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Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

00:23

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323719/…

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Bookends

00:37

Product support help center on non-product SE sites...

Journeyman Geek

@Shog9 done. I'm sad I couldn't compress it in a tweet

Bookends

00:53

I think we just read the same meta post...

user302202

When a site's main chatroom consists of (a) anti-freeze dummy posts; (b) replies to those posts saying they are not needed.

Bookends

until Bing-fu is created, then Google-fu freezes...

Journeyman Geek

@Bookends bing Fu is weak. Lycos stall stroll the Earth again!

user302202

Altavista...

Bookends

01:08

Might be strange if I considered Altavista a better image search baaaaaaack then

Journeyman Geek

01:23

Alta Vista was THE search engine

Remember when ask was ask Jeeves and wasn't spammy scum?

user302202

01:42

> We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves.
The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.
This is not the algorithm. This is close.

user302202

Thanks xkcd for preserving the loving memory of Jeeves, although this text survives only on some pages like xkcd.com/thing-explainer

user302202

On the main page it was replaced some time ago...

user302202

> xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS
at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device
from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing.

user302202

Although elsewhere, a comic is putting Jeeves down.

user302202

The real loser in an argument about the meaning of the word 'hoverboard' is anyone who leaves that argument on foot.

Rob

03:46

Soon thereafter came the Astalavista search engine.

   ___       __       __          _     __
  / _ | ___ / /_ ____/ /_____  __(_)__ / /_ ___
/ __ |(_- / __/ _  / / _  / |/ / (_- / __/ _ /
/_/ |_/___)\__/\_,_/_/\_,_/|___/_/___)\__/\_,_/
Astalavista.box.sk - daily updated search engine
    for computer security related material.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

06:16

Morning folks and nonfolk things

@DavidZ: I am not often on Physics.SE, but I like that approach. It's the same one the mods use on RPG.SE, and it's effective at making sure answers go in the answer area rather than the comment area. We even have an FAQ meta about it there: Should users refrain from answers (or partial answers) in comments? — V2Blast 5 hours ago

This ended up being a nice congregation of sites

Alex

06:29

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ English Language Learning must be the site that links the network together. I recently received this comment there:

Not sure if ELL or SF&F ....... :P — Au101 Feb 5 at 21:57

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

06:41

-1

Q: Joshua was told to only remove one shoe, from one foot, not feet in Joshua 5:15

Why was Joshua told to only remove one shoe, from one foot, not feet in Joshua 5:15

discussion

Someone ask Shog

Alex

That's probably on-topic on three different sites.

Journeyman Geek

Only?

It could be in topic on one... Maybe 2?

Alex

I'd think that three is a lot.

Journeyman Geek

Less than 170

Which is a very big but smaller than what it is.

Alex

But most sites are sufficiently unique such that overlap is limited.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

06:50

Well if it's about the evolutionary benefits of removing one shoe, it could be on-topic on Biology

Also if it's about foot odor, Chem could work too.

Alex

If it's about eating them, then Seasoned Advice.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

If it's to automate removing shoes, it could be on-topic for SO, but'd need an MCVE and a snippet from OP removing their shoe

@Alex Mmmm the island survivor's food of choice

Journeyman Geek

Oo

I'd almost argue but I remembered that story of mysterious feet washing up somewhere

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@JourneymanGeek I admit I could really use a program that automates removing shoes.

Journeyman Geek

Would be hardware not software technically

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

07:00

I don't care about the rigidity, it could be glassware for all I care

If they can make shoes that connect to your laptop I dunno why this is such a big deal

Shadow Wizard

07:59

@Blue only @rene can, did he reply to you?

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ does he even wear shoes?

@JourneymanGeek was there any post or discussion about nuking the learning tag?

Not that I care personally, but others do.

Bookends

6

Q: Can I learn what [learning] is?

