@Mithrandir unless they get big, green angry and smashy?

Green is the best.

I'm using doppel's script that turns all the mods green.

420?

Not me.

Never had any interest and the smell makes me sick to my stomach.

can relate

I once visited a friend who smoked that stuff

The problem with being mostly naturally mellow is being even more mellow sucks

That seems redundant.

Like giving a turtle a speed limit.

Achilles would disagree

Achilles?

Aesop?

One can get so laid back things almost go in reverse :p

@Catija Aesop raced the turtle against a hare, I think. But yeah, same thing

Zeno's version features Achilles

Maybe that's the secret to time travel.

Now. The secret to time travel is, you're already travelling forwards in time

time^[citation needed]

@AndrasDeak Ah, I wasn't familiar with that. I associate Achilles with his heel.

Ｍｏｒｎｉｎｇ

@Feeds I don't :(

@Feeds umm... is there a way to zoom-out the map with mouse?

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Mornings!

GOOD AFTERNOON

Someone is sounding a little better today ;) more enthusiasm?

ya

I think currently have 95% eyeness

LOUD NOISES

Unless its bright

ANGRY FISH

DO YOU HEAR THE FISHES SING? SINGING THE SONG OF ANGRY FISH!

I'm already awake. You can all stop shouting...

THE SEAS ARE ALLIVVVEEE, WITH THE SONG OF FISHES!

oh ok

now see what you did, you woke the parrot

I sea.

@JourneymanGeek This is starting to sound like some bad parody on the little mermaid XD

@Tinkeringbell sung by a grumpy bearded mutt?

Sure :D

@JourneymanGeek water you doing with these puns?

you're making waves

wetya going to do about it?

(are they puns?)

@JourneymanGeek currently nothing

@JourneymanGeek nah, bait.

I liked Songs of the Sea

hah.

I've never been to that

loved the old musical fountain tho

I didn't have a chance to see the older one tho

> Songs of the Sea had its final show on 4 May 2014, and was closed to make way for a brand new multi-sensory production titled Wings of Time, which was launched on 17 June 2014.

apparently already replaced again...

ya

and those things have a uniquely singaporean cheese

You know what is really nice? Arriving back at an office you worked at for 2,5 years and all coworkers still being there and being just as nice as you remember them :) I'll be wallowing in good feelings today, don't mind me :P

yanno what would be really nice? An empty office

This one isn't empty, but quiet enough :)

(I've got a bunch of temps, folks from a few vendors, the Sysadmin guy...)

(Unless I arrive, of course)

Does this edit adding what to do on a dispute with an employee rather then a mod fit into this faq? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28867/…

Hmmm. I'd say it does sound a bit over the top to suggest writing a letter because an employee closed your post...

Rolled back

That seems like terrible advise

I'll send Tim more keys by... Post.

We should hold a 'collection' first. Have everyone send keys to some central point, and mail boxes full at a time from there :P

k

Actually, outside opt out from binding arbitration - is there any official reasons to snail mail SO Corp?

ah

that's new, close enough and was never the intent of the original question

@JourneymanGeek I dunno, birthday cards?

@JourneymanGeek to send snacks to the SO office, I guess

Not that I'd recommend that

But we sometimes have customers send snacks to our office

I guess you could send glitter?

you monster

Heh. A good mood brings out the worst in me :P

@Magisch if I ever got hired by SE, and there was a meet, and it was legal (or I could smuggle it), I would totally bring home made snacks ;p

(hint hint bribery hint)

@Tinkeringbell I'm pretty sure I'd like to be sent actual dog faeces rather then a glitter bomb

there are these glitter envelope bombs that pop when you open them, spraying the glitter everywhere

I don't mind glitter :)

@Magisch I know. Brilliant business plan

that should be classified as assault

making people clean glitter is a human rights violation

I used to wear a lot of glitter in my hair and on my face when I was a kid.

I should go see if mom kept that stuff :P

@Magisch that could be arranged....

@Magisch You're technically not making them clean glitter. The decision to clean or not is up to them :P

@JourneymanGeek Cover it with glitter though, just to be sure.

@JourneymanGeek I'm 99% sure you would not pay international shipping to send me a pack of dried up dog excrement

@Magisch Who says he has to :P He probably knows a guy who knows a guy that lives wherever you live :P

@Magisch I never considered that it needed to be dehydrated....

@Magisch remember this? gawker.com/…

Are other people getting untrusted certificate error on Stack Exchange sites (from quantserve/quantcount). Or is just me?

I've got quantserve blocked so can't tell

MSE and SU look fine from my phone

Hmm, strange. But I'm glad to hear that this is not a global problem.

Our UX designer has a special taste of using disturbing cat pictures in our dev site ...

They're a good UX designer :)

treasure them :)

lorem catsum

@Tinkeringbell Yep, I know, I do, they know.

@AndrasDeak Careful. You'll end up summoning some demonic cat entity if you go to far!

