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rene

5:08 PM

Trust me .. no surprises here ...

M.A.R.

Boo

Tinkeringbell

@rene As long as that also means no negative surprises, I might not be too disappointed ;)

rene

Oh, not sure if that is part of the contract ;)

Meta Andrew T.

Daily ping dose for @M.... never mind...

M.A.R.

@Mithrandir why hath you forsaken us.

There you go, shy guy

@Sha already convicted me of a crime I didn't commit with ping of the day

It's not my fault @Bart's stick is a really good backscratcher.

rene

5:22 PM

it is always your fault. There is no opt out.

M.A.R.

My preference was sticky top fault not left fault navigation.

rene

silver singles ... they found me ...

Tinkeringbell

Makes me think it's some kind of old people dating site :P

Oh hey, it is!

rene

le sigh

Tinkeringbell

Good name :D

@rene Why are you all of a sudden sighing in French?

rene

5:34 PM

To give it some importance ...

M.A.R.

All sighing French people are old obviously, that's why

Tinkeringbell

@rene How does that give it importance?

rene

6:01 PM

@Tinkeringbell because it is French!

Tinkeringbell

Ah. That makes no sense.

Feeds

Fire is actually a potential biosignature, since it means something is filling the atmosphere with an unstable gas like oxygen. If we find a planet covered in flames, it might be an indicator that it supports life—or used to, anyway, before the fire.

M.A.R.

@Tinkeringbell because Macron

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Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

8:13 PM

How did we end up with so many new accounts created on this site?

Kevin B

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

When I created my previous account in March 2013, it has ID 215114, then my new (current) account I created in December 2017 has ID 377214.

I also created a (now-deleted) alternative account one year ago in September 2018, which had ID 401442.

Kevin B

i mean

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Now we're in the 600000+ range

Kevin B

controversial posts showing up in the bulletin certainly help

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

8:15 PM

200,000 new accounts created in just one year. That's more accounts created than the 4.5-year period between my previous account and my current one

Then, in the 9-month period following, less than 25,000 accounts.

@410 Have data on MSE account creation by time period?

Kevin B

a quick sampling of "new" users shows a whole lot of fake spam accounts

John Dvorak

as opposed to accounts actually used solely for spam?

Kevin B

right

because those get nuked

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

8:33 PM

@KevinB Deleted users still increment the user counter

Kevin B

right

there are 16 pages of new users just for today

which, wouldn't include deleted spam accts

the majority of them have no activity

i don't understand why it would be surprising that there's new users

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

delv-pls 2k+ NAA meta.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/66856

Kevin B

That so many are joining meta.se, might be a messaging problem

but again it could just be curiosity around recent featured posts, and then "Joining" to hide the annoying banners

John Dvorak

9:25 PM

annoying banners, such as the front-page ad that supposedly nobody actually sees anyways?

Fabby

@JohnDvorak There are only two things that are hard in IT: Cables, drivers and off-by-one errors...

;-P

Kevin B

@JohnDvorak meta.se doesn't have a front-page ad similar to so

John Dvorak

yet

Kevin B

It does however have a "Sign up to join this community" banner that takes up 50%, plus the GDPR banner, leaving only ~ 40% of the screen for the site

John Dvorak

less on tablets, I presume?

Kevin B

9:31 PM

i'd assume

Journeyman Geek

@JonEricson yup

I'm looking at jumping and I'd estimate I need 3 to 6 months to find one

410

10:14 PM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackexchange/query/268232/…

Spam? Probably spam.

Who else cares about MetaSE, anyway.

I like the snake-like graph for Math: data.stackexchange.com/math/query/268232/…

Journeyman Geek

@410 uhm. We do

410

10:38 PM

Okay, a dozen or two non-spammers as well.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

Q: What's responsible for the increase in the number of accounts created every week here on Meta Stack Exchange?

I've noticed that since the past year, the number of accounts created on Meta Stack Exchange every week has increased noticeably, and has sustained a much higher rate than it has sustained for the previous years. Here's a query and a graph: Historically, the rate of account creation has ...