Tavern on the Meta

00:02

I am trying to search for Evan's posts but I assume whatever got him banned is probably deleted so I'll need to wait to hear the gossip from him.

forest

I haven't been able to find said posts either.

Something Bad Happened

I want to vote for Evan.

I think he would represent me better than average.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@SomethingBadHappened What about me?

Something Bad Happened

I am uncertain but the probability is increasing.

0

A: It's a Longshot, but

Sorry I guess this was a mistake I don't know how to delete it can you please tell me

Why can't TempleOS run on modern x86_64 machines? https://superuser.com/q/1328148?atw=1 #requirements

Tweeted by super_user on June 4, 2018 at 9:53 PM

#requirements indeed.

forest

> The CIA and whole industry is trying to mess everything up, on purpose.

Gotta love Terry Davis.

You know, I once met him on IRC and witnessed him talking to an IRC bot he wrote for something like 13 (or was it 18?) hours straight (no breaks for more than a minute). The bot was a markov bot that created replies from text from the bible.

It was a surreal experience.

Something Bad Happened

00:14

Wow, sounds like it. I wonder how he was experiencing it.

forest

Well he was clearly getting something out of it.

Something Bad Happened

forest

He seems to feel like he understood it and responded as if in conversation.

Evan Carroll

Wee.... Sorry that's the second time I was suspended from chat.

Something Bad Happened

I know the feeling.

Evan Carroll

00:17

Ok, so the deal -- I was suspended because after all of my ReactOS questions were closed because ReactOS is Beta software, I voted to close other beta software. And I got banned for that. Not sure exactly. It all really was BETA software, and to the best of my knowledge I was only trying to be consistent.

Journeyman Geek

erm

Something Bad Happened

That doesn't sound fair.

forest

It really doesn't.

Journeyman Geek

I don't think that's how it went

lemme check

forest

I mean if you were VTCing in good faith (i.e. the software was actually beta)...

Evan Carroll

00:18

As for the other ReactOS questions, those are only closed. My questions were actually better (imho), and they were deleted. Also, the questions that remain, now closed, are only closed because I pointed out that inconstancy on Meta.SuperUser, and that as the first attempt to create a consistent policy. "Let's just ban reactos questions."

Journeyman Geek

So, evan....

Evan Carroll

When I asked for SuperUser to not isolate ReactOS, the abstracted maxim I was given was "all beta software" was prohibited.

Something Bad Happened

I see opened TempleOS question on the site -- the community ended up deciding to accept it as on-topic? (I know we're talking about ReactOS above.)

forest

@EvanCarroll What kind of beta software questions did you VTC?

Evan Carroll

@SomethingBadHappened Yes, after fighting for it. They did. And those questions despite being all negatively received are now positively received (or on their way), because those questions are pretty good -- let's admit.

Journeyman Geek

00:20

@SomethingBadHappened probably we didn't really bother to close them.

And quite honestly, this sort of behaviour - trying to bully mods into going their way is an utter pain

I don't have all day to deal with specific users - we make decisions based on the information at hand, document them, and reference back in future.

Evan Carroll

But rather than trying to kill off the drama and defend my ReactOS questions (which were also the product of hard work), the moderators entertained the organized lynch mob which emerged from a comment in chat that literally said something like "Evan is back with ReactOS" (and that's how all those questions got closed, which put me in another position to fight on the network)

forest

wow

Evan Carroll

But, a good moderator would have taken action against those users in chat abusing the network to harass me.

Journeyman Geek

I'm feeling harassed now :/

Evan Carroll

@forest if I recall correctly, questions that explicitly said "This software is in beta." I'm not sure off hand, I would have to have an admin look.

Journeyman Geek

00:22

Its all in meta. shrug

But hey, go ahead, enjoy your popcorn and drama.

Evan Carroll

Here ya go.

That's why I got suspended.

Journeyman Geek

So... there's this thing called whataboutism

Something Bad Happened

Is MAME prerelease software?

Journeyman Geek

Whataboutism

Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery) is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, which in the United States is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda. When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the Soviet response would often be "What about..." followed by an event in the Western world.The term "whataboutery" has been used in Britain and Ireland since the period of the Troubles (conflict) in Northern Ireland...

Evan Carroll

But, MAME is no more "prerelease" than ReactOS. They're both decades projects with a TON of users and a vibrant community.

forest

00:24

@SomethingBadHappened I don't think it is.

Journeyman Geek

@SomethingBadHappened "you closed MAME - what about Reactos?"

forest

It's well-established and extremely efficient.

