Tavern on the Meta

6:00 AM

The accounting is correct, but the display is a disaster. Which is... about par for the course when it comes to deleted posts/deleted votes. I'd have to dig deeper (and unfortunately I have absolutely zero time right now) to see if we could fix this up. Long story short, once a post is deleted, trying to figure out what effect a vote would've had at the time when it wasn't deleted gets real complicated real fast. — Adam Lear ♦ 12 hours ago

@AdamLear It looks like the "accounting" bug has also given a lot of users a heavily inflated ranking in the reputation league pages. Can you please also look into that once you have time?

enderland

Anyways, it is already after 1am and at this point, a "retired" user having this long of conversation reminiscing about the "good ole days" is probably about as strong of anecdotal evidence to what I said way back at the beginning of this conversation about caring about the mission/vision of SE from ages past being deeply meaningful @Aza ;-)

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

awwww's were had all around the earth

user206222

I am having trouble understanding but I think I get your meaning :P

user206222

If it's 1 AM, go sleeep

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Aza Not too long ago, I used to be nocturnal

user206222

6:06 AM

I'm nocturnal right now! Hello, slightly younger Sonic of yore.

Journeyman Geek

Now I need to get caught up ;p

@Aza errr for?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Aza What do you mean, "slightly younger Sonic of yore"?

@enderland It's difficult to retire from SE

Journeyman Geek

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog she means you're being nocturnal now ;p

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

The day hasn't yet rolled over in my time zone

user206222

@JourneymanGeek It was removed, dw

Journeyman Geek

6:10 AM

Now I am confused

user206222

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I... it would take a little bit to explain what I meant,

user206222

@JourneymanGeek There was a Rather Bad Message which was flagged and removed. If you happened to be around, you could've taken care of it faster than flag cycle, but it's okay at this point.

Journeyman Geek

Oh

I was not.

rene

→ 39 messages moved to Chimney

user206222

Dw! Wasn't really a "drop everything and find the nearest RO/CM" case.

Journeyman Geek

6:12 AM

Ah I see

.... what is DW?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@JNat Cross-site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/16422981/debramaria

user206222

dw = don't worry!

Journeyman Geek

ah

Sorry

I'm a bit distracted and frustrated ._.

user206222

no worries, I understand

Journeyman Geek

(work laptop needed reimaging and the damned thing will not reconnect to the domain)

user206222

6:14 AM

I'm sorry to hear you inherited the laptop I dropped off at helpdesk on Monday.

Adam Lear

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I'm on vacation now but I'll try to remember for next week

Journeyman Geek

@Aza Oh I have had this for about a year

Also you sound too classy to work for this dump 😂

user206222

@JourneymanGeek Hahaha, how do you mean??

Journeyman Geek

@Aza I think one of the companies that my employer comprises of practically invented modern explotative outsourcing

Shadow

@JourneymanGeek first Google result is Dear Wife. ;)

JAD

6:22 AM

sounds about right

Journeyman Geek

And they feature regularly in a certain online rag that is probably causing our CMs so much stress.

Shadow

@AdamLear I hope you didn't write that comment yesterday while in vacation?? Anyway, enjoy!

@JAD so everyone are dear wives now? o_O :P

Journeyman Geek

@Shadow you can check in (to a hotel) but you can never really leaaaaaveeeee.

(also, go take a proper break XD)

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

@JourneymanGeek you mean NPM?

"modern exploitative outsourcing" ;)

Journeyman Geek

@FélixGagnon-Grenier I was referring to csc

Shadow

6:24 AM

status-too-many-acronyms

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

^

GetSet

What is MSE?

JAD

@Shadow oops, you're right. That's not very gender neutral

@Shadow I was having this discussion earlier in another chatroom, how do you do the red tags?

Shadow

@GetSet Meta Stack Exchange

Journeyman Geek

@GetSet If you need to ask, why are you here? ;p

@JAD only works on chat.mse

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

6:26 AM

@GetSet do you have like, three hours for the introduction?

JAD

Or Maths Stack Exchange, depending who you ask

@JourneymanGeek d'oh

Shadow

hmm... guess with all the new people, we better use Meta.SE and not MSE. Opinions?

More to write, but less confusion.

GetSet

@Journeyman was looking for the chat channel. All seemed casual in here. Didnt want to just burst into the room

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

welcome?

Shadow

@GetSet Tavern has no door so it's harder to just burst into here. ;)

GetSet

6:28 AM

@Shadow a proper standing at the doorway shows some respect

Shadow

@GetSet I respect that. :D

Now get a drink, will ya?

!!/coffee Get

SmokeDetector

@Shadow brews a cup of jQuery for @Get

Shadow

LOL

GetSet

In any event I have a possibly procedural question ... if any care to ponder?

Shadow

@GetSet try us

rene

6:29 AM

Ponder away

Shadow

(we might catch)

GetSet

Ok. I will.

I decided to answer a bounty. Suppose the OP refuses the correct (and researched) answer? No bounty points?

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

[the sound of everyone rushing to their keyboards]

@GetSet bounties depend on the score of an answer that is posted after the bounty was added. as such, it does not matter whether or not the OP accepts an aswer. I think the rule is 2+ votes (?) to receive the bounty.

that is, the automatically awarded bounty, bounty issuer can also manually award the bounty, at some point during the process.

GetSet

@FélixGagnon-Grenier All i need to know

Shadow

@GetSet adding to @Felix, in case of automatic award, you get only half the bounty points.

Félix Gagnon-Grenier

6:33 AM

that being said, I was hoping you'd ask a question that would actually stir the eternal fire of functional vs oop or procedural programming.

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