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user1271772

00:00

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog : Where is Spider House?

I've heard of "sushi house"

And "pizza house/hut"

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@user1271772 That is private information, if she wants to talk more about it she will

user1271772

And "casa de tacos" i.e. "taco house"

but never "spider house"

Catija

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog no clue. I've been there maybe four times and only gotten drinks... and it's been four years.

user1271772

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog google.ca/…

Journeyman Geek

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog yet it was mentioned here...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

00:02

@Catija Yeah, I don't drink.

Catija

I mean coffee/tea.

user1271772

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog that's good for the health, I believe

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Catija OK, yeah.

Catija

Is there a reason you're asking me about Spider House?

user1271772

@Catija if I remember correctly, he was saying that he didn't like the food but "maybe I ordered the wrong stuff"

"I tried out the food at Spider House a couple weeks ago, and I didn't really like it. Did I order the wrong stuff?"

I believe he is asking whether or not he ordered the wrong stuff, haha

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

00:06

@Catija You mentioned that name to me a while ago, and I happened to recall it, so I figured before I travel to San Diego for Diwali I should try it

user1271772

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Isn't Diwali over?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@user1271772 "a couple weeks ago"

user1271772

Oh hahahahah sorry!

Anyway the spider house I found was in Austin Texas, not San Diego

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@user1271772 My main residence is in San Diego, but I go to college in Austin

user1271772

I understand

Is Texas A&M there?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

00:12

@user1271772 No, that's in College Station, Texas, northeast

user1271772

There's a city called "College Station" ? haha

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@user1271772 Yep

user1271772

funny name for a city

LOL

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

YES, I'VE DONE IT! Reached 10k earned this calendar year

2

user1271772

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog That was your goal wasn't it?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

00:15

@user1271772 Gonna have to wait until the table gets updated at 0:00 UTC daily

user1271772

It's already 0:15 UTC

Funny that EVERYONE in the top 40 on Meta has been "member" for more than 6 years, then #41 is Gorfinkel who has only been member for 3 years

Andras Deak

Gorfinkel?

this room went downhill real fast

user1271772

@AndrasDeak When did it start going downhill?

Andras Deak

46 mins ago, by Catija

@rene yep. I saw it five minutes before I got pinged.

there ^

user1271772

I see

Andras Deak

00:21

I guess it wasn't that fast, I just wasn't looking at this tab

user1271772

haha I see

user168476

@user1271772 How is it that we had just discussed Glorfindel's name earlier and you were just obviously looking at it in the user list and you still spell it wrong

ArtOfCode

copy/paste is a wonderful tool

Andras Deak

glad to hear that, and here I was worried that my original phrasing of "dumpster fire" would've been too harsh

user1271772

@AndrasDeak What was "dumpster fire" in relation to?

@Ash : oh that's a good point. I guess the problem is that I've had "gorfinkel" in my head for sooooooo long.

You know Jordan B. Gorfinkel ?

Andras Deak

00:33

The famous musician. Friend of Simone.

user1271772

I knew him as the comic book guy, didn't know he was also a musician

Who is Simone?

Andras Deak

You know. Simone and Gorfinkel.

user1271772

That's Garfinkel

Not Gorfinkel

Andras Deak

No, it's Glorfindel

ArtOfCode

no it's Glorfenkel

user1271772

00:36

I'm talking about Simone and Garfinkel

The singers

Andras Deak

Oh, my bad.

user1271772

It's not Simone and Gorfinkel, it's Garfinkel for sure man

Andras Deak

You sure?