Evan Carroll

@SomethingBadHappened yes. It is.The developers of MAME do not intend to release a version 1.0 of their emulator program[28] because there will always be more arcade games to emulate and thus the project will never be truly "finished." Accordingly, version 0.99 was simply followed by version 0.100.

For the same reason btw, that ReactOS developers do not intend to release a version 1.0

forest

Well the same is true with other popular software like Tor.

Shadow Wizard

taking popcorn to bed

Something Bad Happened

00:25

@JourneymanGeek I don't think you could get away with describing citing precedent as "whataboutism" in a courtroom.

Journeyman Geek

@SomethingBadHappened no, that's literally the rhetorical tone Evan took here

"My question got closed - so what about this other thing? Since I can't have what I wanted, they shouldn't too"

forest

@EvanCarroll To be fair, simply not having a non-zero major version does not mean something is pre-release. And MAME is certainly more stable than ReactOS.

Evan Carroll

I would agree, this is why the policies of SuperUser are ignorant and silly inherently, and why it's clear under examination that they'll only ever enforce these against me. Because it's not about ReactOS, this was a few users in chat with the tacit permission of the ops giving me the finger.

Something Bad Happened

Evan seems to be obviously in the right, per the facts described above.

Evan Carroll

All I wanted was to participate in the community and to seed ReactOS with my own curiosity, and I challenge anyone to asses those questions fairly (or my templeos questions) and to conclude that they're not a good fit for the site.

Something Bad Happened

00:28

There is some gray area in rules that needs to be decided without being able to follow 100% from the rules, but I feel like sometimes you have a moderator community socializing in a private echo chamber and using that to figure out the gray area, without the community really being involved.

forest

That's kind of what I see too.

Though admittedly I do see Evan egging people on as well.

Something Bad Happened

I take Evan seriously but not literally.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Let's all agree to put this matter to rest. Evan, if you have a disagreement with site mods, just contact SE. I'm sure they'll see everything.

Something Bad Happened

Declined

forest

@EvanCarroll Have you tried writing a question that you would write with a throwaway account to see if it gets closed?

That would help tell you if you are being unfairly targeted.

Something Bad Happened

00:29

That is a good test.

Evan Carroll

Certainly, that's what happens. In the early days of this site that was actually a suspendable offense. You couldn't ask [cv-pls] or whatever, because the end effect of that is that the sites ability to delegate to users to asses the situation fairly is hijacked by supremely interested actors that are invested in "moderation" and that circumvents the site which sees their interest in closing as organic and subject-matter related.

Something Bad Happened

Hmm. I see your concern, but I am sympathetic to the fact that without things like that, the ability to close questions at all on these sites scales poorly when they get super-large.

Evan Carroll

Then the site needs to step up the game with technology and not allow juntas of celebrities.

Something Bad Happened

Certainly, very many of our issues are, at their root, failings of Stack Exchange Inc.

Evan Carroll

@forest no, though I have express permission to do that. It's clear though right, I mean I asked 10 questions on ReactOS and they were all deleted, and the other ones are only closed and pointed that out, further I actually have the text from the users in question

There is a smoking gun there.

forest

00:32

@SomethingBadHappened That I agree with, especially wrt recent drama (themes, CoC, arbitration, etc).

Something Bad Happened

The community needs to make decisions in that context and we end up with things like _v-pls that sacrifice one value (objectivity of review, maybe) to serve another value (filtering out problems at scale).

Journeyman Geek

@SomethingBadHappened shrug I wouldn't put anyting on SE here - we made the decisions and documented it. And I'd rather have a community junta over a user being able to badger me into making a decision.

The buck stops with me

Evan Carroll

^stalker, and serial harassment. That was how he introduced his concern about ReactOS. As he voted to close just my 10 questions and leave the remaining 15. The answer from the moderators at that time was "I was not being singled out."

forest

huh

Evan Carroll

-7

A: Closure of questions regarding pre-release/beta software

First, it would be my position that all software that is commonly available and used by end-users should be on topic. This specific piece of software has always been declared "alpha" by the creators. That's partly because they're so far from their own goal. The software saw its initial release in...

Journeyman Geek

00:36

Ok... @EvanCarroll its time to get off the soap box please.

Or I'm going to treat this exactly as I would if another site mod was being targetted.

Something Bad Happened

I don't have more to say except that I am sympathetic to Evan. But I'm not a real member of Super User or DBA so I don't have a stake or perspective.