I don't know who's hoarded enough rep to delete vote off-topic questions, but there's quite a few on mse right now ;)

Why so many right now?

meta.stackexchange.com/q/317705/215468 hasn't even posted on SO, shouldn't be question banned.

@Undo No clue. I think I saw a little discussion in here about some mail with a link or something, but I also remember reading something about fixing it.

Link one and Link two

Spam in profile outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/16770/tolet-board

@Undo quarterly newsletter?

Okeanos Explorer is doing live dives again youtube.com/watch?v=Io55IAXL6_s

not too much diversity on today's site it seems

what up, my glip-glops?

that sounds like something that only applies to @Derpy

@Undo think it's because they sent out network wide emails with status updates on the welcome wagon thing

links to meta.SE

also, I am strongly in favor of lorem catsum

@Magisch slipsum, imo...

@CharlieBrumbaugh valid. Until they actually post spam we should not do anything.

Valid helpful users link to their company or products in the profile.

🚽

🛁

@ShadowWizard not quite true. The official statement is "not worth hunting down", not "they are doing nothing wrong"

PSE hunts them down regularly

I thought it's "as long as they're dormant, no need to report them"?

Don't waste your time finding them

Probably not worth a mod flag, true

meh

How's everyone doing this fine evening

rainy and hot as usual :)

this tropical weather...

@Magisch Still perfect :D

> （10文字以上でないとエラーになったため、「スタック・オーバーフロー日本語版の行動規範」といたしました。）- 英語が残っている：ヘルプの右メニュー

TIL the entry title on Help Center needs to be at least 10 characters... and it made a problem on jaSO ("Code of Conduct" -> 行動規範 (4 chars)) and needed to be padded with "on Japanese Stack Overflow"

@Somewhat wait, how is the answerer a mod with 1 rep...

and doesn't have a diamond here on Meta.SE

ah, OK

@EKons there are employees like that

and then there's also 1-rep non-diamond employee who answered questions on per-site meta :)

yeah, I remember stuff like that

I think employees used to have diamonds by default and that was changed a while ago

that's not really good

all employees should have a diamond on Meta.SE IMO, it's what indicates their employment at first sight

Hehe meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/341663/…

@EKons there are a few feature-requests asking for special designation of employees

like a SO logo (as a userscript does)?

yup

they should just have different color names

you're talking about chat? definitely no

all over

mods here get a diff color name

in all chats

yeah, that only happens in chat

in reality, I guess they should be separated from mods by a separate symbol alongside their diamond, if they have one

using different colors over the parent SE sites might be confusing and unnecessary, symbols (that can't be in a username) are better, especially since we already use them for mods, imo

is there any reason you would like to see alternate colors for employees?

i'd rather them not get any special notation at all, and not post as an official SO response unless they're marked as a mod

@EKons The problem is that not all employees need diamonds. ... special access (moderator tools) are coupled with diamonds. That's why we don't give them out by default. We'd need an alternative that marks staff without burdening them with mod capabilities.

yeah, maybe something like a SO or SE logo would be better, as I've said above

I don't think i'd want such a designation on my account for my normal site activities

(that would appear over all sites)

if i were an employee

i'd want to be treated like everyone else

in that sense, shouldn't mods also not have diamonds next to their names for "normal activity"?

Yeah, there's been ideas floated about having a way to mark a post as "official" somehow... sort of like how CWs are special answers. And other posts can be assumed to be an employee's personal answer without being official... but that has some complexity. Also worth considering that employees aren't always employees and weren't always.

well, no, they're mods, they can't turn off their single vote closure/deletion

employees who aren't mods don't have that

@EKons it's been discussed, too... the thing that diamonds are supposed to do is make the mods somewhat recognizable. If they don't have the diamonds everywhere, it gets confusing.

Other than employees, mod's diamond sometimes confused some people when it's shown retrospectively on older posts when they haven't been a mod, thinking it's a mod's decision, while in fact it's not...

I think the ability to notate it in the profile the same way everyone else can should be good enough, but I could see there existing some ability to optionally display an icon in some locations

or... just make it part of their avatar

like a hat

@Catija that's a great example because CWs are fundamentally broken ;)

@Catija if I were in a higher position in the user hierarchy, I would simply add a note when it's not clear in the post itself regarding what position in the hierarchy I'm talking as

I'd rather have something more interesting added to staff usercards. Something that actually says what their role is. If they're on the design team, that adds weight to answers about designs while not implying they know everything about, say, jobs.

^

@Catija yeah, I was replying to Kevin there

regarding roles, nice idea! :-)

I guess the roles can be included as hover text

+1, that, and the same for SE employees in public profiles, would be awesome

Yeah, my hope is that if we implement it for Teams, we could expand it to the network for certain things, particularly staff.

also, the Career line under the username over SO might have a use for some other communities too (not all, though)

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btw, "Happy Hour" is sleepy hour...

Happy!

;-)

Morning

Morning it is. Which means I still need to sleep