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Somewhat Memorable Name

2:34 AM

Morning?

Journeyman Geek

2:54 AM

hi

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

I got banned from flagging after flagging comments in order to test out bugs with the way comment flags display in history. (As they were comment flags, I couldn't retract them.)

Shog9

you don't get banned for comment flags

you get banned for repeatedly flagging the same answers as "not an answer", even though your last 4 "not an answer" flags on the same answer were declined

I may have said that before

in this room

to you

I may even have mentioned something about not being in any hurry to handle them

Robert Columbia

Yes, I thought that only "post flags" were considered for the flag ban: See Meta : meta.stackexchange.com/questions/173878/…

Shog9

...well, now you know what happens when they all get handled in an afternoon

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

3:17 AM

@Shog9 Um, it was mostly comment flags that were listed as being declined in the last seven days?

As far as I can see, of the 8 flags declined in the last seven days, 5 are comment flags.

Of which 4 I cast for bug-testing purposes

Shog9

3:28 AM

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog yup

qualifying flags for the ban are: other, offensive, spam, lq, recommend close, naa

you raised 10 of those in the past 7 days

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Shog9 Can you please give this a status-completed? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/313688/…

Shog9

and 3 were declined

that's 30%

which, > 25%

== 7-day ban

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Shog9 One flag is from early July, which wasn't handled until today.

Shog9

yup

no more re-flagging the same answers for the same reason, 'k?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Shog9 Yes. In the meantime...

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Q: Do not show comment flags in "declined in last 7 days" view

I went to check my flag history, only to see this big banner: I clicked on the button, and saw eight declined flags. Five of those were comment flags, which do not count towards bans (reconfirmed today by Shog). I was testing out bugs in the new comment flagging functionality in order to ...

Somewhat Memorable Name

3:36 AM

waiting for custom question list...

Somewhat Memorable Name

4:00 AM

Well, unified theme on Maths came faster than I thought, and many were disappointed (not that surprising?)

Stephen Rauch

4:18 AM

-9

Q: Stack Overflow is the worst Website I've Ever Seen in my Life

You know what I have to say about this site? It's about as toxic as the Springfield Nuclear Plant. I can't ask a fucking question without someone spending 12 hours scrounging stack overflow trying to find a duplicate post. You know what I say about that to all of you? Shut the fuck up and answer ...

discussion support feature-request

So we have the comment thing covered, but posts themselves seem to be able to stick around quite a while...

Journeyman Geek

aww too lare

Catija

37 minutes isn't too bad... comments stick around longer since they require mods.

Stephen Rauch

Too my mind, a bunch of pretty nasty words ought to give some sort of priority to taking it down...

Those words have absolutely no use it polite discourse.

Journeyman Geek

@StephenRauch people don't typically hang out around site metas all day

I don't on SU meta, I just rely on notifications

Catija

4:34 AM

So @JourneymanGeek Is the SU theme better, at least?

It's very white. :)

Journeyman Geek

I personally like it

.... actually I didn't notice it was new for a few minutes...

Stephen Rauch

@Catija, it just seems that phrases like Shut the f__ up and s_k my a__ in posts ought to get some special treatment when those posts are flagged.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

4:59 AM

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/313956/…

@Catija Please remove the borders

Catija

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I'm a CM, not a designer, Jim.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@Catija Please raise it internally that someone has asked for it

Journeyman Geek

@Catija in a perfect world, I'd have a dark option but ehhh SE has never had dark options ;p

Shog9

found lurking on Google Image Search

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Catija

5:02 AM

Chicken and waffle sliders?

Shog9

Journeyman Geek

those appear to be meatballs in very small waffles... impaled with golf .... ball holder thingies?

Catija

@JourneymanGeek Tees?

Shog9

I'm testing a userscript that lets me paste images directly into chat & gives me a ready imgur URL

Journeyman Geek

Yes, Tees.

I was thinking ques

@Shog9 ... should be a feature ;p

Shog9

5:05 AM

because I'm sick of opening up meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask to get image urls. Percentage of total voters voting per day, by election, on Stack Overflow: i.sstatic.net/GfF4U.png

Journeyman Geek

and image uploads on mobile would be cool too :(

rofl

@Shog9 ... that's kinda what I do a lot of the time ;p

Shog9

image uploads work on mobile?