I support the motion to adjourn this topic.

forest

@JourneymanGeek Are you being targeted? It sounds to me at least that Evan's upset about being abused, not singling anyone out in particular.

I mean granted I've only been skimming, but still.

Journeyman Geek

@forest eh, yes.

Trust me here.

forest

hm

Journeyman Geek

I mean, as a human being and all that ;p

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

00:40

11 mins ago, by Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Let's all agree to put this matter to rest. Evan, if you have a disagreement with site mods, just contact SE. I'm sure they'll see everything.

forest

I'm not seeing anything insulting or offensive, but I don't know the history between you two. I'll certainly flag any comments that are downright attacking you (or anyone).

Journeyman Geek

Ok, I think we can agree that was completely out of line

I'd like an apology. Right now.

user194636

sorry JG

Journeyman Geek

Not from you. You did nothing wrong. ;p

forest

Yeah I think that was rude too. I mean it's fine to have opinions that someone is not a good moderator, but saying someone has a proven track record of being unreasonable is unkind.

Evan Carroll

00:43

I can go on? are we still making the case? I wrote to him personally multiple times on SU chat to try to get clarification on why I was banned... Nothing.

Journeyman Geek

@EvanCarroll I've tried my best to be reasonable, and give you space. However, I believe that this completely crosses the line of what's acceptable and is a personal attack.

Evan Carroll

You saw it. You think it's reasonable to ban someone for VtCing based on interpretations of the rules?

forest

You might want to delete that comment, yeah. Or at least change it to "I think he's not a good moderator and is unreasonable" instead, which is less inflammatory.

Evan Carroll

I can't edit it. But fine

Journeyman Geek

I will flag that.

forest

00:45

@JourneymanGeek Why not just delete it? Aren't you a room owner?

Journeyman Geek

@forest I can move

forest

Oh but not downright delete?

Journeyman Geek

But its not a great way to deal with what I feel this is

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

I don't think simply moving it is the right action either.

forest

I think it'd be better to just let it go. It's clear you two have personal differences. I think it's rude what he said, but not the end of the world.

Journeyman Geek

00:46

TBH, I'm frustrated that my favourite mod tool "Hey guys, could we move on?" dosen't work here

2

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@JourneymanGeek If this topic ever comes up again, just time out the room. ROs can do that.

Journeyman Geek

But that's ok

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog and not let anyone else talk unless I +v them?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@JourneymanGeek Timeouts only last 60 seconds.

forest

I think it's good that you didn't do that. Otherwise, I would be much more liable to side fully with whoever is not a moderator. I like that I'm able to hear both sides.

Journeyman Geek

@forest I really prefer soft moderation. I'm still working on building the same level of trust I have on SU/RA

forest

00:48

As long as it doesn't devolve into insults (which hopefully won't happen again).

Journeyman Geek

Sadly I'm not there yet :/

But I have had... eh,. 7+ years on RA? I've not been on tavern on the meta that long.

forest

How long have you been here?

Journeyman Geek

actively? maybe 2-3 years?

Something Bad Happened

That's a pretty mild "personal attack".

Journeyman Geek

Not been an RO that long

@SomethingBadHappened I personally disagree.

Not been a real RO even less. I initially just cleaned up after smokey...

who is.. remarkably quiet.

forest

00:50

I think it's mild as well, it's just a little strong. In particular, it seems like it's attacking your moderation, rather than attacking you as a person.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@JourneymanGeek It's not spam hour yet

Journeyman Geek

@forest there's no difference.

The role dosen't make the person, but the person makes the role.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@JourneymanGeek Just because someone doesn't moderate well doesn't mean that they're a bad person.

Evan Carroll

I have flagged the comment to be edited to "You might want to delete that comment, yeah. Or at least change it to "I think he's not a good moderator and is unreasonable" instead, which is less inflammatory." which is good enough.

I didn't realize that the comment would be taken so poorly. Makes me wonder how you would take working 4 hours on questions for ReactOS to have them uniquely deleted.... ;)

Journeyman Geek

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Well, there's certain qualities a good moderator has - and they're qualities the person has

Evan Carroll

00:52

But by any means, I don't want peopel to think it's personal.

Something Bad Happened

I think this answer of Evan's is quite compelling and I would like to award it a bounty but I can't because it's been unjustly deleted.

forest

Was Evan leaving or was he kicked for that?