The tag learning on this site seems to have no clear purpose, with questions ranging from "learning how to use the site" to "learning about topics". It seems to meet the definition of a too-broad tag. Should it be removed? Or is there a clear purpose we can define it to?

discussion meta burninate-request

should be 'unlearn all the [learning]', but meh

Shadow Wizard

@Bookends yeah, good enough in this form too. :)

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

08:14

Can I please get some insight as to why my comment on this post was deleted?

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog what did you write in the comment?

If you want only mod answer, flag please.

Otherwise, give more details so we mortals have chance to help as well. :)

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Flags are for asking for action, not just for asking questions.

user437611

@ShadowWizard Yeah, he did. I made him a RO there and I think he's working on KennyBot a bit, since we won't be needing all its features just to keep a room alive.

Shadow Wizard

@Blue hehe yeah, you don't want a bot who can pee in your room, I guess. :D

user437611

Lol

Shadow Wizard

08:17

Or... do you? ;)

user437611

Peeing every 14 days should be sufficient too. ;)

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard A link to the FAQ on why the site permits other users to edit posts, and a summary from there that it's considered rude for authors to revert changes that make improvements.

Shadow Wizard

@Blue hehe, less than that:

Kenny keeping the room warm

yesterday, 1 day 2 hours total – 6 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 17 secs ago by Shadow Wizard

Should be 16 hours, still buggy.... but no big deal. :D

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog not very friendly.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@ShadowWizard Those weren't my words; those were from the FAQ (and I didn't edit them in there)

Shadow Wizard

Something like "please don't rollback valid edits" is enough, and if not helping, flag asking to lock the question and that is it.

I also went into such things more than once in the past, it never ends well.

@Blue I am amazed that site still exists...

Bookends

08:25

@Blue umm, I realized the HNQ Feed didn't spout this 4-hour long Android.SE HNQ today, perhaps because the RSS feeds only returns 30 random HNQ instead of the full 100...

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard that's something I am slowly sneaking in place

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog last bit is unkind. Other comments cover same ground

> SE may not be the site for you

Mithrandir

@Bookends IIRC there's a secret URL used for the app that has a list of all 100 HNQs at once. @Glorfindel can tell you more

Journeyman Geek

Isn't really a call anyone should be making

Bookends

@Mithrandir stackexchange.com/hot-questions-for-mobile , I wrote that answer :)

Journeyman Geek

Contrast that with @ShadowWizard's comment

Bookends

08:31

but that uses JSON, I'm not sure Chat Feeds like that...

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek yeah @Book already linked to the MSE post

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard in general

Did the same with the vampire tag

I'd like to have a trail for tag burniation

Shadow Wizard

bread crumbs trail is better ;)

uh oh we have an upset SE dev!

man, if I file an issue complete with a screen recording demonstrating the issue, the fuggin' *least* you can do is watch the damn thing.

Tweeted by rossipedia on February 10, 2019 at 8:34 AM

Hope he didn't try asking on SO.... ;)

Bookends

MSE needs something like this?

163

Q: Clean up of run-together/hyphenated and singular/plural tags

The Stack Exchange user interface now prevents creating tags that differ only in hyphenation or pluralization. This hasn't always been so, however, and there are currently many such tag pairs, like log-files and logfiles, or digits and digit, or menuitem and menu-items. Let's clean up! Clean up...

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms clean-up

Journeyman Geek

08:47

@ShadowWizard ex SE dev

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek huh?? oh.. :(

So it's OK, no risk in him being upset. :P

@Bookends nope

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard works for ubiquity now

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek Ubiquity is a software...

You mean Ubiquiti?

Ubiquiti Networks

Ubiquiti Networks is an American technology company started in 2005. Based in New York, NY, Ubiquiti manufactures wireless data communication products for enterprise and wireless broadband providers with a primary focus on under-served and emerging markets. == Products == Ubiquiti sells wired and wireless networking products under multiple brand names. The company also sells grid-tied solar kits. Ubiquiti's first product line was its "Super Range" mini-PCI radio card series, which was followed by other wireless products. The company's Xtreme Range (XR) cards operated on non-standard IEEE 802.11...

