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user493924
00:36
ok, I already posted, and it was resolved. thanks anyway
03:13
I prefer reading a transcript than listening to a podcast :(
user302202
> we need your help to make Stack Overflow an attractive community for the next 10 million developers. You’ll have a broad mandate from new user onboarding, acquisition, and core Q&A functionality to user privileges, reputation, moderator tools and much more. stackoverflow.com/company/work-here/1634759/product-manager-qa
> user privileges, reputation
Looks like we'll finally get our 30k-rep privilege...
user302202
truncate table Users could make it attractive for the next 10M.
04:06
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Rob
Rob
04:47
@GetAnswerWizard Did you link to the correct Q&A, if anything such a change is not being considered, there's no status-completed tag, nor is there another Q&A saying "it's coming".
posted on April 10, 2019

Welcome to the Unicorn Meta Zoo, a brand new podcast by members of the Stack Exchange community team. If you want to avoid spoilers, jump straight to the audio. Participants We’re talking about why we’re doing a podcast. (I believe this is the traditional podcast pilot topic.) It’s not intended to replace Stack Overflow podcast, which is on hiatus. For one thing, our audience is much s

05:40
he, I'm currently trying to check through my old storage - I think I came across the (slightly internet famous) Drive of Impending Doom - its a drive I have that runs for a few months, dies then comes back to life with data corruption.... repeatedly....
Apparently I had a data dump at some point. Or I accidentally found the drive stack exchange is stored on (shhhhh)
@JourneymanGeek Have you heard of a Drobo before?
yup
they're pretty well reguarded for personal use NASes
They do use an unusual filesystem to enable some of the shinier stuff if I recall correctly
05:58
(autoflagging is down)
So
Flag it manually
;p
We will apply suitable excessive quantities of cleansing nuclear fire to the account.
5-minute delay for Smokey posts, plus I had already flagged
eh
At some point I need to check what's the smokey rss feed for meta. I have one for SU which is handy
AHHH DRIVE BY PARROTING!
@Mithrandir not here, here I'm bound to be @Sha. But on Twitter I'm not bound to any commitments, so can become Evil any moment..... :P
 
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07:47
On the bright side, my new ear cushions for my Bose headphones finally turned up, and they make my headphones feel like new...
I did purchase some earbuds as a stopgap solution (the old ones completely broke two days after I had ordered the new ones, and I wasn't willing to wait another three days for them to eventually turn up), and to solve the problem that caused the old ones to break in the first place (hint hint)
@JourneymanGeek Oops :P
08:49
@forest most likely sock of a bad user. And anyone can join chat, as @M.A.R said. Their avatar should be "blank" though, in chat.
@forest Users with "explicit write access" (possibly read?) in any room on the same server have their avatar shown.
@ShadowWizard ^
@SonictheWizardWerehog doubt that a network wide suspended user will get explicit write access.
Or hidden accounts, or unsuspended manually on some sites, or...
But yeah, @Pseudohuman is example for such a user.
@ShadowWizard Probably historical. This room has a ton of users who have explicit write access, who haven't posted here in a while. (It's also used for granting access to gallery rooms.)
@GetAnswerWizard Not on Chat.SO or Chat.MSE, and only then if their parent site happened to be the one they were unsuspended on, etc...
Charcoal HQ routinely updates their explicit write access list with frequent contributors, in case a certain specific troll decides to disrupt the room necessitating for it to be put in gallery mode
09:05
hmm
stackoverflow.com/c/charcoal/a/284/60 (only visible to Charcoal team members)
That's Charcoal HQ, not the general case.
 