Journeyman Geek

nope

would be nice tho

I just switch to desktop view and back for that ._.

Shog9

oh. Must be internal rooms only :-/

...these should be https urls...

Journeyman Geek

oh well

I'm sure chat will get a refresh in 6-8 years or so ;p

Shog9

5:08 AM

there we go. HTTPS!

Journeyman Geek

I actually think the top one was stolen from a failed 70s TV show

Shog9

...and the bottom one from a successful 50s TV show?

Catija

The bottom one is awful.

The top one is based on the NASA meatball.

Journeyman Geek

with an odd font

Catija

Yeah, apparently stencil fonts with no interior floating spaces are spacey.

Journeyman Geek

5:11 AM

they should just call it the US Spacey....

and build giant convertable mechs

Catija

Or, you know... just spend money on NASA instead.

They already have a logo, I hear.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Nasa's a bit of a mess :(

I actually think that megalomaniacal billionares are the most cost effective way to get the US back into space

Catija

Ugh, after midnight. I'm out.

Journeyman Geek

night!

Shog9

@JourneymanGeek here you go: github.com/rchern/StackExchangeScripts/blob/…

ok, enough of that. 'nite!

Optimus Prime

6:58 AM

anyone know why the one timestamp (inside red freehand circle) is blue?

I got a notification on my inbox about that comment, because op mentioned me. And I visited it from the link on inbox.

Journeyman Geek

what happens when you click on it?

Suraj Rao

the notification is link to the comment..check the url

its the color for activated link I guess

Optimus Prime

@JourneymanGeek that's the permalink to comment as usuall

may be it is highlighted because I clicked a link directly to it. Still strange

Suraj Rao

do you mean the time or the username?

Optimus Prime

time

the same for rest of the comments are shown in gray

for this one, it is blue

Suraj Rao

7:04 AM

its active link

click on any other comment and then check the time

Optimus Prime

@SurajRao clicking won't work

but yeah it's active link. visiting the permalink of any other comment showing it's time in blue

Somewhat Memorable Name

ooo, just received the SO CoC email

Optimus Prime

@SomewhatMemorableName email is competing with postal service

rene

8:46 AM

→ 9 messages moved to Chimney

Somewhat Memorable Name

9:14 AM

Hmm... I have flagged 1 comment as "unfriendly", and 1 comment as "abuse", and they both gone instantly :)

rene

How unfriendly ...

Somewhat Memorable Name

Well, at first, I was even not sure whether they are gone or just hidden to me...

which... kind of interesting if red-flagging the comments would automatically hide them first from the flagger before they're handled...

user194636

more likely yours was the last flag needed to automatically delete the comment

user194636

or the comment was of a type that only needs one flag to delete

rene

9:40 AM

If you're creative, the M-F sequence can be used as an expletive (albeit in your head only).

Somewhat Memorable Name

9:54 AM

a DIY.SE mod and a Korean.SE mod stepped down

@rene keyboard shortcut is unfriendly ;)

rene

10:09 AM

:D

Optimus Prime

11:32 AM

is Tim Post on a vacation? anyone know?

rene

He is probably busy

Optimus Prime

asked him something yesterday and he didn't came here yet

It's kinda urgent

rene

then send an email

Optimus Prime

will try

rene

Chat is a notoriously bad medium to keep a focus on important matters.

Optimus Prime

11:36 AM

is there someone else responsible for swag

other than tim

Bart

Not sure. I think all those who I know used to be involved with it have moved on

rene

Animuson maybe. If you send a mail to [email protected] it lands in his inbox.

Optimus Prime

12:09 PM

sent the mail to [email protected] and [email protected]

rene

1:27 PM

@gnat if you haven't already, would you mind checking this for voting on a synonym request. You are eligible.

canon

This still bums me out, occassionally...

@rene that's why it's being replaced by a rigid, radio-based feedback mechanism!

rene

feedback mechanism is what the farmer said when he used the cattle prod

Somewhat Memorable Name

turned off the mic

canon

@Shog9 traditionally, the moderator stance seems to be, "Favor deleting a comment, if flagged." Now that we've introduced such a subjective flag as, "unfriendly," will moderators be more judicious in their processing? I'd hate to have such claims validated simply for expedience.