Bookends

yes

> UniFi Network Dev for @ubnt

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard yes. Blame autocorrect

Shadow Wizard

08:52

Yup

Bookends

Yup

user437611

@Bookends Oh, darn!

user437611

@Glorfindel Do you happen to know which URL we need to use to get all the 100 HNQs?

user437611

@Bookends Are those 30 random HNQs the ones which appear in the side-bar though?

user437611

Are are they a separate set?

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

08:57

@JourneymanGeek That was a quote from the FAQ

If you didn't like that part, you could have edited it out.

Journeyman Geek

Meh. There's a difference from it being in the FAQ and from someone personally telling you that

And Shadow's comments covered the same ground

user437611

@Bookends I wonder if their is any way to convert a JSON feed into a RSS feed.

Journeyman Geek

And I felt that I could quietly and simply handle it with no need to hit you over the head with unkind.

user437611

4

A: Convert JSON to RSS via Web API?

You could implementing your own RSS or Atom custom MediaTypeFormatter. You can implement it so that the request will use this formatter when the accept header is set to application/atom+xml or application/rss+xml. Filip has a blog describing this: RSS & Atom MediaTypeFormatter for ASP.NET WebAPI

user437611

I don't understand most of the words there, but it seems possible.

Journeyman Geek

09:03

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog so. I'm trusted to know better. I made the decision to based on my best judgement. I don't think it's in any way sensible for me to ping people every time I delete a comment.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek agree with you on this one.

Bookends

@Blue the sidebar uses the same source as the homepage which is also used by the mobile JSON API, but the sidebar is randomized every refresh, while the HNQ RSS is... I dunno how it chooses the questions ._.

Shadow Wizard

@Bookends Randomize();?

user437611

@Bookends ;_;

Bookends

@ShadowWizard It's randomized, but also cached :/

Journeyman Geek

09:05

If I felt the core of the comment still needed addressing, I would.

Shadow Wizard

Oh no! Earth is going to be destroyed due to.... bananas!

0

Q: Antimatter particle in bananas

I recently came to know that banana produces antimatter. How does this happen and why doesn't the antimatter annihilate as our Earth has matter. I looked for a relevant answer but could not find it.

radiation antimatter food

Journeyman Geek

... that's bananas

Bookends

last time I know, it's radioactive, not antimatter...

i mean, you could be ~~spiderman~~ bananaman for too much eating

Journeyman Geek

Or become a giant yellow muscular monster when angry....

user437611

43

Q: Stack2RSS - A JSON to RSS Conversion Service [Now Fully Open Source!]

New Location The site has moved here: http://stack2rss.quickmediasolutions.com/ Stack2RSS About Stack2RSS is a small service that when given an API query, generates an RSS feed that you can then subscribe to in your RSS reader. The inspiration for this application came ...

app website notifier service

user437611

09:11

@Bookends This might solve the problem. ^

user437611

I wonder what the {query} part would be.

Bookends

If I'm reading it correctly, that uses SE API query, but this HNQ API is not under SE API (I know it's confusing and annoying!), so I'm sure either that might help

also, that site looks borken :/

http 500 - internal server error, every time I try the example?

user437611

@Bookends Which site?

Bookends

the stack2rss one

user437611

It's working for me...

user437611

09:19

Bookends

the example link? stack2rss.quickmediasolutions.com/2.2/questions?site=superuser

user437611

@Bookends This is the link.

user437611

@Bookends Oh, yes. That doesn't seem to be work.

Bookends

10:07

@ShadowWizard I will downvote(!) some of your posts and check if that reputation summary box show anything or not

Shadow Wizard

Go ahead :D

Bookends

still shown :/

rene

user gets banned for science

Shadow Wizard

rofl

meh, looks like I was wrong, also OP didn't even mean the reputation tab but just the small widget in the "main" profile page.