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10:28
lost in the smoke
Maybe better fix the API just so that Tavern won't be so smoked.... :P
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@ShadowWizard Better? :P
@ShadowWizard That M.A.R. guy is so always right it's getting annoying
Should we temporarily increase the delay for reporting posts here to 10 minutes? (It's currently set at 5 minutes)
If autoflagging is off, perhaps better not? That would leave stuff up even longer.
@Tinkeringbell Those interested can pop into CHQ
10:34
@SonictheWizardWerehog I feel adequately classified
Our Guest was once there, but it was deleted
@SonictheWizardWerehog Haha I remember that
I woke up to some adrenaline rush
The autoflagging fiasco reminds me of a time when a dial-up Internet customer had to pay hundreds of dollars in fees due to a misconfigured modem (it was dialing a long distance number)
@Tinkeringbell a lot! :D
I can finally see... the Light!
@ShadowWizard Time to cross over then :P
Come join the light side, for once in your life.
10:39
Spammers should really stop smoking. It reduces their life on the site
It has cookies that aren't a lie :P
I thought the cake was a lie...
@Tinkeringbell I'll talk with god the boss about my options... :D
@ShadowWizard No it's the metamphitamine in the smoke getting to your head
There's no light here
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard except when you're wrong then it's so much fun :D
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard meta who?
10:41
I'm never wrong. Just sometimes deliberately obtuse to demonstrate an example
@ShadowWizard meta.mphitamine.SE
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> This site can’t be reached meta.mphitamine.se’s server IP address could not be found.
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy, firewall, and DNS configuration
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
:(
Well, you're not part of the club
Which I can't confirm or deny the existence of
:%
(¤﹏¤)
OMG April Fools became reality: the headline in today's news was "Back to the 90's"!! lol
whoa
bots love to blame other bots....
in Shadow's Den, 2 hours ago, by FOX 9000
@ShadowWizard this is @Pseudohuman's fault!
10:58
5% fewer closed (terrible unanswerable trash) questions is... not great, I would've expected a much higher percentage. Either the metrics aren't getting everything, or the testing group wasn't representative, or something... but I was hoping for double digits at least. If the 5% number is correct, we still have a problem. — Ian Kemp Mar 25 at 12:20
Isn't that hundreds a day, SO scale?
11:10
LOL
> Hi My Lovely Sock,


> The 2019 Developer Survey results are in!
Forgot about that sock... and it got the results first..... :D
11:35
@Fizz Of course it's a reasonable history question. Surely this stack is not created to argue simple historical facts. — pipe 1 hour ago
Um
82
Q: Was the wheel invented before the wall?

AJFaradaySo, this extraordinary claim has been getting a lot of publicity lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQKrfGCd7I8 They say a wall is medieval, well so is a wheel. A wheel is older than a wall. And I looked at every single car out there, even the really expensive ones the secret service us...

How nice of them to include [half-assed] image attribution
11:51
No need to shout at the poor bot, it has enough troubles already being API blocked and stuff!
Board games probably don't include too much physical activity
@Tinkeringbell K!
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard Depends... some of them have been transformed in to 'living' variants, and can be quite active :)
@Tinkeringbell Oh, "I'll slay this avocado with my plastic sword" stuff? What did they call those . . . harping or larping or something
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard Nah... wait.
To be fair, everyone needs some kid time
Waits
11:54
living ludo :P
Can I open my eyes
Oh those
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard Yes! Some are even worse, where actual people are the pawns.
@Tinkeringbell Yeah that's the variant I've seen
If there isn't some hyperexcited presenter they tend to look and feel PRETTY boring
I always preferred living table football :D
Oh nothing beats that
Except maybe ping pong
11:57
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard Meh. The ping pong one doesn't come with a jumping thing...
Like that...
What are they called in English?
bouncy castles?
Mini-football jacuzzi
Hahaha no, it's not waterproof :P
Well we don't have those here
Though fun can be added on hot days using water sprays, I guess...
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard Time to migrate and drop by here some time ;)
Every piece of the set here is so hard it could be a murder weapon
12:02
ouch... I guess I prefer the bouncy castle version!
@Tinkeringbell My vision of the future me is a successful academic arsehole who's always right and travels a lot
. . . to partake in boring conferences
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard every boring conference has at least 1 person that's crazy enough to also be fun to hang with ;)
That doesn't take the whole conference thing all too serious ;)
And does interesting research :)
And whose initials begins with an M and ends in an R?
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard I must admit I'm really bad with names :P
12:17
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard Parrots only shout back
 
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14:49
I just visited Meta Mphitamine.SE and looks like the site is on smoke...
like, every post is reported by Meta SmokeDetector...
15:06
Ouch
user302202
15:40
> A deep understanding of Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange network sites stackoverflow.com/company/work-here/1634759/product-manager-qa
user302202
With other requirements factored in, that will not be a very long shortlist.
user302202
Fun facts of the day:
The Peer Pressure badge has been awarded 3947 times on Meta.SE
The Peer Pressure badge has been awarded 3947 times on Meta.SO
user302202
Reference: MetaSE, MetaSO
user302202
On MetaSE most of the recipients have 1 rep. On MetaSO they have quite a bit more.
Rob
Rob
16:17
Gee, that was fun.
🥖🦆...🤷‍♂️
 
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18:27
I don't understand. Are we supposed to be hyperfocused on gender now?
user302202
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Q: Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara

Juan MWe mentioned last year that we were looking to rev up on additional resources for the Stack Exchange network and this announcement is meant to support that claim. Due to the increased growth of our network sites, we found ourselves needing additional humans to help coordinate our plans for impro...