Journeyman Geek

@forest yes

forest

Logical yes huh :P

Journeyman Geek

I asked him to drop it. He seems unable to do so without help. I'm helping.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

00:53

To be fair, there is an exception to the rule: you can contact SE and obtain permission. I wonder why he's not going that route.

forest

Permission to do what?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@forest Run as a mod with a recent prior network suspension

forest

@JourneymanGeek Well he was clarifying that he was not intending to be rude or for it to be taken personally. I think it was something fine for him to say, tbh.

Journeyman Geek

@forest naw, he was starting the reactos thing again.

forest

oh

Journeyman Geek

00:54

I'm not angry or even disappointed.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog would be declined, SE history.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@JourneymanGeek What do you mean?

Journeyman Geek

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog ....don't you know? really?

forest

I don't know either.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

If he has compelling evidence that his suspension was unjustified, it would be approved. Which means, either he simply didn't bother to go that route, or he did but there was no compelling evidence. Either way, I wouldn't vote for him.

Journeyman Geek

oh you is ok

forest

00:56

I just looked through some of his Meta posts and saw that he had bad ideas.

Journeyman Geek

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I am surprised about.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

"Either way, I wouldn't vote for him."

Journeyman Geek

Oh that's fine

Lots of people didn't in some of the elections I was asked to stand in ;p

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

I saw his mod nomination before it was removed. Based on that alone I wouldn't have voted.

forest

Can I vote for Kim Jung Un?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

01:00

@forest Smuggle in your own red pen

Journeyman Geek

@forest under a few specific conditions

Something Bad Happened

Could he realistically be elected on DBA if not for the block?

Journeyman Geek

1. He needs an account on the site.

2. He needs to be a user in good standing

Devealte

Why is everyone getting so confused on what the purpose of the website is (Yes, I'm off-topic about what your chatting about)

Journeyman Geek

3. he dosen't need your vote ;p

forest

01:01

:P

Journeyman Geek

@Devealte are you talking about the off topic posts on meta?

Devealte

Yes

user194636

@SomethingBadHappened No one could. We haven't had any elections recently, and no plans for one.

Devealte

Another one: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/317906/…

forest

@Devealte Isn't this website designed for getting homework questions answered??

Devealte

01:02

No...

Journeyman Geek

4. He has all the north koreans to vote for him, in the spirit of judache and the indomintable will of the people.

@Devealte at least this one self deleted ;p

Devealte

True

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

20

A: Why do users often ask blatantly off-topic questions here on Meta?

Update (January 23, 2018): This answer previously contained a canned comment containing a link to a survey I was running to determine why users post off-topic questions here. Per a request from an SE employee, the link has been removed, and the survey is no longer accepting responses. The team i...

Something Bad Happened

@PaulWhite ahh

@TheEvanCarroll creative, but clearly trolling

Tweeted by codinghorror on September 4, 2013 at 8:11 PM in reply to TheEvanCarroll

Devealte

Should we add a page for new users

user194636

01:03

Evan doesn't troll.

Devealte

Explains what the main purpose of the website is about?

Journeyman Geek

@Devealte I brought it up and suggested things ;p

@Devealte actually... the new user/question wizard might be ace here

Devealte

True

user194636

I hate trolls. Especially the subtle ones. Ever since someone sat down and explained trolling to me, I've been determined to fight this. How can I help? — Evan Carroll May 20 '14 at 23:46

forest

I like trolls. Trolls are fun.

user194636

01:04

Still one of my favourite comments on the whole network.

Journeyman Geek

@Devealte I actually think a few folks hit the wrong button

forest

@SomethingBadHappened Pffft ahahaha

Journeyman Geek

a few assume it will get moved.

Devealte

Yeah maybe

forest

I like this Evan guy more and more now.

He's a clever troll.

Journeyman Geek

01:06

a few more is "I am a simple person, I see a text box and I must post"

Devealte

I got the wrong post

Ignore it

Journeyman Geek

;p

Something Bad Happened

I don't really like the term "trolling" any more, since now the internet is bigger and it sort-of conflates all of "being slightly provocative", "being an asshole", and "being a russian bot".

Journeyman Geek

@SomethingBadHappened Its the one case where its not about the behaviour, its about the person

Well its also about "ruining things for other people"

forest

Oh wow I must be behind the times, I didn't even know Terry Davis died.

I just read that on Wikipedia now. wtf

user194636

01:08

yep, sad

Journeyman Geek

Even I knew that, and I don't actually remember who he is ._.

Devealte

"Waffles are supreme."

meta.stackexchange.com/tags/waffles/info

forest

:(

RIP Terry Davis. You will be missed.