Will delete the answer.

Bookends

oh, okay, it works as intended (sorry Chris Osiak for downvoting you just for science!)

Journeyman Geek

10:15

Who?

Shadow Wizard

Chris Osiak

16 4

css wordpress php html javascript autohotkey contact-form-7

Bookends

darn, caching at the best... it didn't update instantly even after I upvoted once...

trying to find legitimate post for doing science

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard .... That sandbox post... Has like 1600 deleted comments

Glorfindel

10:32

@Blue it's the one Andrew T linked to above, see meta.stackexchange.com/a/280365/295232

Asuna

10:44

@JourneymanGeek How do you even get that many comments on one post? xd

Journeyman Geek

@Asuna it's the sandbox

Asuna

oh ^^"

That one

user437611

@Glorfindel Yeah, but that's the JSON feed. SE chat rooms don't support that. I'm guessing we'll need a server side script to convert JSON to RSS and return a XML.

user437611

Otherwise, the RSS feed SE has only returns a random 30 out the 100 HNQs.

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek o.O

user437611

10:54

Searching for "Node.js JSON to XML" gives a few results, but I don't know how we can make it a server side script,

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard yup

Bookends

@JourneymanGeek ~~winter~~ comment bash ...

posted on MSO, got migrated to MSU, posted on MSO again, ???, unprofit!

Journeyman Geek

11:10

Hm. Link?

Bookends

@JourneymanGeek this 'poor' user :(

Journeyman Geek

@Bookends ah. I knew who.

That is a MSO question, thought of remarkably similar nature to the one on MSU

Bookends

11:43

> please go tilt at another windmill

hah, a recommendation I might make in the future

Shadow Wizard

11:56

@Bookends MSE got windmills too.

hmm...

user437611

@rene Does this still work?

Asuna

Only one way to find out

rene

@Blue I think it does, yes

Bookends

in SOCVR Testing Facility on Stack Overflow Chat, Aug 26 '18 at 16:57, by rene

I like how my testing of the HNQ feeds still works ....

rene

@Blue it appears to be working: lackadaisical-appeal.glitch.me/hnq/askubuntu+ell+aviation

user437611

12:06

@rene Aha. So does it still have the problem of "picking random 30"? Or does it return all the HNQs?

user437611

I checked on Physics. It seems to contain all the current HNQs (3) from there.

Bookends

I think lackadaisical-appeal.glitch.me/hnq/+ ('plus' sign adding all sites?) will show all 100 HNQ

user437611

@Bookends Yes, that contains exactly 100 items!

rene

@Bookends does it? I'm awesome!

5

user437611

So that solves our problem I think? :D

user437611

12:14

@rene You sure are. :)

Bookends

either '+' or '-' without arguments does, whether it's a bug or not :D

rene

definitely not spec'd

Bookends

oh, it modifies 'title', lol lackadaisical-appeal.glitch.me/hnq/…

user437611

Set it up in the HNQ room now. Solves one major trouble,

user437611

Now just gotta keep the room alive!

rene

12:22

@Blue Generic Bot will keep it alive. It is already set up to do so.

user437611

@rene Oh, Floern already set it up? Noice! How frequently will it post there? :)

rene

Once every few days I guess. At least once before if freezes.

user437611

Awesome! :)

Bookends

@Blue might be better if you could credit rene's glitch on your answer?

(that sounds... weird)

user437611

@Bookends I'm already in the process of editing it. ;)

Shadow Wizard

12:43

@Bookends with @rene, even his glitches are golden. :P

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ShadowWizard Considering your odd love for certain golden things, I'm not sure he should take that as a compliment.

user437611

@Bookends Done! Hope I didn't miss anything. :)

Bookends

@Blue looks great! ;)

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ sure it is! Gold is gold, no matter where it is. :D

Rob

13:41

If you look up the UrbanDictionary you'll see silence is golden, amongst other things; then there's Pactolus.

