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3:13 AM

@ShadowWizardWearingMask I'm a bit late, but weren't you one of those hedgehogs? Your Den chatroom even references a "looming black hedgehog". You seem to have graduated to Wizard, though, so there's that :)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

6:06 AM

@Spevacus hehe, not really... I'm Wizard for 20-ish years, and was a Hedgehog Wizard for a while two and half years ago, as respect for Sonic who later started to also change his own name according to what I choose. Here is a reference to my days as Hedgehog:

Dec 26 '17 at 11:57, by M.A.R.

@ShadowtheHedgehogWizard You're not a hedgehog wizard

And yeah, I also had avatar of a big black hedgehog. :)

Were you around back then? checking

No you weren't.... how do you remember??

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizardWearingMask there wasn't SE 20 years ago 😁

Sonic the Masked Werehog

@JourneymanGeek On other sites on the Internet?

Journeyman Geek

@SonictheMaskedWerehog other... Siiiiteeess? There are such things? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

@JourneymanGeek I was Wizard elsewhere.... :P

@SonictheMaskedWerehog exactly

@JourneymanGeek actually most sites I was active in back then are now closed... wait... ALL of them.

Am I... cursed?

aspfree forums...

some funky forums not programming related, e.g. Mike Rowe Soft (?) forums...

Guess I just had habit of joining small places.

And SE itself was on a sure way to oblivion, but with Divine Intervention got back to track, somehow.

rene

6:37 AM

→ 13 messages moved to Chimney

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

6:52 AM

k

Huh!!

Rude spammer.

zZzzZ

Sign everyone are away: spammers get to live more than few minutes.

(SO nuked him already)

steals a feather from @Tink while she's asleep

Mithical

7:42 AM

@ShadowWizardWearingMask yes

Sonic the Masked Werehog

9:07 AM

sdc report meta.stackexchange.com/a/350440/377214

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

9:30 AM

@Mithical :(

Rob

9:56 AM

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Stack Exchange is also a very tiny spec on the Internet, so the habit remains. You can aspire to achieve the following (and importance) of Augustus Maywho (in the film, the mayor is named "Ned McDodd"), and yours decisions will influence several people in the world. Horton is another character portrayed in the book. The parallels are rather amusing, we'll have to go without an

all too complicated image from the book. ;)

Spevacus

1:14 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMask I only remember from that brief stint two yearsish ago. I was a lurker then :)

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

@Rob only Stark for me.

@Spevacus huh! Those lurkers..... catching a lurker mid-air

:D

Mithical

1:46 PM

→ 21 messages moved to Chimney

ArtOfCode

@ShadowWizardWearingMask ow!

user400654

2:08 PM

🚽

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

@ArtOfCode you're art-lurker which is fine.

ArtOfCode

:)

Feeds

2:50 PM

The Overflow #28: We heard you like lists

Ryan Donovan on July 06, 2020

July 2020 Welcome to ISSUE #28 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. In the US, we’re celebrating our Independance Day, and hopefully reflecting on what freedom means and helping everyone share in that freedom. This week, we’re pondering…

user400654

👎

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

3:05 PM

@user400654 that's where you lurk?

Rob

3:50 PM

They're on the list

@ShadowWizardWearingMask en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel) ?

M.A.R.

5:10 PM

-12

Q: In which of the Stack Exchange community can I ask a question about copyrights violation of a very simple sketch?

I have a question about very simple sketches and whether they are copyrighted. At which SE network site can I ask about that?

Why teh downrate?

It doesn't seem to contain anything outrageous

rene

@M.A.R. not enough research?

M.A.R.

Maybe

It just sounds like voting goes 'awry' often in these non-sentimental questions.

Oh now that's a capital offense

nytimes.com/2020/07/06/movies/ennio-morricone-dead.html

RIP :'(

Downvoted already - gotta love StackExchange culture. There are always a few downvotes on YouTube videos too, I wonder who does that. — Todd 12 mins ago

Heh. SE users of course. Our anatomy is just naturally inclined towards the downvote button.

M.A.R.

6:34 PM

Generally, any suggestion that requires more effort from curators is going to be a non-starter; we have enough to do, — fbueckert 2 mins ago

, and,

rene

full stop.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

6:59 PM

@Rob thanks, looks like a good reading.

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask did you just call @Yaakov divine

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

@M.A.R. that user spammed tons of questions linking to his downvoted question. No sympathy from me to such a person.