ArtOfCode

nah it's definitely Glorfenkel

user1271772

And it might even be "Simon"

Andras Deak

00:37

@ArtOfCode rings a bell

user1271772

Simone is a girls name, as far as I know

Oh, turns out Simone can be a men's name in Italian

Andras Deak

Don't be so closed-minded

ArtOfCode

Simonne and Glorfenkel

user1271772

"Simone (given name), a feminine (or masculine, in Italian) given name of Hebrew origin"

Andras Deak

@ArtOfCode *end

user1271772

00:39

It's as if Italian is the ONLY language where it can possibly be masculine.... would downvote if I could

I'm going to have another baby boy, and name him Simone. Then I can edit that wiki article to say "Simone (given name), a feminine (or masculine, in Italian, or English) given name of Hebrew origin"

Andras Deak

That'll show 'em

If it turns out to be a girl name her Gorfinkla

user1271772

What I mean is that I'm going to keep having babies until one of them is a boy

But I'm not actually going to do that

My girlfriend doesn't want me to have any more babies with her

She also wants me to reduce my Stack Exchange usage, she calls it an "addiction"

Andras Deak

00:55

way TMI

3

Shog9

01:11

4

Q: Is StackExchange.com Addiction Dangerous?

I recently looked at the meta.math.stackexchange.com and found the second anniversary was celebrated. As in the last year's Happy-Birthday post (linked therein) , some people declared the addiction to the site. My question is: What kind of addiction is this? Certainly some kind of internet addi...

Andras Deak

(@ShadowWizard let me move the goalposts a little: I don't troll without good reason :P)

forest

02:44

141

Q: What privilege should 30k users get?

The last time we lifted the level cap was in 2015. In 2014, we added a unilateral close-as-duplicate power for gold tag badge holders, but no new reputation level. So we've been thinking about giving users more reasons to keep playing. (I've answered this question with some circumstantial evidenc...

feature-request privileges

Will this be taken seriously? I'd love there to be a 30k privilege.

Or even something higher like 50k.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

02:55

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318432/…

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318433/…

forest

03:19

In general, if I write to Stack Exchange support via /contact, how long should I expect until I get a reply? Is a reply even guaranteed?

Specifically when asking for a community manager to help with two moderators fighting with each other (so "Other" in the field asking for the reason for contacting).

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

0

Q: Add an "estimated response wait time" to the contact page

A lot of us have waited a very long time for the SE team to respond to a contact request via the contact form. Some of us just get impatient waiting, especially if we believe that the issue is (quote) "important". Also, the SE team gets a rather large volume of contact requests within each catego...

feature-request status-declined contact

forest

Oh huh, didn't expect there'd be a question exactly for that. Thanks.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@forest I'm a step ahead of you

forest

Oh it's assigned me a support ticket. This is gonna take a while. :P

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@forest Is this about the "repair" question on Electronics? Are they at it again?

forest

03:33

lmao yes

I mean I just saw some stuff on meta and politely asked what the official stance is. I was quickly belittled and called "not a member of their community" for not having much rep, among other things. So despite not wanting to judge the situation without having more information, I certainly have an opinion now.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Well, at least your response implies that this is pretty rare on Stack Exchange, if you can immediately pinpoint where the drama is coming from without me specifying the actual site. :P

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@forest True. On Wikipedia, it happens often enough that they have an official policy on wheel-warring by admins: all admins involved in the wheel war get their privileges revoked.

user168476

We aren't wikipedia, though. (And I think in many ways thats a good thing)

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Ash Yeah, in this case I wouldn't argue for the mod who was reopening the question to have their moderator privileges revoked, since they were clearly acting in accordance with community consensus.

forest

Well generally we tend to have less drama than Wikipedia.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@forest True.

forest

03:42

After all, that one site is the only community I've ever seen with moderators who both other moderators and the community seemed to disagree with.

As opposed to Wikipedia where pretty much every popular page is like that...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

But Nick's actions are completely unprofessional: he's disregarding community consensus.

forest

Well and insulted users and insinuated that they are not part of the community.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

I'd argue for a full review of his moderator actions and hope that the other mods or the SE team initiate a formal removal proceeding.

forest

I mean I started by refusing to pass judgement (I know how much shit mods can get from unruly users), but I certainly have an opinion now. Though I don't really want to bring up drama in this room (not meaning to complain about them here, you just happened to guess what I was referring to by moderator fights. :P)

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@forest In my opinion, mods are subject to a higher standard when evaluating CoC violations.