Shadow Wizard

13:59

@Rob and what is the color of magic?

Rob

A cowardly wizard whom is roped into a life of adventure?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard octerine?

Rob

Brown! ☕

Asuna

@ShadowWizard Rainboom uwu

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek typo proves you didn't just Google it, so yeah, nice! ;)

(octarine is the answer)

@Rob -1 not a color ;)

@Derpy probably saw it ^

Asuna

14:13

I remember that episode ^^"

Shadow Wizard

:D

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I own every single discworld novel

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek whoa.... impressive! There are LOTS. I read about 20 or so, think I still got about 5 somewhere in the house.

Talking about MLP, my kids no longer watch it, something/somebody else took their attention away from it:

So now they watch this all day long.... o_O

:7546162 hmm? Didn't have chance to read it, just saw -10 something? :(

Rob

Google your question

Shadow Wizard

> "Octarine" is a color name coined by Terry Pratchett in his Discworld novels. Octarine is said to be the color of magic, as it is apparent in the crackling and shimmering of light. The word refers to the "eighth color," in a spectrum of black, blue, green, yellow, purple, orange, and red.

@Journeyman wrote "octerine" which is typo, proving he didn't copy and paste. :)

(but rather he wrote it out of memory)

Journeyman Geek

14:20

Yup

Rob

The Color of Magic.

You should have said: What is the color of magic in "The Color of Magic"? - if you wanted the color.

Shadow Wizard

@Rob huh, didn't even know it's made into TV show! lol. Is it worth watching?

I read the book.... many years ago.

Rob

@ShadowWizard I haven't seen the book or the movie, but the movie scored 7.1/10 from over 8500 people so I guess the DvD is worth it - whether it's worth $50+ to see it in the Theatre is another question.

Rob

14:35

So wasn't the book about "A cowardly wizard whom is roped into a life of adventure"?

Shadow Wizard

@Rob hehe, yeah. Sadly the -1 is locked now unless ~~post~~ message is edited so I can't reverse the vote. :P

Rob

That's OK, I won't downvote you.

Asuna

@Rob -10 for no reason

:p

Rob

You will need to read more than one sentence to gain the context.

Shadow Wizard

heh, no onebox is twitter? Expected there would be.

@Rob think she did

Asuna

14:47

I did

Rob

Great.

Shadow Wizard

Awesome.

Rob

This is awesome:

I'll relieve everyone enduring that for the next hour, as chat feed is slow ATM.

afk

Shadow Wizard

@Rob yeah, removed is always awesome. :P

Asuna

15:06

(removed)

Shadow Wizard

@Asuna awesome!

Asuna

@ShadowWizard Wanna see a magic trick?

Shadow Wizard

15:23

@Asuna sure!

Will you make @Rob disappear? ;)

Asuna

Behold as I change the color of this message (~-.-)~

Shadow Wizard

Or.... cut him in half? :D

Asuna

Magic :p

Shadow Wizard

@Asuna whoa.... awesome!11!!!1!!1!!!! +100

Asuna

Ikr!!

Shadow Wizard

15:27

Here is some real magic!

Asuna

lol

Does this tag URL work for anyone?

Or meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/possible-bug?tab=Newest for that matter?

Tag synonyms should redirect to the one it's a synonym of, right?

Shadow Wizard

@Asuna work in what sense? It redirects to stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/contains

Asuna

So it's just me xd

Shadow Wizard

@Asuna what do you mean? It's a synonym: stackoverflow.com/tags/contains/synonyms

Asuna

I know, that's why I find this weird

Shadow Wizard

15:36

@Asuna oh, yup

@Asuna maybe you have the new new new nav enabled?

Asuna

@ShadowWizard yeah

Shadow Wizard

Try to disable it and see what happens if so.

Asuna

Eh, it took forever to activate though xd

Shadow Wizard

ohh

So, bug report. :D

(MSO, no new new new nav on other sites.)

(I think?)