Journeyman Geek

actually scratch that, I confused him with someone else

forest

I'll never again argue with him about VMWare on IRC. :(

Devealte

01:10

I'm glad this site does not annoy me

Something Bad Happened

:)

Devealte

Thank you developers and administrators

Great website

All the other website ask me to vote

Something Bad Happened

2 hours ago, by Something Bad Happened

VOTE

sorry

Devealte

Oh well

What I mean is

I enter the websites, hundreds of messages to me to "Vote!"

user194636

I occasionally see a message saying it seems like I haven't voted on questions for a while

Devealte

01:13

Yes!

I got an upvote

My Precious reputation

One downvote and I lose all of it

user194636

-3

Q: Get out and VOTE!

The Importance of Voting Voting is one of the most important rights and responsibilities that U.S. citizens have. About 150 million American citizens are qualified to vote. Unfortunately, many don’t. They give up on a chance to choose leaders and representatives who will do things that are i...

user194636

annoying

forest

Well I VTCed.

Journeyman Geek

@Devealte actually no

Devealte

@PaulWhite Exactly what I was talking about

user194636

01:18

yep

Journeyman Geek

You get +10 for an upvote on an answer (+5 for a question)

-1 if you get downvoted?

Devealte

Yeah I think so

user194636

-2

Devealte

I just earned +15 Rep.

Now I can create a chat room

But I can't since I can't find the "Create room" Button

Can anyone help?

user194636

@Devealte does this work for you? chat.meta.stackexchange.com/?tab=mine&sort=active

Devealte

01:21

I cant find the button

Still

user194636

might take a while for your new privilege to propagate.

Devealte

True,

If it doesn't then that's a bug report

I know there is a administrator election page

But I don't know where is it

Journeyman Geek

hm?

SE dosen't have admins ;p

Devealte

No wrong thing

Journeyman Geek

Well we sorta do, but they're employees and have different job titles

did you mean mods?

Devealte

01:29

yeah

I keep calling mods administrators

Journeyman Geek

oh, there used to be an elections.stackexchange.com site but... its down indefinately, and per site/election pages

what site?

Devealte

Yeah that one

I wanted to visit it

But now I cant

Journeyman Geek

Ya, its down

Devealte

Oh man...

Journeyman Geek

more or less it was community built/run iirc and they didn't (don't?) have a good way to have non core SE sites on https

user194636

01:37

16

A: elections.stackexchange.com isn't loading

Yeah, this is gonna be down for a bit; Tim Stone was maintaining it and Tim Post was hosting it. The domain, of course, was controlled by the company... Which is currently moving all se.com subdomains to HTTPS. This presents two problems: Tim Post can't continue hosting it, and we don't have an...

Something Bad Happened

🙄

wikihow.com/Move-to-Canada

Somewhat

02:05

mor.. ugh, 726 unread messages???

Journeyman Geek

;p

YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ IT ALLLLLLLLLLL

(or do you?)

Somewhat

well, looks like I missed much drama! re-reading all of it

Journeyman Geek

02:41

→ 4 messages moved to Chimney

Shog9

@Devealte what I've been working on this week

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Shog9 A new election site?

Shog9

Long way away from production, but Grace Note designed a replacement calendar so we're gonna give it a go internally

Journeyman Geek

shiny

fbueckert

Blarg. UBlock isn't blocking the new contributor info anymore.

Shog9

02:48

plays world's tiniest violin

accidentally inhales world's tiniest violin

Journeyman Geek

I just ignore it

Shog9

frantically coughs up world's tiniest violin

steps on world's tiniest violin, irreparably breaking it

searches around frantically for someone to blame for the loss of the world's tiniest violin

Journeyman Geek

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@JourneymanGeek It's Makyen's fault.

Journeyman Geek

There you go

Shog9

02:49

DAMMIT, MAKYEN!

5

user194636

that violin was a work of art. it will be missed

Journeyman Geek

You just need the world's smallest luthier

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Shog9 Unlike you @Makyen explains everything

user194636

learned a word: luthier

fbueckert

@Shog9 Is this another, "Tim lost his keys" moment?

Journeyman Geek

02:52

@PaulWhite its a cool word. And one I hardly if ever get to use.

user194636

today is a great day

Shog9

Les Luthiers

Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries including Paraguay, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba, Costa Rica and Venezuela. They were formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very intense choral music activity in Argentina's state universities. Their outstanding characteristic is the home-made musical instruments (hence the name luthiers, French for "musical instrument maker"), some of them extremely sophisticated, which they skillfully employ in the...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Shog9 So I noticed that the Engineering Manager position was put back up, after initially being removed. Were candidates interviewed, but no one competent enough was found?