They're expected to lead by example.

Nick's setting an extremely bad example.

forest

03:45

Yeah. Well and I've even seen a mod on WorldBuilding (I think) where a mod was removed due to suspicions, despite the entire community loving him.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@forest When it comes to mods violating rules, one has to keep the Super Mario Problem into account: it shouldn't be that conduct that gets a normal user suspended should only get a mod de-modded.

forest

I've never heard that metaphor, but I take it that it's referring to big Mario being turned into little Mario when taking damage instead of losing a life?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@forest Yes

The proper analogy is that of Sonic: there's no "super" status, and taking damage with rings will cause Sonic to lose the rings, akin to getting suspended and losing all rep, and taking damage a second time causes Sonic to die (akin to deleting the account)

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

05:23

cv-pls one-more-close-vote-needed meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318435/…

bwDraco

Done.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

05:40

@SmokeDetector KABOOM!

NobodyNada

05:59

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog FYI that's not the typical "hacker" spam we usually see, but a case could be made for that post being abusive of the poster's husband (see discussion in CHQ).

Hatshepsut

Hi I'd like to ask a question about why my VPN keeps disconnecting. Where should I go?

Something Bad Happened

06:27

🧗‍♂️

Shadow Wizard

@AndrasDeak well your trolling caused babies... ;-)

Magisch

07:09

@Makyen I don't think it's your code that caused it. It's also not that big a deal, I've learned to easily work around it

Just looks like 2 SE built interfaces that aren't designed to work with each other, but that's ok, the script still works as intended, only in ~20% of cases you have to drag the flag dialog away a lil

Makyen

@Magisch I'd appreciate it if you could point me at an example.

Magisch

1. Get to someone's rep history, 2. Find an expandable rep event with the flag link (2 or more), 3. click flag on it. Now every time you click inside the flag dialog the event will collapse / expand

so the background jerks a bit

Journeyman Geek

→ 18 messages moved to Chimney

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog you might disagree with how he do things but... eh, its not nice to call out people.

Makyen

@Magisch I have not been able to reproduce this in either Chrome or Firefox.

Magisch

I can make a recording when I'm back in the office monday

Journeyman Geek

07:24

@forest no guarentee of a reply

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

meta.stackexchange.com/a/318438/377214 needs another spam flag

and myself

...assumed I didn't try to catch up the convo

Makyen

@Magisch That could help. What browser/userscript manager/OS are you using?

Magisch

latest firefox w/ tampermonkey

windows 10

(in the office)

Makyen

OK. Thanks.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

07:37

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318439/…

Shree

07:58

Flags needed: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/117218/…

and myself

poof~

Glorfindel

08:40

@user1271772 I see that the script manages to downvote the question, but does not 'highlight' the downvote button. I was planning to have it reload the page after all actions have been done, that would solve that problem. Thanks for notifying me about it.

Optimus Prime

any idea what does this mean?

I didn't understand the -2 for user removal. Either +2 or -10 is usual

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@OptimusPrime Probably they were the final user to approve one of your suggested edits.

782

Q: What does "user was removed" mean and why did my reputation change because of it?

Message appearing when a user was removed. It seems I lost 1765 reputation points on Stack Overflow yesterday. The reason given in my history is "removed", with the description of "User was removed (learn more)". I don't understand what that means. What caused this? Return to FAQ index

support faq reputation reputation-history

Optimus Prime

I corssed the priv 1+ years ago. afaik, reps won't change after 60 days

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@OptimusPrime Only if they have +3 score, which is impossible for suggested edits, and it applies to posts, not users. Likely it's either a tag wiki suggested edit or an old suggested edit from the time you didn't have editing privileges.

Andras Deak

09:08

Or you downvoted two of their answers

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): Capsules and is sufficient by legaxe on wordpress.SE

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@AndrasDeak No, you still keep your -1 losses in that case.

rene

09:24

delv-pls 20K fitting meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318443/… (needs 1 more) /cc @ShadowWizard @bart @Glorfindel

Andras Deak

Really? Didn't know that

Even if their post gets deleted?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@AndrasDeak On post deletion, yes, but not on user deletion.