Asuna

welp, the screenshot is from meta

same issue on SO

Works fine in a private window

yeah, deactivating it does nothing

Still shows up as "active" xd

So the 6-8 applies

Shadow Wizard

15:40

buh

Bug!

Report!

:P

Asuna

Where?

And it's the custom question lists-thingy, right?

Shadow Wizard

@Asuna MSE, turns out it's there too

(the option, I don't dare to try yet lol ;))

Even though it's Brian... so I bet all bugs will be fixed ASAP.

oh it's already reported

4

Q: Clicking on the synonym tag throws error page about cookies

In the Tag Synonyms page, if I clicked on any of the tag under the Synonym section, it throws the following error page. For example: duplicates. The error message in plain text as: The page isn’t redirecting properly An error occurred during a connection to meta.stackexchange.com. ...

support bug tag-synonyms cookies

@Asuna ^

Asuna

sniped xd

Whaa--

The duplicates redirect works?

the 6-8 caught up

It opted me out (so ti's currently disabled), and all redirects work fine

So yeah, it's the custom question lists

Shadow Wizard

:)

Edit your comment and add that info then. :)

user302202

The cultural differences between Europeans and Americans on this thread about StackOverflow mishandling 1500 email addresses are pretty fascinating. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/379804/please-dont-share-my-e-mail-with-amazon-without-my-express-consent The Americans (I assume) are like "meh, don't do it again". The Europeans are talking million-euro fines.

Tweeted by stevage1 on February 10, 2019 at 9:14 AM

user302202

15:56

I just hope there'll be fewer lame contests because nobody can be sent anything anymore.

Journeyman Geek

@Mrs.Robinson eh. Some of us like lame contests and silly swag

Asuna

oh no xd

Tinkeringbell

Besides, that wasn't even a contest.

Asuna

oof, haven't gotten it xd

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek actually that's not even a contest, it's a survey. Very different. /cc @Mrs.Robinson

Swag for contests is sent by SE, not Amazon.

For now... who knows what will happen in the future. lol

Journeyman Geek

16:02

@ShadowWizard surveys that exclude me I am ambivalent on ;p

Shadow Wizard

Maybe they'll let Amazon send it with drones. :D

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard actually even not that's direct

They have a company that handles it

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek meaning?

@JourneymanGeek oh, yeah, got email from a manager in that company when the swag got stuck at customs.

They're good.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard pretty certain SE literally goes 'send this address these things,' and a vendor makes it so

Shadow Wizard

Printex, Inc is the company. :)

> I work with Stack Overflow on the fulfillment of some of their gifts. They are trying to send you a Cheese Board and it is stuck in customs. They are waiting on you to call your Local DHL facility to clear up some final paper work. If you can please call them that would be great.

> Please let me know if you have any questions.

Journeyman Geek

16:05

Yup

Shadow Wizard

I do agree they need to add to the swag contest posts some small reminder that such emails might be sent, and one agree to get them by posting an answer.

Asuna

@ShadowWizard rip

Shadow Wizard

?

It's all cleared up, DHL just needed my ID number.

Cheese Board arrived safely.

Journeyman Geek

I suppose. I actually consider it nbd

Shadow Wizard

Now stashed safely in a cupboard. :P

Asuna

16:09

> We expected to get 500 developers to test the 2019 Developer Survey, and instead we got nearly 1,500. Fulfilling the gift cards ended up being a lot more work than we expected for our very small Marketing team.

... how do you accidentally get 1000 more testers than expected? xd

user302202

By working in Marketing

Tinkeringbell

@Asuna By not keeping track and ending the test on time? Or sending out too many invitations, expecting a certain response rate that's exceeded... there's lots of ways I guess :P

Asuna

Still

There could still be a hard limit and anyone beyond that doesn't get access

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I have a box of 'extra' swag at the moment ;p

SO mug and sippy cup (I prefer the proper water bottles) and a bunch of stickers

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek start your own contest..... ;)

Asuna

16:18

The Unofficial Journey-SO Swag Competition™️

Shadow Wizard

lol

SU actually

Asuna

meh, I tried ^^"

Shadow Wizard

Or MSE now that he's a top ~~user~~ mod. :P

Asuna

But it's SO swag 🤔

Shadow Wizard

@Asuna no, all sites got swag

e.g. mod hats

Asuna

16:24

Do all sites have SO mugs as swag?