Shog9

:shrug:

Journeyman Geek

Why? You applying? ;p

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

02:55

@JourneymanGeek I know someone who may be interested in that position.

Journeyman Geek

Well pass it on to them shrug

Never know till you try ;)

Something Bad Happened

@Shog9 cool

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Shog9 As I said, they pretty much match up to the criteria (12+ years dev and 6+ years management), but their dev experience isn't in full-stack Web development, it's in embedded systems development instead. Would they qualify?

I know you responded to this a while back, but is your position still the same, since the listing was removed and then reinstated?

Somewhat

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog just let them apply and see?

Journeyman Geek

That's what I said ;)

Somewhat

03:25

ah, right...

searches for world's tiniest violin

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): Unlock Huawei Bootloader by sdfsdvg on android.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body (98): Can the iPhone X Screen replacement be used to the iPhone XS in future? by ETrade Supply on meta.SE (@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog)

Makyen

@Shog9 I admit it. It's all my fault. Whatever it was. :-)

Something Bad Happened

03:49

Undo

@SomethingBadHappened Polls seem to be mostly un-broken this year

Journeyman Geek

04:04

Yay?

user194636

what's that graphic?

Journeyman Geek

delvote-plz meta.stackexchange.com/a/317915/135565

Yes. On the answer. Idk what op is trying to do

Pandya

why not flag as VLQ or NAA also?

Journeyman Geek

04:31

eh could, but deletion takes care of what needs to be taken care of

SmokeDetector

04:43

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body (98): Anyone know about this service providers? by Jeffrey A. Martinez on money.SE

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

With regards to chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7349715#7349715: meta.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/60928 is the LQ task. Only three more votes from 2k+ users who haven't already flagged are needed

Journeyman Geek

I can do reviews if I feel like it.

I'm busy watching simon pegg being a complete and utter badass ;p

Catija

@PaulWhite 538's predictions over time of which party will have the house.

Journeyman Geek

and apparently using a (fake?) octopus as a nunchuck

user194636

@Catija thanks - but "over time"? years? today?

Journeyman Geek

04:48

What's 538?

user194636

prediction site as I recall

user194636

fivethirtyeight.com

Catija

This evening.

Over the last ~ 6 hours, I think.

Journeyman Geek

ah

Catija

Spike in red was around 7 pm central time. It's 11 now.

user194636

04:53

I see it now - it's a graph of the chance of each party having control of the house from 6pm to latest

user194636

There's also one for the senate:

user194636

Catija

Yeah. That one is more boring, though.

user194636

I suppose that depends on one's politics

user194636

I'm surprised there was ever a high chance of the republicans retaining the house though

Catija

04:54

It was 95-100% all night. Pretty boring, either way.

user194636

Not that I know much about US elections but governments typically get punished during mid-term elections

user194636

I had heard talk of a blue wave and the republicans losing both house and senate

user194636

It was surprising to see the republicans pick up seats in the senate

Catija

Senate was always unlikely. Most of the seats up this year were democratic held already.

user194636

Maybe, I don't really know. Still, I don't think democrats expected to go backwards.

user194636

04:58

Anyway it seems to me like a pretty boring return to 'gridlocked' US government

user194636

Good to see a high turnout at least. That's encouraging in general.

Catija

The chart there showed a 95% chance of the republicans picking up two seats starting when I started watching this evening at 6:30. So I don't think it was much of a surprise.

user194636

Yeah I don't mean a surprise today but there's been a lot of talk over the past weeks/months.

Catija

Sleeping now. It's in short supply at the moment.

Journeyman Geek

That's a good idea ;p

catch it when you can.

user194636

05:00

I suppose both sides will claim victory as usual in these things.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

It was 85-100 in the House when I left off, then it became 156-156

Now it's 173-166.

user194636

I just noticed that graphic earlier was cropped as well.

user194636

That's the full thing (fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2018-election-results-coverage).

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@PaulWhite Mike Pence gets to sleep

user194636

05:08

Who's he?

user194636

Does he have insomnia?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@PaulWhite Vice President. He'd be forced to break ties if we had a hung 50-50 Senate.

user194636

Oh! I see, thanks.

user194636

ha ha I honestly didn't know he was VP

Journeyman Geek

05:45

._.

The veep gets no respect

(also, Biden was cool. I mean, he had memes)

John Dvorak

Heck, I don't even know who the candidates are or what each of them did wrong

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