Andras Deak

@rene *gorfinkel

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog OK, that's more like it

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Glorfindel should change his username to "Gorfinkel" for WB

rene

delv-pls 20K signal meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318435/… (needs 1 more) /cc @sha @bart @glor

Andras Deak

09:26

oh I'm dumb, we're talking -2, not +2

Journeyman Geek

I'm leaning towards the deleted suggested edit myself

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@JourneymanGeek If the post was deleted, it would have shown as "removed", not "user was removed".

SmokeDetector

09:46

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, non-latin link in answer (147): How to enable the dota2 ingame guides by Kuai237426 on gaming.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer (61): Do fruit/vegetable washes effectively remove pesticides? by Fun Guru on skeptics.SE

SmokeDetector

09:58

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): Creating a chart in GEE by Yaron on gis.SE

rene

@SmokeDetector suggested an edit but I'm not sure if that Q is on-topic on GIS

Shadow Wizard

@Shree of what country? ;)

Shree

10:13

:)

and myself

@ShadowWizard it's a red flag, so... China?

Shree

Nepal ;)

rene

10:48

delv-pls 20K menubutton meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318446/… /cc @Sha @bart @Glorfindel

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): Web content and claims by towurudav on wordpress.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer (51): How to write partial differential equation (Ex. dQ/dt=ds/dt) with real partial derivative signs? ✏️ by mathlinux on tex.SE

Shree

11:31

Need some red flag , 2 hour still up.

Tinkeringbell

@Shree Tried to help ;)

Shree

@Tinkeringbell i active on charcoal. I find that from smokey. Long time still up so post here. No need to report again. :) thanks.

Tinkeringbell

Okay, I won't try and help next time then.

Shree

:)

@Tinkeringbell always want help . :)

SmokeDetector

12:05

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, potentially bad keyword in body (99): Healthy Life Garcinia France : Does This Product Really Work by AlexanOlson on graphicdesign.SE

rene

12:17

@nicael free server is now NSFW ... :(

and myself

13:01

Done answering the questionnairs on Android.SE... took almost 1 week >_>

Anyway, 3 candidates for 2 positions, Android.SE is ready for voting phase on Nov 19~

and myself

13:13

and well... at least now I can sleep peacefully without having a dream about mod Q&A...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Tinkeringbell

@andmyself Heh. Another reason to just stick with being appointed instead of elected ;)

Good luck!

Journeyman Geek

lol

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Tinkeringbell But you don't get to keep your privileges if the site graduates

And as Shog said earlier, appointed mods are subject to higher scrutiny, whereas the only rule for elections is not having been suspended on any site in the past year.

Tinkeringbell

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Yeah, so basically I'm better than some elected mods :P

Journeyman Geek

13:30

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I think there's a little more to it. A lot of pro-tem mods end up getting elected, sometimes elsewhere

Shadow Wizard

13:44

@rene huh? What free server?

and myself

something free...

Shadow Wizard

Free NSFW? ;)

rene

14:05

@ShadowWizard well, it relied on a server and based on the comments I concluded it was some free (no costs) hosting offer. That doesn't last forever. So if you now click on an image in that answer you end up on a place you don't want to be.

Shadow Wizard

Ohhh. I see. Lol

So did you edit it out already?

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard post looks deleted?

Journeyman Geek

I can't even find the post

Tinkeringbell

14:33

@Glorfindel that 'lost soul' button is really nice :)

I even think, if you use it fast enough, people delete their posts on their own!

and myself

need trained AI to automatically cast 'lost soul'

Tinkeringbell

There's one where the button won't work though. meta.stackexchange.com/q/318457/369802 Not a 1 rep user.

and myself

Glorfinkel explicitly stated that it's disabled for non 1-rep user though...