Shadow Wizard

SO just got more contests. ;)

@Asuna oh, no... just hats, stickers, etc. I think.

Mugs are indeed SO only, probably.

Asuna

Because SO mugs were specified in the message

Shadow Wizard

Wait... what message?

Journeyman Geek

Got it for a ux survey thing

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek SO mug?? lol

Journeyman Geek

16:26

@Asuna there's su and so mugs

I got both

Asuna

11 mins ago, by Journeyman Geek

SO mug and sippy cup (I prefer the proper water bottles) and a bunch of stickers

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard the joke is... I picked swag over an Amazon gift card

Asuna

@JourneymanGeek Oh ^^"

Journeyman Geek

I use the SU mug

Shadow Wizard

@Asuna ohhh

@JourneymanGeek lol

Journeyman Geek

16:29

Stickers are from a few places

Asuna

@JourneymanGeek Maybe stickers are the answer!

Journeyman Geek

But what's the question?

Asuna

Stickers is the new 42

MEE is Johann Gambolputty ...

Does anybody know what happened to the old-old close reasons "subjective and argumentative", "no longer relvant". They seem to have disappeared somewhere between 2009 and the close reason changes (NARQ+NC->TB,POB,Unclear).

user302202

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Q: Close reasons have gone missing, previously closed as such affected

I think this has something to do with the recent change regarding close reasons. Some of the reasons have gone (unintentionally?) missing: On Super User, I no longer see the "no longer relevant" reason. And on Meta, there are even only three left, namely "dupe", "not SO related" and "too local...

support bug status-bydesign close-reasons

MEE is Johann Gambolputty ...

16:39

@Mrs.Robinson thanks, I searched but maybe I used the wrong keywords :)

user302202

> By design.

> We are merging close reasons; there were too many, and they were redundant.

user302202

how is it no longer relevant? No other user in the world will ever have that problem? If so, then see "too localized" — Jeff Atwood Feb 8 '10 at 11:00

user302202

Except now we don't have "too localized" either.

user302202

If so, then see "downvote".

user302202

I miss Jeff.

Shadow Wizard

16:42

@Mrs.Robinson doubt Jeff miss us. ;)

Think he got tied up in SO.

user302202

His latest blog post is a (long long long) article on SO, past, present and future. blog.codinghorror.com/…

user302202

Which is a lot more interesting than what the current Chancellor posted on so.blog

user302202

or was that Prime Minister

Shog9

It's now five years and three days since Jeff announced he was leaving, and he's still the top author on MSE

That's a crazy amount of work, mostly in less than 3 years

@Asuna apparently a $5 amazon gift card is worth a lot more to some folks than anyone involved expected. Probably worth keeping in mind that this is a world-wide audience next time.

Asuna

Don't you just hate when the enter button just gets in the way? xd

@Shog9 yeah, but still, when there's an intended 500 people that from the meta post seems like a "we can't handle more" than a "this is a minimum", a hard limit could keep it down

Shog9

16:56

keyboard layouts can be truly unfortunate

@Asuna keep in mind, this survey wasn't hosted on SO (which... caused a fair number of other problems too)

Asuna

@Shog9 xD

Shog9

So you send a bunch of emails out with links, and... hope folks don't share those links

Asuna

Those were sharable?

Shog9

Again, not hosted on SO

Asuna

oof

Shog9

16:58

Kinda at the mercy of whatever the survey company allows / doesn't prohibit

Chalk it up to a learning experience, I guess

Kenny keeping the room warm

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