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Félix Gagnon-Grenier

21:00

@user5389107 not quite

Catija

@Taryn Were you bluefeet at the time or had you used a different username in the past?

Taryn

@Catija only ever been bluefeet and Taryn

Catija

Ah.

user5389107

Extra gross: gross edition: people trying to pick up women on SO

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

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Q: Would having a romantic relationship matching feature be worthwhile?

I'm not personally interested in such a feature, but I just want to put forth the idea of an optional, possibly monetize-able, romantic relationship matching feature for SE users. Is this a bad idea? If so, why not?

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

21:04

"Hey there, I notice the way in which you indent your functional jQuery is pretty gracious. Care for a fish and bytes soon?"

user5389107

the infantilization is real: stackoverflow.com/questions/15262908/…

notice how nobody ever thanks "cute coder boys" for their accept vote

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

yeah that's bullshit, it should be more equally shared.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@user5389107 thanks cute male floating smiley head

Catija

No guy on the internet is as cute as my Bennett. :D

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@FélixGagnon-Grenier let's get to work

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

21:06

awww ;)

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

The one before that was nuked; did it already have two pending flags, or was it 1-flag deletable?

user5389107

@Catija he looks startled in the picture

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Catija he's classified as a WMD

rene

as a flower I feel left-out

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Did you know the fatality rates caused by the cuteness?

Catija

21:07

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Started with "Thanks" ... I think that's a trigger.

user5389107

@rene very nice and pronounced petals today rene

rene

<3

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@rene we established you're one of those huge, smelly non-flowers

Catija

@user5389107 He was sick but starting to feel better... getting photos of him with Hippo is getting more challenging.

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

as far as I can observe, most comments that have "thanks" and less than ~8 words in them are autodeleted on no longer needed flags

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

21:08

@Catija Maybe that's why I started experiencing technical difficulties a couple days after meeting you at the airport?

user5389107

on a serious note I can see being referred to with infantilization and sexualization when you're trying for answers for your technical questions can be immensely off putting

This isn't a meat market what happened

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

Not proposing this, but maybe comments containing the word "girl" should be made 1-flag deletable?

Mithrandir

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog That... seems like a bad idea.

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

that's a slippery slope. what about those that have boy?

Mithrandir

Especially when you consider other sites in the network.

user5389107

21:10

seems like it'd be abusable

Catija

Especially on Parenting and Pets.

user5389107

and not very useful

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

On SO only, plus comment flags do leave a paper trail

Mithrandir

Not... really.

Catija

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Yeah... they don't...

Gosh, that's a long username.

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

21:11

ikr?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Catija heh, has he found other best friends?

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

I too was surprised just now

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@ S [tab] [tab] [tab]

Or just press Reply

Mithrandir

There was an incident on SFF recently about this.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Throw the hippo out so he starts off Toy Story 3

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

21:12

"Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog" was just as long

And don't forget "Shadow the Hedgehog Wizard"

Catija

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ He has friends at school. :D And one of my friends had a son three days before, though they live in San Antonio.

user5389107

well this has been a .... sobering experience

Catija

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Isn't there already a Toy Story 3? Also... Hippo is my plush friend... not Bennett's...

Mithrandir

@user5389107 Were you drunk?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Catija Let's see if your new baby can be even cuter :)

user5389107

21:15

@Mithrandir no but I expected a lot more and a lot less blatant BS

Catija

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog It will be a challenge. Even the midwife was impressed with him.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Catija It's quite possible that the "Emily" who threw Jessie out was actually Andy's mom

Catija

?

heather

in toy story 2, i presume you mean?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

Yes

Catija

21:17

I don't know that I've seen either of them.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

It came out in 1999

Catija

So... I created a Slack account today and I'm not a fan of their account creation process.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

But I hadn't seen it until much later, because Disney Vault

heather

@Catija yeah, it's a play on the plot of toy story 3 (toy gets thrown out, gets angry, takes out anger on other toys, woody and gang caught in middle - bad explanation, but yeah)

(clearly i've watched the toy story movies too many times.)

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Catija I experienced a bug with their app...after leaving a team, my account was deactivated (as expected). However, I couldn't disable launch at startup because I needed to sign into an account to access the app settings, which I couldn't because my account was deactivated.

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

21:21

ewwww. but... isn't that OS controlled?

Catija

I had to create a workspace that I will never use just so that someone could send me an invite to their workspace... That seems like poor design... I can understand not wanting to allow people to spam random invites out ... but ... Discord does it better, I think.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

Yeah, in retrospect I could have just gone into Task Scheduler and disabled the startup task, but in the end I solved it by creating a new account on an open team, signing into that, and then from there disabling launch at startup.

@Catija I think they're doing it wrong

The way it's supposed to work is that you're supposed to request an account, and then they have to grant you.

@heather Yeah, same...Woody always has vestiges of being selfish

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Comment of the day:

@TimPost I think we all appreciate and thank you for volunteering to be the wheat between two grinding stones ;-) — Thorsten S. 5 hours ago

Next blog post: "meta.SE is being too welcoming to site managers" :p

John Dvorak

I love that figure of speech

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@JohnDvorak IKR, sometimes you just wanna read this kind of stuff instead of "wow, what happened to SE?" and they're not even directed at me

user5389107

21:35

welp, good night

70 some comments flags is enough for today

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Night

I should get some sleep too

user315433

22:10

Today's Dilbert re: StackOverflow for Teams: dilbert.com/strip/2018-05-03

user202362

22:37

On the internet, most of the things are free - unless you want privacy and no ads, then you have to pay :D

Travis J

The irony is that you already pay for the internet.

user315433

One has to pay to mail a postcard, too.

Catija

and for the envelope and paper, even.

user202362

most social animals have no privacy too

user315433

Is left nav going to bring any filtering options that New Nav (2.0) aimed at? Or is that coming 6-8 weeks later. Or simply abandoned.

Travis J

22:41

Yeah, but when you mail a postcard, there is no "don't read my mail" clause.

Could you imagine if you mailed a postcard, in an envelope, and it came opened, with ads on it?

#internet

user315433

That's how letters from the front used to arrive, right? Inspection in case any classified info was mentioned.

user202362

Most social animals live in the open in vicinity to each other, except they are not forced to watch/read ads. I can't imagine humans doing the same ~_~

user315433

Internet is just another warzone.

Travis J

The internet is international waters. That is why there are pirates.

user202362

I get it now, the only cost to privacy is actually being social ... like if you don't need to social, you can device your place to never compromise your privacy.

Journeyman Geek

22:47

technically a stamp can be an ad

user315433

> I want to like it, but I keep having to quit Reddit and delete my account based on the terribad combination of opinions + downvoting. Particularly dispiriting on small subreddits; they need an "upvotes only" mode for subs. -- Jeff Atwood at 3:54 PM - 3 May 2018

user315433

Jeff not feeling welcomed because of downvotes

Catija

Isn't he one of the biggest proponents of DVing?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

23:21

@bro If I were to set up a service where users could give me their information (which I'd keep safeguarded) and I could send a letter to SE on their behalf with an arbitration opt-out, would that be legal?

yagmoth555

@TravisJ I like the way you wrote it, soo true

user315433

Sorry, I don't talk to inclusive people.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@bro I'm a hedgehog.

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