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Margarine

20:27

It's also not the first time an account who voted on you has been removed. The last time was on March 21th with -115 points. — BDL 2 hours ago

Raises eyebrows

Gossip time!

user302202

> Congratulations! Let me tell you, change is exciting and good. -- Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe at 12:51 PM - 15 May 2019

user302202

balpha refers to leaving SE...

user302202

Dilbert: Change is good, Change is good, Change is good

user302202

Jon is now a master of his own domain

user302202

Not going for fancy TLDs, even though jericson.name is available.

user302202

20:39

> For less than $10 a year, I can keep that from happening. (Unless I forget to renew the domain or purposely break links.)

user302202

This does require staying alive, though.

user302202

I think my blog will remain available after I kick the proverbial, it's just going to be calculus7.wordpress.com instead of calculus7.org

user302202

Terry Tao's blog is future-proof by being on wordpress domain: terrytao.wordpress.com

user302202

21:31

Snafu, New Jersey

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user302202

No relation to our own dear SNAFU who fell silent last year.

user302202

22:02

Regression Therapy

Proposed Q&A site for professional Past Life Regression Therapists, Hypnotherapists, Psychoanalysts, Doctors, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, or any mental health professionals who are interested or seeking support in Alternative Medicine.

Currently in definition.

user302202

What is this even.

user302202

At least this site can have a nice portmanteau name, like "regther"

Rob

Reg, the Rappy. 🕺

user302202

Reppin' the Rex.

forest

22:48

@Aibobot Did you see the proof-of-concept?

@ShadowWizard Everyone using an Intel processor did.

Jon Ericson

@VoteDukakis Or passing the domain on in my will. Not renewing for one reason or another seems a distinct possibility. I'm related to the owner of ericsons.net and that site is gone except for in the Wayback Machine.

forest

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@JonEricson Sadly the Wayback machine will remove sites if the new owner of the website puts up a restrictive robots.txt file, even if the "new owner" is a landing page.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@forest Actually WayBackMachine now no longer respects robots.txt since domain parking services would categorically block all crawlers for SEO purposes which would unexpectedly result in archives disappearing en masse.

forest

@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog It did as of recently. I know they said that they would start ignoring robots.txt but I tested it some months ago and it did not.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@forest Yeah, older sites that haven't been crawled since the change will still show an error, but if you manually request it be crawled again, it will all be available again

forest

23:03

That seems like it'd be most sites. That's unfortunate.

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

The records are still there, not deleted, just inaccessible.

Re-crawling will reset the "accessibility" flag as it's now always set to true unless the owner has specifically requested it by contacting them

forest

Yeah I know that they don't delete it, but making it inaccessible is bad for an archive site that people rely on for availability.

That's good to know.

user302202

Arqade mods are playing the resignation game... -Ash -badp -Invader Skoodge

forest

user302202

Three resignation posts in a row: gaming.meta.stackexchange.com

forest

23:07

wow

user302202

True to the site culture, the posts have playful and not very informative titles.

Jon Ericson

@VoteDukakis I'm trying to remember the other site where three mods resigned one after another. I think what happens is one steps down and others realize they need a break (or haven't been active) on seeing the first post.

user302202

Code Review?

Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog

@JonEricson Will there be another election as a result, seeing as this represents an entire half of the moderation team?

user302202

Yes, Code Review.

user302202

23:10

A: Passing on the mod hat

When 60% of the moderation force opts to hang up the hat, it feels like there's a bigger problem, but I know the burden of a moderator on this site, and I totally get it. I also agree that fresh people on the mod team is a good thing too. What I don't agree with is this: "Well that's just easy s...