard

@JourneymanGeek Last month I used to sleep in the late afternoon, and get up at 10-midnight, and then stay awake the night, attend morning classes, then repeat

HTTPS

And I asked myself: "Was I that old?" because I heard that older people don't need longer sleep (dubious?).

Sonic Wizard

Still need more responses to that survey form...

Apr 15 at 14:53, by HTTPS

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

HTTPS

2:45 AM

Just curious, how many responses have it gotten? Because I'm not sure everyone wants to participate on the survey if they don't care about Smokey in the first place.

Sonic Wizard

8 responses

It's split: two say to turn off self-deletion, while the others are evenly split between keeping self-deletion turned on and delaying self-deletion until the very end of the self-deletion period

So I need more responses to get a more clear-cut view

HTTPS

According to the room's info, there are 9 frequent users (excluding Smokey). I think that's nearly enough.

Sonic Wizard

@HTTPS What are the criteria for listing there?

@SmokeDetector tpu- (errorsolutions.tech)

Catija

... whatever they are, I apparently don't qualify... :sniff, sniff:

Sonic Wizard

Well, neither do I, and that's why I was asking what the criteria are...

HTTPS

3:07 AM

That's a good question for meta post.

Journeyman Geek

I wonder if it's aggregate chattiness but I've not been active here long

HTTPS

3:29 AM

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A: How is Chat's "frequently in room" sorted?

This is how it currently works: Take all users who have spoken in the room within the last two weeks, and whose messages in the room are more than one percent of all messages here, and sort them (in descending order) by their percentage of activity in this room (as in 2.) di...