timely...
user302202
No pre-existing posts? SE wants a fresh point of view from an outsider, apparently.
user302202
@canon Now, today, tomorrow, and always
@AskQuestionWizard Whatever happened to the internet as a bastion of anonymity? Asexual space fungi welcome.
user302202
18:30
Two network featured posts at the same time, does this really work?
user302202
Web Applications needs one of those sidebar "disclaimer" bonuses like Law, etc. "Posting your mug shot as an answer will not unlock your [Google/FB/whatever] account".
user302202
Are Cesar M and Juan M related? Same last name, and an unusual one.
user302202
> Lots of people staring into the Eye of Sauron today. Keep your giant eagle on standby. -- Shog9 at 10:49 AM - 10 Apr 2019
user302202
I was thinking more along the lines of goatse, but maybe it's just me
@AskQuestionWizard To be fair, the whole thing was so hyped I'm kinda disappointed.
18:41
@Tinkeringbell Twitter is blocked, what was overhyped?
. . . too bad. The recent blatantly OT meta.SE post was probably POB but it was well-reasoned and articulate
@M.A.R.TheChemicalWizard The whole 'first picture of a black hole ever' story
user302202
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Q: Why isn't the circumferential light around the M87 black hole's event horizon symmetric?

0x90After the revelation of the first black hole images, it seems there is a bias towards its south side. Is it because of measuring it from earth or is it something more fundamental in the understanding of the gravitational field?

user302202
Is this on topic in Physics, Astronomy, and Spaaaaace at the same time?
EVERYTHING in astrophysics is overhyped
BBL dinner
user302202
@ArtOfCode The election site does not recognize that Stack Overflow en español election is over.
user302202
18:47
user302202
Looking for Talkative users with 1 rep is another way to detect new employees.
How appropriately relevant.
user302202
> Due to the increased growth of our network sites
user302202
What growth
18:59
status-bydesign
adding/removing elections is manual so I can keep the results there for a while
user302202
Yes, but other finished elections show as finished (Tridion, Data Science)
19:19
status-will-look-later
Welcome to the team. Hopefully you won't be stabbed to death by us meta users :P (you get the joke?) — MEE the setup wizard 12 mins ago
Aww, that's cute compared to what metas can do
19:57
posted on April 10, 2019

Welcome to the Unicorn Meta Zoo, a brand new podcast by members of the Stack Exchange community team. If you want to avoid spoilers, jump straight to the audio. Participants We’re talking about why we’re doing a podcast. (I believe this is the traditional podcast pilot topic.) It’s not intended to replace Stack Overflow podcast, which is on hiatus. For one thing, our audience is much s

user302202
20:39
@Feeds How many times must the Feeds post a blog before you call it a bug?
user302202
Yeah, about that "statistically unlikely" line...
user302202
> This is statistically unlikely with a sample of over 70,000 developers who answered this question, to put it mildly. insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/…
user302202
The 70,000 developers who answered did not compare themselves to the other 69,999 developers who answered. They compared themselves to co-workers etc.
user302202
A sample of Dilberts comparing themselves to Wallys who can't be bothered with any survey.
user302202
Repeatedly mentioning sample size does not do anything to hide the painfully obvious sampling bias.
user302202
21:34
Okay, this was all a duplicate of a meta.SO post that I didn't see earlier.
user302202
Pointless anyway, as SO spinning their survey as a representation of industry is right there with taxes and death.
🎨
user302202
22:02
Let's go upvote Cesar's answer so he gets association bonus.
22:25
@AskQuestionWizard Let's not, please.
user302202
But it's fun... Juan M got his association bonus when I dropped a bounty on his answer on Community Building. Which is why I can't flag spam on that site anymore.
user302202
The pattern of likes on StackExchange tweets indicates its audience is the same "super-engaged" group as for the podcast.
22:42
or.. it's just twitter
user302202
22:56
"Here is how association bonus works" => 0 likes. "Here is a meta-podcast of 3 CMs talking about insider meta-matters" => 15 likes.
The balpha post is still the most popular, I think.
23:24
@AskQuestionWizard What's the point? He already has network-wide moderator rights, and association bonus rights don't confer enough rep for the 1.5 privileges that aren't awarded with the diamond
Election voting and answering protected questions?
Mod privileges don't confer the right to answer protected questions?
I was referring to election voting and skipping past the downvote prompt (which is 0.5 of a privilege)
23:43
@SonictheWizardWerehog nope.
Good to know. Will edit FAQ
I mean it's easy to get around by unprotecting and reprotecting.
user302202
@SonictheWizardWerehog So we don't have to suffer the indignity of paying attention to a 1-rep user.
Because 101 rep users are that much of an improvement? 😝
@AskQuestionWizard Employees can go into DB and remove the new contributor mark
23:56
But we'd never do that...
Well ... I'd never ask for it. I don't think the CMs have ever used it.
Also, having 101 rep doesn't prevent that so I'm not sure how that relates.

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