Shog9

1:43 PM

@canon yeah, unfortunately that's the only way this can avoid the trap we fell into with "not constructive"

canon

2:05 PM

I understand that there's a massive amount of comment flags... but if you're trying to effect a culture-shift, people need to know what they were flagged for and if that was validated (and why).

Or at least, I'd hope that we'd want that for the users.

Feeds

3:26 PM

If you can't get your graphing tool to do the shading, just add some clip art of cosmologists discussing the unusual curvature of space in the area.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/313994/…

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

3:38 PM

@Shog9 You commented about this earlier:

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Q: Link comment flags in the flag history page to the flagged comment, if it still exists

Note: This is not the same as Make comment flags link to the comment, which is about the moderator tool. I am talking about the flag history page that is accessible through the user profile at https://example.stackexchange.com.invalid/users/flag-summary/USERID. I tend to have a pretty good hit r...

feature-request declined-flags comment-flags flag-history

Shog9

4:11 PM

yeah, that'd work

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119764/… (@Shadow @rene)

rene

5:38 PM

→ 45 messages moved to Chimney

Aaron Hall

8:08 PM

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog just reviewing the recent talk here... was there a specific answer on Stack Overflow that you had a problem with?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@AaronHall Sorry?

Aaron Hall

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Shog indicated you might have been flagging an answer, and I was curious, if it was on Stack Overflow, what it was, and what I might conclude if I saw it.

But if not, feel free to ignore...

On another subject, what classes of chat bots would we say we have on chat?

we have ones that assist in moderation...

Or are they mostly all about moderation of one form or another?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@AaronHall MSE, not SO. An employee had left a meme as an answer to a bug report.

@AaronHall There are fun bots, too...

Optimus Prime

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog actually smokey is a moderation bot

Aaron Hall

Shouldn't there be a separate bot to handle coffee?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

8:15 PM

@OptimusPrime It's a fun bot, too...

Aaron Hall

Each bot should do one thing and do it well. :)

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@AaronHall SU's chat room has (had?) a fun bot

Optimus Prime

there are few fun bots on Den. Moosebot, another bot by rene (I forgot it's name)

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@OptimusPrime KennyBOT

Optimus Prime

yeah

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

8:16 PM

Gotta go, begin teaching

Tinkeringbell

@AaronHall The IPS chatroom has pseudohuman. That one seems to be purely for fun ...

Optimus Prime

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog wait. are you a teacher

Aaron Hall

@Tinkeringbell They should have a chatbot named Dale Carnegie...

Optimus Prime

Had to sign a document and adobe reader wasted my half hour. I can't draw it properly and they didn't provide an option to include image.

Tinkeringbell

@AaronHall runs to Google

Aaron Hall

8:20 PM

@OptimusPrime I used to be a financial advisor, and I tried going paperless, which meant I needed a signature over a transparent background to add to documents... those were the days...

Optimus Prime

Adobe reader doesn't have an option to import picture to file

Tinkeringbell

Ah. I have read one such book ( not by him) and I sincerely disgust the manipulative attitude displayed in it :/

Optimus Prime

I googled and found a site, signed it and downloaded the signed copy in few seconds

Aaron Hall

@OptimusPrime I did everything regarding that on Linux.

Optimus Prime

I don't like linux

except kali

Aaron Hall

8:25 PM

@Tinkeringbell manipulation ... or ... cooperation to get win/win? - perhap the former is a dysphemism for the latter...

Tinkeringbell

@AaronHall this one was literally treating people as a way to get what you want.... E.g. nothing on saying thanks, being appreciative etc..

There was no reciprocation in it

Aaron Hall

@Tinkeringbell do you recall the title?

Tinkeringbell

8:48 PM

@AaronHall The art of people

Kevin B

9:04 PM

the reversal badge is weird

What did i reverse by answering a 0 scored question, that is now -8?

Tinkeringbell

@KevinB well, your answer pointed out how bad the question was? ;)

Charlie Brumbaugh

9:27 PM

This needs deleteing meta.stackexchange.com/a/314013/380725

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

11:00 PM

@Catija Time for Happy Hour!

Needs another flag to be deleted: meta.stackexchange.com/a/314013/377214

Journeyman Geek

11:54 PM

@OptimusPrime that is the Linux I dislike :p

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