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Huh?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

@M.A.R. well, he does believe in God, and he intervened.

M.A.R.

I mean he looks holy and stuff

I dunno honestly if SE was off-track or is back on track for the outsider

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

7:04 PM

All of those are answers linking to his single question.

In my dictionary, it's trolling. :/

M.A.R.

I wondered the amount of activity seems high for a typical cloze iz bad post

He'd just be inviting the YouTube disagreement thing more, then

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

@M.A.R. it's back on a different track than it was headed before the whole drama. A social track, but which does involve the active community.

Better than closing the lights...

@M.A.R. the beard? 🧔

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask I know that would have been the inevitable end and would have come sooner with all the welcomingness but I mean has the rate of asking and answering on SO gone higher/ recovered?

That is the most primitive way of measuring success or downfall

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Sure, why do you think I keep mine

You should keep a beard too. Would go well with the whole Jaime hair

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

@M.A.R. show me yours and I'll show you mine

M.A.R.

Hmm, I should shave

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

7:13 PM

@M.A.R. Corona scrambled all the cards, causing a rise in activity, so it's impossible to tell what other factors affected it.

@M.A.R. he has only two kidneys so can't be you.

M.A.R.

@ShadowWizardWearingMask How are you so sure he's not an alien?

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

@M.A.R. this is the proof:

user400654

7:38 PM

the stats on SO are kinda interesting. when this whole, lockdown, or whatever hit full swing in the US the number of questions asked and pages viewed per day increased, but the number of visits did not

at least, not significantly

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

Lurkers decided to join, most likely.

glares at @Spe

Free comment flags here.

Oh. Comments nuked.

Spevacus

Noooo my lurker brethren!

@ShadowWizardWearingMask Yeah I saw this earlier. Answers promoting their question. Both answers were just the same message linking to it.

user400654

i imagine it's because when working remote, people felt more inclined to participate during a period of time where normally they're on a work network/pc

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

7:53 PM

@user400654 yup

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

8:36 PM

!!/coffee for your head

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardWearingMask brews a cup of jQuery for @<a

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

lol

user400654

fail

Sonic the Masked Werehog

It was started three times to test who would post on Meta about it. You won. — rene 16 secs ago

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

yay!

huh wait

oh MSO. But I won!11!!! screams at @rene

:P

rene

8:39 PM

you are a winner as well. Now happy?

Sonic the Masked Werehog

@rene Quick, edit your comment to say "Meta.SO" instead.

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

yay!

happy dance

Harder to dance with a mask.

Now need to fix the CredSSP bug for the zillion time.... grr...

M.A.R.

> This analysis is obviously complex. However, it is
essential that the student review it again and again until
he or she understands it thoroughly. No other aspect of
electrocardiographic analysis is more important.

When your textbook admits it . . .

Shadow Wizard Wearing Mask

?

M.A.R.

Well that's my way of being frustrated at my work

DavidPostill

8:45 PM

@ShadowWizardWearingMask It's an extract from the "Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology,"

M.A.R.

@DavidPostill Are you standing over my shoulder.

-20

Q: Can questions capture and show how much time the user spends writing them?

If someone only spends 5 seconds writing a post, perhaps a moderator can be more sure of their decision to vote for close. If the user spent more time, then perhaps that will help moderators and responders gain a deeper empathy for the poster, seeing that they took the time, perhaps seeing that t...

feature-request

Hmm, apparently this guy genuinely wants to help, but they have no idea how diverse site usage patterns can be.

Someone should link to "How can I meta and not die"

DavidPostill

@M.A.R. No. Google has already read the whole book over your shoulder and indexed it.

M.A.R.

Oh the good ol' Google, that will know me better than my future wife would ever wish to

Sonic the Masked Werehog

@M.A.R. You're in luck, I have an autocomment for that

M.A.R.

@SonictheMaskedWerehog 🙏 👏

Note that here on Meta Stack Exchange, on questions requesting new features, voting is used to signify agreement or disagreement with a given proposal, so if your question gets downvoted, it may just mean that people disagree with your proposal, not necessarily that your question is bad for the site. — Sonic the Masked Werehog 2 mins ago

What, no, not this one. Although I've probably never read that page

196

Q: How do I participate in Meta and not die trying?

Meta doesn't like me; I can't seem to keep my points. How can I make good posts that are well-received?