Tinkeringbell

@andmyself I know ;)

I just put the comment in my autocomment script as well, and did everything manually ;)

and myself

@Glorfindel regarding auto-downvote... should there be a minimum score threshold to prevent over-downvoting?

like, stop at -3 for speedy-deletion...

or -7(?) to hide from homepage?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

14:44

@Tinkeringbell RE your comment: the other question that caused them to gain more rep was one about the mobile app. The mobile app is not at all clear about which site you're posting the question on once you navigate to the "ask question" view. It's likely that the user posted on the wrong site.

@andmyself -8

Tinkeringbell

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog The 'I'm not sure what brought you here' is a pleasantry, and doesn't expect an answer.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@rene You were the original author of that comment. I don't like one thing about it: it merely states that "your question will not be answered on this specific site", but with no explanation why or what site they're on.

rene

It links to the help center. I would think that gives enough guidance?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

"Your question is definitely off-topic for Meta" insinuates to a small proportion of users that there are a certain few users who would violate site rules and post an answer anyway (which happens very frequently on SO). My wording, "unfortunately, we have to mark this question as 'off-topic' for this site" doesn't imply that.

@rene The vast majority of people aren't gonna click on a link.

rene

They clicked at least at one link, and an ask question button

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

14:52

@rene Did you already VTC this question? If not, can you dupehammer it as a dupe of the question deletion FAQ?

and myself

I'd dupe-vote as "cannot delete post on mobile app" instead if the main concern is with mobile app...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@andmyself Dupe list can be edited afterwards.

rene

@andmyself do you have a link handy?

and myself

@rene Allow us to vote to delete from the Android app

rene

thanks

and myself

14:55

yay, I just tried casting 'lost soul' on that question since the rep is 1. Nothing happened! :D

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body (99): Set normal key as control key and let it not repeat input for one push by Paalon on askubuntu.com

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@andmyself That said, I edited in the fact that posts can't be deleted on the app into the FAQ.

Tinkeringbell

meta.stackexchange.com/q/318457/369802 Is looking more and more ridiculous :/

I know generally dupes aren't deleted, but perhaps an exception is in order for that one now?

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell ohh good. NSFW roaming free is bad!

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

I move to delete it

Tinkeringbell

14:58

@ShadowWizard Hey, there's loads of people that are NSFW, they should be allowed to roam free! :P

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Tinkeringbell Closing is a necessary prerequisite to voting to delete, and the dupehammer expedites it.

and myself

@ShadowWizard you are roaming in NSFW???

that user needs to get 10 more 'lost soul' effect :(

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

There are loads of people in NSW

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell that is actually spam. See first revision. Flagged as spam already.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog more than NSA?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard So their first post was to earn rep to defeat new-user restrictions

Tinkeringbell

15:01

@ShadowWizard Spam seed then?

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog might be yes.

@Tinkeringbell maybe...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard New South Wales, Australia

Shadow Wizard

Anyway 100% spammer.

and myself

New South F'ing Wales

Tinkeringbell

The first revision to me looks like a question, not a spam. It's missing a link etc.

Shadow Wizard

15:02

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog oh. And what about Old South Wales?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318457/… "the first revision makes a certain black hedgehog believe that this is '100% spammer'"

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell meh. So obvious spam seed.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Er...that's just Wales.

UK

Shadow Wizard

@andmyself only basking in it. It is shiny after all. ;-)

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog oh. You were there?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard No, just reminded me of that.

Shadow Wizard

15:05

Oh. Well Oded is in London...

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog iOS app user can delete own post.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (93): How to adjust computer resolution power ✏️ by user318974 on meta.SE

Shadow Wizard

Buh too many to scroll. Any TL;DR on the Happy Hour? :)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard I slept well

Shadow Wizard

Shog was there? (in happy hour ;))

and myself

@ShadowWizard I slept well too

Shadow Wizard

15:09

So Happy Hour is US only... :(

and myself

also, rene posted a meme poster with grammatical error.

Shadow Wizard

Ouch

@andmyself Did you punish him?

Maybe pluck away a petal...

and myself

Mr. Deak did

Shadow Wizard

Oh good.

This reminds me... Has Mr. Friend been here lately?

So.. @public became private? Or Hidden? Too bad anyway... ;)

Glorfindel

@andmyself that is probably going to be configurable at some point. For now, I just tried to release a Minimum Viable Product.

and myself

15:18

sure, no prob! :)

Glorfindel

@Tinkeringbell thanks. I've indeed seen people who were genuinely lost and even replied that they'd repost on another site.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Glorfindel Where is this script?

and myself

20 hours ago, by Glorfindel

Anyone want to test this userscript on this post?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Ah, I ended up asking for a similar script but one user downvoted the request and it was automatically deleted as a dead question.

@Glorfindel Also, can you please modify the canned comment on that script? I quite frankly don't want that specific one to be in widespread use.

Tinkeringbell

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Install the script, open it and modify it to your need?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

15:29

@Tinkeringbell If I modify it on my instance, it will only modify my instance, not others'. I don't want others using it.

43 mins ago, by Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@rene You were the original author of that comment. I don't like one thing about it: it merely states that "your question will not be answered on this specific site", but with no explanation why or what site they're on.

40 mins ago, by Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

"Your question is definitely off-topic for Meta" insinuates to a small proportion of users that there are a certain few users who would violate site rules and post an answer anyway (which happens very frequently on SO). My wording, "unfortunately, we have to mark this question as 'off-topic' for this site" doesn't imply that.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username (92): Would it be possible to use chlorine triflouride as the payload of an artillery shell? by Fuck Usernames on worldbuilding.SE

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SmokeDetector

16:04

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): meilleur gel d'amélioration masculine ça marche vraiment by kellyjonsin on buddhism.SE

user1271772

16:49

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog : I agree that they should be, but I think in practice it is the opposite.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog : I agree, it should get them suspended, shouldn't it? And perhaps for even a longer time than a regular user would get

and myself

Personal conflict on QC.SE? Take it off from this chat room...

Shog9

2 days ago, by Shog9

now... Here's the thing to remember when discussing policies surrounding suspensions, de-modding, etc

Read, please.

Moderators have been suspended. And not every normal user gets suspended in every scenario either. We aim to do as little as possible; killing every gnat with a 12lb maul just wrecks the furniture.

and myself

17:04

TIL the definition of 'gnat', apparently not "duplicate searcher"...

Nog Shine

@andmyself Same

Nog Shine

17:18

@Shog9 But not following preventive measures can ruin the furniture too. Prevention is better than cure.

I will now use a 'lol' or an emoji to sound it very friendly to hide the criticism.

and myself

May 4 at 18:47, by hey

@canon like this? "Welcome to Stack Overflow. Your question sux 😄"

Nog Shine

not that harsh but these lol and emojis are used to escape the ban in chat

Something Bad Happened

17:36

Heh my Teams account expires before they fixed the latest vulnerability.

Shog9

> So the people said something would have to be done,
but their projects did not at all tally;
some said, 'Put a fence 'round the edge of the cliff, '
some, 'An ambulance down in the valley.'

Nog Shine

@SomethingBadHappened 'Something bad happened' then

Something Bad Happened

As Joel says, never rebuild anything, even if it's old and rotten and keeps manifesting bugs.

Shog9

poemhunter.com/poem/the-ambulance-down-in-the-valley

Nog Shine

@Shog9 That's good (I tweeted one of your messages here and I got likes and RTs')

2 days ago, by Shog9

you don't have to be perfect; you don't even have to be good; if you can be a little better than your nature for a little bit now and then, then together we can build something from that

:D

user1271772

17:40

@andmyself : what does this mean?

Nog Shine

@Shog9 nice poem

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): What are recommended computer programs for learning No Limit Texas Hold'em? by Guy Sela on poker.SE

Nog Shine

17:59

@Shog9 But this doesn't mean there are no problems. Some are not getting attention and some are just ignored.

Fabby

18:43

@Shog9 Thanks for the laugh: I'm going to remember that one when it comes to Business requirements analysis...

Shree

18:53

Meta spam ?

rene

waffles

and myself

the 'lost soul' button looks too delicious to be clicked...

Fabby

@Shree That's a first!

and myself

LOST SOULS™: Prepare To Be Closed™ Edition

Andras Deak

too bad we can't moderate that post because it's a New Contributor *waves black hand*

and myself

18:57

waves hand back shoo shoo

Fabby

Found the culprit!

;-) :D

Andras Deak

Wait, how do you call an email number?

Fabby

@AndrasDeak Automagically???

>:-) ;-)

or Skype...

and myself

I enter the email address. On a ☎.

Shree

lol

SmokeDetector

20:40

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username, blacklisted website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, potentially problematic ns configuration in answer (186): Audio-recorder not recording in Ubuntu 18.04 by Mangesh S Dhulap on askubuntu.com

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

21:20

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318399/… (@Shadow @Bart @JourneymanGeek)

cv-pls one-more-close-vote-needed meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318469/…

Andras Deak

is there now-deleted context?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318471/…

cv-pls duplicate: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318468/… (@Shadow)

Andras Deak

there is a remarkable correlation between misplaced questions and the quality of said questions

SmokeDetector

21:50

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): Can plasticizer leach out of cured concrete? by o115208 on engineering.SE

rene

hey, I don't mind opinions with rough edges but with a bit more tact you could have left a message that didn't get flags. Now don't blame the flaggers. You're the one who pressed "send"

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

22:06

@rene Maybe users shouldn't be able to see flags on their own messages?

rene

meh, it is fine. Chat moderation is as broken as it can be, let's not make it even more less transparent.

Andras Deak

yup

we don't need less chat flag notifications, we need more (in particular, for low-rep room owners)

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@AndrasDeak On Chat.SE it's less of an issue since that considers aggregate rep rather than rep on a specific site.

Andras Deak

isn't this chat.MSE?

rene

22:21

yes

but there is also chat.se

Andras Deak

I thought the above remarks about the flagged messages were in the context of flags raised on a message here

rene

yes!

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@AndrasDeak Yes; somebody flagged the message containing the expletive; there's also a flag on the "bad person" message.

Andras Deak

then Sonic's message seems to be the nonest of sequiturs :P

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@AndrasDeak What?

I like making statements of fact.

Andras Deak

22:27

superlative of non sequitur, surely

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@rene Would you mind clearing the stars on this message‌?

Andras Deak

there was only one star on that

SmokeDetector

22:48

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (347): Hex, curse, spell, jinx, charm by Valeria Benson on english.SE

user1271772

23:21

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog : What is meant by "WB" in this context?

Andras Deak

winter bash

or maybe white balance

user1271772

@andmyself @JourneymanGeek see it's not only me, this guy not only added an extra 'k', but added an extra 'l' too:

Shadow Wizard

The first

user1271772

> Glorfinkel explicitly stated that it's disabled for non 1-rep user though...

Shadow Wizard

Let us bash that winter!!

user1271772

23:26

@AndrasDeak : I don't understand either of those acronyms

@andmyself @Glorfindel, I'm in favor of this. There's no need to crush people's hearts right? Can we add an if-statement: "if score is > -3, then downvote" ? Or maybe your idea is even better, the one where you give people the option to downvote

@andmyself : Does anyone know how to quote things the way this post did?

Mithrandir

@user1271772 post the transcript link to the message on its own line

https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7374804#7374804 will turn into

6 mins ago, by user1271772

@andmyself : Does anyone know how to quote things the way this post did?

Shadow Wizard

aka "onebox"

Andras Deak

23:44

@user1271772 time to start googling

Shadow Wizard

Google won't help with winter bash

Andras Deak

it will if one googles "winter bash stack exchange" :P

Mithrandir

...heading to the beach with a bunch of teenagers at 2AM. What could go wrong?

rene

→ 5 messages moved to Trashcan

Shadow Wizard

23:59

@Mithrandir many things!

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